The battle of the Droids??!

[Kioshi]

Originally Posted by tomato

Home depot discount?

Employees get 20% off phone purchase w/ new activation and 25% off monthly bill.

[tomato]

Originally Posted by Reeves360

I think if you choose wisely and time it correctly you can get a phone that wont be obsolete in 6 months. For example get the EVO now and I bet the features they will be pushing this Christmas will be 8mp cam, video chat, and HDMI outs.

Please post what type of plans you are considering what you are going with when you can.

will do.

Originally Posted by Kioshi

Employees get 20% off phone purchase w/ new activation and 25% off monthly bill.

that does it, I'm getting a job at Home Depot!

[tomato]

Yes, you heard it on YarisWorld first !! ;)

Here you go

http://www.droiddog.com/android-blog...le-full-specs/

[Shroomster]

Originally Posted by tomato

Not to add to the confusion or anything but the myTouch slider is coming out in a couple of weeks on T Mobile USA

http://www.tmonews.com/2010/04/mytou...wild-part-two/

It looks like a a G1 + MyTouch replacement. Specs are not as strong as the top dog Android phones coming soon on Sprint and VZW, but still looks very interesting for those of you who are partial to the slider kb. Comes with Sense UI and Android 2.1 out of the box.

haha cripes ...this has to come out now......not back in January when my wife wanted a physical keyboard .....we both have the Myt3g and she complains constantly about the kb (because she can lol)

[Shroomster]

Originally Posted by Kioshi

The above information is very good. I'm almost ready to aboard the Sprint Bullet Train for the phone price and the monthly plan subtracted by Home Depot discount hehe...just language support is holding me back..

oh sorry forgot to mention tons of apps for language support. including text to speech in multiple languages....google is championing their speech synthesis.....

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by tomato

Yes, you heard it on YarisWorld first !! ;)

Here you go

http://www.droiddog.com/android-blog...le-full-specs/

So the Incredible only comes with 8GB of memory?

The Moto Droid comes with 16GB standard.

Looking at the specs sheet, the only thing the Incredible has over Droid is the Snapdragon processor and a slightly better camera. Everything else is virtually the same - screen size, ect... It also doesn't have a physical KB (which I don't use anyway). My guess though is that the Incredible will cost more.

[tomato]

@ Kal El: Same cost as the Droid. $199 with a $100 rebate on VZW and 2 Y K.

The Incredible comes with Sense UI (different interface, more home screens instead of the standard 3). You're right, they're not that far apart in specs and nobody said the DROID isn't good. I see that it's not getting much love in the polls, but that doesn't make the Droid a bad phone by any means.

I noticed that the camera on the DROID makes grainy photos though (look at the photo of the iPad I took a couple of weeks ago, that was taken with a Droid), and there is some shutter lag which you probably don't get as much with a faster processor?

I'm waiting for the beta testers to render their verdict ...

[tomato]

Originally Posted by Shroomster

haha cripes ...this has to come out now......not back in January when my wife wanted a physical keyboard .....we both have the Myt3g and she complains constantly about the kb (because she can lol)

Isn't she used to the virtual KB by now? It seems after a couple of months, she should be OK Look at all those people who have adapted to the iPhone's KB (although to be honest, the iPhone has the best virtual KB )

Yeah, they were making them back then already but very few people at T-Mobile knew that. They had to do something since, they've taken away the sidekick and the new click is now keyboardless.

Maybe you should download her a different KB. I know one of the guys at the TMobile store told me he had to do it because the stock KB really s..cks (his words, and he sells them! ;)

[Shroomster]

Originally Posted by tomato

Isn't she used to the virtual KB by now? It seems after a couple of months, she should be OK Look at all those people who have adapted to the iPhone's KB (although to be honest, the iPhone has the best virtual KB )

Yeah, they were making them back then already but very few people at T-Mobile knew that. They had to do something since, they've taken away the sidekick and the new click is now keyboardless.

Maybe you should download her a different KB. I know one of the guys at the TMobile store told me he had to do it because the stock KB really s..cks (his words, and he sells them! ;)

yeah I d/l'd the o.e.m kb 'touch input method HTC'

but yet she still complains....some people can just never be pleased lol

[tomato]

Hahahaha!! ^
I know what you mean

I understand, though. I'm a huge fan of the tactile QWERTY KB myself, especially the Blackberry's.

[Kioshi]

Originally Posted by Shroomster

oh sorry forgot to mention tons of apps for language support. including text to speech in multiple languages....google is championing their speech synthesis.....

Could you confirm this, ie: get me the name of the app that has multiple language support (which includes Japanese to English vice-versa)?

I would really really appreciate it because I dont want to be disappointed if i buy a phone w/ Android OS and can't get Japanese language support = waste of 2 years phone contract

[tomato]

Kioshi< don't take our word for it, google "android application multi language support japanese english" or something like that and see if there is anything out there for Android 2.1. If it isn't there now, you know you'll have to wait a little. I can't imagine Japanese expats or even Japanese businessmen in Japan not wanting an app like that on their smartphone


Tomato

[Kioshi]

They don't really need an app because NTT Docomo, AU, Vodafone, etc all have english to japanese conversion built into every phone, including pay as you go phones lol.

Yeah, I'm typing this all on my flip phone, will do when I am home.
Just thought the software/app smarties here would know the answer right away hehe ;)

[tomato]

They might but I was just suggesting you to double check anyway

[Gideon]

Kioshi, Android does support Japanese text display. Input is a different story however. (Maybe there's an app out for it?)

http://www.google.com/support/androi...&answer=166508

The above link is in reference to the Nexus One, but so long as the phone is running 2.1 the linked table would be applicable.

[Shroomster]

Originally Posted by Kioshi

Could you confirm this, ie: get me the name of the app that has multiple language support (which includes Japanese to English vice-versa)?

I would really really appreciate it because I dont want to be disappointed if i buy a phone w/ Android OS and can't get Japanese language support = waste of 2 years phone contract

no problem
are you wanting to be able to type in multiple languages?

if so then right now no phone has that capability built in (except overseas docomo etc.)

but there are numerous apps like 'google translate' that can take text and give you translations back and forth from over 30 languages (at least 30) and in most cases even text to speech. a lot of the apps also handle speech to text input....

oh and FYI t-mobile has a no contract plan that you pay for monthly and cancel anytime....it's what were on. just no phone subsidizing is all

[tomato]

^ yes that's true about the plans. That's why I was looking at the N1 real close and personal

[tomato]

Incredible unboxing is out!!

http://www.phonedog.com/2010/04/18/h...izon-unboxing/

oh boy. Watch out for the new kid on the block ;)