What event?
The "quick responses" feature when you can't answer a call looks really awesome, so simple, surprised it hadn't been done before.
The "quick responses" feature when you can't answer a call looks really awesome, so simple, surprised it hadn't been done before.
The "quick responses" feature when you can't answer a call looks really awesome, so simple, surprised it hadn't been done before.
My Droid X has this so it's not new.The "quick responses" feature when you can't answer a call looks really awesome, so simple, surprised it hadn't been done before.
It's been available since Android 2.3The "quick responses" feature when you can't answer a call looks really awesome, so simple, surprised it hadn't been done before.
Uh, Android caught and passed iOS a little over a year ago.
Please notice how the core features of iOS 5 (new notifications and voice recognition) have been in android for over a year already.
iOS still doesn't have as many features as Android. It probably never will due to the closed ecosystem that Apple prefers.
As opposed to "the fewer features you have the better the OS"? Should not we all prefer dumb phones then?
Like someone else said on another board, regarding features. iOS/Apple has made a conscious decision to give users a device with some stock features, and use the App Store to fill the void. Android includes all of it. No one is better than the other, depending on your use/needs...
No one is better than the other, depending on your use/needs...
I didn't watch the keynote, have never used a Droid phone and have no interest in the line whatsoever, however....who the HECK calls an OS "Ice Cream Sandwich"!??!?!?!This name sounds like something a child's toy phone would have installed, not a huge, multi-billion dollar company's product! Just another reason *for me* to avoid Android....does not sound professional or serious at all.
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Some adults are still children. Its not really that hard to understand.I will never, ever understand the slap fighting that goes on over cell phones and operating systems. Good Lord.
I didn't watch the keynote, have never used a Droid phone and have no interest in the line whatsoever, however....who the HECK calls an OS "Ice Cream Sandwich"!??!?!?!This name sounds like something a child's toy phone would have installed, not a huge, multi-billion dollar company's product! Just another reason *for me* to avoid Android....does not sound professional or serious at all.
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Funny how people only see what they want to see. Did you even watch the event? I'm not saying that either is better than the other, but I wouldn't say it's surpassed iOS. They touted new features in ICS, that are in iOS now, and have been. Like:
- Grouping of icons [Folders] by dragging/dropping on top of each other.
Are you seriously sitting there and telling me with a straight face that side-scrolling was stolen/borrowed from iOS? Android's image gallery (and countless other apps) already utilized side scrolling for navigation. The intent (as the presenter said in the video) was to make the experience and interaction uniform across all of Android's core apps. Seems like a stretch to claim that side scrolling to advance to the next day/month/etc is something they saw elsewhere and copied when their other apps already used the same gesture/implementation.[*]Sliding your finger across the screen in Calendar to go to the next/previous day.
My Samsung Vibrant (FroYo) has been doing this (web page thumbs) for almost a year. What is new is the vertical tiling of the web tabs and the side-swiping to close them. They *did* steal the side-swipes, but they stole that from WebOS.[*]Creating a graphic preview of sites/pages, that you can spin through.
Although the question of whether one OS gives a better experience than the other is subjective.... features, functions and capabilities are hard facts.Like someone else said on another board, regarding features. iOS/Apple has made a conscious decision to give users a device with some stock features, and use the App Store to fill the void. Android includes all of it. No one is better than the other, depending on your use/needs...
The action for how to do this has been changed in ICS, not the folders themselves. Apple didn't invent this method?... desktop computers have done it this way for a while.
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It's pointless to argue that one company's stealing from the other when it comes to OS features. They ALL steal from one another. Hence, no one can win the argument.