Video Tour of My Verizon Galaxy Nexus

[guinnkevinr]

Enjoy!

[qnet]

What music app are you using?

[baggyp]

I like the Bestbuy shout-out!!!!!!! Make sure they are on front street!!!!

[guinnkevinr]

Originally Posted by qnet

What music app are you using?

I'm using spotify but also have google music installed.

[MedioGringo]

Thanks for the video. Android browsers shouldn't checker board tho, that's not how Android works. A developer for Google explained all this about a week ago in a long post on Google+. Worth a read; it's pretty interesting. The browser will lag and stutter, but not checker board.

[MowDownJoe]

Originally Posted by MedioGringo

Thanks for the video. Android browsers shouldn't checker board tho, that's not how Android works. A developer for Google explained all this about a week ago in a long post on Google+. Worth a read; it's pretty interesting. The browser will lag and stutter, but not checker board.

You didn't read that whole post, did you? They mentioned that it changed in ICS (or was it Honeycomb?) to something more iPhone-y.

[Stang68]

Originally Posted by MedioGringo

Thanks for the video. Android browsers shouldn't checker board tho, that's not how Android works. A developer for Google explained all this about a week ago in a long post on Google+. Worth a read; it's pretty interesting. The browser will lag and stutter, but not checker board.

Actually, I think they said ICSis different from previous Android builds in that way.

[MedioGringo]

Originally Posted by Stang68

Actually, I think they said ICSis different from previous Android builds in that way.

Nah IIRC it was an essential part of Android from the beginning. It has to do with what kind of inputs the OS gives priority to. On iOS or WP7, touching the screen stops all operations. So for instance, if a web page is loading on your WP7 device and you try to pinch-and-zoom, the page will stop loading till you finish. This is really noticeable on my Samsung Focus. Same thing with scrolling - that's where checker boarding comes in. Even after the whole page has loaded, if you try to scroll quickly you get big blank spots on the page till the OS catches up with your inputs. That's why the iOS Safari browser won't let you scroll that fast - it hides this effect. The iPhone 4s is so fast, I'm not sure it's necessary tho. That kind of never happens on Android (on my EVO 3d). The drawback is lag.

But I'm not a developer so I'm sure someone on this board knows a lot more than me about this subject.

[thescreensavers]

Originally Posted by MowDownJoe

You didn't read that whole post, did you? They mentioned that it changed in ICS (or was it Honeycomb?) to something more iPhone-y.

Android keeps loading the page though? The whole reason why the iPhone has a checkerboards and stuff is because it stops loading the page all together until you let go of the screen.

If I read the article correctly Android would have to be re-written from the ground up to incorporate this change.

[Scout_313]

Well, now I'm even more jealous and more impatient than ever. Really hoping that Thursday ends up being the day we've been waiting for.