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[Q] If you could ask for one thing to be added to the Galaxy S

What would you ask for ???
Obviously Froyo is on its way.
But any other ideas for hardware or software ?
eg.
Dedicated camera button for front facing camera
etc etc
or a solution for
better copy / paste selection
option for numerical pin as opposed to patern unlock
etc etc
Just read other posts asking simlar questions eg Facebook thread.
But this could be a reasonable chance to get our view across, The Mrs has just been approached to review their products

markhd said:
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Front facing camera
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but it's not there?
BTW, what I really need (in addition to froyo, an improved GPS and less lag.... ok, I'm on stock fw...) is not from Samsung directly but simply an app: Skype!!!

LED Flash
and SenseUI!
(I cheated)

1. some kinda mic settings so i could record concerts and have the footage useable.
2. stereo speakers..
3. usb connection on bottom..
4. led or xenon or both flash
5. camera dedicated button right side bottom.

lgkahn said:
1. some kinda mic settings so i could record concerts and have the footage useable.
2. stereo speakers..
3. usb connection on bottom..
4. led or xenon or both flash
5. camera dedicated button right side bottom.
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This pretty much sums it up.

More RAM
like 4 GB RAM, and Dual Core CPU
and a flat 3000 mAh battery

flash for sure

- camera flash
- hdmi output (rumored via usb in the future)

I want an optical joystick. And a brushed Al backplate. And I dun need a clickable center button if a touch sensitive one will be more durable. And undo/redo in all text editors. And the icon size should be adjustable. Err, that's 5 more things, my bad....

KaliKot said:
LED Flash
and SenseUI!
(I cheated)
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Why just a LED flash? they are pretty lame.
If you are going to have a flash at least have a proper one (xenon).
That would be my wish
1) xenon flash
2) coloured trackball for notifications

a working rocket launcher.

Stability.
(It looks like most, or all, the Bell i9000M phones have a problem with the internal SD chips, killing themselves. Mine died, and all I did was launch the audio player!)

Xenon flash or a LED for notifications

I'd say something android lacks overall: easy caret placement. On the phone produced by a fruity manufacturer you have somewhat of a magnifying circle when positioning the caret. I would REALLY like that (or equivalent) to be available on Android
...unless it already supports it and I have overlooked it for months, lol

notification led
couldn't care less about flash, the phone makes extremely good night pics anyhow and i'm not into making horrible night pics with a flash 30cm from ppl's face
the rest is software and can/will/is already added by community/samsung
eventually a joystick or something similar for games hehe.

d-fader said:
I'd say something android lacks overall: easy caret placement. On the phone produced by a fruity manufacturer you have somewhat of a magnifying circle when positioning the caret. I would REALLY like that (or equivalent) to be available on Android
...unless it already supports it and I have overlooked it for months, lol
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Both the samsung keyboard and swype keyboard have cursor arrow keys for fine caret adjustment.
For the samsung keyboard, long-press/hold down the '?123' button in the left bottom corner. In the Swype keyboard, swype from 'i' (information) key in bottom corner to 'SYM' key next to it and a new board opens with arrows and additional 'cut/copy/paste' commands. Very handy although not as elegant as the fruity phone's implementation or easy to use as a Nexus trackball.

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Very handy although not as elegant as the fruity phone's implementation or easy to use as a Nexus trackball.
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Wow, that is very handy indeed! Didn't know that one yet! Thanks for noticing...

Stability (hopefully this will come with froyo)
Optical Pointer,
four touch keys like Tmobile vibrant under the screen.
Camera Flash,
Notification LED

Optical joystick
Dedicated camera button
Camera flash

gold dispensing machine

hd7 and wp7 still rough around the edges

I bit the bullet this weekend and actually purchased a HD7 after noticing the bargain basement price of £380 for the phone on O2 PAYG.
Windows phone 7 is pretty cool except that microsoft and/or HTC forgot that this phone sits on your desk in Landscape mode.
What Microsoft need to is enable these changes and it'd be a pretty good phone.
1. enable the start screen to rotate to landscape and scroll horizontally through the tiles.
2. enable zune player to rotate to landscape including the radio.
3. enable the lock screen to convert to landscape if on charge and enable the proximity sensor to flick the screen on to show the current time when you get closer to it.
4. enable custom colour selection of the Accent colour (color for US). (i personally dislike most of the options)
5. enable custom ringers
6. when we touch the top let us turn on and off different connectivity options or a shortcut to the settings - I don't need or want a live tile for this but having to scroll constantly to find settings is hell.
7. make the volume level more visible - volume across the screen not vertically.
8. enable bookmark on zune. I may have video or music that i want to continue where I left off from if I play something else. In fact I do.
What HTC need to do is
1. pump up the volume on the phone. it's got more speakers than the hd2 but so much quieter and this phone is supposed to be a multimedia phone.
2. optional install of your htc font - I fell in love with your font on the desire hd.
3. speed up your notes application launch time. I love the notic board but it took a while to open it when I needed it today.
I'm sure there's many more things but this'll do to start with.

I believe MS has done a tremendous job In WP7. Sure, there are shortcomings with every first release of new operating systems, however, many of these will no doubt be addressed at some point in its' further development.
I've had the HD7 for a few days - it shows good promise and I've decided to stick with it for as long as possible. A few rough edges but it's got what it takes to be a solid and robust operating system that I believe most would easily adopt.

Thanks for the input. When you mention volume. How is the ringer volume and text message volume?

ratchetjaw said:
Thanks for the input. When you mention volume. How is the ringer volume and text message volume?
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awful, but the range of tones is appalling tbh and they are all very tinny so it doesn't help. Also the volume being centralised means if you adjust the volume in a game or in the zune player, the ringer gets changed also.

frontieruk said:
awful, but the range of tones is appalling tbh and they are all very tinny so it doesn't help. Also the volume being centralised means if you adjust the volume in a game or in the zune player, the ringer gets changed also.
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Oh okay that's no good. Thanks for the info. Is the vibrate strong at least?

ratchetjaw said:
Oh okay that's no good. Thanks for the info. Is the vibrate strong at least?
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yeah do tell, the vibe on the HD2 is pretty bad compared to the TP2

Playstation PS Vita Review (Pros and Cons)

PSV Review (WiFi):
Rough Draft Copy, just to jot some points down, will organize and revise later, mostly about Vita Pros and Cons, not a game experience review
Pros:
- Great HW quality, solid feeling dual joy-sticks, better than its predecessor
- Quality screen OLED 5” 960x544 (I think OLED has become common place going forward since 2011, where the prices of OLED have fallen enough to be affordable on sub ~5” screens.)
- Responsive touch screen (Capacitive) (Popularized by the iPhone, Capacitive touch screens have become common place for brand name devices for the pass 2-3 years)
- Responsive Gaming action, no lag felt during game play in all games including Wipeout, StarDust Delta (though it’s the least you can expect from a custom tailored game SW and HW solution, unlike generic solutions like Windows, Android solutions where hardware resources available on the device are unknown to the SW developer)
- Lots of hardware controls (Gyro, Accel, and your regular HW buttons)
- Light Weight, easy to hold for extend periods of time (on the flip side, this could mean small battery, and explain the 3-5 hr battery life, since the battery is almost always the most physically dense thus heavy component of a system)
- Loud enough speaker (when not covered by finger)
-CONs:
- Hardware: The SGX543CPU is from 2009 (probably reasonable for a $250 device)
- Hardware: No GPS (probably reasonable for a $250 device)
- Packaging: Typical Sony package, bare essentials, no free bonuses like cheap sleeve common with other manufacturers
- Hardware: Backtouch screen is not 1:1 with the front, due to the Sony sticker offsetting the back touch screen by a couple millimeters up, when you compare by touching the front and back touch screen together with your fingers clamped to approx the same place, you’ll notice the back touch is offset by a few millimeters above the front touch screen. This means the backtouch is not exactly intuitive when used in reference to what you see in the front.
- Game: Wipeout: In Wipeout control mode, moving right finger at many times hits the right d-pad up, reversing the ship unexpectedly, This means the Right D-PAD to a little too close to the action buttons.
- OS: BUG: instability on OS screens, ie: settings, power down
- OS: BUG: Poor automatic WiFi Access Point selection. Vita will automatically erroneously pick the access point with worse signal
- Hardware: speaker placement, causes sound to go in and out every time the finger moves to hit different buttons, inadverdently covering the speaker, recommend bottom placement to avoid accidental covering
- OS: BUG: Bluetooth Stereo a2dp doesn’t reconnect upon device resume
----- poor game sound quality when Party voice is enabled
------have to manually reconnect to headphones
- OS: Interface: interface is very touch dependent, this was the same as Sony’s other newly converted touch devices, they tend to abandon all hardware button controls and force touch screen navigation as if the developers got too carried away by its discovery one day. There are many GUI instances where HW buttons still make more sense even in the presence of a touch screen. Like when there is only 1 button available to press (ie: ok) that should be equally accessible by our familiar X button, practically speaking it’s silly to completely abandon the HW interface. Lazy interface programming
- OS: Interface: Double tapping apps. In all apps/games, to access them, you first have to click on the icon on the app drawer, and then again click on the start button of the program to start the program.. I understand that some gaming information (ie: website, addons) is put in front but given the rarity of usage, couldn’t they be put into the main game screen? Other apps such as settings, friends, party, where there isn’t any other options on the front screen, what is the point in forcing the user to double tap?
- OS: Integration: Party, group apps, Friends, trophies, I’m still confused as to which app to launch for what purpose. These separate programs could have been integrated into one social app, where you can see your friends, select them to text or group chat or trophies.
This gated unintegrated experience forces a lot of guesswork and wasted load times between related apps that otherwise should have been an easy all-in-one integrated experience like other mobile social apps.
- OS: Interface: quick program switch, not allowing the top bar swipe gesture to pull down the list of open apps was a missed opportunity for quick app switch and WiFi on/off switching. The PSV seems to force the Playstation button on users to switch out of apps. Unfortunately, Sony is forcing the touch screen when it makes sense to allow HW button and forcing HW button, when it makes more sense to use the touch screen.
- OS: Interface: Cut and Paste: Again it seems pretty inconvenient whenever you want to move type something you’ve painstakingly typed on the touch pad to a different location, there is no way to do it. You are forced to retype what is already in front of you again. I would have accepted it even if the Copy clipboard was confined to pasting from the same program. For example, if you just see a non hyperlinked URL on the webpage that you’d want to go to in the browser, you’d literally have to manually type it in yourself. Or in the chat program if you want to refer to some text previously typed by copying the quote, again, you’d have to retype the whole passage manually. This might not be as big of an issue with an HW keyboard but when the device is dependent on a small touch screen keyboard, you’d want to make every effort to minimize any unnecessary typing.
By the year 2012, I would have expected Copy and Paste to be the most basic function across all text enabled devices.
- OS: Interface: Text cursor, not accessible by d-pad, forces touch access, but no text cursor handle like on Android and iPhone that allows easy cursor movement between characters. By the year 2012, I would have expected cursor control to have become a basic best practice across all touch enabled devices that have text cursors. (edit: cursor control is actually hidden, you have to press and hold the cursor for a second and the text field will magnify allowing you to drag and move the cursor back and forth. So this is good, but if only it wasn’t hidden to be found by accident.)
- Browser:
----------Double tap zoom is broken on many sites
----------No copy and paste
----------poor compatibility, even simple javascripts that are necessary to open certain webpages properly don’t work, for example I was unable to load the flyer from a simple futureshop webpage at all.
- OS: Interface: App Management:
There seems no way to organize the apps into folders, for example, Action games into one folder, puzzle games into other. On my android OS, I have 50 programs and games, none for which would be manageable if they were all just together in the app drawer, but thankfully with folders on the home screen, I was able to categorize them into their respective folders by functionality.
- OS: BUG:
Flight mode: with flight mode enabled, if you grant an app request for WiFi connection, the WiFi turns on, and the game proceeds. But BOTH the flight mode and WiFi icon remains active on the top bar even when the app has been closed. It appears the apps have no way of telling the OS what it’s done with the WiFi or that the OS should return the WiFi to its original state. In fact, after checking the Network settings, OS indicates flight mode is still enabled even though WiFi is also active. The redeeming factor is that upon closing the app, the WiFi icon does disappear (sometimes). But upon subsequent launch of the app, it no longer requests to enable the WiFi, it just does it automatically. The proper behavior should have been to ALWAYS ask for permission when Flight Mode is enabled, this could have serious implications for hospital settings where the WiFi gets inadvertently enabled without the user’s notice and permission. This is fairly poor hardware handling by the software
- OS: Functionality: Multitasking: The browser can not run without first closing the game. This means it's pretty hard to quickly reference for Walk-Throughs or cheat codes while you're playing a game without either first quitting or having a second device handy. It's completely understandable if games won't multi-task amongst other games, but when even the webbrowser doesn't work, essentially there is no multi-tasking, besides on built-in programs like Party, that needs it to be on for the Party Voice to work in game.
-Reviewer:
Last mobile console: NDS, last played 1 year ago, causal player of mobile games. Occasional PC gamer who enjoys some causal tablet gaming when bored.
Owned Sony devices:
Cameras: DSC-T9
Laptops: Vaio P
e-Readers: PRS-505, PRS-650, PRS-950
Gaming: PS2, PSV

What i was interested in is transfer game play between ps3 and the vita?
I thought that is what i saw on tv...
Any thoughts on that?

davidrules7778 said:
What i was interested in is transfer game play between ps3 and the vita?
I thought that is what i saw on tv...
Any thoughts on that?
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Im curious about that too
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[Q] Bugs Xperia Honami. Solved?

(Google translated from Russian)
Are there solutions to these gaps? Hard to part with this nice interface from Sony! I hope to help not indifferent to this firmware!
Touchscreen is buggy:
- This is most evident when scrolling horizontally and vertically.
- You can work, but very uncomfortable!
RAM has decreased from 768 to 578.
Charge level does not rise above 89%.
Of minor problems:
Beautiful clock sony does not show the weather, but on the lock screen to work properly.

Like and hate , tell us !!

What do you like in P9 Plus and what do you hate?

likes
- fingerprint directly open home screen and very quick
- camera
- ui (generaly)
- view mode (very imprortant setting for me)
- 5.5 inch amoled screen with force touch
- design
Hate
- 2.5 d edge screen ( Tempered glass incompatibility)
- force touch must be improve need more gestures
- no jpeg quality setting
- bottom and top frame to big

I only hate is top and bottomframe

What I like:
- The Fingerprint Sensor
- The big 5.5" Screen
- The overall Design
- The general Speed
- USB Type-C Connector
What I hate:
- No Optical Image Stabilization
- Bottom Side is a bit sharp near the USB Port
- No DoubleTap to wake Function

Like:
Almost everything. It's fast, has unbelievable battery life, great camera and just beautiful.
Hate:
EMUI. This little beast needs pure Android to be perfect. I hate that I can't use GravityBox to customize that damned UI.
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