At the age of 21 and having grown up with dumb phones, I never thought I'd see the day where a phone's hardware specs became an issue in terms of functionality, but thanks to some seriously talented people with a fair amount of time on their hands and their willingness to work for free for the benefit of others, hardware is taking longer and longer before it becomes obsolete.
Reminds me of when I was reading about people sticking Windows 7 on their old Pentium 2s.
I've still got a dumb phone now. I really want a smart phone, but I'm gonna miss the great battery life. I haven't charged mine since Tuesday, and it's still got half the battery left.
One of my friends is becoming a developer for Android. However, he isn't due for an upgrade but wanted a great phone to develop with.
So he bought a Droid Eris off a local seller... Overclocked it by 200mhz, and is running Evil Eris ROM... waiting for a stable Kaos Rom. I so need to get rooting.
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At the age of 21 and having grown up with dumb phones, I never thought I'd see the day where a phone's hardware specs became an issue in terms of functionality, but thanks to some seriously talented people with a fair amount of time on their hands and their willingness to work for free for the benefit of others, hardware is taking longer and longer before it becomes obsolete.
Reminds me of when I was reading about people sticking Windows 7 on their old Pentium 2s.
@TheMike
i can kinda of relate although thanks to my dad working for ATT i have had a smartphone since 2002 and im only 20
@DefPoet LOL, i did that for fun last year... it was a huge beige beast. So much metal and plastic... why?
@NeatOman Wrong person to replay to, and im talking about win7 on p2 :)
I wonder on how old of a machine will unbuntu 10.04 install on?
@NeatOman
If it'll install on a Nexus One and an Asus EeePC 701, it'll install on just about anything.
@TheMike
I've still got a dumb phone now. I really want a smart phone, but I'm gonna miss the great battery life. I haven't charged mine since Tuesday, and it's still got half the battery left.
@TheMike This is so true.
One of my friends is becoming a developer for Android. However, he isn't due for an upgrade but wanted a great phone to develop with.
So he bought a Droid Eris off a local seller... Overclocked it by 200mhz, and is running Evil Eris ROM... waiting for a stable Kaos Rom.
I so need to get rooting.