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Would you like SE to offer its users vanilla Android? |
razec
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^^ Same UI experience across all the platforms, the default android UI is far different from looking like the SE UX UI so the experience will be very different if they did not customize them. this might be one of the reasons for SE to reject WP7 since they do not allow shell customization (only a small subset of the UI i.e. wallpapers)
but if the vanilla Android ICS UI realy looks like this
then i think SE will only need to change the colors to match the UX interface as this thing already looked good.
[ This Message was edited by: razec on 2011-10-09 05:00 ] ~19 years at Esato |
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max_wedge
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On 2011-10-07 05:37:37, razec wrote:
Vanilla android would be fine if the UI will look so much better than the  UX, I still think the default android UI looks dated. iOS has so much beauty in it in comparison. and since SE has been known to push updates faster than the competition (save for Google Nexus series of course) and also the fact that SE opts for a unified user experience across all platforms i'd say no.
[ This Message was edited by: razec on 2011-10-07 04:40 ]
I agree fully, except the part about iOS being beauty, okay yes it is a bit more polished looking than vanilla android, but it's still a very plain and boring OS.
SE certainly has made it look much better, with many stylish and ergonomic improvements over the standard. This is one of the reasons I keep coming back to SE; they nail the ergonomics every time. I look back on the Satio for example, which was hobbled by having the pain in the arse that is s60, yet had a homescreen that wiped the floor with any other s60 device I've seen before or since. And because the homescreen was native to the Satio, it didn't suck resources like 3rd party homescreens invariably do.
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aka Dus
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The screenshots allegedly from the Prime that are in the Samsung forum look pretty cool, if the real thing.
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aka Dus
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So in the light of this morning's announcement, have any of you thought about this any further?
Come on, admit it, most of us would step over our own mothers to be able upgrade our Arcs, Plays, Rays etc to ICS within the next couple of weeks.
It should always be like that - Google make the update announcement, users go and update their handsets.
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razec
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The UI looks really good at default, i just love the new effects when swiping sideways to display a new set of icons and homescreens. and finally this version can properly use multi-core processing, although i still believe we need more GPU power not a quad core and a dual core with high IPC is more than enough
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Geezay
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The question is how well SE would be able to implement the "dual UI" mode without causing any further reported lag issues. But I don't thing there would be anything wrong with offering users the choice to use either option.
HTC used to have that option with their Windows Mobile 6.x devices which came with HTC Sense. I especially remember the HD2 having that option in settings.
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aka Dus
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@Geezay: not only 'how well' but also 'how long'.... That's my big gripe - I do not want to wait even 2 or 3 months until I can have ICS on my Arc. It's out there now, it's new, it's cool, it does cool shit. I want it ASAP. Simple as that.
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paulmcauley
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I think things are fine as they are. You can unofficially install a bare Android ROM if you like, but these IMO aren't as good as the SE ones. There were several features in SE's 2.3.4 which are only now coming in bare Android with ICS e.g..
- Look of dock
- Ability to create folders by dragging
- panorama
- integration of social networks with contacts
Plus all the other features like better camera app, better looking music player and swipe to write etc.
Personally I also think that the UI of ICS looks rather ugly - it's as if it is trying too hard to look cool that it comes across as garish. It's also too dark for my liking, except for the woefully inconsistent contacts and calendar which look too bright - overall a hodgepodge mess! Hopefully SE can add some style and class to Google's tasteless mess. IMO SE's Gingerbread skin is one of the best looking out there. |
aka Dus
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I would bet that Sony will offer Android and Windows Phone in their range.
There is no chance they will offer vanilla android, is there? All the PS, Cybershot, Bravia technology will riddle all their mobile devices, won't it?
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randomuser
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On 2011-10-27 13:32:11, aka Dus wrote:
I would bet that Sony will offer Android and Windows Phone in their range.
There is no chance they will offer vanilla android, is there? All the PS, Cybershot, Bravia technology will riddle all their mobile devices, won't it?
I suggest you go check out the Sony Tablet S. It has mostly Vanilla Android with few minor changes for the better. |
aka Dus
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Cool, thanks for the info. Suggests something positive I guess. |
aka Dus
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And now my 2.3.4, freshly updated, is spontaneously rebooting for no understandable reason. About 15 times in about 5 or 6 hours.
It might be really good that Sony Ericsson is breaking up. If they are infecting their phones with bloated malware, then they wouldn't survive anyway. |
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Posted: 2011-10-09 03:33
