Poor old Joe Hewitt has been having a bit of a hard time on the internet over the last 24 hours, thanks to the Facebook employee being a little critical of Android’s development environment – which many took out of context as an ATTACK ON ANDROID.
Well, Joe’s just put the record straight in a little tweet. He doesn’t like Android’s UI and isn’t that keen on the development tools. That’s all. “No biggie” as they say.
And a man’s allowed to have an opinion. Call off the hounds.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case. The Eluga’s powered by a 1GHz dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP processor, which is running a 4.3″ OLED [...]
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but it still arrives running the same HTC Sense 4 interface we saw in the excellent [...]
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Some camera samples taken with HTC’s quad-core Android monster.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
We’ve spent most of the last week captivated by the staggeringly sharp screen of the new Sony Xperia S, while putting together what will hopefully be something resembling a review for you all to read very shortly. In the meantime, to be getting on with, here are a few sample photos and videos, taken using [...]
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
£30? For a phone case? It had better be good.
Samsung’s official Galaxy Nexus case. Costs a lot. Has a glittery little logo.
Fresh from reviewing the cheap and cheerful FlexiShield case for the Galaxy Nexus, we’re back with another protective offering from industry veteran Case-Mate. Although this particular product retails for around the same price as FlexiShield’s TPU option, it’s quite a different proposition. Review submitted by extremely patient retro gaming advisor Damo. As the name suggests, [...]
Seeing as we’ve just reviewed the brand spanking new Galaxy Nexus, we’re in the mood for some accessorising – and we don’t mean earnings and handbags. To that end, we’ll be covering a few Galaxy Nexus-themed items over the next few weeks, starting with the FlexiShield Case. Review submitted by reader, writer, gamer and occasional [...]
Herman
/ August 27, 2010Eclipse really is horrible. If you’ve ever used Visual Studio, using Eclipse is like building a house from twigs and feces instead of bricks and cement.
And the OS is functional. It’s not ugly if you as me, but it could be better.
Friday
/ August 27, 2010Interesting,
I have been developing on eclipse and visual studio and I much prefer eclipse. I have to admit that eclipse was not always that good, in the beginning it really was pain. Right now it just is a lot more powerful than visual studio, which of course is not needed by everyone.
The point is that the average visual studio user, and that is my experience, is not really a good developer. A lot of the guys learned programming when c++ was the holy grale in software development.
Visual studio has a lot of bugs, and I have seen bugs, that just aren´t fixed for years. Eclipse is much more dynamic there. But I see that there is a lot of people just doing repetitive stuff and soft programming.
I think google just wants to have professional developed apps and with eclipse and its android related plugins you can do that just lovely.
For java and dalvik-java I think eclipse is the best tool you can find. Not to mention that it is for free. But a guy that finds android UI ugly will most likely also find eclipse ugly.