Coredroid 6.8

Coredroid Roms

Get excited haha :p
Coredroid HD v6.8 was released last night for the DHD/Inspire, HD2, Incredible S and Desire S
As you can see not as many changes in the new release but still excited none the less.
Sergio (Coredroid dev) has chosen once again to use Leedroid's kernel after bouncing between Lee's and Mdeejay's for the past couple of releases so lets see how it goes

CoreDroid Desire HD GingerBread 2.3.3 v6.8(09/06/11)

• Some minor issues fixed
• Updated to latest Lee kernel
• Faster data connection
• Few tweaks overall
• And minor changes in skin

Quick Post

After my essay of a review, I just read that HTC has made a bold but a very praised move to keep their bootloaders unsigned. Making this decision after listening to the cries of many customers stating that they will be ditching the brand because of the restrictions this creates, defeating the purpose of the great open source, highly customizable quality of Android that many of its customers have to come to love.

This has strengthened my loyalty to a wonderful manufacturer because they are willing to listen to their customers.

More info here http://www.matemerge.net/all-future-htc-products-will-be-released-with-unlocked-android-bootloaders/ and HTC's facebook page

New HTC's

Just reading up on updates about HTC's newly released Android devices, the HTC Sensation (top) and Incredible S (bottom).

Sensation CNET Review                        Incredible S CNET Review

Straight out I  can tell you that I prefer the HTC Sensation, mainly because of Sense 3.0 and dual-core.

For a look at Sense 3.0 on the sensation check this out. Just easier to watch then explain :P

The reason I say this is because Incredible S has not made much of a transition from the original HTC Incredible except for removing the track ball, screen got a little bigger, not much difference on rubberized back casing and now features Gingerbread (Android 2.3).

I can even go as to far as to say the Incredible S is much different from my Desire HD. All thats added is the rubberized back case instead of aluminium (which I think I would actually prefer haha), a front facing camera, Gingerbread 2.3 comes stock and capacitative buttons that rotate when you turn the phone to the left. Oh and they removed Dolby Digital Mobile enhancements BUT NO SENSE 3.0.

Now HTC says there older devices even their flagship DHD could not support Sense 3.0 because they say the devices cant support it (even though XDA Dev Capychimp made a pretty neat port of sense 3.0 for DHD) It makes me also assume there is much difference between the DHD and the Incredible S, because the Incredible S doesn't have the required specs to run it either.

Another annoying thing as I stated in my Xoom post, HTC has started signing (locking) their bootloaders ensuring root is difficult meaning at the moment the Desire HD is pretty much on par with both of these new phones.

Except for maybe the Sensation which is HTC's first dual core phone. Even though my DHD can be overclocked to 1.8ghz it still wouldn't be as smooth as the Sensation in multi-tasking and general performance, and I could expect shorter phone life