Samsung Widget SDK: cocktails, widgets and cash prizes

18 August, 2009
Samsung has been offering widgets on their TouchWiz-enabled phones for quite a while, but now they're taking it up a notch with the release of the Samsung Mobile Widget SDK. It's not so much the SDK that's...

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  • Artwell Shasha
  • N9X
  • 24 Aug 2009

I fell in love with Samsung back in school so much that i still have my SGH E250 that i got when i was in matric in 2006...

You guys rock!!!!

    • m
    • moi
    • miN
    • 20 Aug 2009

    I used SE for over 8 years and now i have the i8910 HD and i've never been happier

    samsung is really the best

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      • Gurdeep Singh Mander
      • utn
      • 20 Aug 2009

      Although, being a SGH-L700 user, I'm in no business with these "widgets", as of yet. However, I will be switching over to Samsung Jet, very soon. I f33l proud to be a samsung user. And YES, as myself a developer, will surely get my hands dirty onto the SDK :D So cheeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssss!!!

      SAMSUNG Rocks!!!

      SAMSUNG is FUTURE!

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        • Gurdeep Singh Mander
        • utn
        • 20 Aug 2009

        Keat, 19 Aug 2009I've checked out Samsung's developer site and their widget ... moreIf samsung do think about the usability of API-access and moreover, their customers, i hope some firmware upgrade could do a trick and enable widgets to access phone data!

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          • Paul
          • MAE
          • 19 Aug 2009

          [deleted post]Lol well there are plenty of scourers in north Wales & we have more in common with Liverpool then South Wales, BUT we are welsh, Have our own Language (like Liverpool) & have our own flag so we will stay capital of north wales…

          Anyway cant wait for the new widgets & Omnia II to arrive.

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            • Keat
            • C2e
            • 19 Aug 2009

            Anonymous, 19 Aug 2009isn't it the whole purpose of this competition? to realized... moreI've checked out Samsung's developer site and their widget APIs. Unless I really missed something big, there is no way for widgets to access the phone data. Widgets are essentially built using HTML + Stylesheets + Javascript, and executed using the phone's browser engine. Just like the Javascript on a web page can't access the files on your computer, the same kind of restrictions are found here. Nokia's WRT widget 'standard' provides special APIs to enable some access to phone functions, but Samsung doesn't seem to have done so (yet).

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              • dXm99
              • 9x1
              • 19 Aug 2009

              Keat, 19 Aug 2009Unfortunately, the capabilities of widgets are limited. I t... morei do hope that you are wrong :/ some widgets can access phone data.

              missing agenda and to do list is major drawback for touchwiz.

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                • Anonymous
                • txF
                • 19 Aug 2009

                the fact i know and people know is :
                Samsung overtook sony in 2005
                samsung is the most profitable electronic giant while sony and sony ericsson always keep losing their money...
                in mobile market : samsung is 2nd biggest, while se at bottomed rank (5th) behind motorola (in Q2 2009)

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                  • Anonymous
                  • UGj
                  • 19 Aug 2009

                  Keat, 19 Aug 2009Unfortunately, the capabilities of widgets are limited. I t... moreisn't it the whole purpose of this competition? to realized the potential of their widget.

                    • K
                    • Keat
                    • C2e
                    • 19 Aug 2009

                    Unfortunately, the capabilities of widgets are limited. I tried out the Omnia II, and couldn't understand why there was no widget that would list out my upcoming appointments; even the default WM Today screen can do that. Answer: Widgets have no access to PIM items. So there are serious limitations to what widgets can do - at least for this version of widget technology, you can forget about widgets that do stuff like accessing PIM data, using GPS, using G-sensor.

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                      • Fakuryu
                      • vj1
                      • 18 Aug 2009

                      Finally! More widgets!

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                        • Setsuka
                        • tDx
                        • 18 Aug 2009

                        Bring it on Samsung..!!can't wait to see what kind of eye candy fully optimized widget is all about,make all of your Omnia users proud using your products.

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                          • Mahfuz
                          • mXb
                          • 18 Aug 2009

                          Hi guys,
                          Samsung never copys from any company, they are always unique in their technology ,extraordinary design as well as easy & user friendly functions, ONE MAJOR PROBLEM WITH SAMSUNG IS THAT ONE CAN NOT CONTINUE HAVE VOICE ROCORDING like Sonyericsson does.
                          By the way, I'm a Sony's fan as well, but I love Sansung
                          Cheers
                          Regards,

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                            • Anonymous
                            • ibg
                            • 18 Aug 2009

                            this is awesome. hope the SDK can develop games and application for samsung mobile.
                            by the way, the se fans is stupid and nonsense, everyone is copy each other, its depends whether u success or not. the result is obvious, se and nokia fail

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                              • dXm99
                              • 9x1
                              • 18 Aug 2009

                              Finally! Most of preinstalled widgets are useless. It is a shame that they didn't this before

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                                • Anonymous
                                • MAE
                                • 18 Aug 2009

                                Anonymous, 18 Aug 2009where in wales u from?From Wrexham Capital of North Wales, not from South Wales where all the money goes?

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • nxJ
                                  • 18 Aug 2009

                                  Anonymous, 18 Aug 2009Nice one cant wait to get the Omnia 2 when it arrives in Wa... morewhere in wales u from?

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                                    • Paul
                                    • MAE
                                    • 18 Aug 2009

                                    hah, 18 Aug 2009samsung always copy their phones from sony ericsson and nok... moreWhy does Satio not have any proper internal storage what a massive mistake u may say you can install a memory card but if you have a satnave card then you have no storage for music, video.... Silly Sony Ericsson.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • MAE
                                      • 18 Aug 2009

                                      Nice one cant wait to get the Omnia 2 when it arrives in Wales/UK, love the widgets, Except for the MASSIVE ones, lets hope programmers & samsung release more that are smaller on the screen.

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                                        • nokia fan
                                        • mZs
                                        • 18 Aug 2009

                                        how can you say that samsung is copying nokia and sony ericsson? some phones look very close to some nokias, but sony ericsson? really? sony ericsson is going down, all phones lookalike. The Koreans are bringing amoled screens, HD video recording and so on. They did not copy nokia or SE, C905 does not look like the pixon or innov8, they just have 8MP. DO not speak if you so not know what you are saying!!!