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I used to have an Android phone - an HTC Desire HD - and I really liked it. Then I lost it, while my contract still had nine months to go - and it wasn't covered by my home insurance - so I couldn't afford to replace it.
Even with a newly-bought sealed fresh battery from eBay, my poor old Nokia E90 is no longer up to snuff. Its browser is ancient, current versions of Opera don't work and the ones that do are painfully slow, its Google Sync triplicated all the entries in my address book until its memory filled up, and with these things turned on, a brand-new battery lasted about 7-8h.
I got to borrow an HTC Wildfire for long enough to retrieve my backups from the HTC cloud & merge them into Google, but I was bereft without a smartphone.
But a kind friend saved the day and gave me his old iPhone. It's his old 3GS, as he upgraded to a 4GS. O2 unlocked it for free - syncing to iTunes on my Mac one day caused it to reset and accept my Orange SIM.
And it was a very odd experience. iOS is pretty and it was fun using it on Wifi, adding a handful of apps, exploring its functionality. It felt constrained compared to Android - no menu button, no back button; like using a really old-time early-1990s Mac with no right mouse button. But I accepted it; it was just... different.
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Even with a newly-bought sealed fresh battery from eBay, my poor old Nokia E90 is no longer up to snuff. Its browser is ancient, current versions of Opera don't work and the ones that do are painfully slow, its Google Sync triplicated all the entries in my address book until its memory filled up, and with these things turned on, a brand-new battery lasted about 7-8h.
I got to borrow an HTC Wildfire for long enough to retrieve my backups from the HTC cloud & merge them into Google, but I was bereft without a smartphone.
But a kind friend saved the day and gave me his old iPhone. It's his old 3GS, as he upgraded to a 4GS. O2 unlocked it for free - syncing to iTunes on my Mac one day caused it to reset and accept my Orange SIM.
And it was a very odd experience. iOS is pretty and it was fun using it on Wifi, adding a handful of apps, exploring its functionality. It felt constrained compared to Android - no menu button, no back button; like using a really old-time early-1990s Mac with no right mouse button. But I accepted it; it was just... different.
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