I was wondering if anybody has found or is willing to make a home replacement app that looks like the old danger sidekicks. That would be really badass.
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The Hiptop ring chooser seems impractical for so many apps. At the end there, the Danger OS was looking awfully dated.. I can't see the ring chooser coming back.
Check out Wave Launcher. Not to my taste, but you might like it.
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i think this might be more practical if the trackpad on this new SK were more usuable....
I agree. the Wheel was very functional on a non-Touch device, but with Touch, it becomes pointless. I had Sidekicks from the early days as well (CSK, SK2, SK LX-07). I *do* miss the splash screens though. but there are SO many apps you can put on the phone it would be hard to keep track just by scrolling up and down.
I miss the d-pad and trackball.
They were great for selecting links in the browser, moving around in text documents, and for selecting text.
Getting that kind of precision with this touch screen or the new trackpad is very difficult. Pinch to zoom before I select a link isn't a good alternative.
Sometimes, there really is no substitute for good old fashioned hardware control. The keyboard on this device proves that point. Now, I want my hardware trackball and d-pad back.
The touch screen is great for scrolling around and general navigation. But, it's very clumsy when it's time for precise selection.
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When I first saw the Samsung commercial using the Swype keyboard, I've always wondered how the hell does that thing work. It seemed more difficult to use and wouldn't want an oily smudgy screen since you drag your fingers. Today is the first time i've used it and man, i think i can type a book with this, lol.... I started texting my friends just cuz I want to type more. Now the only problem is, sometimes my finger doesn't smoothly drag as I want it to be. I guess i'll start looking for screen protectors that are smooth to the touch. What do you guys think of Swype?
I definitely love it and I too texted people just to play around with it haha.
It's the best thing ever invented
I love swype. I use it all the time. When I show people, they think it is the coolest thing ever.
Agreed...
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Noobie to Android. Just got my Captivate today. How do you enable Swype or How do you install it?
thanks in advance
On the home screen hit the soft capacitive menu key > Settings > Local and Text > Set default keyboard > Change it to Swype.
I'm posting from swype just to type more lol
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Thank you! This is awesome!
I may be the odd one out, but I have to disagree. Swype was nothing but a gimmick to me. It's nice, and if you really suck at typing on a virtual keyboard, then sure, it may be helpful, but I can type much faster by hitting each letter than drawing shapes to spell my words.
Now all I need to do is get used to a keyboard on Android. Coming from an iPhone, I'm a bit spoiled, but mainly just used to that keyboard. I'm quickly getting as fast on whatever Android keyboard I choose (trying Swiftkey now).
That's not to take anything away from Swype. It's a very cool keyboard, but I find that too often my missed letters mean redoing the whole word instead of a single backspace and continuing.
To each their own but I find find Swype amazing, it definitely made transitioning from a physical keyboard easier for me. I probably could be a little faster typing in landscape with two hands but since I've started using swype I just type one handed in portrait mode. I really am enjoying writing this reply right now, but I should stop rambling and get ready for work...
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I have to agree. Swype us such an amazing thing. I absolutely love it. I cab text and just about the same speed with swype than I can with a physical keyboard or a virtual one. Its great for typing portrait. Not so great landscape.
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Swype is fast...
Even if it is EQUAL the speed, I find it easier. You don't really even have to look at the keyboard and you can totally botch the keys and it still works.
It is easy but you have to remember how to spell =)
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I like to use my landscape mode sometimes for keyboard preferences but I notice the iPhones rotate screen is much smoother and nicer and you see the rotation anyway we can get that?
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I say we fix a2dp, s.o.d, reboots, freezes, get an update and end world hunger... THEN we can make our phones more like the iphone... until then... it's kind of a small issue to me and I can live with it.
Edit: hell I forgot to throw gps on that list too...
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If you want to make the phone more like the iPhone, why not just get an iPhone in the first place?
I agree with the op. After getting a text and setting it down flat on a table it goes into landscape mode. You have to pick up the phone tilt it verticle before you can read it. Annoying! Samething goes when pulling it from your pocket though not as bad.
That's one thing the iPhone got right.
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If you want to make the phone more like the iPhone, why not just get an iPhone in the first place?
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Amen... it's snappier than an Iphone, the screen is bigger, Widgets, replaceable battery, not controlled by Steve jobs, almost COMPLETELY customizable... shall I go on?
I got to tell you. I didn't even notice any issue with the screen rotation... even as I go through 360 degrees(which the iPhone doesn't do). Barely an issue at all, and if that is all you are complaining about, well I guess it could be worse...
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My last phone (which was not an Iphone) had multiple choices for screen rotation graphics. The pretty rotation (which is not unique to an iphone or invented by Bill Gates) just delays the actual rotated screen.
The G2X got it right to just snap the screen in the rotated position. How ever, the issue when it goes to sleep and comes back in portrait when it was in landscape is annoying and should be fixed. Maybe some one that that was a good thing.
I actually love my g2x and would never downgrade to an iPhone but I just noticed there smooth transition into the different landscape and portrait modes you can see the transition instead of it just switching so fast
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I agree with the op. After getting a text and setting it down flat on a table it goes into landscape mode. You have to pick up the phone tilt it verticle before you can read it. Annoying! Samething goes when pulling it from your pocket though not as bad.
That's one thing the iPhone got right.
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You don't have to tilt it back to portrait, you can simply press the capacitive back button. I agree to an extent overall though a little glamour would be nice, I reneger the G1 had a special option where it had a fancy rotation animation deal. Either way it is not even close to something we actually need and I'm fine with what it is now.
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we are supposed to get hardware acceleration enabled in icecream sandwich.
I agree with the OP about the rotation transition not being aesthetically pleasing, but at the same time think about all the important pros we have over other operating systems (mainly Apple's iOS). We have Widgets, full adobe flash, we almost have the ability to fully customize all aspects of our phone without even rooting it! etc... etc... We even have the largest dev support (I'm referring to Android as a whole) out of any OS developing community. Unfortunately we can't have all the pros that we want, but we do have a good majority of pros vs the cons.
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we are supposed to get hardware acceleration enabled in icecream sandwich.
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yep and honeycomb has the rotate animations, so they will most likely be in to ice cream sandwich too.
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yep and honeycomb has the rotate animations, so they will most likely be in to ice cream sandwich too.
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That's if we're lucky enough to officially get Ice Cream Sandwich from LG.
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this is something the windows phones actually do really really well
Yea I have a Transformer running 3.1 and the rotation animations are nice.
I have a pretty good method for using the rotation aspect on the G2x and it requires CM7. I Disable rotation but keep a notification button in the pull down for rotation toggling. This way it always stays in portrait unless I toggle orientation on, then I can rotate it for a specific website or video, then toggle it off.
I had an iPad 1 and 2... and they would rotate all crazy ways if you sat them flat too. Best option is that if you don't want it to rotate randomly, then just disable it completely.
Here's an idea. How about only allow rotating when keyboard is up? That would be sweet.
However I don't use landscape keyboard layout. But good idea. Maybe get a keyboard developer to include that as an option.
i know that in CM7.1 you are able to decide how you want your layout. you can have it landscape, portrait , or the way it is set up now. pretty cool.
I have tried a ton of keyboards and I just can't seem to find anything that is useful with our skinny little screen. I dislike the non-configurationablism of the stock keyboard.
Anyone have a preference? I'm not big on sliding keyboards. I have slideit full version, but dislike it as well. I dislike prediction and prefer double-touch enabled keyboards.
Any recommendations?
Tried:
Stock (heh)
Go Keyboard
Swiftkey X (Phone)
Thumb Keyboard
slideit
better keyboard 8
probably others I'm not remembering
Have you tried thumb keyboard? You can adjust pretty much anything including keyboard dimensions and layout.
I use it on both my xoom and sensation. Its great!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.beansoft.keyboardplus&feature=search_result
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Have you tried thumb keyboard? You can adjust pretty much anything including keyboard dimensions and layout.
I use it on both my xoom and sensation. Its great!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.beansoft.keyboardplus&feature=search_result
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yeah I bought it and use it on my tablet. I will give it a shot right now.
Yeah.. I stopped using that one because it is not multi-touch. The creator of that app told me he will be releasing a multi-touch version later.
I type too fast for a single touch display. often one finger will not fully lift before another drops down and it causes me to miss very often.
Better keyboard is great in that respect, but is lacking the features of thumb keyboard.
Just tried go keyboard for the first time. It's pretty good but it's multitouch works differently than better keyboard 8. If you press F and then press U before F is released on BK8, it puts the U in on keydown but if you do the same with GO it puts the U in when the F lifts.
My top favorites are SwiftKey and A.I. Keyboard..they work great for me!
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bought swiftkey X (phone). Not sure I will like it, but I'm going to play with it some more later to see if I can tweak it out. Looks very nice for prediction junkies though. pretty nice.
I'm going to see if I can get into prediction typing.
May I recommend GO Keyborad??
To me its just the perfect size and have the keyboard theme set to white which compliments alot of pages I visit and the pressed color to it is also nice....... Lime in color!!
Also I would suggest editing your OP with a listing so at least folks know what you have used ;-) food for thought
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May I recommend GO Keyborad??
To me its just the perfect size and have the keyboard theme set to white which compliments alot of pages I visit and the pressed color to it is also nice....... Lime in color!!
Also I would suggest editing your OP with a listing so at least folks know what you have used ;-) food for thought
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Yeah listing would have been a good idea. I just couldn't remember off the top of my head and didn't have my phone handy.
I tried GO. it's decent. I want better! '
I think I'm just going to be hosed because the width of the keys are too small for my fat fingers when used with this small screen in portrait.
Maybe I will just be stuck in landscape and double thumbing.
Best keyboard imo is swype. You can't get it on the market for now but you can register on beta.swype.com it works like a charme! You may need 2-3 days but then you will be definitely faster than typing.
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Yeah.. I stopped using that one because it is not multi-touch. The creator of that app told me he will be releasing a multi-touch version later.
I type too fast for a single touch display. often one finger will not fully lift before another drops down and it causes me to miss very often.
Better keyboard is great in that respect, but is lacking the features of thumb keyboard.
Just tried go keyboard for the first time. It's pretty good but it's multitouch works differently than better keyboard 8. If you press F and then press U before F is released on BK8, it puts the U in on keydown but if you do the same with GO it puts the U in when the F lifts.
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I'm the developer of Thumb Keyboard. I stumbled upon this thread because I have a Sensation myself (love it btw).
Thumb Keyboard 4.x is already multi-touch.
If there are any suggestions to improve the keyboard let me know. I already built in an option to resize the font, because the high resolution of the qHD display will reduce the size of the font (which is great in the case of some other apps btw). Any other suggestions/requests for the sensation display are very welcome.
Btw an update will be released this weekend or begin next week with, amongst others, a split keyboard with cursor keys. Works great on the Sensation. But that's my very biased opinion. Also it will be packed with a ton of downloadable high Res themes.
try smart keyboard...its amazing and full of options to costumize...im using this keyboard since my first android phone
You can always give 8pen a go. Who knows? Maybe you'll be the one that fully masters it. I'm also waiting on the beta of Touchpal Curve Input to be released. You can find a few videos of it on YouTube.
Best keyboard imo is swype. You can't get it on the market for now but you can register on beta.swype.com it works like a charme! You may need 2-3 days but then you will be definitely faster than typing.
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Interesting...I just signed up for it. I knew our standard keyboard wasn't Swype, but how is Swype different?
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try smart keyboard...its amazing and full of options to costumize...im using this keyboard since my first android phone
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+1 for smart keyboard, has arrow keys configurable to be on the main screen, key size customization and a bunch more. I regret it does not have copy paste commands, afaik.
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeyboardpro&hl=en
I'm sure there will be something out there for your talented fingers and I literally laughed out loud when you stated about the size of this screen.
You must be a bodyguard?? J/ K
GL again and I am sure that you will find something ;-)
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BETTER KEYBOARD... it should be named as "Best keyboard"
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I dislike prediction and prefer double-touch enabled keyboards.
Any recommendations?
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Ultra Keyboard if you haven't already tried it.
FlexT9? I think is double touch. It's basically a combo of swype and dictation. Also you can actually write your letters out a la Sony Clie days lol. Pretty much a jack of all trades but does not do one particularly well, but gets the job done. The Dragon software is pretty spot on for me.
Gingerbread keyboard from the market. U can adjust size.
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Gingerbread keyboard from the market. U can adjust size.
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Agreed! i am so used to speeding through my texts now that i pretty much only use the gingerbread kb mainly because of the multi touch but i have grown very fond of thumb keyboard
swype all the way !
This is a thread to list some cool things you like about the phone. Maybe point out a few things that other people didn't know yet.
For me I would have to say that the keyboard is awesome. Also the fact that it already has a printer option built in. Voice recognition on this phone is awesome. And of course face recognition is great too.
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I've been a Swype user since the Nexus One, but I have to say that the Trace feature on the HTC keyboard is impressive. It's noticeably quicker to render words after swyping/tracing. Only downside I've noticed is you can't place the cursor on previous words and choose alternate suggestions. Unless I'm missing an option for this.
Ha. And I though it was an improved swype this whole time
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Interesting comment about the keyboard. I'll be receiving my HOX today but most reviews say the HTC keyboard is ****. Seeing the entire row of arrows on the bottom leads me to agree (but then again, I haven't used it yet). How does it compare to the stock ICS keyboard? I don't like Swype so I'm sure I won't ever use that feature.
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...And of course face recognition is great too.
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About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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Well that sucks ass. And I tested with everyone in my house and it only worked for me..
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My favorite feature is definitely the screen! I can't keep my eyes off of it. I do not like the HTC Sense keyboard and for those of you that also do not like it you can go to the Play Store and download the stock ICS keyboard and it works great on the One X. It is much more similar to the iPhone keyboard that I am used to and is spaced further apart than stock sense keyboard. Also, you get more screen room for viewing while texting or writing messages if you use the stock ICS keyboard.
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About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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It works for pictures of you as well... It can't distinguish depth.
Well they're working on a modified face unlock that requires you to blink so picture would be useless.
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The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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Well they're working on a modified face unlock that requires you to blink so picture would be useless.
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Haven't heard about this I think It will be great
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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...-before-it-grants-access-to-the-phone_id28559
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I rather enjoy the was the app drawer is done on this phone. Now that said this is both my first HTC and my first ICS phone, so this may be nothing special
Dial a number with the keypad in your hand... phone vibrates when they pick up if you don't have it on your ear.
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Dial a number with the keypad in your hand... phone vibrates when they pick up if you don't have it on your ear.
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That's not really a new feature. I've had that on every HTC phone i've used. Windows mobile, windows phone.
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The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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I personally hate this feature. A dedicated button? I liked long press home. Now I don't have a quick way to search plus I haven't found a way to assign a long press action to any of them.
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Once we have root it should be long press home button for recent apps, multitask button as menu button, and long press multitask for search. I miss voice search lol it was easier on an inspire
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The battery life left it alone overnight, awesome, especially vs atrix and LG nitro hd.
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The headphone out sound quality. It's clean and detailed. Does anyone know what DAC the LTE version has in it?
ricktat said:
The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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From what I can tell, by swiping the recent application does not close the application. I have opened several apps and then hit the home button then the recent applications button and swiped them... then opened up the apps again and they are right back where I left them. I think it only deletes the recent app bookmark and not closes the app itself.
I understand what they are, but can someone please explain why they are so popular and what benefits they have??
Pie controls appear to be a selling point for many ROMs, but why are they useful? Infuses have hardware keys and so pie is unnecessary.
I just want to know if I am missing something...
Thanks!
Some people (like me) hate the fact that the backlights for the buttons are always on. PIE takes the buttons out of the equation, and no backlight issues.
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It's just new and has a cool factor.
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I have tried the pie control too and found that I didn't really liked it as well. I just think it's the flavor of the month.
I may be wrong though!
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I agree pie controls are just the new thing. I like em but... I feel that in the infuse pie controls are unnecessary... However I could see them used on a new device instead of onscreen navigation keys.
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they are by user preference i think, its just that some people use their infuse one hand and some use both in some instances, so when u press and hold to your comfortable side you can simply slide to your shortcut :angel: