Comments on: Samsung Reaching Out to Developers to Fix Apps in Preparation For Android Tablet

By: SirTone

SirTone — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:35:31 +0000

How about Samsung spend some time telling us devs why code that just works on other phones doesn’t work on theirs? e.g., How do you open the microphone? I have code that works on all Android phones BUT Samsung’s. Different != better when the common things people should be able to rely upon break.

By: SirWally

SirWally — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:10:30 +0000

@Tony and all others complaining about custom UIs: *sigh* I suspect the majority of users would probably prefer TouchWiz over the stock Android UI. Users who know enough (I presume you included) should be able to figure out how to use the stock UI. I am getting tired of people complaining about the custom UIs. I love Android, and I like the stock UI, but both HTC Sense and TouchWiz 3 are better IMHO. It’s all personal preference — be thankful you have a choice.

@TheKoz: It looks like an automatically generated form mail, and it probably went through a translation program. I have received emails from Samsung before and they read in much the same way. They (and all other companies communicating in a language other than their native tongue) should hire native speakers because there are many things that could get misinterpreted or mistranslated that may not go over well.

By: ari-free

ari-free — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:59:16 +0000

Samsung isn’t perfect but it is good that they are on android’s side.
If they have their own app store (media hub?) they might be able to bypass the Market’s problems with paid apps in other countries, crapware, etc. Obviously they had to have something going on with EA in order to bring Sims to Vibrant.

By: Eurodude

Eurodude — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:04:19 +0000

It seems to me as if they studied the market and lloked what made Apple’s iPad to become such a success. One needs an experience with each device for people to buy it. It might be offensive to some people and maybe a hassle for us developers but in the end one does sell more when the experience is right. Now the only thing Samsung needs to do is an easy way to enable the developer mode and I’ll adopt my software for the tablet

By: Mensahwatts

Mensahwatts — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:26:58 +0000

@Maj yeah hopefully this means its going to a good option to the
Ipad

By: Maj

Maj — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:21:06 +0000

Thats a great move from Samsung, it shows them that they care and doing their best to bring the best experience

By: MensahWatts

MensahWatts — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:02:35 +0000

Looks cooooooolish-hope the price isnt to high-but yeah looks nice-hopfully it wont be all buggy like the other ones-but I dont think Samsung would make a laggy slate-or ebook reader-or whatever you call it-lol

By: Presto117

Presto117 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:51:51 +0000

For some reason, I’ve started to grow accustomed to Touchwiz 3.0 and I actually prefer it now over vanilla Android. Sure, it’ll take me a couple months to get updates, but I really like what Samsung does (and HTC, too, for Sense) to certain things to make the experience better and more logical. I’m not talking about the launcher (ADW can fix that ;), but things like putting my music controls and wifi, Bluetooth, etc. In the notifications bar and other things and in some cases, I think it just looks better (again, not the launcher), because, honestly, some aspects of Android were never the prettiest things in the world. But to be more on topic…. I like that Samsung’s doing this. I think this is the only way an Android tablet could be successful, is if there are apps that are modified for he screen like on the iPad. The letter could’ve been a little nicer, but still.

By: Dr Magic

Dr Magic — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:00:43 +0000

i’d like an app that runs with my electric skateboards, they are 2.4g bluetooth. Maybe Android 3.5 (toothfairy) will have IR add on

Samsung how about 4 window 4 way video conferencing? and a small swivel front VGA+ and all on a 3g network

By: Rob Schoenfeld

Rob Schoenfeld — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:19:17 +0000

I think gingerbread will bring the android world with the tablet form factor. If this thing supports all the codecs that the Galaxy S supports out of the box it will rock.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:53:14 +0000

Anything 7″ or over should just be 720p. That way it will be standarized.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:50:56 +0000

Tablet resolution is the only good fragmentation argument I have every heard. Why is it that PC apps can work on so many different resolutions byt Android apps can only work on one?

By: jo

jo — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:13:17 +0000

We don’t want custom OEM’s unless it’s for support like codec etc… plain vanilla please, coz I know at the end I’ll be using adw launcher.

By: Clark Kent

Clark Kent — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:42:41 +0000

This may have to do more so with 2.1 vs 2.2 (Froyo) vs 3.0 (Gingerbread)? As how applications will run?

By: sha

sha — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:41:50 +0000

I want an official go/official howto from Google about higher resolutions before working on it, like they did for QVGA in Android 1.6