![]() Hardest part is getting the Android and Fastboot device drivers installed. If you do go the rooted path, I’d recommend looking at Wug’s root tools. One can either have a locked device which get’s prompt system updates but leaves you with the broken program permissions system or one can root the device and have proper and affective permissions (LBE Privacy Guard and similar) but not be able to apply system updates directly. I’d just suggest sticking close to the Nexus line rather than some manufacturer molested knock-off distribution fork of Android. I also went Nexus when the time came to upgrade and it’s been a great introduction to the Android OS. Here’s hoping someone gets such a device to market by the time I’m ready to upgrade again. (anyone know of an Android app that does proper packet capture?) I’ve been using new hardware now for over a month and it’s just not the same as having a proper Debian forked distro in my pocket. maybe a dedicated airodump capture device. My own N900 remains on the desk until I decide how to re-purpose it. Shame about Nokia intentionally making it’s N910 child a still-born by limited production runs and lack of consumer availability. It’s too bad Google didn’t do more to mandate the button order.įantastic bit of hardware that. And some even get rid of the hardware buttons completely. Some have 4 buttons (adding search, which doesn’t make any sense whatsoever). Yet, it seems that every phone manufacturer needs to “differentiate” and do their own thing. Even folks I’ve talked to who have phones with other layouts wish it was this way (back, home, menu). It’s logical, it’s intuitive, it’s easy to pick up. The menu button acts like a right-mouse-button-click, bringing up context menus in apps, so it makes sense to put it on the right. The home button should be in the middle, as it takes you back to “home” and centers things onscreen, and it keeps the symmetry between Android, iOS, WebOS, RIM, etc. The back button icon is always an arrow pointing to the left, and back buttons are always on the left in browsers and other apps, so it’s logical to put it on the left. To me, and to all those I’ve spoken to about this, the most logical button layout is: On a side note, I’ll never understand some of the button layouts on Android phones. Even if you use it more as a pocket computer than a phone. Makes sense in a tablet, but I don’t see the use-cases for it in a phone. Personally, I find a quad-core CPU to be pointless in a smartphone. The North American (LTE) versions will use the dual-core Qualcomm S4 (aka Krait) SoC. Only the international (non-LTE) versions of the S III will use the quad-core Exynos 4412 SoC (4x Cortex-A9 CPUs). ![]()
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