[General] Fully Arabic Android Phone @ Xcite

[Majed B.]

I'm sure I can manage to bring 3-4 guys to cover you while you rip the
ROM off... if the guy asks, we'll tell him we're testing the phone
synchronization and tethering.

I'm serious, btw.

Are you serious? Samsung has went 1 step further and changed the
interface to a proprietary one in the name of pleasing a carrier?!?
wow! they must be very desperate!

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Burhan Khalid <burhan.khalid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, if:
>
> 1. I have the device
> 2. I have a cable
> 3. I have a laptop
> 4. Security is sleeping in Xcite
>
> 1 - 3 I can handle, if you can take care of #4 we're in! :)
>
> I'll do some more reconnaissance this weekend and see what I can figure out. Also I found out the same phone (called the Behold II) is available with a custom interface from Samsung when its released for T-Mobile, but the one in Xcite is with the Google Experience interface.
>
>
> Regards,
> --
> Burhan Khalid
>
> On 28 Dec 2009, at 22:52, Majed B. wrote:
>
>> No no Burhan, I meant, is it not possible that you extract the ROM out
>> of the device if you get it in your hands?
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Burhan Khalid <burhan.khalid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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