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Offline Pred the Penguin

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Re: Looking for a Smartphone
Too early to mention you can find an RDP app or use teamviewer to control full size computers?  :D
Um... what?

Also, hope you realize I was just joking before. Really appreciative of any advice you guys give me.

 

Offline KyadCK

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Re: Looking for a Smartphone
Too early to mention you can find an RDP app or use teamviewer to control full size computers?  :D
Um... what?

Also, hope you realize I was just joking before. Really appreciative of any advice you guys give me.

Alright, in the world of practical apps:

Movie player: Mobo
Camera: Camera 360 (the stock one kinda sucks...)
Music: whatever is stock, it'll play any format you can dream of including .ogg
File Manager: Astro or ES File Explorer
IRC: AndChat
Web Browser: Dolphin Mini (basically a Chrome copy on android)
Games: All 3 angry birds, unblock me, galaxy wars, fruit ninja, whatever else you can find that you might like
Other: Flashlight, Android booster, Hacker's keyboard

Every last one of those are free. It might be worth spending 30-45 mins just looking through the app store, find things you might be interested in.
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Offline LHN91

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Re: Looking for a Smartphone
Random side note. In my experience the default HTC music player, while able to play plenty of formats, chokes on some .wav files.

Of course that may also be because of my somewhat out-of-date HTC Legend on 2.2. Debating on rooting and doing the unofficial 2.3 upgrade, but because I updated to the newest official HTC rom, it's several times harder to do; involving several steps of workarounds to get the phone manually downgraded to an older rom and bootloader even before doing the rooting and 2.3 installation.

 

Offline Pred the Penguin

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Re: Looking for a Smartphone
Mine doesn't like MP4s, it can play some, even though it's not included in the list of supported files on HTC website. I'm assuming if I install a new music play it'll work out better?

And I basically understood half of what you posted Kyad.
Isn't Android made by Google? Why would the web browser not be some offshoot of chrome? Or are web browsers basically different for every phone?
Color me confused... and technologically deficient. :P

This thread should be changed to "Teach Pred How to Use His Smartphone" :lol:

 

Offline KyadCK

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Re: Looking for a Smartphone
Mine doesn't like MP4s, it can play some, even though it's not included in the list of supported files on HTC website. I'm assuming if I install a new music play it'll work out better?

And I basically understood half of what you posted Kyad.
Isn't Android made by Google? Why would the web browser not be some offshoot of chrome? Or are web browsers basically different for every phone?
Color me confused... and technologically deficient. :P

This thread should be changed to "Teach Pred How to Use His Smartphone" :lol:

MP4 is video isnt it? Mobo will probably play it.

Yes, both Android and Chrome are made by google, but while android is aimed at phones/tablets, Chrome OS (or Chromium, you've probably seen the ads for chromebooks by now) is aimed at netbooks. The two projects don't really share much, and that includes the chrome browser (basicly the heart of Chrome OS). Instead, android has the 'android browser' with lack of tabs and a hard limit of 5-7 'pages'.
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Offline Pred the Penguin

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Re: Looking for a Smartphone
Sorry brainfart, my files are in m4a format.... but it says MPEG-4. I'm having serious issues with technology...
And Yeah, Android's default browser does suck. :blah: But apparently I can't download Dolphin at the moment. I'll try later.

 

Offline LHN91

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Sorry brainfart, my files are in m4a format.... but it says MPEG-4. I'm having serious issues with technology...
And Yeah, Android's default browser does suck. :blah: But apparently I can't download Dolphin at the moment. I'll try later.

m4a stands for MPEG-4 Audio. just FYI  :P

  

Offline Pred the Penguin

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Yeah, learned all that 2 years in high school... and promptly forgot all of it. :P