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Nexus One Update Fixes 3G, Adds Multitouch
snydeq writes "Google is pushing out an update for the Nexus One that will fix a 3G connectivity problem and add limited support for multitouch. After receiving over 1,500 messages in a support forum from people complaining about trouble connecting to 3G, Google said it has identified the problem and has started delivering the fix. In addition to fixing 3G, the update adds the first applications to support multitouch. While the recent versions of the Android OS include multitouch capability, no phone in the US has supported it."
I'm still waiting for the port of IE6..
> fix a 3G connectivity problem
So will it work on AT&T now? T-Mobile doesn't have crap anywhere near where I live.
Why is it so hot? Where am I going? What am I doing in this handbasket?
I've heard rumors, that the zooming gesture won't be officially supported, because it would violate Apple patents. Does anyone know anything about that?
seriously slashdot? you're gonna feed us with news that is almost two days old now.
If anyone from google reads this please speed up the release of the Nexus One in Australia. We can't handle the wait!
All the iPhone fanboys based all their criticism on the lack of multitouch. Now they've got nothing to stand on.
The good news is, Google has fixed the 3G problems. The bad news is, the fix is going out via the 3G network.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
My Sprint HTC Hero phone uses multi-touch in the browser. Same pinch gestures the iPod Touch had me accustomed to. :)
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Let's see, buy a Nexus One and get a niche phone that does nothing but copy the existing features of the iPhone, but with fewer applications and almost no developer support, or just buy an iPhone.... what to do what to do...
doesn't support multitouch? Should I stop doing it then?
I don't care for the multitouch thing..... I liked the old way and will use the old way..
As far as 3G it's much more stable on 3G and on EDGE as well.
I only get EDGE at home because I am at the end of 3G coverage and EDGE is actually much faster than it was.
So, whatever they changed in the radio firmware improved both.
Everything seems to move a little faster as well, so no complaints.
I got my OTA update last night.
I'm really pleased with my Acer Liquid, it has almost the same hardware (some processor) as the Nexus One and costed half, of what it would have costed me, to import the Nexus One in my country. But perhaps I underestimated the value of the phone not being a Google Experience phone. Acer has just released the kernel for the Liquid, but they have not given any good configs and have generelly done everything they can, to make it difficult to put custom roms on the Liquid. I would really want to have Android 2.1 on the Liquid, it has 1.6 now. I was sure that it would be no problem getting newer versions of Android on this phone, but with Acer trying to limit the community efforts, perhaps it will never happen. :(
The phone is still nice though, but the uninstallable programs that Acer has put on the phone are redicules and annoying! You can root it and remove some of them, but I would really like just having the stock Android instead!
Next time, Im gonna go for a Google Experience phone!
Just curious, what do they mean when saying that other US phones don't support the multitouch?
I own an HTC Droid Eris, and it seems to have a bunch of apps that support multitouch, and I actively utilize it. Is there something more that I am missing out here when they say that no other phones support the Android OS multitouch?
No surprise, but the summary is wrong. True, there has been multitouch capability in recent versions of Android, but not true that no phones in the US support it. Even my HTC Hero (running Android 1.5) has multitouch built into the basic system apps like the browser and the gallery. Additionally there are apps on the marketplace that make use of multitouch, such as the Dolphin browser.
The summary should indicate that no other phones have previously had multitouch built into the system apps that Google ships with the stock OS.
I'm amused that it took them so long to fix problems with Google's Flagship, but I can't say I'm suprised.
Bought a G1 last March. Couldn't have been happier with it, until the 1.6 update. Afterward everything got slower, I would not recieve calls despite having full signal, be unable to place calls either. Rebooting the phone would fix the problem, but only very temporarily.
2 Replacement Phones with the same problem later they were still insisting the problem wasn't with the firmware. I wound up having to file an FCC and BBB Complaint to get released without an ETF, T-Mobile's 'solution' was to charge me the contract price on a new phone.
This is all relavant, because, well, As soon as I saw the first story on the Nexus one problems, I was not one bit suprised. Call it a matter of opinion but based on what I've seen I get the feeling something got whacked somewhere in the baseband package's firmware/drivers.
This problem gets difficult to detect, however, when the end users are so incompetent that they don't understand that their phone shouldn't be freezing up the way it is. I'm still waiting to see if Samsung screws up the moment yet. (It still seems to be functional, albiet running on 1.5. If it survives the 2.x update I'll trust it.) But as it stands my experience with Android led me to hope for the best as far as WinMo 7. If there's one feeling I got from Android, it was that it was 'beta,' and to be blunt you shouln't play beta with phones you're selling to people.
Multitouch enhancing a keyboard I could perhaps see as valid.
That's where Apple got the technology from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
I would have loved to have bought one, but IIRC, the cost was around US$370, and that was well out of my price range.
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Not interested.
I can't stand Telstra but they do unfortunately have the best network. I believe this is due to some kind of lack of 850mhz or something option on the phone.
The vast majority of business's use Telstra in this country too.
Why has Google abandoned the G1?
So when's 2.1 and this multitouch goodness going to trickle down to my Moto Droid?
What happened to extensive testing and user feedback periods of electronic equipment? You would expect stuff like this from Microsoft, but now Google too?
The free turn by turn navigation is better then the $100 version on the iPhone.
That is not possible as long as it requires a network connection to operate.
The time you need a GPS nav most is when you are where the networks are failing you...
And the android market is booming and going to pass apple's in total apps pretty soon.
Ok man! Whatever you say! It's only an order of magnitude or so behind, I'm sure it will catch up any day.
There's already an "app for that' on both marketplaces.
Yes but there are several "apps for that" for any given value of "that" in the Apple store, each better than the Android versions. Twitter clients are but the most obvious example.
The once difference is there's things android will let you do that apple won't.
Come up with a task you think the iPhone cannot perform and Android can . The iPhone does multitasking for the user, just not in ways you realize.
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Question 1:
Your phone can do "multitasking" -- explain to me what the advantage to this is? I mean, the advantage over the iPhone, that is - since the iPhone is obviously multitasking as it will play music, check your email, run a phone conversation, and allow you to launch any 3rd-party app, all at the same time. I suppose my question is, what real-world advantages have you seen with this "multitasking"?
Question 2:
Android's total apps will surpass Apple's "pretty soon"? I'm reading 100 thousand versus twenty thousand. What the hell do you mean by "pretty soon"?
Come up with a task you think the iPhone cannot perform and Android can.
Skype over 3G, running in the background so it doesn't interfere with the main operation of the phone. You're welcome.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
Come up with a task you think the iPhone cannot perform and Android can
* Emulators. I play SNES and Genesis games.
* Third party software for core functionality - I have 3 browsers, 2 dialers, 2 text messaging apps
* Shell access - I can ssh into my G1, I also run an ftp server on it.
These are just a few of the things I do everyday, but I'm sure there are many others. There isn't any reason the iPhone hardware couldn't do these things, it all boils down to open vs. closed platform.
Doesn't that make it an Android patch? Is the goog going to start down this slippery road of releasing specialized patches for its baby while leaving all other Android users out in the cold, no-feature-having darkness? It would seem that a move like that could only hurt the popularity of their flagship mobile iphone-killer OS. I can understand a 3G related patch being phone-specific, but it seems that what they are doing is diverging their OS into 'Android' and 'Android for Nexus One'. Not cool guys.
Incidentally I think I just did in another post of mine:
I don't have an iphone, but according to this review:
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Skype over 3G, running in the background so it doesn't interfere with the main operation of the phone. You're welcome.
But you can do that on an iPhone. You run skype. You switch over to look at some data, and back again.
Or you can call into a skype bridge using the phone service you are paying for, and do anything else.
Or, you can use a skype client that includes a browser.
Of course realistically, you are just going to be talking to someone on skype which you can do just fine without any interruption. And of course, a jailbroken iPhone can do that but I was going to explain how it does allow task based multitasking even without that option.
So, try again.
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* Emulators. I play SNES and Genesis games.
Jailbroken iPhones can do that. But you are not thinking at the task level - of course there is going to be some platform specific software you are able to run on some devices and not others. Complaining that you can't run MAME on the iPhone by default but to complain about lack of games on the iPhone is absurd when you could play free demo versions of games for a year, and games that were optimized for the platform at that.
Third party software for core functionality - I have 3 browsers, 2 dialers, 2 text messaging apps
So does the iPhone (actually it has a lot more than that). Alternate contact apps are very popular. And there are alternate browsers - they make use of the same core rendering technology BUT they wrap other features around the browsing experience.
While they are not specific to SMS there are many chat clients and other things.
* Shell access - I can ssh into my G1, I also run an ftp server on it.
Again, you can do that on a jailbroken phone. I see that as an uber niche need, so anyone that absolutely needs that also has the skills to jailbreak and therefore that is a legitimate path to fulfilling that requirement.
These are just a few of the things I do everyday, but I'm sure there are many others. There isn't any reason the iPhone hardware couldn't do these things, it all boils down to open vs. closed platform.
The fact is the iPhone can be opened fully and has been by millions of people now. Anyone who needs that additional level of openness has the skills to do so. But most people dont.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The Droid Eris supports multi-touch in it's browser and photo app.
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