Wood is beautiful. Metal is beautiful. Plastic can be beautiful. Plastic painted to look like wood is tacky (see station wagons). Plastic painted to look like metal is also tacky but less obvious.
The original Zune was a good use of plastic, true to the material.
*finds woman with breast implants and slaps them - slaps them again just to teach them a lesson - grabs them and holds them still so i can give them a stern talking to - get's closer and closer to make sure they can hear me...*
@secretmanofagent: Touché salesman. That is a much better finish, and a much better match. I hope tmo hands out LP stickers to cover up the silly Fender logo (and a personal apology to my Fender and my PRS).
I've been rocking the HERO OS on my G1 for a week or so now and can honestly say I don't know why you would want to use anything else. I wish they would come out with a HERO phone with a qwerty is all I'm sayin..
You know I've tripped a lot of circuits, oh lord I've maxed a lot of capacitors; but I never touched nothing that my logic board could kill.
you know I've seen a lot of machine intelligences ambulating around with BSODs in their eyes, but the pusherbot don't care if you simulate life or if your main-board fries.
@cudthecrud: why would you do that when Cyanogen's ROM still gives you functions that the legit 1.6 update isn't going to give you? Apps2SD ALONE is reason enough for me not to give a rat's ass for the legit update.
@cudthecrud: Just give it a few weeks and i'm sure there will be a cyanogen update with all those extras put in there (if they're any better than what it's already packaged in 4.0.4).
@Bloodbeard: same here. Been running Donut in one form or another for weeks thanks to Cyanogen. Overall it's good, new camera blows though. It runs faster when a lot of things aren't going on in the background. It's great when you're trying to do something, like, send a text message while on the phone through bluetooth but you have some other crap running in the background.
Ahhhh Android....so much potential, hamstrung by shit hardware....thanks HTC...really, I mean it thanks for the brillance that is the G1.
I ordered mine tuesday - called just now to 1-877-453-1304 (tmo support) went through prompts - when asked what i wanted said "account specialist" few more prompts was with a account specialist.
I said I ordered my phone a couple days ago and saw Oprah was giving $100 off promo and wanted to know if I could be applied to my order. The lady worked her magic and viola - $100 code applied!! so might be worth a call if already ordered one!
Not for nothing-I mean, I like it when Android gets attention-but I haven't trusted her ability to grasp anything internet related since that 9,000 penises fiasco. ;-)
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Wood is beautiful. Metal is beautiful. Plastic can be beautiful. Plastic painted to look like wood is tacky (see station wagons). Plastic painted to look like metal is also tacky but less obvious.
The original Zune was a good use of plastic, true to the material.
The MacBook pro is a good use of metal and glass.
Docomo's Touch Wood is a good use of wood.
When in doubt, just copy those above.
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HEY YOU! THAT'S A SIN AGAINST DESIGN!
*finds woman with breast implants and slaps them - slaps them again just to teach them a lesson - grabs them and holds them still so i can give them a stern talking to - get's closer and closer to make sure they can hear me...*
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But I totally agree with the route you're going here. A phone would look really good with f holes.
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Or burn it Hendrix style.
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OH! And no strings or whammy bar!!
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you know I've seen a lot of machine intelligences ambulating around with BSODs in their eyes, but the pusherbot don't care if you simulate life or if your main-board fries.
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Ahhhh Android....so much potential, hamstrung by shit hardware....thanks HTC...really, I mean it thanks for the brillance that is the G1.
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And I swear the first person who cites the mythbusters episode is getting a trout to the face.
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I said I ordered my phone a couple days ago and saw Oprah was giving $100 off promo and wanted to know if I could be applied to my order. The lady worked her magic and viola - $100 code applied!! so might be worth a call if already ordered one!
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Not for nothing-I mean, I like it when Android gets attention-but I haven't trusted her ability to grasp anything internet related since that 9,000 penises fiasco. ;-)
/cheap shot
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Oh wait... I love my hardware keyboard.