N95 to Android G1?

[SystemParanoia]

mine is currently sitting unused due to the screen deciding it doesn't want to play by my rules any more, and will only come on briefly after 30+mins of hammering every key on the phone.

ahh well

using my old n95 until upgrade time in jan

[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.

[Mr Will]

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.

[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.