Hirdetés
Google software and extras
I think it’s evident that a Google phone has lots of Google applications. First we have YouTube: it’s very fast, videos look great on the screen and it’s also very easy to use. The web browser is probably based on Chrome, which is less important than the fact that it’s great. I don’t say that it’s simply the best, as zooming is still easier in Safari (thanks to multi-touch), but Android’s browser is just as fast and it won’t pixelate unloaded parts when scrolling. It’s another nice feature that if we “zoom out” – switch to overview mode – we get to see a magnifier at our fingertip, so we can read and have an overall view of a large page at the same time.
Drums, trumpets please, here is the best feature: Google Maps. It is installed, it works, it’s fast, but the best is that it has Street View, which works in a really special way. For those who don’t know what this feature is: in the United States and some European countries Google roams with a couple of cars that have a camera with a view angle 360 grades. From here it’s simple: the cars take a picture at every X meter and we can have a virtual walk of these cities in Google Maps. So, the feature is available on Android, the picture loads, and we can look around only by moving the handset (!). Think of it as if you were standing in the place of the camera that took the picture, it’s dark, and the phone is a flashlight that shines in the direction where we are looking at. It’s an awesome fun to turn around with the phone in our hands, but of course the downside is that we can only use it if we’re standing and of course the whole thing depends on our social attitude, I mean not everyone likes to look like a fool in public.
That’s about the list of extra software, we also have an Amazon MP3 store and that’s all. There are smart and easy to use solutions, small innovations and some stupid lacks: that’s how one could sum up the software. I think the situation is not that bad as it has been in the case of iPhone a while ago, but it’s a fact that Android isn’t perfect either.
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