Android

Quote from Stafford

unlike new iOS versions where they get progressively slower

Not to be a proponent of either (I've got an iphone but if I could move w/o an ETF and the cost of 3 phones I'd likely have one running android...mostly for the carrier) but this is the opposite of my experience. The new iOS releases have been faster on all but the oldest gens of iphones. My 3gs has improved (albeit slightly) with each subsequent release. Now, the service on the other hand...

Then again I'm not your typical apple fanboy, either. I recognize the device for what it is and the benefits (mostly) for the wife and daughter as well as the very simplistic UI and seamlesss media integration (something I wish the android folks would get moving on!) but also its limitations. I'm a geek...more specifically a unix geek...and I want root, I want CLI, I want control over my device. The controls in any of them piss me off to no end, it just happens that there are 'less' controls on the android based stuff.

--Ian

First post Using voice Recognition

Pretty cool

Quote from clendaniel

but this is the opposite of my experience. The new iOS releases have been faster on all but the oldest gens of iphones. My 3gs has improved (albeit slightly) with each subsequent release.

My sister and some guys I work with who have the 3G (no S) say it's now a dog, even the release prior to 4 slowed things down. Some other guys I work with said 4 is slow even on the 3GS but Sal has it and says it's fine....dunno. Perception is king and that's typically on a per user basis. I definitely saw a performance increase with Eclair/2.1 and the benchmarks for Froyo/2.2 are borderline unbelievable.

As always, I have a humerous audio/visual addition to my comment.

http://videosift.com/video/Ori…Commercial-Updated-Parody

My iphone 3G is a "dog" like Stafford mentioned. Constantly hanging up, even the preloaded apps like Messages (texts) if I'm typing too fast or if it's also trying to check for emails. And it doesn't shut down Safari all the time when you switch apps, it hangs up in the background and hogs the memory. I'm jailbroken so I kill it manually to free up the RAM, but... I shouldn't have to! Speaking of RAM, my 3G only has ~33MB of free memory. That makes multitasking very difficult. I had a multitasking app (jailbroken!) last year, but it was so slow that it wasn't really worth using.

However, a friend of mine has the 3GS and it looks to be as fast as my brothers 4G. Of course, they both have much better hardware than my now 2year old 3G.

Quote from Keith_C

My Droid X should be arriving today.

How long did it take to get? We just got our Incredibles, been playing with them since we got home. Ordered them on June 20th, haven't figured out the voice recognition yet, that'll be cool.

Got mine yesterday. Awesome phone but still figuring out how it work.

Got my X yesterday too! Same here....still learning all the features.

I liked the X too but the Incredible is smaller so I can put it in my pocket, forget about it and wade out into the surf like I did with my Blackberry

Update coming on Monday for all you new X users.

http://www.droid-life.com/2010…-readying-droid-x-update/
Improvements:
<blockquote>+ Improved battery charging status indicator.
+ Smoother transition for camera and camcorder functions.
+ Redesign of weather widget icons.
+ Faster Exchange ActiveSync® email loading.
+ Streamlined organization of newly downloaded applications.
+ Organized favorite contacts by call count.
+ Updated Bluetooth® connection for enhanced video sharing experience.
+ Coordinated date and time across phone displays.
+ Cleaner looking status bar for GPS symbol.
+ Improved sync capabilities for 3G Mobile Hotspot.
+ Faster Visual Voice Mail loading.</blockquote> Enhancements:
<blockquote>+ Take advantage of the enhanced, preloaded My Verizon application.
+ Preloaded Amazon Kindle® application lets you read Kindle books on your Android™ phone, including thousands of free books.</blockquote>

Here's some getting started stuff for the X, with links to some other pages as well.

Guess it would help if I posted the link.

http://www.pcworld.com/article…g_your_android_phone.html

Quote from Stafford

Update coming on Monday for all you new X users.

Had to force mine.

Quote from Keith_C

Had to force mine.

Sorry, should have clarified 'starting' on Monday. They typically do a phased rollout over a week or so.

still playing with it in my free time, but the Google Voice app is pretty cool for voicemail! I missed the visual voicemail my iphone had, and this gives it back. Plus, google's system has a speech-to-text thing that gives you a transcript of the voicemail before I even listen to it. Pretty neat!

Quote from whatevah

I missed the visual voicemail my iphone had...

there IS an app called 'visual voicemail' for android. it's $2.99/month. ugh.

i like YouMail. free. it has a visual voicemail interface. you have the option to receive texts that tell you of missed calls and who called and whether or not they left a message. you can also receive emails (handy if your phone is not nearby or if the ringer is off or if the battery is dead). i like that you can access, listen, review, save, or delete your messages online. it's free, but the speech-to-text feature is a paid upgrade.

Google does all that too. Just doesn't send a text if they don't leave a message.

I haven't had good luck with Google Voice's text to speech feature. It always says funny things that make me laugh.

This is by far my favorite app:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker

Droid X has been rooted.

http://alldroid.org/Default.aspx?tabid=40&g=posts&m=5165