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I wish I could trade in my X somewhere when the Thunderbolt comes out.

thunderbolt does look awesome + HTC > * android manufacturers

any phone with a Tegra 2 > HTC Thunderbolt. The DROID Bionic will beat out the Thunderbolt easily.

Probably might be my next phone…Pending what comes out around June. No dual core processor though :(. I wanna see a price on the Xoom tablet.

Yeah I’ve been an Nvidia fan for years, the Tegra 2 is B.A.

I am going to be buying a used droid soon I think and I am trying to choose between the incredible (which I already owned and loved), Droid X, and Samsung Fascinate. I am interested in everyones opinions etc. I am leaning towards the incredible because I already had one and I have an extra battery which would be kinda nice. Thanks for your input.

I finally jumped into running a custom rom a couple of days ago. Holy hell it’s like a new phone. Ever since the last official update my X has crashed frequently and chewed through the battery like me through a trash plate.

Way faster, better battery life, bye bye motoblur, etc. I highly recommend it for all the X or Droid 2 owners.

Can anyone recommend a good android phone for sprint? It needs to be 3g so I don’t get the additional charge of the 4g phones. This BB Tour sucks, and needs to go. I really like the droid pro, but Sprint doesn’t have it.

EVO

^needs the data plan though.

I held out forever on the EVO due to the $10 per month and finally caved a few months ago. After a $100 walmart rebate card I got the phone for $25 and couldn’t pass it up. I’m not sorry I sucked it up. Of course I get a 19% discount because of my employment so… 8)

I finally rooted. Any suggestions on what ROM is king?

^^ I have a data plan, but it is a company account, and it needs to stay on the same 3g plan. I was looking at the LG Optimus S so far…

Sprint also has a nice Galaxy S phone, I can’t remember the name of it but I used when we got to demo it at work.

Hmm so I rooted, installed superuser, and bootstrap

then did the backup with bootstrap and wiped it and loaded the liberty rom

I notice it seems really really slow to charge. I also still use launcher pro because its much smoother and faster than liberty or stock launcher

you mean the battery is slow to charge?

Yes, but I gave it a full charge today and notice it lasting quite well without the bloatware. We’ll see how it is for a week or so

gotta love motorolas response about locked bootloaders

@tdcrooks if you want to do custom roms, then buy elsewhere, we’ll continue with our strategy that is working thanks.

^^ Well, I guess I know what brand I won’t be buying next time. Not a big fan of being locked out of an open-source platform, personally.

Anyone know how to set up screen capture on a Verizon Galaxy S phone via OSX ???

^download a screen shot app from the market… there are a ton.

If i had an idea for an application, how difficult is it to code? or whats the range to have a coder do it…

Id imagine it will be huge, but lets say a game like angry birds? and then lets say a search engine type of tool? 500? 5000? 50,000? etc etc.

Clearly I’ve done zero research… just have some ideas bouncing around in my head.

Hmm I read there wasn’t an app out for screen cap, Eff im a NEWB