Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

This is the first phone that worked straight out of the box: The Huawei Ideos X3. It's one of my oldest Android phones, running version 2.3.4.

It was also the first phone I got with those stupid softened plastics and all their disadvantages.



So I took a wooden stick and started scraping the mess off, as the phone was incredibly sticky when I touched it. After a while — and after outsourcing the task to my wife — it started to look really nice.



So, after cleaning up, I started thinking about which software to install. I downloaded some game packs for Android 2.2 and 2.3 from the Web Archive, connected the phone in "mass storage" mode, and started copying the smallest installers to the phone. But I encountered a problem immediately. While the phone was showing that there was about 150 MB of free space, the PC was showing just 16 MB. I was unable to use any more than that. So I only installed a couple of the smallest games, one of which surprisingly included a Minecraft copy or an early version of Minecraft. Even more surprisingly, the game runs really smoothly.



According to the manufacturing date, the hardware is quite average. Inside, there is a Qualcomm S1 MSM7227 processor running at 600 MHz with 512 MB of RAM. The small screen has a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, which I think is quite enough for a 3.2" screen.