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26th November 2009.
11:44
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Looking at the last poll, it looks as if you are into games – or at least 26% of you. Well, that means I’m good company, since that is what I chose as well 
. Multimedia came in second with 21%, with social media close behind with 20%.
I also posted a new poll, asking what you will do with your Xperia X10 after you’ve unboxed it.
Wanna know what I did? Smiled and stared .
I’ve been travelling to Norway and Denmark for press events the last two days. The events we’re really good I think, lots of journalists with lots of good, and sometimes tricky , questions.
The interest for X10 out there is huge and I’m glad to see that many of the people we show the X10 to are as inspired as we are about this product.
During this trip I’ve also thought a bit around what I personally like with the Android OS and will try to scribble down some thoughts here.
From a user perspective I really like the way it feels like the entire OS is built to really leverage on that big capacitive touch screen. Almost everything is really smooth and all applications really use the paradigm of light touches and sweeps that it the strong point of that type of screen. The amount of apps available and the really innovative spirit that is out there is huge.
Before I got into marketing I was a developer myself and have a degree in computer science – therefore some of the observations i make could also be a bit on the geeky side.
One thing I’ve noticed is that the entire OS seems to be extremely modular, which from a user perspective actually gives you the opportunity to change your phone into what you want it to be.
One example of this that I noticed is selecting a ringtone. When I first went into the settings menu I realized that when trying to set a ringtone I didn’t get to choose from my mp3 music. I was very disappointed of course but thought that there must be a way of doing that. I later realized that Mediascape of course gives you the possibility of “set as ringtone” when selecting a song. However – before I realized that I thought, well if is isn’t supported in Android by default, perhaps someone has made an app for it?. Guess what – there are tons of “ringtonepickers” in Android Market. I downloaded one of them and realized something really cool. That app is not an app you run just like that – rather it plugs in to the OS so the next time I chose to switch ringtone I got a question on if I wanted to do it using the standard way or using this newly downloaded ringtone picker.
From a developer perspective I think that is really cool – any developer can create apps that extends or exchanges functionality of the OS itself. I would guess it’s also fairly easy from a developer perspective since the amounts of apps available is huge.
I’m sure there are lots of other cool “Handler-APIs” in Android that you might know more than me on so please feel free to give me tips on other parts of the system that can be extended or exchanged using 3rd party apps.
A short and basic tutorial on how to make phone calls the “old fashioned way”, through the dialler, the call-log and the contacts application. I have saved calling through Timescape for another tutorial. Timescape really gives a new dimension to contact interactions and I’m getting used to it as we go along. I still make a lot of calls this way since in my view this is the use-case where you know who you want to call and why.
Timescape is for me more of a trigger for calls I wasn’t planning – i.e. When browsing through the social cloud around me in Timescape I see a friend posting something at Facebook making me want to give him a call or send him a message.
This should also give a glimpse of how Android works for those of you who are unfamiliar with it as an operating system.
I am certain there will be users that prefer both ways, so I think there is room for both tutorials
Please note that as usual this is still early SW and HW so things might change until the final product is ready.
As always, I’d love to hear in the comments what further tutorials you want us to shoot.
A short and basic tutorial on how to make phone calls the “old fashioned way”, through the dialler, the call-log and the contacts application. I have saved calling through Timescape for another tutorial. Timescape really gives a new dimension to contact interactions and I’m getting used to it as we go along. I still make a lot of calls this way since in my view this is the use-case where you know who you want to call and why.
Timescape is for me more of a trigger for calls I wasn’t planning – i.e. When browsing through the social cloud around me in Timescape I see a friend posting something at Facebook making me want to give him a call or send him a message.
This should also give a glimpse of how Android works for those of you who are unfamiliar with it as an operating system.
I am certain there will be users that prefer both ways, so I think there is room for both tutorials
Please note that as usual this is still early SW and HW so things might change until the final product is ready.
As always, I’d love to hear in the comments what further tutorials you want us to shoot.
My friends over at the Sony Ericsson Developer World YouTube Channel posted a video where they demo a truly useful and cool app on the X10. The app is created by a Swedish price comparison site – prisjakt.se. It also integrates with another app called Barcode Scanner to create a mobile bar code scanning, price comparing super app
I know the developer people are interested in demoing apps on the X10 and I’m also testing new ones all the time. So if any of you have or know of cool apps that need some testing, feel free to give us your tips in the comments section!
