buy a peice of snot 49 dollar prepaid phone .
sends txt and rings people.

You can buy a phone like the HTC Desire or Samsung Galaxy S which has Android already installed. A friend of mine has a Galaxy S and its a nice phone. I think its better than the iPhone as you don't have to use iTunes.

I have an HTC HD which is in good condition with original box... custom ROM (get your own @ xdadev), SIM free... if you're interested let me know.

It's 15 months old but I want something small... unlike the iFools the battery lasts more than a week using G-Profile to switch radios off at night.

I want a Nokia X3 Touch and Type... small, light, 18 days standby.
I just wish it had a fuller keypad... I can't sms with number pads, but I don't sms much.

The Galaxy is good on paper, but all that LAME ASS SAMSUNG branding sucks ass... why don't they rebrand themselves, "sam", "s" or something less in your face ugly. HTC is nice and discrete.

I agree with Buster

Phones are for phoning and computers are for computing

I just wish I could get a durable one that is not half glass with decent reception AND an external aerial plug for the hi gain aerial in the car - the passive pickup cradles are nowhere near as good.

Just reading about a cheapo Android phone available from Crazy Johns.


Huawai Ideos for $159.

ausdroid.net/2010/10/21/huawei-ideos-headed-to-crazy-johns-in-late-octearly-nov-for-159/

Seems like a good buy as it runs the latest version of Android. I think it's a pre paid and locked to Telstra but not sure. Even if it is, its probably not that hard to unlock it.

My Nokia died this afternoon. The screen is on but blank.

So I went down Crazy Johns and picked up a Huawei Ideos. The sales assistant advised me it was locked to the Crazy John network which is apparently a Vodaphone network. She said the phone wouldn't work with 3 and would need to be unlocked which cost around $50.

I took the risk and bought it for $149 which included a 4GB micro SD card along with the standard 1 GB standard one.

Back at home after putting my 3 sim card I fired it up. It took a fair while to boot. Once booted it spotted my sim so I made a call and it worked! So no need to unlock.

It seems like a pretty cool little phone. Much smaller than an iPhone which is good and bad. Good to have a smaller phone but with the screen real estate a bit smaller, everything is cramped.

It will be interesting playing around with it. Yeah its great to have a simple phone but moving from the simple Nokia to an Android phone is definitely a step forward.