Gingerbread by release??

[ejz28]

just to confirm, i was joking about that being my sole reason....

 

[angel35]

Tunderbolt come on we are waiting. Its the Incredible all over again???

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

Tunderbolt come on we are waiting. Its the Incredible all over again???

It was just officially announced a week and a half ago, be patient my friend

 

[angel35]

Shipping

It was just officially announced a week and a half ago, be patient my friend

I Know, what i want to say we had to wait for weeks for the incredible to shipI hope this is not the same

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

I Know, what i want to say we had to wait for weeks for the incredible to shipI hope this is not the same

Ah, yes I can understand that then. The less waiting the better of course. It's almost a tease to announce these things at CES and not have a confirmed date in place yet.

But of course, I understand they have to keep consumer interest in upcoming devices.

 

[bmcclure937]

I could care less about an official Gingerbread release as long as it is rooted ASAP and has great developer support (specifically CM7).

 

[angel35]

Waiting

Ah, yes I can understand that then. The less waiting the better of course. It's almost a tease to announce these things at CES and not have a confirmed date in place yet.

But of course, I understand they have to keep consumer interest in upcoming devices.

YES but why do they do it this way? To keep you waiting all the time for every thing it gets to be a pain. Keeping your interest ?? Yeah we will wait:'(

 

[mzdrati]

WOW! There are more Storm 1 owners here than on the Crackberry forums! I am a weary Storm 1 owner as well. It was my first and last Blackberry, and it has ruined me on the BB brand. The device and the careless way it was released and hardly updated (then abandoned) has made me interested in anything else.

I am going to renew my contract with Verizon and joined this forum to learn whether I want to follow the masses toward the IPhone 4 or wait for the Bionic (or another Android phone). I've never used or owned an Android phone, or an iPhone (ok- I've gawked at a few friend's iPhones before, and was amazed at how fluid and solid the OS was, but remember- I'm comparing this to a BB Storm 1)

In reading the specifications for the soon to be announced Bionic, it seems to be everything I want in a smartphone EXCEPT- I have my business set up such that all of my contacts, calendars, and customer notes are through MS Outlook (version 2007). I REALLY want to be able to synchronize Outlook 2007 on my PC with Android (and being able to do so directly via a USB cable would make me feel even better.) However, nothing I have ever read in all of my research has led me to believe that there is functionality in any of the Android versions that will allow that. I have read about applications like "Missing Sync" and a few others, but I did not get the sense that the act of synchronizing using those methods was easy, or without problems.

That is really the only thing keeping me from buying an Android phone. I really don't want to have to depend upon Google (or anyone else) to synchronize my data, and keep it away from prying eyes. Can any of you speak to this? I've read and been told syncing Outlook with Google Calendar and Google Contacts messes with the formatting of the data, and the data contained in the "Notes" section of Outlook won't transfer (and I have a lot of data on clients in Notes sections of contacts.)

I've suffered with the Storm 1 this long, so I can wait another few months, but I'd value any advice, input or insight you can offer.

 

[Raptor007]

I had the Storm 1, Storm 2 and Tour 9630. I didn't hate any of those phones, the S2 was better and BB still lags in available memory but it was time to move on and I went Android form the S2.

Its rather funny how I went BlackBerry => Android=> iPhone => Android all within 6 months and for me I typically don't go back to an OS once I leave it. But the thing is Android is just so much better than Apple OS.

Apple keeps touting the # of apps they have and # of d/l's, BUT, they will never, ever break it down. How many of the 10 billion are updates being downloaded, how many of the 300,000 are free crapware fart apps? They won't tell you, and they won't make searching any easier.

 

[mzdrati]

Hi- Raptor. I am really interested in knowing what you didn't like about the iPhone to make you switch back to Android. Like many people, I've said all along that if Verizon ever offered the iPhone I'd jump right on it. Now I'm having second thoughts about it.

I'm a technical person (but I don't know a lot about computers. I am interested in things like "rooting" although I may never do it, even if it were available. I just like to read about those types of things, and learn. I really could see myself working in some aspect of the computer industry, with the proper training.) Being technical by nature, I think the lack of flexibility in iOS would make me feel confined, (which is how I feel now with BB 5.0). I just didn't want to commit to 2 more years with another phone that I would end up hating.

As I said in my earlier post- one of my big issues is compatibility with MS Outlook, and Google's insistance that I synchronice all of my stuff through them. Do you know of any easy way around that? Synching is about the only thing I've liked about the Storm...

Thanks again for your advise.

TONY: )

 

[I am Fake Jesus]

im coming from iphone to android for the first time, tho iv had my hands on android phones alot. my 2 cents on ios is its bland. they say there is multi tasking but its not really. on android u can set widgets or pull down your notification bar to check something with out ever leaving your home screen, on ios there is a square icon u have to launch the full app to go into leaving wat ever you are doin, then back out to get to wat your were doing. sure ios is great for someone that wants easy to use cause its self explanitory, touch icon it opens. with android you get full customizable options. small calendar or full calendar widget while under it you have a sports ticker telling you up to date news....

iv barely made it thru 2 year contract with iphone 3g as of nov last year. iv been so antsy to drop this phone. it has felt like an extra year since nov waiting for the bolt.

 

[I am Fake Jesus]

raptor, i totally agree about the apps. im sure if you broke it down they are counting the free trial version apps as well. its not about quanity, its quality. why is there 100 twitter apps that all do the exact same thing. an then half of them have a trial version an a pay version lol.

its there selling point, an at work there are 2 guys that brag about it all the time. i have an iphone 3g an i tell them thats cool, find 50 of them that are worth a damn, that will not just be a funny lil joke to pull out. the best one was the flashlight app. but wait, thats on every phone with a led flash now a days

 

[Raptor007]

Hey Tony - I hope this helps you understand my goals and reasons. First technology is my passion and other than being just cool, my goal is to have my technology solve a problem.

Apple has certainly veered off the highway and I have really just got to the point where supporting their mobile products was not achieving my goals. Smart companies don't trash their competitors, they focus on how they do things differently, how they can help you. Apple has moved to all attack all the time over the last year.

I have owned so much Apple tech its not even funny, BUT, I am not an apple fanboy for one simple reason. I have never made excuses or defended apple when they have clearly crossed the line or made a crappy product (which they have done).

Ultimately apple is now more about quantity sold rather than quality of product made and that has become an ever increasingly bigger problem.

I will keep using their laptops but I will recommend users to look at Android and if they have iTunes its no big deal, they can drag and drop music or get DoubleTwist and sync.

Its about freedom of choice, and it really bothered me when Jobs to the stage and said if you want porn get an Android phone. iPhone does have Safari which gets you a lot of porn.

You can be happy with either, but as you noted if you want freedom of choice and the options to do what you want and get custom ROM's that will support you with lots of cool OS features go Android.

 

[Raptor007]

raptor, i totally agree about the apps. im sure if you broke it down they are counting the free trial version apps as well. its not about quanity, its quality. why is there 100 twitter apps that all do the exact same thing. an then half of them have a trial version an a pay version lol.

its there selling point, an at work there are 2 guys that brag about it all the time. i have an iphone 3g an i tell them thats cool, find 50 of them that are worth a damn, that will not just be a funny lil joke to pull out. the best one was the flashlight app. but wait, thats on every phone with a led flash now a days

Good point, and if they have an iPhone 3G/3GS they won't be laughing to long when iOS 4.3 comes out soon, well they WON'T get it. So I guess iOS is a lot more fragmented than Apple admits. iOS 3.x, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 some won't upgrade, some can't upgrade, but in the end they are NOT on the same OS, they are FRAGMENTED.

 

[I am Fake Jesus]

well iv had my iphone jailbroke for the longest time now. still boring. but today i actually bricked it just tryin stupid things lol. i went back to the stock current build of ios. man this is horrible. the only feature that seesm to be new since i last ran stock is the folders . you still cant even keep wallpaper once u get past lockscreen. one of the most simple things ever. an that didnt even get ported over. tomorow i will go back to jailbreaking it lol. even tho its till the bolt releases

 

[Raptor007]

Your imagination is supposed to allow for limitless dreams and possibilities, Android does, iPhone doesn't.