kyler13
Android Expert
Don't forget the 8GB of onboard memory. That's a huge advantage over any Android phone to date as they all have only 256MB for app space.
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Pick up Incredible right away or wait for bugs to be fixed?
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Don't forget the 8GB of onboard memory. That's a huge advantage over any Android phone to date as they all have only 256MB for app space.
greggds
Android Enthusiast
Maybe at the current technology, it will be difficult. But, I also remember getting a computer in the mid 90s and thinking there was no way I could ever fill the 6GB on my hard drive.
No, at any technology level for a long time. The only thing that needs to be on the devices is the executables. My company makes a product that is nearly 700,000 lines of code and it takes up less than 10MB of storage (I think it is closer to 8MB). This is a huge program for mobile devices and is the exception, not the norm. Our support files can take 2-3gb. They go on the SD card on android and WinMo.
I'd be willing to be most apps on the market place take up less than 500KB.
Only haters and ill informed people spread FUD about app storage limitations on android.
Ugh.... damn... now I do feel old. I remember paying $350 extra for a 20MB hard drive in 89 because at the time computer didn't have hard drives. I thought there was no way I could ever fill it up.
BTW also paid $300+ extra for the 16 color monitor.
kyler13
Android Expert
There are reasons you want more than 256MB of ROM onboard for personal storage beyond even apps. By putting a large amount of storage of a certain type in the phone itself, you ensure consistent write and access performance for the camera compared with the large range of quality of SD currently available. Stuff like music, movies, etc where it doesn't matter a whole lot, that you can store on SD. And I'm sure you can move video and pictures to the SD as you wish.
I would think it would help HD video capture (if it ever gets it) more than anything else. I'm not sure it would help help regular camera performance, but it is more storage. I would hope that picasa would sync to the onboard stoarage so I can put my music on my SD card. I also wouldn't want to put anything I couldn't sync or have backed up somewhere else on the onboard storage incase the phone gets fried somehow.
albiewan
Android Enthusiast
I have been watching the Incredible closely the last few months and even though I love my Eris, I would grab it as soon as it hits. However, after saying that, I see that HTC is considering converting the HD2 into an Android phone. Oh boy, if I could have that 4.3" screen, 1ghz processor, etc as on the HD2 then that would be the bomb. Personally, the Incredible seems the natural heir to the Eris so I will no doubt buy it. Having been with Verizon for almost 9 years now, they don't release anything without anal testing.
kyler13
Android Expert
You don't think memory access speed impacts the time to write an image of 8 million pixels?
greggds
Android Enthusiast
One of our contributors, Stericson, loaded the multitouch app that they used to compare the multi touch on the droid to that of the Nexus1 onto the test device. He said that there was no multitouch issue
I would think it depends on the image format. It it's already compressed, no, unless you are using some crappy class 2 card.
Reginald VelJohnson
Android Enthusiast
**Shiver**... I've never been cursed by having to use a Storm (or Storm2) as my own device, but we have several of them here at work. Every time I use one, I'm ready to smash it on the floor after about 10 seconds. What a horrible, horrible phone. It literally just turned my stomach to think about spending my own money on one of those things.it's not like Blackberry trying their first ever all touch screen!
My first couple computers didn't even have hard drives... And I'm not even that old. I still remember walking into Best Buy and seeing 1 GB drives for the first time. That was a real [Keanu]Whoah...[/Keanu] moment.Ugh.... damn... now I do feel old. I remember paying $350 extra for a 20MB hard drive in 89 because at the time computer didn't have hard drives. I thought there was no way I could ever fill it up.
BTW also paid $300+ extra for the 16 color monitor.
Anyway, as for the Incredible, I won't be picking it up on launch day, but that's due solely to a contract/timing issue, not a distrust of launch models. According to my Verizon rep (well, Alltel at the time), I had one of the first HTC Touch units in the state, and it's still running fine over 2 years later, despite my best attempts to break it and brick it. I have faith in HTC's ability to make a good phone and Verizon's ability to thoroughly test it.
kyler13
Android Expert
I'm assuming you'll be able to toggle quality much like a digital camera which could require longer write times. The fact that class 2 cards are on the market and someone could install one is exactly what necessitates control of the variable. Just saying...
Or you would make the software be smart enough to handle all cases of SD cards. It doesn't get written directly to the card without being in ram first. On a thread you write uncommitted photos to the card. This would allow the camera to operate as normal without worrying about speed. Once the photo is fully committed release the memory, if you are running low on ram then you interrupt the user until we have enough available ram for another photo.
If you are looking at this from a software design perspective it isn't a big deal.
If you are looking at this from a software design perspective it isn't a big deal.
Musky
Android Expert
I hate admitting this, but I picked up this hard drive when it came out. I got a "deal" on it, but it still came to over $3,000 with tax and shipping. But I was teaching at a college at the time and really needed it.
Hard drive
Hard drive
TheSultan
Android Expert
Um, did you ever have a BB Storm?
lol that thing definitely passed some tests it shouldn't have.
"sir, shouldn't we test it's..." "NAAHH!, just put it on the shelf!!"
Has anyone heard that the Sense UI can be sluggish? I was watching a Youtube video demo of Sense UI, and the guy demo'ing it mentioned that it uses a lot of memory and can cause lags. If true, that's a huge turnoff to me. I'd rather have something more basic that doesn't hang (a Droid?) than deal with the slowdowns. I'm very bitter about unresponsiveness after using a Blackberry Storm 1 for a whole year.