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I have a Galaxy Tab and a Lenovo LePad. I got the second one for my girlfriend, but she rarely uses it, so more often than not I end up using it as a e-reader and as a comic reader. I haven’t had any problems with it yet.

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Turning your Wifi off is especially important, since some applications will periodically try to connect to the internet. I’d also recommend making sure an app is turned off not just minimized, this oversight depleted my battery a few times.

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I know that’s why I said “you rarely encounter this problem” .
I can’t comment on how well the stylus integration is realized on the Note since I have never used one. In all honesty it does make sense to have a pen shaped controller for something called Note, but for the day to day uses I still think fingers are a step forward.

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macpdiaz wrote:

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lindbergh wrote:

I have also rooted my android smartphone. It’s actually pretty easy because there are many how-to guides in the net. However, I’m not fully taking advantage of this because I only have a couple of apps that take advantage of rooted phones. What makes rooting your phone better as compared to other phones that are not rooted?

The ability to install apps from the internet. Meaning you don’t have to buy the latest games or apps from the market, you can simply go online, download them and install them for free. If you only use free apps however, there isn’t much use in rooting your device, actually it’s a bad idea since you might just end up voiding your warranty.

Its not just that, you have access to super user, meaning you can allow certain apps to access networking components, etc. WiFi Tethering for example. And no, that’s the same argument people say about jailbreaking. Warranty is voidable only if you take your phone for repair in a rooted state. Which is like trying to buy a Happy Meal in Burger King. You can restore it to its original firmware and the repairman doesnt have to know that you rooted.

Regular users won’t benefit too much from that aspect. I mentioned payed apps, because I find this is the most common reason android devices get rooted. As far as returning the phone in a rooted state goes, if you manage to break it in that state, chances are you won’t have the possibility of resetting it’s firmware to it’s original state.

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Flash is on the way out, you can thank Apple for that one. Also to the best of my knowledge you can’t really upgrade the software on most phones. Even if you could, the only ones that I heard of benefiting from this are the ones that upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2.

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So is Donut, many of my friends own Xperias which runs Donut and they have no complaints whatsoever. Well one says that games have a tendency to lag, but I suspect that has more to do with hardware limitations rather than with the O.S. version.

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lindbergh wrote:

I have also rooted my android smartphone. It’s actually pretty easy because there are many how-to guides in the net. However, I’m not fully taking advantage of this because I only have a couple of apps that take advantage of rooted phones. What makes rooting your phone better as compared to other phones that are not rooted?

The ability to install apps from the internet. Meaning you don’t have to buy the latest games or apps from the market, you can simply go online, download them and install them for free. If you only use free apps however, there isn’t much use in rooting your device, actually it’s a bad idea since you might just end up voiding your warranty.

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Your question is kind of ambiguous so I’ll try to answer the most common scenarios.
If you bricked it there’s nothing much you can do.
If you broke the screen, you can order one online and replace it yourself, or you can have somebody at a shop replace it.
If you damaged it’s innards so to speak, your phone is not worth much anymore, your best bet is to try and sell it on ebay.

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How responsive is the touch screen? What version of Android does it use? I only ask because I have played around with 7 inch version, but if I did anything other than web browse then tablet started to act a little lagy. It also had some minor issues with pressure sensitivitiy. If they fixed that in the new version, then it should be a more than decent tablet.

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How good are these batteries? I’d be careful with such a high capacity, since I have heard horror stories of batteries exploding. There was a big splash on the internet about a year or so ago, when a guy got killed when his battery exploded and it nicked an artery.

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In all honesty no, not at the moment at least.
I have a Huawei handset that is a Nokia imitation, which I got it for free from my service provider. It’s ok for a secondary phone, but I wouldn’t chose it as my primary device. I think it’s the same with most people in the west. The majority of Huawei’s users are in China and India. If they want to overtake the Western market, they need more mature and well developed products.

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If you have to ask that question have somebody else do it for you. You might end up bricking the device otherwise, meaning that it will basically be useless.

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I never really liked PDA’s and adding a stylus to a Smartphone, basically means you are turning it into a PDA. Another reason I don’t like styluses is that they tend to get lost or brake, you rarely encounter this problem when using your finger.

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The bad relationship Google has with china is over searchengine censorship. That won’t influence the Android market much though, since Google is getting a lot of exposure due to the Chinese devices.

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