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I find the phone quite fun and exciting to use, there are endless applications and games to play, to access these games and applications you go into market. also FYI to save battery and data go into settings then data synchronizations, and disable background data.

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  • 2009-06-30 04:01
  • v0g4
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> In reply to JG @ 2009-06-26 12:48 from 2CJ4 - click to readHere is a short demo of how handwriting recognition is going to work, however, as far as I can tell it is not officially supported yet, nor have I seen any apps such as this one in the market.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCpwfUD024E

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  • 2009-06-29 01:39
  • q}Sx
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> In reply to Anonymous @ 2009-06-27 11:37 from M{3K - click to readpress the physical search button, far left

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  • 2009-06-28 21:07
  • mX51
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> In reply to Dave green @ 2009-06-27 04:36 from SgvY - click to readIf you Can NOT afford!!! DO NOT buy!!! daahhh

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  • 2009-06-28 05:41
  • YgBy
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> In reply to JG @ 2009-06-26 12:48 from 2CJ4 - click to readyou use ur finger. it's easier to type with the screen keyboard provided. but the finger handwriting recognition is very good for chinese.

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  • 2009-06-28 03:58
  • jcLX
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> In reply to Anonymous @ 2009-06-27 11:37 from M{3K - click to readI've got a search function on my in the market app, you using it in landscape mode? Scroll down its there i tell ye ... has to be

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  • 2009-06-27 22:57
  • 3amW
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Does anyone know if the Sense UI could possibly be installed on this device...

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  • 2009-06-27 21:35
  • te$4
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Just went to the android market to find an app for scribbling notes. Then i realize there is no search capability. SO i have to page through EVERY app. Thats crazy, i mean excuse me, didn't google build their name on search?

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  • 2009-06-27 11:37
  • M{3K
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> In reply to JG @ 2009-06-26 12:48 from 2CJ4 - click to readIts capacitive touch so a stylus wont work. You need to write with your finger or buy a special capacitive stylus. I know some handwriting softwares only read one letter at a time so you can write with you finger. but if you want to scribble some notes and memos, then you need a stylus - but you also need a third party scribble app for that.

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  • 2009-06-27 11:32
  • M{3K
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So pleased tmobile rejected my request for the g1 on credit grounds - computer says no - as a few days later Vodafone offered me the g2 as an upgrade. My main concern, prior to testing both phones, was text entry. The g1 was hard going for my elephantitis fingers wheras the g2, which I tested instore and am using to type this message, is an absolute breeze. As far as the ease of setting up and finding my way around all the different functions, there have been no problems to date - and this from someone who is a dodo with technology. Having just said that I realize that I have no idea how to start a new paragraph - the cursor scrolls to the right, seemingly into eternity. Never mind, will find a way with more practise. Excellent site by the way - heavily influenced my decision to get this phone in the first place.

Just worked that pesky pargraph business out - the word 'moron' doesn't even begin to cover it. Be blessed, I will post more when deeper into the experience.

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  • 2009-06-27 04:36
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Can someone explain why specs say "Handwriting Recognition" but there is no stylis?

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  • 2009-06-26 12:48
  • 2CJ4
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I thought the phone was quite boring to use. no games.. or good apps. only online stuff like the google maps. Gmail etc. Touch screen had a very good response to it. very fast loading. other than that. Boring as. still. sad to say it in the same league as the iphone..

Im gonna stick with my Nokia 5800. sorry htc

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  • 2009-06-25 23:30
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> In reply to nobody @ 2009-06-21 18:01 from 4fTX - click to readdude i phones are like 200 quid now in england unlocked these are 400+ and google's programmers are brillient the operating system is sharp reponsive and can multitask a major flaw of the iphone which can't try running google latatude on an iphone and see what happens

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  • 2009-06-25 14:30
  • M$ik
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This phone is nice for people without needs for some privacy, just like Gmail.

I don't want any company to read my private SMS, especially the way Google "reads" what words you write in Gmails. They actually don't read it manually, but they search which words you use most commonly, and then those words amazingly appear in Google Ads for your IP adress. I hope Android isn't the same thing, but I strongly fear it is.

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  • 2009-06-25 10:33
  • nbuy
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> In reply to adel @ 2009-06-23 23:46 from nFVG - click to reademploy a translator

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  • 2009-06-24 13:28
  • mCSY
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I got a chance to use this phone yesterday at one of Vodafone's store, Oxford circus. I must say that this phone gives a tough competition to iPhone. It's 'Touch screen' is brilliant, looks are awesome. If there is a something which it is lacking behind in, is no applications. But regarding applications there is something very important I would like to say, that iPhone's free applications are just okay, means they give you very limited functionality and in paid applications you get full functionality but in Android you get everything and yet free.
I would like to know if anyone knows any other site for android applications, apart from androidmarket.

Thnaks.

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  • 2009-06-24 13:18
  • n5nB
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I actually want to have Farsi or Arabic language in my HTC magic.Is that possible? can anyone help me?

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  • 2009-06-23 23:46
  • nFVG
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can i synchronise with iCal (mac) or does it work with iSync? how is the gps? how is the quality of thesound when you are using the phone handsfree?
thnx

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  • 2009-06-23 22:44
  • p@n$
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i have had the magic on voda uk for a month. wipes the floor with the iphone. quicker, less restrictive than the iphone, battery better camera clearer.

the list goes on..............

iphones are for people wanting to follow trends.

android phones are for people who want to set trends.

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  • 2009-06-23 21:14
  • m5bQ
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in the end its about the software on this phone when comparing it to the iphone, iphones software is more restrictive. Also this phone is aimed at the same market as the iphone users. I don't actually see iphone users dropping there iphones and rushing over to tmobile over this device but i do see people doing that when android has many more devices in about a year and by then att will have there own line of android devices.

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  • 2009-06-23 16:05
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