http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
Google's Nexus One was not made to compete with current phone technology (looking at you iPhone and BB), but was intended as a proof of concept and a baseline for the new generation of superphones, which will largely run on 4G in the next few years. Google isn't using a phone to diversify into new markets, that's what their operating system does. The phone is only there to market Android well and set the baseline for superphone standards--Android OS is what will bring in the money.

Google's Nexus One isn't even competing with Apple and RIM, it's passing them on the highway and leaving them in the rearview mirror so it can take a leisurely drive in the countryside alone, and in peace. Any phone from now on has to AT LEAST be on par with Google's Nexus One to make it in the future 4G market of mobile internet. Just remember: the point isn't the Nexus One phone, but the raised standard that the Nexus One phone and the Android OS represent. Hopefully, Apple brings out a shiny new iPhone 4 which raises that bar even higher--after all, competition is what makes this all so worth while :)]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
hello, tangent. how is everyone doing over in left field?]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/WTF Are you going on about? Too much crack this morning?
Put the pipe down...]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
jesus man
WTFs wrong with u? ]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
*end rant*]]>Mar 24th 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/The problem is android is too immature to allow for 3rd party applications to have access at hardware acceleration for non "out of box" supported codecs. There is currently no public mechanism for this. The Archos series devices can do it, but they're all proprietary. Decoding the audio and video is not the issue, but it will play like shit if there's no hardware acceleration.]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Earlier there used to be something called Beta Player or TheCoreMediaPlayer on windows mobile which used software codecs but the performance cost to battery life is huge.
I'd love to have VLC or Gom player on mobile devices but it's kindof impractical right now]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Yeah that's the thing, all these chip manufacturers and OEMs don't WANT us to play any audio \ video format that we have. They want to keep their code locked down and they only want us to use the out of box supported codecs, and they don't want 3rd party developers to create alternate video players.

Samsung is probably the best in terms of audio \ video format compatibility though, but what we really need is for Google to lean on these chip mfgs (Qualcomm) and get them to open up their APIs and then create a standard way for Android developers to access them without getting into intellectual property disagreements...if that were to happen then any video or audio format could be played back with full hardware acceleration...but, only in a dream world I guess.]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
You can a get a port of VLC or mplayer on a jailbroken iPhone via Cydia. Both work OK, but sometimes they drop frames and stutter on even SD videos, as there's no HW acceleration.

Same with WinMo. I recall some media player app that could also play a variety of formats, but drained the battery because of no HW acceleration.

It's pretty much like that for all mobile devices at the moment...

I'm hoping that something like OpenCL will be made for mobile GPUs so anyone can write whatever they want to have HW acceleration... ]]>Mar 24th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
Agreed. Tried the vlc. It just doesn't work that well. They say a killer app for the huge number of mobile devices in the future will be video -either web based or local storage. Funny thing is, there's just too many competing formats, never enough local storage, and never enough processor power +/- hardware acceleration. Yeah, right, let's see the EVO handle 720p or 1080p hidef mkv files. Where you gonna store it? Do u have to carry a pocketful of memory cards? That's so 2006. Actually, given the greater availability of bandwidth, a good interim solution is to offload most video processing and stream live. I've been pretty amazed at 640x480 live streaming via Iphone 3gs component output even on crapT&T 3G but it'll take a full 4+ bars to do so without hiccups. It's just my opinion, but i don't think just video conferencing or camera pixels will determine future phone winners. I think it's the ones who can effectively market the quality and quantity of apps and video and music content will reap the most rewards from the tech-overwhelmed general consumer public. ]]>Mar 24th 2010 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://bit.ly/samsung-wave-first-view
]]>Mar 25th 2010 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://twitter.com/CoreCodec http://corecodec.com/products/coreplayer]]>May 26th 2010 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Damn, you beat me to it! :P]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
Wave supports dolby 5.1...if I´m not wrong]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
That single speaker in your mobile will be perfect for pumping out 5.1 goodness.]]>Mar 25th 2010 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/my needs are simple really. I just want native flac support on android (in particular the Moto Droid).
Is that so much to ask?]]>Mar 27th 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
Not really...MKV contained x264 \ AC3 and DTS would be much better.]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
This.]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/The LG eXpo...]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
Anything but the expo, weak support from LG and no support from community such xda and modaco marks it off my list, not to mention its ram size cant compare to HD2 500+mb > 256mb ram. Just hoping samsung or HTC releases something soon.]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://corecodec.com/products/coreplayer]]>May 26th 2010 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://twitter.com/CoreCodec]]>May 26th 2010 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
That Galaxy S looks too much like an iPhone and it gives the false impression that Android is a copy of the iPhone - it is not.]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/That's actually one reason why I like the design of the Wave, because almost all touchscreen smartphones (i.e. those without slide-out keyboard) have the same basic look - screen + rounded corners. It's a bit repetitive, so seeing other designs is nice. Now... Galaxy S falls back into the standard scheme, of course.]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
Sorry, it just seems like it does everything else so... :)

http://coreplayer.com/]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
All the HD stuff on the pirate bay is in MKV lately. I'd love to have MKV support on my next phone :)]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
I wouldn't be surprised if FLAC playback is included.

Also, you can play FLAC with any Symbian phone (Nokia..), on Android and most likely on Windows Mobile as well.]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
why? so you can fit 1/5 the music vs v0 for almost zero perceivable difference in sound quality? FLAC makes sense in a home environment, but not in a mobile space, where file size is key ]]>Mar 24th 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
So that you don't have to CONVERT your FLAC collection just to use it on your phone.

And you can fit plenty of FLAC albums on the average phone's storage (microSD or inbuilt) nowadays.]]>Mar 24th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
Don't tell me you guys didn't know that it could do that?? Just pop the video over into some file sharing app with video playback like iFiles or something. Baddabing!]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/mp4 is not divx and iPhone is not divx HD certified... Which was the whole point of this article.

It's like reading an article called "samsung introduces world's thinnest LCD TV" then commenting with "but I can already watch tv on my LCD tv"]]>Mar 24th 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Clearly playing 720p video on your mobile phone isn't new, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find a friend who has a 720p video on their HDD that is in DivX 720p OFFICIAL format.

It's a nice little announcement, but far from useful.]]>Mar 24th 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/Mar 24th 2010 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
It has been doing 720p recording in mp4 and playing divx videos in various sizes.

I managed to find a 720p divx movie on my PC and i'm transferring it to my i8910 now, we'll see how it goes :P]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/samsung-wave-is-worlds-first-divx-hd-phone-galaxy-s-in-a-hurry/
It says "Unable to open file" :(]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:42PM