> Date/Time in the bar is something I do use all the time. I think I > notice it most when I am reading a book on the device and need to keep > an eye on the time (e.g. lunchtime). A quick tap brings up the title > bar and there it is, another to keep reading. Sure, it's a small > thing, but why can't it be a small thing that's there rather than a > small thing that isn't :-).
Yeah but there's limited space up there. I am sure, had Google put a date instead, people would've complained about a missing clock no? :) If people want a date available, place a frickin' date/time widget on the home screen. > Android really should enable multi-touch, the hardware can do it, and > Google should quit being pushed around by Apple. While multi-touch is > not a must have feature, it sure is nice on occasion, particularly for > typing (which people have reported as being harder on the android soft- > keyboards because of the lack of multi-touch - I haven't ever tried an > Android phone without a hardware keyboard, but for a software keyboard > phone this would seem to be a "must have"). Multi-touch is there in the API though, just not in official Google apps. Notice the 3 various ACTION_POINTER events in the documentation: http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/12/30/how-to-get-swype-on-android/ > Finally, the lack of syncing with a local machine. There is an easy > use case for where this would be a problem. Everything's fine as long > as you have a signal for cloud integration, but when I am travelling > to somewhere I often don't - for example going to Devoxx... Not being > able to transfer podcasts during this time would get problematic in a > hurry, and even things like getting documents to/from the device > should be possible when the phone is not a full phone. I really do think the sync mindset is something from yester-decade, therein lies the assumption that the device is an inferior slave to a master/host. Of course you can always just mount the phone as a USB drive or transfer via bluetooth - no special software (iTunes) or operating system (Windows or OSX) needed. /Casper
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