Jailbroken iOS 5 gets third-party widgets

Actually the T-Mobile was the first to release an Android handset in October of 2008.

If you are going to Troll, please have your facts straight.

You fanboys should go on a date.

WTF did you expect them to do? It’s a good feature, so instead of crying about them taking ideas, you should be flattered. Quit being complete douches and realize that Android has taken plenty from iOS as well. It’s a good thing that both companies are innovating and using each other’s ideas. It just makes both products stronger.

And for the record… using childish terms like “iCrapp” immediately marks your opinion as useless trolling.

iWa-Wa-Wa-Waaa……….
someone get me an
iPacifier??

Hey it seems like he call’s them how he sees them to me..

 Hmmm 2007 when there were no android phones at all norm. I’m jealous that you ad your boyfriend papinyc got to see the weather on the hour and the stocks that day. sad

Windows Mobile had widgets back then…  Cut and paste, and real multitasking, too!

And it sucked.

@Pendergast:disqus So did everything else especially iOS it was a feature phone OS back then..

That was then…Android made them Magical! 

If you say so! Personally I think it’s a minor feature. Great for Android having it I guess. If you want your your magical widgets then a iPhone isn’t for you! I picked the iPhone because of a list of features I cared about over Android, not that I hate Android. It’s all about choice. I do hate fandroid people with their angry hate for Apple & iOS. What did they personally do to you? Grow up and get a life! It’s just a phone!

I have my OG Droid and it works fine. Never a FC. Been rocking it from day one. 

Never a Force Close huh? That’s about as believable as a unicorn made of glitter and rainbows.

@ApplesNAndroids:disqus Let me clarify to prove I’m honest. I meant NOW. I fully admit when i first got this thing and on 2.0 I did get some force closes, but mostly with the same app. Ever since 2.2 and developers actually making real android apps I don’t have nearly as many issues as rhetoric dictates in these reviews and comments. 

Even though Apple wants to coin the phrase “App Store” there have been market places for mobile applications for years before the iPhone, albeit not nearly as successful. Also there were touch screens before the iPhone (once again I know you said multi-touch, but using more then one finger and is just natural evolution of the touch screen.) And as far as push is concerned? Blackberry did it far better than anyone.

A natural evolution, Lmao you’re joking right?

@keymaker:disqus are you? that’s the only argument to my statement? There were touchscreens before iPhone, if you wanna say Apple was so genius that no one was ever gonna think of it ever. then fine. I give it to you, you get 1 point out of your 3 reference. You are 33.3% correct.

Granted we did have touchscreens and the like before the iPhone, but you have to admit, that no one had implemented it anywhere near the same caliber, or as seamlessly, than the way Apple did with the iPhone. Remember when RIM released the Storm, the Verizon iPhone killer at the time?  If we didn’t have the iPhone to set a precedent to how a touchscreen interface could work, then that phone could’ve killed (minus the horrible lag and freezing issues).  Every device I’ve ever owned with a touchscreen that dominated the user interface, be it a Garmin GPS, Blackberry Storm, Motorola OG Droid or an iPod touch, the only device where I haven’t had issues with the touchscreen interface and its usability has been the iPod touch.

@facebook-15601620:disqus One thing people might not know from reading my posts is I don’t think iOS products are bad products or flawed necessarily. I just don’t like people who act as if it’s the second coming. I do admit that the iPhone took the smartphone market to the casual consumer. But when I see people bash all these things about android phones. windows phones, webOS or BB, and then hail how great apple is for finally including them, I’m gonna say something. 

Not Apple, that’s for sure.

Windows Mobile would be the answer to each question. Even if you ask it for iOS instead of Android…

And WinMo sucked. That’s why users fled from it and MS released WP7.

And WinMo was an evolution of the PDA which was popularized by Palm and predates by… the Apple Newton.

Multi-touch= Nokia 
Push Notifications = RIM
App Market = Palm 
NEXT?

Did you really just include live wallpapers?

Yes please continue cause most Android apps sucks ass. It took 1 1 /2 year for android to get Angry bird, about 2 year Netflix, skype is still not working right. iCloud beats google sync hands down in every way. Android user could only wish that google did the same job they did in the iOS app. I do love somethings in Android but you didn’t mention not even one.

You obviously didn’t test Android apps in the recent months. At least not the great ones. I’ll use one example for a great application. TweetDeck. Yes, iOS had TweetDeck before, but the UI was shit. TweetDeck later ported the new UI to iOS. 
Also Google Maps is much better on Android than on iOS. We have free navigation. We have PowerAMP, a music player which features the probably best equalizer on a mobile OS.
It may have taken a longer time to port some apps from iOS to Android, but many apps are created for both platforms now. 
iCloud is great, but it’s not as great for people who don’t want to migrate from GMail to   @me.com accounts. Also iCloud saves photos only for one month. Picasa doesn’t have that limit. iCloud got 5 GB of free space, Google Sync got 7 GB, and it’s rising every second.
iCloud got a better music integration tho, I need to admit that. It wouldn’t be of any avail for me though, because I’m a Spotify subscriber. Quick question: Does Spotify on iOS feature offlining of songs?
Obviously not all LWPs are great, and the non-openGL ones make the system slow. But LWPs like Vortex Galaxy are just beautiful to look at. (@steven75:disqus)

Oh, and why did you ignore mass storage support, multi-format video players, better youtube support + better support for sharing things, because apps can be written to receive certain events..

One more thing: We have several apps, which allow us to control our phones over wifi, for example PAW server. Not to mention the SAMBA servers for making the storage available over Windows networks..

No you need to learn English.  Awesome live wallpapers LOL how old are you.

More rhetoric, My phone makes it threw the day every day with minimum battery usage from a two year old phone. Most Android phones with battery issues are HTC phones who are notorious for shipping phones with small batteries. Your are obviously and iSheep if you think android is without any merit. I bash iPhones because of people like you who just scream without thinking. I don’t think iPhones and iOS devices are bad products, they’re just not for me. But zealots scream and shot when they generally know nothing of other products. 

Wrong son, it’s a software issue and google is aware of it and it’s also working on a fix. Battery life sucks on all android devices. iOS 5 also makes the battery drain like crazy but then again thats why it’s in beta testing at the moment.

@keymaker:disqus it’s a software issue? then explain how on a 2 year old phone with a 1500 mah (or was it 1400mah? phones in my back office and I don’t feel like grabbing it) battery gets me over a full day of heavy use? My friend has  a SG has great battery life. My boss has a HTC Incredible and it sucks up battery. I’ve played with an SG2 and that things battery is amazing. 

Yep, coming right from a zealot fandroid user!

It did believe it or not. They sold almost 2 million devices in 1/2 a quarter, that’s units that would have been going to Android. The Verizon iPhone also cost Tmobile almost 400k customers on a single quarter. Why do you think Tmobile is merging with At&t after that.

And yet Apple’s share of the smartphone market is still flat — whereas Android is rising.  People who suggest that iOS is going to be widely adopted than Android are fools.  Apple makes a decent smartphone but the market share will continue to fall because Android simply offers more choice, more price points, more features. 

A year old iPhone on Verizon is still out selling any android phone. That must hurt google’s feelings.

Yet Android continues to pull away from iOS in terms of marketshare.  Verizon still sells more Android phones than Apple; the canard about “one phone versus many” just proves that people LOVE choice – they love having a dozen Android phones to choose from, rather than just one model of Apple.

Stop with logic!  I’m enjoying all these dum dums arguing over nothing.

Yes, having just one notification screen with widgets lacks overview. Also, it’s not possible to rearrange the widgets on there, right?

It’s a good start tho.

I can see that, however I, myself like them in the pull down. Creates a cleaner workspace IMO.

you can rearrange them

You don’t have to swipe down to get to widgets on Android, or over for that fact. They’re any place you want to put them. Resize? Sure. Put on main homescreen? Yup. Put on every screen? Definitely.