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Android Thread - 2011 Edition | Stuffed on Gingerbread, Hungry for Honeycomb!

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Charred Greyface said:
What is up with the tech blogs this week? The iPad 2 hasn't been announced yet and already speculation has started in earnest on the iPad 3. Now it's the Atrix which gets a successor before the phone itself is even in stores. It's all a little silly.
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I think its based off of discrepancies in the leaked prototype parts for the iPad.

Honestly, I think they're going to release an iPad and and iPad Pro (with OSX and the better screen).
 
kaching said:
Err, $300 worth more expensive? Didn't the teardown on component costs for the iPad tally to $260 total or thereabouts?
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is the 499 playbook going to have a carrier attached to it? Because you can't really compare the two. As soon as you attach a 3G service to it the price inflates to give cuts to carriers, which is why all wifi only vs 3G products have such an extreme price bump. Seeing the price of the 16GB 7" playbook i would assume a 599 Xoom Wifi... And realitisticly its blackberry, is it really going to be its main competition? I would assume webos to be more in competition then blackberry... they'll fuck it up somehow (RIM)


the talk about the ipad3 is interesting. I wonder how apple is going ot handle the competition now that android is beating it. Android i think is solely responsible for the sharp increase in mobile processor development... up until this point apple had no one really to worry about hardware wise, now with a platform that releases a phone a month at the least i wonder how (if at all) their strategy is going to change. Are they going to try to stay top of the tech sphere, or are they going to keep the same strategy as mac/windows and just continue to rake in the cash it makes and let android run wild
 
kaching said:
Boy, you sure love the N1 as your goto counter-example, don't you? ;)

But, you're missing my point. Giga claims that a good 10" display is "far more expensive" than a 7" display. I'm trying to quantify that a little better here and see how that really accounts for a $300 increase in MSRP over a device otherwise similarly spec'd but with a 7" display selling at $500.

iSuppli puts the iPad display and touchscreen at $80 cost - by all accounts certainly a good display in the 10" range. Granted Xoom's display will be higher res...soooo, what? $100 dollars then? $120? $150? I'm being generous here and we're still not really accounting for where the extra $300 gets accounted for.

I mean, obviously everyone needs to sell their devices at prices that account for more than just component cost and presumably RIM is doing that too with their Playbook. The larger screen isn't enough to account for the disparity.
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Well, I’m not trying to justify the Xoom’s markup—whatever that may be. Just saying that it’s not really comparable to the Playbook for all things considered. I’d imagine the Playbook’s starting unit won’t have 3G and 32GB of memory either.

Apple themselves markup $130 to the 3G version of the iPad.
 
giga said:
Well, I’m not trying to justify the Xoom’s markup—whatever that may be. Just saying that it’s not really comparable to the Playbook for all things considered. I’d imagine the Playbook’s starting unit won’t have 3G and 32GB of ram either.
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buh?
 
Just got my invitation to order an Adam. Has anyone here got one? It's a tough financial call for me since I just bought the Nexus S...
 
DMeisterJ said:
Sad news for current AT&T consumers with unlimited data upgrading to the Inspire or Atrix or any 4G Phone it seems:

Grandfathered Unlimited data plans have to be 'upgraded' to 200MB/2GB plans for 4G

I've never touched 2GB, but I like the idea of being able to do so if I so chose to :/
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This was SO expected, don't act shocked.

2GB really sucks though. That's gonna have to go up at some point. I'm on Verizon right now, and I'm gonna be really pissed if they cap the 4G service. I guess we'll see when the Thunderbolt is released.
 
Just got an Optimus V, this is so amazing. Thankfully my room mate is a huge Android fan so he's helping me set everything up, I'd be completely lost without him.

So far I've gotten Lookout Security, TiKL, Winamp, Pandora, Angry Birds, Facebook, and a few others.

Any suggestions for must have apps?
 
kaskade said:
The updated twitter app is a lot nicer.
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I don't really like it that much. I can't see which of my tweets other people retweet anymore, or tweets that I retweeted, and I generally dislike the whole layout of it also. I left Twidroyd for Twitter, but the new (to me) Twidroyd looks better than Twitter 2.0.
 
cartoon_soldier said:
You guys should try Tweetdeck

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Not sure how its on Android, but for my desktop its the best I have found.
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Yeah, I'm using it on Android and I really like it over the official Twitter app.

The widget's much better - I have a screen with the new message widget and a "column" widget (last couple of messages). The interface is nicer and it integrates with Buzz. Also it'll use slightly less power 'cos it's white-on-dark-grey instead of black-on-white.
 
Rumors about the Playbook running android apps won't die.


engadget said:
We'd heard sweet, sweet rumors that RIM would include a Java virtual machine in the BlackBerry PlayBook and even bring Android apps on board -- and lo and behold, Bloomberg's corroborating those claims with no fewer than three anonymous sources. Where the new rumor diverges is that the Dalvik virtual machine used in Google's OS reportedly won't be part of the formula; RIM considered it, these sources say, but decided it didn't want to get involved in the Oracle / Google legal fracas. Apparently, the company's working on this secret project in-house and targeting a possible release in the second half of the year. We have to say, the ready availability of roughly 200,000 Android programs could be quite the shot in the arm if WebWorks and AIR don't produce killer apps right away.
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I guess ultimately it would be a good thing for Playbook owners, but I'm torn. I think I love the Android OS more than the android market; whereas it's the opposite for me and iOS / app store.
 
Ephemeris said:
Rumors about the Playbook running android apps won't die.




I guess ultimately it would be a good thing for Playbook owners, but I'm torn. I think I love the Android OS more than the android market; whereas it's the opposite for me and iOS / app store.
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This is only a good strategy if it allows the Playbook to run Honeycomb apps. Nobody is interested in 200,000 apps designed for phones. And the rumors say this Android emulation 'feature' will come out in the 2nd half of the year, wasn't the Playbook supposed to come out in Q1?
 
iapetus said:
Yesterday was secret prototype phone day at work. Nice. :)
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I understand that you can't give us any details, but, announced phones or still-secret phones? Dammit euro-android scene has been pretty dead lately :(
 
josephdebono said:
I understand that you can't give us any details, but, announced phones or still-secret phones? Dammit euro-android scene has been pretty dead lately :(
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Both, as far as I can tell, across a range of manufacturers.
 
Charred Greyface said:
Can you say what version Android they were running?
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No, because I didn't check them all (and they're not final versions anyway). The only one I looked at explicitly was running 2.3. I expect at least a couple of them will be announced at or around MWC. The fact that I can't jump up and answer the question immediately for the others should probably be a pointer to the fact that they weren't 3.0+. :D
 
iapetus said:
No, because I didn't check them all (and they're not final versions anyway). The only one I looked at explicitly was running 2.3. I expect at least a couple of them will be announced at or around MWC. The fact that I can't jump up and answer the question immediately for the others should probably be a pointer to the fact that they weren't 3.0+. :D
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i'm anxiously awaiting MWC... hopefully we get release dates with phones there
 
Coolness. Anything worth getting excited about just from looking? I'm still on my Hero (which is on 2.2 and running great especially considering it's like the 4th or 5th proper Android phone to be released)
 
Pocket-Lint on Samsung's Galaxy Tab successor with Honeycomb.

Pocket-lint sources have confirmed that Samsung will launch a Honeycomb-packing 10.1-inch tablet on Sunday night at the start of Mobile World Congress.

The new device will be thinner and lighter than the current Samsung Galaxy Tab [pictured], sport the bigger screen and come in black rather than white around the back.

Running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Samsung is hoping the new tablet will be able to take on devices like the Motorola Xoom, and of course the Apple iPad.

In a sense that the company doesn’t really have its plans laid down completely, Pocket-lint initially learnt that Samsung was thinking of launching a 9-inch tablet at the same time, but we now believe this won't be the case.

On a specifications perspective, we've learnt that the tablet (that has yet to have a name) will feature a dual-core Qualcomm chip and an 8-megapixel camera.

We've also been told that it will be physically smaller than the iPad in terms of size, even though the screen is slightly bigger than Apple’s offering.
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http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/38496/samsung-honeycomb-10-inch-tablet-mwc
 
so att just gave me back my unlimited data, looks like I'm getting a inspire on sunday. I dunno if I should just wait to get the atrix next month though.
 
Charred Greyface said:
Still cant use an unlimited dataplan with the Atrix dock because of that tethering fee nonsense.
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Right. So if you want to root to tether on an unlimited plan its fine, but if you want to tether without rooting sounds like you will have to move to a tiered new plan.
 
Anyone have a good rss widget other than Scrollable RSS? I thought Minimal Rss was gonna do the trick but it keeps freezing.
 
jon bones said:
sounds great - looks like MWC will answer a lot of questions about my upcoming tablet purchasing
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yup, MWC will answer a lot of questions on both my next tablet and phone purchase.
 
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