I am a huge fan of HTC Sense. I'm considering getting a galaxy s when its out. I don't like the Samsung UI though.. do you guys think that it is possible to get the sense experience ported to galaxy s? are devs gonna port sense to galaxy s when its out?
If you can get a sense UI for 2.1, then u can have it for galaxy S too!
The only problem will be that the Galaxy S first have to be rooted and unlocked, but because it's the best android phone available in a few days, I think there will be developers for this phone to root and make custom ROM's for this phone.
I too am a huge fan of Sense but TouchWiz 3 has a fun and practical appeal.
I'm happy to try this out first before looking at an alternative front end.
I've been playing with Sense from time to time, but I typically get rid of it after a few days, I think the Samsung Daily Briefing is gonna be more to my liking
For me...sense is the best UI of the lot. I love the widgets and the general sleekness of it all. I really like the hardware of the galaxy s, but I'll only buy it if we can root it and run sense on it. That's my only stipulation...but man, that is a sick phone! (except that it looks like an iphone)
If the galaxyS gets rooted.. will it be possible to install 2.2/3 android to it even if samsung doesnt do that?
Provided the cookers can get all the appropriate files... but Samsung are renown for locking their phones down tight.
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Provided the cookers can get all the appropriate files... but Samsung are renown for locking their phones down tight.
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The cookers have done okay on a lot of other Samsung phones, (see modaco, etc), so we can remain hopeful!
i say this coming from an Omnia that got winmo 6.5 long before any official release.
Samsung understand the value of letting their products get hacked by the community. I cant see it being a real hurdle to crack the phone.
As for Sense, I dont know, but I've lost interest in it. Having seen the close-ups of Samsung Touch-Wiz upgrades, I'm pretty pleased with what they've done. The only thing I might miss from HTC is their keyboard, where the touch and hold brings up all the alt characters on a particular key. I find the default android keyboard a bit frustrating by comparison.
ok so the only problem that i had was that everyone said that Samsung support is crap. so if it gets rooted and i can install all latest versions of android on it then this phone has perfect hardware and software problem gets solved!
i guess i will wait a bit after it gets released to see if it gets rooted and have a release for 2.2.
TravUK said:
Samsung understand the value of letting their products get hacked by the community. I cant see it being a real hurdle to crack the phone.
As for Sense, I dont know, but I've lost interest in it. Having seen the close-ups of Samsung Touch-Wiz upgrades, I'm pretty pleased with what they've done. The only thing I might miss from HTC is their keyboard, where the touch and hold brings up all the alt characters on a particular key. I find the default android keyboard a bit frustrating by comparison.
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Yes I do love the HTC keyboard, I am trying out swype now to get ready for i9000 and it's great as well, and brings up many letters if we hold, but if we hold for a second it brings up only one, if we keep holding it brings up the rest in a menu, pretty cool. I'm sure on sammy it's even better.
However I think I saw in a video the HTC Keyboard or a similar one on the i9000. I think it will be easy to install.
Ok, all sounds encouraging then, just really impatient to get mine.
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I am trying out swype now to get ready for i9000 and it's great as well, and brings up many letters if we hold, but if we hold for a second it brings up only one, if we keep holding it brings up the rest in a menu, pretty cool. I'm sure on sammy it's even better.
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OK, i don't use many non-standard letters, so my opinion in this matter may be irrelevant, but i LOVE swype. I heard about it long before release, and have been keeping up with the development team for about a year and a half. I got a hold of it as soon as I could, and I find it amazing.
If you think about it, a touchscreen is really not designed to be poked at: I mean, buttons are meant to be pressed, a touchscreen has no reason to be prodded at apart from what we have been trained to do through years of mobile phones. Swype feels so natural, and I am really glad to see that Samsung have picked up on this. Also the slide to call/message feature of touchwiz 3 shows that they realize that we need to get away from the idea of poking a screen without buttons.
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The cookers have done okay on a lot of other Samsung phones, (see modaco, etc), so we can remain hopeful!
i say this coming from an Omnia that got winmo 6.5 long before any official release.
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Samsung understand the value of letting their products get hacked by the community. I cant see it being a real hurdle to crack the phone.
As for Sense, I dont know, but I've lost interest in it. Having seen the close-ups of Samsung Touch-Wiz upgrades, I'm pretty pleased with what they've done. The only thing I might miss from HTC is their keyboard, where the touch and hold brings up all the alt characters on a particular key. I find the default android keyboard a bit frustrating by comparison.
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This was based on Windows Mobile which is easy to hack. Android is another thing and unless you can get hold of the drivers it makes it difficult to cook and this is where Samsung have locked down Touchwiz very well.
They hacked the Omnia HD which wasn't that easy - had it myself. One rom cooker that made good roms, but Symbian was a too tight OS for me, so I went back ti WinMo with my HD2. But I really do want Android. If people hack it once, then it shouldn't be any problems portin UIs and such I guess?
And by the way, they wrote at GSM Arena that it will get updated to Froyo, and when that happens, you don't have to rely on Samsung support for upcoming Android releases
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They hacked the Omnia HD which wasn't that easy - had it myself. One rom cooker that made good roms, but Symbian was a too tight OS for me, so I went back ti WinMo with my HD2. But I really do want Android. If people hack it once, then it shouldn't be any problems portin UIs and such I guess?
And by the way, they wrote at GSM Arena that it will get updated to Froyo, and when that happens, you don't have to rely on Samsung support for upcoming Android releases
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Not true....u still have to rely on Samsung for future updates.
Samsung Moment need sense ui
Does anyone know how to get the sense ui on the samsung moment?
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Samsung arent that crap at locking things down theyve released the kernal and source so we can start working on it
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I was looking at the Samsung Behold II and noticed the TouchWiz UI.
Any chance someone has heard of this and whether or not it will make it into one of our builds?
So far I only see one possible phone on the horizon that I would "possibly" trade up to from the G1, but it looks like the OS is going to stay android and that would be the "Dragon" if it ever makes it to Tmobile.
In all honesty, you're better off staying put with the G1 for now. The Behold is pretty ugly in my opinion, and after playing with it I found the TouchWiz UI to be gimmicky. After awhile, I found it annoying and shut it off and just used the regular android set-up
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I was looking at the Samsung Behold II and noticed the TouchWiz UI.
Any chance someone has heard of this and whether or not it will make it into one of our builds?
So far I only see one possible phone on the horizon that I would "possibly" trade up to from the G1, but it looks like the OS is going to stay android and that would be the "Dragon" if it ever makes it to Tmobile.
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ya the dragon is the better .i would wait for it ,t ,mobile will be getting it soon !
Just say no to Touch Wiz
Go read a review for the Behold II and then see if you still want to use the Touch Wix UI. I say stay away from Samsung until they can hire some good software designers and not make something that works against the operating system.
Here's a good one.
http://gizmodo.com/5406912/samsung-behold-ii-non+review-oh-god-the-ugly
Ewwww thats a ugly UI
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I was looking at the Samsung Behold II and noticed the TouchWiz UI.
Any chance someone has heard of this and whether or not it will make it into one of our builds?
So far I only see one possible phone on the horizon that I would "possibly" trade up to from the G1, but it looks like the OS is going to stay android and that would be the "Dragon" if it ever makes it to Tmobile.
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Any chance of you posting this in the right forum?
Any chance of you ^ not being a [email protected]%?
I asked the question in the developers forum because its development.
I swear, drama police everywhere.
Am about to jump into Android (from a HD2 that is driving me up the wall!) and have spent the last week agonizing between the Galaxy S and Desire. I've looked at tons of vids of both and trawled the net and I think it boils down for me to the differences between Sense and Touchwiz.
The only thing that's putting me off Touchwiz is that there doesn't seem to be any way of quickly getting between homepages, other than swiping. On the Desire you pinch and get the overview. Have I missed something with the Galaxy S?
If the UI is the same of Samsung Wave (as they claim) then you should be able to directly jump to the desired home by selecting the related number on top of the screen (you know, those small circles with the number inside...).
I've seen a couple of videos about this for Wave...
I'm the same jumping from an HD2 to Android and was initially concerned of this myself but as mentioned by Jaffe76, providing we can select the page simply by tapping on the page number it then should not be a problem.
Galaxy S can do this! You can change the homescreen by tapping on it's number!
Look for this vid. on youtube:
Samsung Galaxy S - Partie 1 par FrAndroid.com - Android
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The only thing that's putting me off Touchwiz is that there doesn't seem to be any way of quickly getting between homepages, other than swiping. On the Desire you pinch and get the overview. Have I missed something with the Galaxy S?
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I hope this is not the only thing putting you off the phone! However, I can understand that you want to pay for something the suits you completely. Galaxy just seems like a better piece of hardware than the HTC. I don't like HTC very much anyway though (I have no idea why, please don't judge me!), so maybe I am biased.
Personally, I think touchwiz looks pretty awesome (although the older versions were disappointing). As people have already said, you can jump quickly to screens (it seems), and it may even be possible to disable it or replace it with another UI.
I installed Sense on my winmo Samsung phone (Omnia) because the older touchwiz was a bit rubbish, so I can understand preferring it!
Thanks for the opinions and info everyone, and especially for the YouTube link - went into a lot more detail! (shame it was in French tho!).
Think I'm gonna go for it and order the Galaxy S (I could wait for more reviews, but patience was never my strong suit!)
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Think I'm gonna go for it and order the Galaxy S (I could wait for more reviews, but patience was never my strong suit!)
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Tell me about it! I am fighting with myself to hold on until my exams are finished next week, but I want to buy it now!!
Same as both of you hehehe. But since we have until the week of June 7, I figure I would wait until middle next week and see if any other reviews come or if the price changes or if samsung decides to change something or add new phones, etc..
but definitely if nothing occurs I will be getting this phone .
I think Nico that even in the Applications menu you can jump by selecting the number on top.
do you still have ur devices?
Was wondering what's the track record of Samsung getting custom Roms/firmware?
I really like how XDA have developers to do custom ROMS for HTC phones but was wondering does Samsung phones gets same treatment? Or will be looking at far and few in between updates from Samsung itself and won't be able to update to the latest and greatest?
Really want Nexus One but the Galaxy S is sooooooooo much better *sigh*
Can't answer your question on whether the Samsung will get the same amount of Dev time that has been lavished on the HTC phones, but I was in the same situation as yourself - Galaxy S or Nexus One.
I came down on the side of the Galaxy S simply because it's a better phone all round. There's a multi-touch vid on youtube comparing the responsiveness of the screens, and the Galaxy wiped the floor with the Nexus One. I'm hoping that the popularity of this phone will mean that the Devs on here will start giving some time to the Galaxy S.
I must admit I was initially drawn towards the Nexus One because of excellent work that has been done by the likes of Cyanogen et al, but I took the long term view that surely the same must eventually happen with the Galaxy S. *crosses fingers*
For the Galaxy, there is MoDaCo. For the Galaxy Spica, there is Samdroid. Don't know much about the others, but they weren't released here in Europe anyway.
I followed Samdroid a while, thinking about getting a Spica. There are some awesome things going on there - they even tried to modify the touchscreen sensor, because the hardware does support multitouch, but the driver doesn't. AFAIK, they had no success, but still nice try. And they even opened a board for the Galaxy S, maybe Leshak fetches one and works some magic there in the future. If not, I am pretty sure somebody will.
If you want to customize it to run the latest roms, the question is: how "open" is this device?
I know that HTC made the Desire a pain in the butt to unlock/root, and they will improve this with every new phone the make, making them more and more secure and block customized images.
Is Samsung going to follow the same strategy?
I think you're right Magicdroid, the question would be how open this is. But even though the Desire was a pain to root, it HAD been rooted just cos there's lots of developers. When there are lots of developers, you'll get rooted device
I wonder if the Galaxy S will get lots of user base.............I just hope lots and lots of ppl will pick it up and then the chance of longetivity with custom ROMS dramatically increases....
I'm hopoing for good community support as well. I have an AT&T Tilt, and have doen well on the XDA site. I'm spoiled
I am very interested in the Galaxy S, but I"m on At&T, and the AT&T version i keep reading about doesn't have the same specs. So having to wait and see on that.
Also, I see a lot of negative feedback on Samsung support, and based on their previous Android phone (Behold I think it's called) is not getting an upgrade. Lots of complaints about being abandonded by Samsung.
Not sure what I'll do. If At&T doesn't get decent phones soon, I mahy have to look do Verizon.
Sorry...I'm rambling off topic.
The Galaxy S looks like a great piece of hardware.
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There's a multi-touch vid on youtube comparing the responsiveness of the screens, and the Galaxy wiped the floor with the Nexus One.
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Hilarious! I just found it and laughed so much http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVlsRCMltDg
I was considering to buy a Nexus, but now I changed my mind...someday this mobile will hopefully get root and give enough space for customizations of every kind...just wait and see - it will come in the mid of June to Europe and I'm eager to hold one in my hands
I'm disciplining myself to not get this phone until there's a good team of developers move to it to get customizations going
aaahhh the wait the wait......
and, do you have one jet? the best mod is doctorz rom. it runs very smooth
God damn it. Did you sign up just to necro a thread that's over A YEAR AND A HALF old?
Well looks like Pocket-Lint prodded Samsung UK about Gingerbread and as usual Samsung doesn't give much away lol,
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/37199/samsung-galaxy-s-android-update
There's the article.
I mean barring the NFC chip isnt it an identical handset ? lol
Funny PR Department guess if they shout out yes so loud might put off people buying the S
Sounds like it's just coming from a clueless PR guy, trying to sound good without actually answering the question. Canned response for these type of questions maybe.
Pretty useless statement really.
The thing is when you read it, its not good English, doesn't look like it's come from Samsung UK but maybe they've gone back to Korea and got that answer . . .
Hopefully PR in Korea
http://twitter.com/#!/Samsung_Mobiles/status/12437775529803776
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i hope this true, samsung should not leave us just like that. At least, gingerbread or honeycomb version for our phone...
it will come, it is easy for them to do and they still want to sell the phone, it is still Samsungs flagship phone.
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i hope this true, samsung should not leave us just like that. At least, gingerbread or honeycomb version for our phone...
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Ginger will be avaiable for galaxy S, honeycomb probably won't ( i mean, in official way)
Any company who wont adapt the latest android to a phone thats almost identical to one they have already done the legwork for wont be getting future phone purchases from me. Sad because google picked samsung for their strong hardware, and google can ignore the ****e software samsung offers
I would think we will get gingerbread and honeycomb, I cant see any real reason why we wont.
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I would think we will get gingerbread and honeycomb, I cant see any real reason why we wont.
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ever thought about greed?
companies wants to sell new HW, and so samsung.
http://pocketnow.com/android/why-samsung-will-never-update-galaxy-s-to-gingerbread
well here is well thought out reason why we wont get gingerbread
Very few people base their phone purchase on the software so even if they put android 3.0 onto the galaxy s but had new phones with dual cores and big fat gpus in them also running 3.0 I am pretty sure the galaxy S wouldnt dint sale of the new phones.
The truth though about 2.3 is it wont really offer any advantage to the Galaxy S. The performance increases people mention would only be seen if they decided to ditch touchwiz3 and start using googles new UI API with their own skins. Google have already said a lot of the performance issues on previous android devices was caused by company added UIs thats why the developed their own "skinable" UI. All the additional features of gingerbread such as gravity, barometer sensors, NFC, multiple cameras, multiple displays, openGL enhancements etc etc all require specific hardware for such features to be utilised which ofc the Galaxy S doesn't have. On top of that it does cost the industry a lot of money to impliment, people mention that the Nexus S has 2.3 so it's easy to migrate and it could very well mean that sim free galaxy S models do indeed get an upgrade but its not gauranteed that all the carriers/operators are also willing to invest and time, money, resources it bug checking, branding (where applicable) on an old device.
I have been playing around with 2.3 for a day or so and to be honest based on my 2.1/2.2 test hardware there is little to no noticable difference.
A few changes I noticed
Battery icon now vertical
New Icon when text fields are highlighted showing field name (great one this)
Things like Exchange support home screen control, widgets, calendars, browser etc etc just all the same functionality and performance as 2.2
Read the link your posted Ming930919 is bull**** though because that article is purely basing the fact that people will ONLY buy a Nexus S for gingerbread and nothing else which is utter ****e.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/09/samsung.to.bring.android.23.to.galaxy.s.phones/
someone thinks it will come..when, who knows.
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http://pocketnow.com/android/why-samsung-will-never-update-galaxy-s-to-gingerbread
well here is well thought out reason why we wont get gingerbread
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they say right under it that samsung prove them wrong...
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Ginger facial hair is not very pleasant to look at.
Hello
The main reason i sold GS1 was TouchWiz, i love Samsung's hardware but not so much the software. What are the chances of getting AOSP like CM7 on GS2?, or would it be as painful as GS1? which still dosent have a stable AOSP ROM as far as i know
Peace
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The main reason i sold GS1 was TouchWiz, i love Samsung's hardware but not so much the software. What are the chances of getting AOSP like CM7 on GS2?, or would it be as painful as GS1? which still dosent have a stable AOSP ROM as far as i know
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We wont know until the device is released... CM7 was never released for the SGS so it might be touch and go;( But its my belief that if the bootloader can be unlocked or hacked then CM7 will support it... Its gonna be too much of a big phone not to support
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Buy something else. With AOSP you will lose some critical functionality of this phone. All of them in Multimedia dept. You loose fantastic code support. That's USP of sgs2.
From early previews TWUI 4 seems to be very much refined though.
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Buy something else. With AOSP you will lose some critical functionality of this phone. All of them in Multimedia dept. You loose fantastic code support. That's USP of sgs2.
From early previews TWUI 4 seems to be very much refined though.
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That's the USP for you.
For me, it's the hardware: thin, sleek, light. Dual-core. HDMI (or equivalent) +++ Unlockable boot-loader.
The hardware of the rival phones isn't as good and, quite a few manufacturers are in full lock-down mode these days.
Well, that was my thought exactly, that removing Touchwiz will remove all of the cool features and application support. To perhaps better serve your needs, it would be cooler to swap the launcher as suggested by many wise people here. This will give you a better UX while retaining the app support.
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We wont know until the device is released... CM7 was never released for the SGS so it might be touch and go;( But its my belief that if the bootloader can be unlocked or hacked then CM7 will support it... Its gonna be too much of a big phone not to support
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SGS's bootloader isnt locked, and yet there is no stable AOSP ROM around
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Buy something else. With AOSP you will lose some critical functionality of this phone. All of them in Multimedia dept. You loose fantastic code support. That's USP of sgs2.
From early previews TWUI 4 seems to be very much refined though.
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I'm still not sure if i'll buy it, as for the so called "critical functionality", i would happily give them up and get rid of the crapware that i dont need, and head for the market for added functionality.
Well, since it is Android, you are more than welcome to do so. Although, more than the critical functionality, the features you are PAYING for are being stripped away. It would be better that you find a Rom that adds these features (motion sensing, etc.) while removing the "Crapware" from the device.
Even if the SGS doesn't have a fully functional cyanogenmod, it has lot's of ROM's that remove touchwiz and crapware.
And CM7 is closer than ever from being stable on SGS, and there's actually a MIUI beta. I would say that the SGS2 will have a good dev support and we'll have a lot of choices in ROM's.
If not, there's always launchers like ADW, launcherpro, Regina...
That should be the least of your worries.
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SGS's bootloader isnt locked, and yet there is no stable AOSP ROM around
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If you read my post it doesn't say at any point that the SGS bootloader is locked I dont think the SGS was supported due to its many faults;/
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If you read my post it doesn't say at any point that the SGS bootloader is locked I dont think the SGS was supported due to its many faults;/
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Got u
Thank you and everyone else for ur input
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I'm still not sure if i'll buy it, as for the so called "critical functionality", i would happily give them up and get rid of the crapware that i dont need, and head for the market for added functionality.
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You are paying heavy premium for these features.
With AOSP, you will lose all proprietary samsung apps and features. That includes codecs, Media player post processing functionality and probably MHL functionality.
Also all Samsung drivers will be lost that mean lots of work for developers to get camera working right, bluetooth, wifi working right.
By the time ASOP which is actually usable comes out, it will be time for next generation hardware.
i was wishing for the ability to use bt joypads to play me some emus but i guess its a no go then
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You are paying heavy premium for these features.
With AOSP, you will lose all proprietary samsung apps and features. That includes codecs, Media player post processing functionality and probably MHL functionality.
Also all Samsung drivers will be lost that mean lots of work for developers to get camera working right, bluetooth, wifi working right.
By the time ASOP which is actually usable comes out, it will be time for next generation hardware.
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that's a good point
i hope samsung will release the drivers
I'd also much rather have an AOSP build, as I just don't like any of the custom overlays, never mind the included bloat- and crapware. Heck, if I had anything to say Android phones would ship without an OS and there'd be a ton (metric, of course) of distribution to choose from.
And no, we're not paying a premium for these "features", since one cannot buy the same (or even similar) hardware without them, for less.
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I'd also much rather have an AOSP build, as I just don't like any of the custom overlays, never mind the included bloat- and crapware. Heck, if I had anything to say Android phones would ship without an OS and there'd be a ton (metric, of course) of distribution to choose from.
And no, we're not paying a premium for these "features", since one cannot buy the same (or even similar) hardware without them, for less.
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But then that would require some standardization. Or every phone maker will have to issue set of drivers that users will have to bake themselves into the rom before flashing the same.
I dont think phone industry is or will be ready for that any time soon.
And you are paying for everything that comes on phone whether you like it or not. Everything costs something and it comes out of your pocket (or Samsung on some parts for superiority claims ).
AOSP usually rolls out faster for HTC phones (most of which share same DNA inside ) or sister devices of Google devices as its much easier.
Expecting AOSP for something as heavily modified as Galaxy S range quickly is unrealistic.
If your beef is against just TWUI launcher, its relatively easy to roll back to stock android launcher by just defaulting to stock android home (easy to do from Manage Applications ).
Other than the launcher (which can be changed in seconds), TouchWiz is awesome.
I used CM7 for about an hour before I sorely missed the Samsung Contacts, Camera, Calculator, Dialer and Calendar.
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MikeyMike01 said:
Other than the launcher (which can be changed in seconds), TouchWiz is awesome.
I used CM7 for about an hour before I sorely missed the Samsung Contacts, Camera, Calculator, Dialer and Calendar.
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I have no objection to touchwiz myself, except for one thing: I get REALLY excited by the innovations Google brings with each new version of Android. Owning the nexus 1 was/is amazing from that perspective. Every new, brilliant feature, is instantly yours.
Having said that, I like some of the new things Samsung are doing with their skin. I like the gyroscope actions and the resizeable widgets.
I guess what I want is a Nexus S2
I'm going to wait until after Google I/O to see if rumours of a new Nexus surface. If not, it'll be the Galaxy S2 for me. It is a beautiful device.
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I have no objection to touchwiz myself, except for one thing: I get REALLY excited by the innovations Google brings with each new version of Android. Owning the nexus 1 was/is amazing from that perspective. Every new, brilliant feature, is instantly yours.
Having said that, I like some of the new things Samsung are doing with their skin. I like the gyroscope actions and the resizeable widgets.
I guess what I want is a Nexus S2
I'm going to wait until after Google I/O to see if rumours of a new Nexus surface. If not, it'll be the Galaxy S2 for me. It is a beautiful device.
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Even if the phone runs stock Android, you're still not guaranteed updates.
Honestly the whole update thing is a mess anyway.
Samsung provided Gingerbread for the i9000 already, so they have a good track record on updates.
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Other than the launcher (which can be changed in seconds), TouchWiz is awesome.
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Well, to each his own. But that's what I like about Android - choice. There's something for everyone.
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Even if the phone runs stock Android, you're still not guaranteed updates.
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That's true. The only thing stock does in that respect is make updates a little easier.
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Samsung provided Gingerbread for the i9000 already, so they have a good track record on updates.
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You're right about the GB update, even though it was pulled again, but their track record is still pretty bad. Let's all hope it isn't just a fluke.
Bottom line is that most phone vendors care about selling new hardware, for them, updates are a mixed blessing. Too few and nobody will buy their current phones, too many and nobody will want to buy the new model.