Android still seems immature

[Guest Anil k Solanki]

I vote GO SMS, and Pro is now free on the market :P

I second DaveMac. Go SMS Pro is excellent. I love having the Apple iChat style conversation thread in text messages. Just makes so much more sense. I infact use other GO Dev products, such as Go Launcher and their task widget, also Go Contacts and Go Dialer. I suppose the über cool feature they have is the Emoji plugin for text messaging. It is so cool to be able to send my chick cute little animals etc. in a text message.

Plus all their stuff is free. Only today they released an update to their home launcher, they also released two new themes for said launcher for which they are making a small charge, something minimal like £1. We all gotta eat.

Anil.

[Guest Pondlife]

Pray tell who Symbian and NOKIA benefit? Humankind, or NOKIA shareholders? Get a grip.

Don't think their shareholders are getting any benefit from Symbian lately.

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Personally the only thing I think was better on my old nokia is the navigation. But Google admit that's in beta still.

But for a comparison of what Google does for a phone compared to a high(ish) end Nokia maybe the OP should be looking at the Google Nexus S rather than our beloved budget Blade. Guessing that's more polished.

[Guest Frankish]

to be fair: I have a problem with Swedish spring, I'm pretty sure I couldn't download zips with the stock browser. (though improbably wrong)

Anyhow android lets you change browsers EASILY. In fact change anything easily..

BUT THE WHOLE POINT OF ANDROID IS TO HAVE OUT OF THE BOX CORE FUNCTIONS AND TO ALLOW THE USER TO ADAPT IT TO HOW THEY WANT IT.

Download ASTRO, go preferences, enable browser downloads...magically fixes that problem :P

[Guest Psyloid]

I vote GO SMS, and Pro is now free on the market :P

I vote handcent SMS

[Guest]

Thanks Fonix, saved me from posting a loooong message

BTW, Fonix was a well known guy from the Symbian scene.. not just some guy who used a phone for a week

+1

He came from symbian and says android is immature,is he serious ?

Android is a trillion light years ahead of any other mobile operating system.

Some people just lack the intelligence to use android and should go back to symbian,or buy an iphone

Edited May 25, 2011 by Guest

[Guest Mushroom_Lord]

FLAC on a phone sounds a little ridiculous, but I'm pretty sure I've read about that being supported. And ogg vorbis is supported, some of android core sounds (camera shutter for example) are in vorbis.

Flac is playable on poweramp, and is natively supported by CM7.

Though I dare say that maybe the stock Cm7 player does jump FLAC files a bit :P

[Guest skybooks]

+1

He came from symbian and says android is immature,is he serious ?

Android is a trillion light years ahead of any other mobile operating system.

Some people just lack the intelligence to use android and should go back to symbian,or buy an iphone

Seems like not only android is immature....

Immature does not equal backwards or inferior.

If they were to come out with a new electric car that does 100000 miles on a single charge of 5 minutes and could run driverless, that car would be light years ahead of the current motor car. However if there was no speedometer available or if couldnt run on certain roads it would be considered immature.

Not being able to download files from rapidshare, not being able to run the radio through the speakers etc. when far inferior phones can do this for years, are signs of an immature platform.

Hope this clears it up for you and enhances your intelligence. :P

[Guest k0zmic]

I wouldn't agree that not being able to run radio through speakers is a sign of an immature platform since that is a pretty niche thing (IMO). But the Rapidshare and other file sites problem is annoying. That said, can iOS WP7 etc. download files from Rapidshare etc. without the same problem?

[Guest skybooks]

I wouldn't agree that not being able to run radio through speakers is a sign of an immature platform since that is a pretty niche thing (IMO). But the Rapidshare and other file sites problem is annoying. That said, can iOS WP7 etc. download files from Rapidshare etc. without the same problem?

My Nokia 5800 could, though I did have a customised rom on it so not sure about the stock ones.

Also the Noikia could play BBC Iplayer and download the files direct from BBC. Why can Android not do that? Even when one changes the identifier to iPhone it allows you to enter the site and see the content, but it still wont play.

Edited May 25, 2011 by skybooks

[Guest Pondlife]

I think some Android phones can handle iplayer, isn't it a flash issue on the Blade.

[Guest skybooks]

I think some Android phones can handle iplayer, isn't it a flash issue on the Blade.

Blade has no flash, but niether does iPhone or Nokia 5800 but they work with iPlayer

[Guest Pondlife]

Blade has no flash, but niether does iPhone or Nokia 5800 but they work with iPlayer

That's down to the beeb though, they have made the choice to only use flash on the android app.

[Guest Roph]

*Watches iPlayer content on the blade via MyPlayer*

[Guest]

*Watches iPlayer content on the blade via MyPlayer*

Exactly,all the features claimed to not work on android there are apps on android market to enable those features.

For example android has flash player 10.1 on the market(not blade of course,but we talking android in general here)

[Guest skybooks]

*Watches iPlayer content on the blade via MyPlayer*

*Also watches iPlayer content on the blade via MyPlayer, BUT cannot save the downloaded files for later viewing where wifi unavailable*

My question was actually more on the technical side why it cant play on the android when one fakes the identifier to make it think its an iPhone.

[Guest Alex_P]

My question was actually more on the technical side why it cant play on the android when one fakes the identifier to make it think its an iPhone.

Because the BBC have made their android iplayer app use flash, and Adobe haven't released flash for ARMv6 CPUs which the blade has. Lack of iplayer is a combination of the BBC and Adobe, nothing to do with android at all. Other more expensive phones have ARMv7 CPUs, so therefore have flash, so can therefore use iplayer.

Edit: Just noticed I misunderstood your question, sorry!

Edited May 26, 2011 by Alex_P

[Guest unrandomsam]

Pray tell who Symbian and NOKIA benefit? Humankind, or NOKIA shareholders? Get a grip.

I would also love to meet the audiophile who uses Ogg & Flac files on a mobile phone? Utter lunacy.

I get the feeling that some NOKIA fanboys in this thread are more about trolling than progress or the sharing of ideas.

But maybe that is just me.

Anil.

Symbian is not just Nokia (or at least wasn't)

The difference is it was never implied that symbian really was to benefit the world.

But yet you can get 4 days battery life from a Sony Ericsson Vivaz (Last symbian phone they did)

Nothing even close with android.

I use android now but I am certain basic functionality is better on symbian devices.

(All bluetooth profiles supported / good power management / Nokia also has higher call quality).

QNX would probably be a better base as well. (Like the rim playbook).

I have compared quite a few high end and low end devices and for the most part they all still have pretty terrible bugs.

I use flac so I don't have to transcode all the time. (Can fit enough on a 16gb sdhc that its not worth it). Maybe there is an app that could automate it but cannot imagine it would be faster than just copying the flac's. All the other devices I have play them natively no problems.

android 3.1+ has native flac though.

With apps its possible to fix alot of things but there is certain functionality (vpn / wifi sleep policy) and hardware stuff that a phone manufacturer is much better placed to fix / do right in the first place.

There is certain things that the opensource community very often does badly (or cannot change). Complex hardware support is one of them. (Only piece I can think of thats well done is intel graphics and they employ the maintainer).

[Guest Fou-lu]

Symbian is not just Nokia (or at least wasn't)

The difference is it was never implied that symbian really was to benefit the world.

But yet you can get 4 days battery life from a Sony Ericsson Vivaz (Last symbian phone they did)

Nothing even close with android.

I use android now but I am certain basic functionality is better on symbian devices.

(All bluetooth profiles supported / good power management / Nokia also has higher call quality).

I have compared quite a few high end and low end devices and for the most part they all still have pretty terrible bugs.

With apps its possible to fix alot of things but there is certain functionality (vpn / wifi sleep policy) and hardware stuff that a phone manufacturer is much better placed to fix / do right in the first place.

1. who implied android is to benefit anyone other than Google?, everyone knows it's Google making money off AD's, 97% profit for them is AD's, but who cares because android benifits me and most other people here more than symbian ever did...

2. yeah, basic functions are super hard on android..

3. right, nexus S, SGS II, HTC desire's terribly buggy? bullshit you compared them all, i compared all symbian devices, all terribly laggy..

4. yeah, point is? your blaming android for manufacters problems? how is using work arounds to fix certain wifi issues present in the BLADE not android, a bad thing?