It works now, but it was the only site not loading earlier.Loads instantly for me. must be your end.
It works now, but it was the only site not loading earlier.
But it's priced at not that ridiculous a point to motivate me enough to lose the convenience and my email address of nigh on 10 years.
ChrisFilter said:Phone's been nicked. C**ts
Android it is then..?
Maybe... I can't really afford 2 x expensive contracts though. Might have to live with a basic Nokia for 9 months.
I weakened and ordered the Desire on Vodafone. Good deal though, £25pm for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500MB data per month (I rarely got past 300mb on iphone due to wifi everywhere). 24 month contract mind.
So you'll be gutted when the new improved iPhone comes out and have how many contracts on the go?
I weakened and ordered the Desire on Vodafone. Good deal though, £25pm for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500MB data per month (I rarely got past 300mb on iphone due to wifi everywhere). 24 month contract mind.
24 months? Ouch...can't bring myself to get one of them...
If I manage to upgrade without giving them my 3GS.. you can have it.
You might be interested in this well-written article by a tech writer who's just switched from the iPhone to Android:I weakened and ordered the Desire on Vodafone. Good deal though, £25pm for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500MB data per month (I rarely got past 300mb on iphone due to wifi everywhere). 24 month contract mind.
Quick iPhone question urban:
Should I wait for the 4G to come out next month or just get a 3GS? I can upgrade on my current Vodafone contract - for a £60 fee for the handset, I can get a 16g 3GS for £30/month with 300mins and unlimited texts (I think). The Vodafone chap I spoke to reckoned the 4G would be more expensive for everything. But the leaked photos make it look like a very tempting prospect. What do you reckon? Would it be foolish to get an iPhone now?
(BTW: I already have an iPod Touch, so this is a sort of upgrade for me - my heart is set on an iPhone, no need to persuade me otherwise...)
You might be interested in this well-written article by a tech writer who's just switched from the iPhone to Android:
Why I became an Android fanboy
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005011-264.html
The Desire is a great phone, btw.
Where Android falls short
Not all is smooth sailing:
• Probably the single biggest weakness of Android phones is application availability. There are lots, with more arriving steadily, but it's no match for Apple, especially when it comes to games. Note that iPhone games also run on the iPod Touch and now the iPad, so the incentive is powerful for developers to reach that market. No doubt Android will follow somewhat into those parallel markets, but for now, it's clearly not the top priority among mobile programmers. I find it baffling, for example, that there's no Yahoo application for using Flickr, though the Web-based mobile site is reasonable and it's simple to upload a photo via e-mail. I missed the Kindle application, but with the Aldiko reader app, I've discovered the glories of out-of-copyright books such as Grimm's fairy tales, "Tarzan," "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," "Oliver Twist," "The Three Musketeers," "Moby Dick," and a bunch of Rudyard Kipling tales (I read aloud to my son a lot). (Update: Amazon said Tuesday that Kindle for Android will arrive this summer.)
• A user interface that's at times clumsy and/or incoherent. The worst example here is when filling out forms such as entering passwords or addressing e-mail. The virtual keyboard covers a lot of screen real estate, and navigating among the input fields can be awkward. Overall, the iPhone was just simpler and more direct to use. I'll cut Android a little slack here, since the iPhone can be obtuse with complicated actions such as e-mailing multiple photos.
• Painful browser zooming. Double-clicking to get maximum width out of a column of text is nice, but if the animation can't be done right, it shouldn't be done at all. Here, the iPhone wins, hands down, and the feature is more than cosmetic, because it really does help you keep track of where you are spatially in a Web page.
• Copy-and-paste is unpleasant, if it works at all. It's not trivially easy on the iPhone, but it's better.
• And my single biggest gripe: Typing is just better on the iPhone's virtual keyboard. It's faster and more accurate for me. When I went back to an iPhone briefly after a couple months not using it, I experienced mild distress when I found my fingers flailing around looking for a back button--but when it came to typing, I breathed a sigh of relief. I hadn't known what I was missing.
Quick iPhone question urban:
Should I wait for the 4G to come out next month or just get a 3GS?
• Painful browser zooming. Double-clicking to get maximum width out of a column of text is nice, but if the animation can't be done right, it shouldn't be done at all. Here, the iPhone wins, hands down, and the feature is more than cosmetic, because it really does help you keep track of where you are spatially in a Web page.
• Copy-and-paste is unpleasant, if it works at all. It's not trivially easy on the iPhone, but it's better.
• And my single biggest gripe: Typing is just better on the iPhone's virtual keyboard. It's faster and more accurate for me. When I went back to an iPhone briefly after a couple months not using it, I experienced mild distress when I found my fingers flailing around looking for a back button--but when it came to typing, I breathed a sigh of relief. I hadn't known what I was missing.
On the desire when I try to type an o I get an I 80% of the time. Something that never happened to me on the iPhone. I can't explain why this happens but it does and its the same for certain other parts of the virtual keyboard.
There's a calibration thingy you can do, might be worth a try?