Is it possible to bring the VueFLO technology from the HTC Athena to the Wizard? See video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fuQLEWbDoM
I'm guessing that the Athena has a gyro-sensor in it that enables this and not some software that can be ported to this.
I watched the video but I wasnt too sure what VueFLO is. I'm guessing that it would be difficult if not impossible to port VueFLO due to hardware dependencies.
i doubt thats possible sense it looks like the Athena has a motion sensor or something that allows it to detect wen the fone is tilted which then allows for it to scroll like that. sadly i doubt our wizards will be able to do this
Not possible.. HTC Athena has an piezo accelorometer in it a.l.a iphone..
That seems kind of lame. Why would i want to flip my screen up and down to scroll. Just doesnt seem to practical to me.
deviusdragger said:
That seems kind of lame. Why would i want to flip my screen up and down to scroll. Just doesnt seem to practical to me.
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my thoughts exactly...
deviusdragger said:
That seems kind of lame. Why would i want to flip my screen up and down to scroll. Just doesnt seem to practical to me.
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I definitely agree.
you bet... they would've thought to do something like the iphone and would've realized the apple would sue their hinds on this and decided to do something lame
I just wanted to know if it was possible to bring this to the Wizard. Personally, I'd just use my stylus or if bored, use Touch Scroll.
Thanks anyways
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HEy all
i was using my brothers iPhone earlier on and i couldnt help but notice how responsive his screen is to finger touches! is this something that is unique to the iphone (i.e hardware based) or is there anything to make WM phones that responsive?
Its due to the software being designed with animation in mind, and using graphics accelerators.
To get the same in WM would mean a rewrite of the whole UI basically, but 3rd party software can approximate it.
Surur
Actually it's the hardware too. on the iPhone there's no need for pressure (like on our PPCs). It's enough to touch the screen and it senses it.
Hardware. The iPhone uses an electrostatic like touchscreen while WM uses a pressure sensitive one. The good with the iPhone is that it's sensitive and you can have a hard screen (like the glass they use), but you can't use a stylus or do it with gloves on.
Good bumper sticker
WM USERS DO IT WITH GLOVES ON lol
You mean to tell me that the iphone has one theme,limited customisation and NO stylus?Have they heard of Calligrapher? Then again,guess thats why they call it the iPHONE.I get it now.
Vukile said:
You mean to tell me that the iphone has one theme,limited customisation and NO stylus?Have they heard of Calligrapher? Then again,guess thats why they call it the iPHONE.I get it now.
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limited customization for now!
they will start releasing the ability to use 3rd party apps. Currently, you have to hack through it, inorder to use 3rd party apps (that voids your warrenty)
RPG0 said:
Actually it's the hardware too. on the iPhone there's no need for pressure (like on our PPCs). It's enough to touch the screen and it senses it.
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If you played with touchflo sensitivity on the kaiser etc you will see it does not take much pressure at all for touch to be sensed. Its the software which is more responsive.
Surur
I stumbled somewhere on the net that the iphone screen can sense heat of the fingers that is why its so responsive. But it sure'll give problems over a period of time.
surur said:
If you played with touchflo sensitivity on the kaiser etc you will see it does not take much pressure at all for touch to be sensed. Its the software which is more responsive.
Surur
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You, my friend, are wrong !
I actually own a Kaiser, and i bought my wife a Touch, so i assume i have two of the most finger friendly HTCs out there atm.
I also had a chance to play with an iPhone a little.
It's the hardware that makes the iPhone finger-friendly, unless you don't mind putting some oil on your fingers when using HTC's pressure sensitive screen - it's not that you have to press hard, but you have to press and move, and the screen isn't slippery (unless your screen is really dirty).
You do have a point about the responsiveness of the iPhone, but there are (a few) apps on WM that are pretty fast and the finger thingy is still not that pleasant.
Also, our touchscreens "feature" a lag, which you can see when drawing: draw something and look carefully, you'll see the line is draw a little behind the stylus (don't tell me it's the app, i know for sure there's a 100-200ms lag on input)
Bottomline: i wouldn't trade any of my WM devices for an iPhone, but the iPhone touchscreen really is better - finger-wise, because not being able to use a stylus kinda sucks big time.
so my question is how do they show up on a vga screen? are they stretched or do they just show up in native resolution in a corner or something or do some not even work?
just hoping enough stuff is actually out there to look good on the device
lbhocky19 said:
so my question is how do they show up on a vga screen? are they stretched or do they just show up in native resolution in a corner or something or do some not even work?
just hoping enough stuff is actually out there to look good on the device
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Or do they look completely messed up like Mundu IM does?
I was prepared to pay for that nice and cheap piece of software but it just doesn't work in VGA resolution...
anonimo said:
Or do they look completely messed up like Mundu IM does?
I was prepared to pay for that nice and cheap piece of software but it just doesn't work in VGA resolution...
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a good IM program is slick but again dont know how it works in vga
Yahoo Go doesn't work
Some software has been programmed with VGA in mind, other stuff hasn't. As VGA becomes more common, more apps will support it.
Can't you use RealVGA? or something?
gsplayer doesnt work but quick search on gogle does the trick
Hi,
I just found this today.
It is a htc magic with a circular zoom in the browser, photo and map apps.
Also there is a soft keyboard that rotates, landscape and protrait.
The operating system is the android so maybe it could be incorporated into the next JF mod.
The video is in French but you will understand it by watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fdXATNPpZM
This is really cool.
Good lookin out
keyboard and rotating zoom look good!
How come this feature isn't in the public cupcake branch??
I would really like that zoom! Hopefully it will come to our phones. Other than that, it looks so much like the Dream, that if we get those features, I will still prefer my phone with the built in keyboard. It's always better to have a choice of which keyboard you want to use.
kathi17 said:
I would really like that zoom! Hopefully it will come to our phones. Other than that, it looks so much like the Dream, that if we get those features, I will still prefer my phone with the built in keyboard. It's always better to have a choice of which keyboard you want to use.
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Absolutely.
It seems to me the display has significantly more pixels than dream, do we know anything about the Magic hardware?
Autarkis said:
Absolutely.
It seems to me the display has significantly more pixels than dream, do we know anything about the Magic hardware?
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No, the screen size and resolution are the same as the g1.
The Dream caught a lot of flak because of its design...
But, I wouldn't give it up for anything. I will never have a phone without a physical qwerty keyboard unless they just don't make one.
I like the combination of the trackball, capacitive touch screen, keyboard, etc.
I even like the chin because it keeps the screen from getting scratched. I have several friends that scratched their Icrap because the screen wasn't sufficiently protected.
But, I have to say I have big hands with long fingers. My wife had problems because she is small with small hands.
Looking forward to the new features that cupcake will (hopefully) bring out to the OS.
would that be awesome or what, i hope a developer would get started on making one, i would buy it!!!!
I mean, not to poop on your admittedly awesome idea, but how would you compress both screens onto my one screen? That's the main problem that I see.
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I mean, not to poop on your admittedly awesome idea, but how would you compress both screens onto my one screen? That's the main problem that I see.
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Just use half the screen for each, asuming your holding your phone upright.
Would make it hard for people with physical keyboards though i guess not playing in landscape mode.
and seeing as the bottom screen would be used as the touch screen where would that leave on screen controls?
Slacke said:
Just use half the screen for each, asuming your holding your phone upright.
Would make it hard for people with physical keyboards though i guess not playing in landscape mode.
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That would be decent if you had a phone with a large screen. That seems like it would be so small it would be unplayable on my MT3G.
Its not gonna happen!
The more I think about it, an Android tablet would probably be better suited for this type of thing.
Sounds like the Desire HD might just be big enough.......
yea im pretty sure the tablets would work with them n i think the 4in phones would be about to work, just use the wii remote with it. XD
But if you can afford phone like Desire HD I'm sure you can afford to buy DS...
true... XD
Not when the phone is free......
Does anybody know if it is possible to enable opposite scrolling on the T700 Dock mousepad similar to that on macbook trackpads? The current scrolling is too awkward with me, especially with multitouch gestures.
Opposite scrolling? Meaning you scroll up and the screen goes down? That sounds illogical and unnatural... Rather like pushing up on the lift when you want to go to the basement...
I have no idea if it can be done.
ShadowLea said:
Opposite scrolling? Meaning you scroll up and the screen goes down? That sounds illogical and unnatural... Rather like pushing up on the lift when you want to go to the basement...
I have no idea if it can be done.
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Yep pretty much. If you have tried it on a macbook, it isn't as odd as it sounds and once you start using it, it seems much more natural.
NirmK96 said:
Yep pretty much. If you have tried it on a macbook, it isn't as odd as it sounds and once you start using it, it seems much more natural.
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I've tried a macbook. Nothing about that thing felt natural. (As a designer I am often illfated to using a Mac... I hate being forced to do things one specific pre-chosen-by-someone-else way and be left with no free will of my own. Creativity is doing things outside the box, a Mac is a 50meter-solid-walled concrete cell.)
I have tried it, I'm a gamer, the one thing I hate almost as much as online DRM is an inversed Y-axis.