Okay, you asked for it. I have an HTC HD2. For those who don't know this beast, it originally run WinMo6.5 (Windows Mobile 6.5) The last windows 98 look alike phone OS just before they switched to Windows Phone 7. I bought this phone early last year for one reason only. It's phone specs are EXACTLY the same as an entry level android device or the original windows phone 7 devices. Thus I knew I could play without paying ;-) I started this device on stock android but got tired of it so I tried installing Windows Phone 7. I went well except I had to break a number of Microsoft "best practices" and I hated the "walled garden" experience. So I looked around for none stock roms and really good cooks like cyanogen. I settled on a Chinese rom called MIUI and have been using it for most of this year. No with regard to hardware, I have upgraded android on my phone from 1.6 all the way to 2.3.6 with all the stops in between. All this without changing hardware once!! This is on hardware from 2008!! My current problem is the small 512mb system partition and the fact that my 8gb sdcard is filled with audiobooks. The reason I love android so much is because this is the new Linux with everyone having the ability to get a standard smartphone and do what they want with it. Google is now shipping the Google Nexus with a rootable rom just so that you can keep up with the upgrades and various flavoured roms. It is no longer the cost of the device/hardware my friends but the amount of work you are willing to put into making it work for you. JUST LIKE LINUX!!
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bernard Wanyama Sent: 13 December 2011 15:20 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LUG] Android users get screwed? Hi Mark, The story was about phones. Interestingly, I also have the same setup - 4 year old clone called DELUX with a 19-inch Samsung LCD (those days 9ms of LCD response time was killer!) running Linux Mint 12 (upgraded on Sunday). I have done so much to it, only failed to close it up permanently, runs with the side open. On the same computer table, however, lie the dead bodies - Nokia N80 - 2006 - 2010 (pioneered small-pin charger), Blackberry Pearl 8100 - 2009 - 2010 and the G1 which still part times as a 3G modem. So, in my case, phone hardware and software really expired so fast! And the PC seems to be going nowhere but up..... Kind regards, Bernard On 13 December 2011 06:28, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 03:02:56 AM Bernard Wanyama > wrote: > >> Moral of the story, hardware nowadays expires just as fast as >> software. It is now more about the latest device than the latest >> kernel or patch! > > Ummh, I don't think so. > > Hardware expires quickly because we all want new toys as fast as they > can come off the production lines (even though many of us can't always > have them). > > I bought a no-name Intel Core 2 Duo PC back in 2008 for my house + a > 17" Samsung LCD display. I still have the same today, running Windows > 7 Home Premium (64-bit), no sweat. > The only work I've done is upgraded from 2GB of DRAM to 4G, then to > 8GB; added a 1TB hard drive; added some fans; and switched from my > 480W power supply to a 600W unit. That's it. This tech. is nearly 4 > years old - I could hardly get the RAM for my motherboard here > (everybody has since moved on to DDR3), but Windows 7 runs beautifully > and no one is complaining (the box came with Windows XP back in '08). > > Don't even get me started on other kit I have running in my service > network that is quite long-in-the-tooth, but still doing great work > with current software (yes, not exactly consumer-grade interest, but > in relative terms, it's lasting). > > The point is, new hardware does not advance that much that an upcoming > software release will not run on previous hardware that is no more > than 1 - 2.5 years old in the mobile phone business. It's just our > appetite for new gadgets that is causing this phenomenon. I, for one, > refuse to buy into it. > > Mark. -- Bernard Wanyama Technical Manager SYNTECH ASSOCIATES Ltd Kampala, Uganda Cell: +256 712 193979 Fixed: +256 414 251591 Web: www.syntechug.com Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
