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Heads up.... I wonder what they say!
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Heads up.... I wonder what they say!
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I'd guess usual comparisons to the iPhone and thet the camera isn't amazing. They didn't actually say what phones they are going to review when the spoke about the segment on the show though. They did manage to do a reasonable review of the Nokia N95 and it won on features over the original iPhone. Only time will tell. At least it's not Jason doing the review. Just my honest opinion.
What day time and channel? I would be interested in looking at that...
Only 3 G's because it's not an iPhone or Android
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TECHNOLOGY: The Gadget Show
On: Five (105)
Date: Monday 15th February 2010 (starting in 6 days)
Time: 20:00 to 21:00 (1 hour long)
Consumer technology show presented by Jason Bradbury, Suzi Perry, Jon Bentley and Ortis Deley. Suzi and Jason compete to shoot rival pop music videos. Suzi teams up with Fightstar while Jason works with Har Mar Superstar. Elsewhere, Jon tests smartphones in Italy and Ortis heads to the Czech Republic to view the amazing Snow Glider. And the whole team gathers to assemble a Top Five list of the best mobile-phone apps available.
(Followed by Five News at 9, Subtitles, 3 Star)
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+£50 they're going to down rate it simply because it uses WinMo, and say only that its "old, and not finger friendly", despite the first having no real relevance, and the second being near irrelevent too seeing as hardly anyone has that sort of problem with the HD2.
Fair play if they mark it down on random lag or crap keyboard though.
I like the Gadget Show but their tests are usually rubbish, I'm sure they are secretly sponsored by apple!! Even when iPhone looses all the tests they still say its better.
From what I saw at the end of last weeks show it looked like they had the HD2 up against the nexus one, but I do hope they bring the iPhone into the mix too.
I'm sure it will be the same old story, Win all the hardware tests, be the best device at most tasks, but will give it a crap rating cos the thicko's don't know how to use windows mobile!!
The Gadget show in the UK is the worst pile of drivel ever to grace our television screens.
It is a complete insult to intelligence and the only kind of people that watch it are those who want to know what objects are currently "cool"... unfortunately... the presenters of the show (and it is apparent the producers and researchers also) are completley clueless about ANY kind of tech.
The whole show ends up being a bit like the blind leading the blind.
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Gadget Show Lottery:
Guess how long it will take for any of the grinning ninnies presenting the show to mention the word 'Apple'
Score extra if there is a little bit of drool on their chins
Score even more if there is a visible disturbance in the trouser region
Last Week's Winner:
Mrs J.Froster from Newton Abbott, with a guess of 38 seconds. Mrs Froster wins the new iCar - identical to a real car only twice the size, entirely unusable and spectacularly unable to fulfill its basic purpose...but beautifully designed and specially marketed to hide the flaws. Available in white
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The Gadget show in the UK is the worst pile of drivel ever to grace our television screens.
It is a complete insult to intelligence and the only kind of people that watch it are those who want to know what objects are currently "cool"... unfortunately... the presenters of the show (and it is apparent the producers and researchers also) are completley clueless about ANY kind of tech.
The whole show ends up being a bit like the blind leading the blind.
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I think your being a little harsh but I do agree to a certain extent.
I still enjoy the show, but thats what its becoming "A Show" a bit like what happened with Top Gear, General sillyness with the odd bit of usefull information popping in now & then, it looks like this is whats happening to the Gadget Show too.
I still love Top Gear even though they don't review normal cars that much etc. But I love it as a Show.
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Gadget Show Lottery:
Guess how long it will take for any of the grinning ninnies presenting the show to mention the word 'Apple'
Score extra if there is a little bit of drool on their chins
Score even more if there is a visible disturbance in the trouser region
Last Week's Winner:
Mrs J.Froster from Newton Abbott, with a guess of 38 seconds. Mrs Froster wins the new iCar - identical to a real car only twice the size, entirely unusable and spectacularly unable to fulfill its basic purpose...but beautifully designed and specially marketed to hide the flaws. Available in white
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LOL, Classic!! Top Marks!!
If you want to watch
http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/videos/jon-test/samrtphones
HD2 came out on top
just watched that crappy review.
the gadget show must think thats all people do with a smart phone is post tweets and take pictures. no real comparison about email integration, battery life, customization, ease of use, usability, speaker quality, call quality etc, etc, etc.
smartphones are not meant to be judged on how easily they integrate with your social networks, though its a nice feature when they do.
stop comparing to the iphone, it wasnt even reviewed and its not an iphone.
rubbish program that has the specially made steve jobs blinkers on.
Agreed, the review was the briefest things I've ever seen, didn't go indepth on any of the phones at all. He might as well have just covered how the phones felt in his pocket.
The phones covered in the review were: Motorola Milestone, HD2 & Nexus One.
I LOL'd when he described the Nexus One as Google's own phone
Jon Bentley is doing the review - friend of mine - the HD2 was on 1.43 firmware!
What I found particuarly amusing was that he liked the keyboard!! And when he was looking at the pictures he said they weren't bad but I could see some distinctive pink tinging!
BUT at least the HD2 beat the other phones quite clearly. Although did anyone else notice, they didn't actually answer the question that everyone wanted to know... is the HD2 better than the iphone At least he did add very quickly that the HD2 was superior to the iphone in terms of hardware which is really pretty much undeniable fact.
1) Google Glass: possibilities of advertisement; basing adverstisement of what you see and geographically enable, taking advantage of streetview and visually as to what the user is seeing on the UI. For example, if a user walks by and views a McDonalds, a Google Goggles application will identify the image and instantly rely an advertisement to you.
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I see where you are coming from and i agree. It would also be great for museums and what not to give you the information on the artwork without having to read a tile and what not.
It's a neat product for sure.
More thoughts are welcome. Discussion and relative views are encouraged!
I think it'll be used for those reality TV shows a lot.
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Oh my, OP, Google isnt just all about ads, They do other stuff too.
2) I think most people don't realize this yet. There are some very neat things that can be done with Google Glass for the visually impaired. It could be used as a tool that will assist by using a combination of Google Goggles, and GPS to guide the visually impaired in ways that nothing else has really done...
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i think this tech is great...but i'm afraid it will kill our social life..i watch from youtube about project glass advertisement..that person a wearing glass make a date without her girlfreind and at the book store he is looking for ?? section..he didn't ask from a lady at counter..its look like a film WALL-E..just sit at chair..everything in front your eye and you are not noticed who are between of you.. this is only my 2cent opinion..sorry for my bad english..
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i think this tech is great...but i'm afraid it will kill our social life..i watch from youtube about project glass advertisement..that person a wearing glass make a date without her girlfreind and at the book store he is looking for ?? section..he didn't ask from a lady at counter..its look like a film WALL-E..just sit at chair..everything in front your eye and you are not noticed who are between of you.. this is only my 2cent opinion..sorry for my bad english..
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Good point. We've already reached some of that. As in people looking down at their smartphone most of the time rather than socializing.
I don't know how you're supposed to be driving and wearing this thing at the same time. Will the DOT allow this on public roads? I mean... Imagine you're driving down I-95 S while wearing it and something pops up on the ride of the glasses. At the same time, a truck is trying to merge into your lane from the right. You didn't see it coming because your glasses prevented you from seeing that truck in your right-side mirror...
Imagine they make real time translation lang to lang in text or voice mod...
I hope thant when i walk or drive, I haven't my eyes full of advertising!!! Or i collise with other people or wall xD
Random thoughts
The idea is not new, but being a big and supposedly not evil company behind it may success.
- The official video can create a lot of hype. But. You won't be able to perform most things they do there. It is expensive.
Will this eventually get better? Who knows. I guess this is an experiment, it may success or not.
- Btw, does exist already any kind indoor GPS like in the video?
- Could this eventually kill the phone as we know it (with the help of tablets)?
- Is it only for one eye? and no way to remove reality background? Not good for watching movies then.
- Input interfaces: I don't think voice commands can work when surround by crowd in the street. As someone said, work by blinking eyes? by moving head? by moving eyes? have a couple of buttons?
- Presbyopia. When we get older we have trouble watching our small phone screens. These glasses will naturally overcome this.
- Casual public social networking: See what radom people around you is thinking realtime (like Google Plus' "near you" but better), see their avatars. Have your GPS on 24/7 and drain your battery too, or use NFC if it helps. May a new p2p GPS network emerge, or ground GPS, who knows.
- Easy and fast NFC sharing is required, as you cannot just show your screen to your friend like you can do with phones.
I tried to say a few things as I thought them, probably all of the have been worked out already elsewhere.
Well, i believe and Google also says it at some places that it'll cause accidents.
Definitely you won't be using it while driving a car or walking across the street therefore it won't be local mostly professionals will be using it like sky divers, astronauts etc ..
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The idea is not new, but being a big and supposedly not evil company behind it may success.
- The official video can create a lot of hype. But. You won't be able to perform most things they do there. It is expensive.
Will this eventually get better? Who knows. I guess this is an experiment, it may success or not.
- Btw, does exist already any kind indoor GPS like in the video?
- Could this eventually kill the phone as we know it (with the help of tablets)?
- Is it only for one eye? and no way to remove reality background? Not good for watching movies then.
- Input interfaces: I don't think voice commands can work when surround by crowd in the street. As someone said, work by blinking eyes? by moving head? by moving eyes? have a couple of buttons?
- Presbyopia. When we get older we have trouble watching our small phone screens. These glasses will naturally overcome this.
- Casual public social networking: See what radom people around you is thinking realtime (like Google Plus' "near you" but better), see their avatars. Have your GPS on 24/7 and drain your battery too, or use NFC if it helps. May a new p2p GPS network emerge, or ground GPS, who knows.
- Easy and fast NFC sharing is required, as you cannot just show your screen to your friend like you can do with phones.
I tried to say a few things as I thought them, probably all of the have been worked out already elsewhere.
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Awesome points made there. This really makes you think.
Sounds Cool!
I happen to use a lot of coupons. Normally I'll look up the coupons at home for businesses I'll be around during the next day.
It would be fairly handy if eventually an app could be made for google glass that would pop up coupons/sales for places as I travel past them.
Luckily you'll be able to get a driverless car so that you don't crash while using your glasses
please everything except advertising, i wont wanna pay $1500 for adverts to be directly beamed into my face:silly:
Google will release their project glass...then get sued by Apple because apple just patented Google's invention. :banghead:
Adsense for Google Glass.. that's funny!
Saw this article over at Pocketnow; what do you guys think? http://pocketnow.com/2013/01/30/bb10-vs-wp8-video
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Saw this article over at Pocketnow; what do you guys think? http://pocketnow.com/2013/01/30/bb10-vs-wp8-video
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From a recent android to WP8 user, I will put in my two cents worth.
Lockscreen - Yea, I have to hit the button on my 8X, but I would be worried about accidental unlocks on the BB. Also, battery life knowing the screen is looking for that touch. Its a nice touch, but I am hesitant. The animation is nice, that faded edge is a cool touch, but I like the bounce the WP8 gives, and I am always trying to see how little I have to slide to get the unlock to happen, or how slow I can make it go.
Notificaitons - Ok, why is everyone complaining about the notificaitons? I don't have any problem, and I am getting texts all day, as well as emails to two accounts, and other notifications. Yea, there is no blinking light to tell me I have them, but since I keep my phone with me all the time, I know when it vibrates or makes a sound, I have a notificaiton. I remember as well if I have or have not checked what that notification is.
Local search - The video corrected it. So thats a wash.
Launching an app - Live tiles just rock. The static view on the BB is too reminiscent of Android. I think its neat that you can have the most recent apps shown, but only 4? I use about 8 to 10 a day, so scrolling up and down as I go about isn't that intuitive when I can set my screen on the WP8 to have those 10 in the first page.
Multitasking - Ok, BB got it easy here, the click on corner to completely close is nice.
My observations:
Its still too static, and I think its actually a cross between iPhone's all icons and Androids customization (most recent apps shown). I didn't see any widgets, so assuming there are none, it makes it more bland to me. That tells me its much more business orientated. I thought they would have gone personal this time, but guess not.
The keyboard - I don't like that line between rows, seems like they just wanted to make it different than other OS's, so the only thing left was to add a line instead of increasing the size of the keys or adding a gap between them.
Screen - didn't seem as crisp as the WP they were using, but not seeing it in person, cant really make that a definitive claim on my part.
Responsiveness - Seemed just as snappy as any good smart phone out there.
Build and design - It seemed a little simple, which isn't a bad thing. With this being a lifeline to RIM (or Blackberry) I thought they would have come out a little more 'radical'. But the quality seems there, and its a simple phone with some pleasing lines.
Over all, I think its going to appeal to the working force, but the trick is going to be making it affordable and easy to set up for the corporate officer. Personally, I don't think it will go well, but I am not a power user nor a reporter.
I think the WP8 platform still has it beat, and at least the 8X is much more visually appealing.
My two cents. For what its worth now a days!
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what do you guys think?
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The reviewer really seems to be avoiding talking about how things are done on WP8, and why they're done that way, he even misses a lot of points for WP8, possibly because he hasn't even used it for a long enough time - at least this is the impression he leaves me with.
The Lock Screen - BB has notifications on the lock-screen on the left, possibly if any app has something to say, it will show up there, plus the calendar is showing appointments in the middle. WP8 has only 5 notification icons, customizable(point BB), but there is a main and secondary app that can show info as well - one for the lock-screen background, and one for under the time/date zone.(point WP8)
I agree with the power drain issue, when constantly looking for a touch-slide from the bottom vs physical button.
Notifications - This Notifications fetish comes from Android(I think), and it's a useful feature for Android. WP7&8 has Live Tiles. Different concept. A pencil and a pen are both used to write, but don't blame your pencil for not using ink. If we count the steps on BB to know what happened last - say you received an email - it takes you a complex swipe(from bottom to middle to the right), a swipe to the right(to get rid of Twitter), a tap on the Unified center, and a tap on the email itself, and you're done(if that tap opened the actual email and not just the email app). On WP8 it's a tap on the home screen(if you're not already there), a tap on the email tile(because you see it flashing with a 1 on it), a tap on the conversation and you're done. OR maybe you can omit the last two, if your email tile is set to large - then you see the whole email without even entering the email app.
Lets do a recap:
BB: Complex swipe -> Optional Simple Swipe(if say Twitter is open) -> Tap on Unified Center -> Tap on email | That's 1 complex step, 2 simple steps and 1 optional simple step.
WP8: Optional tap on start -> Optional [Tap on email -> Tap on conversation] because if tile is maxed, then you can already read it. That's 3 optional simple steps.
The Windows Phone method may not have the bling you like to see on your BB, but you have to admit, its faster.
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I think its neat that you can have the most recent apps shown, but only 4? I use about 8 to 10 a day
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Actually he scrolled down to show a total of 8. Its nice to have a list of recently used apps. But if you want that I guess you can just place them toward the top of your home screen on WP8 for easy access.
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Multitasking - Ok, BB got it easy here, the click on corner to completely close is nice.
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I have to agree with you. WP8 is nice with the frozen app states for non-active apps, but spamming the back button to keep my navigation list clean kinda sucks.
About the notification light - My phone is in my pocket - in this case the light is useless. Even when it leaves my pocket it goes on my night stand. In the morning, the first thing i do is check if I have anything new and place it back home - into my pocket. If I wouldn't check it for new stuff, I'd probably forget it there for the whole day...
And of course while RIM is a dying company ATM, solely producing both software and hardware, compared to Microsoft - not a dying company - producing software(and hardware rumored), with HTC, Samsung, Nokia, ZTE, Huawei, ASUS, LG, etc backing it with hardware, I believe WP8 has a very strong chance to keep the 3rd place for now.
- My opinion.
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The keyboard - I don't like that line between rows, seems like they just wanted to make it different than other OS's, so the only thing left was to add a line instead of increasing the size of the keys or adding a gap between them.
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Current BB devices with physical keyboards have gaps between the keys, they are trying to replicate that look and feel with the silver spacing.
It's a good idea but doesn't necessarily mean it's a good implementation.
I've had it just about to here with the notifications moaning. The majority of men carry their phones on a belt holster/case and the majority of women carry their phones in a purse. Based on this, how can you see a blinking light? Isn't a vibrate notification better? Or even a ringtone/alert? I can understand (a little) if you're stuck behind a desk all day, but even then I'm sure employers insist on keeping phones on vibrate or off altogether. You certainly can't see a blinking light if you're driving. For those that do, kindly tell me what city and state you're in so I can stay away.
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I've had it just about to here with the notifications moaning. The majority of men carry their phones on a belt holster/case and the majority of women carry their phones in a purse. Based on this, how can you see a blinking light? Isn't a vibrate notification better? Or even a ringtone/alert? I can understand (a little) if you're stuck behind a desk all day, but even then I'm sure employers insist on keeping phones on vibrate or off altogether. You certainly can't see a blinking light if you're driving. For those that do, kindly tell me what city and state you're in so I can stay away.
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A notification light is just as handy as vibrate. Surely it cant be that hard to believe that people take their phones out of their pocket or purse...Such as placing it on a dresser before bathing or to do a task where you dont want to bang your phone around. Coming into the room to glance at whether their is communication waiting is apparent with color coded notifications. I dont even have to pick up my phone. For the record, I'm not one of those types that incessantly has to be toying with my smart phone.
Understand now? Samsung learned this too, as most of their latest flagship phones now incorporate this. Geewhiz, maybe thats why their the topdog android handset maker now? They know whats good.
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A notification light is just as handy as vibrate. Surely it cant be that hard to believe that people take their phones out of their pocket or purse...Such as placing it on a dresser before bathing or to do a task where you dont want to bang your phone around. Coming into the room to glance at whether their is communication waiting is apparent with color coded notifications. I dont even have to pick up my phone. For the record, I'm not one of those types that incessantly has to be toying with my smart phone.
Understand now? Samsung learned this too, as most of their latest flagship phones now incorporate this. Geewhiz, maybe thats why their the topdog android handset maker now? They know whats good.
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Would you rather have to go into a room and glance to see if there's a notification, or would you rather be alerted when one comes in? I know I don't have that much energy to burn.
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Would you rather have to go into a room and glance to see if there's a notification, or would you rather be alerted when one comes in? I know I don't have that much energy to burn.
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Keep in mind, not everyone enjoys being tethered to their coveted smartphone as if it were a ball and chain. When I go to watch a movie or something for my own leisure while at home I leave my phone in my bedroom, as I'm sure many other people do as well who get tired of tending to it. Thus its a handy feature at times. Very reminiscent of the blinking light on answering machines in the old days...
Thread related opinion. BB, much like Microsoft has a long way to go in catching up with the integration and functionality of Android and iOS. BB10 demos look gimicky at best showing off UI features that wont sway consumers. If their lucky they can finally get the diehard BB users / holdouts to upgrade from their dinosaur qwerty devices.
^ every app can fully integrate into BB10. not a long way to go at all.
The notification hub alone is more than enough to sway users away from this platform.
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Keep in mind, not everyone enjoys being tethered to their coveted smartphone as if it were a ball and chain. When I go to watch a movie or something for my own leisure while at home I leave my phone in my bedroom, as I'm sure many other people do as well who get tired of tending to it. Thus its a handy feature at times. Very reminiscent of the blinking light on answering machines in the old days...
Thread related opinion. BB, much like Microsoft has a long way to go in catching up with the integration and functionality of Android and iOS. BB10 demos look gimicky at best showing off UI features that wont sway consumers. If their lucky they can finally get the diehard BB users / holdouts to upgrade from their dinosaur qwerty devices.
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Your contradiction is funny. You want to walk into a room to see if you have a notification and I want to stay as far away from the electronic leash. I'll take a sound alert any day, at least I can hear it from across my house. You are the one who sounds like they are tethered with a ball and chain.
Being a dinosaur myself, I happen to like physical keyboards. You can't "feel" your way across a virtual kb. Maybe someone will make a Jitterbug smartphone one day.
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^ every app can fully integrate into BB10. not a long way to go at all.
The notification hub alone is more than enough to sway users away from this platform.
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What I mean by integration is more geared towards seamless user experiences between desktop (or laptop), tablet, smartphone, and even web based applications. Features and services that create a unified and synchronized ecosystem. Granted all platforms struggle in this regard and all could benefit from further development and refinement. I somehow feel as though Microsoft and Apple have the major advantage by offering BOTH a desktop / laptop and tablet operating system in addition to a smartphone platform.
Canonical understands this with the recent development of Ubuntu for smartphones. They now have a multi-device compatible OS that strives to create a similar experience across all major computing devices.
The biggest dilemma still for a lot of novice users with their smartphones is keeping data, settings preferences, etc synchronized across all their devices without having to spend money on third party applications. These features should be baked into the smartphones stock OS. IMO, Android has great services integration w. gmaps, youtube, etc and iOS is pretty solid in regard to integration with their desktop OS and itunes.
If I wasn't on a contract I'd look at both.
Blackberry has the best push email system. It uses the lowest amount of battery out of any phone, they have a patent that stops anyone else doing push email the same way.
Multitasking is better on BB10, the peek option is handy.
Personally I think Microsoft needs to release a huge 8.5 upgrade in 2013 add lots of things or BB10 is going to slaughter the WP marketshare.
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Your contradiction is funny. You want to walk into a room to see if you have a notification and I want to stay as far away from the electronic leash. I'll take a sound alert any day, at least I can hear it from across my house. You are the one who sounds like they are tethered with a ball and chain.
Being a dinosaur myself, I happen to like physical keyboards. You can't "feel" your way across a virtual kb. Maybe someone will make a Jitterbug smartphone one day.
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It's not a contradiction. I don't actively interrupt my activities to go check my phone repeatedly when I don't want to be bothered by communication. After all, our smartphones are predominately for...communication. It's about unplugging from technology and constant socializing that these devices tend to overwhelm us with. Which is the whole point of not having the device in your pocket or the same room.
Example, when I'm watching a movie I don't want to have to hear other peoples or my phone(s) go off, worry about spilling a drink on it or damage it in some way, or have an annoying brick bulging in my pocket. I want to be comfortable and uninhibited. Do you get it yet?
So if there's another reason to enter the room where my phone is, it's convenient to be able to just quickly glance over at the device and see a notification light telling you that you have a message.
To each their own as far as preferences go I guess? I can understand if some people don't mind having a phone around all the time and the convenience it gives. But don't call it a worthless feature that Android users are making a fuss about. Gosh maybe their are even people that shower with their phones these days, perhaps Sony employees who have access to the new Sony Xperia waterproof phones that were recently announced?
My phone goes in my pocket when I leave the house. Period.
I think it looks a little too familiar shape wise Some cool features but think it will confuse many non technical users, A very biased opinion from the host who seriously needs to take his tongue out of BBs trousers,
It reminded me a bit of the meego OS on my old N9 with the swiping so not really groundbreaking there, Like everything else it will have its die hard fans
BB10 as far as I have seen it in their presentation doesn't bring too many new things to the table. The keyboard was one thing that was particularly interesting (especially as it allows to mix languages in the text easily). As for "the Hub" - it seems like the people hub in WP with the added benefit of third party app integration. Although - we have already seen something similar in WebOS already. I really hope there are additional filtering capabilities for it (aside from drilling down to the App level). In the demo it looked like the mess the Notification Bar on my GS2 sometimes looks like (e.g. loads of notifications I don't care about so I don't see the stuff that actually interests me).
The minimized view of running Apps is the closest thing to Live Tiles or Widgets but as you can't pin them they die together with the Apps (e.g. 9th opened App closes the least recently used along with it's "tile"). So for "glanceable" information that is quite a deficiency in BB10.
BBM is not as relevant as it used to be. This can also be seen in the fact that they proudly anounced Skype and WhatsApp Support. Those are the Apps used for Video-Chat and Text Messaging nowadays.
As for superior push: either they changed that model (which might rid us of the Blackberry Tax that People had to pay to Operators for supporting Blackberry push) or they royally screwed up it's implementation because in several tests battery life was merely mediocre and in no way superior to the competition.
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^ every app can fully integrate into BB10. not a long way to go at all.
The notification hub alone is more than enough to sway users away from this platform.
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Maybe it's me but, I see no need for a notification hub with Windows phone 7/8. I do like the idea of a blinking light for new email, SMS, txt etc just to pull my phone out and get an idea if it's worth turning on my phone at that second (HTC does some of this).
Live tiles update, notification hubs are for phones that do not have live updates so you can see when you have new messages etc. My live tiles give me updates for everything I need, if I had a notification "hub" I would never use it and I still dont see the demand for it...
Isn't that what live tiles are for (so you dont need a notification hub) ????? If it's not working for you, maybe you need to setup your tiles so you have the important stuff so you can view it all with out scrooling...
About the only thing I think I would like is shortcuts to NFC, Wifi, bluetooth etc but, it's not worth taking up a tile for...
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Maybe it's me but, I see no need for a notification hub with Windows phone 7/8. I do like the idea of a blinking light for new email, SMS, txt etc just to pull my phone out and get an idea if it's worth turning on my phone at that second (HTC does some of this).
Live tiles update, notification hubs are for phones that do not have live updates so you can see when you have new messages etc. My live tiles give me updates for everything I need, if I had a notification "hub" I would never use it and I still dont see the demand for it...
Isn't that what live tiles are for (so you dont need a notification hub) ????? If it's not working for you, maybe you need to setup your tiles so you have the important stuff so you can view it all with out scrooling...
About the only thing I think I would like is shortcuts to NFC, Wifi, bluetooth etc but, it's not worth taking up a tile for...
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Phones that don't support live updates? What phone does t?
Polling tiles can not and will never compete with a real notification hub. Every notification in one place trumps scrolling in efficiency.
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Android - ecosystem = bbos
Looks like the people hath spoken anyway. BlackBerry now has doubled WP8 for smart phone marketshare since the z10 came out. Sorry guys, better luck next season / WP9.
GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT
I am making this thread so that we can communicate to the developers what we want to be able to do with Glass. Them having the devices in advance is a huge advantage to the costumer in the future. This will all go to waste if they don't know what the masses want from them. I encourage everyone to post what they would like to see in the new technology. I will update the list as people contribute.
1) The ability to send info pulled up on Glass to be sent to chrome browser on either a computer or a phone
2) The ability to store info of people you have met. Then later use facial recognition when we see them again to pull up info like there name, where we met them, and other relevant info.
2) Integration with Google Keep to be able to view and create lists and notes
3) A flashlight. I know the hardware limitations prevent this right now, but maybe by the final release they will include a LED.
4) Video playback for things like Netflix and HBOgo
5) Ability to track physical activity. It could replace things like Nike FuelBand and promote exercise
6) Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Vine, and Foursquare integration
7) Real time translator. Both Samsung and Google have great apps, so integration of one, or a new one would be awesome.
Mods, if this is in the wrong place or would serve better function some where else, please move it there. Thanks
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Them having the devices in advance is a huge advantage to the costumer in the future.
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Why restrict it just to people who make costumes in the future? I say that the advance release should be a huge advantage to all consumers!
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1) The ability to send info pulled up on Glass to be sent to chrome browser on either a computer or a phone
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And, more importantly, vice-versa.
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4) Integration with Google Calender
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I'm pretty sure this is already there, out of the box.
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5) Ability to track physical activity. It could replace things like Nike FuelBand and promote exercise
6) Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Vine, and Foursquare integration
7) Real time translator. Both Samsung and Google have great apps, so integration of one, or a new one would be awesome.[/SIZE]
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Yes please.
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With regards to facial recognition, I want all of the following:
1.) Facebook can already scan my photos and attempt to identify my FB friends. I want Glass facial recognition to draw from FB to identify my friends IRL, based either on processing my existing network of tagged photos or via FB creating a facial recognition API that Glass can ping pics against. (The latter seems a little unlikely, but perhaps FB will see it as a way to get Google to do all the work and then it can release Facebook Glass based on Google Glass?)
2.) Glass should also consult an open database of public figures (politicians, FBI Most Wanted list, celebs) to identify individuals via facial recognition.
3.) Facial Recognition API that allows me to write an app or launch a widget whenever a person matching criteria is identified. (I want to write an app that, whenever I look at a politician, will do a public records look-up on his/her donors, identify the corporations, and overlay their logos at 40% opacity over the politician's clothes, making them look like a NASCAR driver sporting sponsor patches.)
These all require Google to expand the Glass APIs, though, and are not things that developers can do now.
I want video playback, netflix, hbo go, amazon etc if ti can mirror my phone that'd be ideal
The facial recognition will be amazing but there would be huge privacy concerns imho.
1. I want glass to be on both my eyes
2. Tech is getting better but battery life has stagnated. I want this to do better than a day.
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Dual eye Glass, 3D AR!
Facial recognition could be bad, how long until there's an app for searching for nude pics of someone?
Maybe I should patent that
Oh! I've just remembered why I want them.
Lifelogging, a GPS tagged photo every 15 minutes, just so I can remember what I've been up to.
A micro zoom lense on the camera so it can see far away like binoculars... or uniocular I dunno .. but yeah deffo zoom lense :3
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Past androids: HTC Hero - Sony X10 mini (rooted + mini cyanogenmod) - Orange Stockholm (rooted) :3
I want to put CM10.1 on it and thats all
WhatsApp
And the ability to see all notifications from the Smartphone
ebook reader
I'd love to have an ebook reader on glass.
It means I can run/bike and read a math book at the same time. They can't put mathematics books in to audiobook because of the symbols. The same goes for other technical books and also comic books I think.
I still find it hard to find any use for Glass, but reading what people want is certainly interesting.
I guess what we want Glass to do is lead the way into an augmented world where reality and technology co-exist to create a more informative, interactive, conscientious world through the direct access of information, in the moment that it is happening, with as little to no effort as possible.
Information can and is liberating. The more conscious we are of the world around us and of own our selves the more likely we are to change our bad habits and be more aware of what we are doing to ourselves, those around us, and the world around us.
We strive for moments that allow us to be fully in the moment, experiencing life, and add meaning to our lives. We are very much the construct of our past actions, our habitual behavior patterns, and of a consumeristic, capitalistic, money driven society driven in the areas of self-interest and mass manipulation that if we could reclaim our experience, reclaim our self integrity that would be a major step forward in humanity. And with instant worldwide connectivity and a global information database to rely on that could change the cultural agenda into what hopefully would be a more understanding, empathetic, knowledgeable, and connected world that we all can live and share in. But that's already here, the internet is it. So what of it? I guess now the task is to create a more seamless integration between technology and humanity, something easier to use, that's direct, personable, and performs the task at hand with as much user input or output he or she would like presented.
Many hurdles, and many afar away, but the path is there at least, It's happening.. the rest are in the details that lie ahead.
I want Google Glass to be able to show subtitels if I am watching a movie.
I want Google Glass to show me the keywords during my presentation in school for example.
I want Google Glass to show me where I can find good restaurants near to me too.
Not sure if it fits in this thread, but it would be nice in future hardware releases to make the screen size bigger. Especially for the price, I was expecting a bigger screen.
Sync with info from PC and Phone generally. That could do good.
I want:
- Smaller size
- Lighter weight
- Less heat
- Better battery life
- Faster boot up
- Nicer frame styles (current frames look like an enginerd designed them)
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The eye's optics limit Google contact lens since we're unable to focus and see anything that close. If we did we'd be annoyed by particles and imperfections on the cornea.
On the other hand, there's hope as experimental technology (bionic eye) sends video info to the retina enabling the blind to partially see. But it's very limited and only intended to treat a special disease.
I started this off as a response to another thread inquiring about bugs or issues with 9.0, but ended up writing up a full piece about the useability and functionality of the system and decided to make it a new thread. In short, I suggest to anyone considering the update, if you're happy with your current set up and are not fond of relearning how to use something you carry and depend on every day, then you will probably want to stay on 8.1.
I used it from the day it released up until 2 days ago and found it to be a massive clusterf*ck of UI/UX inconsistencies, glaring white, and broken useability features. Notifications are a mess, settings and features which were organized into reasonable categories are now buried in unrelated submenus and renamed confusingly, reliable UI/UX features have been swapped with newer less obvious actions, gestures, and unclear UI elements, drastically unrelated font families have been thrown together to create a very visually jarring reading experience, the system UI has enough white-on-white you could use the phone as a beacon in a storm, and the color choices seem to have been based on focus groups conducted with toddlers. Maybe it's just me getting old and stubborn towards change, but the consistency and predictability of 8.1 is nowhere to be found in 9.0.
As for the backend, a lot has been added, more than I can recall or understand, but the PrivateDNS and MAC randomization are nice security upgrades that are actually useful for those who live in places with ubiquitous but often sketchy, less-than-open internet fuctionality. It is noticeably faster visually, but also particularly faster in dealing with larger files and database types of information. Small tweaks, like the media volume default, and the dynamic rotation icon in the navbar, are welcome additions, but those come at the expense of the god-awful, take it or leave it, reworking of the Recents overview page. I know it's currently optional, but I gave the new gesture system a go, and eventually got used to it. However, it's going to take some massive tweaking down the road for it to be anywhere near as efficient and simple as the old navbar and vertical card overview.
Core device functionality is fine and battery was fair, almost the same, but I run a very lean system and also disable a lot of services since I currently live in a country with restricted Google access and most of those features are useless to me. Camera is still best-in-class and shouldn't be expected to change since the core camera functionality is in the hardware, the Camera app, and the Pixel Visual Core extension app. Basically any system apps that update via the Play Store should and do function as expected without any noticeable problems. While not specifically a Google problem, it's still worth mentioning that some apps are not yet ready for 9.0 and need to be updated by their developers.
My personal opinion, 9.0 is Android's "Windows Vista" moment, and they'd be smart to pull the whole thing back to beta and hold the release until they get their UI/UX overhaul ready for a full primetime roll-out. The system runs like it was built and tuned specifically for the Pixel hardware, but the user experience made me cringe every time I picked up my phone.
I spent the last 36 hours downgrading to 8.1 from a full wipe, clean setup, and restoring an adb backup. I now have a phone that I actually enjoy using again and I couldn't be happier with it.
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In considering a few friends opinions regarding Betas and Developer Previews, I'm inclined to temper my opinions, but only slightly.
Yes, I agree, that taking part in the Beta and Developer Preview (DP) process of OS releases helps determine many important aspects of the OS. However, in the case of entities this large, that involvement is really only meant to be as bug chasers. Beta and DP user's opinions on UI/UX matters are largely ignored, as they do not fit within the framework of said entities larger goal: Mass Usage (i.e. the lowest common denominator, AKA the ignorant child-like masses). They only want you for your ability to create and willingness to report showstopping bugs. They don't need the developer or niche user community to make UI/UX choices, they have focus groups for that. Unfortunately, the customer isn't always right, and people don't usually know what they actually like or why. Chase opinions, focus groups, ad engagement, click data, and the fastest dollar, and eventually we'll all be living in a Fisher-Price world (see: Asia).
The second problem with participating in these not-really-beta and almost-but-not-quite-developer-previews is that, not only have they already made all of the major decisions about how it's going to look and be used, expert use and experience be-damned, but by participating in these programs, the user is effectively subjecting themselves to a brainwashing scheme meant to dull the discerning mind into believing that "vX.X is so much better now than when it first hit public preview". It's the equivalent of software Stockholm Syndrome. Public Beta and DP users have deluded themselves that this final release is ok based on how they saw it change from the first public preview release. It's still just as awful as it was when it first went public, it's just a slightly better shade of awful.
It's a damned shame such a powerful and well running OS feels like it had such an awful UI/UX thrown on top of it. It's inconsistent, half baked, and feels like a grab at the ignorant, screen-obsessed masses, if they were color-blind with 20/200 vision. This is professional grade coding with pre-alpha grade UI/UX. A system built for power with a GUI designed for infantiles, on a device aimed at enthusiasts. They should be ashamed.
I'm not struggling like you with the UI. But, in order to get the new hidden/back end benefits and avoid most of UI issues, why not just run a different launcher?
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I'm not struggling like you with the UI. But, in order to get the new hidden/back end benefits and avoid most of UI issues, why not just run a different launcher?
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I always do. Been a die hard Nova user for years. But there are some really weird glitches with how 9.0 and third party launchers interact. I managed to work most of them out but never regained that full, fluid, native UX like with previous versions.
Finally, someone who understands. I've been thinking that I'm the only one disgusted by this release.
How did you revert back to 8.1?
Unlock bootloader, flash-all script, re-lock?
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Finally, someone who understands. I've been thinking that I'm the only one disgusted by this release.
How did you revert back to 8.1?
Unlock bootloader, flash-all script, re-lock?
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Backed up everything with Titanium, did a full /sdcard backup to pc via adb, full partition wipe via TWRP, then ran the flash-all script from the July image.
Afterwards, same as my usual manual update. Boot to TWRP flash kernel, and Magisk.
Followed by the painstaking process of a full manual setup of clean device.
Then installed Titanium and SD Maid, disabled all unnecessary services and activity hooks, restored SD Maid settings via Titanium, cleaned caches, then restored my /sdcard via adb, then restored user apps and user app settings via Titanium.
Then individually redownloaded all the individual app files that didn't make it in the backup.
And now, here I am, posting from my 8.1 device like the last two weeks never happened.
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If you're bootlocked, then you'll need to backup your important /sdcard files via file transfer or adb, unlock to do the fastboot method of restoring the stock 8.1 July image, then just relock, restore your /sdcard via file transfer or adb, and then manually download and setup all your apps fresh.
If I had to do all that, I would have either suffered with 9.0, or waited till I had enough whiskey and coffee on hand to suffer through a long weekend of a full manual setup.
@jallenhayslett thanks for the detailed reply, I appreciate it.
I'm don't have a lot to back up, so a clean flash isn't a major issue for me. I'll probably wait for the September security patch to see if they've changed anything and then decide.
So many tears about very minor UI changes. I don't get it. I feel like it the time you spent complaining about it you could have learned to use it.
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So many tears about very minor UI changes. I don't get it. I feel like it the time you spent complaining about it you could have learned to use it.
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I tend to live by the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" ethos. "Just shut up and learn to love it" only exists in the section of my dictionary labeled "if absolutely necessary".
Mind you, I live and work in a country where ignoring things until they become festering, puss filled, infected boils is almost as commonplace as breathing, so I'm well acquainted with how I should just adjust and get by. I refuse to accept garbage products here as well, despite knowing it won't change many opinions.
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I tend to live by the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" ethos. "Just shut up and learn to love it" only exists in the section of my dictionary labeled "if absolutely necessary".
Mind you, I live and work in a country where ignoring things until they become festering, puss filled, infected boils is almost as commonplace as breathing, so I'm well acquainted with how I should just adjust and get by. I refuse to accept garbage products here as well, despite knowing it won't change many opinions.
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Many like the changes, so who decides that it is or isn't garbage? I like it personally, so is your opinion the only valid one, is mine? Etc.. It's changed, either adapt or move to something else.
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Many like the changes, so who decides that it is or isn't garbage? I like it personally, so is your opinion the only valid one, is mine? Etc.. It's changed, either adapt or move to something else.
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Glad you like it, regardless of my opinion. I did, however, move on, or back, rather.
Interesting though that I am not the only one to have similar opinions. opinions that have been mentioned and discussed as far back as the first preview build. But our opinions don't matter, and they aren't about the preview builds, they're about the release build, and our opinions matter even less in regards to public release builds.
Why these opinions and the opinions of countless others matter, is because, while occasionally drenched in colorful, subjective language, they actually address some very objective, glaringly obvious missteps taken by the departments responsible for UI and UX. Missteps which, whether you like, dislike, approve, or disapprove, resulted in repeatable glitches, slowdowns, and inefficiencies. Missteps which those departments chose to gloss over and/or ignore for the sake of shipping a subjectively better looking, subjectively cleaner, and subjectively prettier product on schedule, despite grievances aired by the developer community during testing phases.
So, yes, I agree. My opinion really doesn't matter. But, if that's the case, then neither does yours. Whether the opinions themselves address objective or subjective matters, at the end of the day, they are nothing but feelings. And feelings don't matter. Only facts.
I don't really understand what you say about never getting back the old fluidity, I've found no problems myself: the few gestures they have are simple to adapt to, and I'd personally probably have gone the whole hog and replaced the back button with a swipe left on the pill (easier to reach than a button that's off to the left, though I've customised my nav bar to move it in closer). I genuinely haven't felt any loss of usability, and use some features more (i.e. I occasionally remember the quick swipe to switch to last app, never remembered the equivalent with the old recents button).
I actually prefer the new "recent apps". Mind you, I always disliked the old "rolodex" style, so pretty much anything would be an improvement, but I often find it useful that I can actually read information off my recent apps without switching to them (e.g. when I'm looking something up in one app and using the information in another). So it's a matter of what you use the phone for and how you use it, but overall I find it better. Please don't feel obliged to label me as a member of the "ignorant, child-like masses" for having a different opinion from you.
Aesthetically I would prefer a more muted colour scheme in the settings, but Oreo was also blindingly white. And at least you no longer need substratum if you just want a dark notification slider with a light wallpaper (though we are back to needing root for proper theming, which is a regression, though since this is XDA we shouldn't find that a big problem).
Besides which, Vista's problems were of a different order to this
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Glad you like it, regardless of my opinion. I did, however, move on, or back, rather.
Interesting though that I am not the only one to have similar opinions. opinions that have been mentioned and discussed as far back as the first preview build. But our opinions don't matter, and they aren't about the preview builds, they're about the release build, and our opinions matter even less in regards to public release builds.
Why these opinions and the opinions of countless others matter, is because, while occasionally drenched in colorful, subjective language, they actually address some very objective, glaringly obvious missteps taken by the departments responsible for UI and UX. Missteps which, whether you like, dislike, approve, or disapprove, resulted in repeatable glitches, slowdowns, and inefficiencies. Missteps which those departments chose to gloss over and/or ignore for the sake of shipping a subjectively better looking, subjectively cleaner, and subjectively prettier product on schedule, despite grievances aired by the developer community during testing phases.
So, yes, I agree. My opinion really doesn't matter. But, if that's the case, then neither does yours. Whether the opinions themselves address objective or subjective matters, at the end of the day, they are nothing but feelings. And feelings don't matter. Only facts.
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Again "glaringly obvious" is opinion based. You're treating your opinion as factual.
I'm not saying my opinion matters either, what I'm saying is based on fact. Whether or not you like it, or I like it, it exists and is how it is.
Now, again, you can adapt to it, or just not update ever. I don't really care what you do, but I don't think much else is going to cure your grievances.
For every person that didn't like it during tested, at least 1 did.
I suppose you could write to them and tell them they should design it how you like it. Or to hire you, since you obviously know what everyone else wants on the UI.
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I started this off as a response to another thread inquiring about bugs or issues with 9.0, but ended up writing up a full piece about the useability and functionality of the system and decided to make it a new thread. In short, I suggest to anyone considering the update, if you're happy with your current set up and are not fond of relearning how to use something you carry and depend on every day, then you will probably want to stay on 8.1.
I used it from the day it released up until 2 days ago and found it to be a massive clusterf*ck of UI/UX inconsistencies, glaring white, and broken useability features. Notifications are a mess, settings and features which were organized into reasonable categories are now buried in unrelated submenus and renamed confusingly, reliable UI/UX features have been swapped with newer less obvious actions, gestures, and unclear UI elements, drastically unrelated font families have been thrown together to create a very visually jarring reading experience, the system UI has enough white-on-white you could use the phone as a beacon in a storm, and the color choices seem to have been based on focus groups conducted with toddlers. Maybe it's just me getting old and stubborn towards change, but the consistency and predictability of 8.1 is nowhere to be found in 9.0.
As for the backend, a lot has been added, more than I can recall or understand, but the PrivateDNS and MAC randomization are nice security upgrades that are actually useful for those who live in places with ubiquitous but often sketchy, less-than-open internet fuctionality. It is noticeably faster visually, but also particularly faster in dealing with larger files and database types of information. Small tweaks, like the media volume default, and the dynamic rotation icon in the navbar, are welcome additions, but those come at the expense of the god-awful, take it or leave it, reworking of the Recents overview page. I know it's currently optional, but I gave the new gesture system a go, and eventually got used to it. However, it's going to take some massive tweaking down the road for it to be anywhere near as efficient and simple as the old navbar and vertical card overview.
Core device functionality is fine and battery was fair, almost the same, but I run a very lean system and also disable a lot of services since I currently live in a country with restricted Google access and most of those features are useless to me. Camera is still best-in-class and shouldn't be expected to change since the core camera functionality is in the hardware, the Camera app, and the Pixel Visual Core extension app. Basically any system apps that update via the Play Store should and do function as expected without any noticeable problems. While not specifically a Google problem, it's still worth mentioning that some apps are not yet ready for 9.0 and need to be updated by their developers.
My personal opinion, 9.0 is Android's "Windows Vista" moment, and they'd be smart to pull the whole thing back to beta and hold the release until they get their UI/UX overhaul ready for a full primetime roll-out. The system runs like it was built and tuned specifically for the Pixel hardware, but the user experience made me cringe every time I picked up my phone.
I spent the last 36 hours downgrading to 8.1 from a full wipe, clean setup, and restoring an adb backup. I now have a phone that I actually enjoy using again and I couldn't be happier with it.
Edit:
In considering a few friends opinions regarding Betas and Developer Previews, I'm inclined to temper my opinions, but only slightly.
Yes, I agree, that taking part in the Beta and Developer Preview (DP) process of OS releases helps determine many important aspects of the OS. However, in the case of entities this large, that involvement is really only meant to be as bug chasers. Beta and DP user's opinions on UI/UX matters are largely ignored, as they do not fit within the framework of said entities larger goal: Mass Usage (i.e. the lowest common denominator, AKA the ignorant child-like masses). They only want you for your ability to create and willingness to report showstopping bugs. They don't need the developer or niche user community to make UI/UX choices, they have focus groups for that. Unfortunately, the customer isn't always right, and people don't usually know what they actually like or why. Chase opinions, focus groups, ad engagement, click data, and the fastest dollar, and eventually we'll all be living in a Fisher-Price world (see: Asia).
The second problem with participating in these not-really-beta and almost-but-not-quite-developer-previews is that, not only have they already made all of the major decisions about how it's going to look and be used, expert use and experience be-damned, but by participating in these programs, the user is effectively subjecting themselves to a brainwashing scheme meant to dull the discerning mind into believing that "vX.X is so much better now than when it first hit public preview". It's the equivalent of software Stockholm Syndrome. Public Beta and DP users have deluded themselves that this final release is ok based on how they saw it change from the first public preview release. It's still just as awful as it was when it first went public, it's just a slightly better shade of awful.
It's a damned shame such a powerful and well running OS feels like it had such an awful UI/UX thrown on top of it. It's inconsistent, half baked, and feels like a grab at the ignorant, screen-obsessed masses, if they were color-blind with 20/200 vision. This is professional grade coding with pre-alpha grade UI/UX. A system built for power with a GUI designed for infantiles, on a device aimed at enthusiasts. They should be ashamed.
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Just buy a Samsung phone and you won't have to worry about Pie for another year or two.
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Just buy a Samsung phone and you won't have to worry about Pie for another year or two.
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This.
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Besides which, Vista's problems were of a different order to this
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That we can agree on. It was a nightmare of a different sort. That's just the best analogy I could come up with at the time.
As for yours and everyone else's reponse regarding this being just opinion, I agree. I just had such a visceral reaction to the changes that it prompted me to write about it, and the more I wrote, the more disgusted I became. It's 90% subjective opinion.
I do, however, stand by what I've said, especially regarding their use of white, the color choices, and most specifically the mixing of unrelated font families within the same app. From a design perspective, theoretically, they just shouldn't work, but clearly they do for some people and that's just baffling to me. Moreover, it doesn't simply just not work for me, it makes me physically uncomfortable to use them. I've even gone so far as to turn off updates and detach from the market any of the apps which will be getting the MD2.0 makeover. For me they are so aesthetically revolting that using them is actually a chore.
So yeah, it is all subjective opinion. It's just very difficult for me to understand how something that elicited such a gut wrenching physical revulsion from me has either the opposite or no effect on other people. I would have expected a much larger amount of agreement. Such is the nature of opinion and perception, I suppose.
As for the "ignorant idiot" comments, that was not intended to make anyone feel as such. It was meant to illustrate how most of these companies, for the sake of money and reaching the widest possible audience, are in a race to the bottom. If 90% of the population happens to respond to infantile visuals, then that is what they will strive to create. The problem with that, however, is that it creates a negative feeback loop that results in ever decreasing usability and a perpetual dumbing down of not only the system, but of the people that use the system. It reaches a point where it's no longer about the balance between function and form, but whether or not a 3 year old will smile and giggle when they pick it up. Sophistication goes out the window in favor of raw simplicity. Think "Idiocracy", but applied to consumer tech instead of life and politics.
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Just buy a Samsung phone and you won't have to worry about Pie for another year or two.
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I'd rather die in a raging house fire in a cabin in the woods alone on Christmas Eve than ever buy another Samsung phone.
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As for the "ignorant idiot" comments, that was not intended to make anyone feel as such. It was meant to illustrate how most of these companies, for the sake of money and reaching the widest possible audience, are in a race to the bottom. If 90% of the population happens to respond to infantile visuals, then that is what they will strive to create. The problem with that, however, is that it creates a negative feeback loop that results in ever decreasing usability and a perpetual dumbing down of not only the system, but of the people that use the system. It reaches a point where it's no longer about the balance between function and form, but whether or not a 3 year old will smile and giggle when they pick it up. Sophistication goes out the window in favor of raw simplicity. Think "Idiocracy", but applied to consumer tech instead of life and politics.
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This is so hilariously pompous, you must have an insanely high opinion of yourself.
The fact that a UIs design elicits this degree of a response from you is ridiculous.
You seem to think that anyone that doesn't share your opinion on design is an idiot, which is pathetic.
"I don't really like Jackson Pollock" "Oh the world is burninggggg! it's Idiocracy! Wahhhhh"
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This is so hilariously pompous, you must have an insanely high opinion of yourself.
The fact that a UIs design elicits this degree of a response from you is ridiculous.
You seem to think that anyone that doesn't share your opinion on design is an idiot, which is pathetic.
"I don't really like Jackson Pollock" "Oh the world is burninggggg! it's Idiocracy! Wahhhhh"
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Funny. I actually don't really like Jackson Pollock. Good call.
I'm not having any of these problems, I went and did a complete wipe and Flash the factory image not the OTA, TWRP and rooted, with ElementalX kernel
This post threw me for a loop. I guess mileage will vary??? I've been on 9 for several days now and I love it. It's snappier and there are features available now that I debated selling the phone over. I'm glad I stuck with it. I had a touch screen latency problem that is gone now. If it wasn't I would have ditched it and moved on to something else. Not much substance or quantification in this post but my vote is solidly with 9.0. My opinion only. I firmly believe 8.1 looked good but had some serious issues. I've always believed form should follow function. It can look great but if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter.