Do you have an android phone? Are you getting one?

thirtythirty

Everyday, Google News has a new article about the surge in android growth, how android will have globally passed the iphone next year etc etc.

In Ireland though Meteor and O2 only offer two android phones, but there seems to be talk of way more android phones on here.

So I'm just interested to see how android is being adopted here...

Bluefoam

Check out the HTC Hero and Nexus One threads. Loads of people using them here.

lord lucan

I got the Nexus One about 2 weeks ago. Bye Bye Symbian and Hello Android. It's definitely the way to go imo.:)

Mimikyu

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Vokes

Still have my trusty G1 But its getting on a bit ...

My next phone will definitely be an Android one.

gcgirl

the next phone i do get will be a hero

godtabh

I just got a hero. Takes some getting use to when all I had before was nokia smart phone but well worth it

thirtythirty

Apparantly Meteor has a 3 week waiting list for a hero - after my mate decided to go green, he went in and was told he'd be waiting a while!

I'm surprised 3 Ireland dont have any android phones yet though.

EPM

Got my Hero the week it came out on Meteor. Popped my UK SIM in the other day and had the full market:D

Happy days

cpu.dude

Bought a G1 not too long ago for customisation purposes, absolutely love it to bits.

Have it running the Cyanogen Mod with a Hero Theme and an 8GB Class 6 SD letting me use a 32MB Swap, 256MB Ext4 for my applications and then 7.5GB left over as FAT32 goodness. Android is the way to go, it's possibilities are endless and it's open source. Here's mine...

Dcully

Yes im getting the htc hero in the next week or two.
Of all the phones ive researched out there its the HTC hero that seems to be calling me more than iphone,N900 or anything else.

YourSQL

Nope, probably will never get one

Its too restricted (compared to Maemo)
I don't like/trust google
i dont like the UI
I don't even like touch screens

godtabh

spottyelephant wrote: »

Apparantly Meteor has a 3 week waiting list for a hero - after my mate decided to go green, he went in and was told he'd be waiting a while!

I'm surprised 3 Ireland dont have any android phones yet though.

I walked in and got one last saturday

rizzee

Had a Hero, used it for 3 weeks and swapped it.

Android ain't my cup of tea.

PowerHouseDan

Got one 2 days ago from Meteor Loads in Stock and Still unlocked..

spottyelephant wrote: »

Apparantly Meteor has a 3 week waiting list for a hero - after my mate decided to go green, he went in and was told he'd be waiting a while!

I'm surprised 3 Ireland dont have any android phones yet though.

not_xanthor

I've owned maybe 15 different mobiles over the years... and the N97 is possibly the most irritating one of them all.

The N958GB wasn't hassle free either.

I'm quite close to giving Nokia and Symbian the boot... but Camera is a deciding factor... want (don't need) something more than 5MP next time.

Professey Chin

Have a G1 and absolutely love it even though it is underpowered.
Currently running one of the 2.1 builds on xda-developers on it.
Love pretty much everything about it so ill be sticking with Android for the forseeable future and looking forward to WMC to see what other phones will be coming out.

Oh and dont forget Vodafone have the Tattoo which is android aswell

herya

i'd definitely give it a try if i didn't have my palm pre.

Solair

I have a Hero and it's an amazing device.

I'm looking forward to HTC's launch of Android 2.1 with Sense UI though

Hero II should be interesting!

Nexus One is basically a HTC Hero with a faster processor, improved display but lacks the Sense UI, instead being raw Android.

I'm kinda reckoning that HTC will launch something rather similar but with Sense UI once they finish beta testing the software sometime in March.

imitation

I got a Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700, its a fantastic phone, theres loads of potential there. I dont think its got the selection of the iPhone or Nokia S60, but its more hackable than the iPhone and swisher than s60.

Best bit is the phone was only €130 to upgrade to on the most basic contract you can get, no €50 a month "free" iPhone for me thanks very much.

Edit: There also rumors that it will get android 2.1 in a few months, woohoo !

thirtythirty

not_xanthor wrote: »

I've owned maybe 15 different mobiles over the years... and the N97 is possibly the most irritating one of them all.

The N958GB wasn't hassle free either.

I'm quite close to giving Nokia and Symbian the boot... but Camera is a deciding factor... want (don't need) something more than 5MP next time.

You might wanna check out the motorola motoroi coming out soon then - 8mpx + xenon flash...dunno if it'l make Europe, but its going to the US in march.

smackyB

imitation wrote: »

I got a Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700, its a fantastic phone, theres loads of potential there. I dont think its got the selection of the iPhone or Nokia S60, but its more hackable than the iPhone and swisher than s60.

Best bit is the phone was only €130 to upgrade to on the most basic contract you can get, no €50 a month "free" iPhone for me thanks very much.

Edit: There also rumors that it will get android 2.1 in a few months, woohoo !

Have you got a custom ROM running or are you holding out for the supposed official update?

nmesisca

rizzee wrote: »

Had a Hero, used it for 3 weeks and swapped it.

Android ain't my cup of tea.

just curious... what did you swap it for?

jimmycrackcorm

rizzee wrote: »

Had a Hero, used it for 3 weeks and swapped it.

Android ain't my cup of tea.

curious as to what you'd swap it for - iPhone perhaps?

Stevokenevo

Have gone through a G1 (1yr), Hero (2 Months) and onto a Nexus One since December, all very good, 2.1 on Nexus is blisteringly fast!

Bluefoam

Stevokenevo wrote: »

Have gone through a G1 (1yr), Hero (2 Months) and onto a Nexus One since December, all very good, 2.1 on Nexus is blisteringly fast!

you must work for Google... the nexus was only released in Jan, apart from a special staff only issue in December

Stevokenevo

Bluefoam wrote: »

you must work for Google... the nexus was only released in Jan, apart from a special staff only issue in December

I do indeed work for Teh GOOG, although I upgraded from G1 to Hero myself with Meteor - Hero sitting at home now gathering dust which is a shame, and while I liked the combination of Android 1.5 and HTC Sense, Android 2.1 on the Nexus is the business.

The Hero was actually a bit of a pain as a lot of the Google-written apps at that time (Googles, Navigation in Google Maps) could only run on 1.6 minimum (i.e. the G1). HTC skipped the update from 1.5 to 1.6 in favour of (apparently) going straight to 2.0.

thirtythirty

Stevokenevo wrote: »

I do indeed work for Teh GOOG

Ahem. Please may can you make your co-workers activate paid apps in the market for Ireland then!

nmesisca

spottyelephant wrote: »

Ahem. Please may can you make your co-workers activate paid apps in the market for Ireland then!

+1 !

whats up with that Stevo??

Stevokenevo

spottyelephant wrote: »

Ahem. Please may can you make your co-workers activate paid apps in the market for Ireland then!

If only I could!

Although I've head of people using foreign SIM cards (Free pay-as-you-go from the UK, for example) in their Irish phones and then downloading the paid apps over WiFi - seems to work fine.

Pikasso

Stevokenevo wrote: »

I do indeed work for Teh GOOG
the Nexus is the business.

Aha!
So when are we getting the Nexus in Ireland then? :D:D:D

Stevokenevo

Pikasso wrote: »

Aha!
So when are we getting the Nexus in Ireland then? :D:D:D

I wish I knew!

[If it wasn't obvious already - I don't work on any Android products!]

thirtythirty

Stevokenevo wrote: »

I wish I knew!

[If it wasn't obvious already - I don't work on any Android products!]

There's talk of the N1 in Vodafone sometime in the next month. Heard anything about that? I know you don't work on android, but surely people talk to each other in there!;)

Stevokenevo

spottyelephant wrote: »

There's talk of the N1 in Vodafone sometime in the next month. Heard anything about that? I know you don't work on android, but surely people talk to each other in there!;)

I did actually hear a rumour about it coming to Vodafone, that was a couple of months ago before it ever actually launched, I just saw a list of operators by country. No update on timeline though, sorry!

Damien1989

I've got a HTC Tattoo, Android 1.6

I assumed the Full Android Market would be available in Ireland when i bought it, Unfortunately not, only free apps

Stevokenevo

Damien1989 wrote: »

I've got a HTC Tattoo, Android 1.6

I assumed the Full Android Market would be available in Ireland when i bought it, Unfortunately not, only free apps

Yeah, it's a pain alright. When the only way to get an Android phone was by ordering on Ebay or wherever it might have made sense, but the fact that they are now offering the phones in retail stores makes it a bit annoying not to offer the paid apps to go with it!

BROWNE51

Found the Android o/s refreshing,flash or "root" what ever you get and you wont want for anything,windows mobile user for years and Android beats it hands down for out of the box usability.Just my opinion!

Random

thread moved to android forum.

partyatmygaff

Yep, after 3 years of symbian (N95 - N95 8GB which were great) I got a HTC Desire.

Keano

Would you ever got back to symbian?

I've a Nokia 5800 but seriously contemplating getting the Desire.

KoolKid

Would never go back to symbian. Got into Android when offered a Tattoo on upgrade from Vodafone last year. Have since upgraded to Nexus 1. Loving it...

Keano

koolkid wrote: »

Would never go back to symbian. Got into Android when offered a Tattoo on upgrade from Vodafone last year. Have since upgraded to Nexus 1. Loving it...

Must but cc back in the wallet for now

partyatmygaff

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Would you ever got back to symbian?

I've a Nokia 5800 but seriously contemplating getting the Desire.

Possibly. I don't know what Nokia have in store but Symbian^4 looks fairly promising as an OS. No way will that be out on any devices until early 2011 though. Symbian^3 devices are coming out late 2010 so they should be somewhat interesting to see.

At the moment I wouldn't even consider a Symbian device with the current state of the OS. When Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 are released we'll see how it fares.


I went from an N95 8GB (An EXCELLENT symbian based phone) to an N97 Mini (Had it for three days before I returned it, enough said...) to my HTC Desire. For touch screen phones Symbian S60 doesn't stand a chance against Android

Blackdragon

Went from N70 (loved it) to N95 8gb (Amazing) to N97 (complete let down).

Counting the days to Payday so i can get the Desire (4 more days for those interested )

corks finest

Had windows, android last few years, Xiaomi mi Max 2,big easy phone,no bloatware

Mantis Toboggan

Err, great, thanks!!

SpannerMonkey

corks finest wrote: »

Had windows, android last few years, Xiaomi mi Max 2,big easy phone,no bloatware

my god this is an 8 year old thread

jim salter

Ha! This quite funny but interesting at the same time.
I went from android to windows and now going back to android.
Interesting to see how so much has changed in the mobile market in a (relatively) short space of time.