I'm getting ready to buy a Note (coming from the Infuse) and I was curious if anyone knows how the Note handles apks from other phones. Does the Note automatically stretch to fit its screen or will the app display in its native resolution (ie. 480x800)?
Also, does the market honor already purchased apps? Meaning, if I bought say Soundhound for my Infuse, can I automatically download it from the market for the Note when the time comes? Or do I need to buy them again? Some of them cost $5 while others were on sale for a penny.
I have over 50 games and apps installed on my Infuse, so I'm hoping the transition will be as painless as possible.
MikeyFTL said:
I'm getting ready to buy a Note (coming from the Infuse) and I was curious if anyone knows how the Note handles apks from other phones. Does the Note automatically stretch to fit its screen or will the app display in its native resolution (ie. 480x800)?
Also, does the market honor already purchased apps? Meaning, if I bought say Soundhound for my Infuse, can I automatically download it from the market for the Note when the time comes? Or do I need to buy them again? Some of them cost $5 while others were on sale for a penny.
I have over 50 games and apps installed on my Infuse, so I'm hoping the transition will be as painless as possible.
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So far, from what I have seen, the apps just stretch, same way as phone apps stretch on tablets with high resolution.
Also, your purchases in the app store will work on any device you have set up with your Google account, so yes, it will be a painless transition, and your purchased apps well show up if you hit menu –> my apps. No need to repurchase.
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So far, from what I have seen, the apps just stretch, same way as phone apps stretch on tablets with high resolution.
Also, your purchases in the app store will work on any device you have set up with your Google account, so yes, it will be a painless transition, and your purchased apps well show up if you hit menu –> my apps. No need to repurchase.
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That's great to hear! Can't wait to get started. Thanks for the info, welchertc.
Some apps that aren't written properly for higher resolutions will only fill up a certain portion of the screen, but I've only found one of these..
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Its now available on the marketplace.
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You beat me to the punch
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Haha. Its pretty cool so far.
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So can anyone download this game? Or is it exclusive to the note for a while?
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Dammit! I said I wasn't going to download any angry birds nonsense.
"downloading now"
Thank god the theme intro son is different lol.
borijess said:
So can anyone download this game? Or is it exclusive to the note for a while?
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It's open to all. The Note exclusives were supposed to be in the form of a level pack bundled with the ICS update. The update was delayed so the content is available in the Google Play download. On the Note, "Danger Zone" is available for free. Not sure what the deal is on other devices; it may require an in-app purchase or simply be locked for the time being.
Yeah its on Amazon as well. Can't wait to play it looks different which is good. Old angry birds got old
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Saw it this morning on the amazon store when I was checking the dailey free app. I didnt want to check the play store because I knew we were supposed to get some free version or something, dunno. I'm not paying for any angry bird madness, I have enough games that dont get any play time.
The one on Google play is free but with ads. I can't find the pay version o play. I'd rather not have ads...
netsyd said:
The one on Google play is free but with ads. I can't find the pay version o play. I'd rather not have ads...
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Amazon Android market has $1 ad-free version
anyone else notice how grainy and ****ty it looks on our notes? every button is super small and all the main load pictures and animations are in small little blocks ment for much smaller phones.
Agreed. What happened to it being meant for our phone? Once again, great marketing, crap implementation.
I'm beginning to think some people got some jacked up screens cause this game looks damn good on my note...besides the small buttons i dont see anything graphically that would make me think that..
Here are 2 quick vids from YouTube on each device. The icons and text are very small on the note. I've only tried it on my Note for a few mins. I was gonna test it on the iPad but didn't feel like really paying for it twice. I guess I will to compare. Curious to see how big text and icons will be on the new iPads high resolution.
45 secs in comparing the iPhone 4s and note
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=m-feedu&v=K5o5yk80qUM
The note itself
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=m-feedu&v=2b03R9QfFQU
Galaxy Nexus "same resolution"
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgMT3R6O7jo
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Amazon Android market has $1 ad-free version
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Yea, I saw that. I'd rather keep as many purchases in one "app store" as possible though. Who knows how long the Amazon experiment will last, not to mention after a while it gets hard to remember where you bought something from.
Example is Bejewelled 2. I know I bought it - but neither Amazon nor Play show me a download option - both want $2.99 for it.
Projectdwnshft said:
anyone else notice how grainy and ****ty it looks on our notes? every button is super small and all the main load pictures and animations are in small little blocks ment for much smaller phones.
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I don't notice any graininess (and I suffer from the dreaded black crush or whatever). But the loading screens and animations do appear in windows 1/3 the size of my screen. But that's expected because my screen is awesomener than everyone else.
netsyd said:
not to mention after a while it gets hard to remember where you bought something from.
Heard that lol. Wish there was a compiled list lol. I bought a ton during the .49 and .25 cents sale. Had to reebot my phone, was trying to remember what I bought last night haha.
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Amazon Android market has $1 ad-free version
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Anyone know if the one that Amazon offers includes the Note specific content? Or is that waiting on the premium suite upgrade that Samsung has touted?
sakanagai said:
It's open to all. The Note exclusives were supposed to be in the form of a level pack bundled with the ICS update. The update was delayed so the content is available in the Google Play download. On the Note, "Danger Zone" is available for free. Not sure what the deal is on other devices; it may require an in-app purchase or simply be locked for the time being.
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Where do you download the extra Note level and "Danger Zone" levels. When I went to the samsung.angrybirds. /galaxynote site, (.com), I was not able to find a download/upgrade pointer. I don't see it in samsung apps either
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Where do you download the extra Note level and "Danger Zone" levels. When I went to the samsung.angrybirds. /galaxynote site, (.com), I was not able to find a download/upgrade pointer. I don't see it in samsung apps either
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It's unlocked once you download Angry Birds to your Note. You'll see the "Danger Zone" level in the menu for the different worlds.
So I think I will be picking up a Note 2 when it comes out, but I'd like to know what apps are especially useful for a device like this? With it having a stylus I imagine there are some apps that will take advantage of that.
there's a similar thread to this in the Note 1 section filled with programs, you should check it ^_^
Hi @Hell Guardian please share the exact link so every can check and get benefit .
Probably referring to this thread:
Best Apps you purchased for Note - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839673&highlight=apps
Yeah, but all of those that I've seen are just general Android apps. I'm looking for Apps that take advantage of the stylus.
Samsung it is your leading role here!
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Yeah, but all of those that I've seen are just general Android apps. I'm looking for Apps that take advantage of the stylus.
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I guess we have to wait a couple of months to see apps opimized for stylus. Iy is not very viable for developers to create apps for one mobile on one platform. Samsung has the burden to make extra efforts here to boost their flagship.
Check out the winners of Samsung's "S Pen Challenge". I have downloaded a couple of those apps and they work better than the S-memo
I love playing picross type of games with the spen using a really tight grid.
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The number of tablet apps designed for the iPad is much greater than those designed for the Nexus 10. However, in some cases the Nexus 10 doesn't need an app to do the job better than the iPad.
For example, trading on the CMCMarkets Web site needs Flash which is available on Windows or Android browsers but not on the Apple browser. Therefore, a seperate app is required on the iPad to trade on CMCMarkets and the one available is not as good for trading using the Windows or Android browsers.
So, although the iPad has more tablet designed apps than the Nexus 10 some of them are to compensate for not having Flash.
I'm all Android, but iPad's app ecosystem is great, even if they don't have flash.
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Actually many apps are created on iOS because it lacks Flash, but that's no excuse for developers not to create them for Android, especially now that Flash is officially off Android. But you can access very much on Nexus 10 through a flash-supported browser, that is a minimum for me before buying a $500 device.
Is there a browser BTW which allows splitscreen, or one that has a large screen widget to use on desktop?
locoboi187 said:
I'm all Android, but iPad's app ecosystem is great, even if they don't have flash.
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The problem with the iPad, for me (and i owned one briefly before i sold it,Wifi iPad2 16GB) is that the apps cost more than the Android equivalents sometimes and sometimes an app is free on Android but you need to pay for it on IOS.
The iPad apps are great when they are tablet optimised, there are more of them, but if you get an app that's not optimized unlike Android where it fills the screen, the app stays phone sized on the iPad, which is just weird.
Then when you add in a crap keyboard, no widgets (this was a biggie for me) and a restrictive ecosystem it ended up being sold.
Which was great as it helped with the cost of my just ordered Nexus 10.
Each to their own.
TheBlueRaja said:
The problem with the iPad, for me (and i owned one briefly before i sold it,Wifi iPad2 16GB) is that the apps cost more than the Android equivalents sometimes and sometimes an app is free on Android but you need to pay for it on IOS.
The iPad apps are great when they are tablet optimised, there are more of them, but if you get an app that's not optimized unlike Android where it fills the screen, the app stays phone sized on the iPad, which is just weird.
Then when you add in a crap keyboard, no widgets (this was a biggie for me) and a restrictive ecosystem it ended up being sold.
Which was great as it helped with the cost of my just ordered Nexus 10.
Each to their own.
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One of the great benifits of Android is that you can change it to suit yourself. For example, I love the Hackers keyboard with the row of numbers on view like the Galaxy Note and the easy access to the other characters using the shift key.
Gaugerer said:
One of the great benifits of Android is that you can change it to suit yourself. For example, I love the Hackers keyboard with the row of numbers on view like the Galaxy Note and the easy access to the other characters using the shift key.
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Yeah, but i also think its one of its weaknesses for the average joe, the iPad is simple, Android can be confusing due to the number of options.
I hoping what I saw from Skype 3.0 yesterday, could be the start of developers taking android tablets more seriously...
I have read that there is also the added benefit that app devs for android don't have to re-optimize their apps for tablets (resolution etc. like many devs had to do with the release of the retina iPad AND the original release of the ipad with supporting the larger screen size) apparently all the apps are able to scale up resolution without having to re-optimize...at least I thought I read that somewhere!
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I have read that there is also the added benefit that app devs for android don't have to re-optimize their apps for tablets (resolution etc. like many devs had to do with the release of the retina iPad AND the original release of the ipad with supporting the larger screen size) apparently all the apps are able to scale up resolution without having to re-optimize...at least I thought I read that somewhere!
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Optimization =/= Upscaling
Upscaling is not exactly but somewhat like stretching everything to fit the screen. There are algorithms to make it look better but that's the basic idea.
Optimization is making images and an interface directly for a tablet. This won't need any stretching and such and will always look better.
The apps for Android tablets are bad.....they just are. If you deny that, then you're not interested in a serious conversation on the topic. You're just biased towards Android to the point where you will make any excuse possible to make it sound better than it is.
I love Android as and OS, but Android tablets are just not worth it at this point. Apps like:
- ESPN Scorecenter
- Ebay
- Pandora
- Chase Mobile
- Amazon Mobile (doesn't even exist for Android tablets yet)
- Facebook
SUCK on Android tablets. And these are all FREE
mva5580 said:
The apps for Android tablets are bad.....they just are. If you deny that, then you're not interested in a serious conversation on the topic. You're just biased towards Android to the point where you will make any excuse possible to make it sound better than it is.
I love Android as and OS, but Android tablets are just not worth it at this point. Apps like:
- ESPN Scorecenter
- Ebay
- Pandora
- Chase Mobile
- Amazon Mobile (doesn't even exist for Android tablets yet)
- Facebook
SUCK on Android tablets. And these are all FREE
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Or you just don't care about a single one of the apps mentioned. Okay, I do use eBay for notifications, but I couldn't care less about its look.
mva5580 said:
The apps for Android tablets are bad.....they just are. If you deny that, then you're not interested in a serious conversation on the topic. You're just biased towards Android to the point where you will make any excuse possible to make it sound better than it is.
I love Android as and OS, but Android tablets are just not worth it at this point. Apps like:
- ESPN Scorecenter
- Ebay
- Pandora
- Chase Mobile
- Amazon Mobile (doesn't even exist for Android tablets yet)
- Facebook
SUCK on Android tablets. And these are all FREE
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- ESPN Scorecenter - Don't care
- Ebay - Don't care
- Pandora - Only use it on my phone
- Chase Mobile - I use the web site
- Amazon Mobile (doesn't even exist for Android tablets yet) - I use the web site
- Facebook - It's good enough for what it does
I'd take quality (Android) over quantity (iOS). iOS has a ton of useless crapplets. Can't do without Groove IP, Lecture Notes, Droid48, Google Maps/Navigation/Streetview/Gmail/Docs/Translate/YouTube, OnLive and many more.
mi7chy said:
I'd take quality (Android) over quantity (iOS). iOS has a ton of useless crapplets. Can't do without Groove IP, Lecture Notes, Droid48, Google Maps/Navigation/Streetview/Gmail/Docs/Translate/YouTube, OnLive and many more.
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That makes absolutely no sense. iOS and Android both have very high quality apps and both have some pretty useless apps as well. For every app you listed (probably with the exception of maps, LOL), there's a high quality iOS equivalent app for it.
Anybody with half a brain could find an app to suit their needs on both systems.
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Or you just don't care about a single one of the apps mentioned. Okay, I do use eBay for notifications, but I couldn't care less about its look.
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Techie2012 said:
- ESPN Scorecenter - Don't care
- Ebay - Don't care
- Pandora - Only use it on my phone
- Chase Mobile - I use the web site
- Amazon Mobile (doesn't even exist for Android tablets yet) - I use the web site
- Facebook - It's good enough for what it does
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This is exactly why we won't see that many tablet apps. People get so worked up when an app isn't holo themed but no one cares about having tablet apps. Android users just don't care and when users don't care, developers don't care. When folks start getting as sensitive to the lack of tablet optimization in an app as they do with an app that's not holo themed, that's when we'll start seeing more tablet apps.
I care and I make it a point to contact developers to ask them about a tablet version of their app. Be the change you want to see. Start caring and devs will follow.
-email developers and ask them for a tablet app
-let your voices be heard! Leave a comment and don't be afraid to dock them a couple stars for the lack of tablet optimization.
-don't be cheap!! Reward developers who taken the time to optimize their apps. I think the second posters in this thread said apps were too expensive or something. Seriously. Apps cost less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
This mentality that stretched out apps are just as good is absurd. People love to use the argument that stretching an app is better than what the iPad is doing. While that may be true in some cases, iPad users rarely have to worry about such things. Any app that you'd likely use on iPad will probably have an optimized version for it.
I know this may not be the most serious thing in the world but honestly, complaining about it in forums isn't going to do anything. Be proactive. Let developers know what we need and if there are enough people who want it, it will surely get done.
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mva5580 said:
The apps for Android tablets are bad.....they just are. If you deny that, then you're not interested in a serious conversation on the topic. You're just biased towards Android to the point where you will make any excuse possible to make it sound better than it is.
I love Android as and OS, but Android tablets are just not worth it at this point. Apps like:
- ESPN Scorecenter
- Ebay
- Pandora
- Chase Mobile
- Amazon Mobile (doesn't even exist for Android tablets yet)
- Facebook
SUCK on Android tablets. And these are all FREE
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I don't think anyone will deny that Apple has more tablet apps. I will disagree that android apps are bad. I don't think your assessment is fair.
I've never had problems with a few of those apps that you listed. The others I haven't used.
Saying android tablets aren't worth it because a few apps on Android aren't as good is only true to you. I don't use my tablets only for those apps, and when I need those apps, they are there they get the job done just the same.
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Anybody with half a brain could find an app to suit their needs on both systems.
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For anyone with half a brain I do highly recommend iOS devices with its limitations and restrictiveness. Even Apple's cofounder Steve Wozniak commented that it's good for mentally challenged people:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/14/even-woz-thinks-the-android-bests-the-iphone.html
"...people who are just scared of computers altogether and don’t want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity..."
The thing is if google wants devs to develop more tablet optimized apps they should start by polishing their own.
Just look at the horrible compressed music art in the play music app, i ****ing hate how it downsamples whatever your album art is, now look at the album art on the iPad music player, the full res art looks great. I have ordered my 32gb Nexus 10 but this seriously ticks me off as i own an iPad 3 and a TP. Don't get me started wih the clock app.
Google's own Google+ app works better on the iPad3 than the Nexus 10
ridiculous...
Could not agree more I have a note 2 for phone and ipad 3 for tablet. I also have a nexus 7 and android tablet suck in the app department big time it's not even funny. Ipad has it beat by a long shot and this is why ipad is so popular. Plus all developers concentrate on iOS and ipad before they even consider android. It's a shame I wish they were at least equal but don't matter what specs android tablet have if they don't have the apps majority of your normal users will not buy it period.
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The S Suggest app sucks at telling me what apps will work on the note 2 and it doesnt give me good apps either.
Im looking for a few must have applications to enjoy the note 2 better. Also may increase my use of the note 2. And also maybe a few games?
I got dragonvale if anyone plays let me know.
Thanks
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Ive been looking around also. I enjoy art and bought Sketchbook mobile. There is a free version with some features cut but still worth a download. If you're into art it pretty much a slim Photoshop in your pocket. I've never used a wacom so this is as close as ive been but the one dollar app was worth the $300 phone haha.
I guess a lot of it comes down to what you want to do, but I rely heavily on productivity tools like Astrid Tasks and Note Everything Pro. I use gReader for RSS, USA Today, and recently discovered Flipboard for news. Sign for speed dialing, Wave Launcher for quick access to certain apps at any time, Tasker, and Tapatalk. As far as S-Pen apps, Paper Artist that comes with it is fun, and PicSay Pro is that much easier to use now that I have the S-Pen.
Given that that a lot of apps are FCing in the market for god known reasons and developers are not updating or taking full advantage of the display. Is is a sign that nexus 10 doesnt have good sales and its not worth the effort. I personally own one and would hate to see the potential of the device go to waste.
Or is this too early in a products lifetime to comment on all these
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Given that that a lot of apps are FCing in the market for god known reasons and developers are not updating or taking full advantage of the display. Is is a sign that nexus 10 doesnt have good sales and its not worth the effort. I personally own one and would hate to see the potential of the device go to waste.
Or is this too early in a products lifetime to comment on all these
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The whole idea of the N10 is to seed the market for other 10" 300ppi devices to come from the manufacturers. The same thing happened with the N7 and Gnexus before it. Apps will be fixed/updated in time, most likely at a quicker pace as other highres devices start to be announced/made available.
I doubt they've sold too many so far. If I had to guess, I'd say a few hundred thousand but I doubt any more than that. They will undoubtedly sell a few more in time but I doubt they'll sell millions. Leave that for the Galaxy Tab 3 eh?
I've got 81 apps on my N10 which I use across several devices, and NONE of them force close, or have resolution issues on my N10. So I've got to ask, what apps are you talking about??
No force closes here either. All my apps that I use on my GNex work just as well on my N10. The one "sort of" exception is Facebook. It works fine, but isn't optimized for 10" tablets, so using it in landscape makes it look horrible.
The only app I use that didn't work on my N10 was the grocery iq app (allows you to have a synced grocery list with several devices) but they recently updated it to work on the N10.
No force closes here either. I have also seen lots of apps updating to be tablet friendly. Flip book, Tapatalk HD, and...
I think the dev support is only going to continue to grow. The dev support on this site alone has double I in the last week or two.
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FT app , the economist app. ezpdf is a bit slow with the page turn, but is the only one with two page landscape.
These two i primarily used on my friends n7 , but FC on opening articles in the N10.
Apart from that, most work fine. Although Shadowguneadzone shows a little thermal throttle , when played for over 4 hours. but that is okay considering how beautiful it looks and works.
I really love this device ad I hope google currents and the chrome issues are fixed asap. Just wanted to flash the FT app to my i**** friends out here.
BTW Flipboard after the update worked like a charm and i hope they use the new youtube embedding API , so that we can watch videos without leaving the article.
I only have one app that force closes, and even then its only when a certian setting is used. I'd hardly say there's little dev interest.
I will, however, say that in general software development swings towards the biggest groups, which is why historically the iPad has gotten tablet apps before us, has better game support, etc. In our case, while software with tablet support should be optimized because they can automatically use the resources for 300+ DPI phones there's still the matter that we're the only 2560x1600 resolution tablet on the market. If there's something stopping an app from using phone resources, or its tablet only, the only thing that'll fix that is the arival of other tablets at this resolution.