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1 Touch Zoom on Xperia X10 (better than pinch to zoom)

Well, I was looking at some thread and saw a link to the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERj67oRHeeE, its really slick, and in my opinion better than pinch to zoom(to be honest I never use it, I usually double tap on my itouch).
But its only for x10 mini, is there a chance we might get it on the x10?

Yeah, we're getting it with the 2.1 update.

Fuzalert2k said:
Yeah, we're getting it with the 2.1 update.
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I remember seeing this video on the official SE product launch blog. But, did they ever confirm that X10 would get it.
And yeah, it is super slick.

i guess it's only usable it photo gallery?
can't imagine how to stack with other function require long press in browser
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gaolinde said:
i guess it's only usable it photo gallery?
can't imagine how to stack with other function require long press in browser
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You can try the app JusPictures for that. It has a kind of one touch zoom. You can get an idea of what is it gonna be about when we have it.

Zenghelis said:
You can try the app JusPictures for that. It has a kind of one touch zoom. You can get an idea of what is it gonna be about when we have it.
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got the app seems like it's double tap to zoom?
my assumption the single touch zoom is to long press and scroll up or down isn't it? if it work this way then i think this trick is not gonna usable in any browser cause every app got a different preception for long press.
let's say while you long press in dolphin browser what the browser should do? open the menu or zoom?
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Dolphin Browser has that zoom. You hold your finger and then +&- appear and you can zoom in or out. Far more better than pinch zoom.

gaolinde said:
got the app seems like it's double tap to zoom?
my assumption the single touch zoom is to long press and scroll up or down isn't it? if it work this way then i think this trick is not gonna usable in any browser cause every app got a different preception for long press.
let's say while you long press in dolphin browser what the browser should do? open the menu or zoom?
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If you doble tap on a photo to zoom, after that you can long press on it and slide to zoom + or -. It´s just to get an idea of what one touch zoom is about. Try it!

Zenghelis said:
If you doble tap on a photo to zoom, after that you can long press on it and slide to zoom + or -. It´s just to get an idea of what one touch zoom is about. Try it!
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tried it works.
I just want to point out the atmosphere in this forum is treating this as a killing function, but i think this can only implement in photo gallery but not in web browsing unless SE develope a browser themself.
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I'm guessing they would overlay it on the stock browser..
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damirbusic said:
Dolphin Browser has that zoom. You hold your finger and then +&- appear and you can zoom in or out. Far more better than pinch zoom.
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I just tried Dolphin for this reason. However it looks like an other type of zoom. Indeed a + and - appear when you hold you finger on the screen. However you have to tap the + or - to zoom, where with the "Xperia one touch zoom" you'll just have to slide your finger up and down.

im_iceman said:
I'm guessing they would overlay it on the stock browser..
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HI...
U can use Swype?...
I try to install it and I was not succeed...
What version u install?
Thank You...
Sotto & Pepper

Now zoom on Nexus S

I have my Nexus S from US (I am from Belgium ) and its look OK , nothing spectacular .
I have main problem with camera , now zoom!!!!
Its totally surprised me , top end and now zoom , but even if I try to install zoom application from the store it is not working at all , now reaction .
Is this normal ? or I have wrong phone ?
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iels2003 said:
I have my Nexus S from US (I am from Belgium ) and its look OK , nothing spectacular .
I have main problem with camera , now zoom!!!!
Its totally surprised me , top end and now zoom , but even if I try to install zoom application from the store it is not working at all , now reaction .
Is this normal ? or I have wrong phone ?
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are you saying that there is no zoom on the camera?
It isnt a big deal it is just digital zoom and not optical

You sure there s no zoom? You try pinch to zoom on screen?
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scottspa74 said:
You sure there s no zoom? You try pinch to zoom on screen?
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No zoom.
CONFIRMED that trying to pinch-to-zoom has no affect.

Leave it to samsung. Go get a nexus 1
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scottspa74 said:
Leave it to samsung. Go get a nexus 1
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it has nothing to do with Sammy, its a google thing, The zoom in the N1 was just Digital zoom, meaning that it just zoomed in on the image

zachthemaster said:
No zoom.
CONFIRMED that trying to pinch-to-zoom has no affect.
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But really, who wants ****ty digital zoom anyway. If you wanted a nice camera on your phone, you should have bought a Nokia NSeries or something man. TO OP: Don't let that be a deal-breaker for you... I'm sure there will be custom ROMs around in given time that supports zoom and 720p video recording. Hope this helps.

Digital zoom on a fixed lens = crappy pixelated pics

I know the gingerbread roms for evo have zoom. But theyre custom. Thought it was in gingerbread though
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scottspa74 said:
I know the gingerbread roms for evo have zoom. But theyre custom. Thought it was in gingerbread though
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Not sure if stock android even supports phones with optical zoom

Yeah, I'm sure it's all digital
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There's an old Chinese proverb:
Man who requires digital zoom,
is an ignoramus.

Zoom with your feet.

bcpk said:
Zoom with your feet.
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very clever

Waky said:
very clever
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very clever to bump a three to four month old thread

zephiK said:
very clever to bump a three to four month old thread
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Same to u
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xdahd2 said:
Same to u
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Same to me
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I have the Galaxy S and just upgraded to CM7 nightly's which gives me a similar cam to the Nexus S. I've confirmed with a friend, and there's no zoom on his Nexus S.
I was surprised to find out, that there is no Zoom on the camera any more, as the Galaxy S (stock samsung) camera application supported zoom via the Volume Buttons.
For those saying "oh it's just digital and not optical zoom" is irrelevant. It allows me to take my crappy pixelated photo with out having to crop later before sending. The quality on the camera is sh!t anyways.
I'd personally like optical zoom and it seems like a standard reasonable feature these days.

j0rd said:
I have the Galaxy S and just upgraded to CM7 nightly's which gives me a similar cam to the Nexus S. I've confirmed with a friend, and there's no zoom on his Nexus S.
I was surprised to find out, that there is no Zoom on the camera any more, as the Galaxy S (stock samsung) camera application supported zoom via the Volume Buttons.
For those saying "oh it's just digital and not optical zoom" is irrelevant. It allows me to take my crappy pixelated photo with out having to crop later before sending. The quality on the camera is sh!t anyways.
I'd personally like optical zoom and it seems like a standard reasonable feature these days.
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You have to understand that the Nexus S is meant to be a developer phone so it lacks certain features that can be later added by the developers in the XDA forums.
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Developer phone or not it still cost the same as the galaxy s yet they didn't add alot of stuff shouldn't the phone be cheaper guess not more I think about this its just dumb Google is really droppin the ball. No tv-out no 720p recording no sdcard no zoom no codecs only thing that's better is the form factor and updates from Google I guess but that's the price I pay for lord Google to give updates rant off I guess
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Browser on 3.1

Am I the only one who thinks it kinda sucks? Sometimes it's really snappy and fast, and once the page has loaded scrolling is really quick. However a lot of the time it seems worse to me, especially the xda site. Text input is abysmal now (not just xda) so slow, and much worse than 3.0.1. Other bugs include no backspace in text boxes, not being able to click on links, font rendering a bit blurry when not zoomed in, and keyboard randomly getting stuck on caps.
Is it just me?

Not just u...it sucks. Such a shame as everything else is great. Text randomly not appearing in text boxes....pages not loading entirely...slow text input from dock...most annoying may be links not highlighting which leaves u guessing where u tapped. Hope a fix comes soon.
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I've actually been finding the one on the stock build a but bad too.
How about other browsers?

You can't complain too much because you have to remember that 3.1 isn't officially out yet
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Yeah, I just noticed my keyboard lags REALLY badly when trying to reply to posts on XDA. That got much worse. Haven't tried any other sites or different keyboards yet.

I hate how the page redraws images when you scroll.
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Ravynmagi said:
Yeah, I just noticed my keyboard lags REALLY badly when trying to reply to posts on XDA. That got much worse. Haven't tried any other sites or different keyboards yet.
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Are you using asus' default keyboard? Because I know that keyboard is laggy so I use the Android keyboard
Edit: and I may not know what I am talking about because I have not been on the xda website I just use the xda app.
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I was hoping that they improve the speed on the browser in 3.1 but look feels the same like in 3.0. Pages takes a long time to load. Typing is a pain in the ass even with the android keyboard. Surfing and running playerpro is very slow. Opera mobile seems to be the fastest browser ive tested so far, but the font is way tooo small and theres no way to increase it.

Tone503773 said:
Are you using asus' default keyboard? Because I know that keyboard is laggy so I use the Android keyboard
Edit: and I may not know what I am talking about because I have not been on the xda website I just use the xda app.
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I was using the ASUS keyboard. And I had some lag with it before, but it was never anything as bad as this.
I just switched to the Android keyboard. It's just as bad with that keyboard too.
I tried on another forum and it seemed normal. So it might just be this forum. The browser has never liked it anyway.

i posted this in the other thread. there are lots of browser issues with this. ill stick with it because there are lots of other improvements, but i doubt this update as is will be released to the public this week.

i didnt find that many speed issues. i was using flex T9 keyboard though. I will test tomorrow some more but i was thinking the browser had some nice improvements especially with the "quick controls"

I've seen that the thumb keyboard is quite popular. Wonder how it is working with this.

ewingr said:
I've seen that the thumb keyboard is quite popular. Wonder how it is working with this.
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I like thumb kb a lot, lot of good settings.

Thumb keyboard has sped up since 3.1, at least for me, it flies now.
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Xda is bad on my PC, so maybe its the website.windows 7 using Firefox. Delay is bad alot of the time

mazgaoten said:
Thumb keyboard has sped up since 3.1, at least for me, it flies now.
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I agree that Thumb keyboard is blazing fast now. There was an update to version 4 a couple of days ago so I'm not sure if that was the reason for the speed increase or Honeycomb 3.1, but it is very responsive now.

I normally use Tapatalk to access XDA, But I'm using thumb keyboard to post this reply on the XDA website directly - there is a little lag, but not too much.
Regards,
Dave

Forums in general suck on honeycomb. I gave up entirely and just use the xda app.
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I wish you folks wouldn't call it 3.1, because the official 'propper' 3.1 isn't released yet.
Whaat you've got is 3.02 or something found by a cleaner at asustech in the garbarge bins on a CD, they then uploaded it to the web and called it '3.1 leak' and you've all fallen for it! you then all come on here and start winging about, your gullibility is laughable

checkbox111 said:
I wish you folks wouldn't call it 3.1, because the official 'propper' 3.1 isn't released yet.
Whaat you've got is 3.02 or something found by a cleaner at asustech in the garbarge bins on a CD, they then uploaded it to the web and called it '3.1 leak' and you've all fallen for it! you then all come on here and start winging about, your gullibility is laughable
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Is that supposed to be a joke? It is most certainly 3.1.
In response to other posts, I'm also using thumb keyboard but still get a lot of lag, only in browser though so it's not a keyboard issue. Engadget said the browser took a massive hit in JavaScript performance with this update so maybe that's why. I'm thinking this isn't the final build so I'm looking forward to the official ota.
Like others have said though, even though the browser is worse in some regards the improvements in other areas of the rom make it worth sticking with

Portrait behavior

Hi, does portrait mode sucks for you too, it is almost unusable. It takes a lot of time to rotate and swiping through homescreens is laggy as hell.
Of course I'm talking of honeycomb homescreen, inside apps is quite smoother.
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Its an NVidia Tegra bug. They have promised to fix it soon.
Performance is affected everywhere when in landscape not only the launcher.

Hrm. I've had no issues with lag or performance in portrait mode, other than being annoyed when an app I open forces me into landscape. Maybe I just haven't looked at enough apps

huxflux2003 said:
Its an NVidia Tegra bug. They have promised to fix it soon.
Performance is affected everywhere when in landscape not only the launcher.
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How do they fix a bug in hardware?

I haven't noticed that. Perhaps because I almost always use it in landscape mode. But I can not say that it is "laggy as hell". It's quite smooth, I think.
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Maybe it's nvidia tegra problem as mentioned above. But Asus see pad is good when potrait hold, but suck n laggy when landscape mode.
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Fluffbutt said:
How do they fix a bug in hardware?
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With updated firmware
Really it depends on whether it's an actual hardware issue or a driver problem. And even some hardware issues can be resolved with updates to the controller software.

Dolphin Pad Browser

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that there is a great new Honeycomb browser available in the market from the Dolphin team called Dolphin Pad. I've been using it for a few minutes now and I've gotta say that it's the smoothest 3rd party browser i've tried. Give it a try and post your thoughts.
Cheers
EDIT: I can confirm that HD content from amazon instant video & youtube play silky smooth

do u mean..the dolphin hd 6.0??
It also lets me use flash 10.3

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It also lets me use flash 10.3
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Nope! Dolphin Pad https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dolphin.browser.pad

Im on it as we speak. It does seem kinda promissing in speed but had it 10 minutes using xda in the new mode with no hasitation
After using this a whole day and comparing it to say stock browser im back to stock.it turns out to be faster .sometimes the dolphin pad freezes right at the end of loading some web sites. I think its a flash or Java issue as sometimes it seems as thou its a add that is stooping it.
With that said it is in beta I sent Dev a message its promising
search dolphin pad in market to get

Can somebody please post the apk. Thanks
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I'm liking it

chad24taylor said:
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that there is a great new Honeycomb browser available in the market from the Dolphin team called Dolphin Pad. I've been using it for a few minutes now and I've gotta say that it's the smoothest 3rd party browser i've tried. Give it a try and post your thoughts.
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How's it so different from the regular dolphin HD browser?
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Just DLed it and spent the last 30 minutes putting it through its paces. One weird random close, but otherwise very smooth and fast. Does a good job even on CNN flash videos, and the gesture feature seems a bit more accurate than the 6.0 HD I was using.

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How's it so different from the regular dolphin HD browser?
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To be honest, I haven't been using Dolphin HD so I'm not qualified to compare the two. I definitely suggest trying it out though!

So not for us with 10" tablets running Android 2.2? Shame.

Dolphin HD I've noticed when you scroll down, you lose the tabs. With DolphinPad, they stay. Also, Fullscreen on Pad seems better, can't really describe it. Pad doesn't have that annoying gesture thing on the bottom either. Swiping side to side for shortcuts seems more fluid. Flash works well. Just seems much more optimized for the tablet. Settings layout is much better imho. Overall, Pad = Win in my eyes. I'm coming from the Asus Transformer, but I can only imagine similar performance for the Iconia.

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Dolphin HD I've noticed when you scroll down, you lose the tabs. With DolphinPad, they stay. Also, Fullscreen on Pad seems better, can't really describe it. Pad doesn't have that annoying gesture thing on the bottom either. Swiping side to side for shortcuts seems more fluid. Flash works well. Just seems much more optimized for the tablet. Settings layout is much better imho. Overall, Pad = Win in my eyes. I'm coming from the Asus Transformer, but I can only imagine similar performance for the Iconia.
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Couldn't have said it better myself.

I like it, good stuff, Thanks

I like it a lot!! Better than Dolphin HD 6.0 ....

vince1979 said:
I like it a lot!! Better than Dolphin HD 6.0 ....
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I tried it for about an hour, then removed it. Can't find how to use gestures, and rendering on some sites sucks compared to dolphin browser HD.
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Looks good. Gonna give it a run.
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It is a very promising browser and a distinct upgrade over Dolphin HD 6. However, I couldn't find a quick way to import bookmarks from Dolphin HD and the address bar did not show the "home" icon (or I could not find it), so if anyone from the Dolphin team is reading this, please add these functions.

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Dolphin HD I've noticed when you scroll down, you lose the tabs. With DolphinPad, they stay. Also, Fullscreen on Pad seems better, can't really describe it. Pad doesn't have that annoying gesture thing on the bottom either. Swiping side to side for shortcuts seems more fluid. Flash works well. Just seems much more optimized for the tablet. Settings layout is much better imho. Overall, Pad = Win in my eyes. I'm coming from the Asus Transformer, but I can only imagine similar performance for the Iconia.
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You know you can disable the gestures in settings from working or displaying.
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Biologos said:
It is a very promising browser and a distinct upgrade over Dolphin HD 6. However, I couldn't find a quick way to import bookmarks from Dolphin HD and the address bar did not show the "home" icon (or I could not find it), so if anyone from the Dolphin team is reading this, please add these functions.
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No home button, just hit the plus tab and will open new page with whatever you set your homepage as.
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Better than Opera Mobile?