The battle of the Droids??!

[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.....

[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

[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]

Home depot discount?

[Kioshi]

Originally Posted by tomato

Home depot discount?

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

[tomato]

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

Here you go

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

[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 ...

[Aothachos]

Originally Posted by tomato

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

not true if you shop aruond a "verizon retailer" NOT A VERIZON STORE. you can get cheaper prices, and I'm not talking about best buy, I got 2 droid phones for $150 after 100$ mail in rebates for EACH phone. So i paid 350$ up front and got 200$ in the mail 2 weeks later which covered my bill for the month. First they gave me the Devour which simply sucked horribly ,wasn't very good at all in my opinion, its simply for a person who doesn't know how to work the android system and wants a dumbed down version, so i just went back 4 hours later and told them to exhange it for the droid and they did, not fee, not restocking fee, no price adjustment, just took teh phones erased the data and handed me 2 boxes with droids in them and I was happy ever since then.

Then couple weeks later the 2.1 update came out and the droid was way better than ever, the only thing i can complain about is the camera. even though it is 5mp, it is quite shitty quality but i barely even use the phone as a camera, mostly for games and such. And they have these new "aftermarket" batteries out for the droid you can buy that last longer than the battery that comes with the droid.

[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.

[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.

[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 ;)

[Kioshi]

watching now

[tomato]

@kioshi: are you drooling yet? ;)
can't watch vids on here, have to wait until I get home :/

I just want to get my paws on it. 10 more days.
Meanwhile, the N1 for VZW is no where to be found.