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Android |OT2| - Patent pending
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Unknown Soldier
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Who needs Nexus devices when you can get the world's most popular flagship smartphone with stock Android?
What's most interesting about this is that Samsung had to make drivers just for the stock Android build on the Galaxy S4 Stock Edition. That means the guys making custom ROMs will finally have access to a full set of updated drivers which makes their work much easier.
What's most interesting about this is that Samsung had to make drivers just for the stock Android build on the Galaxy S4 Stock Edition. That means the guys making custom ROMs will finally have access to a full set of updated drivers which makes their work much easier.
-Pyromaniac-
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650 dollars :/ plus tax....plus shipping. I'd be looking at like 750 if I ever bought that. The best part is that someone will dump AOSP and you can easily install a fully supported version of stock android on your GS4 that you got on contract. That's the real treasure here.
Jazzy Network
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Christ best android phone getting updates just like a Nexus? So good.
ThatObviousUser
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But the N4 was already getting updates like a Nexus...
Jazzy Network
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I said best. Not worst.
ThatObviousUser
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Worst would be XFON kekekekeke
Word? No. But it will probably be killed off next goolge+ mobile app gets an update.
That would be the HTC One. So no.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Weird, if i go to hangouts in the Play Store it says 'Open' (with no option to 'update') but it just opens Talk which doesn't have a new icon or anything. And it looks exactly the same. I'm assuming it's meant to replace talk and have a new icon?
Didn't HTC hint at an asp based ONE?
The Faceless Master
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Android Phone. as in a real device. as in available for purchase.
one HTC rep made a snarky Twitter comment, then another denied it.
CAUTION: ANDROIDANDME LINK.
-Pyromaniac-
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https://twitter.com/jetleigh/status/334714932698439681
HTC denies it "currently", of course. I'd say there's a decent chance of it.
shinshoryuken
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Pretty much the galaxy nexus 2(gs4 Google) is the greatest nexus ever available....
True...for the price they should have had 32gig version.
Where are all the people that said Samsung was done with any sort of Nexus device? Best Nexus ever.
Guess that would explain why the HTC logo on the devices is actually capable of being a button?
Guess that would explain why the HTC logo on the devices is actually capable of being a button?
-Pyromaniac-
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that's even more crazy when you think about it. That much money and they couldn't make the default 32gb.
shinshoryuken
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Yeah considering the One dev version is 64gig and same price ...
-Pyromaniac-
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samsung'd. Beggars can't be choosers I guess.
Lots of cool stuff in that keynote.
A bit bummed I have t wait to trial the google music sub service. The new interface is nice though. Instant Mixes though...lets just say it goes pretty weird when I use an anime song as the start point.
Didn't expect Google Plus games to be killed.
A bit bummed I have t wait to trial the google music sub service. The new interface is nice though. Instant Mixes though...lets just say it goes pretty weird when I use an anime song as the start point.
Didn't expect Google Plus games to be killed.
Well for me to get it to upgrade I had to install from the web store. And even then the icon did not change.
Yeah. The icon for Talk is still there, but it's no longer in the App Drawer. Weird how they chose to do it.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Web store wouldn't allow me to do it - I had to install the APK manually, apparently Sony phones treat talk as a system app so would have had to wait for an update form Sony (ie. Never)
I wonder which idiot at Google thought having a new item in my 'sent mail' in Gmail for every single outgoing Gtalk message sent was a good idea. Absurd.
Unknown Soldier
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It has an SD card slot.
Unknown Soldier
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I wonder if this is the new direction for the Nexus program. Google never had much success creating a good device on their own. It just makes sense to use existing flagship devices and just put stock Android on them for the purists rather than pay an OEM to make a custom device that's worse than their own best devices.
The Faceless Master
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the dream is real!
Font Apk Creator will turn TTF fonts into Flipfonts that work with some (mostly Samsung) Android devices. no need to root and overwrite system fonts, just a convenient menu under display settings.
and... of course... i had to...
DAT COMIC SANS
Font Apk Creator will turn TTF fonts into Flipfonts that work with some (mostly Samsung) Android devices. no need to root and overwrite system fonts, just a convenient menu under display settings.
and... of course... i had to...
DAT COMIC SANS
The Android and iOS apps really need an update to be more like the Chrome extension. They also need sorting options or an option to just show people who are online.
But Samsung and LG are just horrid in terms of quality. Have you seen the S4 screen lol? Or my 7 Nexus 4 replacements lol?
the dream is real!
Font Apk Creator will turn TTF fonts into Flipfonts that work with some (mostly Samsung) Android devices. no need to root and overwrite system fonts, just a convenient menu under display settings.
and... of course... i had to...
DAT COMIC SANS
You are the worst.
The Faceless Master
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you're alone on the S4 screen. even the haters admit the screen is amazing.
i try.
Just what are you doing with your phones? I mean...I've carried mine daily for months without even a bumper and its still in mint condition.
I hope not. But then I would not even own a android phone if there hadn't been an affordable nexus phone that was fairly modern with the Nexus 4.
So my Galaxy Nexus has been lagging like hell these past few weeks. I'm getting sick and tired of it. Can somebody guide me through all of the steps of flashing a different ROM? Including backing up my data and such. I'd like to switch to a Cyanogen Mod ROM since that seems to be the most stable.
Yeah, I said it, wanna fight about it?
/family guy
This. I had a specific list of contacts on Google Talk and now it's a fucking mess. I can't tell who is online or not and my list of contacts is full of people I don't want to chat with. Google Talk was simple and it just...worked.
Back to Google Talk for me until this is all sorted out.
wsoxfan1214
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Check out XDA.
I've been getting them broken out of the factory. I don't even have the chance to take off the factory screen protectors. 2 unresponsive screens, 6 squeaky buttons, 6 buzzing earpieces.
I guess phone coverage is as credible as gaming journalism. How can one not notice the smeared blacks blows my mind. It's so simple too. Go into Settings and simply scroll down quickly to watch the blacks leave a wonderful trail of quality.
cuevas. PhD.
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Drunkeness.
Apparently contacts with greyed out profile pics are offline. Full colour profile pics are online.
Quality.
Him I guess that makes sense. What about busy or idle? I'd hate to bother someone who is legit busy or, say, watching a show on their PC.
I dunno, it's going to take some getting used to. Jury's out on whether it's better or not.
Idle is the same as online. I'm guessing busy is too, but none of my friends are busy for me to test.
cuevas. PhD.
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Verizon's offering the Droid DNA free with contract.
Something's coming Verizon bros!
Something's coming Verizon bros!
That really blows if that's the case =/
It's not 1-star bad but the app has some pretty poor design decisions.
1. Too hard to tell between online/offline
2. Impossible to tell who on your contacts list even uses the fucking thing
3. Putting ALL your contacts from your phone and every single person from your google+ circles is just plain retarded. Imagine Twitter making an IM app and putting everyone you follow as a contact. It BADLY needs filtering options.
And why the fuck are contacts that only have phone numbers even in there in the first place? There's no SMS integration so what reason is there to have them in your Hangouts list?
1. Too hard to tell between online/offline
2. Impossible to tell who on your contacts list even uses the fucking thing
3. Putting ALL your contacts from your phone and every single person from your google+ circles is just plain retarded. Imagine Twitter making an IM app and putting everyone you follow as a contact. It BADLY needs filtering options.
And why the fuck are contacts that only have phone numbers even in there in the first place? There's no SMS integration so what reason is there to have them in your Hangouts list?
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