Good point ico.
You have to convert vdo's to watch it on iphone/WP. This is my main problem with lumia 800 as well as iPhone. WTH should i convert a vdo when i have 1 ghz+ CPU on phone ? If Android can play any type of files without conversion so should iOS and WP OS or any other OS for that matter.
it is perfectly OK if it does not plays 1080P ( due to hardware limits) but 720P and below should not be a problem.
Just FYI even 3gs can play 720p mkv without any conversion(it stutters a lot though),ip4 can perfectly play almost all sort of 720p rips.
You just need to find a suitable player(and trust me,there are a lot...)
Can you remember those early Eclair days when Android`s stock player was a joke and the only xvid player was that pathetic rock player?
It was actually Samsung with the touchwiz video player in the original Galaxy S,started changing things for Android(it was the first media player which could use the gpu to decode xvid/divx/mkv videos)
But sadly nothing has changed much,
Firstly,Samsung never got any credit for the revolutionary TW,most of the Android fans(must be more than 90%)still think TW is just a launcher and goes Ga-Ga over the Sense u.i,which did not help Android to take a single step forward.
Secondly,till date there is only a single decent media player is the Playstore and I bet many of the rabid fanboys here do not know about it.
For them sh%tty players with a glossy ui(likes of MX video player)is the ultimate .
Now to answer the last part of your question,
There is nothing magical in Android,it is just another mobile o.s like WM7 or iOS,but it`s parents are lot liberal(dare I say careless),iOS can very well play any damn video format you want it to play,but his parents does not want him to do it(and they have sufficient reasons for it!)
Since you looked interested in media players,thought to put up a few lines,sorry if I offended you or anyone.
Anyways I have no bones with Android,used it for a very very long time,loved it...was amazed by it(I am a doctor by profession but spend hours on Android,learned a lot from great devs @ xda,most of them have left xda for good,even took part in kernel development for HD2 Android NAND project)....and now just can not stand it.
Red dragon has a beef with Android, and almost always bad mouths it on the forum... For him, Android may be a complicated mess... not so much for the rest of us...
Do not embarrass yourself my friend!
Android seems easy to you because you probably do not even know the absolute basics of it.
It seems like you think rooting and showing off CM7/CM9 on your phone make you an Android expert
Sorry,but you were asking for trouble!
Just for some unknown reason I can not multiquote your post,so will add few lines here..
1.ithehappy was probably one of the first here to get a gs2 and has done some nice battery mods for it @ xda.
His views on initial ics builds were huge hit there.
I do not know him personally,but he seems to be a humble person,otherwise he could have humiliated you really bad here.
2.I am sure you know nothing about jailbreak,google Absinthe,it is waay too easier compared to the one click root you seem to adore.
3.I have never ever hard bricked any of the 4/5 android phones(plus atleast 10 from friends,relatives etc) have used,soft bricks...many many times..but recovered pretty easily as I know the basics very clearly.
4.Those who are having better battery out of AOSP,must have got some magical hardware which seems to work better with absolutely rubbish drivers!!
5.You probably do not know that you can have those quick toggle buttons in iO.S also.
BTW the latest Nexus does not have that quick toggle for the notification drop down menu by default!!
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awesome!!
