News · 29 Apr 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
This post is not about the Samsung Focus and Omnia 7 update issues but about what you see in the picture above. Why is there only 5 sub-par applications in Samsung’s section of the marketplace ? Samsung only came out with to apps that were worth it and both are now gone. There was Photogram which I reviewed here and the eBook application that never really “official” came out which I also reviewed here. The company also offered the Diodict dictionary but this was also pulled out (this app is now available in the marketplace for $20!). HTC has 15 apps in its marketplace section (among them are must have’s like the hidden-Wifi connector) and LG has 19 apps.
Seriously, Samsung really dropped the ball and is really doing a bad job at supporting its Windows Phone 7 handsets. They have the best hardware out there with the Omnia 7 and Focus but can’t seem to get things right. When are we going to have proper “fix” for color dithering issue? I don’t want to “force” 32bit rendering via the registry and trounce my device’s rendering performance (it should noted that HTC isn’t better here; they managed to disable dithering on some handsets with their latest firmware…). Can we also have a fix for the laggy camera viewfinder when recording 720P videos (this doesn’t affect LG and HTC devices) and proper shutter speeds?
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