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On 2011-10-22 10:38:11, Tsepz_GP wrote:
Errm...actualy, the majority of UI enhancements in ICS come from Honeycomb, a UI that was being developed even before WP was released.
Even if I am to go with you on this, the main point is the philosophy used behind those design patterns and building the UI! A thing MS did a far greater job at! Even admitted by hard-core Apple fans and MS haters such as Engadget!
The Metro UI is not only different, it's stunning!
The camera being accessed instantly is something taken from HTC and Samsung who have had this in their Android UIs for a while,
This thing debutted in WP by pressing and holding the camera button!
HTC and now in ICS, only implemented in a different way on the lockscreen!
Actually, the fact that WP demands installing a proper camera button, which is a major feature for any photography enthusiast, is a big plus to me and many others! All latest Android high-ends miss this thing!
Roboto typeset -Honeycomb again,
Not true. Roboto is totally new to Android.
new Android Market uses squares and rectangles so its now a copy of Metro UI? Its only its main screen that even looks like that, once you actualy get into it looks like a mini version of the HC Market.
It's not that they'll go for an exact copy!!
Again, it's the design pattern used that is the same..
i find this quite funny, when the first 1Ghz Android phone was released (almost) 2 years ago, armed with 512MB RAM we can't see any Symbian phone with that horsepower, and Nokia smartphones were stucked with 600Mhz with no hardware acceleration, plus most nokia symbian phones have 128MB RAM, also worth mentioning that most of Symbian's native browser (especially those made by nokia) can't compete with Froyo's browser which runs Full flash, SE made huge strides by utilizing powerful HW with Satio and Vivaz with Satio (having a camera resolution still unseen on most android phones if we don't count Sharp and Toshiba's Japanese phones) which where the only phones that can view proper flash videos at that time (Nokia was using Flash Lite if i'm not mistaken). there had been so many powerful Android smartphones and all of them outperforms and outsmarts even the best S60 5th edition phone at that time. when Symbian 3 arrived Nokia started realizing the potential of HW acceleration in future device (Ironcal since they already used this on N93-N82 but dropped on N96) and but that time they were still trailing in RAM capacity (256 MB). I don't think Symbian power users are that dumb to think that Android never had the "power" they needed even before GSII arrived. also Symbian 1 (S60 5th) and 3 were generally regarded as the worst platform in terms of "UX" (User experience)
For true power users, it's not about UX and raw specs!!
It's about functoinality above all, and performance as well..
And really, while the 2010 batch of Androids were all promising, they all had major issues and missed features!!
Not until the 2011 batch that Android devices made everything else really obsolete, including Symbians, older Droids, and even the iPhone 4 if you ask me!!
Today, the GSII is by far the top smartphone around and no one could argue against that!!
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Posted: 2011-10-22 12:39:19
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My bad about the Robot typeface, it bares a resemblence to the digital clock font used on Honeycomb tablets, just took out my GT10.1 and realised I was wrong, Roboto is like a thin version on the HC clock font its alot more elegant though.
Im glad they took the hc UI for ICS, it may not be the prettiest but its simple/not in your face, and more consistant, and its notifications bar is a lot better.
Unfortunetly I personally dislike Metro UI, I see alot of space being wasted by the fonts, I installed the Metro UI music player on my X10 a while ago, hated it, even when i played on a HTC Mozart it felt like I took a few steps back from Android especially with the home screen.
One of the things I am so happy about in ICS is the HC styled Widgets e.g the CNN, Email/Gmail, Calendar, YouTube etc...HC widgets which allow you to flick through thumbnails with the headline at the bottom of each (CNN and YouTube widgets) /messages (Email/Gmail/Hotmail/Calendar/etc...) without leaving the homescreen, the Android homesceen is alot more alive now just like it is in HC.
[ This Message was edited by: Tsepz_GP on 2011-10-22 12:12 ]
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Posted: 2011-10-22 13:04:43
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Does the WP7, WP7.5 Mango and WP8. still having the
System registry like WM6 to WM6.5?
I had the "misfortune" of buying a SE M1i Aspen with WM6.5(.3) and the only to choose any other programs than Microsofts own on the Home screen was by editing the System registry.
The only way to get any other program on the Home Screen than MS IE, MS Bing, Live and Media Player and any other program (that is good for Microsoft that you use).
That on a phone-OS that should have a graphical UI?
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Posted: 2011-10-22 19:31:24
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yes (I'm sure that won't change on WM), and there are plenty of hacks available too
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Posted: 2011-10-22 19:34:55
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