@dgtlber Evo 4G *3G/4G capability * Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ QSD8650 (1GHz) processor * 4.3” capacitive display with pinch-to-zoom and tactile feedback * World-class HTML browser – bandwidth and quality that rival that of netbooks * Android 2.1, with access to more than 30,000 apps on Android Market * GoogleTM mobile services including Google SearchTM, Google MapsTM, Google TalkTM, GmailTM, YouTubeTM , and syncs with Google CalendarTM * Access to Google Goggles™ to search with pictures instead of words * Sprint Navigation, with turn-by-turn driving directions and 3D maps * Updated HTC Sense, award-winning user experience, which includes Friend Stream to integrate Facebook, Twitter and more into a single flow of updates * Visual voicemail * Messaging – personal and business email, IM and text messaging * 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot capability – connects up to eight Wi-Fi enabled devices * 4G data speeds (WiMAX) – peak download speeds of more than 10 Mbps; peak upload speeds of 1 Mbps; average download speeds of 3-6 Mbps. * 3G data speeds (EVDO Rev A.) – peak download speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps; peak upload speeds of 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds of 600 kbps-1.4 Mbps. ENTERTAINMENT * 8MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash and 1.3MP front-facing camera * High-quality video streaming and downloads at 3G and 4G data speeds * Capture and share HD-quality video (720p) from your phone * Output pictures, slides and videos in HD quality (720p) via HDMI cable (sold separately) * Live video sharing with Qik * Built-in kickstand for hands-free viewing * Media player with 3.5mm stereo headset jack * FM radio and Amazon MP3 store * Sprint applications including Sprint TV® and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile(SM) * Bluetooth® 2.1 with A2DP Stereo and EDR * Built-in WiFi®: 802.11 b/g * Digital compass, G-Sensor, proximity sensor, light sensor, GPS * Expandable memory: 8GB microSD card included; supports up to 32GB SPECIFICATIONS: * Dimensions: 4.8″ x 2.6″ x .5″ (LxWxT) * Weight: 6 ounces * Main display: 4.3” WVGA (800×480) 65K colors * Standard removable 1500mAh Lithium (Li-on) battery * Memory: 1GB ROM, 512MB RAM
"...specs to run 3.0, demanding a minimum of a 3.5-inch display, a 1GHz processor, and 512MB of RAM..."
Engadget continues to speak Fragmentation.. I don't see why you continue to try and spread this when Android is doing exactly what Apple, Microsoft and every other OS does.
Devices have a life span, you can't run Windows 7 on an outdated machine, you can't run the new iOS on the original iphone. So what's the difference?
They're just making sure Android devices don't perform poorly, like some of those complaining because of the new iOS on their iphone 3G..
@dgtlber I'm hoping Droid Incredible gets 3.0 when it releases (or sometime there after) because I just received mine today and I have yet to even activate it... I know the Evo has very simliar (though somewhat better) specs as Incredible. I had to switch from my HTC Touch Pro ASAP before I went crazy...
I know the feeling and this is Gingerbread we are talking about.
Froyo 2.2 already has features that iOS wish it had. Dont believe me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8unC9bA4O8 This is craziness and thats 2.2 can you imagine what 3.o will do and look like.
@elijahblake Exactly, then Windows is VERY Fragmented: Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and Servers. Who gives a Damn about it? Why this is not Breaking News for Microsoft? Somebody wants to run Win 7 on a PC designed to run Win 95? Technology MOVES ON, you CANT use OLD hardware FOREVER.
@elijahblake i was completely set on buying a WinPho7 launch device but seeing how quickly Android is being updated is getting me extremely excited... pretty obvious that no one else can match them in terms of pushing their OS to the next level and if Gingerbread comes anywhere close to the aesthetic beauty of WinPho7 then this may very well get my business.
Although I get your analogy, you can't really compare it to Windoes that's a desktop OS. Yes, I'm pretty sure most software coming out these days doesn't support Windows 95 or 98, each OS got at least 5 - 8 years of a good run of upgrades (except Windows ME... worst POS ever) versus the mobile space where an OS is lasting less than 5 years. That's my perspective anyways...
@Beatnik Agreed. Apple cuts off old versions of their hardware as soon as stuff isn't going to work, Windows hardware gets old and dated by default, as Android does.
That said... Google wasn't doing a very good job at getting every phone maker on the same page about updates... but now that they're giving out minimum system requirements? This fragmentation issue will all but disappear and *finally* people can stop talking about it.
@elijahblake Maybe they hate Android?, I have no problem with fragmentation, XDA developers always release ROMs that I could load, and extend software functionality (mostly HTC and Motorola), but nobody can be so blind to not understand that OLD Hardware wont support the newest software forever.
@SteveyAyo Well, the hyperactive pace of Android releases is going to slow down after 3.0. Google have said that they are going to switch to a once a year major revision, though there should still be smaller updates throughout the year.
You probably put it the best in the way that I wanna look at it. What we're seeing is companies like Motorola (Blur) and HTC (Sense) creating platforms that aren't easily upgradable to the latest version, and thus you have a WIDE range of devices running different versions of the OS. This is okay as long as the programs work flawlessly between them (Like running any HTML page on any browser of your choice) but we're seeing a lot of disconnection with the devices...
@elijahblake Because if this is true, which who knows if it is, there are phones being sold right now, in June in 2010 that won't run an OS upgrade released in December of 2010. That's kinda crappy .
Except people also upgrade their phones more often than desktops. Seriously, noone besides nerds and geeks upgrade their desktop every 1 or 2 years. On the other hand, the contract system and subsidies makes it very easy and tempting to upgrade your phone every 1 or 2 years. The cycle is simply shorter.
I hope so either that or dell will screw folks by putting out its replacement in december though it would be interesting to have a Dell Streak Deuce 5" 1280 x 760 screen 2 GHZ processor 2GB ram 16GB rom 2 user accessible micro-sdxc slots 8MP HD cam 8MP front facing HD cam Duel ATT/TMO support
I think you can see the theme I'm driving at. Yeah I know completely unrealistic but alas a boy has the right to dream.
You may be running win 7, but As an IT professional, I HIGHLY doubt it's anything close to perfect... That is setting the standard for Perfect at the highest spec machines that are currently out...
and you have a Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz processor with 4GB of Ram so you do have the minimum requirements for win7.
All Android is doing though is trying to further their OS, just like Windows Phone 7 is doing by setting a minimum required specs. Of course you can always root and run Gingerbread on a device that doesn't meet those requirements, but the end result isn't going to be as good...
I just don't see why Android gets all the negative attention when they're trying to move forward. I mean letting all devices that are currently out run 2.2 is not a bad thing.. And it's not Google's fault that they aren't or if they never do, it's the manufacturers and/or Carriers.
Google doesn't make money off of a single Android OS phone, they just want as many phones to have the OS as possible. It's the manufactures and carriers that want us to keep buying new phones.
Haha. Fragmentation. Planned obsolescence. 90% of all Android smartphones will be orphaned. Anyone would be wise not to buy any Android smartphone that has less than a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.
I can see all those sad consumers who've had their mid-range Android smartphones for only a few months and will be forever stuck with some leftover OS. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Class-action suit time.
@MySchizoBuddy I agree... Now don't you guys think that a 2 year commitment is waaaaaaay to long for nowadays? I paid extra money to renew for only one year, but all the third party vendors (like Amazon, Best Buy, Firefly etc) only work with 2 year contract!!! I personally can commit that I will stay 2 years or more on my carrier, but not 2 years with the same phone, he he he Is it just me?
also from the article it sounds like a lot of the issues with different interfaces are being addressed:
"Eldar also confirmed my musings about the death of third party User Interface shells like HTC Sense, MotoBlur, etc;. Android 3.0 basically kills the need for them."
not sure why android=fragmented and iphone=magical in all these stories
@SteveyAyo It is still a matter of how willing you are to invest in hardware, though. The advantage of WP7 seems to be that, because of the uniformity of devices, when new software is available, all users will be able to update immediately. With Android, it's still going to be a matter of waiting for (a) your carrier to decide whether your device is worthy of the effort, (b) your vendor to build the software, (c) your carrier to finalize and test it, (d) the official launch.
Even as Android becomes more modular, component app updates aren't going to stay very impressive when they're limited by your core OS/kernel (which still depends on driver updates from your vendor).
So if you want to buy a phone this winter and know that it won't break your heart 8 months later (*shakes his Moment at Sprint*), don't count WP7 out just yet.
@trong We all know Gingerbread will bring upon us a brand new level of awesomeness in both hardware and software. This is why I'm holding out... The HTC Vision so far sounds amazing:
1) 4.3" screen 2) Qwerty 3) Dual-core Tegra-based 800mhz processor (1.6 Ghz total) 4) Pixel Qi screen technology 5) All the other goodies (front cam...etc) 6) And most importantly, GINGERBREAD!
@Beatnik And phones move on about 10X the speed of PCs. Phones are still evolving at astronomical paces, compared to PCs, which have achieved a certain design maturity.
@repo105 The vanilla Android experience is definitely solid. Even the best launcher replacements don't do much more than allow simple customizations, like number of icon columns, number of screens, and custom icons at the bottom. It's nothing like the drastic changes HTC did to old WinMo devices.
What we're seeing is even Google is working to remove the need for custom shells--something that MS was hammered repeatedly for after WP7 was announced (and most of the critics said it spelled Android's success). So this is a sort of irony, perhaps. But in the end, it's really the best direction to go in for any mobile developer. After all, the custom mobile shell was ONLY popularized because of inefficient touch UIs. As that shortcoming is addressed, the anger becomes little more than advanced users being upset that something custom is being taken away.
The real irony is that custom GUIs, such as Sense, are actually detrimental to the advanced user who enjoys control over their device. All we've seen, left and right, over the past year, is stuff like SenseUI DRAMATICALLY slowing down the release of firmware updates (Hero, anyone?), trapping users on old software with--tada--fewer choices for customizations.
Anyone can wag a finger and point at XDA, but even XDA isn't perfect and is slow to make progress on many devices. Heh, and even XDA developers have abandoned Sense UI for vanilla Android. Custom UIs? Not yours.
@elijahblake Yeah I've seen this engadget rhetoric countless times. People need to smarter buyers. I purchased the G1, went through the one year cycle and then upgraded to Nexus One.
I could have bought the Cliq or other crap but I was knowledgeable enough. Its the people who are responsible for the fragmentation and not Google. Make your choices wisely and you'll be fine.
Be an educated buyer and do some actual research before buying rather turn into iphone goons and just got purchase one just because you have to have an expensive piece of crap.
The pace of phone development is INSANE. Can't wait for 3.0 now that the 2.2 is amazing already. MeeGo, you better cook up some marvelous shit like raekwon.
@elijahblake yeah.. I completely agree with you. There is turn of events of late. Engadget becoming anti-android in a very slight way while needless to say, Gizmodo taking direct shots at iPhone.
While Gizmodo's take is okay (after all, they were not invited to iPhone 4 launch event), beloved Engadget disappoints. Badly.
Ha! I thought that, but with 7 days I was thoroughly pissed off with Android's eccentricities and inadequacies (not to mention those of the phone) that I went to a crappy PAYG and then to the better than any Android device iPhone 4.
Really iOS just shows how "not ready for prime time" Android is. I am so glad I could return my phone for a full refund and contract cancellation.
The N9 has arrived. What we can say from our first experience is that we're in the presence of a fantastically designed device with a gorgeous AMOLED screen and some highly responsive performance.
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Oh god I'm scared. Phones getting too aWeSoMe.
@trong I mean... ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ aWeSoMe ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ
@trong i think we need an even faster release cycle. one major android per month would be perfect for us.
@trong
i bet my evo will still run it
@dgtlber Evo 4G
*3G/4G capability
* Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ QSD8650 (1GHz) processor
* 4.3” capacitive display with pinch-to-zoom and tactile feedback
* World-class HTML browser – bandwidth and quality that rival that of netbooks
* Android 2.1, with access to more than 30,000 apps on Android Market
* GoogleTM mobile services including Google SearchTM, Google MapsTM, Google TalkTM, GmailTM, YouTubeTM , and syncs with Google CalendarTM
* Access to Google Goggles™ to search with pictures instead of words
* Sprint Navigation, with turn-by-turn driving directions and 3D maps
* Updated HTC Sense, award-winning user experience, which includes Friend Stream to integrate Facebook, Twitter and more into a single flow of updates
* Visual voicemail
* Messaging – personal and business email, IM and text messaging
* 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot capability – connects up to eight Wi-Fi enabled devices
* 4G data speeds (WiMAX) – peak download speeds of more than 10 Mbps; peak upload speeds of 1 Mbps; average download speeds of 3-6 Mbps.
* 3G data speeds (EVDO Rev A.) – peak download speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps; peak upload speeds of 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds of 600 kbps-1.4 Mbps.
ENTERTAINMENT
* 8MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash and 1.3MP front-facing camera
* High-quality video streaming and downloads at 3G and 4G data speeds
* Capture and share HD-quality video (720p) from your phone
* Output pictures, slides and videos in HD quality (720p) via HDMI cable (sold separately)
* Live video sharing with Qik
* Built-in kickstand for hands-free viewing
* Media player with 3.5mm stereo headset jack
* FM radio and Amazon MP3 store
* Sprint applications including Sprint TV® and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile(SM)
* Bluetooth® 2.1 with A2DP Stereo and EDR
* Built-in WiFi®: 802.11 b/g
* Digital compass, G-Sensor, proximity sensor, light sensor, GPS
* Expandable memory: 8GB microSD card included; supports up to 32GB
SPECIFICATIONS:
* Dimensions: 4.8″ x 2.6″ x .5″ (LxWxT)
* Weight: 6 ounces
* Main display: 4.3” WVGA (800×480) 65K colors
* Standard removable 1500mAh Lithium (Li-on) battery
* Memory: 1GB ROM, 512MB RAM
"...specs to run 3.0, demanding a minimum of a 3.5-inch display, a 1GHz processor, and 512MB of RAM..."
@trong
YES! :-D I have HIGH hopes for Gingerbread. I have a 3GS and I'm so looking forward to switching when my contract ends next july.
In soviet russia, android eats you!
@princelrc85 Yay!
@dgtlber EVO Brick? Droid X FTW!
@trong
4.3" phone running a 1280x760 res?
Yeah mate!
@trong
Engadget continues to speak Fragmentation.. I don't see why you continue to try and spread this when Android is doing exactly what Apple, Microsoft and every other OS does.
Devices have a life span, you can't run Windows 7 on an outdated machine, you can't run the new iOS on the original iphone. So what's the difference?
They're just making sure Android devices don't perform poorly, like some of those complaining because of the new iOS on their iphone 3G..
@dgtlber I'm hoping Droid Incredible gets 3.0 when it releases (or sometime there after) because I just received mine today and I have yet to even activate it... I know the Evo has very simliar (though somewhat better) specs as Incredible. I had to switch from my HTC Touch Pro ASAP before I went crazy...
@trong
Gingerbread gets a date already??? Man... crazy. Will the Dell Streak qualify for Gingerbread?? What do you guys think???
Head is going to explode in 3... 2... 1....
@trong
I know the feeling and this is Gingerbread we are talking about.
Froyo 2.2 already has features that iOS wish it had. Dont believe me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8unC9bA4O8
This is craziness and thats 2.2 can you imagine what 3.o will do and look like.
@Plazmic Flame
yes, it will as will any device with:
3.5" screen
1 ghz processor
512MB Ram
I think google releases nexus 2 with ginger bread 3.0
@elijahblake
Exactly, then Windows is VERY Fragmented:
Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and Servers. Who gives a Damn about it? Why this is not Breaking News for Microsoft?
Somebody wants to run Win 7 on a PC designed to run Win 95?
Technology MOVES ON, you CANT use OLD hardware FOREVER.
@elijahblake i was completely set on buying a WinPho7 launch device but seeing how quickly Android is being updated is getting me extremely excited... pretty obvious that no one else can match them in terms of pushing their OS to the next level and if Gingerbread comes anywhere close to the aesthetic beauty of WinPho7 then this may very well get my business.
@Beatnik & @elijahblake
Although I get your analogy, you can't really compare it to Windoes that's a desktop OS. Yes, I'm pretty sure most software coming out these days doesn't support Windows 95 or 98, each OS got at least 5 - 8 years of a good run of upgrades (except Windows ME... worst POS ever) versus the mobile space where an OS is lasting less than 5 years. That's my perspective anyways...
@Beatnik
Agreed. Apple cuts off old versions of their hardware as soon as stuff isn't going to work, Windows hardware gets old and dated by default, as Android does.
That said... Google wasn't doing a very good job at getting every phone maker on the same page about updates... but now that they're giving out minimum system requirements? This fragmentation issue will all but disappear and *finally* people can stop talking about it.
@elijahblake
Maybe they hate Android?,
I have no problem with fragmentation, XDA developers always release ROMs that I could load, and extend software functionality (mostly HTC and Motorola), but nobody can be so blind to not understand that OLD Hardware wont support the newest software forever.
@elijahblake Really? I am running win 7 PERFECT on a 6 yr old dell 9100 with a P3 chip and 4GB of ram.
Also on a old Toshiba sat notebook.
Android i and will be fragmented for a another year or so. That's why I went with the iPhone 4.
Google and phone companies want to sell you a new phone every 6 months.
I will wait for full LTE in 2011 and see if I jump to android.
Wow, buy a new Droid in August and by October you cant run the newest OS, FAIL
@trong me no like that cookie (1GHz min) -.- come on guys, give us more battery life
@SteveyAyo Well, the hyperactive pace of Android releases is going to slow down after 3.0. Google have said that they are going to switch to a once a year major revision, though there should still be smaller updates throughout the year.
@Plazmic Flame
You probably put it the best in the way that I wanna look at it. What we're seeing is companies like Motorola (Blur) and HTC (Sense) creating platforms that aren't easily upgradable to the latest version, and thus you have a WIDE range of devices running different versions of the OS. This is okay as long as the programs work flawlessly between them (Like running any HTML page on any browser of your choice) but we're seeing a lot of disconnection with the devices...
@Beatnik lol i can't even install 2.2 on my htc hero released barely last year. i would call that a more serious case of fragmentation, buddy.
@elijahblake Because if this is true, which who knows if it is, there are phones being sold right now, in June in 2010 that won't run an OS upgrade released in December of 2010. That's kinda crappy .
@Plazmic Flame
Except people also upgrade their phones more often than desktops. Seriously, noone besides nerds and geeks upgrade their desktop every 1 or 2 years. On the other hand, the contract system and subsidies makes it very easy and tempting to upgrade your phone every 1 or 2 years. The cycle is simply shorter.
@Plazmic Flame
I hope so either that or dell will screw folks by putting out its replacement in december though it would be interesting to have a Dell Streak Deuce
5" 1280 x 760 screen
2 GHZ processor
2GB ram
16GB rom
2 user accessible micro-sdxc slots
8MP HD cam
8MP front facing HD cam
Duel ATT/TMO support
I think you can see the theme I'm driving at. Yeah I know completely unrealistic but alas a boy has the right to dream.
@gmasi12
You may be running win 7, but As an IT professional, I HIGHLY doubt it's anything close to perfect... That is setting the standard for Perfect at the highest spec machines that are currently out...
and you have a Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz processor with 4GB of Ram so you do have the minimum requirements for win7.
All Android is doing though is trying to further their OS, just like Windows Phone 7 is doing by setting a minimum required specs. Of course you can always root and run Gingerbread on a device that doesn't meet those requirements, but the end result isn't going to be as good...
I just don't see why Android gets all the negative attention when they're trying to move forward. I mean letting all devices that are currently out run 2.2 is not a bad thing.. And it's not Google's fault that they aren't or if they never do, it's the manufacturers and/or Carriers.
Google doesn't make money off of a single Android OS phone, they just want as many phones to have the OS as possible. It's the manufactures and carriers that want us to keep buying new phones.
@dgtlber
Haha. Fragmentation. Planned obsolescence. 90% of all Android smartphones will be orphaned. Anyone would be wise not to buy any Android smartphone that has less than a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.
I can see all those sad consumers who've had their mid-range Android smartphones for only a few months and will be forever stuck with some leftover OS. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Class-action suit time.
@MySchizoBuddy
I agree... Now don't you guys think that a 2 year commitment is waaaaaaay to long for nowadays? I paid extra money to renew for only one year, but all the third party vendors (like Amazon, Best Buy, Firefly etc) only work with 2 year contract!!!
I personally can commit that I will stay 2 years or more on my carrier, but not 2 years with the same phone, he he he
Is it just me?
@JK11
Android was designed to run on a wide variety of devices from low end to high end.
If you buy a High End phone with the maxed out specs it will. If you buy a backflip or other generic cheapy then what do you expect?
woot!
@elijahblake
i know seriously!
also from the article it sounds like a lot of the issues with different interfaces are being addressed:
"Eldar also confirmed my musings about the death of third party User Interface shells like HTC Sense, MotoBlur, etc;. Android 3.0 basically kills the need for them."
not sure why android=fragmented and iphone=magical in all these stories
@kamenwati That would require like a 5,000+ mAh battery or something. A ridiculous device!
@SteveyAyo It is still a matter of how willing you are to invest in hardware, though. The advantage of WP7 seems to be that, because of the uniformity of devices, when new software is available, all users will be able to update immediately. With Android, it's still going to be a matter of waiting for (a) your carrier to decide whether your device is worthy of the effort, (b) your vendor to build the software, (c) your carrier to finalize and test it, (d) the official launch.
Even as Android becomes more modular, component app updates aren't going to stay very impressive when they're limited by your core OS/kernel (which still depends on driver updates from your vendor).
So if you want to buy a phone this winter and know that it won't break your heart 8 months later (*shakes his Moment at Sprint*), don't count WP7 out just yet.
@trong We all know Gingerbread will bring upon us a brand new level of awesomeness in both hardware and software. This is why I'm holding out... The HTC Vision so far sounds amazing:
1) 4.3" screen
2) Qwerty
3) Dual-core Tegra-based 800mhz processor (1.6 Ghz total)
4) Pixel Qi screen technology
5) All the other goodies (front cam...etc)
6) And most importantly, GINGERBREAD!
@Beatnik And phones move on about 10X the speed of PCs. Phones are still evolving at astronomical paces, compared to PCs, which have achieved a certain design maturity.
@repo105 The vanilla Android experience is definitely solid. Even the best launcher replacements don't do much more than allow simple customizations, like number of icon columns, number of screens, and custom icons at the bottom. It's nothing like the drastic changes HTC did to old WinMo devices.
What we're seeing is even Google is working to remove the need for custom shells--something that MS was hammered repeatedly for after WP7 was announced (and most of the critics said it spelled Android's success). So this is a sort of irony, perhaps. But in the end, it's really the best direction to go in for any mobile developer. After all, the custom mobile shell was ONLY popularized because of inefficient touch UIs. As that shortcoming is addressed, the anger becomes little more than advanced users being upset that something custom is being taken away.
The real irony is that custom GUIs, such as Sense, are actually detrimental to the advanced user who enjoys control over their device. All we've seen, left and right, over the past year, is stuff like SenseUI DRAMATICALLY slowing down the release of firmware updates (Hero, anyone?), trapping users on old software with--tada--fewer choices for customizations.
Anyone can wag a finger and point at XDA, but even XDA isn't perfect and is slow to make progress on many devices. Heh, and even XDA developers have abandoned Sense UI for vanilla Android. Custom UIs? Not yours.
@mannyengadget My sprint premiere acct lets me swap phones yearly if I want. That being said, I might or might not. I like the way my Moment runs.
@Robbzilla
That's very nice! What is needed in order to have a Premiere account?
@elijahblake Yeah I've seen this engadget rhetoric countless times. People need to smarter buyers. I purchased the G1, went through the one year cycle and then upgraded to Nexus One.
I could have bought the Cliq or other crap but I was knowledgeable enough. Its the people who are responsible for the fragmentation and not Google. Make your choices wisely and you'll be fine.
Be an educated buyer and do some actual research before buying rather turn into iphone goons and just got purchase one just because you have to have an expensive piece of crap.
@trong
The pace of phone development is INSANE. Can't wait for 3.0 now that the 2.2 is amazing already. MeeGo, you better cook up some marvelous shit like raekwon.
@Seven2k Those are not all 2.2 features... those are beyond 2.2, coming in Gingerbread.
@elijahblake yeah.. I completely agree with you.
There is turn of events of late. Engadget becoming anti-android in a very slight way while needless to say, Gizmodo taking direct shots at iPhone.
While Gizmodo's take is okay (after all, they were not invited to iPhone 4 launch event), beloved Engadget disappoints. Badly.
@elijahblake
They speak "fragmentation" because Engadget is a iPhone fan boy site.
@elijahblake It's about timing. If my device released this Spring can't run it... vs. If your iDevice from 2-3 years ago can't. Not the same thing.
@MrFluffyThing
The Incredible matches the minimum specs from the article, so yes it should run 3.0 just fine.
@princelrc85
Ha! I thought that, but with 7 days I was thoroughly pissed off with Android's eccentricities and inadequacies (not to mention those of the phone) that I went to a crappy PAYG and then to the better than any Android device iPhone 4.
Really iOS just shows how "not ready for prime time" Android is. I am so glad I could return my phone for a full refund and contract cancellation.