as u know samsung pushing all her apps (Samsung cloud, notes, mail and so.....)
just wondering what's ur preferences?
are u using google or samsung?
for me i'v eliminated must of sammi apps and installed google's one
I use some Samsung apps like clock, feels a rad nicer and I don't see the benefits of using Google's for that one. I did switch back to the Google now launcher though and am using Google calender.
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zdeev said:
I use some Samsung apps like clock, feels a rad nicer and I don't see the benefits of using Google's for that one. I did switch back to the Google now launcher though and am using Google calender.
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Samsung calendar syncs with google calendar, so downloading google calendar is a waste.
I use Samsung's calendar app. I like it better.
I'm always leary of using any proprietary stuff, because it locks you into using that makers stuff always, and then if you do change manufacturers in the future you're a bit screwed.
I always seek out the best 3rd party stuff or Google personally. (As I'm not going to ditch android for IOS)
Because nice as it is, I'm on a Sony now, and if I use for example their walkman music app it's great, right up until I buy a Samsung, and then it's not available, so I use BX player in this instance instead and can rest easy knowing that it'll work the same regardless of the make of phone I have. Now or in the future.
I use both Samsung as Google. I use S planner, S notes, Gallery, S browser, Clock.
But I also use Gboard keyboard, Gmail, Google Photos, Keep.
I found Samsung's TTS to be groggy sounding. Google TTS much clearer.
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Let me start by saying I really like android and think it is the best mobile OS around. That doesn't mean it cannot improve. Since getting my N1 I've found some features are unbelievably missing:
No folders for browser bookmarks. Seriously? I have almost 500 bookmarks, it's impossible to scroll though all that.
No bookmarks syncing.
No google docs app. And I though google really wanted us in the cloud.
Music player cannot sort by genre. How do they expect to rival ipods? Also, gestures control would be nice.
Calendar in Month view doesn't show all day events. If an event lasts all day it sure must be important, I want to see it! In fact, i think the calendar needs a major overhaul.
Awful task (to do list) management. Why can't I set repeating tasks? How embarrassing is it that windows mobile could do it over 5 years ago and android still cant?
Too few built-in widgets. Third party developers somewhat make up for it, but in the end I have a bunch of widget with very different aesthetics, makes android seem not very polished. No wow factor. That's why HTC, Samsung, etc, feel they have to create their own shells which slow down updates. No one wins.
Market needs some sort of moderation. We all hate Apple's closed model and it is definitely not what I want, but there are way too many spammers in the market, making it hard to find what you are actually looking for, that's why there are market alternatives cropping up. Either block spammers or let me forever hide some publishers. Also, the market application as a whole needs improvement, it is slow and the search is really bad (Yes, I said it! Google somehow screwed up on a search feature!)
Some of these problems are in one way or another solved by 3rd party app developers, but it is never as seamless as if it was part of the OS. Please post your opinion and you own personal gripes. This could help give good ideas to app developers, or even better, maybe Eric or Sergey stumble upon this thread and decide to solve all of our problems!
Numbers would help
The workarounds:
MusicMod takes care of music.
Astrid for tasks.
Dolphin HD for bookmarks etc.
Generally - I agree, these are indeed some good points. Most are visual, application-related points, and somehow I have a feeling Gingerbread is going to concentrate on that, which might address those points.
I agree with the calendar specifically, it's pretty poor.
As far as widgets go, I wish there were built-in options for changing the color schemes of some widgets.
-Stock music player and all music player sucks...
-Market sucks no way to find good apps
-Nexus one multitouch
-Some choppyness
I'm using the music mod but it doesn't do enough. I'm used to cowon's good music players so android in my eyes is really lacking.
It has bookmark syncing to a degree. Mine always reappear after a wipe.
In month view, the calendar does show all day events, just not very well. If you have a bold date with no coloured time block, its an all dayer.
I agree with most points here. I'm having issues with my phone freezing more often and having to do a battery pull for it to respond to me pressing the power button.
1. Copy and paste in email
2. Downloading ALL attachments/internet downloads
3. Sending ALL attachments
4. To-do list sync with exchange
5. Google Docs? (Hello? A smartphone that doesn't have any doc, excel, ppt view/editor?)
oh and:
0. Fix reception issues on the N1
Froyo brings copy and paste to email
Rellikzephyr
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worse thread ever.
This probably represents the most reasonable set of criticisms I have seen to date.
- 500 bookmarks is excessive to me but I think even users with far fewer bookmarks could use organization so valid complaint
- I want to say bookmark syncing was announced at Google I/O 2010 but I am not certain.
- Repeating tasks is missing from google tasks. Until it gets added there it won't be available on android. (Pocket Informant is coming for Android though, I really liked his stuff on WM so maybe they will work some magic.)
- IRT too few built in widgets. HTC, Motorola, and others would do their own thing regardless of what Google provides. It is part of their branding and value add for the platform do distinguish themselves from the competition.
- Agreed on getting the market some moderation, the question is how and how much. My vote is for letting me blacklist developers from my account. I think that would be sufficient to clear out a lot of the chaff.
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Yep, it needs to at least be cloked!
Gdocs is free and it works very well for viewing and editing google documents. Or do you mean it should have a native app? I think all smart phones should have native office suites, its almost offensive that they don't. And there aren't many third party options although I do like docs 2 go fairly well and its supposed to have a major update coming...sorry I veered a bit there
stock music app SUCKS. seriously, i can't view all songs??
contact management is really difficult. can't edit/manage contact groups. can't even set a default group...
My bookmarks sync back when I wipe my phone. They always have I believe, or it could be a froyo addition.
I'd love for Google to fix up and optimize some code of the UI elements that are choppy. Most are smooth as butter, but a few certain things are choppy.
And don't we get word and excel viewer out of the box? Those files work on my phone, just not listed in the app drawer.
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Let me start by saying I really like android and think it is the best mobile OS around. That doesn't mean it cannot improve. Since getting my N1 I've found some features are unbelievably missing:
No folders for browser bookmarks. Seriously? I have almost 500 bookmarks, it's impossible to scroll though all that.
No bookmarks syncing.
No google docs app. And I though google really wanted us in the cloud.
Music player cannot sort by genre. How do they expect to rival ipods? Also, gestures control would be nice.
Calendar in Month view doesn't show all day events. If an event lasts all day it sure must be important, I want to see it! In fact, i think the calendar needs a major overhaul.
Awful task (to do list) management. Why can't I set repeating tasks? How embarrassing is it that windows mobile could do it over 5 years ago and android still cant?
Too few built-in widgets. Third party developers somewhat make up for it, but in the end I have a bunch of widget with very different aesthetics, makes android seem not very polished. No wow factor. That's why HTC, Samsung, etc, feel they have to create their own shells which slow down updates. No one wins.
Market needs some sort of moderation. We all hate Apple's closed model and it is definitely not what I want, but there are way too many spammers in the market, making it hard to find what you are actually looking for, that's why there are market alternatives cropping up. Either block spammers or let me forever hide some publishers. Also, the market application as a whole needs improvement, it is slow and the search is really bad (Yes, I said it! Google somehow screwed up on a search feature!)
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Everything you've listed there are app issues, and have nothing to do with Android OS itself.
Pro tip: Vanilla android is garbage.
It's a starting point for other companies to build on.
Pointing out the problems of android wont make it better anytime soon. How about we have a thread with all the good things about it. I am sure it would far out rival the problems
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Pointing out the problems of android wont make it better anytime soon. How about we have a thread with all the good things about it. I am sure it would far out rival the problems
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I disagree. A circle-jerk won't accomplish anything. If you need an example just look at Apple forums that are full of rabid iZombies praising everything Steve. Pointing out actual defects, flaws and shortcomings in form of constructive criticism on the other hand, will help the open source community plug the holes left open by Google.
Anyone have a suggestion for a great notes app that they like. Notes from a class or simply jotting down some brain storming?
Catch Note is not bad, its been optimised for HC
I've been using Extensive Notes - it has some pretty robust features and looks great on the tab.
power note is the best. its simple and allows you to also look at your notes from the chrome browser using quick note as it has a sync function
Note everything pro still my fave.
I use my own application Notes. The newest version (2.0) has been released yesterday and is optimized for tablets - https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.jacobras.notes&feature=search_result
best note app optimized for tablet
What I have found after searching all over is MaplePaint, check the market!
Jacob nice app I love it how do I remove adds?
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Thanks for the information!
Evernote. It syncs, easy to use. Liked it better than scribe.
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I use my own application Notes. The newest version (2.0) has been released yesterday and is optimized for tablets - https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.jacobras.notes&feature=search_result
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Very nice app Jacob. Five star and a thanks.
Adopted.
Didn't see any adverts
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I use my own application Notes. The newest version (2.0) has been released yesterday and is optimized for tablets
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This is fantastic but the one thing all simple note apps seem to lack... the ability to create categories/folders.
I wish I could find a simple, well designed note app like this that actually supported folders/categories.
If it also synced to an online service (Google Docs for example) it would be even better.
I'm using Flick Notes for this. It's not tablet optimized yet but works fine on Honeycomb, and syncs flawlessly (so far) with the SimpleNote web service. SimpleNote in turn syncs with Notational Velocity on my Macs, and also saves notes into a Dropbox folder (need a paid account for that though). It's plain text only, and instead of folders it uses tags and search for organization, but overall this system works pretty well. Also there are SimpleNote clients for Windows, Chrome, emacs, vim, iOS, etc that can all sync to the same web account.
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This is fantastic but the one thing all simple note apps seem to lack... the ability to create categories/folders.
I wish I could find a simple, well designed note app like this that actually supported folders/categories.
If it also synced to an online service (Google Docs for example) it would be even better.
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I agree, I've been looking for a note application that alows for cascading categories. Integration of to-do lists that can be checked off would be awesome too.
extensive nots
Many feature including free hand drawing add folder options and some pre defined folders for spacific files. Most complete out of the many I have tried. Works well with writing free hand notes with dig pen as well
I use mNote, which syncs to my simplenote account (https://simple-note.appspot.com/).
Hi, I'm about to buy the tab 7.7, and I just want to confirm if the calendar has the awful combination of colors as showed in reviews (brown and pink I suppose). If so, can it be changed?.
Who the hell was in charge?
As far as i know you can't change the colour and it's not the most flexible calendar. There are some good alternatives. I like the very fresh look of acalendar which is still being developed and free at the moment. If you try that remember to flick up and down to change page/week/month etc or right and left to change view. Calengoo is also quite good.
Just use any other calender app!
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Thanks sman55, I will try them.
Hi guys.
The facebook app doesn't really works nice in the N10, photos are huge in the friends feed.
I have added a shortcut to the web version of facebook and it works much better. However sending messages is painful and of course doesn't have real android notifications.
So what are you using to access Facebook in the Nexus 10? Have you guys tried friendcaster?
Thanks.
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I've been using friendcaster and it's been ok. It uses the screen real estate pretty well just some odd bugs and a few features missing. It works well enough though and there's some customization which is nice. Download the free version to try out, the ads are on the bottom but since the screen is so big you don't even notice it. If you don't like it..... Un install!
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I've been using friendcaster and it's been ok. It uses the screen real estate pretty well just some odd bugs and a few features missing. It works well enough though and there's some customization which is nice. Download the free version to try out, the ads are on the bottom but since the screen is so big you don't even notice it. If you don't like it..... Un install!
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Thanks, Friendcaster is doing a good job so far.
Hi,
I just use the browser whereever possible. Keyt concern is the VERY relaxed attitide many app devs, especially facebook etc, have towards your personal info (address book
etc).
Exception is google, in for a penny in for a pound with them lol.
Cheers
You could have the facebook app installed for the notifications, but use the browser to actively use facebook. Much better experience, just some minor weird glitches when viewing photos. It's what I do.
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Hi guys.
The facebook app doesn't really works nice in the N10, photos are huge in the friends feed.
I have added a shortcut to the web version of facebook and it works much better. However sending messages is painful and of course doesn't have real android notifications.
So what are you using to access Facebook in the Nexus 10? Have you guys tried friendcaster?
Thanks.
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I'm using Friendcaster and think it's pretty good - better than the official Facebook app, anyhow...
You will have missing posts using third party apps due to security settings individual users can configure lately I have been using a browser for fb more and more often. Tired of the ginormous photos in landscape mode with the app. If you hold device in portrait it's better at least.
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Hey guys
I really dig the Smart Scroll feature. I know it's kind of gimmicky but it's nice to not have to get my fingerprints on the screen for every little thing I do. Do you guys know which apps support this feature?
The only app I've noticed it working with is the default browser, and the default E-Mail.
It would be nice if we could get Smart Scroll support with Chrome and GMail, but I don't find anything wrong with the S4's e-mail/browser though. Are you guys using the Samsung browser and Email system so you can use the smart scroll, or are you just ignoring that feature entirely because of battery life?
Do you guys think there will be more apps coming with this feature being used?
I don't personally use the feature because I feel it's much easier to just scroll by fingers, but some people will sure find it usefull. As for the supporting apps, I guess the limited support is due to the fact that the feature is still new and was just introduced with this phone. By time developers can start implementing it in their apps, but I don't see that happening soon. It will take some time.
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I don't personally use the feature because I feel it's much easier to just scroll by fingers, but some people will sure find it usefull. As for the supporting apps, I guess the limited support is due to the fact that the feature is still new and was just introduced with this phone. By time developers can start implementing it in their apps, but I don't see that happening soon. It will take some time.
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Ok thanks. That's pretty much what I thought but I'm pretty new to Android so I wanted to see. I'm still curious if any other apps besides E-mail/Internet use them. I'm surprised Flipboard doesn't. It would be cool if Flipboard was laid out like Windows phone with long news/feed blocks that you could scroll through... Man windows 8 phone w/ eye scroll would be pretty awesome come to think of it.
If your looking to set defaults for applications this may work.
Default App Manager Lite
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appiator.defaultappmanager&hl=en