What, is this literally true? Source? If it is, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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Goodbye iPad. Hello Galaxy Note 10.1!
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Double negative, so you're asking if it IS available? No, you cant place two apps side by side on any other Android device I've seen.
The galaxy s3 has the pop out play video option, but not the side by side apps.
Of course it's true...Apple had the galaxy tabs banned in several countries for quite a while due to patent infringement, where have you been?
Omg really????Of course it's true...Apple had the galaxy tabs banned in several countries for quite a while due to patent infringement, where have you been?
I know that of course, what I meant is - were they specifically forced to stick their logo on the front of every device because of this? It just seems unlikely that "no logo on the bezel" would hold up as part of an actual patent...
At least their top models. Apparently they listened to what people were saying about all the different phone names being confusing.
Who would carry two tablets?
For now, but I think we're going to see a lot more multitasking like this in the near future. Wind River has announced code for OEMs and others to customize Android with multiple resizable windows, for example. This can make sense on tablets.
If it becomes popular, I think multi-window capability will appear in the core code. (It's already half there. Widgets are simply windows that appear in another app's screen. Part of the original slowness of Android windows was because this core cross-app capability was cooked in from the beginning.)
Yep. Some people are always talking about how Samsung should "stop copying others" and differentiate themselves. Their wish is granted. Nothing wrong with a specialized device having special capabilities.
HTC has the same thing with their pen based tablets.
It'd be better if Android itself had a standard API for active pens.
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There's also the third party Overskreen browser. It allows multiple copies of any size on a homescreen at a time. Video here.
I believe there is already a Stylus API in ICS.
http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.0.html
Is that what you referring to?
Cool. Thank you!
I know that HTC and Samsung have had their own SDKs for such things in the past. Do you know if they also support the new ICS API?
(I'm a bit out of date since I've been working on an HTML5 app for much of the past year, and haven't had a chance to code on Android for a while.)
I am not into app development. But I have seen Samsung engineers saying that S-Pen supports ICS API. Some discussion on this:
http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/bbs/discussion/view.do?boardId=1132&boardName=AndroidBoard&messageId=161795&messageNumber=&messageCategoryId=3&startId=zzzzz~&startPage=1&curPage=1&rowsPerPage=10&searchType=TITLE&searchText=&searchDays=0&searchTitleFlag=false&searchContentsFlag=false&searchRegisterNicknameFlag=false&lastPageFlag=&categoryId=800&parentCategoryId=4&platformId=1&selectOrder=REGISTER_DATE&selectOrderDirection=DESC&searchParameters=%2Fbbs%2Fdiscussion%2Fthread.list.do%3FlistLines%3D10%7CsearchType%3Dtitle%7CcurPage%3D3%7CselectOrder%3DREGISTER_DATE%7CselectOrderDirection%3DDESC%7CmessageCategoryId%3D3%7C&nacode=&listLines=10&searchTextForm=&searchTypeForm=TITLE
The keyboard looks the same? What kind of qwerty keyboard doesn't look the same? Are we neglecting the predictive words that are turned off and upper lower case keys? We are just going by color now?
This stealing ideas thing is starting to get a little silly IMO. Apple is the only company in the world that can sue while they simultaneously copy an idea while every one turns a blind eye. They were suing for slide to unlock while copying camera from the lock screen. It truly is amazing.
This stealing ideas thing is starting to get a little silly IMO. Apple is the only company in the world that can sue while they simultaneously copy an idea while every one turns a blind eye. They were suing for slide to unlock while copying camera from the lock screen. It truly is amazing.
I see, and I meant to say "now available...".
Well I did not mean carry as in your bag, but carry as in the shelves, now Samsung apparently has two "top of the line" 10" tabs.
I see, you might be right then in that, half of it is "already there".
But then I don't know, I think at the conception Android was meant to be AOSP, but now it's becoming another Linux.
Nothing wrong, but, it just creates even more confusion for the end user.
Split screen with drag 'n drop is nice; I could imagine (or hope) that in iOS7 we see something similar.
NO doubt with that. But you gotta admit, some of those features are nice. And are missing from the iPad.
Interesting. You dont have to use a stylus if you dont want too. And why are there so many stylus threads in the iPad section if no one is interested in them?
This tablet was made due to the popularity and sales of the note.
Are you just kind of making things up as you go?
I am sceptically that the hand writing detection really works that great as show in Youtube-AD. Does anybody has experience with the note-taking feature?
It's not a dumb stylus. It's a Wacom pen and digitizer, with high accuracy and hundreds of pressure levels.
Most of us don't fingerpaint every day. We do use a writing or drawing instrument.
That's why there's a high interest in both stylus and pens from iPad third party suppliers.