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Originally Posted by reemas
i'll say it again, the June 2010 HTC phone has an inferior camera to it's direct competition (Apple's 2009 iPhone - don't even compare it to the iPhone 4). Being that HTC had a year to catch up, it's sad that the quality isn't even as good in most situations.
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I got a different read on that after reading the entire year+ forum over at CoreCodec.
1. There's a right way and a wrong way to embed support for the newer codec.
2. They insist on having full SDK (software development kit) and NDK (native development kit) integration and support - not just a partial implementation.
3. To do otherwise, according to CoreCodec, is kinda half-baked and creates a dead-end of support problems.
4. Every time they thought they were on to getting there for both SDK+NDK, they found some issues they couldn't get past and started working the next Android rev.
5. They think they're getting it right - and because it's all backdoor info, if I read it right (not 100% sure) - it's looking like it needs to go into Froyo (architecture changes allow for this).
So, overall for the Android community, I think it sounds like CoreCodec / Android dev are marching down the right path.
(conference room meeting)
"Hi, Mr. Head of EVO Dev. We're here to discuss options on our upcoming EVO with the exciting new zigapixel cameras."
"Uh huh. And how do you propose we support those?"
"Well, we take stock Android, see, well not stock, the 2.1 that's going be out by our release date - of course, just guess on that rev number - but anyway, we take stock Android, and kinda shoehorn in some additional codec support and some very non-standard apps made in a rather curious way."
"Uh huh. And how long to do that?"
"Oh, well, we tried figuring that out but Android started changing again. But it's a great idea, so let's do it!"
"Uh huh. And who else is doing that?"
"Well, rumor is some of our competitors are spending that money themselves."
"Uh huh. And who else?"
"Oh, well there's this company called CoreCodecs that specializes in these advanced codecs and they're already deployed for Win, Palm and Symbian and they're being used by Samsung, Toshiba, LG, Panasonic, Motorola, Seagate, ASUS and a few others."
"Uh huh. And what are their plans?"
"They plan to replace the stock PacketVideo core in Android in one of the upcoming Android releases and then just charge a straight licensing fee."
"And if we just put out what Android already has and wait for them, we'll get this new stuff at lowest risk and lowest cost - right?"
"Well, yes, but think how important having this new feature put in will really enhance our image, make customers even happier, and.... sir? Sir?"
(crickets chirping)