HTC Desire HD!

I got my HTC Desire HD today to finally taking my aged G1's place, its been a good 19 months for my G1, I did many things like root it and install CM6 (Android 2.2 ROM) with it but it just got too slow and was limiting my Android Experience too much, but now I have my HTC Desire HD, with its 768MB of RAM and a 1Ghz latest Snapdragon processor which makes it epically fast (no its not a dual core, unfortunately), So here I am sharing my excitement for my new phone. It ends up tops in a Quadrant benchmark test above the Nexus One 2.2 which is currently at the top.
Here it is next to my G1 with its score running CyanogenMod 6 Froyo 2.2, you see the Desire HD's screen is much better.

The screen is great and its 4.3 inch'ness makes me super happy because I hated using my G1's lousy screen againt all my friends better Android Phones, but now I can hold it over them.
Anyway I will making a video soon comparing it to my old G1 and showing how far Android has come in the world of Hardware. Stay tuned for that!

How to get Angry Birds to (sort of)work on your G1/HTC Dream

I believe this works with either the Lite Beta version and the full version but I have only tried it with the full version.
As you may know I've had some trouble with getting the Angry Birds app to work on my G1, well I spent a while rooting around on the internet until I found a way to make it work and I thought I'd share it with you poor G1'ers.
What you've got to do is open up the Angry Birds application on your phone like normal but DO NOT rotate your phone to landscape keep it in portrait/vertical, once you see the Angry Birds image witth he main red bird in the center constantly tap on the screen in a circle around the red bird, I know this sounds stupid but it seems to work ??? no idea why, worked first time with me, as far as I know this works for the G1 and the myTouch (HTC Dream + Magic). I'm not sure exactly but I can only presume that the constant tapping of the screen is (maybe) preventing the system of killing the application due to low memory. Anyway hope this helps!

Angry Birds!

Hurrah, Angry Birds full version is here!
I've been waiting for this for ages since the first lite beta release. Unfortunately the Beta Lite wouldn't work for some reason on my ancient G1, it would simply begin to load and after about a minute or so looking at the Angry Birds boot image it would send me back to the home screen. But now the new full version is available to download from getjar fro free,  http://www.getjar.com/mobile/43600/angry-birds (be warned it is an 15MB file so i recommend downloading onto your SD if you have 2.2 Froyo) Once I'd got the app on my phone I was delighted that it installed (finally) and as soon as I opened it things were looking promising, the boot screen has changed and it was all going well, right up until the point where it sent me back to my homescreen, you cant imagine my anger at Rovio! I tried moving it to my phone storage leaving me with a mere 1.2MB internal storage, this did not work either. Despite this and my anger at Rovio I recommend you get this from http://www.getjar.com/mobile/43600/angry-birds or if you want to wait a paid version will be available in the market soon! I hope it works for you as it is a great game (having played it on a friends iPod Touch) Good Luck!

What I want from the next gen of Android Tablet!

I wish these thousands of companies who are forever making cheap android tablets that are giving Android a bad name to all the new users, imagine it, you've brought a new Android tablet its your first device and yes it came from a company you've never heard of but it was cheap so you went ahead anyway, but then when you finally get it you find its slow, hasn't got access to the Android market and it feels like it might break in your hands. This means all the new Android users are being completely put off our great OS because they haven't experienced it properly yet.
So what should be done? Well I think if any 3rd-party manufacturer when using Google Android OS in their tablet/devices should have to meet a minimum set of requirements set by Google.
I would want these requirements to include at least:

• 512MB RAM 

• 256MB internal storage for apps unless Froyo is included with apps2sd

• A version of Android 1.6 for devices with screens of 7" or larger (due to Android 1.6 supports different resolutions)

• A 500Mhz processor or faster 

• Some version of an app store included if it doesn't meet requirements for the Android Market.

So there you have it, I hope this might become true one day to give those new people a better first experience of Android to see its true beauty.

Comments below of what you think and if you agree/disagree, What should be the minimum requirements for Android, if any?

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Welcome to my first blog on cool Android related things like; "What should companies think about before creating the next tablet" or "What Google should do about manufacturers and to stop them putting bloat ware and... bing, on our precious phones" and my own opinions on things. So stick around to hear all the good news on your favorite smartphone OS, Android.