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#388983 6-Oct-2010 22:25

Works on my HTC Desire...well one test call to our house phone which is a dual-phone that also does skype but it seemed to go ok.

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#389052 7-Oct-2010 08:55

Didn't work on my SGS, unable to log in...sigh

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#389063 7-Oct-2010 09:36

Ironically, I would only ever be able to use it effectively while at home where I have access to a Skype phone and two webcam enabled PC's.

Anyone have any idea how much data it would use on mobile internet per 5 minutes?
I would imagine it would be quite expensive to use in the wild.

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#389097 7-Oct-2010 11:07

Didn't work on my Nexus 1 yesterday. Plus I started to run out of space. Instant uninstall. Google Voice may be in my future.

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#389098 7-Oct-2010 11:10

julius: Plus I started to run out of space. Instant uninstall. Google Voice may be in my future.

This is the thing that annoyed most yesterday. Installed this on Milestone and then device complained of low space. I have only 20 apps installed and had to uninstall a couple.

Not blaming Skype here though. Blaming manufacturers who insist in create the latest and greatest with not enough on board memory. Pathetic.

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#389100 7-Oct-2010 11:17

freitasm:
This is the thing that annoyed most yesterday. Installed this on Milestone and then device complained of low space. I have only 20 apps installed and had to uninstall a couple.

Not blaming Skype here though. Blaming manufacturers who insist in create the latest and greatest with not enough on board memory. Pathetic.

The major reason I am keen to get my HTC Desire upgraded to 2.2 [or rooted] Not being able to install onto the SD card or remove useless stock apps including some Chinese ones, is proving to be a pain space-wise. Even Windows Mobile lets you install on the SD card.

I would like to leave skype on the phone just in case I find myself with a good free wifi signal and a need to use it but it is using too much space...which i will need for Angry Birds when it is available. When lord when?

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#389101 7-Oct-2010 11:19

From previous experience with Windows Mobile, anything that you install on a SD card is going to be slow - by 10x most of the times.

When installing things on my Windows Phone (yes, my main phone is still a Windows Phone, it beats Android in a lot of things), I install non-essential apps on the SD card, and stuff that I want instant access to in the main memory.

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#389102 7-Oct-2010 11:19

Now it's working... still too large to keep for the moment.

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#389104 7-Oct-2010 11:21

I'll be happy for this to run on the SD Card. Google Earth and other apps I've moved to the SDCard run sufficiently smoothly for me from there (so far).

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#389109 7-Oct-2010 11:29

freitasm: From previous experience with Windows Mobile, anything that you install on a SD card is going to be slow - by 10x most of the times.

When installing things on my Windows Phone (yes, my main phone is still a Windows Phone, it beats Android in a lot of things), I install non-essential apps on the SD card, and stuff that I want instant access to in the main memory.

I never realised that and I had an HTC Touch for nearly 3 years. I guess because I installed everything on the SD card due to lack of any real on-board space, I never noticed it, I just thought it was a sluggish overall due to the low spec CPU, RAM etc. But never what I would call painfully slow.

Aside: I saw your smiling Mug on Friday night while out, when I looked at some random stranger's friends-list on Foursquare . I did chuckle.

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#389111 7-Oct-2010 11:33

freitasm:
julius: Plus I started to run out of space. Instant uninstall. Google Voice may be in my future.

This is the thing that annoyed most yesterday. Installed this on Milestone and then device complained of low space. I have only 20 apps installed and had to uninstall a couple.

Not blaming Skype here though. Blaming manufacturers who insist in create the latest and greatest with not enough on board memory. Pathetic.

Samsung Galaxy S rulez here. My 16GB version has *2GB* of internal storage for apps. Even with the OCLF lag fix installed it's still 930MB.

Hopefully the update to Android v2.2 in the coming weeks will make the lag fix obsolete. Either way, 930MB is much better than the 150MB (Acer Liquid) to 288MB (HTC Magic) on most Android phones.

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#389112 7-Oct-2010 11:37

Kiwi1971:
I never realised that and I had an HTC Touch for nearly 3 years. I guess because I installed everything on the SD card due to lack of any real on-board space, I never noticed it, I just thought it was a sluggish overall due to the low spec CPU, RAM etc. But never what I would call painfully slow.

A Class6 Micro sdcard can help. It's nominal througput data rate is up to 6MB/second. Most Android apps are well under 1MB. Load times are usually trivial.

Where it does matter is widgets as the system usually tries to load the widget before the sdcard is really sorted out properly in the boot sequence. So any widgets you use should remain in the internal app storage.....or don't use them. They will usually work off the sdcard, but the lag can be noticable at boot time if you're pulling too much stuff of the sdcard at the same time. Contention gets in the way even if the data rate is good enough for any single app.

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#389163 7-Oct-2010 13:27

+1 for the class 6 SD card /cc @freitasm

Have seen the login fail thing on my colleagues HTC Legend and my HTC Magic occasionally. It seems to happen so quickly that I don't think it's a server thing. Could tcpdump the traffic (UDP too of course ;) if I had time and/or cared enough, but meh. They'll sort it eventually...

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#389164 7-Oct-2010 13:29

Kiwi1971: Aside: I saw your smiling Mug on Friday night while out, when I looked at some random stranger's friends-list on Foursquare . I did chuckle.

2 degress of separation? It must be New Zealand then...

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#389165 7-Oct-2010 13:31

Linuxluver: Samsung Galaxy S rulez here. My 16GB version has *2GB* of internal storage for apps. Even with the OCLF lag fix installed it's still 930MB.

It must be a Samsung thing. I had a Samsung Windows Mobile device here with 8GB internal. The only one I ever had with that much memory. All other manufacturers go "cheap"...

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