"safe" android phone?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:19:05AM -0400, Andrej Marjan wrote:
> That's an excellent point. And that's where Christopher's advice about
> picking phone models comes in handy: once you're out of warranty, or
> out of manufacturer's active support, you still have recourse.

Certainly don't ever buy a phone unless you are happy with the features
and behaviour it has when you get it.  Promised features may never happen.
Bug fixes may never happen.  The other option is to get one where you
can fix the software yourself of course.  Not too many of those.

> Ditto, but when you find yourself in a crisis situation, it's not a
> matter of wanting -- it becomes "if I had web or email access, I could
> finish this right now; instead I'll have to wait for the middle of the
> night when I finally get home, hope my brain is still working and that
> I don't get it wrong, and that the window of opportunity hasn't
> passed". So I view it as an insurance policy with benefits.

My little nokia can run gmail and a web browser.  The screen is tiny,
it's a pain to type on, but it does the job when I need it to.  My wife's
symbian based E61 is obviously better at those things with a full keyboard
and a larger screen.  It even has an ssh client on it now.

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Len Sorensen
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