Here’s one thing that irks me to no end with my Samsung Galaxy Player: the proxy settings. In a word: useless. Why? Read on…
Only the web browser appears to use the proxy server which means you can’t use all the snazzy apps and must fall back on the HTML versions which are generally terrible and provide no notifications. Some won’t even let you use them that way at all (*cough* Pandora *cough*)!
Downloads don’t work correctly. At least, I’ve tried downloading attachments from Gmail and a file from another web server and neither completed. They stick as “In Progress” but don’t actually make any progress … ever.
Rather than making the setting per SSID (e.g. WiFi network) which would be correct and really just, fucking sensible, it’s global. This means that every time you get on your corporate wireless behind the firewall, you get to type in the massive proxy server. Then when you leave to a coffee shop or home, you delete the whole thing lest nothing work at all.
If I had never owned an iPod Touch I wouldn’t know how broken this all is. From the iPod Touch I was able to specify the proxy on only the wireless networks it mattered and all web-service-based apps respected it (Google Voice, Pandora, App Store, Instagram). Why is this so messed up!?
