Android 2.1 on Higscreen Zeus

What is this device? Everything is simple and cheap, and has already been discussed in Habré. The Russian company Vobis ordered a Foxconn mobile phone, they made it, Vobis thrust in a naked Google Android OS and began selling it for 9990r. It turned out Highscreen Zeus :



I suddenly really wanted to touch Android and try a phone with qwerty keyboard. Shop " Kay " helped to realize our plans and I became the owner of this thing.

Now I can say that the thing is suitable, I am pleased with it. But not out of the box! I have been reframing it for 2 months, picking up software, experimenting with new versions of Android, etc. and so on. This path is not difficult, but at first I caused a lot of questions because there is a large choice of what to do and how. In order, what to do after the purchase of the device:
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1) Go to the official forum of Highscreen devices . There we are looking for a topic on how to install the “root” firmware and do everything according to the instructions.

2) Find a link to a wonderful but deserted forum androidteam.ru , and following the instructions, replace the "recovery" of the phone with a "custom" from vovkab and co. This will allow us to upload firmware update.zip in the future. We replace the recovery, we are flashing with the firmware offered by vovkab (I chose with the services from Google, initially the phone goes without them).

3) We discover for ourselves that Highscreen Zeus is a complete clone of Geeksphone One for which the rmcc version adapts new versions of Android. Following the instructions from the relevant topic we get on our Zeus Android 2.1 update1 (the last one at the moment), all Google services (market, maps, contact sync, etc.) and everything else stably working (including Russification!).

After all these cases, as a result, we have a decent piece of hardware with a qwerty keyboard, the latest version of Android and full Russification, it remains to pick up the software. Here everyone has a taste and color, on w3bsit3-dns.com a huge thread with a description of the programs. I will share my list of software:

K9 Mail - works fine on imap (for mail on gmail I use a standard application)
Built-in browser - I tried Dolphin Browser and Opera Mini, but in the end I stayed in my own, it suits me completely.
Seesmic is a great (best?) Twitter client for android, everything is clever, comfortable and beautiful. No problem in a couple of clicks of a tweet with a photo.
IM - Meebo IM , best of all keeps the connection on slow (gprs, edge) connections.
FBReader - book reader.
Ya.Karty - smart card details, sometimes convenient.
Navitel - did not regret the ridiculous money, bought the android version, everything works comfortably as in a normal navigator.
SMS popap - at work I get quite a lot of SMS notifications, you can quickly and easily understand the essence + set up rules.
ConnectBot is a telnet / ssh client, with a qwerty keyboard you can handle some urgent remote task.
RingRoid is a piece that allows you to cut ringtones from mp3.

Everything else I use is built, rss, gmail, youtube, music, video - everything that comes with Android and in the Google Apps for Android 2.1 package.

All this software is easily located in the Android Market, which, by the way, amazes a person who is not familiar with the iTunes Store with the quantity and quality of software. Quite soon catch up IMHO.

Actually everything. But the main thing is the qwerty keyboard, Google Android and Seesmic, only zayuzav all this, I actually began to understand the charm of the mobile Internet and microblogging. Now, any of my sneeze, a bunch and even sometimes something more interesting I can and most often want to send to Twitter, backed up with a photo or even video recording)