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Copernicus said:
yeah, i mean the stuff in honeycomb was a HUGE leap in functionality over gingerbread. I'm not 100% sure there is nearly as much under the hood API level functionality in ICS as there was in HC, but having that all come through with a cleaner gui (i like it better then HC, less techy) is huge. People who had no interest in HC didn't realize everything that was added in there (as denoted by people saying "omg you can hook up game controllers!"
Vyse The Legend
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dark10x said:
I get "odd" hiccups all the time on my iPad and iTouch (4th generation).
It happens to everyone.
Krauser Kat
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So happy.
Moto confirmed Bionic is getting ICS.
Moto confirmed Bionic is getting ICS.
gcube/xoomers:
ICS Gmail.apk works on rooted xooms:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/10/24/gmail-from-ice-cream-sandwich-works-on-motorola-xoom/
ICS Gmail.apk works on rooted xooms:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/10/24/gmail-from-ice-cream-sandwich-works-on-motorola-xoom/
brotkasten
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jayb said:
lol, no.
Vyse The Legend
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santouras said:
Yes, but I want official pricing and options to be announced. If I'm going to have to import into the States, I want to start considering my options.
Preferably, I want Canadian options, since it will be the cheapest option for me.
brotkasten
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How dare you to confuse WP with the Playbook.Copernicus said:
brotkasten
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Wait, I thought you meant on screen controls like ... buttons. Of course you can pinch-to-zoom in mails in Windows Phone. Why wouldn't you?jayb said:
Vyse The Legend
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sturmdogg said:
Officially? Most likely, zero.
Copernicus said:
http://thisismynext.com/2011/06/22/apple-granted-patent-webpage-scrolling-behaviors-media-crazy/
This is the one they do have. Scrolling a map within a webpage. So you could argue that scrolling the whole page moves through conversation view and then zooming is just a frame. Apple wouldn't be able to win that one in court but that maybe why they steer clear. This wouldn't stop them putting zoom buttons on however.
Its a fucking pain in the ass though, i'm sure they could engineer their way around it so i'm putting it down to the gmail programmers being tards.
If the stock app still doesn't have it then they are definitely tards as there is no conversation view.
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kinggroin said:
Bullshit. Android is notoriously hiccup-heavy. You don't see any of that crap on iPhone 4/4S or Windows 7 phones.
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Vyse The Legend said:
This is the truth. People trying to pass iOS off as something that does not chug on a regular basis are full of shit. Nearly every time I do task switching on my ipad it has "hiccups." The worse part about my ipad is how often Safari crashes. I can live with the "hiccups."
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*stops print press*Copernicus said:
I think someone just got burned by a torrential wave of boiling ink and paper fiber.
dark10x said:
Yeah, but kingroin was talking about a data centric situation.
We all know android's scrolling isn't as smooth as ios or wp, does that need to be brought up every 35 posts by apple gaf?
giga said:
I've never seen the gafberry thread, or is it only visible with a BB?
It does not chug on a regular basis on the latest hardware. The 4S and iPad 2 both run iOS5 effortlessly. The iPhone 4 does pretty well too.tfur said:
The original iPad, unfortunately, is lacking in memory and never handled iOS4 or 5 particularly well.
That would be like trying to run ICS on an older Android phone or the original Galaxy Tab. It'll work, but it probably won't run well.
My point is that, even on the fastest devices available, you still run into performance hitches more frequently on Android than on WP7 or iOS. I'm not suggesting Android sucks or anything (it's a very interesting OS that does a lot of things well), but performance has never been its strong point.
Yes, but I was hoping ICS would solve those issues.
Yes, vanilla. I spent a good 30 minutes with a rooted Galaxy S2 last week and was surprised to still run into issues. LOVE the size and weight, though. Was hoping ICS would deliver a completely smooth experience on such phones.
Have they got decent exchange sub folder support in ICS now?
My work email has server side rules which dumps mail automatically into sub folders. In iOS you can select which sub folders to sync and I get notifications when mail appears in those sub folders. Mango is a step below that, you have to pin folders to the start screen to receive notifications.
In previous versions of android I used Moxier Mail as it dealt with sub folders very well. I've not seen much about mail in ICS so I'd love to know if someone knows.
My work email has server side rules which dumps mail automatically into sub folders. In iOS you can select which sub folders to sync and I get notifications when mail appears in those sub folders. Mango is a step below that, you have to pin folders to the start screen to receive notifications.
In previous versions of android I used Moxier Mail as it dealt with sub folders very well. I've not seen much about mail in ICS so I'd love to know if someone knows.
Zefah said:
than you've never used an iPhone 4 and/or a decent android device. There are hiccups present in both, with it varying wildly on android depending on hardware/rom/OS ver.
If the ICS presentation is anything to go by, the hiccup difference between the two OS's will be negligible. Only difference is that one will still be infinitely more functional and feature rich.
Don't get me wrong, it does run smoothly, I just noticed several instances where scrolling through a list or a map would see a drop to 30 fps rather than 60 and plenty of little hitches while scrolling around were common as well. It responded much faster than the Nexus One, that's for sure, and is much better than the original Galaxy S phones (which, despite faster hardware, seemed to run slower than the Nexus).SimleuqiR said:
I'm unsure which ROM was being used, but the device had been rooted.
There are definitely hiccups on the iPhone 4. I loved that phone, but it was not always completely smooth once you started getting into a lot of different tasks. The iPhone 4S completely corrects all of that, however, and is about as perfect as I could want. All tasks perform faster and there are literally no skips or hiccups anywhere thus far. It solved all of the issues I've had with the 4. It basically runs like an iPad 2 now.
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kinggroin said:
I've played around with plenty of devices (both old and new) on all three platforms. The UI lag, unresponsiveness, and overall choppiness is much more prevalent on Android devices (from Froyo to Gingerbread) than it is on iOS or Windows. Both iOS and Windows are extremely smooth (maybe they just use their GPUs better to mask load times), while stock Android (or the default manufacturer flavor) is quite laggy in comparison. I'm sure this is different on custom ROMs like Cyanogen, but I never messed with any of those.
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