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[dilla]

Alright, I tried it. It's pretty legit. Car Home is very similar, as is Vlingo. Better Keyboard also has me covered while I'm texting. There are so many voice to text options now, and it seems I have most of them.

I was very excited, thinking the Eris would get it stock on 2.1. It did not. After that, every iteration of something similar to what the Nexus One was demoing earlier this year seemed to fall short.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

so my ipod nano was in my pocket today. and i hit the edge of a desk in the office at work today, i heard a pop and instantly knew the screen had been broken. taking it out with hope i imagined the 'pop' i look to see a chromatic ink blot pattern. fuck apple and their cheap ass screen protection!! i have no mp3 player now!! and i have to wait till december until i get a new phone which i'll have to use for music on the go. (september to december without music ) i will have to buy another one of those G1 3.5mm jack converters (which break easily) again.

 

[dilla]

so my ipod nano was in my pocket today. and i hit the edge of a desk in the office at work today, i heard a pop and instantly knew the screen had been broken. taking it out with hope i imagined the 'pop' i look to see a chromatic ink blot pattern. fuck apple and their cheap ass screen protection!! i have no mp3 player now!! and i have to wait till december until i get a new phone which i'll have to use for music on the go. (september to december without music ) i will have to buy another one of those G1 3.5mm jack converters (which break easily) again.

Or you could just not hit your iPod against a desk...

 

[Casey]

I just use my phone. Get a 32GB microsd card and you're sorted.

 

[SiGh]

So the new Droid is out....Droid 2.

Casey, should I get that and replace my Droid? Is the only plus thing about it is the double the processing speed? Advice plx.

 

[Casey]

So the new Droid is out....Droid 2.

Casey, should I get that and replace my Droid? Is the only plus thing about it is the double the processing speed? Advice plx.

Minor spec upgrades and an improved keyboard.

But....I'd personally wait for the DroidPro which is supposed to be hitting in November, if I were you.

 

[Casey]

Epic 4G is getting good reviews:

Epic 4G review -- Engadget

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Or you could just not hit your iPod against a desk...

i was helpless. i was focused on doing my work, i was passing some paperwork over to someone the other side of the desk. stupid ipod. stupid desk also. stupid workplace, stupid personnel also.

 

[Casey]

Looks like both the DroidPro and DroidPad have showed up in Verizon's inventory

More Verizon Leaks Show Motorola Slab and Droid Pro in Inventory | Android Phone Fans

Also, Samsung Galaxy Tablet looks to be hitting Vodafone UK next month.

http://androinica.com/2010/08/16/sa...droinica+(Androinica+-++A+Google+Android+Blog)

 

[dedbrd]

I will be picking between this and the Evo in November when I am able to upgrade, it is going to have to come down to the battery for me.

Epic 4G is getting good reviews:

Epic 4G review -- Engadget

 

[THEV1LL4N]

^^ can you get me one also and then i'll pay you? lol.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Adobe AIR Making its Way to Android by Fourth Quarter 2010 | Android Community

ADOBE AIR MAKING ITS WAY TO ANDROID BY FOURTH QUARTER 2010

While Flash hasn’t necessarily been missing from the Android platform, it hasn’t been present in its fullest form until recently. With the launch of Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 on Android 2.2-equipped devices like the Nexus One and Motorola Droid 2, plenty of folks are eagerly awaiting Adobe’s AIR platform as well. Today, at Adobe’s Flash Summit in San Francisco, they gave a brief “expected” date for AIR to land on Android.

For Android, Adobe AIR will be made available some time in the fourth quarter of 2010. No exact dates, unfortunately, but at least it’s better than nothing. The more troubling thing, comes in the fact that Adobe isn’t talking about how AIR will be distributed, when the time comes. Whether it’s OTA for devices, or if you’ll be able to get your hands on it via the Marketplace is still unknown. We can also pretty much expect this only on “advanced” devices, like the Droid 2 or Nexus One. Basically, we figure the processor should be able to run the platform with ease.

 

[dilla]

The fuck is ADOBE Air?

 

[dilla]

I love how VZW is getting all the Android goodness. Or most of it. The rest of the carriers are being told to fuck off. For every two Android devices on VZW, there's barely one on the others. Most of them are Moto devices, though, so it may just be a Moto thing.

 

[Casey]

The fuck is ADOBE Air?

You're kidding me, right? AIR is an incredible system that works identically on any OS. I use it myself on both Windows and Linux with the Seesmic Desktop client for Twitter. I believe TweetDeck uses it too. It's essentially a cross-platform runtime environment that brings the power of web apps to your desktop, allowing you to run apps that are built using web technology like HTML, Flash, Ajax, Javascript. So you're essentially running web apps without using a browser.

If all that doesn't mean much to you, simply put, Android supporting AIR is a Very Good Thing. I can already envisage some incredible apps and widgets that will be built using AIR.

I love how VZW is getting all the Android goodness. Or most of it. The rest of the carriers are being told to fuck off. For every two Android devices on VZW, there's barely one on the others. Most of them are Moto devices, though, so it may just be a Moto thing.

Nobody is being told to fuck off. Dunno where's you're getting that one. Sprint is launching the Epic 4G next week and also has the Motorola i1. T-Mobile has the Motorola Jordan, HTC Lexicon, MyTouch HD and the G1 Blaze/G2 coming out as well as another high end handset (HTC Glacier) in November. AT&T have the XPERIA X10, Dell Streak and soon the Motorola Sage. One of those carriers will likely be getting the Galaxy Tablet.

VZW have the Droid-X, Droid 2 and upcoming Droid Pro and tablet, as well as the upcoming HTC Bee.

And of course all 4 carriers have the Galaxy S with different names.

Moto are pushing hard right now, but so are HTC.

Right now, Motorola have the #1 selling Android with the Droid/Milestone, but HTC have the other 4 handsets in the top 5.

It's pretty even between the US carriers at this point as far as I can see.

 

[dilla]

You're kidding me, right? AIR is an incredible system that works identically on any OS. I use it myself on both Windows and Linux with the Seesmic Desktop client for Twitter. I believe TweetDeck uses it too. It's essentially a cross-platform runtime environment that brings the power of web apps to your desktop, allowing you to run apps that are built using web technology like HTML, Flash, Ajax, Javascript. So you're essentially running web apps without using a browser.

If all that doesn't mean much to you, simply put, Android supporting AIR is a Very Good Thing. I can already envisage some incredible apps and widgets that will be built using AIR.



Nobody is being told to fuck off. Dunno where's you're getting that one. Sprint is launching the Epic 4G next week and also has the Motorola i1. T-Mobile has the Motorola Jordan, HTC Lexicon, MyTouch HD and the G1 Blaze/G2 coming out as well as another high end handset (HTC Glacier) in November. AT&T have the XPERIA X10, Dell Streak and soon the Motorola Sage. One of those carriers will likely be getting the Galaxy Tablet.

VZW have the Droid-X, Droid 2 and upcoming Droid Pro and tablet, as well as the upcoming HTC Bee.

And of course all 4 carriers have the Galaxy S with different names.

Moto are pushing hard right now, but so are HTC.

Right now, Motorola have the #1 selling Android with the Droid/Milestone, but HTC have the other 4 handsets in the top 5.

It's pretty even between the US carriers at this point as far as I can see.

Sounds like you're just making up names of phones now.

 

[ARon]

So Voice Search is awesome, I just wish it was integrated into the entire OS a little bit more

 

[Casey]

Sounds like you're just making up names of phones now.

I'm not..... but it looks like Verizon are going to surge ahead after all.

There was literally just another roadmap leak and man... VZW ain't playing.

Now it seems that they are getting the following over the next few months:

1. Motorola Droid 2 World Edition.

Like the Droid-2, but with a GSM as well as a CDMA radio. Will be available in Black, Blue, and White variations.

2. Motorola Citrus
Low-end device, meant to be affordable and targeted at teens. Looks like a replacement for Microsoft's failed Kin device based on the shape/form factor.

3. Samsung Fascinate

Simply VZW's version of the Galaxy S.

4. Samsung Continuum

Mid-range Android phone, nothing else known at present.

5. Motorola XT610

Essentially a crappier Droid-X. Same 4.3" screen but slower processor and lower res camera. Will cost around half the price of the DX.

6. Motorola Sick
Not much known about this at present. Speculation that it might be the Droid with the Blackberry-esque form factor seen below:

7. entourage eDGe.

This dual screen e-book reader/android tablet has been out for a while now directly from the manufacturer, but it looks like Verizon may have picked it up.

8. entourage pocket

similar to the eDGe but about half the size.

9. HTC Merge.

super High-end, 1.3GhZ processor, 10MP camera. May or may not be the device seen below. Said to be launching in November.

 

[Casey]

10. Motorola Stingray.

7-10" tablet with a dual-core Tegra 2 processor. Rumored to launch with Android 3.0 in February. May be marketed as DroidPad.

11. Samsung Galaxy Tab

Samsung's upcoming 7-10" Android tablet. Samsung are supposedly announcing it within the next few weeks.

12. DroidPro

High-end smartphone with dual GSM and CDMA. Rumored to have a 4" display and launch in November.

13. HTC Bee

Low end HTC Android device.

 

[dilla]

Yeah man, I was looking at something like that too. They didn't the names of devices, but you did so that might be the thing there. There's a TON for VZW. In the states, AT&T has the iPhone. It is also the second largest carrier to VZW. There is no reason to focus on T-Mobile or Sprint as much as they should on VZW, the largest. It's gonna get good.