Thread: All Things Android

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Harry, yesterday I bought an ASUS eee transformer. I'm pretty happy with it, I got it for 14,999B complete with keyboard.

you should have bought an Ipad, no problem with sound or screen glare, which is quite common apparently on all Android devices

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Harry, yesterday I bought an ASUS eee transformer. I'm pretty happy with it, I got it for 14,999B complete with keyboard.

you should have bought an Ipad, no problem with sound or screen glare, which is quite common apparently on all Android devices

Yes, we know you only know how to use Apple and XP. And you've just once again demonstrated you know fuck all about Android.

So why do you bother, you gay retard?

the screen glare issue is present in all those Android devices, that's fact, fucking Google it

only the gay iPad is not suffering from this, but again we are not in the same price range

Originally Posted by Butterfly

the screen glare issue is present in all those Android devices, that's fact, fucking Google it

only the gay iPad is not suffering from this, but again we are not in the same price range

Well yes, you are a retard.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

retard?

recalcitrant is more to the point

plus he enjoys baiting you about the fisher price OS devices

Originally Posted by Butterfly

the screen glare issue is present in all those Android devices, that's fact, fucking Google it

why would you bother to respond to some peanut arguing that it is the OS that is responsible for sunlight readable screens - though butters' problem is more likely myopia

^ you must be suffering yourself from myopia

"android devices" should give you a fucking clue, with the keyword being "devices"

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

retard?

recalcitrant is more to the point

plus he enjoys baiting you about the fisher price OS devices

Originally Posted by Butterfly

the screen glare issue is present in all those Android devices, that's fact, fucking Google it

why would you bother to respond to some peanut arguing that it is the OS that is responsible for sunlight readable screens - though butters' problem is more likely myopia

I don't think myopia is the word. He is genuinely as thick as shit, as evinced by his woeful attempts at connecting to wifi with a registry edit and complaining about the absence of an Orientation Lock on iPad (which would surprise me) as somehow making it superior to Android devices.

He's clueless on both, which is why I fail to see why the retarded chump keeps shooting himself in the foot posting about either.

Then again, he's just as fucking ignorant about his beloved Apple devices as well.

So the simplest solution is just to remind him that he's retarded.



Added: And in fact the iPad does have Screen Orientation Lock, which confirms that the witless fag doesn't understand them either.

^ oh please, the lock must be the biggest feature of those Android devices for you to rant about it

retard, go fuck an iPhone

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ oh please, the lock must be the biggest feature of those Android devices for you to rant about it

retard, go fuck an iPhone

12 Reasons Why Android Beats the iPhone 4S

October 4th, 2011 by Avram Piltch, LAPTOP Online Editorial Director

Just call him Timmy Come Lately. At today’s big “Let’s Talk iPhone” event, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the wraps off the iPhone 4S, a next-generation smartphone with key improvements such as a dual-core processor, voice-controlled assistant, and the ability to tweet pics directly from the photo gallery. All of these features are truly groundbreaking . . . if you’re still living in 2009.
Apple enthusiasts must think that the S in the new phone’s name stands for “speedy,” but those of us who follow the smartphone industry know that letter really means “superannuated,” because this phone is still at least a generation behind its Android-based competitors. The iPhone 4S provides the strongest evidence yet that Google’s open ecosystem is much better at driving innovation than Apple’s walled garden.
Top 7 iPhone 4S “Me Too” Features

Like Columbus “discovering” the Americas thousands of years after native Americans migrated here and hundreds of years after Leif Ericson was the first European to visit, Cook wants you to get excited about the following “me too” features:

• Dual Core CPU: LG demonstrated the dual-core Optimus 2X way back last December with dual-core Android handsets becoming commonplace this spring. With Nvidia’s quad core Kal-El chip coming to phones in the next few months, the iPhone 4S will fall behind again.
• Voice Commands: I haven’t yet had the chance to test out Siri, Apple’s new voice-activated personal assistant. However, using one’s voice to perform common phone tasks is old hat. Google’s Voice Actionshave allowed you to do things like send and receive messages and search the web by voice since August 2010. In Apple’s demo, Siri appears to do a better job of combining voice recognition with text-to-speech feedback, but the concept is nothing new.
• 8-MP Camera: Android has had 8-megapixel cameras since at least April 2010 when the HTC Droid Incredible launched. Today, you can even get an Android handset with a 3D camera while Apple stands flat.
• Tweeting Directly From Photos: Apple, you’ve got to be kidding if you think the ability to send tweets directly from the iPhone 4S’s photo gallery is a breakthrough. Android users have been able to share photos or videos on Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networking app they have installed since 2009. With Android, you can even share with third-party apps like Tweetdeck.
• World Phone Capability: Apple engineers shouldn’t break their hands patting themselves on the back over global roaming with a GSM/CDMA dual-mode device. Motorola’s Droid 2 Global came out last fall.
• Left-handed Calling: The iPhone 4S has an improved antenna system, so it won’t drop calls depending on how you hold it. Tim, that’s not a feature; it’s a bug fix.
• Your Choice of Carriers: Now that Sprint has made a huge deal with Apple, you’ll be able to use the iPhone 4S on three of the four major U.S. carriers. However, Android handsets have been available on all four major carriers and smaller services like MetroPCS and U.S. Cellular for a long time.

5 Things iPhone 4S Can’t Do That Android Can

If it wasn’t bad enough that Apple wants you to drool over iPhone 4S features that Android had a year or two ago, the phone lacks some really important capabilities you’ll find in a number of Android handsets today. These include:

• 4G Speeds: Ever since the HTC EVO 4G launched on Sprint’s WiMAX network in summer 2010, we’ve seen more and more Android handsets with next-gen network support. Today, every major carrier sells 4G Android phones, including Verizon, which has half a dozen LTE handsets that can download at speeds between 10 and 20 Mbps while the 3G iPhone 4S will be lucky to pull down 1.5 to 2 Mbps. Buy your iPhone 4S with a two year contract and you’ll be stuck on a 2008-era network in 2013.
• Load Any App You Want: With iOS, developers and users are at the mercy of Apple’s standards board. With Android, there are literally dozens of app stores in addition to Google’s Android market. Want to program your own app and distribute it your friends? With Android, it’s no problem; just give your friends the install file, tell them to check the “Unknown sources” box in their settings menu, and go to town.
  
• Keyboard flexibility: If you don’t like Android’s stock keyboard, you have dozens of third party alternatives, from Swype to Better Keyboard. Better still, you can buy an Android handset with a honest-to-goodness physical keyboard. If you don’t like the iPhone’s keyboard, you’ll need to jailbreak it in order to install an alternative.
• Bigger Screens: With the iPhone 4S, you can get any screen size you want as long as it’s 3.5 inches. With the wide range of Android phones available, you can choose from tiny form factors like the Motorola Charm or huge ones like the 4.5-inch Samsung Infuse. It’s your choice, not Apple’s.
• NFC Support / Mobile Payments: With a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip, Android phones like the Samsung Nexus S and the HTC Amaze 4G can double as your wallet, allowing you to tap and pay at a growing number of retail outlets. In the future, NFC chips will also allow your phone to be used as an ID card or a keycard. Maybe then, Apple will add this promising technology to its phones.

I’m sure some future iPhone will offer 4G, a larger screen, and NFC support. At that time, we’ll probably be asked to accept Apple’s belated improvements as innovations, but Android competitors will have already moved on to the next big thing.

WTF HP?!

The TouchPad is dead in HP's books, but it seems that it still continues to live, and that Google's Android operating system has already provided it with a helping hand.

To be more precise, some of the device that have been recently started to arrive in users’ hands, following the huge price cut that HP operated to it, came with Android on board, and not with the usual webOS platform.

As one can easily imagine, customers were surprised to find their devices being powered by a different mobile platform than the one they should have been running under, yet it seems that HP has no idea on why or how this happened.

As soon as they received the TouchPad with Android on board, some developers emailed HP and asked the company to provide the kernel source for the OS flavor that shipped with the device.

However, HP’s Phil Rob, director of the company’s open-source program, responded stating that the company did not authorized the loading of Android on these devices, and that they will not send the source code.

Regarding your specific request for source code below, I must decline at the present time. HP has never authorized the distribution of any binaries for Android in association with the HP Touchpad,” he reportedly stated.

“Therefore, HP is not under any license obligation to provide any corresponding Android source code to you.

“We presently believe that some person or persons unknown may have facilitated the delivery of these Android-based units strictly against the policy and authorization of HP.”

To add fuel to the fire, the same developers spotted the Qualcomm logo at device start up, and asked some explanations on the matter, but the chip maker says that they have no connection with the TouchPad.

One thing that is certain is that strange things are happening with HP lately, with all the changes in strategy and a new CEO, yet more light on this should be shed soon, so keep an eye on this space for more.

They sneaked this fucker out without much fanfare....

Hotmail for Android

So it's not 2.4, it's 4.0 then....

Android has grown to be one of the most popular mobile platforms in the world. In fact, not long after the iPhone was announced Google came forth in a partnership with T-Mobile and HTC to release the G1 – the world’s first commercially available Android powered device. At the time, the G1 shipped with Android 1.0 which is a far cry from where things are today. Now, most devices are shipping with Android ‘Gingerbread’ 2.3 and tablets with Android ‘Honeycomb’ 3.0.
While these two platforms have been living separately for quite some time, Google has let us know that they will eventually be merging the two into a platform called Ice Cream Sandwich – otherwise known as Android 4.0. As of now we’ve seen some leaked videos of the update but we haven’t exactly seem a full official run down. Luckily, there have been many rumors that say Google will come forth with Samsung to not only announce Ice Cream Sandwich but also the Nexus Prime smartphone on October 11th. But while Samsung did confirm that they would be holding an event on this day Google stayed quite about Ice Cream Sandwich.
Well, no more. Google has recently updated their Android Developers channel with a video dubbed Android ICS Launch. However, the video doesn’t show anything besides the message “This live event will begin in 4 days, 20 hours” which lines up nicely with the October 11th Nexus Prime announcement.
So, folks, set your calendars for Ice Cream Sandwich will be officially unveiled come the 11th and keep your eyes glued to this .

the glare is an important issue, you can't deny it

I hope it will be solved eventually, and yes the specs of the Android Tabs are far better than the iPad, and so is the OS

we just need to wait for them to put their act together on the glare issue and the machine will be perfect,

Samsung and Google Delay Android Handset Launch in Wake of Steve Jobs' Death

Friday October 7, 2011 8:47 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Earlier today, Samsung and Google announced that they would be canceling a previously-scheduled event set for Tuesday at which the companies were planning to introduce the Nexus Prime, the first handset to run Google's latest "Ice Cream Sandwich" version of Android.Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall. We agree that it is just not the right time to announce a new product. New date and venue will be shortly announced.
Speculation immediately turned to the possibility that the companies delayed the launch out of respect for Steve Jobs, who passed away on Wednesday, although the companies did not offer an explanation for the event cancelation.

Quick question: What's the best browser for Android?

^Opera mini seems good

^ That's what I use. Never had a problem and easy to navigate.

I also use Opera Mini for Android- it seems to work better than anything else for the OS (Firefox blows on Android, imho).

Originally Posted by FailSafe

I also use Opera Mini for Android- it seems to work better than anything else for the OS (Firefox blows on Android, imho).

Firefox blows on anything. It's so fucking buggy it's unbelievable.

I use Opera Mini all the time, but if you want a second browser for (admittedly the very odd occasion) when Opera doesn't render properly:

Look here and here

Stock Samsung browser on SGS blows firefox and all the others.

Originally Posted by 9999

Stock Samsung browser on SGS blows firefox and all the others.

Is that the Android stock browser, ships on all the phones?

Is there no chrome for Android?