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[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Email features

A. Master mailbox - combining all email accounts so that all mails, regardless of the email address, can be listed together and read at once.

-iPhone (OS4.0) : yes

-Android: ???

B. Able to delete all the emails that belongs to the same conversation (thread) by a single action.

-iPhone (OS4.0) : Yes

- Android: ??

C. Able to select the resolution of the photo attached to email to suit the situation.

- iPhone: Yes. Actual size, small, and medium photo size.

- Android:???

D: Gmail can be either archived or deleted

- iPhone: Yes

- Android: ???

E: Support "always BCC myself" feature to keep a complete record of email activity.

- iPhone: Yes

- Android: ???

F: Email could be viewed or compiled in both orientation

- iPhone: Yes

- Android:???

G: Keep as draft for email that for any reason not ready to be sent out. Rather than terminated and require rework from scratch.

- iPhone: yes

- Android: ???

H: Save attachment of any file type

- iPhone: Yes

- Android: ??

I: Correctly render all fonts and pictures on mail and its attachments.

- iPhone: Yes

- Android: ???

J: Allows composing to group

- iPhone: Not from within email application. Have to start from another application such as ABContacts.

- Android: Yes.

K: Allows forwarding of mail to group

- iPhone: No

- Android: Yes.

L: When email to group, can the actual receipients be hidden and shows only the group name?

- iPhone: No. Individual receipients comprising the group will be all visible to every receipient.

- Android????

M: Sync to outlook and exchange

- iPhone: Yes

- Android: ???
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Multimedia capabilities

More comparisons in this post:

Equaliser support for music player:

- iPhone: Yes. Supported settings are Off, Acoustic, Bass Booster, Bass reducer, Classical, Dance, Deep, Electronic, Flat, Hip Hop, Jazz, Loudness, Lounge, Piano, Pop, R&B, Rock, Small speakers, Spoken word, Treble booster, Treble reducer, and Vocal booster.

- Android: ???

Precise fast forward or backward. This is especially useful when playing movies.

- iPHone: Yes. First, touch the scroll handle and MOVE away from it. The further you move away from it, the finer/slower the forward/backward will be.

- Android: ???

Creating, editing, and deleting Playlist on the phone itself:

- iPhone: Yes

- Android:???

Optionally limit the volume

- iPhone: yes

- Android: ???

Display lyric information even without having to use another application or internet connection.

- iPhone: Yes

- Android: ???

Option to start playing video from where it left off (useful for watching long movies. Not so useful for my music videos.)

- Android: ???

Support playlist folder and subfolder

- iPhone: Yes

- Android:?

Support AVRCP for Bluetooth remote control of the device.

- iPhone: Yes but needs a third party application called bluetooth helper (See http://www.mobilitysite.com/boards/...p-bluetooth-remote-media-control-idevice.html)

- Android: ????

Supports classification of VIDEOS to allow listing and playing by classification such as Genres (Currently, iPod only allows this for AUDIO music but not videos). I want to show a list of only certain type of music videos such as R&B or Pop music, or only funny videos, or any video related to Celine Dion etc.

- iPhone: No. One of my most wished for future improvements is this.

- Android: ???

Supports automatic timer turn off

- iPhone: Yes

- Android:???

User rating of songs, and to allow future music play list to be created based on it.

- iPhone: Yes

- Android: ???
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
SMS character count

In some countries, and with some carriers, this feature is still very important it seems.

iPhone (OS 4.0): Yes, but only start to show after the third line in cellular mode.

Android: ????
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
What are some of the special features on Android over iPhone that attract you?

Hi everyone,

I really would like to know what are some of the special features which are found only in Android, attracting ordinary users to it. I can think of Widgets and notifications right away.

What other special features are there?
[General Topics] JAguirre1231:
Any of the pages of the desktop. To open an application from an app, there are a few ways. The more limited one is holding the home button to show the last 6 applications used, choose one. The other one is press the home button, open the app drawer and choose the app.

You are completely at the mercy of the devs that work to better Android on your phone if you do not have the skills required to do it yourself.

You are majorly mistaken. The Android homescreens do not hold every app you have installed. They are customizable, meaning if you want any app on a homescreen, then drag and drop it there. Same goes for widgets, folders, shortcuts, and all that good stuff.

Home-> App drawer. Done

Most of the stuff that iPhone users jailbreak for is already included in stock Android.
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Playlist synced from iTune can be edited and deleted

What you said was correct before OS 4.0. Here is what has changed, based on developers who had been playing with OS4.0 beta.

"iPod. The iPod application now supports playlist folders and sub-folders created in iTunes. A setting lets you turn lyrics and podcast info off if you’d prefer not to see them on the Now Playing screen. On-The-Go Playlists have been replaced, sort of, by a feature that lets you create a new playlist—basically the same feature, except you can now choose a name for it right from the start. You can also edit, clear, or delete any playlist on the device, including ones synced from iTunes"

Source: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/new-in-iphone-os-4-the-full-app-by-app-breakdown/

What do you mean by Android does not do colors?

Do you know in more precise term how? Name of third party program? It modifies the standard mail program and lets you save while viewing the attachments?
[General Topics] tbaker077:
The default Motorola music app on newer MotoBlur devices does support lyrics. I think I read some of those Samsung Galaxy touchwiz phones add an EQ to Android.
[General Topics] dsymbol:
Within an app, to start a new 1: Home > tap the Programs Tab (bottom left of the screen) > Touch the application icon.

For Android, if you long-press the Home button, it'll bring up the last 6 programs you have recently accessed.

I'm not sure you mean a program to show helicopter view of all the programs or helicopter view of the 7 screens (homescreen & additional 6 screens, where you can add programs, widgets, folders of programs). To bring up that 7 screens, press the Home button twice, it'll show the helicopter view of 7 screens.

Home > Programs > Touch the application icon.

If you have accessed that program recently: long-press Home button > Touch the application icon.

Home > Programs > Touch the application icon. That's only 3 touches to open up the program, and that's QUICK, I think.

Global search can search for anything, any program, but then, every touch counts, then global search is not as quick as Home > Programs > Touch the app icon.
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Thanks for your response. How does Motorola music application and Galaxy touchwiz perform in the other aspects of the multimedia capabilities department though? It's no good if it can do this but can't do all the other things listed.

We need ONE single program that has all these features.

BTW, anyone knows how portable these programs are across Android phones? Goes Motoblur music application work on say HTC Desire, or are there enough hardware differences to make these programs incapable of workable on the other OEM Android phones right away?
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
You forgot that after the all program screen is displayed, you need to swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe until you find the program before you can touch the desired application icon, so it is more than 3 touches.

I was more interested in quickly accessing any application programs. Not the widgets.

Good tips. Thanks.

You got a point there. Actually on iPhone I only use Search to launch application programs where its icon has been hidden by me. This brings me to the next question: Is it possible to hide the icon of the application program so that it does NOT appear on the All program screen? I might not want that naughty icon to be seen by prying eyes. :D This is a serious requirement. Also, on iPhone, I'm able to impose password requirement before an application can be launched, using a CYdia application called LockDown. Is there similar capability in Android? I know some applications already require password before they can be used (e.g. eWallet, PocketMoney), but this is for the other applications where the developers have no built-in password requirements.
[General Topics] dsymbol:
Iphone can do that? or you use a 3rd party app?

No. Once the app is installed, it will appear under Programs Tab.

There's a program in Marketplace called SecureDroid Beta. The description says it hides your data with one click. I havent tried it out yet.

So, the answer is yes, & I'm sure there are more similar apps that we dont know!
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
You can hide icons of any applications with SBSettings, which is one of the first applications many people would install after jailbreak. I also hide some of the stock applications such as stock and weather as I don't like them cluttering my desktops as I would never use them.

Is SecureDroidBeta only for hiding the data? I'm talking about preventing user from launching the application unless correct password has been entered, either globally for the device, or individually for designated application (the setting will let you decide at which level you want password to be enforced).
[General Topics] JAguirre1231:
I stand corrected

I am not sure what you meant in the original statement so I took it as "Does Android keep formatting in the email (Font Color, Font used, Font Size)". In this case, yes it does. I may need more clarification on what you meant to give you a better answer.

APKatcher let's you download .apk files from the gmail app, Download crutch (Or now that it is discontinued, Astro) let you download everything else.
[General Topics] JAguirre1231:
It's not really a swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe. Android displays applications in a vertical scrolling list. One quick but fast swipe will take you to the bottom, and a small slower one will give you fine tuning. If you've used Android for more than 2 days you will have how hard of a swipe you need to reach an application down.

Advanced Launcher

As stated yes, I don't normally keep the porn store on my phone so I've never had any use for it.
[General Topics] JAguirre1231:
Android is not really limited by hardware differences (Yet). The biggest difference between the Vanilla Android and a UI such as Motoblur are the closed-source frameworks. If you want to use an application from Motoblur, Sense, or Touchwiz you will either need to find out what frameworks it requires, what libs it requires, and then hope that when you put them on your phone they work.
[General Topics] tbaker077:
So far, it seem like even tough many prefer SenseUI to MotorBlur. However, the music application, called Connect, in the latest version of Motorblur is bar none the best music app out right on an Android devices, or so I have read. Now if someone can root the Cliq XT and then make the music app into an APK for all to install we are in business. http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-cliq-xt-getting-updated-connected-media-player
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Do you think this is something which an average user on the street could comprehend and perform, or is it something only programmers and hackers could do?
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
So Cliq XT still has not been rooted by anyone yet? What could be the reason it has not been rooted? Is it because it is too difficult? I wonder why isn't an APK already widely circulated for the best music player in the Android world?
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
If you only have less than 40 applications, it may be quite easy to locate the application. But if you're like me having hundreds of them, then it will be a swipe and look, swipe and look, swipe and look, swipe and look until you find them.

Unless you have a folder within the application drawer, where each folder contains application of the same category to quickly limit the number of applications being available for selection. Is there such an feature to have subfolders within the application drawer?
[General Topics] JAguirre1231:
Programmers and hackers could do it easier, but it's not to hard to where a normal person can do it. Just look at a logcat and see what errors it is throwing out (They're easy to understand things like "Cannot find xxxx.file in blah/blah/blah)

Advanced Launcher
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Is this something that replaces HTC Sense UI, or an add on to Sense UI? Available for all OEM handset or no? What does it do? Tried looking for a youtube video for it but not sure if I looked at the right thing. Any video link?
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Application UI comparison - example 1

I just looked at your link, and thought that the functionalities look very familiar and identical to one of my applications called TuneWiki. Sure enough, they are the same application, but on different platform with very different user interface design. Another difference is the the connected-media-player is actually just a packaging of two applications: Tunewiki (most part of it) and SoundHound (just for the music identification portion).

You might want to compare this application on Android and iPhone and see which user interface you like more, as an illustration of difference between Application interface in the two platform.

What do you think? Which has the better user interface for doing exactly the samething? Which one would you rather be using? Which one is more attractive for one-handed use? Probably going to be subjective? Keyboard lover might prefer the Android version I guess.

I don't really use them as my primary media player though, although there is a role for such applications on my device.
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Multimedia capabilities

I've added two more features which I used everyday to this post:

- User rating

- Timer auto shut down of music player (I use before bed time)
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Application comparison: Best Internet radio?

I listen to radio a lot, but mostly AM talkshow radios, both local as well as overseas. The ability to have crystal clear voice quality has actually made me discard my regular radio in favor of an application in iPhone called "TuneIn Radio".

I've come across many internet radio applications but they only include FM broadcast. I also like the fact that I can record what I hear, as well as use timer to stop it automatically. It also shows the broadcast schedule of every station, and lets user bookmark their favorite stations. I get the impression that just about every station in the world is there, in every conceivable languages and countries.

Is there such an application with such depth and breath in functionalities available on the Android Market yet?
[General Topics] JAguirre1231:
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[General Topics] JAguirre1231:
This is a special launcher for rooted android devices. It allows the choosing of how many desktops (I think 1-9), folders in drawer, hiding of applications, uninstalling applications by holding them over the trashcan and much more. It does NOT replace the Sense UI (The UI is system wide, the Launcher is one part of it, the homescreen). Android allows having more than one home application, meaning you can have adv. launcher, Rosie (Sense UI's home screen), the stock launcher, and any you download from the market (This will have an impact on performance if 20 are running).

Here's a really quick walkthrough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWEV4XBUwg

The emulator is not the best to show performance, but it should give you an idea. Itis available for any phone running 1.6 and lower (The dev discontinued it in favor of a future Launcher he will release)
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
What's the website address for the Android Market?

What do you mean by "it only remembers one boot". You mean this works just one time? So if you mesh up your phone again and requires a second restore, such information is not available anymore? It does not quite make sense.

May be it is true. The OEM should have implemented these OS modifications exactly like the way jailbreaking community in iPhone is doing it so that everyone can stay up to date with the latest firmware, and yet not lose a bit of the OS modification at all.
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
The video is at best doing a poor job in demonstrating what an Advance Launcher is all about.

Is this what you're talking about?
[General Topics] JAguirre1231:
Yes, it was to give you at least the look of how it acts. Otherwise, yes that is what I would be talking about.
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Questions regarding advance launcher for Android

Wow, 88 pages, and 658 pages here.

After about 15 pages of reading, I'm not sure if I want to finish read through all these to get answers so let me just ask you some of the questions i have on this thread (and THANK YOU for being such a great help, and please excuse my laziness here):

- Does this advance launcher work on every Android phone, every firmware, and OEM? Or do users have to wait for it to be made available each time there is a firmware/phone change?

- When you install this advance launcher, does it override the HTC Sense UI?

- Does this launcher allows me to hide icons of applications that I have no plan using?

- From within an application, what's the minimum number of touches/presses to display all the available folder?

- I assume that once a folder is displayed, it's one touch to dive inside the folder?

- How many applications can a folder contain?

- Can a folder contains subfolder?

- How do we get from the subfolder back up to the folder? Backspace key?

- How do you get from the folder back to the application drawer? Backspace key?

- Without using folder, what is the maximum number of application icons that can be accomodated on the application drawer? Or no limit?
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Questions about Anvance Launcer

Dincontinued in place for a future home replacement?

So, would a user with HTC desire not be able to use it anymore? When is this future home replacement becoming available? Would the EVO or HTC Supersonic also have to wait for this future replacement if they want those folder and other functions for their home screen?

Rather than saying that Android is able to provide these functions, would it be more accurate to say that "if you're luckly and happen to have the right firmware/phone/carrier, then you can have it, otherwise no"? Seems to be like here lies another difference between iPhone and Android: In the case of iPhone, all the jailbreak functionalities are extremely likely to be workable with new firmware being released (Some customization tools would need updating but most of these updates are available on the day the new firmware is released), whereas the same cannot be said of Android. Hope I'm wrong on this.
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
I'm going to make the assumption that nobody will use the gmail application due to its many limitation such as copy and paste.

Since Download crutch is discontinued, it's out too. So that leaves Astro

Is Astro a separate program for downloading email attachment or does it modifies the default mail program such that attachments of all file types could be saved, like the way AttachmentSaver modifies default iPhone mail application?
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Best Browser Comparison

Which is the best of the best internet browser for Android? The followings are what Atomic Browser (whch in my opinion is the best for iPhone) can do.

Can someone do a side by side comparison on each of the following area please?

Just to mention the key features here using MY setup (users could customize it differently to suit their personality and preference):

- Three finger touch to show search box (website address, and search).

- Automatically go to full screen mode after webpage is displayed. True full screen, with no taskbar to occupy precious screen space.

- Ability to open linke in background. That's how I browse a forum such as this. I open all the thread with new post first. By the time I finish all my selection, almost all web page loading were already fully done.

- Two finger swipe left or right to move from tab to tab. Therefore there is ZERO time wasted waiting for the loading of those webpages

- Two finger swipe down to close a tab, and make the next tab appear. This is a much better way then going back, and click the new link.

- Supports 11 maximum tabs.

- Two finger up to go the top of page. I can also go to any part of the webpage by using Quickscroll without swiping.

- On the full screen, semi transparent buttons for forward, backward, action (add webpage, save webpage), refresh, open favourites, show/hide tabs, go to setting.

- Allows privacy browing.

- Two touch to lock or unlock screen rotation

- Two touch to increase/decrease font sizes

- One quick three-finger-touch to bring up facility to find within page

- Start up screen could be home, last page viewed, last sessions (all opened tabs) or blank.

- Able to import bookmark from the PC browsers. Bookmark folders/subfolders can be created.

- Option to block all adds, and edit the ad blocks filter yourself to include new ones

- Customizable buttons to appear for full screen.

- Customizable gesture navigation.

- Color and theme

- Choose your own search engine other than google, such as Yahoo, Amazon, Bing, Ebay, Wikipedia, and Youtube. It also lets you find and add new search engine that you want.

- Identify itself as Safari desktop, mobile safari,firefox 3, internet explorer 6/7/8, or wap device.

- Download files, pictures,

- Copy and paste text and pictures.

- Able to scroll the text within the text entry box such as what we have on this forum when we make a post. This is done with two finger swipe up or down within the text box.

etc

- Scrolling down of webpage is perfectly vertical although the finger may swipe not perfectly vertically down or up. The webpage will not bump from left to right.
[General Topics] vangrieg:
Well, OEMs don't implement these modifications this way, never have, and never will. If anything, they are horrible software makers. So yes, this is a problem with Android because it's the flipside of its openness and relaxed policies.
[General Topics] eaglesteve:
Widgets comparison (or I should say there's no comparison here)

This demo is made using HTC Desire, for those of you who haven't got the chance to see what widgets and the helicopter views in Sense UI are like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfSxWNOG8DQ

Lovely, isn't it? The question I must ask is why should'nt HTC Magic, Hero, and the other HTC Android handset also have this?

In contrast, look at the much inferior widgets in iPhone here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TivsoRvLSwE

Here is another way to get more or less the same info:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHUx0he4_D4

The only consoling factor iPhone has is that every iPhone owner can have the widget, whereas only HTC Android (and even that not all models?) can have it.