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Android UI looks far better than Iphone p4 watch!

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Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 24, 2008

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  • almostinsane, on 08/23/2008, -17/+204Thats not android.
  • Pecheckler, on 08/24/2008, -29/+147Whatever that is, it's not better looking than the iPhone UI.
  • DiggItalia, on 08/24/2008, -1/+60Lucky...I never get messages from sophie.
  • Raian, on 08/24/2008, -6/+60This is android:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDg&feature ...

    Nerds and their mockups
  • inactive, on 08/24/2008, -29/+80I don't know why people think Android is going to bring about this great utopia. You're still going to have situations where the cell phone providers are going to gimp certain features. It's not like Google is going to be able to make companies like Verizon and T-Mobile open up their networks to Skype and tethering and file sharing. Anything you do in Android that costs the least amount of bandwidth, you can be sure that the cell providers are going to find a way to make you pay for it.

    Furthermore, because Android is going to be on multiple phones, there is not going to be a centralized way to get apps that work on all Android phones. The consortium that Google has made is going to complicate the platform. You'll be lucky if you don't have a crash prone environment like Windows. Just saying.
  • sggrissom, on 08/24/2008, -1/+39Well I'm a funboy.
  • KevinJim, on 08/23/2008, -10/+46I think this and the other 6 videos are only demos of what Android MIGHT look like. The only thing I now for sure is that Android is going to kick ass. No, I'm not a funboy but hell finally some freedom to our phones ( at least for the software part ). I look forward for the HTC "Dream" and the final 1.0 ver. of Android.
  • Pecheckler, on 08/24/2008, -23/+55"Crash pront enviornment like Windows"...?
    Excuse me, but I own Macbook , several Windows PCs, an iPhone, and I used to own a Windows Mobile phone.
    My Macbook has "crashed" several times, and Safari on my iPhone randomly closes all the god damn time, while my current daily use Windows PC has never had any issues.
  • VTJustinB, on 08/24/2008, -5/+32Firstly Android is a platform, so the UI is only as good as the people creating one with it. In this case you have some flashy proof-of-concept videos, but none are very compelling UI designs--instead they're chocked full of needless fluff and visual noise. Nothing wrong with that while imagining what could be though.

    Good UI design is more about nuance than eye candy. I don't doubt people are going to create some great interfaces with Android, but people have a long, long way to go before they can start challenging iPhone's UI.
  • ninethirty, on 08/24/2008, -6/+31Uh, you're joking right? I have an iPhone and I'm also very vocal about it's many flaws, but that video you just linked to was far from impressive. UI far better than the iPhone? Not quite. What works well for the iPhone is how simple it is. People criticize Apple for being too restrictive, and not letting you do whatever you want in terms of hardware, and software but this is also why Apple has done so well - it's incredibly simple, which is the best characteristic of a good UI.
  • inactive, on 08/24/2008, -2/+26What is this "finally some freedom to our phones" you are talking about?

    We have had completely open Linux-based mobile solutions for a long time. Even WinMo and Symbian are relatively (compared to iPhone) open solutions for software development, albeit not open source.

    Android is 'trying' to add usability, features and standardization to the mix, but it's not the first 'free' platform.
  • punkcat, on 08/24/2008, -3/+24no doubt defensive, what the ***** did Macs have to do with anything?
  • FireSlash, on 08/24/2008, -3/+22Cool mockup; buried for misleading title.
  • Ellrick, on 08/24/2008, -0/+17The president of technology needs to seek out the president of haircuts.
  • toddsherman, on 08/24/2008, -0/+15This where its from: http://www.tat.se/conceptlab/
  • joshmaker, on 08/24/2008, -0/+14Dugg for the most oppressively geeky OS fanboy wars to ever appear in a YouTube commentary.
  • chrispr, on 08/24/2008, -1/+14Uhhh, you almost make it sound like Mac computers cannot crash.
    I don't have a Mac, but I can guarantee this is not the case.
  • Raian, on 08/24/2008, -1/+11I've been using OS X since version 10.0 -- let me tell you.... I've seen plenty o' crashes.
  • amfantasy, on 08/24/2008, -4/+14If they develop the menu, I'm buying the first phone that comes to Canada. Actually, even if they don't do that I'm still buying the first phone that comes out.
  • Scottievm, on 08/24/2008, -1/+10It's not really fair to say that Macs just don't crash/freeze. My Macbook has crashed on me around two or three times in the two years I've owned it. It's a damn good record, but it does happen.
  • timrob, on 08/24/2008, -1/+10What they don't seem to get is that people don't want to push 3 or 4 buttons to get to what they want to do. I push one button on my iphone and I can do almost anything (I am not an apple fanboy, the iphone is the only apple product I own, but I love the simplicity of my iphone). Those mock ups had crazy navigation, not simply by any stretch.
  • ag3mo, on 08/24/2008, -0/+9Holy crap Sergey Brin sounds exactly like Christopher Walken.
  • Phocion55, on 08/24/2008, -0/+9"This is android (circa 2007)." ---- Fixed it for you.

    Large improvements to the UI recently. Grab the new SDK and try it for yourself.
  • Raian, on 08/24/2008, -0/+8It's still a mockup, it's still not android-- it's some photo app that perhaps one day will be running on andriod... but for now it's a concept --the end.
  • stefpet, on 08/24/2008, -0/+8The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) - the company behind the interface engine in the video:
    http://www.tat.se/

    Customers include Sony Ericsson and Samsung, among others.
  • krustytroll, on 08/24/2008, -3/+11but can it play Crysis?
  • diabolicedict, on 08/24/2008, -0/+7One of Android's more useful applications, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg

    For a list to the other prototypes, http://androidcommunity.com/android-developer-chal ...
  • evanfrey, on 08/24/2008, -2/+8you people are retarded. android is an environment, not an application or a phone. this was built for the android emulator using the android sdk.
  • mikephimikephi, on 08/24/2008, -2/+8You spelled sphinx wrong
  • dn11, on 08/24/2008, -0/+6Sergey's hair! Kill it with fire!
  • burrgrinder, on 08/24/2008, -0/+6Apple has a good UI that doesn't peg the processor nonstop, which is an important part that this designer didn't consider. Having a device you can use for a few hours trumps a visually appealing device that dies in 40 minutes.
  • cthellis, on 08/24/2008, -0/+6Yeah, I hate people with titty heads.
  • T8erT0T, on 08/24/2008, -0/+6We get it, it handles photos.
  • BootsElectric, on 08/24/2008, -1/+7I've been using computers, not macs, or PCs, but computers, for a while now, I promise you they crash, all of them.
  • au071, on 08/24/2008, -3/+8this flickr application for Android, not Android UI.
  • FTWmovin2canada, on 08/24/2008, -1/+6Same here... iPhone 3G is the first Apple product I've ever bought, but it's damn impressive despite a few minor flaws.
  • mknphotos, on 08/24/2008, -1/+6How is that, in any way, better than the iPhone UI? It's just the photo viewer. Nothing to see here, move along.
  • BrendanSheehan, on 08/24/2008, -2/+7Yeah, and the UI is so smooth because it's an animation running on a very powerful desktop computer. It's a concept demo from 'The Astonishing Tribe':
    http://www.tat.se/conceptlab/
    (click on the image called "PhotoRiver", that's the video. In fact most of those images are videos.

    Try make those animations part of an actual phone OS, and run that on a small phone and you'll see it come to a grind.
  • steviesteveo, on 08/24/2008, -0/+5It also remains to be seen if it's easier to use than the iphone, one benefit of Apple having all the money they do is that they can buy in design talent who can produce highly ergonomic, as well as good looking, interfaces for their devices. A lot of amatuer programmers are, rightly so, more concerned about getting their programs to perform the operation they want than reading and learning about how to make an ergonomic and efficient interface. A professional interface designer is expected to know all about this and to test it with real people before selling anything.

    I can imagine a scrolling animation of variously sized photos (moving targets) being nigh on impossible to locate and press with a finger while walking. It's a very pretty design, on your computer, but will it translate to a good way to browse photos on a palm sized screen on your phone when you can't concentrate on it fully.
  • eggsovereasy, on 08/24/2008, -1/+6I have an iPhone and while applications crash more often then they should, I still have fewer than I did with my Windows Mobile phone.
  • kreatre2007, on 08/24/2008, -1/+6This has potential but it doesn't look better than the iPhone.
  • inactive, on 08/24/2008, -2/+6I agree. Good post.
  • cmykdesigns, on 08/24/2008, -2/+6For ***** sake... Learn the difference between there, their & they're!
  • zetsurin, on 08/24/2008, -0/+4"Sacrificing usability for the "OH PRETTY!""

    You mean like losing MMS and video recording amongs other things?
  • Azdak, on 08/24/2008, -0/+4That's a SPACE STATION
  • steviesteveo, on 08/24/2008, -1/+5Clearly:
    "That's not a knife, THIS IS A KNIFE"
  • 1longtime, on 08/24/2008, -0/+4I laugh at you, DanGleesacks.
  • netzdamon, on 08/24/2008, -1/+5Watch a episode of diggnation kevin's macbook crashes on him almost every episode.
  • diabolicedict, on 08/24/2008, -0/+4It can if your phone got enough juice in it.

    It can run already Quake in a 200Mhz phone, http://androidcommunity.com/e28-demo-working-andro ...
  • Raian, on 08/24/2008, -0/+4@ellrick -- but how else will he hide his connection to the collective?
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