Fresh Article on the OTA

[CashClay]

Sitting here in Ann Arbor, Michigan... just awaiting the arrival of my new OS. My wife has had a MOTO Droid since Nov. (Got my Eris at that time too) and I have been itching to play with 2+.... I'll post when I get it here.

 

[mtmwalrod]

anyone who got the OTA already... do you have Friendstream?

i dont see anything in the new app store about friendstream.

 

[banduraj]

i dont see anything in the new app store about friendstream.

It wouldn't be in the app store. It would be a widget on the phone you can add to one of your screens.

 

[mtmwalrod]

It wouldn't be in the app store. It would be a widget on the phone you can add to one of your screens.

hmm... just checked the HTC and Android wiggets and still saw nothing.

 

[mtmwalrod]

they also took my toggles for for wifi and 3g and replaced it with some "power control". Kinda ok, i guess.

 

[Frisco]

they also took my toggles for for wifi and 3g and replaced it with some "power control". Kinda ok, i guess.

You mean they moved menu items you'd customized?

 

[mtmwalrod]

that, and pretty sure they were widgets from the + tab, not there anymore.

 

[bjf88]

how often are you really going to use Pinch and Zoom in google maps though? i mean yes its nice but it aint like O MY GOD I NEED IT nice and as for voice to text.. just use Handcent in my honest oppinion.

This.

I find pinch to zoom "pretty", but not functional. 90% of the time, I'm using my phone one-handed and it may sounds odd, but it's just a pain to get two fingers involved. Am I just weird?

 

[mtmwalrod]

the only time i use it is for pics or very small text on the web. and yes, it is a pain to get two fingers involved

 

[banduraj]

This.

I find pinch to zoom "pretty", but not functional. 90% of the time, I'm using my phone one-handed and it may sounds odd, but it's just a pain to get two fingers involved. Am I just weird?

It doesn't matter if your going to use it or not. Why say you are providing it when in fact you are not?

 

[St33lBlu3]

"I find pinch to zoom "pretty", but not functional. 90% of the time, I'm using my phone one-handed and it may sounds odd, but it's just a pain to get two fingers involved. Am I just weird? "

Me too, so no. Unless we're the only two wierdos here...

 

[mtmwalrod]

It doesn't matter if your going to use it or not. Why say you are providing it when in fact you are not?

not seeing anything different with the lock screen either

 

[banduraj]

not seeing anything different with the lock screen either

How about voice-to-text on all text input fields or pinch-to-zoom on Google maps?

 

[mtmwalrod]

no pinch to zoom on maps and still working on the talk to text. looks like its here

 

[Frisco]

It doesn't matter if your going to use it or not. Why say you are providing it when in fact you are not?

Some people feel cheated or hoodwinked by the differences between what a device company or carrier will announce is being provided and what actually ends up in their hands.

Some come to the understanding that it is difficult to impossible for a company to be 100% dead-on about things involving several departments within; the effort and time put in to make it all happen, and the time lag between the "wish list" and the announcements and the actual making of the items/software are all huge, very huge.

What we have is quite a device, given the price especially. And those folks at HTC and Verizon are delivering on their promises as best they can in today's environment and marketing climate, in my opinion.

Relax, it's good stuff.

 

[mtmwalrod]

How about voice-to-text on all text input fields or pinch-to-zoom on Google maps?

was shoutout in the old app store? works for text but that is it. i dont see anything other than in the app store.


meant works for text mesage

 

[Gink]

It's apparently accelerating (the release numbers); I just got a call from a colleague in Oregon who received her OTA just a bit ago and is still loading in. She mentioned that her dad got his right about the same time, he had just called her from her mom's phone. He's in Idaho.

I'm in Idaho -- nothing here so far. I'm on leaked v3 though, not sure yet if that makes a difference.

 

[Frisco]

I'm on leaked v3 though, not sure yet if that makes a difference.

I've seen flat statements going both ways on that issue now.

Just today it was posted as a Verizon statement that all Eris users will get the OTA, no matter the leak or 1.5 in their device.

That followed an "official" statement from another Verizon rep that only the stock 1.5 users will receive the update and the leakers may be able to obtain it via download "at a later date."

 

[fahertyps]

got mine at 3:30 am this morning. make sure you have 25mb of free space

25MB total (phone and SD) or on the phone alone?

 

[banduraj]

25MB total (phone and SD) or on the phone alone?

Can you say what all is included?

 

[ericDylan]

they also took my toggles for for wifi and 3g and replaced it with some "power control". Kinda ok, i guess.

i have leak v3 and 'power control' is a 2.0+ stock android widget. you should still have the htc sense toggle widgets under
htc widgets>>settings

 

[dirtmouth]

i myself have friends in Las Vegas that claim to have it and "love it "
same thing with Hawaii, i got a co worker on assignment and she got it there and is currently "Amazed" with her "new" phone. My other friend works with the NBA and is in Phoenix and got the update and has nothing but great things to say about it ..............

 

[dirtmouth]

got mine at 3:30 am this morning. make sure you have 25mb of free space

and what are you running again???/ the people like to know, or atleast i would cuz i dont know.

 

[H2342]

no pinch to zoom on maps and still working on the talk to text. looks like its here

So there is no pinch zoom on maps? what?

 

[BoBiGi]

no pinch to zoom on maps and still working on the talk to text. looks like its here

Where are you finding Talk to Text? I'm not finding it......
Thanks!