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Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough

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Last weekend I spent buying, customizing, replacing and then a few days later taking the HTC Hero(Android phone) back to Sprint. I ended up getting an iPHone after all that, as 2 Hero's headphone jack malfunctioned and the thing runs extremely slow/laggy & not as responsive as the iPhone when typing/interacting with it. Though one thing I do miss about that Andriod phone was real time updates of Twitter, Facebook & G…

I got an HTC Hero this week and love it! Haven't had any problems :)

Re: Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough

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I'm glad to see that they move away from the 3d app icons with the angled shadows and use larger, flat icons in 2.0.

The older-style icons are a pain to make and the Android icon design guidelines are way more complicated than the iPhone icon guidelines, so no one bothers to follow them.

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Pretty sweet. Sadly, the manufacturers take a long time to catch up to released Android versions. Almost makes users want to "wait a few months" before purchasing a phone. I think Google needs to help those guys out so that they can get the releases earlier.

Uh, what? T-Mobile had 1.6 pushed to the G1s and the MyTouch 3Gs a few weeks after the SDK was released.

International user, so forgive my ignorance. But isn't T-Mobile a carrier?

I was referring to the unlocked phones(i am interested in the Samsug I7500) and those need the updates to be released by the manufacturers. And if i understand correctly, the I7500 still didn't even get 1.6.

Re: Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough

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Pretty sweet. Sadly, the manufacturers take a long time to catch up to released Android versions. Almost makes users want to "wait a few months" before purchasing a phone. I think Google needs to help those guys out so that they can get the releases earlier.

I have an original G1 and whenever there's an updated OS version, it buzzes and informs me it is ready to reboot into the new version.

It has been quite nice, receiving a stream of updates over the months, making things faster and installing new features!

Re: Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh, what? T-Mobile had 1.6 pushed to the G1s and the MyTouch 3Gs a few weeks after the SDK was released.

International user, so forgive my ignorance. But isn't T-Mobile a carrier? I was referring to the unlocked phones(i am interested in the Samsug I7500) and those need the updates to be released by the manufacturers. And if i understand correctly, the I7500 still didn't even get 1.6.

For what it's worth, HTC releases new images really soon after the official announcements of new Android OS versions. They actually form the basis for many 3rd party ROM's that you'll find online.

Re: Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough

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post #21

Last weekend I spent buying, customizing, replacing and then a few days later taking the HTC Hero(Android phone) back to Sprint. I ended up getting an iPHone after all that, as 2 Hero's headphone jack malfunctioned and the thing runs extremely slow/laggy & not as responsive as the iPhone when typing/interacting with it. Though one thing I do miss about that Andriod phone was real time updates of Twitter, Facebook & G…

I got an HTC Hero this week and love it! Haven't had any problems :)

It would be interesting to know if paul9290's Hero had the latest software update on it. The update certainly helped my Hero feel snappier, and has improved battery life a bit. Pre-update I was pretty happy with the Hero, though it was a little laggy at times, post update it's much smoother.

That said, I don't run many widgets which constantly update. When I was running a lot of widgets some of them slowed the phone down a lot more than others and it feels to me like one or two dodgy widgets could destroy the experience of using this phone.

As I've been very busy recently I've turned off a lot of the things that update constantly on my phone as I found them a distraction. From that angle, I can understand some of the thinking behind the iPhone not having programmes running in the background, though that's a different conversation.

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