A few months ago, I finally upgraded my old feature phone (an LG Dlite) to a smartphone! After much debating, I ended up choosing a Sony Xperia U. It's seriously so tough choosing a smartphone. Like seriously. All of them look alike and most are very masculine. But if you want one with any style, you have to pay out the wazoo for it.
That sucked for me considering at most I would just be texting and taking pictures with my phone. I almost didn't even upgrade because my current phone was (and is still) working perfectly and all the phones I saw had ridiculous prices even for just the most basic phones. But by chance I spotted the XU for just $219 and bought it immediately.
Did a little bit of customizing to it to suit my needs. I was inspired by the clock widget for the F-03 Girls (otherwise known as the Popteen collaboration phone). I just had to make my own with UCCW. I still want to tweak it a little, but as far as I'm concerned, it's perfect.
I've downloaded quite a few apps for it. Mostly apps for editing photos and quite a few camera replacement apps. I really really loathe a lot of the stock apps and I'm thankful there are replacements. Probably the most awesome app is one that does very little but makes all the difference in the world: Illumination Bar Notification. By default, the phone only has a very small, very dim LED for notifications that you can't even see in the dark while the light up bar below the soft keys sits there and does nothing. Like, it does nothing at all 99% of the time. But with that app, you can take control of it so that it's actually useful. Thanks to it, I never miss a text :3 Best of all, you don't need root access.
I could rattle off a massively long list of apps I adore, but that would be better for another post some other time. Maybe I'll do that one day.
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