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Android forum

Khannie · 2010-11-23 13:01:25

I kinda missed the android forum initially because of where it's located. I was trying to find out about android tablets and tbh didn't think of looking under mobiles / pda's because I wasn't thinking about phones. :) Android runs on lots of devices now. I think that forum should be moved up a level and renamed "Android…

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23-11-2010 2:01pm

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I kinda missed the android forum initially because of where it's located. I was trying to find out about android tablets and tbh didn't think of looking under mobiles / pda's because I wasn't thinking about phones.

Android runs on lots of devices now. I think that forum should be moved up a level and renamed "Android devices" or similar, much like the Apple media devices forum. Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I thought I'd post it somewhere.

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#2 23-11-2010 4:10pm
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Android is just an OS, though, rather than a hardware manufacturer. If it moved a level up it would be under "Consumer Electronics".

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#3 23-11-2010 4:16pm
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Maybe it belongs under Operating Systems then. It is a mobile OS though so it's six of one ...

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#4 23-11-2010 4:24pm
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Rename Mobiles/PDAs to Mobile Devices?

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#5 23-11-2010 4:38pm
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On reflection maybe there could be an "Android Media Devices" section under Consumer Electronics.

The hardware devices they run on are designed specifically as platforms for Android's OS anyway.

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#6 24-11-2010 12:44am
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was anyone else kinda expecting this thread to be about an android like Data from Star Trek?

nope?

just me?

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#7 24-11-2010 2:12am
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I'll come back with a non off the cuff remark tomorrow once I have a mull.

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#8 24-11-2010 10:36am
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Dades wrote: »

On reflection maybe there could be an "Android Media Devices" section under Consumer Electronics.

That's what I said.

Macros42 wrote: »

Maybe it belongs under Operating Systems then. It is a mobile OS though so it's six of one ...

Nah...the unix forum covers the OS level stuff (at least in theory).

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#9 24-11-2010 9:37pm
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Put a shortcut subforum anywhere its needed is what i think.

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#10 25-11-2010 10:17am
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at the moment i don't see there being an issue with where it is, but as we move forward it might be an idea to keep itself and the AMD forum @ the same levels

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#11 25-11-2010 2:01pm
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MiCr0 wrote: »

at the moment i don't see there being an issue with where it is

Well....the issue for me was that its placement wasn't logical. I went looking for an android forum. I'm familiar with the apple media devices forum and since android runs on a similar range of products I expected it to be at the same level. Since I was looking for information on tablets I never thought to look under mobiles. Initially I assumed there wasn't an android forum and posted in an existing thread in gadgets. I only happened across the android forum by doing a google search for a specific tablet type.

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#12 26-11-2010 6:41pm
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Certainly when it was created first, the Mobiles/PDAs forum seemed like the best place for the Android forum as it was (and remains) primarily a phone OS. If not for the iPod Touch being out at the same time as the iPhone I suspect the AMD forum would also have been made a subforum there.

As a growing space though it may make sense to move Android to the same level as AMD. There aren't a lot of Android tablets or music players, but they're coming. The more they do the less relevant its current placement is going to be, and more users like Khannie might miss it.

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#13 01-12-2010 10:23am
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Definitely needs it's own forum outside of Mobiles, like an "Android Media Devices" as suggested earlier.

Android running on non-phone devices is growing wicked fast, most of the PMP type manufactures have switched/are switching to it as their de facto OS.

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#14 01-12-2010 12:15pm
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Android is not just mobile devices. Google OS \ Android will be used in far more devices over the next couple of years, I would put as an OS to be honest.

Maybe a separate thread for devices if needed.

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#15 01-12-2010 12:38pm
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ch750536 wrote: »

Android is not just mobile devices.

Right now and for the next few years it is and will be primarily just mobile devices.

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#16 02-12-2010 1:39pm
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It's very hit and miss to find any forum nowadays without using the Beta skin's search. I think for a lot of categories we could go around in circles trynig to find the ;ost logicl place to put them as everyone will have a different logical approach. In the future, some kind of live search which would display a list of forums where this search term is most popular might be useful.

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#17 18-12-2010 12:17am
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I would say that aidan_walsh's suggestion is the best solution. Any chance of it happening?

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#18 18-12-2010 2:14am
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Well, credit where due it was Khannie's suggestion in the OP I was just lending support to it.

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#19 09-01-2011 5:23pm
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aidan_walsh wrote: »

Well, credit where due it was Khannie's suggestion in the OP I was just lending support to it.

Thank you sir.

I came on here to bump this also. The number of android tablet threads in that forum is growing nearly daily now.

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A little off-topic but maybe the name of Mobiles & PDAs might need to be reconsidered. I mean, PDAs are pretty much old hat right now with smartphones taking over. Mobile Devices might be more appropriate.

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