This phone is frickin awesome, but I do agree that the stock Android OS is ugly. Looks cheap if u ask me. Hopefully they'll be a 'prettier' OS we can put on there.
This phone is frickin awesome, but I do agree that the stock Android OS is ugly. Looks cheap if u ask me. Hopefully they'll be a 'prettier' OS we can put on there.
Well, considering no one has even seen Eclair, i'm sure it will have some nice upgrades to it in the looks department.
I like this better than the demos we saw of MOTOBLUR...haven't seen the Sense UI for Android yet.
Are you implying that you have access the Eclair's UI? Or are you saying you're simply not a fan of MOTOBLUR?
Originally Posted by FAUguy
Does the music player support multitasking (playing in the background)?
Dude, it's an Android phone. Of course it does.
Originally Posted by korndawg
This phone is frickin awesome, but I do agree that the stock Android OS is ugly. Looks cheap if u ask me. Hopefully they'll be a 'prettier' OS we can put on there.
You want someone to just whip up a different OS than Android, have it be functional and pretty? Are you delusional, or did you mean to say "Hopefully they'll create a better theme for Android."?
Also, I may have missed this... but should I pass on Sholes for Calgary? Is the Calgary still a contender even?
Are you implying that you have access the Eclair's UI? Or are you saying you're simply not a fan of MOTOBLUR?
Dude, it's an Android phone. Of course it does.
You want someone to just whip up a different OS than Android, have it be functional and pretty? Are you delusional, or did you mean to say "Hopefully they'll create a better theme for Android."?
Also, I may have missed this... but should I pass on Sholes for Calgary? Is the Calgary still a contender even?
Sorry, a better 'theme' I meant to say UI rather that OS. My bad.
You want someone to just whip up a different OS than Android, have it be functional and pretty? Are you delusional, or did you mean to say "Hopefully they'll create a better theme for Android."?
No need for the belittling. He, like I am sure some other folks are referring to "skin" or "theme"
When looking at the stock Android theme compared to some of the other slick OS's out there, it looks kinda meh.
To answer your question Korndawg, yes, there are apps out there that allow you to customize your theme/skin.
What I am really hoping is that this means that whoever tipped androidandme on the Dec 1st date is actually lying since that hints at it being called Tao. I really was/is hoping for a late oct/early nov date.
So if the Tao came with an ugly Eclair Android 2.0, that would be incredibly disappointing.
Most people are fine with the way Android looks. It's what the OS brings to the table. A ton of great apps, a web browser that you don't dread using & the list goes on and on.
This is the first phone for Verizon that actually competes with the iPhone.
The release date is software/Verizon dependent. The hardware is done, actually the phone has been in production for a month now. There are over 800k of them built.
And to the guy that said the best thing to do is to root a phone and load your own OS I will have to respectively disagree. Whatever you load will not be as optimized for the phone as the OS it ships with. You may like your skin choice better, but it will not work as well as the stock skin after you root the phone. Sure you can find a build for the application processor used, but it won't be optimized for the specific hardware of the phone (the modem, PMU, audio, etc).
The release date is software/Verizon dependent. The hardware is done, actually the phone has been in production for a month now. There are over 800k of them built.
And to the guy that said the best thing to do is to root a phone and load your own OS I will have to respectively disagree. Whatever you load will not be as optimized for the phone as the OS it ships with. You may like your skin choice better, but it will not work as well as the stock skin after you root the phone. Sure you can find a build for the application processor used, but it won't be optimized for the specific hardware of the phone (the modem, PMU, audio, etc).
Then you've obviously never used a cooked ROM from xda-developers for WM phones...
Usually performance and functionality goes up while power consumption goes down.
Motorola Droid A855 (aka Tao/Sholes/Shules/Flash) Pre-Release Thread
Originally Posted by korndawg
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