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[Vibrant General] o0stryxs0o:
Are we all aware iris is siri spelled backwards.....oh we are ....good just checking
[Vibrant General] db3:
there's a great story behind iris: it was developed in only 8 hours during a hackathon last weekend. it's not very good yet, but it has a lot of promise.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
Iris

Download Iris. It is alpha and at this point just for fun.

Vlingo is another option.

Or Google Voice Search which in my opinion is no different than siri.
[Vibrant General] MStrawder:
+1 to Vlingo. Used it back when I had my BB and used it since I got Android. Voice search, dial, reads my messages while I'm driving. Love the ability to yell at the phone to wake it up and have it do what I need, totally hands-free.
[Vibrant General] teddyv:
i would be very supprised to see anythink like siri work properly on android. i;ve tried several apps mentioned here, and most seem far too laggy to really be of any use.... and that is if the app doenst crash on you. speektoit was insain on craching last i tried it....

i have my doubts siri actually works as good as the comercial, the jury is still out for me till i get my hands on one to test it...
[Vibrant General] dan0zone:
ALL these apps ,including Siri, depends on Really good data connection... so, yes if your data connection is poor, it will seem laggy .... so far speaktoit seems really good (TO me ) , but like i said, they all depend on a great data connection... best be,t try them on a wifi connection ....

PS .. I take great offence with you saying "i would be very supprised to see anythink like siri work properly on android ".... fact is google voice search ,an app built in to all android phones, does all that siri does plus more, and it is well integrated into the OS ... the only difference is voice search will not answer you with voice ,but with text.. its been around long before siri just not popular ,but once again ,this is why Jobs and his products were so successful ... He didn't invent the wheel , but he knew how to convince the masses that he redesigned and streamlined it , and took full credit for its existence...

SO please don't put down the android OS, it is still young and growing, to the point that Jobs feared it ...
[Vibrant General] ali1276:
Actually I disagree if you use siri you will find it is much better than google voice search and cooler as well. I am not dissing Android, bit could u tell google voice search "will u marry me" and it will tell you that's weird.
[Vibrant General] dan0zone:
Like I said ... The guy took what was already there and made it "COOLER " ,so now its the next best thing... its like video calling, doesn't sound as cool as "face time-ing"......

Back to on topic ... all of the above apps works great .. maybe even better than siri, but we will never know of siri bugs, because as you know, negative feedback about apple products never last long in apple forums or on the net ...
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
How is that useful for anything but novelty?

Let me guess: You have about 20 different sound boards on your phone, and a family guy wallpaper. Your ringtone is the sound of a fart. And you waste hours each day playing the "moron test" app.
[Vibrant General] larryvand:
Here are 3 great voice assistants for Android with review videos on all 3...

EVA voice assistant for Android

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bzoyURulXNU

Download EVA FREE from Android market

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bulletproof.voicerec.intern

Jeannie Voice Assistant for Android

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TRk-fdiqqSA

Download Jeannie FREE from Android Market

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pannous.voice.actions.free

Speaktoit Voice Assistant for Android

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=myE498nyfGw

Download Speaktoit FREE from Android market

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.speaktoit.assistant

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Siri ONLY runs on a dual core iPhone4S. Siri would suck on a single core iPhone4. Siri needs mega horsepower and even in the iPhone4S it's laggy. The point is that if you try any of the Android voice assistants, the more horsepower you have to throw at it, the faster it will respond. So don't try and compare a single core phone and expect to be the same as a dual core one.
[Vibrant General] dan0zone:
Well iPhone 4s with dual core and a little bit of multitasking ( if one can call it that) , and behold it has the same issues that other dual core real multitasking phones are suffering form ....

Look at some of the settings being turned off or tweaked, to extend battery life ...... siri.

www.todaysiphone.com/2011/10/how-to-improve-battery-life-on-the-iphone-4s/
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
1. Iris is pretty terrible, imo.

2. Vlingo is good, I recommend it.

3. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Siri makes voice actions look like dirt. They aren't even that comparable, imo.

Sent from my HD7 using Board Express
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
go to a carrier store and try a 4s. It works as well a the commercials. The fact that you doubt something that takes 5 minutes to test in one of 3 carrier stores (here) is laughable.

Sent from my HD7 using Board Express
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Additionally, the synthesized voice on android is markedly worse than on iOS or WP.

Sent from my HD7 using Board Express
[Vibrant General] getontarget:
Apple really really needs to fix siris old school GPS voice. I think its the worst in that regard. Otherwise from what I hear, apple created quite the database of responses and actions for siri.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradliix:
Right, I was using MIUI for a while and got bored, so I reverted back to a official firmware JVT to be exact. But I had a problem, my internet didn't work although wifi was fine. also when taking pictures they store on the phone and i can view them via file manager but they do not show in gallery or even when ive review photos from the camera. AND my music player will not open :(

So I flashed Darkys ROM 10.2 FE thinking that it was the ROM but i've still got the same problems

Can anyone help?

Please :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syamsoul:
flash with repartion on use 512 pit
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradliix:
already tried that, quite a few times now :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrei16ro:
first try a cleaning script then install Darky Resuraction. I hope that will work for you.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] asatnik11:
Are you watching live? This phone looks awesome! Too bad they're waiting to the end of the presentation to tell us what networks it will run on in the US.....

http://youtube.com/android
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PoisonWolf:
No mention of hardware acceleration....I'm very disappointed quite honestly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] GuestK00468:
I could care less about the phone...Loving icecream sandwich though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Krooked22:
that phone will run beautifully with the Exynos

Smoothest cell phone experience ever
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] lookitzjohnny:
i like the video recording. timelapse and taking photos while recording!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] asatnik11:
Did I miss it at the beginning or did they not even tell us what carriers the device will support in the US??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PoisonWolf:
Time to join the SGS2 bandwagon soon....:D

This was an underwhelming presentation in terms of making a choice between the phones.

What baffles me is why Google continues to work whilst not bothering about trying to at least get HW acceleration on their "flagship" phones or the idealistic version of what every Google Phone should aspire to.

Now I understand why they didn't bother putting a more powerful GPU in there....cause it's not even going to be used 90% of the time, only in games.

Geez.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] LpSk8r:
Loving ice cream Sandwich. Only thing i would want is the notification led it has, other than that im. Good but sadly i doubt we will get ice cream on this device. It eliminates the need for touchwiz and tmo apps, like visual voicemail. Its like the best ui. I think its just and exclusive for the nexus and beyond :(

Sent from planet neblon in the 2nd region of the samsung989 galaxy
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Killbynature:
Its penta-band phone. So I am guessing you can go to your bestbuy and buy the phone. Like the nexus S i hope. I was so impressed with icecream sandwich ill be picking up a hspa+ galaxy nexus. Something about no buttons is sexy to me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] asatnik11:
Is that based on credible source or rumor?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Mitallust:
Penta-band HSPA+ and a LTE version as well. Verizon will be getting it first, and then I assume all the rest of the major carriers will follow very shortly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] LpSk8r:
Touchwhiz is going to make icecream pointless. Because u know samsung is going to want it on there, as well as tmo gonna want they bloatware too

Sent from planet neblon in the 2nd region of the samsung989 galaxy
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PikkonX:
Hmm, that's what I was thinking too. ICS already duplicates many of the features of Touchwiz, but there's still quite a bit that Samsung needs to do to their skin to bring it up to date with ICS. I hope Samsung has been working on that over the past few months, or Galaxy users will have a looong wait before the update is available. Noticeably absent from the conference was any mention of the supposed upgrade agreement with the carriers that Google mentioned a few months ago.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PoisonWolf:
Scratch what I said guys. This is my next phone now. :D

Check the following out. It wasn't at the presentation, but it's on their website.

WHY ON EARTH DIDNT THEY PRESENT THIS.

Found here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikeb85:
That is why its the nexus there is not any bloat and it is vanilla android no touchwiz
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iPathik:
I am keeping my Galaxy S2, it's not that different from Galaxy Nexus and i am sure we'll get a port of ICS soon :) something about the design of the S2 is not making me go crazy about the Galaxy Nexus...it was as appealing to me as the S2 was at launch and ICS is freakin hot! i cant wait for a port on the S2...i know it can easily run it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
keeping all Galaxy Nexus topic in 1 place

please continue discussion there http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1309460
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themapleboy:
can anyone explain to me why i cannot install flash from the market? or perhaps link me to a workaround. thanks in advance.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pvtjoker42:
do you have your lcd density at anything other than stock?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themapleboy:
Not sure what stock is, but i had it set to 240 at the time. Seems to be more dependant on what rom i have flashed.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pvtjoker42:
Yeah, 240 is stock so it's not that.
[Motorola Droid 3] The-Captain:
Is android 4.0 coming to the droid 3 or is anyone making a rom of it?
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html

All we have to do is make it work on our phone.
[Motorola Droid 3] patfactorx:
Plz sir all I want is the camera app.
[Motorola Droid 3] bfranclemont:
after just watching the ICS unveil with Galaxy Nexus.... I want it all!!
[Motorola Droid 3] Javier78:
I'm not too sure how useful a system dump from an ICS AVD will be, but I'll post it here in a few minutes. :D

EDIT: I'm getting parsing errors. I've never extracted apps from an AVD, so I'm not sure if this is normal. You would think it would at least get to the install screen. Oh well, here's the dump: http://www.mediafire.com/?oogc8yhwj415xyn
[Motorola Droid 3] Androidsims:
It will come in the form of Cyanogenmod.
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
I'm downloading everything from Google atm. But it'll take me about another hour or two (thank you Baylor ****ernet!) before I can comb through everything.
[Motorola Droid 3] The-Captain:
Nice!
[Motorola Droid 3] rvschuil:
In time. In time. First they need to release the AOSP version of ICS.
[Motorola Droid 3] tcrews:
Doesn't help make a good ROM as any rom based off an emulator image is going to have issues.

What they released is an emulator image to help you when developing apps. It's an SDK (Software Development Kit) and not very useful to ROM building.
[Motorola Droid 3] Dri94:
whats AOSP in lamens terms?..

i think they will. Droid 3 was sold out for weeks (atleast in florida). so its a popular device. They wont leave us out, i think we will get all the features except the NFC as it isnt supported on our phones
[Motorola Droid 3] dco717:
I want the keyboard
[Motorola Droid 3] jojo4747:
AOSP translates to Android Open Source Project, however I am not sure what the difference is between sdk and aosp as far as development is concerned
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...eam-cm9-will-arrive-when-the-ics-source-does/
[Motorola Droid 3] spunker88:
Sounds like the newly launched Droid Razr will get ICS in early 2012:

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/10/motorola-droid-razr-to-receive-ics-update-in-2012/

I imagine this means the Bionic will get it as well since its similar spec'd to the Razr (both have 1GB RAM), and unless RAM is an issue we should get it on the Droid 3.

Or else we will have to wait for a 3rd party ROM to do the job once the ICS source is released, if its possible with the locked bootloader. The OG Droid runs Gingerbread on only 256MB of RAM, ICS will probably run on 512MB of RAM without all the bloat of an OEM rom.
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
Hey brobeans. Just sayin, every Moto phone with 1GB of RAM has 512MB exclusively for webtop. That means Android never touches it unless it's in webtop mode. So those phones are actually identical to our D3.
[Motorola Droid 3] tcrews:
Easy. SDK's are for software development (apps). It is support for coding apps on Android. Each version of the OS gets an SDK as new API's are added or updated, etc... It's only useful for writing apps for the version OS the SDK matches.

Software Development Kit - build apps

AOSP is the source code to the Android OS (ROM). It is what is used for those that compile ROMs from source (most devs seem to either modify the stock ROM off the phone or copy CyanogenMod's source tree and not Google's). Android Open Source Project is where the ROM source code is and you can use this to build ROMs (though you need a lot more than just AOSP).

Android Open Source Project - build roms.
[Motorola Droid 3] beard0:
Forget ice cream sandwich..when are we getting jelly beans?? :D

/droid3
[Motorola Droid 3] The-Captain:
Haha
[Motorola Droid 3] jellman:
lol i was hoping the name would be jell-o as that is my nick name damn lol
[Motorola Droid 3] modal realism:
That's not completely true.

Webtop doesn't run 24/7 and only uses that 512mb of RAM when it IS running. So those phoes are NOT identical to our D3. There is a huge difference in speed between the D3 and Bionic when switching tasks and such. That is indicative of different RAM sizes when the rest of the phone is the same.

To the OP:

The OMAP 4x series SoC is the reference platform for ICS. It will get ported to the OMAP devices very quickly; you'll see it available via CM9 before Motorola pushes an update though.
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
If I implied webtop always runs, I didn't mean to.

To be more clear:

Webtop has 512mb exclusively set aside for it.

When webtop is not running, the phone still only has 512mb.
[Motorola Droid 3] spunker88:
Well I found out the Nexus S is getting ICS and it has only 512MB of RAM so we shouldn't have any hardware limitations on the Droid 3.
[Motorola Droid 3] MyNarwhalBacon:
100% on the money. At an earlier Google conference it was stated that phones sporting the our OMAP4 processors will be getting ICS due to nividias 4g conflicts with their processors. We will see ICS on here and probably Jello or whatever the next iteration will be as well. CM9 will come before Motorolla. Agreed.
[Motorola Droid 3] hikewithmike:
I can't source the link, i think it was phandroid, but Cyanogen has stated that they won't develop CM9 until the ICS source code is released, which Google states that they will make it available when the Galaxy Nexus begins shipping (November-ish). Hopefully by then there is a stable release of CM7 for the Droid 3, making it (theoretically) much easier to have a stable CM9 ROM developed quickly.
[Motorola Droid 3] lordgodgeneral:
It'll be next year before we see any working CM9 builds. When gingerbread source was released it was still 2-3 months for all the code to get worked in and bugs worked out before the first stable RC of CM7 came out.
[Motorola Droid 3] The-Captain:
Good point.
[Motorola Droid 3] dmc_universe:
I’m affraid 4.0 need at least 1GB RAM...
[Motorola Droid 3] tenchi19134:
I'm sure that there will be slimmed down versions for phones and full sized versions for tablets.
[Motorola Droid 3] bfranclemont:
That's an obvious statement due to screen size.
[Motorola Droid 3] modal realism:
To be even more clear:

I did not infer from you that webtop always runs. I was, however, pointing out that you are wrong about the webtop phones only having access to 512MB of RAM. I've done development work on the Atrix before, it has 1GB of RAM available except when Webtop is running. :)

Reason this out: Why is the Atrix and Bionic far less laggy than the Droid 3 when switching tasks? Do you think it's magic fairy dust? :)

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Google has publicly stated differently. There's nothing about ICS that needs more memory than Honeycomb. If anything, with the full hardware-rendered UI, it will require LESS RAM.
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
My bad. I haven't heard otherwise on the web, so I've only gone by what I've seen most often. Good to have that cleared up by someone who's done some work with it.
[Motorola Droid 3] The-Captain:
It looks like the Bionic is getting the update, so we should get it.

Please thank me if I helped.
[Motorola Droid 3] coreless88:
I think all the Droids in the market will get the update to ICS eventually.

Thank you god, for giving us the Cyanogen Team =]
[Motorola Droid 3] sr20s13:
I don't care if its stock ics, cm7 (and stable) or cm9 as long as I can get rid of all these stupid blur/verizon apps ill be happy. It will make the 512mb of ram alot more useful since it wont be taken up by these dumb apps. I wonder if Verizon will ever think about not having these dumb preloaded apps, or at least making them uninstallable. But yeah hate blur and it needs to be gone.
[Motorola Droid 3] The Solutor:
To be honest almost anything is less laggy than the D3, D2 global included.
[Motorola Droid 3] Yonnor:
False, my D3 has been a beast since I got it at release and its only gotten snappier for me since.

Debloated + ROM'd and this baby is even faster.

morse coded via my DROID 3
[Motorola Droid 3] The-Captain:
Mine is super fast too.

Please thank me if I helped.
[Motorola Droid 3] The Solutor:
I have both phones here, side by side, the D3 is even flashed with the Chinese rom which is faster than the verizion ones, and still manage to keep up with the D2g, and both phones are way less snappier than the Desire Z I used for almost one year.
[Motorola Droid 3] doogald:
I had the Bionic for 12 days, and exchanged it for the D3. I see no difference in performance at all. Both stock, not a bit of lag. I think I saw a home screen redraw once, on both phones, and it was done before I could blink. This phone is fast. My last phone had some lag, and would often lag when trying to scroll items in an app (missing the scroll often, thinking instead I had tapped, so opening an item.) That was frustrating. That *never* happens on the D3. In fact, this is more responsive than my iPod Touch 4G, which everybody tells me is supposed to be so much better than Android.
[Motorola Droid 3] The-Captain:
I think urs is messed up or something. Mine is a lot faster than my Droid Incredible.

Ikr, these high end android phones put it to shame and other Apple products for that matter.

Please thank me if I helped.
[Motorola Droid 3] The Solutor:
I don't mean the phone is slow, but is definitely not what one expects from a dual core phone, it's barely on par with the D2g (even in the benchmarks for the record), but is not silky like a good brand phone.

Not different that the impression I had from the milestone when I get it with it's first (terrible) firmware.

BTW you can see it in a lot of comparison present on youtube, so no, my phone is not messed up.

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To place in shame the iphones, my P800 (the first true smartphone) from 2002 is more than enough :D
[Motorola Droid 3] Yonnor:
I don't really care for others comparisons.

While they maybe valid, I've experienced nothing short of amazing from my Droid 3, so no matter what anyone else says I will take my own hands-on experience over that.

Even before I was rooted and debloated I had ZERO issues. I'm glad I got this phone, I love it.
[Motorola Droid 3] The Solutor:
When you see with your eyes a comparison are still your eyes that are comparing the phones.
[Motorola Droid 3] Camspanners:
Youtube link? Im curious which ones you're referring to, I've compared some phones in person and my d3 feels blazing
[Motorola Droid 3] jjhiza:
Here's an update from Android Central from today. Check it out…should make a lot of you very happy! :)

http://m.androidcentral.com/will-my...wich?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
[Motorola Droid 3] The-Captain:
It did, can't wait to get it!

Please thank me if I helped.
[Motorola Droid 3] The Solutor:
Look at this video for example, look what happen scrolling a big web page on both phones. or scrolling the photo gallery or zooming a photo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQwZkFMDqw4
[Motorola Droid 3] spunker88:
I'd say its a good assumption. The Razr, Bionic and Droid 3 have similar enough hardware (TI OMAP based),that is shouldn't take much more work for Motorola to port the work they've done with the Razr ICS update to the Bionic and Droid 3.

Will Android 2.3.x receive any updates now that 4.0 is out? This could also be a deciding factor for some phones.
[Motorola Droid 3] lordgodgeneral:
Well technically they could upgrade as far as 2.3.7 as that's as far as gingerbread has gone
[Motorola Droid 3] GoogleAndroid:
I blame the Blur gallery, which is terrible. It isn't like that with the stock gallery.
[Motorola Droid 3] The Solutor:
On the HTC phones there isn't a single stock app anything is customized by HTC, the difference is that the HTC coders are professionals wile the Motorola ones are amateurs.

BTW you can see a different level of smoothness in almost any area, scroll a long list of emails or a webpage and you will see the difference, not sure if the OMAP cpu has a part on that or not, but the different smoothness was present even at the time of D1 and MS1 v.s. (say) the Nexus one, even if the raw power was almost the same.
[Motorola Droid 3] jjhiza:
To the OP's origional question…the future of OTAs looks bleak today. Check this out, straight from Moto's mouth…they only have a handful of devices listed for the ICS update, and the D3 isn't on the list! Guess what is though? That's right…the Bionic. If this holds true, it's one epic fail for mankind…or at least those of you who aren't rooted. Me, I'll get my AOSP ICS eventually, and probably well before the Bionic does! ;)

https://supportforums.motorola.com/...ades?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews