N95 to Android G1?

[Marf]

Well after 4 years of faithful service and 2 case changes, I feel it may be time to retire my dependable friend.

It's starting to look very tired, and the last case change necessitated me supergluing the screws on the case which contains the screen, so no hope of changing the case again

There's not much on the market that really interests me aside from the G1.

How do people rate them?

Is there a good third party GPS app(by good I mean with traffic updates and speedsafety camera warnings?)

What's the internet like on them?

What's battery life like?

Do T-Mobile UK still provide free unlock codes when requested?

TIA

Marf

[Marf]

No worries Bill, I guess I did put it in myself but as you say the system doesnae like it!

[Marf]

That's cheating!

Cheers Neil

[Marf]

Yeah, the qwerty kb is what attracts me, I don't like the pure touch screen phones.

Which GPS Software do you use? Whats the GPS like in general, does it lock on quickly?

That's one of my only bug bears for the first gen N95, even after hard modding my GPS aerial it still takes an age(relatively) to lock on from cold start.

Edited by Marf on Thursday 3rd June 13:08

[Marf]

sadako said:

I also went from N95 to G1. Yes, the GPS locks on very fast. Like the N95 it is good to factory reset it and reinstall stuff every few months to keep it running quick. I also recommend putting Cyanogenmod on the G1. This gives lots of improvements.

My G1 due for upgrade soon so might go for a desire soon...

How soon is soon? If its going begging I'd happily buy it off you

[Marf]

tim2100 said:

Took a while to get the code (£15) from T-mobile, but runs nicely on Vodafone, apart from unable to Download MMS messages.

Are the settings not available for other networks?

Are there good mail apps available for it? I'd want to get my hotmail on it via POP3.

[Marf]

Well after 5 months I've pulled me finger out.

Just bought this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

Should be delivered Saturday

[Marf]

Tycho said:

Sweet, I loved my G1 and only got rid after I bricked it with a corrupt firmware...

Bugger

I wanted to get one and flash it up to 2.2 but seeing one already done was too tempting.

Tycho said:

Get Appbrain and you can sync your apps with their website and see what others have and install it direct from the site. IIRC there are a few appbrain links in the Android sticky, I know mine is there somewhere.

Nice one, cheers for the tip.

[Marf]

Well it arrived Friday, and I can safely say I'm an Android convert.

2.2 runs surprisingly well on it, it can be a little sluggish, but still faster than my N95 ever was. Love the full 5 row keyboard and track ball.

Only physical criticism is the phone does feel a little plasticky and sqeaks a tad, but nothing that will bug me too much.

The OS is very intuitive, and I like the level of customisation Cyanogen brings to the party.

I hadnt planned to start using it as my main phone until switching to T-Mobile in December(3gb of data for a tenner a month!), but my N95's speaker decided to keel over on the weekend so that put play to that.

So far I've put winamp on it and a shoutcast player, both work flawlessly, though I've not had a chance to test the shoutcast player on the move as I've disabled data at present(its not included in my current O2 contract).

Going to be buying Co-Pilot navigation software for it as I dont want to waste data using Google Maps.

Overall very happy.

[Marf]

Mr Will said:

Marf said:

Going to be buying Co-Pilot navigation software for it as I dont want to waste data using Google Maps.

As long as you have a half decent internet allowance or are going to be using it every day, I wouldn't worry too much about Google Nav using data. It's actually quite thrifty! You'll certainly use more streaming media than you will with the nav.

The data is one aspect, the other is not having mobile coverage and needing to GPS my way out of trouble. I just feel happier having the maps stored locally

£26 one off cost for the UK+Eire isn't too bad I thought.