[General] Fully Arabic Android Phone @ Xcite

[Burhan Khalid]

Its working fine - that's how I knew about the Arabic because I stood there playing with it and noticed the Arabic in settings / locale.

You can actually go and play with it yourself.

Here's some more info:

"The i5700 is the first Android smartphone to support the DivX video codec, thanks in part to its speedy 800MHz CPU.  The 13.2mm thick handset features a 3.5mm headphone jack and a large 1500mAh battery, as well as the full suite of Google services."


Regards,
--
Burhan Khalid

On 28 Dec 2009, at 22:33, Majed B. wrote:

> Then I suggest we stalk XCite stores selling the Galaxy and wait for
> someone to buy it, then you can "borrow" the ROM!
> 
> Or if the device is working fine in the store, can't you just pretend
> to be "testing" it? :p
> 
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Burhan Khalid <burhan.khalid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Don't get disheartened - there were separate options to change the keyboard and others to change the complete UI language.
>> 
>> That was the first thing I checked. I'm trying to find the ROM for that device so I can port it to the Hero and see what's what; but so far coming up empty.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Burhan Khalid
>> 
>> On 28 Dec 2009, at 19:08, Majed B. wrote:
>> 
>>> I would never use an Arabic UI. I get lost in all that. I just want
>>> the keyboard, when I need it...
>>> 
>>> If they're going to do it like Garmin, where you have to change the
>>> system language and have everything in the same language, then the
>>> hell with it!!
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Burhan Khalid <burhan.khalid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I seem to recall it was 1.6, but believe me - when I say fully
>>>> Arabized - its fully Arabic, interface, labels, etc everything.
>>>> 
>>>> I'll try to get a screenshot of it.
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Burhan,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any idea which version of Android is installed on it? If it's 1.5,
>>>>> then it could be Samsung's doing, but if it's 2.0 I suspect that it
>>>>> should have Arabic natively.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for the tip!
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Burhan Khalid <burhan.khalid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As the subject states - last weekend I wandered into Xcite @ Avenues
>>>>>> and I found the Samsung i5700 on sale. Nothing dramatic about that -
>>>>>> except its fully Arabic - which was a surprise to me because there
>>>>>> have been no native Arabic implementations for Android that I have
>>>>>> been able to Google my way to. Maybe this is something Samsung did in
>>>>>> house?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Anyway - worth looking into if Arabic was holding you back from Android.
>>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>>       Majed B.
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