http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/26/r...izon-on-april/

 

Ya. I'm starting to think this was marketing scheme by ASUS. Create more demand by only releasing 1,000 units that way everybody thinks it's a hot item and sold out quickly. I checked all the links they on their site at 7am CST and they were ALL sold out. I went to best buy and the dudes there had no clue what I was talking about (not that that is saying much).

Pretty disappointed in the way ASUS has handled this (whether it be a scheme or piss poor planning). Now I might as well wait a month or two for all the other tablets to be released.

 

Samsung Epic 4G Gingerbread leaked:

http://forum.androidcentral.com/epic...tml#post860493


A lot of stuff not working though which I'm sure they can sorta hack to work the next couple of days.


Supposedly this is coming out early June officially. After the HTC Evo 3D is released. At least that's the rumor. The good news is at least you know its coming.

 

that rugged droid is what my son Carlos needs... his phone slides on the floor more than a dancers feet.... really pisses me off... and he wonders why he still has a palm pre1 ?

 

Rooted a friends Droid X running 2.2 last night with z4root... he was so happy this morning...I was like LOL...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833954

 

my new unlock screen... when I pull it down, it takes me to text msgs... really like it!

 

Oh that's what that option does! lol. Good find. Very useful when texting the gf on the go. Haha. Thanks for that! For those that don't know, it can also launch other apps as well.


They finally got WiFi working on the Galaxy Sense port. They're working on the 3G next. Once they get that done, I think I'm gonna give it a go. Sense on a SAMOLED screen will probably look awesome with all that color. The XDA guys are working day and night to incorporate the Samsung source into CM7 so the battery drain won't be as bad and it looks like they got it down. Waiting for a build to flash. lol.

 

You should have your friend install the Pre-Rooted Gingerbread Blur. lol.

http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/d...atch-root.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JxUjocmz0

 

you didnt know that. Would least expect that

 

Here's my home screen shot, i like it. Although its not as smooth, as stock, this is adw. Its good enough, only occasionally it will lag.



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Galaxy S II review by Engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/28/s...y-s-ii-review/

Chainfire has confirmed that it does have an UNLOCKED bootloader. Also will support T-Mobile and AT&T 3G bands. I want this phone but I think I may wait it out cause my Galaxy S has been good to me so far. Lol.

 

T-Mobile and LG confirmed the G2x won't support AT&T 3G bands like everyone thought. Sucks but they should've told everyone before the release.

 

Haha. CM7 has so many options. I'm finding something new every day. I really like seek by holding the volume feature. It even works with Pandora which is very convenient.

 

This is THE phone that I will upgrade to. Once the price is right I will drop money on it. Also like you stated, my Vibrant has been good so far but I would like a faster phone for faster web page loading.

 

I'm taking my G2x back tomorrow. gonna wait to choose between The HTC sensation or the galaxy II

 

^Probably a good idea. Modaco and CM_Arcee are saying that the LG G2x Gingerbread leak they have is a piece of crap. I guess LG still needs to catch up to the other companies when it comes to programming for Android. I'm sure CM7 will fix most of LGs issues but if they have a crappy base to begin with, then it'll turn a lot of devs off for sure. Right now, they're trying to figure out the battery polling that LG implemented. Apparently, its not reading the correct battery level at all and they're having a hard time getting it to work.


The rumor is, the Galaxy S II will be coming to T-Mobile. As far as future HTC devices go, a lot of devs are planning to avoid them due to the bootloader issue. Unless of course, its not that hard to bypass.

 

Oh wow. Gingerbread 2.3.4 is rolling out to the Nexus phones. Gmail video chat is included. So that was their "surprise" today.

https://twitter.com/#!/googlenexus/s...07554831806464


http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/201...oid-phone.html


http://youtu.be/zJAiH5-64sI

 

ya the HTC sensation has been out in Europe for a a week or two and I figured by June when it's release here somebody will have hacked the bootloader. supposedly the g2 couldn't be perm rooted and it got done. just takes time.

galaxy II s looks like a great phone. it's definitely higher on my list than the sensation. though the sensation has some impressive stats.

as far as the g2x....I'm not all that impressed with it. it is smoother than my g2, but not by much. there is lag when changing screens or loading apparently drawer or other things. not the kind of thing I was expectiing from a dual core. the ips display is just ok. my screen flickers all the time too. maybe bug with the hardware, but not cool. I wish the screen was bigger. the battery life us much better than my g2 though. I can last more than 24 hrs with 4g, bt, wifi, and autosync on. overall, not a bad phone. just not living up to the hype, IMO.

 

oh, forgot to mention that opera 11 on the g2x is quite awesome. super fast and responsive.

 

well, i bought the G2x today and honestly speaking im not really impressed with it. ill give it some time, but if i don't like it by next week im returning it.

 

^that's the same thing I said.

 

You should get the Nexus S. Speaking of the Nexus S, get the official Gingerbread 2.3.4 download now:

http://www.androidcentral.com/androi...medium=twitter

 

well i was thinking about the Galazy S 2 when it comes out.

 

lol i didn't read your post before that.

 

Oh in that case, yeah I would wait for the Galaxy S II. Thought you needed a phone right now. lol.

 

when is the Galaxy S II expected to be released?
I need to jump from AT&T and Apple in the next month or so.

 

they say sometime in the summer but not a definite day yet.

 

Yeah no definite date yet. If you don't care about your phone being subsidized and are staying with AT&T, you can order the international version and it will work on AT&T 3G bands as it is Quad band 3G as confirmed by Clove UK and Samsung's website. It is pretty expensive though, around $800 with shipping. It won't work on T-Mobile 3G as it is missing the 1700 3G band.

 

yea ill wait if it comes out for T-mobile.

 

Anyone try the HBO Go app yet? Just came out today for Android and iOS. Doesn't seem to work for original Droid and Time Warner subscribers.

 

LOL ... that is a real time saving trick....CM7 turns your phone into a feature creature! And I just updated to the latest build so its even worse!
I can say that the phone is faster less laggy and I overclocked it and turned up the backlight to see how it would act... its hella fast and I've been using it all day and I'm at 70% with 6hrs off the charger... we will see how long it lasts...

 

That's hella frush!

I'm using the same calendar and battery widgets... FTW!

 

I've read that they expect it to, so I'm going to hold out as long as I can as well.

I was hoping for an iPhone 5 in June since I've become accustom to the UI over the last 3 years. However, a summer release looks pretty unlikely at this point, and the iPhone 4 (and AT&T, for that matter) is superior in almost no regard to the competition, so a change it is.

 

Can't get it to work on ATT 3G iOS in Miami. Maybe better luck with Wifi but it times out when you start the video and pops up a message that there's an error that they'll try to fix. Amazing app with tons of content. We're taking every episode of Sopranos, The Wire, Entourage, Band of Brothers, Generation Kill, sports series, and some movies like Avatar and Sherlock Holmes. But I can't watch jack.

 

I want to try it out but I gotta wait for my bros to get out of school so I can get our username and pw. lol. Hopefully, they know what it is. 3G works perfectly when I stream the basketball games from those flash sites so I'm hoping it'll be the same for this app.

 

Well I figured it out after going to Charter's website. Unfortunately, I could not get it work at all. It kept giving me the error "You have exceeded the number of household accounts allowed to stream" even though I'm the only one using it. Also, every time I try to log in, it asks me to create a new username even though I already created one already. It does the same thing when I'm using my laptop so Charter and HBO have to fix it. On the bright side, I found out that I have access to Epix HD's online streaming as part of our Charter cable. Now I'll wait for their Android app which is supposedly coming out soon.

Here is Epix HD running on Flash through my phone:



It keeps buffering. Might be due to my internet or I need to OC my phone. lol. Acually, when I put it in fullscreen it plays decent. Epix seems to have some good movie selections.

Image quality is not bad at all. Here it is running at fullscreen:

 

Okay after some more testing with Epix HD and flash on my phone, it works excellent at 1.2 GHz. I forgot I underclocked my phone to save some battery earlier and I am able to stream Epix movies without any issues using flash on CM7 that's not 100% fully functioning yet on the Galaxy S. Image quality is pretty good even though its not optimized for mobile. Their selection of movies are pretty good too I must say. More info about Epix HD:

http://www.epixhd.com/

 

Finally HBO Go works! lol. I guess Charter fixed something on their end. It is no longer asking me to create a user account after creating 3-5 them it finally stuck to one. Good thing I didn't name it asdf. Haha. 3G streaming also works. Quality is excellent on both 3G and WiFi. Only downside is that it won't let you stream simultaneously to multiple devices. Only one stream at a time.

 

speedemon - what clock widget is that you are using? also, what the deal with the 2 different times? lol

 

Google Talk with Video chat:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1056793

This isn't fully working yet!!! But if you want to test it out just for fun, you might have better luck. I tried it on CM7 and I was able to see my laptop's webcam on my phone but not the other way around. I couldn't hear audio and I couldn't force my Galaxy S to use my FFC.


Instructions:
- Use Root Explorer to replace the old Talk.apk with the new one that was modified from 2.3.4.
- Backup Talk.apk from your /system/app/ folder and save it somewhere.
- Copy the Talk.apk to /system/app/ folder. Change the permissions to rw-r--r--
- Push the libtalk_jni.so to /system/lib/ folder. Change permissions to rw-r--r--
- Reboot your phone
- Test video call

To revert, just replace the new Talk.apk with your backed up Talk.apk (make sure to change permissions to rw-r--r--) and delete the libtalk_jni.so file. Reboot.