[slackline]

Not as great as the Desire which is essentially the same phone as the Nexus, but with slightly higher spec (faster processor and RAM if I remember correctly).

[Jaspersharpe]

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/htc-legend-vs-htc-desire-vs-google-nexus-one-670833

Who's gonna buy the Legend? If you're the kind of person that values form as much as functionality (and for some reason don't want the iPhone) then you should definitely give the HTC Legend the once over.

 

[slackline]

Form(/style) is for poseurs...

[Jaspersharpe]

 

[soapy]

on shopping list, once upgraded to android 2.x

[Jim]

recent experience with nokias with microUSB chargers is disapointing. why couldn't they use miniUSB like most others is beyond me. never had any problems with miniUSB chargers

[tomtom]

on shopping list, once upgraded to android 2.x

Tris has one of these - maybe get some heads up from him about them?
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[Jaspersharpe]

[Jaspersharpe]

[tomtom]

[slackline]

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

But it's an iPhone, Jen! I may be able to get an iPhone without giving any money to Apple. I'll be living the dream!

[cofe]

God I love the IT Crowd.

[slackline]

Important ramifications for jailbreakers

[Jim]

Changing operators' fixed phone settings - a concept known as 'jailbreaking' - has become widely popular around the world since the 2007 introduction of Apple's iPhone.

what a load of bollocks.
this has been popular long before iphones where around

[Jaspersharpe]

Ah but Jim you forget that NOTHING mattered before the introduction of the iamgayphone.

 

[Jim]

and fancy calling it 'jailbreaking'.
used to just get called (and still does by everyone except iphone users) un-locking or debranding

[dobbin]

In fairness to the big gaylords, it is quite subtely different.

Debranding a Nokia :
change the product code and flash it with a generic firmware - which just removes all the operators gay splash screens and so on

Jailbraking a iClone :
this is taking it out of the apple walled garden - by default you can only install stuff from the app store, jailbraking allows you to install a whole world of shite.

The iClone never had teh operator branding in the first place, its about allowing you what you could always do even on an branded nokia.

Apple will argue they want to protect the user experience by ensuring all apps are tested first, but you could view it as they wish to maintain control of what you can do and see.

[dobbin]

Actually, unlocking and debranding (sorry non geeks, you can stop reading) :

unlocking is removing the oplocks so you can (for instance) put an o2 sim in an orange phone.
Debranding doesnt unlock the phone it just removes (for instance) a vodafone start up splash.

God, I'm boring myself now.

[Jim]

well you learn something new everyday, even more glad I don't and will never own a iclone

[Mike Tyson]

I'm currently rocking on eof these bad boys.



You can keep your smart phones an all!!!

[slackline]

Be careful with Blackberrys in the UAE

[Jim]

well if people buy a smart phone just to use as a phone then they are bound to get pissed off with it

[Mike Tyson]

Don't be smart phone arse James! 

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

[geek warning]
Dabbled with my first bit of debranding recently. My E71 on Three was stuck in the dark ages of v300 software. Quick debranding exercise put a generic euro product code on it and the Nokia Software updater was then happy to shove the latest software on it (v500). Dead easy. What I was most impressed with (and surprised with) was the way the phone still went and got the correct Three network settings and configs automatically. The need for branded software is bollocks. Since then the phone hasn't dropped a single call (which was the main reason for doing it)