There are so many vigor filled claimants in the Smartphone market today, each claimimg superiority over the other in their top five or six self made basic feature sets that a Smartphone of this day and age should apparently spoil its users with.

The question here is – Has anyone asked the user what they really want? But yes, one would argue that there are numerous usability design and experience design teams that come out of the choicest of design schools. Each individual in the team thinks out of the box to come up with that one feature (most likely panned up in the above 6) that would blow people’s minds out.

This brings me to an important quote taught to me over a glass of scotch, “Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig”.

Which implies that the below two points really should have been thought of first before bringing forth an argument (or for that matter a Smartphone):

1) Is there really a Smartphone that packs the punch with irresistible features?
2) Are users really smart enough to appreciate the work behind a Smartphone?

The answer to both of the above is NO. The point being that no single claimimg device manufacturer has ever built a smart enough phone. And to add to that, world over there exists an upper figure of 0.01% smart users that are capable of using a smart phone (doesn’t it surprise you that so many people actually buy an iPhone – chuckles)

Anyways, as usual I seldom make sense enough to convince myself, so I’ve conveniently put myself into the shoes of the 0.01% and ask thee who remains on the same side of this 0.01% – Should I buy the new fingery touchy mushy (and the other 5 feature pack) Nexus One, or should I say hello to the HD2?

Anything you say or do will have no effect on my thinking. It will also not change my wife’s mind, she has already disapproved of any new purchases for the next few months.

The ROM is based on the already clean, fast and stable l3v5y’s kitchen and a special mention goes to him. I’ve put up a few speed tweaks to further increase the speed of this ROM, added some enhancements like auto date/time picker from Cell site. I’ll be working on more mods and enhancements with future builds.

ralphusion Lite ROM (RaL.GT1c)

About the ROM
Version: RaL.GT1c
XIP/SYS Build: 23518
Release Date: Jan 20, 2010
Program Memory: 50.27 MB (at bootup – without Titanium running)

Applications in this ROM:
Office Mobile 2010 (with new outlook conversation mode)
Opera 10 beta
Advanced Taskmanager
Pocket RAR 3.90
PHM Registry 0.70
Marketplace (pre-downloaded)
Chome Editor
AmarullzGreenBlack theme (with ralphusion custom background)
Aluke’s taskbar theme
Facebook 1.1
Google Maps 3.2.1.17
RAM Sweeper
BsB Linterna
BsB Black Dialer Skin
Teeter
Slide2Shutdown
Diamond Tweak

Apps not included in this ROM:
Sense 2.1 (never was a fan of manila)
Windows Live
Skybox
eNatives ShowcaseSuite 1.1.0 (too buggy with current build)
Dialer Tachi (or others) <=you can install your own preferred dialer
… some more apps to keep this ROM clean

Fixes & Updates

• Battery lasts much longer than in previous builds
• poutlook doesn’t crash anymore
• Provider settings (Auto Connection Manager) fixed. Shows up at second boot
• Should be far more stable and much faster than the previous ROM

Download:
Click here to download RaL.GT1c from Mediafire.

Mirrors:
Hotfile: download

TO AVOID SYSTEM CRASHES, ALWAYS REMEMBER TO USE MTTY BEFORE FLASHING

You can follow the proceeds of this thread at XDA (here)

ralphusion Sense ROM (8014Ral.J)

About the ROM:
Version: 8014Ral.J
XIP/SYS Build: 28014
Release Date: Jan 03, 2010
Program Memory: 50.14 MB (at bootup – without Sense running)

Applications in this ROM:
Pocket RAR 3.90
PHM Registry 0.70
Marketplace (pre-downloaded)
eNatives ShowcaseSuite 1.1.0
BsB Black theme
AmarullzGreenBlack theme
Aluke’s taskbar theme
Facebook 1.1
Google Maps 3.2.1.17
RAM Sweeper
BsB Linterna
BsB Black Dialer Skin
Teeter

Apps not included in this ROM:
Windows Live
Skybox
Chome Editor
Dialer Tachi (or others) <=you can install your own preferred dialer
… some more apps to keep this ROM clean

Known Bugs

• Battery seems to drain a little faster than in previous builds (feedback here would be appreciated)
• Found the occassional crashing of poutlook while using a Gmail account
• Sense 2.1 doesn’t load after a soft reset (Workaround: Disable Sense from Home-Items, soft reset and then renable Sense after bootup)
• Provider settings (gprs, mms etc) won’t load. Seems like a broken package. I’ll try and fix this in the next release

Download:
Click here to download 8014Ral.J from Mediafire

TO AVOID SYSTEM CRASHES, ALWAYS REMEMBER TO USE MTTY BEFORE FLASHING

You can follow the proceeds of this thread at XDA (here)