Question: I am learning Java now (yay) in my spare time and have started several different tutorials. Some tutorials say to use NetBeans, some say to use Eclipse. Eventually I would like to get into Android development because i will be getting a smart phone at the end of this year.

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Answer: 
Your best bet when starting out is using a simple text editor and the command prompt to compile/run.
This is what I've found using Eclipse and Netbeans for several years:

Eclipse is bloated and not as well integrated as Netbeans which is probably because it's older.

Eclipse has a better emacs mode and has collected more tools over the years.

Netbeans has the major advantage of being 100% Java, so I can have one shared install that's used across all our platforms and users. There's no worrying about different configurations on everyone's individual systems. This is mostly across Unix platforms as Windows is not nearly as flexible.

As people have mentioned Android is using Eclipse as the officially supported development platform, but there are 3rd party plugins that work just as well in Netbeans.

Overall they're similar enough I don't have much of a problem switching back and forth.