TheAlmightyBob
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[quick version of a post that was lost due to timed-out login....]
[apologies if this is discussed elsewhere already.... I didn't see anything anywhere...]
Since I didn't see anything written on the subject, I did a quick side-by-side of the demo versions. This post should be taken as curiosity rather than complaint.
Questions:
- Are there plans to bring these features to parity, or are there OS/design differences keeping them this way?
- Are there other significant differences that I'm missing?
Observed differences:
- Android displayed dictionary entries with newlines cleanly separating definitions and example sentences, whereas on iPhone (as on Palm) they ran together. Not sure if this is due to screen size rather than software version?
- iOS allows selecting/copying definition text; Android does not. This surprised me...
- iOS seems to have more options for the popup definitions, such as the magnified characters. Maybe related to iOS' superior text rendering?
- iOS OCR continuously autofocuses, whereas Android requires manually hitting the focus button. Other android camera apps continuously autofocus, so I'm not sure why this would be different or if I'm missing something...?
- Android supports the application "sharing" concept.... don't know if iOS has anything similar.
- Android has the voice recognition (btw, is there a mode to use this in the paid flashcard add-on?)... but maybe that's coming (or I just didn't see it) in iOS5?
[apologies if this is discussed elsewhere already.... I didn't see anything anywhere...]
Since I didn't see anything written on the subject, I did a quick side-by-side of the demo versions. This post should be taken as curiosity rather than complaint.
Questions:
- Are there plans to bring these features to parity, or are there OS/design differences keeping them this way?
- Are there other significant differences that I'm missing?
Observed differences:
- Android displayed dictionary entries with newlines cleanly separating definitions and example sentences, whereas on iPhone (as on Palm) they ran together. Not sure if this is due to screen size rather than software version?
- iOS allows selecting/copying definition text; Android does not. This surprised me...
- iOS seems to have more options for the popup definitions, such as the magnified characters. Maybe related to iOS' superior text rendering?
- iOS OCR continuously autofocuses, whereas Android requires manually hitting the focus button. Other android camera apps continuously autofocus, so I'm not sure why this would be different or if I'm missing something...?
- Android supports the application "sharing" concept.... don't know if iOS has anything similar.
- Android has the voice recognition (btw, is there a mode to use this in the paid flashcard add-on?)... but maybe that's coming (or I just didn't see it) in iOS5?