Sunday, May 26, 2013

Android, an homage to my old phone

The HTC Incredible 2, my old phone and trusted ally for about 2 years had its pros and cons. It's a good solid phone sadly though not much going for it. Developers won't touch it, Cyanogenmod dropped any further support, and just when things were about to get bright by HTC bringing a little slice of ICS that development hit a stalemate. The last build I ran on it was an unofficial 4.1 AOKP rom. It ran fairly decent, the only major issue was the camera but it was an issue for all ICS and JB builds. I love this phone it wasn't the best but it gave me my first lesson in tasting the future coming from an older touchscreen phone the LG Chocolate I was already used to typing with an on-screen keyboard and touching and swiping, but Android was different everything was so smooth, the keyboard wasn't as clumsy, and the response was so much faster, if this was the future then I was in love. I'm especially happy that my first experience with Android was a good one many Android users blame the OS for the issues revolving around their phone and I always explain to them that sometimes it's not the OS sometimes it's just the phone or the bloatware the networks through on there and most of the time I'm right. I'm glad I never had that experience my experience was one of knowledge I wanted to learn how to do everything and anything on it. I wanted to customize it whatever way I saw fit which was something I saw the iPhone lacked. I love that just about everything on my Android is customizable from text to icons to colours. In fact it's more customizable than my PC which is funny because my PC is supposed to be more personal than that. I loved my Incredible 2 and maybe one day HTC will release that update but if they don't it'll still be a great phone.

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