But installing "tweeked" android versions from the net has to be done with a HUGE amount of caution.
Remember, if it's free, you are the product, not the consumer.
I've mucked around with a few on these on a wifi only nexus 7 with a firewall on full log mode and a packet sniffer.
There is some weird port communication to some less than desirable IP ranges.
Cyprus (no EU privacy laws and owned by the Russians), Russia and China's geo ranges are high on the hit list.
Only "root" your phone and use "free" tweaked versions if you know exactly what you are doing.
Android apps are a hot bed of malware at the moment. The stock OS and an antivirus do a pretty good job of protecting you, but not if you go it alone.

myusernam said..

FlySurfer said..
http://www.google.com.au/nexus/5/
$399

Best bang for your buck as of today, and comes with free KitKat.

i think id rather an s3 from kogan for $400

Why?

myusernam said...

FlySurfer said..

ikw777 said..

I'm going to move into the new era and get a smart phone. What's best to get iphone or an android phone? Durability? usability? reliability? restrictions?

http://www.google.com.au/nexus/5/
$399

Best bang for your buck as of today, and comes with free KitKat.

i think id rather an s3 from kogan for $400

Plus 1 got that cant complain. It doesn't really matter what you get and you can change next time. Android is value for money.

kiteboy dave said...
I wouldn't go Nokia, due to Windows. It's a distant third in phone OS's and apps. Look at all the popular apps it's fruit or android.

I disagree. All the apps I've used on iPhone and Android are on my WP7. It is catching up. I'm not the most sophistcated smartphone user but I have dev unlocked it, fiddled around with coding on it and unauthorized apps, if that means anything.

Current apps I have and are popular:
-Skype
-Viber
-Shazam
-Facebook
-IMDB
-YouTube

Off the top of my head. Plenty more too, what sort of things do you want?

GreenPat said..

Off the top of my head. Plenty more too, what sort of things do you want?

Seabreeze, mofo, seabreeze.

/walked right into that one, didn't you.

GreenPat said..
It never made it into the marketplace though due to lack of demand.

Aaand that sums up Windows phones/apps in general.
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I like that look ^^^ 10x better than iOS7, which to my eye looks like the dog ate the "special edition retro 90's fluoro" crayola box and then vomited on the screen.

However.. live tiles are just widgets made to have a square box and a uniform background - I'd prefer individual shapes, resizability, and transparent background. I mean I can get my widgets to be square and have a blue background, but ... naah.

I did have a windows phone pre-android, and I can't see MS *not* getting there eventually as a player in the phone market, they have the money to throw at the problem, but having made the jump to android I really can't see any attraction to go back to windows phone. Android is USB plug in, drag & drop files, logical naming of folders like "DCIM" for pics, "Downloads" for.. surprise surprise. My point is that it's totally compatible with win 7 (which beats 8 hands down) so it's out-windowed windows. In fact folders are easier to find/access in android than they were on win phone (where they get hidden under /user/desktop/blah/hidey/etc/here/not quite/almost there/yup/now/) And the android phone is *much* easier to configure/tweak etc than my windows phone was.

Edit *** and what's that "internet Explorer" thing there The universally acknowledged use for IE is downloading Chrome or Firefox, right?

Not a chance that's true mate. And if it is Apple would have every right to turn it away and demand processable means of payment.

A phone is a phone and a puter is a puter. Some of each are both.

What is important is "Connectivity".

So which connects best???

kiteboy dave said..

Meh.



The above looks even better with the parallax effect.

I use ArchiDroid with Boeffla Kernel on an S3... it defecates all over everything else.

evlPanda said..


Which is another reason I like the iPhone. Being something that is in my hand probably even more than my dick it's nice to be feeling another quality product. The glass and aluminium are unarguably a better finish. No, I've never dropped it and I don't wear protection (on my phone).

blah blah

every htc phone i have owned is metal and glass . Samsung are plastic but whatever apple fanboi , you keep believing in the dream :)

Seems Andriod has a problem. A BIG problem...

www.itnews.com.au/news/security-flaw-believed-to-affect-all-android-devices-375948

Nah, this one is great. As new android version introduce new controls, apps previously installed have these controls disabled by default, so they get additional privs without you knowing. It also allows malware to be injected as part of an update.
Apple recently screwed up their SSL implementation (now fixed). We'll see how long google takes to sort this. Then all the manufacturers will have to patch as well as they don't sanction direct updates from google.
The NSA are probably overjoyed.

Can iPhones have schedulers yet? As in run a service in the background.

I use an App called MacroDroid; which among other things
- switches off the radios at night
- turns down the ringer vol when I connect to work wifi
- turns up vol when connect to home wifi

Last time I checked this wasn't possible with an iPhone, is it now?

Also I get ~ 7 days battery (moderate use) with my Kernel, does an iPhone last that long?

Btw: I think the Galaxy 5 looks totally ****ing crap, but I'm such a sucker for those AMOLED screens.