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[Casey]

BBM is dope. Best mobile IM out there and the only thing I miss from my Blackberry days.

But it's closed and proprietary which is FTL.

At least you don't NEED to have Android to use GTalk. I talk to people using it from their Gmail all the time.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I was just talking to casey using the GMail version of GTalk and can see whether he's logged in via his phone, via GMail or via some other device.

Not sure about BB messenger, but GTalk can save your chats (just like SMS) so if there was something important that you needed to refer to at a later stage, you can search through messages using terms. very useful.

also, there's an app called cnected - (i think that's how its spelled); one user described it as the closest thing to combining android with bbm, but still needs a lot of work.

i think its just an app that is available on both OS's. it would be good if meebo could add something in. but then if that was left logged in, in the background and everyone did that, that would be the same as using BB or GTalk, just via MSN, facebook, yahoo or whatever.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

woah just flashed CM6 and you can play naughts and crosses upon (tic-tac-toe) upon boot up!!

 

[THEV1LL4N]

really fast, definitely worth upgrading to CM6 from CM5/CM4. I've not even enabled JIT yet and its super fast. also the flash works good by the looks of it, with browser performance improvements having been made from the preceding ROM.

would i need to download flash 10.1 from the market, or is all of that already embedded?

forgot to flash the google apps before, so just doing that now.

 

[Casey]

/\ Flash 10.1 from the Market ain't gonna work on the G1. It specifically requires the newer ARM processors.

 

[dilla]

Well, I dunno WTF I did last night but it seems a CM ROM has finally worked on my phone. It's pretty good too.

I'd been messing around with the Flash betas the past few weeks and it was pretty good. I played a good bit of Flash games on it and some worked flawlessly.

Question about Nightlies, since there is still an option for it in my ROM Manager. They won't make a difference now, right? This is the final product? I have a feeling they will still fix the bugs and release more and therefore the Nightlies section will continue to be updated. But, again, I dunno. This is the first CM I have loaded on either of my phones.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

just tried accessing my ext2 aprtition via windows and ubuntu, no luck!!

 

[dilla]

Someone explain the "Galaxy S" moniker to me, please. I thought it was the model of a specific Samsung phone that had four variants for each major carrier. Why does the Sprint 4G also share the same moniker?

They said "a phone from the Samsung Galaxy S" phone. It's like Verizon's "Droid" moniker. It's gonna get confusing.

 

[Casey]

Well, I dunno WTF I did last night but it seems a CM ROM has finally worked on my phone. It's pretty good too.

I'd been messing around with the Flash betas the past few weeks and it was pretty good. I played a good bit of Flash games on it and some worked flawlessly.

Question about Nightlies, since there is still an option for it in my ROM Manager. They won't make a difference now, right? This is the final product? I have a feeling they will still fix the bugs and release more and therefore the Nightlies section will continue to be updated. But, again, I dunno. This is the first CM I have loaded on either of my phones.

I'm not sure you understand the concept of Nightlies.

Nightlies are at the cutting edge of development and new features, but are less stable than the regular experimental test builds, and the irregular stable builds which are more or less completely bug-free.

Basically if you want to live life on the edge, use Nightlies, but don't complain when you find a problem or there's instabilities.

Someone explain the "Galaxy S" moniker to me, please. I thought it was the model of a specific Samsung phone that had four variants for each major carrier. Why does the Sprint 4G also share the same moniker?

They said "a phone from the Samsung Galaxy S" phone. It's like Verizon's "Droid" moniker. It's gonna get confusing.

Galaxy S is a series of phones. In countries where just one model is being release, that phone is just named the Galaxy S I9000. In the US, the variants aren't all identical, notably with the Epic 4G due to the physical keyboard. It's not that hard to figure out.

 

[dilla]

I'm not sure you understand the concept of Nightlies.

Nightlies are at the cutting edge of development and new features, but are less stable than the regular experimental test builds, and the irregular stable builds which are more or less completely bug-free.

Basically if you want to live life on the edge, use Nightlies, but don't complain when you find a problem or there's instabilities.





Galaxy S is a series of phones. In countries where just one model is being release, that phone is just named the Galaxy S I9000. In the US, the variants aren't all identical, notably with the Epic 4G due to the physical keyboard. It's not that hard to figure out.

No, I understand the concept of nightlies. What I'm saying is will they continue to update the 6.0 release with updates? And if so, will it be released as nightlies the way the RCs were. Or is this 6.0 available in ROM Manager the last iteration of 6.0 and not going to be update further for bug fixes and such?


And I thought the Galaxy S was a model. The "line" name given to it was because there were four different phones that originally had the title. The Fascinate, Vibrant, an Fascinate are not merely the same phone, with slight variations, for the big four carriers? I just looked it up and it appears Spring doesn't have the phone that's similar to the other three and instead has the Epic which is completely different aesthetically from the others.

Why are they doing this? I don't understand making a "line" of phones that are similar for some and different for others.

 

[Casey]

Well, development doesn't stop just because there's a stable release.

There's still been CM nightlies for the G1 over the last couple of days,so yeah, it continues.

Galaxy S was always a line. The phone called the "Galaxy S" is actually the I9000. But Galaxy S is easier to say and plus it's the only one in the line available right now, in most countries.

 

[dilla]

Ah ok.


After just recently saying I thought I'd never have a use for a tablet, I did some thinking and realized it would be great on campus. The only thing that bothers me is the data plan. WiFi isn't good enough and I'd much rather have internet anywhere. Problem is, it'd be $30 a month for unlimited which would be in addition to my phone bill as well. Wireless tether with my Droid? Maybe. But that Samsung tablet looks good but now there's word there's a Toshiba one as well, which I think, looks even better.

Isn't Google coming out with their own Chrome OS Tablet or something? Or will that be made by HTC or someone else?

 

[Casey]

/\ there'll be Motorola and HTC tablets running Android within the next 6 months. Samsung will release first, then Moto, then HTC.

There'll be some Chrome OS tablets too.

But VZW are pushing a BIG tablet in time for Xmas. That's the Motorola one running Android 3.0.

 

[masta247]

Android is a more complete system. Chrome is good only for the internet. Or to put it simply - Android is what you need right now. Chrome is more of a future thing/concept. It's basically an operating system consisting of a browser and plug-ins with no use for internal memory other than for storing cache.
To me - it's meh but might work out for ultraportable tablets that you only need for the net and editing files in the cloud.

I prefer Android though. I'd love to see it branch out with a "mobile phone" version and a "tablet version" which I suppose they're trying to do with Android 2.X and 3.X.
though. Watching the casual smartphone Android on tablets somehow feel wrong to me. Like with the Ipad which feels just like a huge Iphone. Android tablets feel just like Android smartphones with huge screens. It's functional but yeah, I'd like the tablet version to look at least a bit different.

 

[dilla]

Is that what the Chrome netbook is/was? I really like the cloud thing for documents, especially. If I work on a school computer, I don't have to use Word and can just use Google Docs. Save it. Then come home and work on it again without having to pull out the flash drive or email it to myself and then redownloading it.

I guess that's where it ends, and I don't need a tablet/netbook to do that, I can just do it on my laptop..on iWorks or something, since it will always be with me.

What I mentioned above was what I would do with a tablet. We'll have to see how typing long works on it will be, although I'm sure there will be a hard keyboard add-on.

 

[Casey]

Not sure whether anyone here has a Droid-X... if so

First custom ROM hits the DROID X | chrissmith | Androinica)

Regarding Chrome OS.... I don't think there's any point on speculating on it, until it's released.

 

[dilla]

How much do you think a tablet like this would cost?

Toshiba SmartPad to be called Folio 100, run Froyo | AndroidGuys)

 

[Pittsey]

I want the Samsung Galaxy tablet....

Might get one for my son.

 

[S O F I]

So I got around to playing with the Samsung Galaxy S yesterday in more detail and with the T-Mobile one as opposed to AT&T. I didn't find it having as much bloated software as the AT&T one, but I was surprised to find out it comes preloaded with Avatar, the movie. I really liked the swype software, it makes it a lot easier to text people and it works really well too. Point is, I'm back on the android train although I was close to going the iPhone 4 route. Now I'm only wondering if perhaps I should wait till the end of the year for a better Android phone. I haven't kept up with new Android phones since Droid X dropped so I don't know what better phones are coming out. That G2 doesn't look too convincing. I'm pretty sure I don't need a QWERTY at this point so I don't know why I'd get it.

 

[dilla]

What backup method do you use on your phones when you need to do a clean wipe for a new ROM? I use MyBackUp Pro, but I've been hearing a lot more about Titanium Backup. I just hate the fact that I need to download Astro, which takes forever to download when everything is syncing on the initial bootup, and the install the MBP .apk and then recover everything else using that.

Does anyone have a faster way, with fewer steps?