Comments on: New software enables auto-rotation in the G1

By: bman

bman — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:57:41 +0000

its great how you people crack on a first time phone….especially when it out performs (in terms or reliability) almost everything up to a blackberry (non pearl) device.

By: GW

GW — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:49:14 +0000

Wilson, you make no sense. “I got this phone and had it 2 weeks before i put it back in the box and under the bed…..Bold all the way!”

Under the bed? Why would you not return it? You have more money than sense, I think.

By: william

william — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:38:14 +0000

Say, I wonder if open-source means people can enable features Google couldn’t implement due to intellectual property issues?

By: tuffy Kohrs

tuffy Kohrs — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:47:38 +0000

ok, landscape view of the internet with the keyboard out has to be annoying

By: TheCrow

TheCrow — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:53:49 +0000

@Wilson — idiot. at least ebay it.

By: Galen20K

Galen20K — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:37:46 +0000

Interesting

By: thebeav

thebeav — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:48:53 +0000

OMG….There’s a split second lag in the accelerometer….OMG…someone start a revolt! How dare there be a lag in the accelerometer! OMG….

Sorry…just b!*#$ing the same way people did over the blackberry storm…

By: Constable Odo

Constable Odo — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:51:02 +0000

Hardly any company can get everything right in release 1.0. I’m sure in due time Google will get development moving in a timely fashion. WinMo is already up to version 6 and it still hasn’t gotten everything perfect. Version 7 should be the charm. Hehe.

By: melmac

melmac — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:30:15 +0000

Not trying to troll…but why couldn’t Google get off their lazy asses and include simple things like multi-touch, auto rotation, and a proper BT stack? Looks like they just got finished hardware, and rushed a core OS with little functionality out the door. Claiming it’s “open source” as a defense is nice, except people are signing 2 year contracts and paying money for this (still) subpar handset.

By: AgentBauer

AgentBauer — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:46:00 +0000

It’s in the Adroid Market. I guess you have to have the modified firmware from xda developers. Check this out: http://www.droidsans.com/droidsans-tweak-tools

By: Wilson

Wilson — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:38:34 +0000

What is the point of this?

I got this phone and had it 2 weeks before i put it back in the box and under the bed…..Bold all the way!

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:00:36 +0000

Whatever, the battery life is terrible. I own and like the phone, however, the battery life darn near makes it useless.

By: mroizo

mroizo — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:31:15 +0000

Actually the phone supports autorotation, but the setting is determined by the app. Most apps just don’t have this option set (it’s a one line flag you set in the app’s xml file).

By: colin small

colin small — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:52:15 +0000

@pedro yeah it would kind of be like the iPhone not having cut and paste and someone other than apple fixing it, but in a timely manner.

By: Perspective

Perspective — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:49:43 +0000

Unfortuunately, the downside to open source is that Google is still waiting for some kind 3P developer to enable “massive number of G1 sales.” The latest update is that it won’t hit until next year at the earliest. By comparison, both Apple and RIM had this feature built into each phone out-of-the-box, thus allowing them to actually move units to people that aren’t tech geeks (although with the way those Storm reviews are going, there will be many return).

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:32:43 +0000

So this phone didn’t already do that…

By: cmb

cmb — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:28:28 +0000

So where do we get this application or right now its not out there yet ?