3D Character Gear: View your character's gear in 3D. (This feature can use a lot of bandwidth)

Restrict 3D data downloads: Only download 3D data when your device is connected to a WiFi network

Nice.

Also is it too early to start asking about what kind of API access we'll have to all this awesome data?

Betas can't have everything.

Also is it too early to start asking about what kind of API access we'll have to all this awesome data?

Nope. Just too early to expect an answer. ;)

In all seriousness, they haven't even told us all of what's in the game yet. So I'd guess no.

Notice NOTHING was said of Amazon or Blackberry phones :p

For the record, Amazon's phone IS Android. Heavily customized, perhaps, but still Android.

It's an Android fork, which means no Google Play Services or Store. So while the apk would be probably 90% the same, it would still require specific testing and development to work with their forked Android version and integrate into their background services since Google Play Games, GMS and GCM wouldn't be available. Not to mention Bungie would need to maintain another distribution channel (the Amazon app store).

I'm sure the good folks at XDA developers will get a hacked version up and running.

Sorry about the lack of a native Windows Phone app, though. There simply aren't enough users to justify the time and expense at this time. In the future, maybe, but certainly not now.

More proof that Bungie is sticking it to MS, just kidding. go android!

Notice NOTHING was said of Amazon or Blackberry phones :p

For the record, Amazon's phone IS Android. Heavily customized, perhaps, but still Android.

It's an Android fork, which means no Google Play Services or Store. So while the apk would be probably 90% the same, it would still require specific testing and development to work with their forked Android version and integrate into their background services since Google Play Games, GMS and GCM wouldn't be available. Not to mention Bungie would need to maintain another distribution channel (the Amazon app store).

This would probably be chalked up to the same status as Windows Phone. While it's not a tremendous amount of work, it's still work and the 2 users of the Amazon phone would more than likely not justify enough of that work.

I notice there doesn't seem to be anything to switch between your 360 character, your PS4 character, etc. Strongest indication yet that it may be the same set of characters on all platforms. Some people have been referring to this as being able to transfer saves but the more I see, the more I think it's just that there's nothing to transfer - it's already there.

To counter my own theory, I also didn't see anything to switch between character slots, which would obviously be needed even with centralized saves/character data. So maybe those parts of the UI simply aren't implemented yet, or are intentionally kept out of the previews.

He certainly swipped between characters early on from a level 20 Titan to a level 4 hunter and a third character was waiting further to the right:

Presumably though there would have to be multiple sign-ins or something because Playstations don't use your Xbox Live ID... Unless it's all tying into your sorta all encompassing Bungie.net account... which I'd note already DOES know about both my Xbox Live and Playstation accounts...

Hmmmmm.

To counter my own theory, I also didn't see anything to switch between character slots, which would obviously be needed even with centralized saves/character data. So maybe those parts of the UI simply aren't implemented yet, or are intentionally kept out of the previews.

Notice NOTHING was said of Amazon or Blackberry phones :p

For the record, Amazon's phone IS Android. Heavily customized, perhaps, but still Android.

Blackberry, though... oh dear. That is as good as dead at this point. Not to mention poor WebOS, which actually still exists, but not on phones or tablets.

My only disappointment with the companion app is the lack of numerical data on the weapons. In the IGN First Look teaser there was an image that showed this data. Now, in the app preview, it seems that this feature has been removed.

I was looking forward to this.

Wouldn't surprise me if you can turn them off and on, maybe if you tap the bars for example.

My only disappointment with the companion app is the lack of numerical data on the weapons. In the IGN First Look teaser there was an image that showed this data. Now, in the app preview, it seems that this feature has been removed.

I was looking forward to this.

Wow, that app preview image looks way better. Could it be they showed IGN an older version of the app than was in the app preview?

I was looking forward to this.