One of the things you may have noticed in my Dell Streak vs Droid X, HTC EVO, and Samsung Captivate posts is that although the screen resolutions are either identical (800 x 480) or very similar (Droid X: 854 x 480), more text is displayed in Android Market on the Streak in portrait mode.
Ten apps can be viewed on the Streak, while just six apps can be viewed on the other phones.
Although this is supposed to be an advantage of the Streak's large screen, allowing people to see more apps at once, browsing Android Market in portrait mode is currently very flawed on the device. Ten apps are shown at once, yes, but there's no way to see any more than that because you can't scroll down. It's as though there are only ten apps available in every category. Flip the Streak into landscape mode, however, and you can scroll through hundreds/thousands of apps.
This issue is better seen than described, so watch the video below for a quick demo.
A software update should be able to fix this very easily.
Update: It's been fixed in Android 2.1 (thanks, Ben)
its dells first android type device so im sure there are gonna be issues like this,
Jenn,
You are a one person Marketing Team … and thanks for the unbiased reporting!
I have the Archos 7, and use it mostly landscape because of the Kick Stand … a Kick Stand is one more thing to add to the Streak ’2′
If dell holds true to form they will have the streak 2 ready by october but we wont get it till late July 2011. Its kind of crazy that according to Microsoft Dell is a winpho 7 launch partner. So if they can launch a winpho 7 so fast what the hell happened with the streak. Nearly a year to lauch and still so buggy dell has some ‘splaining to do.
Nice catch Jenn. I hope you send this to someone at Dell.
I agree … a prototype will be ready by October 2010 (like the original Mini 5 [Streaks name back then] was October 2009)… but they will learn from this mistake, and release it by Black Friday?
I personally think Dell realized it screwed up with 1.6 (i.e Android got ahead of them), and is spending nothing on Marketing the Streak. They just want to dump current inventory on people who impulse buy … and then come out with a product, they will be proud of (Streak 2?) with vanilla Android or Windows 7.
Micheal Dell ‘proudly’ carried around the Streak back in January … now it is a hidden step-child.
The new baby is on the way … IMHO
Does the no scroll bug also go for other apps on the phone like web browser, contact list, etc???? THIS would be close to a deal breaker, if it wasn’t addressed (along with everything else).
I have noticed this too but always thought there were only 10 apps there… Considering I am 90% in landscape mode, it is not a huge deal but definitely annoying.
Hopefully, this will be fixed with Froyo. I thought ADW Launcher might fix this because it also fixes the issue of the home screen being locked to landscape mode, but alas, I don’t think it does. I checked the video of the guy demoing the Streak with ADW Launder on youtube and he seems to have the same problem.
No, it only affects Android Market.