This is Another Reason Google Now is the Best

[Vegastouch]

I said make the folder by dragging and dropping, not by hitting menu to make the folder. It's not really a big deal but I was just trying to make a point.

I did, look again. I was late getting it there.

In anycase, does it matter how i got the folders? They are there and i have more than one way to do it. I also have about 4 different ways to make them look on the screen

 

[Sensamic]

I said make the folder by dragging and dropping, not by hitting menu to make the folder. It's not really a big deal but I was just trying to make a point.

Please stop. Please.

This is ridiculous.

Why again are you in the Android sub forum?

It's getting really really tiresome to hear you criticise every single little aspect of the Android OS. Just let it go.

Don't understand why you're still here if you don't like Android.

I like iOS and Android, and can make good and bad points of both. You just make good points of iOS and bad of Android.

Let's stop it right here or this could take forever. Criticizing how folders are made on SGS3 is the ultimate stupidity.

 

[batting1000]

I did, look again. I was late getting it there.

In anycase, does it matter how i got the folders? They are there and i have more than one way to do it. I also have about 4 different ways to make them look on the screen

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You used Apex launcher as a workaround...

Please stop. Please.

This is ridiculous.

Why again are you in the Android sub forum?

It's getting really really tiresome to hear you criticise every single little aspect of the Android OS. Just let it go.

Don't understand why you're still here if you don't like Android.

I like iOS and Android, and can make good and bad points of both. You just make good points of iOS and bad of Android.

Let's stop it right here or this could take forever. Criticizing how folders are made on SGS3 is the ultimately stupidity.

I'm here because I appreciate both OS's. When there are things I like or don't like, I have the freedom to express that.

 

[jeffe]

You used Apex launcher as a workaround...




I'm here because I appreciate both OS's. When there are things I like or don't like, I have the freedom to express that.

Hey hey - I like some of your commentary. Whenever someone talks about a feature in Android you like to tell us how you like to do that same thing in IOS. I'm learning a whole lot. Good stuff!

 

[Mac.World]

Ok then. Show me how to make a folder on the Galaxy S3 launcher by dragging one icon over the other like stock ICS. Man, you just assume too much. How could ANYONE possibly deny the that Touchwiz has folders?

I don't understand why you would put any limitations on an Android user? Is this to try and make your point that iOS is somehow better? The reason I got an S3 was so I could take advantage of all the customizable features. I bought a Samsung, but I don't like Touchwiz, so I changed it and now use Nova Launcher. If I buy an iPhone and don't like how iOS does something, oh well. Tough luck. I fail to see how an OS that limits everything you do is somehow better than one that does not?

 

[Vegastouch]

You used Apex launcher as a workaround...

Workaround? Its not a workaround. That is a feature of ICS. The GS3 isnt a stock Android UI and Touchwiz uses their own way of using the folders and Apex lets you do it the stock Android way.
It is there so i dont know why you are disregarding that. Why does it matter how you make the folders? The end result is you can and your point is a fail.

 

[batting1000]

I don't understand why you would put any limitations on an Android user? Is this to try and make your point that iOS is somehow better? The reason I got an S3 was so I could take advantage of all the customizable features. I bought a Samsung, but I don't like Touchwiz, so I changed it and now use Nova Launcher. If I buy an iPhone and don't like how iOS does something, oh well. Tough luck. I fail to see how an OS that limits everything you do is somehow better than one that does not?

Limits, shlimits. It still works great for me.

Workaround? Its not a workaround. That is a feature of ICS. The GS3 isnt a stock Android UI and Touchwiz uses their own way of using the folders and Apex lets you do it the stock Android way.
It is there so i dont know why you are disregarding that. Why does it matter how you make the folders? The end result is you can and your point is a fail.

But the point was I wasn't referring to a 3rd party launcher, I was referring to the launcher it comes with out of the box.

 

[ChazUK]

I'm not sure whey there is a panic about the inclusion or exclusion of Google Now on Touchwiz just yet. Google have a powerful distribution system in the Play store.

For example, when my Nexus One got voice actions, it was added via a firmware update. But what about all of the phones with customised builds of Android that didn't get voice actions via firmware?

Easy. Google just issued it via the then Android Market and everyone (on 2.1 I believe) got it.

The same can be said for stock apps like Google Play Music. Not preinstalled on the S3 but is just a simple download away in the Play store.

Let's wait and see what happens eh?

 

[Vegastouch]

Limits, shlimits. It still works great for me.



But the point was I wasn't referring to a 3rd party launcher, I was referring to the launcher it comes with out of the box.

No, you said "Samsung left out the new Android 4.0 folders feature in their Touchwiz skin". I showed you it wasnt. It works on Touchwiz...which is out of the box. It just doesnt let you stack them. Apex does. In fact, Apex gives you 4 ways to use them and it is just letting you use the Android 4.0 feature on their launcher.

 

[Mac.World]

Limits, shlimits. It still works great for me.

well, as long as the world revolves around you, all is good then.

They have road signs for you in Italy called 'senso unico'

 

[batting1000]

well, as long as the world revolves around you, all is good then. Image

They have road signs for you in Italy called 'senso unico'

I wasn't trying to be self centered with that post. I was just trying to say how I for one don't care about limits and that iOS still works best for me even with so called limits. Is that OK with you because I don't want you to be mad for, y'know, maybe liking something you don't.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

Does it also prompt public transport info? Like bus arrivals etc.

The notifications about public transport I haven't tested yet, I just enabled them in Google Now settings as they were off by default.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-...o-sydney-public-transport/4154152?section=nsw

The above link is a pretty good indicator that if this feature is not yet available it might soon be available in Sydney, Australia soon (where I live). That only mentions Google Maps but I'd hope it would tie into Now as well...

 

[jeffe]

Limits, shlimits. It still works great for me.



But the point was I wasn't referring to a 3rd party launcher, I was referring to the launcher it comes with out of the box.

Ok so your entire point that you are trying to make is that you can't drag an icon to create a folder using the touchwiz launcher?

 

[NbinHD]

Yesterday, I had a meeting at 8:30pm that was about 30 minutes away. Before the meeting, I received a notification on my phone that told me I needed to leave at 7:37 in order to be on time for the meeting. Lo and behold, with the traffic that Google Now saw and calculated, that turned out to be true. I left at 7:37 exactly (because I was curious how accurate it would be), and sure enough I got to my destination at about 8:25. I initially intended on leaving around 7:50 or 7:55 since it was only a 30 minute drive and rush hour is over at that point, but had I done that, I would have been late. Thanks to the heads up given by Google Now, I was on time.
In my opinion, that's what sets Google Now apart. I didn't have to be actively using it for it be useful. Other things out there like Siri, are only useful when I'm actively using it. So if I'm not using Siri, it's of no use to me, whereas even though I wasn't using Google Now, it still wound up being useful for me.

Just out of curiosity what device are you using? Galaxy Nexus?

 

[RMXO]

Google Now (GN) is so bad it kept showing me the score of my team losing when I accessed GN. It was like it was rubbing it in to me, guess GN isn't a fan of my baseball team.

 

[joshwithachance]

Who knows if it ever will. Samsung has S-Voice and I don't think they'd give that app after less than a year. If you want Google Now now, you have to root your device.

Well when there's a stable release of CyanogenMod 10 I may have to then lol.

 

[RMXO]

Who knows if it ever will. Samsung has S-Voice and I don't think they'd give that app after less than a year. If you want Google Now now, you have to root your device.

At least, we are given the choice to install any ROM we want compared to being stuck with a boring UI that is getting old, but to each their own.

Well when there's a stable release of CyanogenMod 10 I may have to then lol.

I'm using a stable alpha release of CM10 called ParanoidAndroid 1.9.1 Alpha. Able to use it as my daily driver.

 

[The iGentleman]

Just out of curiosity what device are you using? Galaxy Nexus?

I was using one before, but now I'm on the GS3 (running CM10).

 

[Vegastouch]

I was using one before, but now I'm on the GS3 (running CM10).

So what exactly isnt working well on CM10? I know it is in alpha and already doing well. Just wonderng what the bugs are right now. I always wait till it is pretty stable. Is GPS working?

 

[RMXO]

So what exactly isnt working well on CM10? I know it is in alpha and already doing well. Just wonderng what the bugs are right now. I always wait till it is pretty stable. Is GPS working?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779578

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779426

You can follow development in those threads. CM10 Preview # 10 was just released today.

 

[batting1000]

At least, we are given the choice to install any ROM we want compared to being stuck with a boring UI that is getting old, but to each their own.

I fail to see how it's getting old.

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It's funny because when I say something bad about Android I'm a monster and I'm "only making excuses", but when you guys say "iOS is getting boring and stale", it's no big deal.

 

[skidbubble]

At least, we are given the choice to install any ROM we want compared to being stuck with a boring UI that is getting old, but to each their own.

+1

Same old tired, stale, boring grid of square icons going on 6 years now. Enough already.

 

[nuckinfutz]

Ah the wheel

Same old boring design for 4 centuries. Enough already

 

[The iGentleman]

So what exactly isnt working well on CM10? I know it is in alpha and already doing well. Just wonderng what the bugs are right now. I always wait till it is pretty stable. Is GPS working?

Honestly, there isn't any particular bug that I think of that I've run into. I haven't experienced any real problems besides a couple minor things. I had Google Goggles not work once but that's all I can really think of right now. I've been using cm10 as my daily driver, and am so comfortable with it that I went ahead and sold my GNex. Though it's in alpha, this is probably the best and most stable alpha build I've ever used.

 

[skidbubble]

Ah the wheel

Same old boring design for 4 centuries. Enough already


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If you think today's wheel remains unchanged from when it was introduced, you need to think again. Nice try.