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[nonethefewer]

I'll be getting a new-to-me Motorola Cliq, running Android.  Recs totally welcome.

(I'm already getting Evernote, some basic doc/xls/pdf viewer(s), and that one that finds out what song it is that's playing, hail yais.)

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[mcsnee.livejournal.com]

Is it rooted?

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Is it wha?

[mcsnee.livejournal.com]

Android phones don't give you root access by default, but there are ways to get root access (http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/cliq/26-how-root-motorola-cliq.html). Once you have it, there are a lot of awesome options for things you can do to and with the phone that aren't available on the stock operating system—including entirely new kernels and interface mods. It'll void the warranty on the phone, but I'm guessing if it's merely new-to-you, it's void anyway.

I have an HTC Evo 4G, which I rooted and flashed CyanogenMod on a couple of weeks ago. I'm still ironing out some battery-life wrinkles, but I have a lot more control over things like which applications are installed—it came with "unremovable" Sprint apps that the rooting and custom mod got rid of.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Ah, apparently, the answer is no.

[pir.livejournal.com]

I have yet to hear anyone with a Cliq who likes it :/
Personally I recommend against Motorola Android phones for many reasons (slow or non-existent OS updates, bloatware, etc) and recommend HTC instead.

[argonel.livejournal.com]

Odd. Last I checked Motorola was in second place for keeping their phones up to date, after HTC. My advice would be to stay away from AT&T phones and Samsung phones.

Of course the closer the manufacturer/carrier stay to stock android the easier it is for them to keep it up to date.

[pir.livejournal.com]

M's Milestone still doesn't have a stable 2.2 release and they only released the incredibly buggy version recently nearly a year after it came out. They have a long support list of phones stuck at 1.5-2.1:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/manager/softwareupgrades
The releases they do put out, well, suck and motoblur is a horror. Never buying one again.

AT&T sold phones are even worse, true (I don't think about them much because I don't live in the US), they turn off the ability to install 3rd party applications through the phone interface (you can still push them to the phone over USB with adb, but that's awkward at best) amongst other things.

The newer Samsung phones are ok but I don't like their OS tweaks. The soon to be released Nexus S 4G for Sprint will probably be the best non-hardware-keyboard phone for Sprint, though, and will get updates quickly.

Personally I have an HTC Desire Z running Cyanogen 7-RC4.

[jasra]

AppBrain - Here are the apps I'm running: http://www.appbrain.com/user/jasra

[argonel.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it, but here is what I have on my phone.
http://www.appbrain.com/user/Argonel/apps-on-the-phone

[erika]

und here is mine:

http://www.appbrain.com/user/Alie

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

ebook reader! my most-used smartphone app by a large margin. (don't have an android phone, so i don't know which the best one is, but definitely get one - it's totally not the same thing as using the pdf viewer to read books)