Recent content by Claghorn

Is there a messaging app on Android which can rate limit notifications (at least notification sound and vibration)? In election season I get what seems like donation request every few nanoseconds, I'd love to tell it not to notify me more often than once every 10 minutes of so. The standard...

Just noticed there is a 1.3 firmware available now. Claims to fix some more wi-fi issues, though I finally noticed when I get disconnected, and it doesn't fix that: Any time I have a notification icon, if I pull down the notifications and press the "Clear" button to get rid of them, the wi-fi...

Here's my web pages comparing the Samsung and Nikon cameras. If you want to actually use all the features of android to (for instance) develop custom camera apps, the Nikon is hopeless: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/galaxy/compare.html (but the comcast web page servers seem to...

If you haven't already, goto the Nikon support site and search for S800c firmware updates. The latest firmware really did seem to make wifi much more reliable.

And now there is a v1.2 update on the nikon downloads web site (I'd just go there and search, the links seem to move around each time they make a new update, so it is hard to point to it directly). Still android 2.3.3 (nothing exciting like Jelly Bean).

Just FYI, there is a firmware update for the S800c available on Nikon's web site: S800c - 1.1 firmware update For some reason you have to download it and stick it on the sdcard, no OTA seems to be available. I've just gotten it installed and my camera re-rooted, and the only thing I notice...

There are a number of apps that support Wi-Fi file transfers. I use File Expert where one of the many options brings up a web server on the camera and lets you download files with a web browser, others have recommended ES File Explorer. I've also written a silly app as a learning exercise that I...

Well, if you don't want high resolution pictures, then you can use the camera preview callbacks to capture the preview images at a fair rate especially if you provide lots of preview buffers and use the buffer callbacks. The Samsung does indeed seem to be much better integrated with the standard...

OK, it is possible to buy one without a data plan, you just have to keep trying different AT&T stores that have them in stock till you find one that is willing to sell it without a data plan :-). I've got one now and have a Samsung/Nikon camera comparison written up.

The camera finally appeared on the AT&T web site today (if you search hard enough for it), and there does not appear to be any way to buy one for wi-fi only usage. If you try adding the camera to your cart, you immediately get taken to another page where you have to also add a data plan to your...

I just found the Samsung Galaxy Camera user manual showed up on the Samsung UK web site and on page 12 it explicitly states that the device can be used while it is charging, so that definitely puts Samsung one up on Nikon. It also looks like it uses a normal USB connector, not a weird custom...

> WiFi Connection gets lost from time to time. Yea, it likes to stop it when the screen blanks, or you sneeze, or anything else :-). One thing I found that helps is to change my router so it doesn't hide the SSID. It seems to have incredible difficulty reconnecting to a hidden SSID. The...

I have the rival Nikon S800c (mainly because I could get one, but the Galaxy Camera isn't available yet). The Nikon is (so far) very disappointing because it only allows 8 MP photos to be taken by the standard android Camera class, and does not provide (yet - maybe they will someday) an SDK of...

Just one example: The Camera API reports 3264x2448 as the largest available image size. That's 8 MP, and the native Nikon camera app can take 16 MP pictures (4608x3456), so Nikon only let's you get to half the camera. I could believe there might be a problem getting a 16 MP camera to work with...