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Why is this phone being released?

The Incredible 2 is even overpriced....
I usually don't whine and complain about 4g like most ppl
but i think 199 for that phone is a little too much. 99, 129, 149 maybe

But aye it's verizon....no surprises
 
Yeah, the Inc2 is a refreshed processor, larger screen, and SIM card slot that 90% of users will find totally useless. I don't get why they insist on this world phone business for SO MANY phones. I'm sure it makes it more expensive for us and ends up making the phones even more delayed than they usually are on Verizon's super-slow release schedule. Make the Blackberries have a SIM card slot, the Droid Pro, and maybe one of the bigger screened Android phones, and leave it be. That'll satisfy the travelling businessmen.
 
shadowdude777 said:
Yeah, the Inc2 is a refreshed processor, larger screen, and SIM card slot that 90% of users will find totally useless. I don't get why they insist on this world phone business for SO MANY phones. I'm sure it makes it more expensive for us and ends up making the phones even more delayed than they usually are on Verizon's super-slow release schedule. Make the Blackberries have a SIM card slot, the Droid Pro, and maybe one of the bigger screened Android phones, and leave it be. That'll satisfy the travelling businessmen.
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I would MUCH rather the Inc2 have MHL or HDMI output than a sim card slot.
 
I'm completely ignorant when it comes to Android and I've been shopping for one. I really want a Super AMOLED phone and this has the Plus. Which means this would be the phone for me if I had to buy one right away.

Does the fact that the Charge has 2gb of internal memory mean you cannot install more than 2gb of Applications? I know it comes with a 32gb SD; Do Apps install on the SD Card? I have a crappy Palm Pre and I have one App (game) alone that is 900mb. I'd hate to only have 2gb to install Applications on.

Could somebody answer this for me? I apologize I really don't know how Androids work and I'm trying to make the right purchase decision.
 
Welcome to the forums!

First - the commercial - at our forum, you don't need to apologize for asking questions or worry about being criticized as a new guy. We don't allow that criticism, if anyone does it, next to each post is a !Report button - hit that, let us know.

We were all new to Android at one time and we believe in the community helping each other - teamwork and competing opinions (expressed politely) gives the best answers in our book. :)

To answer your question:

Yes, apps can install on the SD card with modern Android (revision 2.2 (aka Froyo) on up). The Charm totally qualifies.

It's up to each app developer to set a flag to allow that feature, many do, some do not.

Here's a thing unique to Android compared to many other types of phone apps, also: the apps here are smaller.

Android is actually Linux - like you'd run on a desktop - with a special app engine called the Dalvik Virtual Machine.

With Android, apps are small, and call Linux services. The Linux services - for media handling, etc, etc, are just always there. So, the individual apps do just what they do, and call a common pool of available services.

Because they don't have to carry around all of the baggage themselves, Android apps are smaller.

Others may correct me if I'm wrong - I think typical app size on Android is like 10 MB, in general, tops. I know there are exceptions - but many apps I have don't even come close to 10 MB.

An iPhone is the opposite philosophy, for example - their apps carry around all of the code to do their job - their apps are bigger, so it's critical for them to have more memory and to sell them that way. (pretty sure the Palm is that same way)

Android doesn't need that extra memory to just work, and you can flexibly decide what SD card you might find best for you.

My phone only has 1 GB rom, 512 MB ram - I've got (I lost count) maybe 70 apps on it, no problem.

And Android comes with widgets - these are like apps, but just do their job on your desktop screen - they're live, no app to open. You can get all kinds of these gems.

Get a gmail account - it's a requirement. If you don't have one yet, do it now.

Then you can go here and explore apps if you like - https://market.android.com/

You'll find lots of great stuff for free or very inexpensively.

Hope this long-winded answer helped!!
 
Thank you for your help! That really answered my question.

I'm sure I'll be seeking a lot more advice here before I purchase my device. You all are really friendly and informative so far :)

EDIT: If anyone wants to head to my post in the Main Forum I could really use the advice.
 
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