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[Q] Best android phone that I can buy

Hi Friends,
Recently I lost my Sony Xperia X10i. I'm in the process of claim insurance. Now my question to my friends here - Which android mobile I need to buy. I'm a big fan of Android .
I'm from India, so please suggest me that is available in India. My budget is up to 30K .
Thanks & Regards,
Naresh Kumar

I can say go for Samsung galaxy S Or HTC Desire HD Htc Desire HD Will be available during this month. I 've heard prices will be around 35K But Battery drain is the problem in HD I guess

Depends on what you are looking for.
Nexus S or Galaxy S will give you the best processing power, Galaxy S also has the super AMOLED screen. The HTC Desire Z is very overclockable, which can put it above the Galaxy S even, and has a slide-out keyboard.
HTC Desire HD also has a big screen with good construction and great software (HTC Sense...best software skin on Android).
If you want plain unmodified Android then wait for the Nexus S, which would be the only phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

hTC all the way
Desire Z or Desire HD

HTC desire is a good choice.
I have HTC smart and am happy with its features and apps. I think HTC desire will be also best I had just deal with HTC and its first time I am using Android. you will get many best deals at this Christmas.
Good Luck!

HTC
HTC
HTC
...that is all...
i will NEVER own another samsung smartphone... terribly disappointing expierence with the galaxy s series in its entierty....
ive found that most people who have an SGS and LOVE it, have either never had ANY smartphone previously, or never owned an HTC smartphone to understand what they are missing

i just switched yesterday from an iphone 4 to an HTC Droid Incredible. its, in my book, 1000x better than the iphone. yea it doesnt have the front facing camera like the Evo, but usin it on the iphone for facetime purely raped the battery life. hence why i went w/o. im still tinkering with it, like i did both my iphones, and i'll post a full review for those who wanna kno more about it (and if there isnt one already).

Motorola Milestone 2 is a good idea.. but i'd wait for Nexus S or lg star..
LG STAR HAS A TEGRA 1GHZ PROCESSOR.. but youll have to wait longer than nexus S for that

[email protected] said:
i just switched yesterday from an iphone 4 to an HTC Droid Incredible. its, in my book, 1000x better than the iphone. yea it doesnt have the front facing camera like the Evo, but usin it on the iphone for facetime purely raped the battery life. hence why i went w/o. im still tinkering with it, like i did both my iphones, and i'll post a full review for those who wanna kno more about it (and if there isnt one already).
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Yeah i came from a 3gs,iPhones are boring.You could probably get a Htc HD2 cheap and you can port android to it,there very good at running android,fast,stable,they even beat the Nexus one and desire at running it

IF you like options, get a cheap HD2 lol. It can run Wm 6.5, Android, and ubuntu and possibly even wp7. and the hardware is still good. Otherwise Desire HD sounds good but I highly recommend the HD2 for versatility

I will be changing my phone in June. Right now I have HTC Hero, and I just love it, it is by far the best phone I have ever owned. Can not stand Iphones.....
So my question, is whats on the horizon ???? like I say, it will be June 2011 when I upgrade, what should I be looking at ?
Thanks
Ian

Nexus S or Desire HD
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30k INR is about 660 USD, right?
you could buy HTC Desire with that, I think..
or perhaps, just buy HTC HD2.. with cedesmith desireHD2 build, 2000 quadrant score is just a small number..

I've been with T-Mobile for around 7 years and have 7 lines. We have tried about every phone out there. One year we went through 103 phones. We have owned every myTouch phone, including the Fender but excluding the new one, almost all of the BlackBerry phones made, many nokia phones, motorola phones and of course countless htc phones (including the HD7, returned the next morning).
No matter what platform HANDS DOWN the Samsung Vibrant S (I guess that would include AT&Ts Galaxy S) is the best out there. My kids had the inexpensive samsung flip phones and they were great, but beyond the very low end Samsung I have never been really happy with their phones that were almost smart phones, more like frustrated because you could "almost" do what lets say the HTC phones could but your Samsung was always not set up for all the same apps, stuck with all kinds of just small bumps.
Just this weekend 3 people were deciding what phone to get and they are now all getting the Vibrant once there contract is up. I personally added a line just to get this phone. Now my Vibrant in rooted (never done that before) and is customized with BlackFroyo I got off here. Of course the 3 friends all want to do the same.
Samsung has all the technology, thank goodness T-Mobile got their hands on it!!! Buy it you won't be sorry.

get the nexus S, period

ESKIMOn00b said:
HTC
HTC
HTC
...that is all...
i will NEVER own another samsung smartphone... terribly disappointing expierence with the galaxy s series in its entierty....
ive found that most people who have an SGS and LOVE it, have either never had ANY smartphone previously, or never owned an HTC smartphone to understand what they are missing
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I must admit I would have agreed with you before I bought the Vibrant. We've been with T-Mobile for 7 years and have a total of 7 lines... I won't repeat what I already posted but have gone though over 103 phones (unfortunately, kids) in one year about 90% smart phones.
Samsung DID IT RIGHT with the VIBRANT!!!!
I love window based phones as well and REALLY lean towards HTC until now. Returned the HD7 within 14 hrs, maybe I'll try again once it's more established.
So I bought my first choice and everyone who sees it or uses it (it's rooted with BlackFroyo theme) has decided this is the phone they'll be getting.
What was so disappointing about the Galaxy S Series? The working phones we have right now are 2 myTouch slides, 1 myTouch G1, 1 myTouch Fender, partially broken Samsung Galaxy (I agree with you about this phone), 1 or 2 different BlackBerrys, but returned the HTC HD7 & HTC Pro Touch 2, & gave away the Slide to get this Vibrant and now I have 6 others under my roof who want me to buy them a Vibrant.
I know everyone has different opinions and needs but to imply that owners of the Galaxy S Series have less experience with SmartPhones than those who own HTC phones is just a little narrow minded. I did feel the way you did but it was the "NEWEST" HTC phone that pushed me to the Samsung. Reviews everywhere were overwhelming that if you were going to buy a T-Mobile phone get the Vibrant.
-nothing personal, it would just be nice if you would back your statements up with some facts because it sounds like you're talking about another Samsung

Buy HTC Desire Z its a great phone.

Closed
What is best for me may not be for you, said that, theres no such "best" phone.

[DISCUSSION] What's the first phone you've ever owned?

Thought it would be ammusing to know how far we've all come along to get to this lovely os we call android today.
Post your first phone you ever owned. Hell post em all for all I care. Let the ammusement begin!
My very first phone was a motorola n95, then went to a nokia. Can't remember the name (old cheap phone).
[G2/HTC Vision]

MOTO RAZR still beats my G2

Let's see...
I had a damn beeper for a while. They always say it's drug dealers that have 'em but it works both ways. ;^)
My first cellular phone was a Nokia with a pea soup colored screen.
A Sony Ericcson phone that was tiny with a color screen and a camera.
My aesthetic favorite, a pink Motorola Razr with flowers etched into it. I got a ton of crap for it, which I always thought was funny. "My phone is totally an expression of my masculinity, bra!"
Had a Blackberry for a month which got me my first taste of push emails. Then...
G1, baby! Mind blowing! Totally bricked it! Within an hour, I went to the store to try again with...
MyTouch 3G Slide. Enough like my G1 to keep me happy and my first battle with Sense UI. (Gross.)
HD2. Easy to run many different builds on but screen freezes and data drops made it a pain. (No, I never really used WinMo. Tried it. Hated it.)
G2. Back to basics. Love it.

Rofl pink razr. Classic.
[G2/HTC Vision]

My first phone came back in 2003 with the Motorola T720...
Flip phone and a color screen?!?

Philips Diga

Kyocera 2135

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Baby Ericsson Flip (GF768) in about '98 I think. One line display!
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Had a beeper for a couple years then the first phone was a motorola star tac. Still the best phone I ever had.
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Motor razr
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To think how cell phones evolved. I can imagine in another 10 years what we will have at the palm of our hands. Anyone remember those huge saved by the bell phones? Lmao
[G2/HTC Vision]

Can you guess my first cellphone?

Let's see.. had a old school nokia with the cool faceplates.. loved that back in the day. Really durable phone for sure, moved to the tiny samsung camera flip phone with lil antennea.. then to a samsung t809 I think it was, was a slider with camera that swiveled.. loved this phone to death.. had it till battery gave out, moved to nokia music express slider.. pos screen cracked in a week, so that sucked.. got a samsung blast after that.. pos. Then bb pearl.. pos. Then got a tmobile shadow, loved that phone. Still do, let my friend use that bad boy. Then got a mytouch3g. The first version.. got a taste of android and have been hooked since, then got a cliq for a tiny bit. Now I'm on my G2... best phone ever for my needs as a 21yr old.. plus.. first nokia I had when I was in 4th grade..
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Motorola microtac ultra lite and my sister had a motorola dpc-550 circa 1993/94
(first pic is the ultra lite, except mine was light gray with green digits cause it was on bell atlantic, the second pic is the dpc-550, which was also light gray with green digits cause it was BAM)
I still have a microtac ELITE and a second gen startac (green lcd display and contacts for a fat piggy back battery) in my desk drawer of old **** at work. See the third attached pic for actual proof that I still have them, took that a couple weeks ago to mess with my boss.
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First phone was a nokia, don't remember the name but you could change the back and stuff than I had a motorola RIZR I think its called it was the slide one, then got a behold which was alright, lost it got a behold II (first android phone), and now I'm happy with my G2
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Nokia 5110 on sw bell I think..

The G2. Just turned 15 ^_^
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My first phone was the HTC SHADOW w/ WM. Love it
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ostinq said:
Nokia 5110 on sw bell I think..
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Rofl that thing looks like a house phone
[G2/HTC Vision]

so confused whether or not to come back to the inspire :(

i went back to the IP4 last week from my inspire becasue of a rebooting issue. i miss the nice big screen of the inspire and i LOVE flashing and tinkering with ROMS..
have any of you came from the IP4 latley? regrets? did you or do you want to go BACK to the Ip4?
just looking for opinions and input
thanks

I have a solution for the problem. Get married, buy your wife an iPhone 4 and you can have an Inspire. It works for me. (You could also buy an iPad on ebay to itch your iOS scratch, there is a fire sale going on on those things right now.)
I have just passed my 30 day window to return the Inspire and I couldn't be any happier. This phone is great. I have never had a resetting problem but then again I have not rooted my phone yet, I am still waiting for the process and ROMS for this phone to mature a bit.
Any time I pick up my wife's iPhone I feel like it is a toy; it is just so small. It is a good phone if you want to push a button and have something work, if you are a tinkerer you should have stuck with Android.

come back to the inspire, it may have been a bad piece of hardware and just needed to be exchanged. Happened with my wife's Aria, couldn't get any cell connection. We ordered it online but the ATT operator said we could take it in to any corporate ATT store. She did, they checked for a bad SIM, nope, so they exchanged the phone and tested it on the spot, works fine.
The ROM development has been fast so far, but I'm waiting for it to mature too. I played with a Fuze and different android roms for almost two years but the process for the Inspire is so different. Been using my Inspire since the day they hit the stores, stock rom for now...

yeah i am deff a tinker with the OS, so i think i might have to come back

In the last year I've had a ton of phones (I'm the head of our IT department so I get to "evaluate" smartphones for use within the organization) and the Inspire is by far the favorite I have EVER used.
Just for comparison sake I've had: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, Blackberry Bold 9700, Blackberry Torch, Samsung Captivate, HTC Aria, Samsung Focus, Motorola Atrix (still have), Dell Streak, Motorola Droid 2 Global, Blackberry Storm 1 and 2, and finally the Inspire.
Even though I haven't rooted the phone yet (plan to in the next day or say) this device is easily the best I have ever used and I couldn't be happier.

I came from an i4 and let my wife have it. I use her phone on occasion and I can't beleive how boring it is. If you love IOS so much. Root and rom with MIUI. I flashed it last night and it's freaking cool!!! So much like IOS! I went back to core droid as it didn't seem as peppy but it was still more peppy that my I4 was the day I got it.

mj0528 said:
I came from an i4 and let my wife have it. I use her phone on occasion and I can't beleive how boring it is. If you love IOS so much. Root and rom with MIUI. I flashed it last night and it's freaking cool!!! So much like IOS! I went back to core droid as it didn't seem as peppy but it was still more peppy that my I4 was the day I got it.
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Yup iOS is polished and does what it does well, but it's BORING! It's hardly changed at all since the first iPhone.

Android_Newb said:
In the last year I've had a ton of phones (I'm the head of our IT department so I get to "evaluate" smartphones for use within the organization) and the Inspire is by far the favorite I have EVER used.
Just for comparison sake I've had: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, Blackberry Bold 9700, Blackberry Torch, Samsung Captivate, HTC Aria, Samsung Focus, Motorola Atrix (still have), Dell Streak, Motorola Droid 2 Global, Blackberry Storm 1 and 2, and finally the Inspire.
Even though I haven't rooted the phone yet (plan to in the next day or say) this device is easily the best I have ever used and I couldn't be happier.
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I can ditto a majority of what was mentioned here. I've had more smartphone in the past two years, I've honestly lost track. The inspire to me is by far my favorite and I haven't even tinkered yet. Actually love the phone stock, but that's my preference.
So, would you be making a good choice coming back to the inspire? Ultimately that's a decision only you can make.
As for the issue you experienced with your first inspire, it certainly doesn't sound like a typical experience.
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Switched from the i4, won't look back at all. I haven't even rooted my phone yet and I believe it is a better phone and more fun to operate. I like the i4, but it does get repetative very fast. I don't regret it at all, and will probably make it even more concrete once I get it rooted. I say switch back but that's just me.

Had friends jailbreak their iphone 4s out of jealousy of the custom roms on my old captivate lol. and yet they still tell me how far superior ios lol
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[Q] "best" verizon android phone? (switching from verizon)

Hey All,
I realize that everyone has their own idea of best, but hopefully a little background.
I am switching from sprint to verizon, and currently have an epic 4g touch ( galaxy S II ).
I'm looking for something comparable on verizons side, that has decent rom support ( Cyanogen would be a huge plus ). a stock ICS update doesnt matter that much, as I'd be installing a custom rom anyway.
My only other requirement is that it has good support, both on xda, and possibly IRC, so the random quesiton that needs asked can be answered..
I dont use a phone for the camera, so it doesnt need a 20000 MP camera with auto everything..
So, what phones would fit this bill? Having never used verizon before, I am not as up to speed on them vs sprint. The newer the phone the better

For a new phone I would go with the Bionic. Killer specs compared to the GNex but way cheaper. Looking at it myself to upgrade from an Incredible.

Verizon has a great selection of phones (I recently applied for a job interview there so I studied up on their products)
I'll list the top few in the 4G world and their selling point. You can look up how big the community is for that phone.
HTC Rezound is top dog in speed. It features a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm processor which is the best and fastest from any verizon phone.
Galaxy Nexus is the newest and has an amazing screen and display. It blows all the other phone displays out of the water. When you have an image up with black in it, the pixels where the black is on the screen turn off giving you a true black which I think is so cool.
Droid Bionic features an HDMI port which is a plus over other 4G phones. It's fairly recent and up to date with a dual core processor so it can handle more/less the same way as the the top two.
Droid Razr is simply praised for it's sleekness, style and thinness. Other than that it is pretty much the same specs as the Bionic without the HDMI
Finally we have the first 4G phone - the HTC Thunderbolt - single core processor so not as fluid as the others, but it's affordable. I'm using a Thunderbolt and started rooting last month. Started out with cm7 and recently switched to MIUI. community isn't all that big but there is a lot of support and new ROMS are developing daily.
DON'T get the Charge. It feels cheap. No updates. Barley any support.
And If you hate yourself get an iPhone

I have the Bionic and its AWESOME but in a few weeks Motorola and Verizon are releasing the Droid RAZR MAXX and that is the phone I would go with.

emadehaddad said:
And If you hate yourself get an iPhone
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*golf clap*
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My .02
I have owned the rezound, the charge and the thunderbolt.
Very briefly so you would not fall asleep while reading this:
I love HTC radio chips because their line of phones ( thunderbolt and rezound) are the only one capable of surf and talk on 3g. Until Verizon replaces all their 3g network with 4g i think thats an amazing feature for these reasons :
a- I used google talk for my text and it relies on data. So if i am on a phone call, I will not be able to receive texts or voice mails ( which saves me mad $) until i get off the phone.
B- I use my phone for every day gps use ( since i am in a different state every other month) and a lot of the times on the highways there is no 4g , just 3g signal. So if i get lost, my google gps will not reroute successfully if i am on the phone until i get off the phone, which is very inconvenient .
Only with these two phones ( the tbolt and the rezound ) you can surf and talk on 3g.
Now the tbolt vs rezound.
LIke ppl mentioned tbolt is older and a single core with slower kind of ram and smaller too ( 750 ddr vs 1 gb ddr2)
Rezound is a speed demon.
Problem is , thunderbolt was the first 4g device and was also unlocked from htc so the devolpment for it was phenomenal ( now it feels like it has came to a screeching halt.)
Rezound was surrounded by so much drama and the few developers that bought it were turned off from the childish behaviors of the community and left the phone, we literally have 4 developers, which makes me really sad. I wish i can get these developers to come back, but nothing i can do now.
the nexus only avantage is its developing reminds me of the tbolt when it first came out, you have literally a buffet full of choices, but bear in mind, if you do decide on samsung or anything else, you lose the 3g surf and talk ( i know i am beating that point to death)
I have so many other points but i feel like this is becoming an essay , so if you need more clarification, ask away !

Being the best Verizon phone is like winning gold at the special olympics.

What device introduced you to the Android world?

I remember back in the days, when the phones actually were used for phone calls and maybe couple of texts. I'm not that old school, at least at she 30, I still consider myself pretty young. Growing up, racing cars was my passion. After becoming an adult, getting married and having kids, everything changed for me. Couldn't spend the amount of cash I used to on cars. So I decided to sell my car. And with having experience only on couple flip phones, including the EXE, I decided to order a blackberry Curve 8330. I stated getting interest in the tweaking and messing with it. Updating firmwares was about the most exciting thing I was doing back them. One day I walked in a radio shack store, and there it was, the HTC HD2. Immediately feel in love with the big screen and design. It was love at first sight. Being a windows phone didn't matter at the time, since I was not familiar with the Android world, so I didn't know better. Then, came across XDA, and everything changed. Started reading about Android and the goodies that it had, and found out that there was a way to boot Android on my device from the as card. Had the first taste, and never looked back. Currently own a Samsung galaxy Note, running ICS 4.0.4, and I'm loving it.
That's the way I was introduced to this amazing world, with all this amazing people, willing to sacrifice time with the family and restless nights cooking awesome software for people that they not even know, and many times aren't even grateful of their job. Thanks Android, for giving me a great opportunity of interacting with awesome and brilliant people. And grateful for this great hobby.

for me it was the HTC G1, Edge speed on At&t was awful but I really loved the phone
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My friend had that phone, but at the time I didn't even had an idea of what it was.

The nexus one! Amazing phone at the time. I still have it running ICS as a backup phone.
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I've had a cellular phone since before cellular was available to the public (worked for an equipment mfg and was part of the field trials). Since then, I've had a butt load of phones. My first smart phone was Windows CE, had several WIndows Mobile phones after that. Then came the Dell Streak - fell in love with Android and will never go to anything else. Current phone is the GNote, just wish it would get ICS soon.

HTC Hero, sense was an awful experience. Everything about that phone was laggy but i loved the design of it.

HTC g2 i always bragged on how much the little device Could do
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original HTC EVO Here only had it a short time though Play store wasnt what it is today I went back to iPhone till the note came out now i'm sold

June 2010 I got the Motorola backflip I feel in love with Android but after the first 6 months the processor at 528 mhz was unbearably slow. The great devs created cm7 for it which just barley made it bearable to wait until February when my contract was up. I had no problems moving from the 3.1in screen to the 5.2 in screen on the note. I still think having the keyboard on the back than flipping backwards is the best design for a phone with a keyboard.

My first Android device was the Mytouch 3g Slide. I absolutely loved that phone. I rooted it and threw CM on it and the phone was blazing. Later that same year, I went and purchased my first vanilla Android device, the HTC G2. Never thought about getting a non vanilla Android since.
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My first Android device was the Dell Streak! Will never go smaller than 5 inch screen!
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Motorola Backflip.
It was a pretty terrible phone, but my first smartphone with a data plan.

Ive had my fare share of phone over the years. My Signature below shows all of them in order....I loved WM phones and being able to flash all the different roms that everyone on XDA made for them. So of course once I could finally got an android that would work on att I switched over and loved it ever since! The TMobile HD2 was my switch over phone...running both WM and android...it was nice having WM for daily use and Android to start playing with and use to so once the HTC Aria came out I made the full switch to android.

My first was a blackberry curve, I didn't do anything to it and didn't know much about phones at that time. Then I upgraded to the galaxy s captivate. with XDA's help I learned how to customize it the way I wanted! I retired my captivate for the note and I love this phone, and am grateful for all the devs on here to help me customize this beast.
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Yeah same here. I started with the HTC 8125 and Tilt 2(winmo). Then came across the Dell Streak when the Tilt 2 was discontinued for sale. Now a note. Love Android!
pappyfire said:
I've had a cellular phone since before cellular was available to the public (worked for an equipment mfg and was part of the field trials). Since then, I've had a butt load of phones. My first smart phone was Windows CE, had several WIndows Mobile phones after that. Then came the Dell Streak - fell in love with Android and will never go to anything else. Current phone is the GNote, just wish it would get ICS soon.
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HTC touch ( ran android beta on it) official device was the Google Ion.
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The Dell Streak. I was won over by the 5" display. Love that phone and still have it as my backup device. The Note was the only viable sucessor to the Streak. Loving the Note now!

Started with G1 as my first android phone. I thought it was awesome phone at that time. But started playing with all the rooting and changing roms is with my fav Nexus One. That phone was one of my favorite phones ever.

HTC HD2 was my first device
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Started smartphones with the HTC dash running winmo on TMobile. Then iPhone 3g. Got bored of that after a year, pounced on the Captivate and never looked back. From the captivate I got the infuse and now my note. Long live Android. =]
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