I've got me 2 android based phones. My primary is my HTC One S. Besides the lack of micro SD card (way to go HTC...) it's a great phone. It's runs on Jelly Bean, 4.1.1. My second "phone" is a permanent MP3 player. It's an older Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant. I picked it up for cheap and used it for a while till we upgraded. Now it holds all my music and can be used in emergencies. Anyways, I've rooted this one up to ICS so it's updated software.

One of the points to this thread was about music for these devices. The original music players aren't normally very good and if it's a Google sponsored phone, the Google Music app sucks. I've recently found an app that destroys anything I've ever tried. It's called N7Player. It's awesome to use and smooth, I definitely recommend it if you like to listen to music and enjoy the app that plays it. It has different features and the user interface is amazing. It's on the play store with a 14 day trial or you can buy it for some $3. I sort of, found a way around it but anyways, just thought I'd throw it out there.

There are some people who'd argue that Apple's iOS is better in X amount of ways. I would disagree. Then there is the Windows OS... It's just kind of terrible on it's own. Android is an open source os that doesn't have any qualls about the user removing the OS and replacing it with a heavily customized and upgraded version of it. Just as long as certain copyright rules haven't been breached. With Apple or Windows, they don't like it when people take their model OS and change things to make it smoother or add useful apps while removing the bloatware they include, they frown upon creativity in software form. Android seems to embrace it and lets the user go wild.


If you've got a smartphone, what kind is it? What OS does it run and what kind of useful apps have you found?

 

i have the Samsung S3 and love it want to get the S4 but i want the water proof one when Verizon gets it.

i use it for business and it works great the Iphone screen is just too small. I do RDP with mine all the time and it is easy to use without having to zoom in and out all the time.

but i also have an Ipad for play and i really like it for that.

 

The S3 looks like a lot of fun. Even though my HTC is still "new" I am already looking at upgrading to possibly an S4. I would like to wait till this is paid off though. Or till I start my own contract instead of a shared one with the family.

 

I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus S 4G that I can't use - Sprint has zero coverage where I live. It's been rooted, has never been activated, has a clean ESN (according to Sprint), and has been upgraded to Jellybean.

I'm currently on a StraightTalk (Verizon) prepaid plan using a Samsung Galaxy Proclaim. It's rooted, but the only custom rom that has been developed for it, so far, is still Gingerbread. For a $150 phone, it's not too bad and, if anything happens to it, I'm not out a lot of money. Besides, $45/month for unlimited everything and no contract fits my budget quite nicely...

 

Motorola Razr coming up on 2 years old. Love/Hate relationship.

 

Fury, have you ever heard of XDA Developer forums? You might find yourself an upgraded custom Rom. That's where I got my stuff and although my rooted os is buggy, I'm just too lazy to re-root it .

Is the Razr pretty cool? they looked nice from what I saw but I run on Tmobile so they didn't get those.

 

Sony Xperia T. Can't live without it. This thing does everything but shave for me.

 

I know how it feels. I'm always trying to find ways to improve my phone. Different apps to do different things. It would be cool to be able to access my computer from wherever I am. I haven't quite figured out how but I will one day.

 

Yes, I am very familiar with XDA - I've learned much from them and they are who I've gotten information from on all my previous rootings/upgrading.

However, XDA doesn't waste a lot of time on prepaid phones (although, I did use them to root and upgrade a prepaid LG Optimus V I had with Virgin Mobile.) I got the kernel and rom for this Proclaim through Android Area 51 - they, so far, are the only ones who have bothered to do anything with this little phone...

 

Yeah I guess the customizing market for prepaid is slim huh?

 

Good reason for that - prepaid phones are crap, comparatively speaking... Most of the ones out there now were built specifically for the prepaid market and have minimal hardware requirements. I don't require much for a phone so, it doesn't bother me - this little Proclaim still has much more processing power than my first desktop computer did (an old IBM XT clone I built back in the late 80's that ran on a 8Mhz clock - 10Mhz on the "Turbo" setting LOLOLOL)

 

That's bad when you can say your cell phone is more powerfull than your pc... Technology is getting pretty crazy.

 

Check and see if you can find an app called folderplay. It plays flac files as well as mp3's.
Gapless playback, eq support etc. Plus it's free! another free one is oggplay which I'm pretty sure is supported by android. It's ok but I prefer folderplay.
I prefer my old prepaid nokia with symbian OS. Not a fan of either droids or IOS due to many many reasons, coughNSAcough. Girlfriend just joined the icult club and I don't even want to deal with supporting it.

 

I don't get many music files other than MP3. I've had the chance to get FLAC but I've never used it and didn't want to download a special player for it. VLC *should* be able to play most files like OGG and a few others but not FLAC.