What are some possibilities that you all see with the original A7?
rombold said:
Gingerbread
New Feature Constants
The platform adds several new hardware features that developers can declare in their application manifests as being required by their applications. This lets developers control how their application is filtered, when published on Android Market.
* android.hardware.audio.low_latency — The application uses a low-latency audio pipeline on the device and is sensitive to delays or lag in sound input or output.
* android.hardware.camera.front — The application uses a front-facing camera on the device.
* android.hardware.nfc — The application uses NFC radio features in the device.
* android.hardware.sensor.barometer — The application uses the device's barometer.
* android.hardware.sensor.gyroscope — The application uses the device's gyroscope sensor.
* android.software.sip — The application uses the SIP API on the device.
* android.software.sip.voip — The application uses a SIP-based VoIP service on the device.
* android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.jazzhand — The application uses advanced multipoint multitouch capabilities on the device screen, for tracking five or more points fully independently.
For full information about how to declare features and use them for filtering, see the documentation for <uses-feature>.
* android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.jazzhand — The application uses advanced multipoint multitouch capabilities on the device screen, for tracking five or more points fully independently.
IF a7 was limited on the multitouch screen due to software wouldn't this be a relevent fix for it.
I would really like to hear Dexters thoughts on this.
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It is a hardware limitation. Please read.
I'm very new to android OS and have been doing alot of research on the whole multi touch thing, most things lead me to believe its a software issue. Most things I have read spoke of the firmware supporting the screen must be very indepth. Maybe I am grabbing for something that isn't there but I find it hard to believe the a7 doesn't have full multi touch for any reason aside from a rush firmware the lacked the coding to do so.
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I'm very new to android OS and have been doing alot of research on the whole multi touch thing, most things lead me to believe its a software issue. Most things I have read spoke of the firmware supporting the screen must be very indepth. Maybe I am grabbing for something that isn't there but I find it hard to believe the a7 doesn't have full multi touch for any reason aside from a rush firmware the lacked the coding to do so.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932035
http://www.cypress.com/?id=1938
Look at screen Generation 2
Anything else?
rombold said:
I'm very new to android OS and have been doing alot of research on the whole multi touch thing, most things lead me to believe its a software issue. Most things I have read spoke of the firmware supporting the screen must be very indepth. Maybe I am grabbing for something that isn't there but I find it hard to believe the a7 doesn't have full multi touch for any reason aside from a rush firmware the lacked the coding to do so.
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From the eLocity webite FAQ:
Q: I've heard different information about the A7's touch screen. Is it really multi-touch?
A: The eLocity A7 has a capacitive touch screen with single point zoom out and zoom in gesture technology. It is not a multi-touch screen. We are sorry for the touch screen confusion mentioned in the Amazon description and other articles which were written early on in the product development stage. Our capacitive touch screen still outperforms most if not all of the tablets on the market. We use Grade "A" LCD panels from Tier 1 suppliers in our products and our goal with the A7 is to deliver the best performance, video and image quality and other functionality (i.e. NVIDIA Tegra 2, 1080P HDMI Output) that is superior to other tablets at similar price points. We know of no other tablets in our price range that offer true multi-touch, which is fairly expensive for larger LCD screens at this time.
What are some possibilities that you all see with the original A7?
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I love the "multi-touch" idea used on the demos for Apple's new iPhone (for an example check out the photos demo where the white circles represent finger touches).
Basically it allows you to zoom in by placing two fingers on the touch screen and sliding them together - sliding them apart zooms out.
Neat idea, but is it even technically possible to do this on HTC devices and/or in WM5? I haven't done any development using M$ APIs in years: as I recall the "mouse" X and Y coords were available - but I can't think of how you could possibly access two seperate "touches"/mouse pointers... AFAIK Windoze "averages" the two, or treats it like you moved your (single) finger really fast from one point to another.
Any XDA developers out there who may be able to shed some light on the technical feasability of reproducing multi-touch on HTC/WM5?
If you look at the talk by Steve Jobs, the multi touch is a relatively new technology/concept that Apple is proud of (among the mouse in PC and touch-pad-wheel-thing in iPod). So, I think it may not be possible to do that in WM5, as the hardware maybe hardwired to give just two variables, x and y (eg, two wire out?). And, IF the hardware is able to give you all the coordinates of the 'touched' area, you will need to have a very good algorithm to determine if you have touched the screen with two fingers or you just have a very big finger. It needs to gather all the points together and see if there are points joining together to make it a big finger or two fingers.
Not possible
If you look closely you will note that there's no way you will have such a system on WM5. The iPhone uses a completely different kind of screen. The screen that all of us have on our PDA are using the same technology as a touchpad on a ladtop. There is simply no way you couuld use two fingers because the system detects a pressure on the area annd not to. From people who approach and used the iPhone yesterday night, the screen is like the PSP screen and the system will be more like an electromagnetic field !
That's for the first part, the second one is that Apple has patented all of that technology and I'm not quite sure they are likely to release it to WM5 devices.
If some of you are a bit disappointed, look at what the presentation ojn multitouch interface made at the TED last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY
Haven't seen this posted yet
From Slashgear:
A week ago we described HTC’s HD2 as the poster-child for Windows Mobile 6.5, despite HTC having to replace, rework or generally junk a lot of the Microsoft OS’ native functionality and replace it with their own. One such change – and a particularly welcome one at that – is multitouch support, but HTC have limited its use in the final build to the browser and a few other apps. Now there’s a nifty app which unlocks multitouch support in every app system-wide.
Zooomer for the HTC HD2 will work with any .exe executable file on the Windows Phone, and basically add in multitouch control. That’s going to be of mixed use, of course, since not all apps will really benefit from it, but we’re glad to at least have the choice ourselves. The functionality is selective, too, which means you can turn off Zooomer’s multitouch on an app-by-app basis if you’re experiencing problems or just find the zooming frustrating (such as in certain games, perhaps).
If anything, this shows one of the lesser-sung benefits of the Windows Mobile platform: that there are lots of developers out there familiar with it, and who will readily code together apps (and release them as donationware) that tinker with basic functionality in this way. While Microsoft don’t exactly encourage such modification, neither do they stand in its way (such as Apple might). You can download Zooomer for the HTC HD2 here [.cab link]; it requires a soft reset before it will work
http://www.slashgear.com/zooomer-ad...ashgear+(SlashGear)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Nice find! Gonna give that a try in a bit!
It's been posted here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=584940
* Large WVGA screen with a single aspect ratio (which means BlackBerry-style devices won't be readily available to begin with)
* Five specific hardware buttons required: Start, back, search (a dedicated Bing button), camera button, and power -- no more, no less
* Capacitive multitouch
* CPU and GPU requirements (beginning with Qualcomm's Snapdragon as the go-to processor)
* WiFi
* AGPS
* Accelerometer
* FM radio
* High resolution camera
Well does the hd2 have these ?
Well does this forum has 1000 topics going on about this issue?
this requirements are the latest and most reliable to be official. So i wanted to share them Source Engadget.
HD2 meets all requirements and runs WP7 perfectly.
I'm not going to give you any evidence of this, just believe it or not. If you don't, well, sorry.
Anyone have this yet? Wondering how it compares to NookColor, etc. Note there are two versions of this...the 70b being the newer model with only the two hardware button.
Specs look decent for an e-book reader. Android 2.1, wifi etc.
Would love to see a review...anyone have feedback?
http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk...hscreen__and_Android-based_eReader.12552.html
I plan on buying it. it looks decent
but there no bluetooth built it.
I wanted to know if a bluetooth usb key would work or not.
Bandage said:
Anyone have this yet?
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Got it in MediaMarkt for 139 euros (available online starting 119).
Model Nbr - A7EM
Firmware - 1.0.0
Kernel - 2.6.25 / [email protected] #98
Build - V 0.18.ECLAIR.eng.root.20101209.172546
First impression - pretty slow (comparing to SGS 2.2.1), bugs in original keyboard, pretty bad resistive touchscreen (seems like or a bit better than other Archos tablets) , "read" buttons are not working with all applications, very sensitive orientation sensor - switching all the time, standard Android orientation is horizontal - but the device made for vertical/portrait orientation. So too many software "features".
Also, very important for any user, they made pretty bad decision of making scroll bars very thin on such pretty large screen. Meaning that they could not be used for actual scrolling and it is almost impossible to scroll any screen.
Summary so far - NOT RECOMMENDED for a novice user, but, as I understand, pretty standard so could be "tuned" by an experienced person. Especially if 2.2 ROM could be ported to it.
PS: Could not find any extra information about device itself and how it could be rooted so far. Very limited info on official site, no firmware available, almost no postings on any sites except of 1-2 reviews.
If anybody has questions - please do it quickly. I'm planning to return this device back because it is pretty much failing it main purpose - it has no convenient ebook reader application, so, considering very limited supply in Archos app store - (Stanza is missing!), it is too much work to make this device useful.
(will keep posting with info) Good news:
User 'shinset' posted very interesting video on Youtube "archos 70B ereader" : www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOqbPI3aqDQ
Some modifications were done to the software (see next post).
Not just being cool, but the device looks much snappier and many standard programs could be installed (excluding Google closed source ones as he said in comments). Also with stylus navigation on 70B resistive touchscreen is much easier than with fingers.
'NightTimeification' mentioned: "the only good thing about the A70B is the "c-paper" screen if you read a lot ". Confirming that screen looking pretty good for such a cheap model also color wise.
Checking blogeee forum using Translate from French.Google as: www.blogeee.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=480&t=20537&sid=5c81e90baf766f186ff0c6595748807f
Summary on the device
Product looks alike (except A70b as Android 2.1): Nextbook Next2 7" eBook Reader:
URL: www.nextbookusa.com
PREVIEW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11KiiL4cMjs
FCC application A70b including Internal photos:
https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas...Frame=N&application_id=420383&fcc_id='SOV7702
= Summary from the French forum (first 13 pages):
- Only temporary root with Z4Root (till reboot)
- no known access to boot manager or Froyo
- apps to be compatible with enlightens 2.1
- Suggested modification: Zeami launcher + home switcher + alternative market (Slide me)
- Office app - Quickoffice - http://gallery.mobile9.com/f/1618835/
- Opera Mini browser 5 is considered as the best browser
- Google calendar via - GCalendar Widget
- A transitional model because Archos is switching to Arnova brand later this year - www.generation-nt.com/archos-arnova-chine-strategie-tablette-android-actualite-1166241.html
- Most of people are pretty happy with functionality for this money
Now I'm not sure any more ...
i have this
http://www.jbmm.fr/2011/02/08/archos-70b-ereader-mes-impressions/
http://www.jbmm.fr/2011/02/04/deballons-larchos-7ob-ereader/
i prefer the 7 IT
the "big" interest for this ereader is the "ADOBE DRM" !
for use epub/pdf with drm
Adobe DRM
cajl said:
the "big" interest for this ereader is the "ADOBE DRM" !
for use epub/pdf with drm
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Indeed, but there is one problem with it - CPU is pretty slow, so any serious PDF is taking ages to load (like a minute to load every page). So I would not count on this device as being a good PDF reader. In emergency situation - yes, but any complex PDF - no.
PS: On my SGS phone with 1 Ghz CPU reading PDF is much more smooth, but the screen is only about 1/3 of 70b. No perfection in this world
Played with device the whole weekend. Here is a summary of how I think about this device:
For:
Size and weight are just right (for me)
Screen type (c-paper) meaning brightness levels, contrast and colors
Overall functionality for this money
Contra:
Resistive screen
Configuration of a single Home screen is just stupid
Immature and obsolete OS version (full of small bugs)
Incompatible with many Android apps I need (not installing)
The only reasonable usage is as e-book reader. All other are inconvenient in a sense
Low chances that it would be ever properly supported by Archos
PS: I've complained to Archos. Waiting for their reaction.
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Contra:
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PS: I've complained to Archos. Waiting for their reaction.
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It looks that Archos never would contact me. So I'm bringing device back to the shop.
For others who are interested, some workarounds:
> Resistive screen
You need a stylus or something alike (finger nail) with small contact surface. Any scrolling easier to do in diagonal style: bottom_left to top_right.
Combining these two, the interface does not look so ugly any more.
> Configuration of a single Home screen
Get a different Launcher and make it default
> Incompatible with many Android apps
It should be a way. Probably in Archos Internet Tablets section they should have more information about this. May be just some libraries to be installed, may be this is just an Installer bug.
> reasonable usage is as e-book reader
It is not bad already.
WiFi driver is not power consumtion friendly - just keep it connected to charger
Browsing is not easy - just try different browsers
> not properly supported by Archos
Who cares! They are a commercial company, but there are a lot of enthusiasts around who might help.
> No bootloader or real permanent root
Get Titanium Backup and z4root, make a full backup (including System settings). So the applications could be easily re-installed and most of settings preserved.
ppav1776 said:
(will keep posting with info) Good news:
User 'shinset' posted very interesting video on Youtube "archos 70B ereader" : www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOqbPI3aqDQ
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Brought it for less than 100 euro. I've followed the instruction, making a very usable tablet. Even Angry Brids runs on it . I am however looking for a calendar app, which doesn't required the stock calender as it is removed by Archos.
http://www.samsungapps.com/topApps/topAppsDetail.as?productId=G00000688645&listYN=Y
This system information tool knows everything about your device. It allows to take a deeper look into your powerful hardware by listing all important information. All important values are dynamically updatet.
Available Information Areas
- System Information: CPU, RAM, GPU, Storage, Power, Sensors
- Network Information: Cell, WiFi, Bluetooth, SIM-Card, GPS, Statistics
- Settings Information: Software, Features, Config, Other
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Feel free to write comments to Developer:
http://www.badanation.de/topic.php?t=3948
Thanx to darijoa
Best Regards
Very good app a must have!!
Just got my new Wave 3 and realized that BadaSi sees the CPU as a 1Ghz A8. At least i know exactly what GPU i have...
Like all System Tools... known from PC...
sometimes static Text included...
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lol
Bada SI is outdated now
Team VEA will work on it after my exams end & after Lareito's work end too...Maybe in February
We got great plans for it already but no time right now
Best Regards
It's not my fault, samsung doesn't offers any APIs to get such informations so i must add them static, and on the other site badasi is nearly a year old and the wave III is currently out in the current alpha running much of these things are solved by only adding the 2.0 manifest like battery level and so on.
Don't worry after replacing the old 1.2 gui with new one we will also fix it for wave III
Only the Wave, WaveII, WaveIII are supported, simply cause of i cannot find any hardware specs about the low devices, nothing clearly. So an update for this devices is simply currently impossible.
hi there, just wondering if there had been any updates on slyfer samsung app ? anything you guys working on at the moment ?