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Aside from those 2 things, what else is missing from WP7? And what in your opinion should be put in future updates? And do you think those things you want will make it?
Finally what do you think of WP7 as a whole compared to Android and iOS? (specifically Android since thats what I know the most)
Thanks in Advance.
Tethering, and using the phone as a Mass Storage device are also missing, a file explorer...even if its just to manage files we download from the web or something, and tethering was somewhat confirmed by microsoft but i dont know the likelihood of mass storage id like it to come in the future but who knows...
yeah I want the mass storage so badly
of course we can make it with some changes in Registry but I think WP7 should make it enable in the next update
Sync multiple but not only the main calendar of an account
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Tethering works on my wife's Focus & on my LG Quantum, but you need to unlock it yourself using the phone manufacturer's diagnostics menus.
But what I'm really missing is the ability to do real socket programming, so you could do stuff like rdp, true streaming media players, etc...
"living in the cloud" is flawed when you can't use socket programming for true network access ( what the "cloud" is all about )
Probably more exchange features.
OPEN API.......... you should see the different in between android and wp7 barcode or QR scanning.... wait for one year else will change to android....
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OPEN API.......... you should see the different in between android and wp7 barcode or QR scanning.... wait for one year else will change to android....
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IMO:
- Zune easy sync of all supported files: adding all the office files
- Bluetooth send/receive at least for supported files
- Email - ability to add WHATEVER I want to attachement, so also docs, videos etc. IfI want to send 3 docs I have to send 3 emails, this is ridiculous
- App for easy download/upload with SkyDrive lol, like Photobucket
- Internet tethering
- Copy and paste absolutely system wide!
- Universal device search
- Navi arrows on keyboard
- Absolutely more features in Word, which is nice to have but is ridiculously limited to a crazy level.
doministry said:
IMO:
- Zune easy sync of all supported files: adding all the office files
- Bluetooth send/receive at least for supported files
- Email - ability to add WHATEVER I want to attachement, so also docs, videos etc. IfI want to send 3 docs I have to send 3 emails, this is ridiculous
- App for easy download/upload with SkyDrive lol, like Photobucket
- Internet tethering
- Copy and paste absolutely system wide!
- Universal device search
- Navi arrows on keyboard
- Absolutely more features in Word, which is nice to have but is ridiculously limited to a crazy level.
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This has to be one of the best 'wish' lists I've seen on here, it wasn't filled with idiocy, hate, or pure ignorance and definitely reflected the direction Microsoft is trying to take, I applaud you for that... Especially with the "supported files" addition... One of the few posts that doesn't revolve around "I can't access any file, registry edit, or system entry to screw up my device so this sucks!"...
I agree with this list, I'd also add more integration features into the People Hub
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This has to be one of the best 'wish' lists I've seen on here, it wasn't filled with idiocy, hate, or pure ignorance and definitely reflected the direction Microsoft is trying to take, I applaud you for that... Especially with the "supported files" addition... One of the few posts that doesn't revolve around "I can't access any file, registry edit, or system entry to screw up my device so this sucks!"...
I agree with this list, I'd also add more integration features into the People Hub
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This comes from everyday usage.......
Save calendar item to multiple calendars
Office docs to Skydrive/Facebook
doministry said:
IMO:
- Zune easy sync of all supported files: adding all the office files
- Bluetooth send/receive at least for supported files
- Email - ability to add WHATEVER I want to attachement, so also docs, videos etc. IfI want to send 3 docs I have to send 3 emails, this is ridiculous
- App for easy download/upload with SkyDrive lol, like Photobucket
- Internet tethering
- Copy and paste absolutely system wide!
- Universal device search
- Navi arrows on keyboard
- Absolutely more features in Word, which is nice to have but is ridiculously limited to a crazy level.
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Adding to this excellent wish list
- Custom Ringtones
- A smart dialer (Like Dialer one from Android)
- GPS navigation
- Threaded email messaging
duplicate post
how do i delete this?
universal clipboard
file explorer, with cut, copy, paste of files (is this enabled on the touchexplorer?)
smart dial
ability to DISABLE threaded sms
usb storage mode
full outlook support
1 very important function for me....
ability to import sms messages from wm6.5
- multiplayer games (local and online)
- cross platform games
- custom alert tones
- hidden SSID access
Copy and paste text.
Preview of back button stack.
Socekts.
Battery api.
Camera – movie api.
Silverlight integration with XNA.
Exposed MAC address of WIFI.
Tile tap and hold option to unintall the app.
+1 for most of the items listed prior, but would like to add:
- option to increase fonts especially text messaging.
- option to get rid of the "bubble/msg boxes" in text msg app; e.g., black background with cyan and white text
- text reflow when zooming in on web-browser and email (vs. scrolling left<->right to read text)
- phone button that takes me directly to dialer ( i know, i'm probably dreaming)
- option to tap and dial or email contact from within txt msg app and email apps (similar to Android)
- integrated inbox (with threaded messaging)
- navigation app (similar to google navigation or co-pilot)
A quick way to close all running applications.
Perhaps by holding down the back arrow for an extended period of time will bring up a notification asking you to close all the apps.
Or what if, you where to hold down back arrow as before but the notification allowed you to see all running apps and close them individually or all at once?
Possible?
I have attached some images of what it could look like.
Other ideas.
Side ways view using the accelerometers on the home screen. (2 versions attached)
Zune controls on the home screen that follow you down as you scroll. This would also be there on the app menu to the right. (attached)
One that i have just realized.
I dont think you can send music files over bluetooth.
This would be a nice addition.
...but may be to do with copyright as usual. =/
Is there a way to install folders? In other words on the home screen, you have the tiles , thats great , move to the left and you have a line of a thousand apps, would be nice to be able to make folders , that way I can move all my utilities to a folders, and have sub categories for all the apps, just curious! It would be easier to get to the stuff I need right now!
at present, no. maybe it would be good to take a look at the pinned threads in this section first as it will give you better insight into what is there and what isn't, and perhaps if work arounds exist yet.
I'm not sure why you'd need folders, the app list works very well with its SPIN-STOP-TAP numminess. Folders would just add extra taps and complications.
I personally use the app list very rarely because my most-used apps have tiles on the start screen. If you're using the app list much, consider adding your commonest apps as tiles.
Yep, the alphabetical list seems to work surprisingly well (and notice how people aren't complaining about it, while there was lots of talk about it before real devices got out).
Also, there are some folders. They are called hubs. Games, Office, Pictures, Music+Videos contain links to all relevant applications. That, and pinning most frequently apps to Start Screen, does a good job organizing things for me.
Custom/additional hubs could be a nice addition, though I'm not sure how that should be implemented.
Im not complaining at all , I love the ui , but I think folders should be available , not just HUBs , with a hub you have set apps for the hub , now if you had a folders you could add the apps you want to those folders , If I had a folder called Utilities ,I could add Registry Editor, settings, accent changer, samsung tools, diagnosis, one for Mail, add all my emails and mms ,sms , just thinking it would be easier to group certain items and be less cluttery! Sure scrolling is nice and easy, but like on my desktop , I group programs and it makes it easy to get to them!
a small correction, there aren't set apps for hubs, app devs can make their app associate with the hub, for example third party app that does this which isn't made by an oem are Fantasia Painter, Apict, and Lyrics.
I too want folders. I have a lot of apps and scrolling can be long and tiresome. A grid would be better as more icons per page could be shown. I don't want to add lots of apps to the homescreen because then that will become a long list too!
I would love folders like Travel, Fun, Utilities, System, Audio, Video, Photo etc.
There has to be a reg tweak somewhere....
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I too want folders. I have a lot of apps and scrolling can be long and tiresome. A grid would be better as more icons per page could be shown. I don't want to add lots of apps to the homescreen because then that will become a long list too!
I would love folders like Travel, Fun, Utilities, System, Audio, Video, Photo etc.
There has to be a reg tweak somewhere....
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eww, grid? No thank you, don't want my phone to be an iOS ripoff (I'm looking at you, Android). Customizable folders would be awesome. Long hold on start screen, create new folder option, name folder, drag apps to folder, choose hub background pic, done. That'd be wicked. I'd love to create a Business folder with MS Office, Notes, stocks, realtor.com, handyscan, financial calculator etc.
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eww, grid? No thank you, don't want my phone to be an iOS ripoff (I'm looking at you, Android). Customizable folders would be awesome. Long hold on start screen, create new folder option, name folder, drag apps to folder, choose hub background pic, done. That'd be wicked. I'd love to create a Business folder with MS Office, Notes, stocks, realtor.com, handyscan, financial calculator etc.
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Erm hello? What are you talking about? The old windows microsoft OS (5 and up) had the grid system layout before IOS so how could a grid system layout be a rip off of IOS?????
The current windows phone 7 list view shows 9 and a half applications per screen view. If you had a grid layout you could get anywhere between 12 and 18 app icons per page view. I thought the whole point of the WP7 marketing system was to spend less time on your phone. Who want to spend ages flicking their thumb up and down to get to applications when you could tap and maybe scroll once or twice if the apps were in a grid layout. Surely that would be a more time efficent layout. I love the OS but wish the app list view could be better.
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I too love the home screen the way it is , but if I had the folder system I could employ a utitlities folder on the home screen , drag an app, drop it , pinning is fine too , I like to keep the homescreen limited to apps i use frequently!
The grid system would be a killjoy. It would require more hunting. With multiple apps in line you are not only reading the first letter as you are with WP7, I can scroll through my apps, see the letter and stop, with android I had to scroll through my apps, see the letter, read through the next 2 rows to find it... with WP7, much quicker. Plus it would just make it uglier.
A grid wouldn't serve many of us. With them ou need to keep looking for icons instead just the application names as in WP7 applications list.
Folders should be a neat addition. You have a folder in there, TAP and then a list like a contextual menu appears and TAP the app. This, without living the applications list would a be a great addition.
Also, adding search capabilities to the list is a much needed feature.
Google has posted up a big, bullet-filled page with all the stuff it has added in since 4.0.
Android 4.1, Jelly Bean
Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, is the fastest and smoothest version of Android yet. Jelly Bean improves on the simplicity and beauty of Android 4.0, and introduces a new Google search experience on Android.
Everything in Jelly Bean feels fast, fluid, and smooth. Moving between home screens and switching between apps is effortless, like turning pages in a book.
Jelly Bean features improved performance throughout the system, including faster orientation changes, faster responses when switching between recent apps, and smoother and more consistent rendering across the system through vsync and triple buffering.
Jelly Bean has more reactive and uniform touch responses, and makes your device even more responsive by boosting your device's CPU instantly when you touch the screen, and turns it down when you don't need it to improve battery life.
What's new in Jelly Bean
Accessibility
With Jelly Bean, blind users can use 'Gesture Mode' to reliably navigate the UI using touch and swipe gestures in combination with speech output.
With the new accessibility focus feature, you can move a cursor between controls to maintain a target for the next action or a source for the next navigation event. You can double tap anywhere to launch the current item with accessibility focus.
Text traversal in accessibility now gives you more control – choose to move between pages, paragraphs, lines, words or characters.
TalkBack, a screenreader for Android, now supports gestures to trigger actions, to navigate applications, and traverse text.
Get full support for braille accessibility services (download BrailleBack on Google Play).
Android Beam
With Android Beam, you can now easily share your photos and videos.
Instantly pair your phone or tablet to Bluetooth devices like headsets or speakers that support the Simple Secure Pairing standard by just tapping them together.
Audio Accessories
Support for USB audio docks, shipping later this year.
Browser and WebView
Browser has improved performance, CPU and memory efficiency. With better performance for animations and HTML5 canvases and an updated JavaScript Engine (V8), pages load faster and feel smoother.
Browser now has better HTML5 video support, and has a new user experience. Just touch the video to play and pause, and smoothly transition into and out of fullscreen mode.
Browser now supports the updated HTML5 Media Capture specification on input elements.
WebView now supports vertical text, including Ruby Text and other vertical text glyphs.
Calendar
Calendar is more buttery. Content fades in, animations are sprinkled throughout, and swiping/paging between days is smoother.
Calendar will now display event colors if you've given your event a color on your PC.
The 'Today' button on the action bar now shows the current day. When viewing an event's details, you can now email all the guests with a single tap.
Notifications for upcoming events now display more of the event description to let you quickly see relevant details without having to open the app.
Notifications for upcoming events now let you email all the guests without opening the app, and you can choose a quick response such as "Be there in 10 minutes" or type your own.
A new option in Calendar settings lets you create your own default quick responses for emailing guests.
You can now snooze an upcoming event reminder right from the notification.
Calendar has a new 7" tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor.
When viewing Calendar in portrait orientation on tablets, you can hide or expand controls to give you complete control over how you view your Calendar space.
Calendar will now remember whether you've chosen to hide or expand controls so you have a consistent experience viewing Calendar whenever you open it.
Camera and Gallery
You can now swipe from the camera viewfinder to quickly review photos you've taken without having to leave the camera app. You can swipe back to the camera viewfinder to start snapping photos again.
When viewing photos in Gallery, you can pinch to zoom out to enter "filmstrip mode" and rapidly review photos. When viewing photos in filmstrip mode, you can swipe up or down to delete an individual photo. You can also undo the delete with a single tap.
When taking a photo, a new animation sweeps your photo off the screen. There is now a new paging animation when swiping between photos
Camera features a new animation for switching between the front-facing and back cameras.
When focusing on an object in Camera, a new animation gives you visual feedback on your focus state.
Gallery features a new animation when selecting a photo from within the album view and back.
Data Usage
You can now dismiss a data usage warning without changing the data threshold set for warning notifications.
Disable background data usage on certain Wi-Fi SSIDs by designating them as mobile hotspots.
Android now automatically detects when one Jelly Bean device is tethered to another's WiFi hotspot, and intelligently enables or disables background data usage on the SSID.
Face Unlock
Face Unlock is now faster and more accurate, and startup is smoother with a new animation.
You can improve face matching accuracy by calibrating your face in different conditions and with different accessories (e.g. hat, glasses).
Face Unlock can now optionally require a 'blink' to verify that a live person is unlocking the device rather than a photo.
Internationalization
Jelly Bean adds support for bidirectional text and more input languages to make the platform accessible to more people around the world.
There is improved support for Arabic and Hebrew, including a new Arabic font, in the platform.
You can now enter text in one of 18 new input languages, including Persian, Hindi and Thai. Additional Indic languages Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam are now supported by the platform.
Emoji from Unicode 6.0 will now render when received or viewed.
If the system language is set to Japanese, Japanese specific versions of glyphs will now be properly rendered.
Keyboard
The platform's dictionaries are now more accurate and more relevant.
The language model in Jelly Bean adapts over time, and the keyboard features bigram prediction and correction.
You can now switch languages quickly with the dedicated language selector key on keyboard.
You can use custom keyboard input styles for more than 20 languages, with keymaps for QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and PC styles.
You can choose the input styles that you want to use for each keyboard, and use a hotkey to switch between them while typing
Messaging and Talk
New notifications display the full text of incoming SMS messages. When receiving an MMS, you can view the full photo in a notification.
When entering recipients for an SMS or MMS, a new UI collects recipients as chips, making it easier to compose messages.
Talk features a new notification style.
Notifications
You can now take action on notifications directly from the redesigned notifications shade.
Notifications from the same application are grouped together, and the first item is automatically expanded. You can also pinch notifications to expand or collapse them.
You now get an image preview in notifications after taking a screenshot. You can quickly share the screenshot directly from the notification.
You can lock automatic display rotation from the notifications shade on 7" tablets.
For Wi-Fi only devices, quickly see the SSID of the access point you're connected to from the notifications shade.
You can now touch-hold a notification to identify the application that created it and turn off notifications from that application if needed, as well as uninstall the application.
Networking
Wi-Fi protected setup is now supported with WPS push button and PIN support.
A new setting lets you stay on mobile data and avoid nearby Wi-Fi networks with poor connections.
News and Weather
News and Weather is updated to improve freshness and power consumption.
People
The People app is more buttery with smoother animations and improved search performance.
The People app now retrieves high res photos automatically for Google contacts with public Google+ profiles and displays higher res photos (720x720) on certain devices.
High res photos set on Google accounts will be backed up and synced across devices.
The People app has a new 7" tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor.
You can now quickly add your favorite contacts to a home screen, directly from the contact's details page.
The People app helps you organize your contacts and reduces duplicates with an Improved auto-joining algorithm.
You can now clear the frequently contacted list from the favorites tab in the People app.
Phone
When you miss a call, a new notification lets you return the call or reply by SMS with a single touch.
Incoming visual voicemails are displayed in a new notification that lets you play the message with a single touch.
When a call is ongoing, a new notification lets you hang up the call with one touch.
As part of Project Butter, the dial pad is more responsive. Call log scrolling is buttery smooth, and swiping between tabs in Phone is quick and fluid.
You can now clear your frequently contacted list in the favorite tab of Phone.
You can now add phone numbers from the call log to existing, read-only contacts.
Settings
Accounts are now displayed in the primary Settings view so you can easily see all the accounts you're signed into on your device.
You can now easily access all Google Privacy Settings in one place by selecting your Google account from Settings.
System
Device encryption is now more reliable, and periodically reminds you to decrypt your device. Now, SMS messages and calls are declined when waiting for decryption.
You can long press the 'Power Off' option in the power menu to boot your device to safe mode.
A new 'Reset app preferences' button lets you quickly reset default applications for specific activities, background data restrictions, notifications suppressions, and more.
A redesigned dialog with larger icons lets you intuitively choose your preferred application for specific activities.
Google Apps Device Policy on your device may now override the 'keep screen awake' option from developer settings.
Text-to-speech
Jelly Bean introduces a new conversational text-to-speech voice in US English, available as both a network engine and an embedded engine via the TTS API.
Voice Typing
A new embedded speech recognizer lets you use Voice Typing even when you don't have an Internet connection.
Widgets
Jelly Bean makes it easier to personalize your home screen. As you place widgets on the screen, everything else automatically moves to make room.
When they're too big, widgets resize on their own. If you choose to resize a widget, apps and widgets will now also move out of the way.
You can now quickly remove apps or widgets from any home screen by picking them up and flinging them to the edge of the screen.
Launching apps and returning back home are now faster and smoother.
The new Google experience on Android
Google Search
With Jelly Bean, a redesigned experience uses the power of the Knowledge Graph to show you search results in a richer way. It's easier to quickly get precise answers to search queries and explore and browse search results.
Get to Google Search faster: Google Search can be opened directly from the lock screen by swiping up. For devices with software navigation keys, you can now swipe up from the system bar to quickly access Google Search with Google Now. For devices with a hardware search key, you can tap it to launch Google Search.
If you're using a wired headset, long press the headset's button to activate Voice Search. You can quickly perform a search query by voice and have the result read back to you.
You can say "Google" to activate Voice Search from within Google Search.
For many search queries performed through Voice Search, you can now hear a spoken answer.
Voice Search recognition is now significantly faster so you can search quickly on the fly.
Voice Search can now recognize queries even when you have a poor network connection.
Google Now
Google Now brings you just the right information at just the right time. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them, and appear as a notification when they're important.
Weather card: When you start your day, Google Now shows weather for your current location and work.
Traffic card: Get traffic conditions and alternate routes before you leave home or work.
Transit card: When you're near a bus stop or a subway station, this card shows you what buses or trains are next.
Places card: When you're on the go, Google Now will suggest nearby bars, restaurants, and places of interest.
Flight card: See flight delays and traffic conditions to the airport for flights you've recently searched for.
Sports card: You can see live scores and upcoming games and also buy game tickets on the fly.
Currency card: When you're traveling, quickly check the local conversion rate.
Translation card: When you're in a foreign country, you can quickly translate words into the local language.
Google Apps
Google+
As you swipe through the stream, large bold photos now fall into place with animations giving you a more interactive browsing experience.
Google+ on tablets has a new magazines layout in the stream.
You can now create and manage Google+ Events right from your device. Posts and photos are saved to the event so you can relive the party any time.
Party Mode lets you instantly upload and share photos during an Event so you capture all the right moments in one place.
New notifications let you +1, comment, or reshare without having to open the Google+ app.
You can now see live video streams of all participants in a Hangout.
A new navigation menu lets you easily navigate through the app and quickly see Google+ notifications.
When viewing a post, you can now swipe to expand and view comments.
Gmail
Gmail has an optimized view for 7" tablets in portrait orientation to give you a better experience reading email.
Gmail and Email feature updated notifications will give you a preview and digest of your inbox. Notifications will also now display the full text of new mail.
YouTube
YouTube has a new, more intuitive user interface, including a guide that provides quick access to your channel subscriptions.
YouTube can now preload videos from subscribed channels for seamless playback even on slower networks.
With a new integrated menu, you can easily watch YouTube on the big screen with Nexus Q or YouTube TV.
Maps
With support for offline maps, you can select an area to cache and access it even when you don't have a data connection.
Compass Mode for indoor views and street view is more accurate and responsive with gyroscope support.
With Zagat ratings and reviews built in to Maps, you can quickly get the information you need about places you search for.
You can now browse Google Offers within Maps to find local deals.
Get indoor walking directions in Maps.
Currents
With performance enhancements throughout the application and updates to the user interface, you can browse articles quickly and intuitively. With an enhanced layout engine for articles, you can enjoy dramatic, large images on a variety of articles.
Currents now uses hardware acceleration to make moving between articles smoother.
Currents has a new 7" tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor.
For editions written in other languages, you can now translate text into your preferred language.
Google Play
A new set of recommendations widgets use a variety of signals — content that people with similar tastes have purchased, stuff that's popular around where you live, content people in your Google+ circles have +1'ed, and more — to recommend new content like apps, games, music, and movies.
A new My Library widget, which displays all of your recent movies, books, music, and magazines and dynamically changes based on what you've been engaging with recently.
Smart App Updates ensure that only the parts of an application that have changed will be downloaded when you next update it, saving on time, bandwidth, and battery when updating apps.
Jelly Bean introduces app encryption for paid apps
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Google Play Books
Embedded audio tracks and videos can now be easily streamed directly within the book you're reading.
You can now add bookmarks to remember important information for later or pick up where you left off reading.
Play Books now offers fixed layout books, optimized for tablet-reading of books with beautifully designed graphics and layouts, like children's books and comic books.
For visually impaired users, automatic text-to-speech settings have been enabled
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Google Play Movies and TV Shows
Movies and TV shows can be quickly downloaded for viewing offline, now with just one tap.
When you make a new purchase from Google Play, that item will be synced directly to the Play Movies and TV Shows app, ready for you to watch when you open the app.
You can watch Movies and TV Shows with Nexus Q by using the integrated media routing menu.
You can zoom in during video playback.
Google Play Music
A new Sound Search widget lets you identify songs you hear and purchase them directly from Google Play.
The Google Play Music widget now lets you thumbs up songs as their playing and features a new design for better readability.
Playlist art is automatically created based on the album art of songs in that playlist.
In the now playing bar, you can swipe between screens.
The Recent screen features larger album art.
You can delete tracks within the app.
There is a Now Playing queue of tracks.
There is an integrated media routing menu for listening to tracks on Nexus Q, bluetooth audio devices and headsets.
You can set a song as your ringtone from Play Music, and the new ringtone editor lets you crop that track to the exact section you'd like to use for the ringtone.
you had me at fastest and smoothest lol
Agreed, thanks for this massive post. Apple should see this, google is not saying they have made over 200 changes, they just show every big one, which is still a lot. Unlike the apple, which say 200+ changes, and can only show 7 relevant ones(probably the most notable ones).
And yes, that is actually a very big changelog.
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timlambo said:
Agreed, thanks for this massive post. Apple should see this, google is not saying they have made over 200 changes, they just show every big one, which is still a lot. Unlike the apple, which say 200+ changes, and can only show 7 relevant ones(probably the most notable ones).
And yes, that is actually a very big changelog.
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I counted 150.
Bear in mind Google's release cycle is about twice as often as Apple's. Also in this instance I'd say the major changes in iOS pale in comparison to Jelly Bean this year.
Really looking forward to my nexus!
I gave you thanks because someone should appreciate your work with that. Thanks
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I counted 150.
Bear in mind Google's release cycle is about twice as often as Apple's. Also in this instance I'd say the major changes in iOS pale in comparison to Jelly Bean this year.
Really looking forward to my nexus!
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Yip, I know they(Google) have much quicker releases. Apple's ios is at version 1.6 actually, because they didn't really have any 'major ui' overalls. Also looking forward to jb.
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Wow I feel glad to have jumped on the android platform. That change log is huge. Most of it seems to add subtle changes in animations and smoothness of the ui.
And yes Apple updates are crap compared to this.
Looking forward to getting Jellybean
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Can't wait for Official version for HTC ONE X ;D
Eroticus said:
Can't wait for Official version for HTC ONE X ;D
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SURE! but also in the ARHD ....
federer87 said:
SURE! but also in the ARHD ....
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Yeah. Let's just hope that HTC is already working on it ASAP if they want to gain lead vs the S3.
Just updated to ARHD 7.2.0 and its so far feeling fast! This plus Project Butter = awesomeness.
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Can't wait for Official version for HTC ONE X ;D
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Same.. It's gonna be nice..
I have to admit it, I like using my S-Pen with S-Note on my Galaxy Note 2, unfortunately it only works in TouchWiz and not CM, AOKP, or Stock Android custom ROMS. And it can be excrutiatingly sluggish even on my Galaxy Note 2.
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT SAMSUNG'S S-NOTE app:
1. You can call up a floating pop up note from any application so that you can start taking notes with the S-Pen or with the soft keyboard if you so choose. This has proven very useful during a call when you have to jot something down.
2. S-Note Widget. I like how you can select to see the notes and folders list, or a list of templates to create a new note.
3. I like how you can use the S-Pen whilst pressing on the S-Pen button to freehand selection, capture, and sharing of anything on the screen from any app and then save/share with other compatible apps. Very useful feature. Of course being able to import images into the note is very important.
4. Tagging notes
5. Syncing notes (albeit to Samsung's servers)
OTHER FEATURES REQUESTS for my perfect Note/stylus app
1. In S-Note, list view, I wish we could drag and drop (single or multiple) notes and/or folders into folders with the S-Pen, or custom rearrange them by dragging and dropping. It would be much more intuitive and less cumbersome and tedious. I could take hundreds of notes but then to have to individually menu click on them to move and organize them is just toooo much work and really overweighs the usefulness of the app with the more notes you take.
2. In S-Note, I wish to remove the file name overlay on the note icons, I would rather see the full contents of what I wrote on the note, and the overlays never are able to show the entire file name anyway, so basically useless and in contrary to the clarity of the user interface.
3. in TouchWiz I wish the pop up note (or any pop up window for that matter) could be resizable to a custom size on the screen by clicking and dragging the corners. Right now you only have the option of full size or part-sized.
4. I wish we could call up a pop up window of a selected note from S-Note, so that we can reference it while we are doing other things like dialing a number, or checking something on the browser.
5. CUSTOMIZABLE TEMPLATES, come on, just give us option to make custom templates, and the ability to apply that template to every new note, even pop up notes. Right now I dislike all the ruled and graphed templates so I have to click and select a blank page every time I make a new note. ARGH
6. PAGE SIZE, come on Samsung, the templates should have a page size option, or else infinite (like Papyrus)
7. I wish to have size customizable text boxes and placement.
8. SPEED. the S-Note is SEVERELY LAGGED in my opinion. I mean I'm waiting at least 1 second for each creation of a new note, menu clicking to fix my template, menu clicking to select my pen type, etc. AWFUL SAMSUNG AWFUL.
9. VECTOR based strokes and drawings. This is not a feature of S-Note BUT one of my BIGGEST WISHLIST features. VECTOR graphics for S-Pen drawing/writing (like in Papyrus app). I NEED THIS SO BAD. It is just so much faster, cleaner, and RESIZABLE without destroying the quality of the line/stroke
10. I wish there was a DIRECTLY EDITABLE WIDGET for S-Note OR ANY other S-Pen note app that you can directly write onto from the homescreen without needing to press any other clicks other than to choose finger, pen and finger, or soft keyboard input (but with SPen as default). After writing a memo on the widget (with choice of S-Pen, finger, or soft keyboard) you would just click on a save button or something similar, and that memo would just be saved, the widget would then clear itself and be ready for the next note to be inputed. It would have to have option for palm and finger rejection so that you don't accidentally write a note when you are trying to swipe to another homescreen.
11. The ability to open and annotate PDF files that could be saved and seen from other PDF apps crossplatform
THE OTHER APPS I'VE TRIED:
Papyrus
(actually my favorite for actually writing and drawing with the stylus and it is super speedy and accurate, there is no lag at all with this app. But because it lacks the more robust features of the S-Note ie. No widget at all and no sharing to the app, no pop up memo, etc etc). If the developer of Papyrus is reading, my above features requests would make you the #1 note taking app.
Memo
meh
Lecture Notes
meh, I don't know, is this what college kids are going for these days?
OneNote
whatever, haven't really tried it
GNotes
I like how it auto syncs with Gmail account, but the features are too rudimentary and basic, and well, useless to me
A BIT OFF TOPIC, CLOUD NOTES ANNOTATING & BOOKMARKING APPS (no hand writing features)
Evernote
meh, we know it's the most popular and polished one, but it still lacks my most wanted features concerning bookmarking and annotating for cloud based apps that I haven't even mentioned in the above.
Catch
I tend to switch between Evernote and Catch a lot, I don't exactly know why. But even though Catch lacks even more features than Evernote, the simplicity and immediateness of it is compelling.
Power Note (Diigo)
In my opinion, Diigo is actually the most USEFUL web annotating app out of all the apps I've tried so far to date, and trust me I have wasted much of my time trying to try all of them. The Android Power Note app however, is pretty useless other than to reference your Diigo library. I wish they made a better more polished Android app so we could also highlight and annotate webpages from our Android and other mobile devices, and just cleaned up polished up and leaned up in general across the board. If they implement that as well as PDF annotation, and a more robust free note taking like in Evernote and Catch, they would be supreme. And if they went as far as allowing web app cloud based syncing of hand written vector based OCR page layout notes from any platform and device, eh, FUGGEHDABODIT. It would be #1.
I've found S-note and papyrus both to be quite good for note taking. nothing beats ezpdf for pdf annotation. skitch in combination with evernote is also pretty nice for annotating web pages if you want it saved in evernote (or you can share it to s-note or save it as a pdf to use with ezpdf if you don't care about it being in evernote).
Honestly S-Note is pretty good. The one thing I'm dying for is for the handwriting input to automatically enter a space after recognizing a word.
JarkMackson said:
Honestly S-Note is pretty good. The one thing I'm dying for is for the handwriting input to automatically enter a space after recognizing a word.
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+1 sometimes remembering to put the space is annoying. But the handwriting recognition works pretty well. I also would like to be able to add more fonts (like a handwriting font) to the handwriting recognition.
I use the asus supernote app. Jusslt google an apk of it. Lots of features that nake it easier to use in class... for me at least.
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One of my concerns with S Note is that I will be stuck with Samsung Touchwiz and Galaxy Note to use it, it will be hard to be available on other phones and especially if not Touchwiz.
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I've been using LectureNotes for the past week or so in my Organic Chem and Physics 2 classes. I've compared it to S Note, Papyrus, and a couple others..
This is the only one that meets most (nearly all) of my needs, and the developer is extremely quick with responses/feature additions/problem correction.
After many years of using Samsung phones, I just switched to a Google Pixel 3XL (which is rooted with the stock ROM). While the new phone seems to be quite good, there are some minor ‘issues’ that have cropped up – most probably due to my familiarity with the Samsung devices…
Merging contacts: Using MyPhoneExplorer, I imported my Outlook contacts into the phone. I also configured LinkedIn so that those contacts would also go into the contact list. Unlike the Samsung phone, the Pixel did a much better job of merging contacts. However, it missed a few and I cannot figure out how to manually merge them. How is this done?
Keyboard: One of the Samsung features I miss the most is being able to long-press letter keys to get symbols, e.g., long-press ‘a’ to get ‘@’. The Pixel approach of having to switch to a separate keyboard is annoying. Is there some way to enable the long-press functionality?
Image gallery: The default image gallery on the Pixel is Google photos, but I have no interest in sync’ing stuff with the cloud. The Samsung phone came with a really simple gallery app which met my needs. Is there such an app on the Pixel that I missed? If not, what gallery app do you recommend?
Aspect ratio: The ‘images’ for two of my apps, specifically the widget for Weather Underground and Enjoy Sudoku, are elongated – they should be square but are appearing as rectangles. Is there any way to adjust this via settings or is this a fault of the apps?
Autoruns: When my phone reboots, I see notifications that two apps are seeking permissions. However, when I looked to see what apps are autorunning, none are listed. Why this apparent discrepancy? How can I determine which apps are launching after a reboot?
You can change the keyboard settings to show symbol on long pressing,as for Google photo you can turn backup off.
No idea for other things.
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After many years of using Samsung phones, I just switched to a Google Pixel 3XL (which is rooted with the stock ROM). While the new phone seems to be quite good, there are some minor ‘issues’ that have cropped up – most probably due to my familiarity with the Samsung devices…
Merging contacts: Using MyPhoneExplorer, I imported my Outlook contacts into the phone. I also configured LinkedIn so that those contacts would also go into the contact list. Unlike the Samsung phone, the Pixel did a much better job of merging contacts. However, it missed a few and I cannot figure out how to manually merge them. How is this done?
Keyboard: One of the Samsung features I miss the most is being able to long-press letter keys to get symbols, e.g., long-press ‘a’ to get ‘@’. The Pixel approach of having to switch to a separate keyboard is annoying. Is there some way to enable the long-press functionality?
Image gallery: The default image gallery on the Pixel is Google photos, but I have no interest in sync’ing stuff with the cloud. The Samsung phone came with a really simple gallery app which met my needs. Is there such an app on the Pixel that I missed? If not, what gallery app do you recommend?
Aspect ratio: The ‘images’ for two of my apps, specifically the widget for Weather Underground and Enjoy Sudoku, are elongated – they should be square but are appearing as rectangles. Is there any way to adjust this via settings or is this a fault of the apps?
Autoruns: When my phone reboots, I see notifications that two apps are seeking permissions. However, when I looked to see what apps are autorunning, none are listed. Why this apparent discrepancy? How can I determine which apps are launching after a reboot?
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Merging contacts: I have a Note 8 too. I personally believe Google contacts does a better job of syncing and merging contacts, specially if sync is on for contacts. If you could play around with it maybe you will find what suits you.
Keyboard: `Long press for symbols` option in keyboard preferences.
Image gallery: Turn the sync off if you don't want it.
Aspect ratio: Try nova launcher and see if it solves it for you.
Autoruns: What apps need what permissions?
groston said:
After many years of using Samsung phones, I just switched to a Google Pixel 3XL (which is rooted with the stock ROM). While the new phone seems to be quite good, there are some minor ‘issues’ that have cropped up – most probably due to my familiarity with the Samsung devices…
Merging contacts: Using MyPhoneExplorer, I imported my Outlook contacts into the phone. I also configured LinkedIn so that those contacts would also go into the contact list. Unlike the Samsung phone, the Pixel did a much better job of merging contacts. However, it missed a few and I cannot figure out how to manually merge them. How is this done?
Keyboard: One of the Samsung features I miss the most is being able to long-press letter keys to get symbols, e.g., long-press ‘a’ to get ‘@’. The Pixel approach of having to switch to a separate keyboard is annoying. Is there some way to enable the long-press functionality?
Image gallery: The default image gallery on the Pixel is Google photos, but I have no interest in sync’ing stuff with the cloud. The Samsung phone came with a really simple gallery app which met my needs. Is there such an app on the Pixel that I missed? If not, what gallery app do you recommend?
Aspect ratio: The ‘images’ for two of my apps, specifically the widget for Weather Underground and Enjoy Sudoku, are elongated – they should be square but are appearing as rectangles. Is there any way to adjust this via settings or is this a fault of the apps?
Autoruns: When my phone reboots, I see notifications that two apps are seeking permissions. However, when I looked to see what apps are autorunning, none are listed. Why this apparent discrepancy? How can I determine which apps are launching after a reboot?
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download quickpic 3.4.9.1 <-- this version is just a gallery with no backup/syncing in the background its what i use on all my androids, reminds me of samsungs gallery... (or was it huawei) either way.
i use chrooma keyboard, completely customizable. and does exactly what you want
as for merging im pretty sure this can be done on a PC since its easier might want to go to go google contacts on a pc and attempt to do it there.
Thanks for the helpful replies!
Merging contacts: I avoid using Google products (so why did I buy this phone?). I have turned off syncing the contacts on the phone with the cloud, so addressing this issue via the PC won't work. What is odd is that the contacts stored in the phone app are separate from the Contact app. Will keep poking around on the phone, but not finding anything useful...
Keyboard settings - did not dig deeply enough to find this, thanks.
Google Photos - I did turn off sync, but had forgotten to hit the 'Confirm' button - big duh. Now it is working, will heck it out - and QuickPic as well.
Aspect ratio: I am using Nova Launcher.
Autoruns: The two apps seeking permission are Chromium (I have disabled Chrome) and an app from my local utility company.