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Any word processing apps?

im having a hard time finding a good processing app @[email protected]

What about Google Docs? Does it work in Android browser or Dolphin? It's quite good.

There's going to be QuickOffice Pro HD for Honeycomb coming out soon.
And if you subscribe with your email, there's going to be 30% discount when you purchase it.
http://www.quickoffice.com/quickoffice_connect_suite_android_hd/

MS Office Live
Has anyone tried MS office for web? It runs very good in chorme on desktop, waiting for my wifi xoom to see how it works in honeycomb browser
Search office live in google to find it i cant post outside links yet

I have paid for Documents to Go and Picsel Smart Office. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. I like Picsel because it is the only app so far that displays graphics correctly but track changes are not available until the next big release (they have a good customer support). D2G has the track changes but lacks a lot of correct rendering and PPT support is atrocious. I'm sure in the next 2-3 months we'll have a decent selection to choose from!

Both Office Live and Google Docs are too heavy for the Xoom browsers, which is to be expected, they are not exactly optimized for our screen size and lack of desktop horsepower.
They both run, but are very clunky.
I tried ThinkOffice, no go - FC off the bat.
OfficeSuite Pro trial seems to loose the document as you type, then goes into a "Recover your doc screen" - I couldn't even get a paragraph in with this.
I'm open to suggestions here, I really need a solid Doc/XLS app that won't have issues that hinder it - I don't need full fledge office or anything, but I do need something that will let me View/Edit and finding one that does bullet points would be freakin sweet.

I don't need anything for graphics really, I just really need to read pdf and word docs and be able to edit all of them
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niiza said:
I don't need anything for graphics really, I just really need to read pdf and word docs and be able to edit all of them
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Then Documents to Go and Picsel Smart Office should work for you! But only the paid version allows to edit

Kcarpenter said:
Both Office Live and Google Docs are too heavy for the Xoom browsers, which is to be expected, they are not exactly optimized for our screen size and lack of desktop horsepower.
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What do you mean? I use them on my home computer in the same resolution in a browser that scores less in SunSpider than the Xoom stock browser. Is it because of touch? How would it work with keyboard and mouse (or touchpad)? Have anyone tried?

I purchased the Quick Office HD and I have to say I am really impressed so far!
Works great on my Xoom.

kyxdadeveloper said:
I purchased the Quick Office HD and I have to say I am really impressed so far!
Works great on my Xoom.
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I cannot say that I am impressed with any of the currently available apps. Check out my comparison of Quick Office, Picsel SmartOffice and Documents to Go!

Magnesus said:
What do you mean? I use them on my home computer in the same resolution in a browser that scores less in SunSpider than the Xoom stock browser. Is it because of touch? How would it work with keyboard and mouse (or touchpad)? Have anyone tried?
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Try them, you can tell that the browsers struggles. More the office live than Google docs, but even with google docs there are things that you just have to have a mouse for. Sadly there is not yet an HTML standard for touch input as a replacement for mouse events. Especially with things like Hover, Drag, and Drop.
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I think that the office apps that are available in the market are more than adequate for some light editing and productivity on the go. Its not necessary for these apps to have full compatibility with desktop versions imho. Being far too critical really.
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I have been using quickoffice HD. So far its pretty good. I also have docs to go, whichnis good but the file browsing is better in quickoffice.
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Accophox said:
I think that the office apps that are available in the market are more than adequate for some light editing and productivity on the go. Its not necessary for these apps to have full compatibility with desktop versions imho. Being far too critical really.
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Sure, I can also use my phone for typing but what I need a tablet to do is to recognize basic fonts, comments, and paragraph formatting. I don't think we're expecting too much. If I want a text editor that's different but if you claim to have a "professional" office suite and can't even display the symbol font then something's not right. But I'm glad it works for you!

i also ordered quick office HD and I mainly use powerpoint but quick office keeps auto advancing the slides. I don't want to have to keep pressing the pause button every time I manually advance the slides. Does anyone know how to turn off the auto advancing so that I can just manually advance the slides when I want to?

I have Quickoffice Pro HD. Not too impressed with it. I'm a college student so I bought my Xoom for notetaking in my classes (and because I am an Android freak). It works well enough for notes, but not as I would like it to. Formatting is very weird, and the worst part is no auto correct or spell check. If I am going to type fast and efficiently, I can't be going back every five seconds to touch the screen and change a letter. Very frustrating.
I'm hoping the office tech catches up with tablets soon. Don't really understand why I can't just have the same text functionality in my word processing app that I do in my Gmail or text messages.

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I have Quickoffice Pro HD. Not too impressed with it. I'm a college student so I bought my Xoom for notetaking in my classes (and because I am an Android freak). It works well enough for notes, but not as I would like it to. Formatting is very weird, and the worst part is no auto correct or spell check. If I am going to type fast and efficiently, I can't be going back every five seconds to touch the screen and change a letter. Very frustrating.
I'm hoping the office tech catches up with tablets soon. Don't really understand why I can't just have the same text functionality in my word processing app that I do in my Gmail or text messages.
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My auto correct works in quick office hd.
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Isn't autocorrect also a feature of the keyboard that you use? I have to admit that none of the keyboards I tried so far has as good an autocorrect as my iPhone :-(
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Why bother with having both S Note and S Memo?

ICS Note has both the old S Memo and the new S Note.
I have tried both. The S Note is very similar to S Memo, but has some extra new features of the Premium Suite.
I would say use S Note is good enough, but I am lost to see the reason for Samsung to include both apps. May be I missed something.
Can someone with good experience shed some light here?
Differences compiled from replies:
1. S Memo has a S Memo Lite (double tap with pen button pressed to quickly bring up app),
2. S Memo has widgets.

Unfortunately SNote does not have the double screen tap while pressing the SPen button to pop up a S Note Lite version ontop of any application running (pretty convenient for me actually). So in order to conserve that function they had to leave it installed.
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OK. that counts one. Anything else?

S-memo has a widget for home screen, the other app doesn't have it.
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Any others?
If these are the only two features, I would say Samsung shall really merge the 2 apps into one. It should be an easy task for them.

roamingphiul said:
Any others?
If these are the only two features, I would say Samsung shall really merge the 2 apps into one. It should be an easy task for them.
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I totally agree... in fact, yesterday morning I searched the forums and couldn't find any threads relating to this so created my own:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681747
They say great minds think alike!
My biggest frustration is the functionality with Evernote. S-Note syncs, but uploads as an attached file.

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I totally agree... in fact, yesterday morning I searched the forums and couldn't find any threads relating to this so created my own:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681747
They say great minds think alike!
My biggest frustration is the functionality with Evernote. S-Note syncs, but uploads as an attached file.
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I have read the other thread of yours. Your shared experience and others replies enhance my thought: Samsung did not think twice before launching S Note, may be it was in a rush to get out the Premium Suite.
My frustration is similar to yours: I do not want to use all three apps (and spend time on riding through the learning curves), but just one primary note taking tool. If I have to use all three apps with complimentary features, they should be easily synced and shared.
The app is preferred to be/have:
Nice features of S Note and the S Memo Lite (the quick double tapping feature),
Manageable. With all the different file name extensions and folder locations, I have problems in finding where the S Note, S Memo, and S Memo Lite files are.
Portable. Will S Note and S Memo still be around in a year time after the current hot Galaxy Note phone is superseded? May be Evernote is a better choice in this regard.

Also once I saw a record button over top of the app... Donno in which app but it's not there!!! That's for recording the onscreen activities right?
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Also once I saw a record button over top of the app... Donno in which app but it's not there!!! That's for recording the onscreen activities right?
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Screen capture directly into SMemo with S pen?
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priyanv said:
Also once I saw a record button over top of the app... Donno in which app but it's not there!!! That's for recording the onscreen activities right?
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When opening the s note application choose idea note out of the 6 templates. Thats where the recording feature is found. And yes it does record everything done on screen.
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open S note notebooks in my desktop
Hi,
is there anyway to open the .snb notebooks in my desktop and edit them ... i love the app and use it as my daily diary ... but cant continue if i cant edit them and save them on desktop ...
please help

I have not found one.
S-features are nice, but not really suitable for notes that are to be kept and used in future.
I am going to use something like Evernote.

I am too a bit underwhelmed and puzzled by those two apps, the fragmentation and lack of critical features (like seamless sync to online with full editing support, not only picture edit) makes all this pen thingy little more than gimmick.
I installed mostly everything that was mentioned on xda (like quill, skitch, floatnote, etc) but still nothing clicks for me.
It looks like the companies develop such software just to have something nice to put on your home screen or to make some enticing marketing videos. It's a pity, especially that some features are very nice and surely there was some serious work put into them (like handwriting/ecuations recognition).
In the end even if I would really like to use more then notes and such I can't find myself using more than the following two features:
- screen shot editing
- handwritten formula for calculations (via search->wolframalpha).
Both because they are mostly self-contained and once the activity is over I'm done, so no further editing/sync/open format/ future proofing is needed.

Does Facebook app show everything in a narrow center column?

Ever since v1.9.3 or 1.9.4 (can't remember), the Facebook app shows everything in a narrow column down the center of the screen, and photos are cropped so you only see the left side. There are a few bad reviews on the Play store that mention this issue. I posted a thread in the general section about this, but someone replied he doesn't have the issue with another tablet. I wonder if it's an issue with touchwiz and facebook. I had the issue before and after the ICS update. I've tried clearing data, as we as uninstalling and reinstalling. Only thing I haven't tried is backing up to a side-loaded older version.

U can only see the full pictures without cropping in the portrait view just force close facebook app and open it again in the portrait position
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zeema said:
U can only see the full pictures without cropping in the portrait view just force close facebook app and open it again in the portrait position
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I'll give that a shot. It used to work in landscape, where pictures would take the entire width. I'm trying to figure out if it's an issue with just the tab 8.9, any samsung tabs, or all android tablets. Comments in my other thread would make it seem that it's not a problem on all android tablets. It's like the code to size the pictures uses the full width, then some other code that formats the columns, just uses some max width, which ends up cropping photos. In addition to that, the Facebook app on the Gtab also doesn't show the new timeline with cover photo, where the same facebook app version on my phone does.

Use the browser
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Use the browser
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Notifications.
Also, you're reply doesn't help me narrow down if the problem is the app itself, or an issue with the app only on the 8.9.

zeema said:
U can only see the full pictures without cropping in the portrait view just force close facebook app and open it again in the portrait position
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The pictures are still cropped when I do this, just seemingly by not as much (since the slim center column is closer to the width of the screen in portrait.

Here's the email I sent to FB on Jul 13
Just updated to 1.9.7 on my Galaxy Tab 8.9. The center column and cropped picture issue is still here. Please fix this soon. It worked just fine several versions ago, I think somewhere around 1.9.0 or so.
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I have tried every version from 1.8.3 up till the latest, and they all have the problem. So, that means one of these things are the cause:
1. The Tab 8.9 has issues with Facebook (not likely at all, since the problem showed up after an update to Facebook)
2. The FB app has issues with TouchWiz tablets (plausible perhaps, but also not likely. only have an 8.9, so can't verify)
3. The FB app had some server side change, since all the older versions that used to work just fine, show the same problem (most likely to me)
But, I don't have any other tablet to test with, and from my other thread, people didn't seem to indicate that they had the problem.
I really hope the rumored Android app rewrite fixes this sorry excuse for an app.
I guess for the time being, I'll leave it on for the notifications, and just use the web page till then. Not ideal. SMH

Any other good app for FB ?

I have the same problem on my Xoom and I believe it is the same on all Android tablets. Very annoying.
If it was same on ipad it would have been fixed the same day.
PS Android version on tablets doesn't make any difference HC, ICS, JB I tried them all Fb has the same issue on all of them.
oryan_dunn said:
Here's the email I sent to FB on Jul 13
I have tried every version from 1.8.3 up till the latest, and they all have the problem. So, that means one of these things are the cause:
1. The Tab 8.9 has issues with Facebook (not likely at all, since the problem showed up after an update to Facebook)
2. The FB app has issues with TouchWiz tablets (plausible perhaps, but also not likely. only have an 8.9, so can't verify)
3. The FB app had some server side change, since all the older versions that used to work just fine, show the same problem (most likely to me)
But, I don't have any other tablet to test with, and from my other thread, people didn't seem to indicate that they had the problem.
I really hope the rumored Android app rewrite fixes this sorry excuse for an app.
I guess for the time being, I'll leave it on for the notifications, and just use the web page till then. Not ideal. SMH
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zoum79 said:
I have the same problem on my Xoom and I believe it is the same on all Android tablets. Very annoying.
If it was same on ipad it would have been fixed the same day.
PS Android version on tablets doesn't make any difference HC, ICS, JB I tried them all Fb has the same issue on all of them.
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Thanks for the input. Really hard to believe FB doesn't have the funds available to buy a single Android tablet to test their app on. What's more puzzling is that it probably is just a wrapper for the web page. I dont' understand why the same version on my ICS phone shows the timeline/coverphoto page for someone, but on my ICS tablet, it shows some watered down page and only in a center column.

And, in my experience, on tablet its impossible to switch from wall view to info view, so you can't lookup phone numbers , email, etc

Not only that but photos are cropped when shared in a group or on a wall. So annoying.
It does this on the 10.1 Tab as well. I was disappointed to discover it does this also on my new 8.9 LTE . SO ANnoyed....and disappointed really.

Looks like the 2.0 update for Facebook has finally fixed this issue.

(Request) Samsung galaxy note multi-window feature port

Any chance some enterprising dev could get this running on our nexus 7's
http://phandroid.com/2012/10/05/sam...te-brings-awesome-multi-window-feature-video/http://phandroid.com/2012/10/05/sam...te-brings-awesome-multi-window-feature-video/
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That would be cool if they could, but I'm guessing this is deeply integrated into Touch wiz.
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Zaphod-Beeblebrox said:
Umm .. *cough* *cough* Cornerstone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX8w3UZIjkc
It's open source. Roman made an ICS/AOKP/Cornerstone build a long time ago ... felt it was too buggy to continue.
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AOKP got this request recently.
Seems a Cornerstone build would be the only way out...which is unlikely.

I'm fully aware this would probably be quite difficult to port, and likely quite time consuming.
Having said that, I also want this. It makes so much more sense on a 7 inch tablet then a 5 inch whatever.

This works with a handful of Google Apps, no other apps. I don't see the point.

khaytsus said:
This works with a handful of Google Apps, no other apps. I don't see the point.
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Running 2 apps at the same time. Seems like a great idea to me. It supports a limited amount of apps, but unlike Galaxy Note 10.1, you could probably hack in other apps to work.

khaytsus said:
This works with a handful of Google Apps, no other apps. I don't see the point.
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Yes, but the Galaxy Note 2 supports all apps in multi-window mode...

This would be *nice* to have but I don't know how much easier it would be then to just multitasking between 2 apps now and having the apps full screen. I can see some of the benefits like watching a youtube video while chatting on Google Talk. There are some good alternatives such as popup video players and notepads that overlay on top of current app and typically are resizable and movable.
While it makes sense this would be better on a 7" then a 5"... it really would be best on a 10". 7" barely gives me enough breathing room for 1 app. Plus most of the "compatible apps" are simple things like a calculator and notes

Well it seems VERY useful to me.
It's better than popup apps in my opinion - more app options.

Overscreen browser is a great alternative for now
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No, it's not.
This allows multiple apps to run side by side, Overskreen is just the browser. Also, it's not even compatible with Jelly Bean, so no one who owns a Nexus 7 can use it.

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Yes, but the Galaxy Note 2 supports all apps in multi-window mode...
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No, as I said, handful of specific Google apps. Read up on it. Will the list grow? Maybe? I'd have to guess it is a sdk used to support the function, is it worth app dev time to do it and possibly maintain multiple versions of their app?

more then google apps
Not just google apps can do this on the samsung note 10.1 .
samsng snote and lecture app
browser
vidoe player
picture gallery
polaris office
Photo shop (special note version)
I think there a few others that are on the samsung web app store. Samsung sbe adding apps to this.
Now for the bubble burst. The reason they work on the galaxy note is the new QUAD Core cpu and 2 GB Very fast ram .. samsung tried to release a less ram/power version of the 10.1 note with a higer res display. they backed the display down and increased the cpu//ram. this is also to support the WACOM S PEN..
I have been reading alot about the device because mine will be here Monday. So the above if from my reading and research. I can update you more mid next week.. I do not see a need for split windows on a 7 inch screen .. get the overscreen browser and try it.. JUST Does not work for productive work...
Hope this help make it more understandable... too bad samsung did not make the n7 . i give up because of the screen issues sent two of them back and will NOT order a 3rd...

Dude. Overskreen DOES NOT work on Jelly Bean. And it is just one app, vs an entire suite of Google Apps.
Also there's no need for window management.
Nexus 7 has a quad-core processor too, just less RAM - which isn't even a problem, it still can handle side by side apps.
And you're telling some weird stuff here. We are talking about Galaxy Note 2, which allows more apps, and works better. AND it works on a 5 inch screen, so it'll be awesome on a seven inch.
So yeah, please don't come back with your 'research' to tell us that you think that this feature is unnecessary.

i hope sincerely as a dev can make a mod for port this feature in future beacause it's very usefull even if work only with google apps it's better ,
anyone know if a moded youtube apps existing for play a video on background because i search since 3 month but not find ?
thx

I don't think there is one, sadly. Android doesn't support true multitasking

While i would love to have or port this it simply isnt possible, it requires a lot of changing to the frameworks and it would be hard to decompile all of samsungs sources and extract it.

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I don't think there is one, sadly. Android doesn't support true multitasking
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Stock android not, but there are a few roms with cornerstone, i think mainly on 10 inch tablets.

Web os did this kinda on a dual core wish android would absorb that multitasking feature right now running multiple apps kinda is a hit and miss
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Your favourite thing about Kitkat on n⁴?

For me: embedded YouTube videos run much better in the browser than before... They were unwatchable in 4.3.
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ART which made it possible for me to not requiring to buy a Nexus 5 at this point.

Does art speed up the actual app (like scrolling, etc) or just load times?
The smart dialer is by far the best feature.

Print Support
Print Support.
I use a commercial software to scan my documents with the Nexus 4 camera and turn them into PDF.
I was used to upload them into Dropbox and print them as soon as I got into my office.
Now I just point (for theatrical) my Nexus 4 towards the printer and shazam! I got a copy of my documents

dodgebizkit said:
For me: embedded YouTube videos run much better in the browser than before... They were unwatchable in 4.3.
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Actually, with regards to embedded videos, it does not seem to work anymore for those that I have in my Pocket articles.
Just a "Couldn't load plug-in" error message.
But other than that, i think the new dialer does mirror my usage style of not keying in numbers all the time, but just that few contacts. nice feature there.

1 - ART. That makes me keep my Nexus 4 and now only waiting for Nexus 6 next year
2 - The new dialer. A think Google got a point here.

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Embedded videos work better but the actual YouTube app has gotten worse videos stutter horribly.
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- The dialer: It seems a lot less...bland...and I feel like i want to use it more. (Bonus points for the fact it brought up the name of the take-away i've been using for the past few weeks that I never knew the name of)
- The hidden UI when browsing fullscreen content also makes that bit of a difference to me

Dialer is cool. Like the full screen browser too and overall better battery life.

All the new UI related things, and ART as internal thing.

PrOn Pages dont lag on Chrome when Art is enabled
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Art, GEL, and dialer ui is helpful.
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Gel question.
It would suit me much better if I could remove search bar from homescreen.
Any idea for that?
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Nothing much. It's an incremental update, hyped by blogs and obsessives. Roll on android 6.00
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RASTAVIPER said:
Gel question.
It would suit me much better if I could remove search bar from homescreen.
Any idea for that?
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Yes but you're not going to like it. Uninstall Google Search completely from your device, then install the AOSP launcher from CM11 rom, it's the same as Google launcher without the Google Now integration. It doesn't gone an extra row for home screen either, but it does show more apps in the drawer.
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DrPathetic said:
- The dialer: It seems a lot less...bland...and I feel like i want to use it more. (Bonus points for the fact it brought up the name of the take-away i've been using for the past few weeks that I never knew the name of)
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Yes the dialer has been my main frustration for a long time, having no t9 support. When it did, the limited display of 3 contacts with only name + number was somewhat dissapointing, especially since htc implemented that feature from day one it seemed.
I do miss the opportunity to switch functions using a swipe though (the dialer pad button is a little hard to press wile on a bicycle ), but overall I think it's a huge improvement, especially with the mentioned bonus point that it identifies numbers from businesses that are not in my contacts!

I like how Google didn't give us transparency on stock /s
I would say the new dialer and music lock screen are my favorites so far

texla said:
Dialer is cool. Like the full screen browser too and overall better battery life.
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Full screen browser ^^` ? In Chrome ?
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Curious here too.
And is ART available on stock?
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Sinfamy said:
Curious here too.
And is ART available on stock?
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Yes..ART is available in stock kitkat (N4)