smartphones please help me out.

[itsid]

Hi fellow followers...

I recently discovered that Samsung phones handle my code different than other phones or android devices,
since I don't own several smartphones to test with;
I'd kindly ask for your help.

So please take part in the poll and
let me know what smartphone(s) you have;
if 'other' please specify in a post.
you can select multiple in case you have more than one smartphone.

it's about the kartcalculator and speedometer I'm currently working on;
I want to know what devices i MUST support with the code and what might be part of
code improvements later on

'sid

 

[machinist@large]

I'm using an I phone 4 that my dad gave me when he upgraded to the I phone 5. I haven't added any special app's to it yet because I refuse to give Apple my credit card info, especially for a free app. I'm thinking about getting a prepay debit card to try to get around the issue.

For my tablet I'm using the ellcheapo $50.00 Ellpisis 7 Android model that Verizon wireless hooked me with when I changed my phone plan so I could activate the I phone.

Hope this helps... Pat

 

[firemanjim]

I use a BlackBerry notepad at work, an HTC android at home, and I only buy android smart phones.....
Mostly the BlackBerry.....

 

[Poboy kartman]

Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE........My only link to the internet. .....

 

[fowler]

I have a IPhone 4s

But I'm changing to the new Samsung
I absolutly hate iTunes
So fed up with it

Also the phones haven't improved a great deal in a while

There's bugger all change between the 4 and the 5c that my sister has

Windows phones are just rubbish

Samsung is the only one left really

 

[Poboy kartman]

I have a IPhone 4s

But I'm changing to the new Samsung
I absolutly hate iTunes
So fed up with it

Also the phones haven't improved a great deal in a while

There's bugger all change between the 4 and the 5c that my sister has

Windows phones are just rubbish

Samsung is the only one left really

I don't know since I went from a flip-phone to mine.....but I've been told I-phones are a joke compared to Samsung Androids.......I'm really happy with my phone. ...it's the reception of the service that sucks.... but that is pretty consistent. ..with any airwave delivered services here....

I've been told. ....and I truly believe this. ....that the military base a quarter mile away sends out a jamming signal when certain planes are flying. ...or maybe their radar or whatever just jacks up transmission. ...IDK...

But I can go 10 miles any direction. ....and my net is 2× faster and I never lose anything. ....which sucks....because the only place I really want or use it is here. .......

 

[OzFab]

A friend of mine has a new iPhone, her daughter has a cheap $50 android on the same network; they could be standing next to each other & service on the iPhone is rubbish while the Android is perfect...

I never did like iPhones...

 

[ML-TOYS]

I have been using my droid x2 for close to 3 years now i believe. So far all the people with iphones next to me cant do crap, even with the newer ones.

 

[itsid]

hehe.. ah true religion is always based on telephones (or graphic cards.. die, ATI, DIE!!!)

jk, I have an iPhone 4s and standing right next to my sister (Samsung s4 mini) I'm the one having service.
Standing right next to a good friend of mine and his iphone 5 I'm still the one with service...
but that's based on the crapiness of their provider.. not their phone

So yeah, you like one more than the other.. okay...
I'm not eager to pay 1k for a smartphone myself, but the two iPhones I have (3gs and 4s)
both are great and working flawlessly.. all the time, any time;
I must point out though, that i NEVER installed any ios upgrades...
that's the whole point if you ask me.

android isn't any better than ios.. it's different, that's all...
I guess that for every app for android there's a similar app for ios (and the other way around)
rooted or jailbroken phones included you can do absolutely everything with any one of the two.
(IIRC that even includes installing ios on a HTC and android on an iPhone)

I liked the appstore and that I can get prepaid cards for it without adding my cc infos (at least here in germany)
buy a card at a drugstore enter the number on itunes and there you have money to spend in the appstore (or on iTunes) so I can get apps or movies with the same card.
google play now has prepaid cards too.. and I like android too;
in fact I think I'm going to get me an android phone (for the second sim that's in my ancient nokia e75 phone )
But I do not want to miss my iPhone 4s, I really like it (much nicer than the iPhone 5 even if you ask me)

Buuut that's not the topic I'm afraid

I just want to make sure that my code should run on most of your devices.

And I specifically asked for smartphones, since at least some tablets do not offer GPS location, which is crucial for the app to work

and by my code, I mean a mobile website,
no appstore/playstore necessary...
CAN be installed (as a permanent bookmark on the home screen)
but doesn't need to be.
So most of that shouldn't be an issue.

I only care about your browsers for now (well and acceleration and location sensors )
or to be precise how they handle tap, touch and swipe events as well as css scaling
and some other html5 thingamabob

'sid

 

[machinist@large]

So the prepay iTunes cards work for more than just music!?!?!? Wonderful! That just got added to the shopping list for the weekend..

Thanks Alex!!!!!! Also interested in what the apps you're working on look like.....

 

[itsid]

as far as I know all cards are similar... some are labelled iTunes some Appstore I don't think there's a difference other than the print (and maybe the value of course)

And apps? just one ATM..
still the gokart calculator and database I talked about somewhere else already..

What it looks like?
oh..uhm... okay
home screen & kart list:


Add Kart Form and quick calculator Form (less input):


both allow for clutch, jackshaft and TC or any viable combination

kartview incl performance graph (captured, NOT calculated)
that was 'walking with the phone around the block btw... that's why it's so slow and spikey)

this includes the calculated performance as well as the test results seperately.
(and basically every info you could ask for)

very little settings to ease the input
(as well decide if you want see km/h or mph in the list .....


....and the speedometer:
free user vs diygk pro user speedometer::


in portrait view including the 'real time' performance graph:


And that's the dilemma.. the canvas for the speedometer
and the graph need to resize when you tilt your phone;
and they do.. except on Samsung phones *grml*

I'd prerelease it but that'd be a pain for you since I still tinker with the db layout and that means with every other update it'll just drop your stored karts from the db...
since I'm too lazy to write the update routines for an alpha stage website.

'sid

 

[landuse]

I use a Samsung S3 (which I found ). I had a Nokia before then, and I would never get one again

 

[RobertD]

looking cool 'sid! let me know if I can help.

 

[OzFab]

I use a Samsung S3 (which I found ). I had a Nokia before then, and I would never get one again

I swore by nokia for years, until they started using an OS that was totally different to everything else on the planet... & now they use Windows OS... that's almost as bad IMO

 

[landuse]

I swore by nokia for years, until they started using an OS that was totally different to everything else on the planet... & now they use Windows OS... that's almost as bad IMO

I agree. The apps are lousy, and there are so few of them

 

[fowler]

Nokia was king bee
No one could touch them
Particularly in the country on CDMA network

If it wasn't a 6120 then a 3310

Untill
The smart phone phase caught on
They haven't really got anything worth spending money on

Can't u set it to not tilt

Not many of my other (utility) apps do
Like the speedo converter torch or weather

If u turn the phone they just stay where they are

 

[itsid]

looking cool 'sid! let me know if I can help.

I definitely will

I swore by nokia for years, until they started using an OS that was totally different to everything else on the planet... & now they use Windows OS... that's almost as bad IMO

yes!!.. I started with a 6110 (well actually a pioneer mobile which couldn't even SEND sms only receive them but only for a month or two)
and then switched to the 8000 series phones (8810, 8850 etc)
and then the more powerful phones kicked in with running on Symbian S40 (a nokia developped OS) and S60 with the nokia N and E series and so on...
and they've been still the best phones out there... (I loove my e51 the e75 I got later not so much I must admit)
but the first touchscreen phones came out shortly after and Nokia failed to get their hands on android.
they sticked with Symbian and that was a bad decision...
it simply wasn't up for the task.. and you can still find symbian nokias on the shelves... (Asha series)
So the next I got was a 3gs since it was about time to get a fully working GPS phone (e75 had gps but it didn't worked)

I agree. The apps are lousy, and there are so few of them

Well with the symbian s40 / S60 series Nokia started a website called MOSH which was basically an app-store for nokia devices, you logged in, downloaded a sis package installed it and there you are..
but it was spoiled, thousands of new titles were added every month and nokia couldn't keep up with the amount;
tons of pr0n titles and software that tries to steal information and the ratio of untested/unverified to verified/harmless got bad.
nokia closed mosh and opened one app-store after another (I lost track after the third url change)

Nokia was king bee
No one could touch them...

and because of that they fell asleep when smartphones came out

Funny enough, now that nokia was sold to microsoft,
they finally make an android phone.... (Nokia X)

'sid

 

[2SlickNick]

Looks like a great app. When it is released - count me in.

 

[OzFab]

Nokia was king bee
No one could touch them

and because of that they fell asleep when smartphones came out

So many companies throughout history have lived & died by that very business model; market leaders become complacent &, when the industry changes, they can't keep up...

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson's great grandfather (IIRC) was one of the biggest glass manufacturers of the 19th century but, when automated production processes came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, he couldn't afford to upgrade the plant & the company died...

 

[landuse]

And now Microsoft is cutting 18000 Nokia jobs. I guess Nokia is pretty much going out the window