By the way I follow the stories on my phone on our Polish Android forums and there's an interesting thing I thought I'll share - The Galaxy Spica (i5700) out of the box comes with no multitouch, no proper OpenGl driver and with a few stupid software bugs that Samsung tends to ignore in their software updates that change close to nothing (they tend to release a new, updated version of Android 2.1 every 2 or 3 weeks).
Now here's a catch. That phone is a mid-end but comes with a multitouch chip (with no software driver so it acts like "it's not there"), fm radio (same story) and an extremely efficient GPU chip that was design for high end processing of 3D in Open Gl 1.1 and 2.0 which is not even yet used by Android. Obviously with no drivers too so out of the box Spica really sucks for 3D games because the CPU core does all the job without any other serious hardware acceleration.
Thanks to the Samsung Android community now everything has been totally rewritten. There's multitouch, the whole system has been recoded and optimized for Spica's CPU architecture which makes it a few times faster, kernels have been unbelievably improved, there are also many customized apps and countless different optimization mods. There's a guy named Leshak that created amazing things for that phone, there's Samdroid kitchen that allows you to create an Android "package" - you pick an Android version and pick components that you want to include in your new system. Then it generates a package that you can install on your phone - with root, any programs that you pick during that creation and any components.
Oh and the 3D driver is about to be released soon.
I posted this because of a bunch of reasons but most of all to say how happy I am for the Android community. It's really an awesome system.
Now here's a catch. That phone is a mid-end but comes with a multitouch chip (with no software driver so it acts like "it's not there"), fm radio (same story) and an extremely efficient GPU chip that was design for high end processing of 3D in Open Gl 1.1 and 2.0 which is not even yet used by Android. Obviously with no drivers too so out of the box Spica really sucks for 3D games because the CPU core does all the job without any other serious hardware acceleration.
Thanks to the Samsung Android community now everything has been totally rewritten. There's multitouch, the whole system has been recoded and optimized for Spica's CPU architecture which makes it a few times faster, kernels have been unbelievably improved, there are also many customized apps and countless different optimization mods. There's a guy named Leshak that created amazing things for that phone, there's Samdroid kitchen that allows you to create an Android "package" - you pick an Android version and pick components that you want to include in your new system. Then it generates a package that you can install on your phone - with root, any programs that you pick during that creation and any components.
Oh and the 3D driver is about to be released soon.
I posted this because of a bunch of reasons but most of all to say how happy I am for the Android community. It's really an awesome system.