Samsung's I7500 Android phone shreds in first hands-on video
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted April 28th 2009 10:31AM
posted April 28th 2009 10:31AM
Update: Annoyingly, the video has been made private. We're working on it.
Update 2: The video is up again -- sans totally rocking soundtrack. Thanks ttlj!
Well...
aHome, DXTop, Open Home...
Various ways to customize.
Before TouchFlo, TouchWiz, and the soon S-Class...didnt Windows look the same across the board?
Isn't every non-jailbroken iPhone the same UI???
So why the apparent hate upon Android?
Android is one of only two UI's to give you full customization of desktop...TouchWiz being the second.
Widgets here, icons there...
That's what makes it a wonderful OS.
And the fact...you can do on Android what a iPhone user must jailbreak for...
Accelerometer? Compass?
the device looks thicker than it should be kinda disheartening.
It has GPS capabilities, so I'm sure it has compass. Accelerometer is also standard in most new phones.
Headphone jack?! YES!
"so far all android devices have the same interface down to the same background, where is the customisation?"
That's the default home screen and background. Do you also slam Windows XP because every computer has the same green hills and clouds background out of the box? The home screen that you see isn't dependent on the device you're using, a new one can be installed on any phone at any time, there's currently about ten of them available for the G1.
So do we know if the directions buttons are just that, only buttons? I was under the impression by the looks that it might be like the Zune's touchpad+dpad. I would love to navigate it a little more like the Pre. Right now this phone and the Pre are at a dead standstill. This thing has the specs and the Pre has the QWERTY (plus I've never used the Android onscreen keyboard). I'm completely torn between Android and webOS, so it's going to be a foot race as to which I can get on Cingular first. Everyone in my town uses Cingular/ATT so the free calls from cell to cell is a huge perk.
Anyone know if this phone as is will work on ATT? Thanks.
Fonts and UI are ugly, and NO it's not as "ugly as you want them to be". I'm sick of this talk. How long has it been since the G1 was released, what about the SDK? Nothing has changed, and no "endless patches" have emerged. The UI of the programs is alst inconsistent.
Development already is taking blow after blow:
http://www.phonedog.com/cell-phone-research/blog/android-devs-motivation.aspx?utm_source=Rss&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=PhoneDog
SHOW THE FUCKING CAMERA ALREADY!!! Does it suck like the G1's? Or does it rock like the Nokia N95?
I guess we won't find out from the video. Bah.
worst video showing off a decent phone i have ever seen. :'(
Yeah I say they just don't want to waste money on too much customization, after all the main point about android is that it is free for the manufacturer. So far they still want the Google recognition, so they keep the default home-screen & wallpaper. Remember only one phone has been out so far so they don't need to differentiate yet. It's not like WinMo where they have to make a new interface since there are so many out there already.
@chefgon_ign
Talking about home screens, for my XP it is still the hill, lol!
like that is has a headphone jack, a flash on the camera, not as ugly as the htc phones exterior wise.
hates: no keyboard, android OS is ugly to look at. it needs some texturing and stuff to add some eye candy. And yes i care about eye candy. At least add decent icons. Still likely to get the pre or a crackberry instead.
The video has been taken down.
That was fast.
the vid is from a Viet's site, since when Viet ppl getting so high tech? damn lol
tinhte.com --> hehe
no...no youtube? whats going on?
no trackball either
little laggy
only way this could really beat the g1 is if it cleaned up the laggyness and had multi touch. then we can call it a winner
I'm really glad that there's finally an Android phone that isn't too unattractive. I mean the G1 and Magic weren't that bad, but I wouldn't carry one of those. And hopefully the OLED screens will be a big trend now. But I'll pass on Sammy and will wait for Motorola's Android. Moto's Hardware and incredible call quality + Android = total Win
"Android's fonts and UI is just ugly" - really? I have been more impressed by the graphical elements of Android than anything else. The font they use on the keyboard is gorgeous, yummy even. The icons could be bolder (as in, stronger) in design but they are simple and obvious, two key things that icons should be. Although I think third-party apps will eventually make or break any smartphone platform, and I am not overly impressed with Android's features (not because they are lacking, I just don't need them - I want to game rather than use a device productively), their UI has been something I've been admiring. And as an Apple fan, you'd better believe that looking pretty is an important criterion for me.
I don't think I have ever seen such an idiotic and fustrating video as this. Why the hell was he not touching the screen instead of the boring samsung d-pad. Unless he works on that project and know something which he does not want the viewers to find out.