with facetime, you dont have to have the app open to use it.
I am looking for something like that.
I keep reading that skype on this tablet is poor.
I tried google talk last night, but video quality was kind of poop.
Two things I am looking for (well one, the second would be nice)
1. I can "call" someone for a video chat without them having to have the app open and waiting.
2. If this app has something available on iOS so my wife can chat with me (she has iPad 2) that would be cool.
Look into an app called Tango. I don't do video-chats, but I do believe that it is available for both Android and iOS. Might be worth trying...
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google+ video chat is much crisper than gtalk.
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Thanks guys, I will check out both.
I use google talk and skype. Both are sensitive to your network connection. There are days both are crisp and clear and days they are grainy as it automatically lowers quality to sustain the call. Not placing all fault on the connection speed as a good compression is key, but just pointing out what I have noticed. Google+ video works well too. The good part about google talk is that once you set it up it's always running in the background like facetime and is ready to go unless you open the app and logout of it. I use it for my primary alternative to texting because I transition from gmail in a browser to phone to tablet and it keeps my discussions updated across all devices for a seamless transition.
Try ooVoo. I haven't tried it on the Infinity yet (don't have it yet), but it works great on some other devices I have tried and allows multiparty chat and has android, ios, and windows apps.
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How do apps like Trillian and GTalk look on the transformer? Do they shoot into full screen or actually bring up chat windows more like a laptop...One of my deciding factors in purchasing a tablet. iPad is simply brutal with chat because you have to have it full screen.
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How do apps like Trillian and GTalk look on the transformer? Do they shoot into full screen or actually bring up chat windows more like a laptop...One of my deciding factors in purchasing a tablet. iPad is simply brutal with chat because you have to have it full screen.
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I was disappointed in Trillian because it took up the whole screen, what a waste of space..
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I was disappointed in Trillian because it took up the whole screen, what a waste of space..
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What about the native GTalk?
all app will run full screen...I guess it's the built of honeycomb, but there is the multi-task switching. I love to use Gtalk as it can do video chat over 3G even with a PC with webcam. Video and sound are not bad @ all . I uses it for more than 1 hour over 3G connection without issue. Now all I need it a good Bluetooth headset.
I bought my Tablet primarily for chatting on IM at work and surfing the web since my work is starting to monitor everything on it's network. I've tried Trillian but I kept having issues where the notification sound wouldn't go off. It went off about 50% of the time so I had to keep checking the notification area to see if I got a message.
I'm using eBuddy now and it works great. The notification sound does not go off when I'm on the chat screen with a person but as soon as I switch to a different chat window or go to a different app the sound notification will sound off when I get a message.
Both applications do take up the entire screen and that just seems to be an Android thing. The only down side to eBuddy that I can see is that you cannot customize the chat window so what you see is what you get, you cannot change the color or chat bubble style. I'm not sure if you can customize Trillian, I switched before even looking into it.
Is anyone else not seeing the new Facebook app in the market? Or when you to the online market, it says compatible with TF?
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The 1.6? For all the previous excitement it's not very amazing.
It comes up as not compatible with Asus Transformer. (Maybe a tablet version planned at some point?)
I'll probably just Dropbox it and install it anyway.
Yup, they've removed tablet support. It's basically a downgrade, and it wasn't a very good app in the first place. It lacked even basic functionality from the website, such as the ability to ignore posts from "friends" [eg. bands, products, etc.] that you've ignored on the website. There's no mention of that being fixed in this release anyway, so no big loss -- the app's nearly unusable in its current state, as my friends' posts are hidden in a huge wall of advertising from all the pages I'm a fan of (but don't really want to read the ads from).
yes....the FB app sucks.
Try the alternative app written by a member on XDA here...its' called "Friend Me" and it's really nice.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.locomolabs.facebook
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yes....the FB app sucks.
Try the alternative app written by a member on XDA here...its' called "Friend Me" and it's really nice.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.locomolabs.facebook
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Looks a hell of alot better thanks.
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I've been using Friendme and FriendCaster and they work just fine. Though you might as well use the browser based version anyway. For me the only real use of the app is to integrate it with your contact list and to get desktop notifications. None of these apps do this. I'd like to see facebook integration to the level of where HTC Sense is. Love the notifications on my phone and the contact integration. I miss that when not using my phone. But hey, nothing is perfect.
My sole concern with these third-party apps is that it'd be very easy to make one that works just fine, but also phones home with your username and password. There's no way to audit code and confirm it doesn't do so (and even if there was, I'm not a programmer and would have to rely on somebody else's opinion).
That said, for those who are happy to trust such things, it's great that somebody's making options -- Facebook's own one totally sucks.
Attached Facebook 1.6 taken from my phone... works just like the old version on our TF (still lame, but it has notifications lol).
same here I can get to the Download page on the Market, but it wont download at all!! you can access it thru a direct link or qr code
app is better but there's no option to view your friends photo
I find how Developers blacklist certain phones being overused to much. Clearly the Facebook app runs on tablets and works, so why they would blacklist it is beyond me. All it does is limit their users. If it runs and works don't blacklist it is incompatible.
Same thing has happened to Words with Friends -- granted, it doesn't scale perfectly to a tablet screen, but it's passable. Not sure if my installed version will even receive updates, so I just update on my Evo and the BT File Transfer the app over to my TF.
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Attached Facebook 1.6 taken from my phone... works just like the old version on our TF (still lame, but it has notifications lol).
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Awesome! Thank you for uploading that. Exactly what I wanted until the official version for tablets comes out.
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I find how Developers blacklist certain phones being overused to much. Clearly the Facebook app runs on tablets and works, so why they would blacklist it is beyond me. All it does is limit their users. If it runs and works don't blacklist it is incompatible.
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It's being speculated that Facebook blacklisted all honeycomb devices because they will have a tablet version out soon - considering how slow and lame the development has been on the phone version, a tablet version seems very unlikely, but who knows?!
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Has anyone noticed that third-party facebook apps, like Friendcaster and FriendMe don't show all the posts that Facebook.com and the official Facebook app do? I was blown away when I visited Facebook.com to see how many posts and pictures were up that never showed on FriendCaster. It's like it blocked 30% of my friends wall messages
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Why not just use your browser to get to facebook? The TF is large enough for you to view facebook as if you were using a laptop.
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Why not just use your browser to get to facebook? The TF is large enough for you to view facebook as if you were using a laptop.
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The same reason why we use a gmail app for getting mail, or a twitter app for tweets - apps are more convenient and offer OS integration. Of course, if they only provide some functions of the full site, they are less useful
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Tweetdeck has facebook integration. Works really well for me except for pic uploading.
EP2008 said:
It's being speculated that Facebook blacklisted all honeycomb devices because they will have a tablet version out soon - considering how slow and lame the development has been on the phone version, a tablet version seems very unlikely, but who knows?!
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Pictures have leaked of the tablet version running on WebOS, so I would assume that an Android version wouldn't be too far behind.
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Attached Facebook 1.6 taken from my phone... works just like the old version on our TF (still lame, but it has notifications lol).
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thanks! lost this when i upgraded and wanted it back
Hi guys,
I recently was able to exchange my Prime for the Infinity and for the most part I am extremely happy. The WiFi and GPS are both fantastic and the screen is beautiful!
One thing I've noticed is that when I go back to an app that I was previously using it will reload. When I do this on my Android phone this doesn't happen. For instance, if I watch a video on YouTube and then open Facebook, read an email, send a couple of texts... on my phone when I go back to YouTube it will still be paused right where I left it. On my Infinity it reloads and starts from the beginning commercials and all. The same goes for web pages, games, etc.
I'm just curious to see if other people are experiencing this same issue......
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Hi guys,
I recently was able to exchange my Prime for the Infinity and for the most part I am extremely happy. The WiFi and GPS are both fantastic and the screen is beautiful!
One thing I've noticed is that when I go back to an app that I was previously using it will reload. When I do this on my Android phone this doesn't happen. For instance, if I watch a video on YouTube and then open Facebook, read an email, send a couple of texts... on my phone when I go back to YouTube it will still be paused right where I left it. On my Infinity it reloads and starts from the beginning commercials and all. The same goes for web pages, games, etc.
I'm just curious to see if other people are experiencing this same issue......
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The screen is bigger so it might need more ram to store multitasking apps and push the pixels. I'm no expert though, don't take what I say as truth.
Scotlac said:
Hi guys,
I recently was able to exchange my Prime for the Infinity and for the most part I am extremely happy. The WiFi and GPS are both fantastic and the screen is beautiful!
One thing I've noticed is that when I go back to an app that I was previously using it will reload. When I do this on my Android phone this doesn't happen. For instance, if I watch a video on YouTube and then open Facebook, read an email, send a couple of texts... on my phone when I go back to YouTube it will still be paused right where I left it. On my Infinity it reloads and starts from the beginning commercials and all. The same goes for web pages, games, etc.
I'm just curious to see if other people are experiencing this same issue......
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Hmm - I don't have that issue. It really depends on the way the app is coded, I believe (could be wrong though).
But, using youtube as an example, I started playing a video, paused it, opened up my new email (from the status bar) - read a few emails. Opened my note-taking app, loked around in there, and then switched back to youtube (via the running tasks icon on the status bar) and it was right where I left it.
Also depends on how much memory the apps use - if you are using a super-power-hungry app, it *could* close what's open in the background in order to take more resources for itself.
Last thing - have you made any changes to build.prop settings or Settings->Developer Settings? They could affect the ability to multitask as well...
Hope that helps.
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I just wanted to say thanks to all who helped on this forum, I realized that there is a lot of smart folks in this forum!
I sold my Infinity and decided to move over to the Asus Vivo RT.
FYI, I do miss some things about Infinity and Google like the notification bar, apps the screen. Those were on my “pros" list to keep the Infinity. Not enough to sway me.
The first thing I noticed about the Vivo is that it is smooth! No “wait" in the browser for it to crash, no hangups after a couple of days of pushing it (that's why it is charging now). I hope someday it will get chrome. IE is slow.
My biggest fear was missing the screen, but folks let me tell you, it is almost no difference! Netflix works!
The “pros“ for Windows, full office experience, the ability to print on my home printer without an app, Remote desktop, sky drive, multiuser support, split screen.
I can go on, but really just wanted to say thanks!
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" I hope someday it will get chrome."
You're out of luck, MS will not allow Windows RT to run alternate browsing engines, there can be other browsers but they must use the IE engine. No way Google will release Chrome that does not use webkit.
Thanks, but these threads do nothing for the community. Move on.
Closed.
Released a new app called slot machine titans on the android marketing place and downloads have been a bit slow recently I'm looking to get suggestions here or from maybe someone who already has released an app on something i can improve on before i launch the paid version.
Just search slot machine titans on the market place and It'll be the first app that pops up
Thanks and keep on building
Send the app to all app review sites (you can use twirkz if you don't want to send out .apk files) and utilize the people on your social networks.
If everything else fails, here's an incomplete list of sites on which you could easily advertise your app:
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/
http://www.148apps.com/
http://www.appspy.com/
http://portablegamingregion.com/
http://www.gamezebo.com/
http://gamingonbatteries.com/
http://droidgamers.com/
From a purely financial standpoint, paying for an ad on a site that has X popularity is usually more expensive than paying for 5 ads on sites that have X/5 popularity.
Thanks a ton looking at those links now.
My initial review is a 4 star. It has great graphics that are very clean and it plays well with the TF700.
The things that I found that could be addressed are the slow scrolling messages and the sound when you win. The sound turns on then off so quick it's just a blip. Also when you win the scrolling message would better be shown as a blinking message so that it comes up quickly.
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Yeh i did notice sometimes it would be slow scrolling to the front ill try and change that and add it in an update..what do you think about the store..and what would you suggest to make it better like what new in game backgrounds would you like to see buyable
The update seems to have made it a little smoother. I don't have many suggestions for the background yet but I'll try to keep them in mind.
I know that I can turn the sound off through the options, but I'm wondering if you think it would be a good idea to be able to toggle the music or sound fx separately.
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Yeh working on those fixes now so far I just released a new update containing a new background and also added new icons let me know what you think and any more suggestions you have for it