Android OS

It's nowhere near as secure as Moto's methods.

Who cares?



Seriously though, if Moto weren't doing that and locking the bootloader, I'd snap it up for sure. It's a beast through and through. That with Vanilla Gingerbread + LP would be

Sony Ericsson surprising us again with news that they'll be letting people hack the bootloaders of their phones...

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/29/sony_ericsson_android_boot_loader_unlock/

Knowing Sony, the process of Rooting the phone will "dial home" and pass all your details to Sony's legal department, resulting in a summons for breaching the DMCA or something equally as stupid.

Yeah, if you have the donate version it's amazing. The free one is so annoying though :P

It installs automatically as opposed to:
*Permission screen- click install* for every single app.

You will have a much better experience with a higher resolution. Have you looked into the San Francisco?

Thing is, the Optimus One and SanFran use the same processor. Optimus won't be faster or smoother by any means..

Plus you can unlock the SanFran for free

Finally got round to sorting myself out a contract, and now own a Desire HD which is such a large step up from my old phone.

Several questions, which I'm sure will have been answered - but it's a long thread XD.

1) Where would be the best place to buy a replacement battery and would I be able to buy one that is better?

2) Recommended good skins/screen protectors?

3) Am I going to want to 'root' it (not sure what this is)? If so is it difficult because I'm not brilliant with technology.

4) Any other advice? I've already turned Wifi off because I won't be using it very often and have the kill everything app which I press often, any other good battery saving solutions?

Thanks =]

Finally got round to sorting myself out a contract, and now own a Desire HD which is such a large step up from my old phone.

Several questions, which I'm sure will have been answered - but it's a long thread XD.

1) Where would be the best place to buy a replacement battery and would I be able to buy one that is better? So far there haven't been any batteries that have higher capacity than the stock one, the reason is due to the unibody design of DHD it can never fit anything bigger in terms of size. All the replacement batteries you see that are higher spec'd will actually give you any more juice than the stock one. Generally the capacity they say isn't exactly what you get from these thrid party companies so if they say 1600Mah it's most likely something like 1200Mah. After searching this issue for months the HTC battery is still the best. I advise you to get used to charging your phone, the screen saps a tone of battery. Though I've heard Custom Roms improve the battery life dramatically.

2) Recommended good skins/screen protectors? Just Amazon it and find the one with most reviews, screen protector reduce the the sensitivity by bit but you get used to it. I currently have 4 cases. Gel case is most protective but makes the phone even bulkier, the casemate Barely there makes the phone look really classy but doesn't protect it much.

3) Am I going to want to 'root' it (not sure what this is)? If so is it difficult because I'm not brilliant with technology. I still haven't rooted my phone but I plan to once I have more time, the more you customise your phone the better it gets.

4) Any other advice? I've already turned Wifi off because I won't be using it very often and have the kill everything app which I press often, any other good battery saving solutions? Head over to here and there's tones of threads to help battery life. You don't need to kill apps, unless they've gone rouge, as android will just open them up again and memory has never been an issue for me, I've never managed to have less than 110mb free. Mobile data is a massive killer, more than wifi. Turn down brightness to half

Thanks =]