I just picked up my San Francisco! Findings as I go in here...

[Guest Paul]

Perfect candidate for an Xmas present for the GF. She's got one of those Nokia-comes-with-music phones and quite rightly hates it!

Problem is she's on Virgin, reckon you can get rid of the SIMlock by Xmas Paul? :lol:

There's a good few 99p SIM unlocks on eBay... I wonder if they can do the Blade?

I tried the codes from the zte-unlock.py, but they don't seem to work. :)

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[Guest Paul]

Are those battery lifes quoted realistic? They seem to be an order of magnitude different to any droid I've seen.

Are they ever? :lol:

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[Guest Paul]

More solid then the Pulse? That's impresive, my Pulse has suffered a fair battering, and still works as it should :lol:

Would you say that there is a big enough leap to justify upgrading from the Pulse? 2.2 is very snappy!

HVGA -> WVGA OLED is a fairly decent upgrade.

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[Guest Paul]

Weird, the su binary, busybox and other bits are in /system/bin but not set executable.

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[Guest Simon O]

Weird, the su binary, busybox and other bits are in /system/bin but not set executable.

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lol

Same as the ZTE Racer then.

[Guest Paul]

Root solution here.

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[Guest Paul]

Yowsa!

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[Guest Rem1x]

Yowsa!

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Pulse beater, confirmed!

[Guest Simon O]

Yowsa!

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Whoah. Am I reading that right? 190MB free?

[Guest Frankish]

Reckon it's possible to overclock then with the kernel source available? I wonder what you could push it to. Great info so far Paul keep it coming please. Can we install any sort of "stock" rom on this to remove Orange crap?

[Guest Paul]

Reckon it's possible to overclock then with the kernel source available? I wonder what you could push it to. Great info so far Paul keep it coming please. Can we install any sort of "stock" rom on this to remove Orange crap?

Just dumping the recovery and boot images now. I'll send them to Koush and hopefully he'll be able to rustle something up!

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[Guest Simon O]

Reckon it's possible to overclock then with the kernel source available? I wonder what you could push it to. Great info so far Paul keep it coming please. Can we install any sort of "stock" rom on this to remove Orange crap?

If we can get Clockworkmod Recovery installed on this then definitely :lol:

[Guest Paul]

Whoah. Am I reading that right? 190MB free?

Yeah! And 424MB to begin with! :lol:

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[Guest Simon O]

Just dumping the recovery and boot images now. I'll send them to Koush and hopefully he'll be able to rustle something up!

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That reminds me.. the ZTE Racer guys dumped the images and for some reason the system image can't be unyaffed. The boot and recovery images work ok though..

[Guest Paul]

I'll do that next actually. :lol:

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[Guest Simon O]

Yeah! And 424MB to begin with! :lol:

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That is bloody amazing for a cheap Android phone!

[Guest saquib]

Posted on Hotukdeals, and made reference to Paul/Modaco.

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[Guest scoobydoo99]

Here's a video review

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2010/09/21/o...artphone-video/

Edited September 23, 2010 by scoobydoo99

[Guest meinnit]

fib....develop FLB for this and I'll buy it :lol:

(And donate more of course :) )

[Guest Simon O]

fib....develop FLB for this and I'll buy it :lol:

(And donate more of course :) )

I have every intention of doing so and also working to get Froyo onto this. Just need the money to buy one first. Out of work :(

[Guest rovex]

So is this recommended for someone who cant quite stretch to a Desire on contract? I have a friend who wants a 'decent modern phone' but isnt keen on 24months contracts and doesnt want to pay more than £25 a month.

Does it have access to the full Android market?

[Guest joners]

Ok

this is just getting more and more tempting by the minute!

Im due for an upgrade and im planning on getting the Desire HD and selling the Nexus, with the cash i think i might buy one of these as a play phone!

[Guest willdashwood]

Just need the money to buy one first. Out of work :lol:

How can a man of your talents be out of work?! Preposterous. I think I'll be swapping my Pulse for this if smartsim unlocker works so I can use it on o2. I don't support you can test that Paul?

[Guest Simon O]

So is this recommended for someone who cant quite stretch to a Desire on contract? I have a friend who wants a 'decent modern phone' but isnt keen on 24months contracts and doesnt want to pay more than £25 a month.

Does it have access to the full Android market?

Definitely. it's easily the best PAYG Android phone available and even beats the unreleased IDEOS.

It's pretty much standard Android 2.1 apart from a few Orange customisations. The full Market is available but using the ZTE fingerprint so if you change this to another device then you'll unlock even more apps.

[Guest varelasaraiva]

I've been thinking about upgrading from the Pulse for a while and I was thinking about the HTC Hero PAYG from 3 for £150. Is it worthwhile paying extra £50 for the Hero in comparison to the Blade or the WVGA AMOLED screen make the Blade a better experience? The Hero should have some life left as it supported by CyanogenMod but this early kernel source release makes Blade's future look rather promising.