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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 25th, 2011, 07:33 PM »
Quote from Cassiel on October 25th, 2011, 06:56 PM
Quote from Dragooon on October 25th, 2011, 06:38 PM
I'm in India, we don't have contracts here. Heck, I have to import it from UK or US.
I see. :) Ah shit, then the phone is going to be even more due to shipping.
Yeah, and the import duty. Which I'm not sure if it's 0%, 4%, 14% or 25%.

P.S : A video in some language I don't know,  but it has about 20 minutes of hands on with the phone : Samsung Galaxy Nexus - recensione CellulareMagazine.it
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 25th, 2011, 06:38 PM »
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I'm curious to hear what you think! How come you're getting it off-contract though?
I'm in India, we don't have contracts here. Heck, I have to import it from UK or US.
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 25th, 2011, 10:45 AM »
Honeycomb was shanked, but this time it is confirmed that it's coming. TBH if they pull off another one of those Google is gonna get it big time.
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 25th, 2011, 10:37 AM »
The source code for Gingerbread was released in a week or two after Nexus S' release AFAIK, we can only hope. I know Android is in a bit of mess right now but if ICS is any indication, it's in the right direction. It's trying to fight fragmentation and to be honest the interface is also being made simpler. I personally can't wait for it, hopefully it turns out well worth those 700-800$ I'm about to blow.
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 25th, 2011, 10:26 AM »
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I suspect your 'dumbest' people are an order of magnitude smarter than some of the technologically illiterate people I know. There are people I know who have trouble operating something straightforward like a several-year-old Nokia... where it hasn't got nearly as many features. (One of them in particular... we both bought a Nokia 3330 about the same time. I was surprised at the relative ease at which things worked, my friend didn't understand it at all, I had to show him multiple times how to make a call[1] or go through his address book[2] and I don't think he ever mastered putting numbers into his address book, given how often I ended up doing it...)
But then he won't fair any good on iOS, would he?
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Yes, that's why the code isn't regularly available right now... only selected partners get it.
Well the SDK is available and Google has confirmed the source code's release after the Galaxy Nexus is released.
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 25th, 2011, 10:11 AM »
It's not a Galaxy phone, it's actually a Nexus phone, they should've named it Nexus Prime TBH. That means the entire hardware is built by Samsung under Google's collaboration and guidelines, and the software is entirely made and maintained by Google. Samsung gets to put nothing on it, the Android you get with it is pure. That's why I'm keen to get this phone.

As far as the whole "Android not being easy" goes, it might be a bit harder than your average iOS but it still manages to be fairly easy and I've seen even the dumbest of the people get how it works. That said, I believe that and fragmentation is something Google is trying to tackle with Android 4, they are trying to unify thing as much as possible starting with entire unification of phones and tablets.
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 24th, 2011, 10:19 PM »
Quote from ~DS~ on October 24th, 2011, 10:14 PM
I would too, but I can't stand Samsung's crappy software support.
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 24th, 2011, 10:12 PM »
That's not what the topic was about, plus I don't got a Mac so I can't really "enjoy" iPhone development.
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 24th, 2011, 09:51 PM »
Fair enough, I also use plenty of iOS and I like it more from a developer's point of view. But I like android for phones to be better, it's more customizable, a thing which I really like. Plus with Android 4 they are really giving the UI a face lift as an attempt to bring Android up to speed, something I hope pans out.
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 24th, 2011, 07:42 PM »
Must say, that is a very objective post. What don't you like about it and what do you like?
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Plugins / Re: Using permissions in plugins
« on October 24th, 2011, 10:02 AM »
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OK, I don't think I'm making myself clear here. Why would I add a link from a plugin to the permissions area when for a similar amount of effort, I can *just put the permissions in the plugin area*? Unless you're talking about a link from the main plugins front page to the permissions area, which seems a lot of effort for a relatively small gain.
Hmm okay then forget about that.
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Um... centrally since it's already partly built and everything I've said has been about extending what's already there?
I was just confirming, seems fine to me.
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Plugins / Re: Using permissions in plugins
« on October 24th, 2011, 09:37 AM »
Okay, that does sound kind of logical to me. How about adding links to those areas in the actual permissions tab? So that users looking for permissions can go there directly.

Also, all these permissions would run through a central permission control(As in would all the permissions be stored in a single area) or would that be also completely up to the mod author?
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Plugins / Re: Using permissions in plugins
« on October 24th, 2011, 09:25 AM »
Fair enough, but that'd spread out permissions to even more areas causing more confusion, wouldn't it?
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Plugins / Re: Using permissions in plugins
« on October 24th, 2011, 09:04 AM »
That's not what I meant, I didn't mean that it should split out into multiple pages exactly like the mod settings page, I meant that it should be divided into such areas each individually accessible via the permissions page and each should show permissions related to only that with one common area for a setting or two.
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Off-topic / Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 24th, 2011, 08:41 AM »
Anybody as interested in this phone as I am? I'm looking to upgrade my Galaxy S to this, would be my first Nexus phone. Also runs Android 4.0(Ice cream sandwich) which is looking to be a great OS.


http://google.com/nexus