Comments on: Android 2.0: New Settings Detailed vs. 1.6 [VIDEO]

By: derek

derek — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:08:25 +0000

@Chris
#3 – Get over it. Flash is dieing. 95% (made up stat) of half-decent flash only sites have non-flash counterparts. Android has youtube apps that use h.264 streaming. Most video podcast sites already partner with companies that provide h.264 streaming apps for the iPhone – not long until they all get ported to Android. Flash is free and makes very little money for Adobe now-a-days – they are not going to invest the time or resources in developing Flash for underpowered, tiny screens. You need a dual-core 1GHz+ CPU to play full-screen flash video unaccelerated – it just won’t work on cell phones. Also, html5 is going to completely replace Flash in the next years – it supports SVG for animation and h.264 for video streaming.To re-iterate: get over it.

By: derek

derek — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:00:41 +0000

@Chris
#4 – The iPhone only does that because iTunes supports video conversion. So, if you decide to install a bloated PC/Mac program that infests your entire computer with useless services; then, you get that functionality. There is no comparison between that and anything Android. The beauty of an Android phone is that you can actually use it as a hard-drive without the need for an entire, dedicated program on your PC/Mac to sync. Get handbrake, virtualdub, or one of the hundreds of free video trans-coding programs out there. Again, with Android you have choice in what you do. If you can’t handle choice – run back to your iPhone.
#5 – Use folders. No need to confuse yourself and clutter up your phone with useless home screens. Plus, they eat up extra memory.

@capsaicinburn
That is so the maps app can let you search your contacts and IM friends (facebook) to pull in addresses for you to map/navigate to. Very useful.

@50 cent
English please! However, from your name link…the Droid comes default with a YouTube app. Videos play great on the Droid’s screen.

By: 50 cent

50 cent — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:24:20 +0000

I want to watch videos music please setting for me

By: dheeraj

dheeraj — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:04:27 +0000

hey thanks for the information. as per my knowledge in samsung galaxy lite if you want to use bluetooth for data transfer, you have to install a software for android 1.5 but has this drawback been improved in 2.1 version. help me out.

By: capsaicinburn

capsaicinburn — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:47:27 +0000

I notice when installing many apps (v1.6) it wants authorizations for things that seem very surprising. For example the new version of Google Maps wants to read my instant messages and read and write contact data. I may be missing something but how is this related to maps? Thanks for any clarification!

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:14:47 +0000

Where’s the “show my caller Id” setting that’s called out in the Google Voice install splash screen?

I am interested in what that enhanced voice privacy option does.

Thx

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:51:59 +0000

Things I would like to see on Android 2.1
#1- Music player looks lame (out of date). Get the design team together and make it look more stylish. Be ahead of the competition not fall short of the finish line.

#2- Multi-touch. I don’t think its a big deal but having it is half the battle.

#3- Adobe flash 10. Get on there nuts and call them everyday until they at least give us a beta version to use. Be a annoying phone collector. And have them answer your consumer needs (clientel).

#4- When connected to computer I would like to just drag and drop movies and the phone automatically convert them for me. (SIMPLIFY) one reason the IPHONE is such a success is because of its easy functionality. Lets surpass that.

#5- Up the amount of HOME SCREENS lets say 7 sounds like a good number. or put in the settings where the user can pick there amount 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. I would like to have my work page, my home page, weekend page, games page, apps page, school page, and so on………….

Thanks for listening to my thoughts. Sincerely, future droid owner and first android phone.

By: Justa Notherguy

Justa Notherguy — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:45:15 +0000

@jojoba:
No ‘official’ word, yet, but I’m willing to bet it will.

By: Justa Notherguy

Justa Notherguy — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:03:31 +0000

@confused:

Haven’t tried it, myself. Just reporting what I’ve heard. :)

By: jojoba

jojoba — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:38 +0000

Will the G1 get the update? I cannot find a firm “Yes” or “No” anywhere….?????

Please let me know!!!!!

By: confused

confused — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:05:42 +0000

@Justa Notherguy

Are you sure the certificate issue has been solved in 2.0? This is my only must-have feature in this phone as I need to be able to connect to a hospital’s wifi network. Thanks.

By: MonkeyCheese

MonkeyCheese — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:57:52 +0000

So when syncing other accounts you can’t add a yahoo, aol or any other account? Or can this be done through Corp. acct.? I don’t know about everyone else but I use certain emails for certain situations.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:39:12 +0000

The running services is abit useless on the G1 since apps are usually not the cause of the battery draining. Usually it’s the Display, because the G1 lacks a light sensor to automatically reduce the screen brightness in darker environments.

This still annoys me a year later!

By: Will

Will — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:54:18 +0000

can I check this again “cannot select 2G only”?

Seriously? That is the only way I ever have of making my handset go for a full day of phone calls – I usually have my handset on 2G
1) email / calendar etc all syncs in the background anyway
2) voice quality is better
3) I user opera mini for browsing which is great under 2G
4) battery life is a zillion times better.

Say it ain’t so!

By: Justa Notherguy

Justa Notherguy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:30:02 +0000

@serg:
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Hope this isn’t too much info.
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In a typical professional environment (and most universities) the WLAN or WIFI system requires a secure certificate, for login. Despite being advertised as ‘WIFI enabled’, Android had no native support for certificates, through v1.5 (‘Cupcake’).
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V1.6 (‘Donut’) includes a GUI for configuring 802.1x (cert-based) WIFI, but the process was (at least) non-intuitive. Users might see the ‘Install Certificate’ link, but no selectable menu of certs…nor could they browse to the SD card to find them.
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Apparently, this has been solved in v2.0. If you’d like to catch up on the looong thread of complaints, rants and threats on this topic, check out Android’s issues page #1386. It all reads as pretty funny, unless you’re the dev. LOL
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http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1386