By Keyv
25th November 2009.
15:35
woot 1st!
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By admin
25th November 2009.
15:31
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.
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By Noc Josifovski
25th November 2009.
15:42Thank You Rik. I’ll post more later couse now I am typing from the X1.
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By Keyv
25th November 2009.
15:43good read,sory for the childish 1st post tho =P.
i forgot who said it but i heard android 1.6 doesn’t support bluetooth file transferring.
so im assuming that SE added the bluetooth file transfer support on x10,am i right? 1 0 -
By DarK
25th November 2009.
15:49hey Rikard
thanks for sharing your experience about Android OS
wah
until now i haven’t bought Satio yet but man everyday i read about X10 i fall in love to it i wish Symbian could be more user friendly like Android 1 0 -
By sandeep
25th November 2009.
15:51Rik, just love how you post your impressions from the perspective of the average user and not someone in the “hard sell” mode. Thank you!
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By Rikard Skogberg
25th November 2009.
16:13Keyv,
Regarding BT file transfer I don’t really know the details around android versions and support for it, I’ve heard the same as you though.
However – my X10 here can sure send e.g. photos over bluetooth, just tried it to my PC here minutes ago. So I guess we’ve added it on top of Android if Android 1.6 don’t support it. 1 0 -
By Rikard Skogberg
25th November 2009.
16:13Keyv,
Regarding BT file transfer I don’t really know the details around android versions and support for it, I’ve heard the same as you though.
However – my X10 here can sure send e.g. photos over bluetooth, just tried it to my PC here minutes ago. So I guess we’ve added it on top of Android if Android 1.6 don’t support it. 1 0 -
By Rikard Skogberg
25th November 2009.
16:14Sandeep, thanks!
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By Rikard Skogberg
25th November 2009.
16:14Sandeep, thanks!
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By Keyv
25th November 2009.
16:19thanks for the input Rikard =)
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By Keyv
25th November 2009.
16:19thanks for the input Rikard =)
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By Manish
25th November 2009.
16:23Nice to know your perspective on it.
This is why i love android more than anything else!! Apps developed for it are having the same preference level as on the basic programs on the as calling,messaging,etc. So thats a gr8 innovation for developers.
You don’t like something, in the Original OS, Modd it yourself (although you need a basic knowledge to get developing with WEBSdk by SE for developing Android apps. 1 0 -
By sandeep
25th November 2009.
16:26Rik: You’re welcome!
A demo of multitasking, please! 1 0 -
By sandeep
25th November 2009.
16:26Rik: You’re welcome!
A demo of multitasking, please! 1 0 -
By Manish
25th November 2009.
16:26It’s such a nice thing to know, that Bluetooth file transfer is supported by X10. ( hope your ‘Bluetooth’ theory bout the phone launch with donut fails here, Novica. )
P.S.
Hope to hear more modification ways from you,Novica!! M still to start with Android.
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By Manish
25th November 2009.
16:26It’s such a nice thing to know, that Bluetooth file transfer is supported by X10. ( hope your ‘Bluetooth’ theory bout the phone launch with donut fails here, Novica. )
P.S.
Hope to hear more modification ways from you,Novica!! M still to start with Android. 1 0 -
By Tomasz Luch
25th November 2009.
16:35There is also very good broadcast-receiver pattern implemented in android OS. It is not new idea (it works similar to listeners) but as integrated in OS this is amazing. For example when you receive sms message it is broadcasted by system to every receiver installed on the phone. So you can handle this my yourself in your own application. It is very powerfull. Other thing – your application doesn’t have run in background or foreground – your receiver is always executed by OS.
There is lots of places in the OS where broadcasting is done. Other examples – when screen goes on/off, when user unlocks phone, where phone is ringing and so on… 1 0 -
By Tomasz Luch
25th November 2009.
16:35There is also very good broadcast-receiver pattern implemented in android OS. It is not new idea (it works similar to listeners) but as integrated in OS this is amazing. For example when you receive sms message it is broadcasted by system to every receiver installed on the phone. So you can handle this my yourself in your own application. It is very powerfull. Other thing – your application doesn’t have run in background or foreground – your receiver is always executed by OS.
There is lots of places in the OS where broadcasting is done. Other examples – when screen goes on/off, when user unlocks phone, where phone is ringing and so on… 1 0 -
By Michell Bak
25th November 2009.
16:35I really enjoyed the modularity of the operating system, and loved the fact that you can add plugins and choose which tabs to display in Timescape. That’s awesome!
It was a great presentation today, Rikard!
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By Michell Bak
25th November 2009.
16:35I really enjoyed the modularity of the operating system, and loved the fact that you can add plugins and choose which tabs to display in Timescape. That’s awesome!
It was a great presentation today, Rikard!
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