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  1. Desire S = Very very nice. Glad to see that HTC have put some work into their build quality. Poor camera as expected. Not really a fan of Sense but I can't yet be bothered fiddling with ROMS etc.
  2. I pay £10 a month roughly (PAYG), get 5000 texts and £20 free credit. More than suits my needs. I do have to buy the 5000 texts bundle though (for £5 which would normally get me just 100 texts). So for a £10 top-up I get £25 flexible credit and 5000 texts. And excellent signal.
  3. Originally posted by iTim:I pay £10 a month roughly (PAYG), get 5000 texts and £20 free credit. More than suits my needs. I do have to buy the 5000 texts bundle though (for £5 which would normally get me just 100 texts). So for a £10 top-up I get £25 flexible credit and 5000 texts. And excellent signal.


    Payg is a good value way to go if you fancy buying your own phone. Is prefer a sim only contract though. 15 quid a month on 3 gets you 300 minutes, unlimited texts and data. You can also cancel it anytime, or ten pound a month if you sign up for 12 months. Again no handset though.
  4. Desire S still lovely. No way is it worth 3 times as much as the SanFrancisco I had though.


  5. The Orange SanFrancisco, yeah? That's the phone I currently have. It was £100 well spent, but I have complaints about it - battery life is crap, it can be quite slow, camera is shit... sure there is other things wrong with it too.
  6. Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]

    The Orange SanFrancisco, yeah? That's the phone I currently have. It was £100 well spent, but I have complaints about it - battery life is crap, it can be quite slow, camera is shit... sure there is other things wrong with it too.


    Camera is shit on the Desire S too. Can't really comment on battery yet. Screens are similar (desire s is better but I do prefer amoled). The Desire is faster but not 300 quid faster. Have you looked into custom roms yet for the San Fran. It can be speeded up quite easily.
  7. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    Camera is shot on the Desire S too. Can't really comment on battery yet. Screens are similar (desire s is better but I do prefer amoled). The Desire is faster but not 300 quid faster. Have you looked into custom roms yet for the San Fran. It can be speeded up quite easily.


    No, I haven't actually. Might actually do that, because it sometimes crashes on apps. How much do you think one would be & would it be alot of hassle to do it?
  8. @Kieran , battery life is shit in everything nowadays (except iPhone, I have to admit). I remember when I charged my old Nokia 3300 only once a week. Now, virtually every smartphone needs to be charged once a day if you do a normal use of it (including internet, camera, music player, texting, etc).
  9. Originally posted by LikeASong:@Kieran , battery life is shit in everything nowadays (except iPhone, I have to admit). I remember when I charged my old Nokia 3300 only once a week. Now, virtually every smartphone needs to be charged once a day if you do a normal use of it (including internet, camera, music player, texting, etc).


    Yeah, I suppose that is true.

    I remember charging my Sony Ericsson K750i almost every week. That was great, because if you forgot to charge it, it would have enough battery to last another day. But if I forget to charge the San Francisco one night, I will struggle to last the next day. I might get it to the charger with only 2% battery left, or it might just run out mid-way through the day.
  10. Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]

    No, I haven't actually. Might actually do that, because it sometimes crashes on apps. How much do you think one would be & would it be alot of hassle to do it?


    It's not particularly difficult. I'll throw a few links in later. Essentially you will be installing a different build on Android to the phone that's much lighter, efficent and faster. It gets rid of all of the Orange boosts that's installed too. It takes around twenty no.it's a to do. A few lines of text into a command prompt window is the height of it.
  11. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    It's not particularly difficult. I'll throw a few links in later. Essentially you will be installing a different build on Android to the phone that's much lighter, efficent and faster. It gets rid of all of the Orange boosts that's installed too. It takes around twenty no.it's a to do. A few lines of text into a command prompt window is the height of it.


    That sounds pretty good actually. I'll do that sometime soon.

    Found a link on the Android forums - http://androidforums.com/san-francisco-all-things-root/230099-guide-flashing-your-orange-san-francisco-zte-blade-custom-rom.html
  12. Nothing like being able to flash your phone or tablet so it gets rid of all the bloat. I have the S7 tablet (Ideos) and before with the Telstra stuff, it was so slow and I had no need for it. Then I flashed it with a custom ROM - an unsupported one, and it's actually responsive now and works with the naked finger properly rather than using the stylus.
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