[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] molann:
There were lot`s of "holy wars" on this topic but there is no evident proof of this point of view. Besides this, majority of the observations confirm that just an open gprs-session without actual data transfer has no visible (or considerable) affect on battery life. Moreover having keeping a data transfer session open is good for saving you money - many cellular operators do round the amount of data transferred (to 100Kb\s, 50Kb\s, etc), so downloading weather forecasts will cost several times more that it should (real traffic is several kilobytes). The only reason I see for using this option is when you operator rounds traffic also per certain amount of time (some russian ones do this)).

Here is the good idea on the same topic:

Search XDA for 6fg8 taskbar - quite nice, readable and doesn`t have any issue with any Artemis ROM

There is a special tool called Makisu (a part of Sashimi program - autoinstaller program) which is able to do it - it creates an xml-file with you current settings (mailboxes, wi-fi..) and after flashing a new firmware you`ll be able to restore all this settings. I`m sure other autoinstallers (e.g. XDA_UC_NET) do also have similar functionality.

See the answer above - just take some time, save all your configuration with any autoinstaller and the any reflash will require only 15 minutes and one SoftReset).

+1 to your opinion about android.

But don`t hope to have WP7 officially on our device – we have too much hardware buttons and don`t have a separate camera button)).

I guess saying that android suffers from any problem is an exaggeration. I mean let`s remember how much patches HD2 have had. I`ve also used android 2.2 for two weeks and didn`t encounter any issues with sms or whatever.

I`m not saying there are now issues at all, any complex software does have bugs, but I guess any issue found will get fixed soon.

But idea about being virus-vulnerable compared to WinMobile is completely wrong. In fact there are only several known threats for android devices and all of them require user to allow them to operate. Of course number of android malware will grow along with popularity of the OS, but it will never reach the amount of WinMob malware.

Totally agree. My guarantee is coming to an end on May. Usually I return device back to the reseller with issue found and get my money back and then buy a new device. But seems this year I`ll have to buy HD2 again, if nothing changes in next months.

Firstly I have to stress attention: I also consider Artemis`ed HD2 to be the very stable and fast device and in fact I`m also still under WinMobile only because sir Sternas produces high-quality ROMs and doesn`t abandon WinMob).

But I can`t object you when you are referring to Android as a “a laggy and buggy” OS.

Battery life is the same and even better (your opinion is correct only if using Android SD – because SD consumes much more energy that internal storage).

All hardware is fully operable with now issues (Camera, wi-fi, messaging, phone, GPS, etc).

I lack only 3 things under Anroid: phone shell (I likу PhonEx and haven`t yet found any suitable replacement), Navitel (I have built in license with my device), sir Sternas approach to building firmware).

This what I wanted to say above in much more better, clear and comprehensive way. I mean +1).

I`m very glad you`re ok. Seems I left your country just in time – right before all the “events” started. And by the way my plane should have landed in Domodedovo in 8 minutes after the explosion..Luckily we were detain in Sharm`s airport. So I`m two times lucky).