shinshoryuken
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This and that it lacks LTE!
The HTC One button lay out is no big deal.
Currently there's are mods to make those 3 dot menu on screen menus dissapear. Either hold back button for menu or make the HTC logo a menu button.
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This and that it lacks LTE!
The HTC One button lay out is no big deal.
Currently there's are mods to make those 3 dot menu on screen menus dissapear. Either hold back button for menu or make the HTC logo a menu button.
The Faceless Master
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*pours one for emily chu and all the alt accounts*
i wouldn't call permanently removable speakers and gap filled construction quality, but hey, that's just me...
-Pyromaniac-
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You lost credibility when it comes to taste after the world witnessed your homescreen 
Nicktendo86
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Zing!You lost credibility when it comes to taste after the world witnessed your homescreen
true though
shinshoryuken
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You lost credibility when it comes to taste after the world witnessed your homescreen
Oh snap lol.
And plus the s4 are also plague with hardware issues. So you shouldnt bash one product, but ignore the issues with the brand you worship.
Marty Chinn
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You lost credibility when it comes to taste after the world witnessed your homescreen
Hah!
Link please!
The Faceless Master
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so.. why would anyone get the Google edition over the Dev edition with 64GB for just $50 more?
yep, because zerogap is in the eye of the beholder. who is to say what zero really is anyway?
You lost credibility when it comes to taste after the world witnessed your homescreen
yep, because zerogap is in the eye of the beholder. who is to say what zero really is anyway?
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
To which? The comic sans ones or the stripes or the honeycomb?
Nicktendo86
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It should be a banable offence to repeat faceless' home screen, it is that bad.
The Faceless Master
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The Faceless Master
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seriously, it's not hard to remove a bunch of icons, theme and arrange the ones left over, use an incredible sterile wallpaper, text weather and time and screenshot it.
then please do this and spare us from this monstrosity
The Faceless Master
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i'm so edgy, i'm not even using Google/Samsung Apps. such a free spirit.
But you're using a Google wallpaper :O
The Faceless Master
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because i refuse to be defined by anything!
i also left Smart Stay on.
and Groove IP uses Google Voice.
The Faceless Master
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it's all by design.
Why did no one post about today's most GAME CHANGING NEWS?
-Pyromaniac-
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But yeah someone mentioned it a page ago about the camera performance on stock but hopefully 5.0 whenever that comes out will feature big improvements to the software. I think it's one of their main goals but they really need to step it up there.
The Faceless Master
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It doesn't have McDonalds or Taco Bell... therefore....
The Faceless Master
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we're getting ahead of ourselves here... WVGA at midrange is still around.
Well you shouldn't be eating there in the first place.
Seriously why do phones still use this?
Nicktendo86
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Rumour that lg are not only working on the nexus 5, they have a prototype.
http://m.androidauthority.com/lg-nexus-5-prototype-in-works-218428/
http://m.androidauthority.com/lg-nexus-5-prototype-in-works-218428/
Like I said before, a new Nexus is already out there being finalized for release at the end of this year. The question was "Who is making it?"
A Nexus from every company. Believe!
OriginalThinking
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And faster, senseless updates! For every ying, there is a yang..
The Faceless Master
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more good news for Stock Android lovers:
no worries about that pesky and confusing FM Tuner that requires a heaphone cable to be plugged in on the HTC One Google Edition
no worries about the space cluttering Zoes and other confusing camera bloatware
no worries about enabling or disabling Beats Audio processing, it's always on (but not always online)
and no worries about that strange power/button IR port combination since the IR functionality will be disabled. it's just a power button now.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...tc-camera-features-and-no-beats-audio-switch/
no worries about that pesky and confusing FM Tuner that requires a heaphone cable to be plugged in on the HTC One Google Edition
no worries about the space cluttering Zoes and other confusing camera bloatware
no worries about enabling or disabling Beats Audio processing, it's always on (but not always online
)and no worries about that strange power/button IR port combination since the IR functionality will be disabled. it's just a power button now.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...tc-camera-features-and-no-beats-audio-switch/
Hmm. Well I don't know what to say really. I expected those changes from a device that would be running stock Android. The only thing that shocks me is that they are saying beats is enabled. Beats is just a software thing AFAIK. Its either on or off. Some mixed messages on that, but I would expect it to be off.
shinshoryuken
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Yeah plus the 64gig dev version is only 50 bucks more...
And very likely be able to run stock android as an option when the Rom get dumped.
-Pyromaniac-
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also HTC might release their own vanilla android ROM for current HTC One owners. So we may not have to wait for developers:
Doesn't matter for me personally because I'll probably be using a different phone by the time 5.0 is coming out. In the end I consider this more useful for other devices than the One.
Doesn't matter for me personally because I'll probably be using a different phone by the time 5.0 is coming out. In the end I consider this more useful for other devices than the One.
shinshoryuken
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nope no blinkfeed.
And also there's no mix and matching. You cannot put certain sense/touchwiz feature and functions on stock android. Its not a simply installing an .apk...
For the top of the line hardware, along with the timely updates, and without the Sense/Wiz/Blur nonsense. I have wanted that for a long time, the OS that I prefer on the hardware I prefer. I cant even count the number of times I have seen a flagship phone from an OEM and thought "If only it ran vanilla Android".
I'm sure these won't be popular with the mainstream the same way Nexus phones themselves aren't popular with the mainstream, but I'm happy as hell that they are doing this, and I hope it continues through the future. I'll probably never use a skinned device again if I get this many choices per year of Vanilla Android phones.
Junior Mint
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lol, I love that just as Sense is getting good they finally decide to give customers an option for stock Android. Makes it an even harder choice to decide between now.
For the S4, I take stock any day though. Touchwiz is so nasty.
For the S4, I take stock any day though. Touchwiz is so nasty.
I hate how they give us a Nexus type device on the one button setup that's pretty much gimped from the start.
shinshoryuken
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like I said, the One 2 button set up can be a 3 button set up. The HTC logo can become a capacitive button.
Nicktendo86
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I just don't get the point, the s4 and one are hardware designed to go hand in hand with their respective software, just slapping aosp onto them a great device does not make.
Ephemeris
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I remember this. They're not taking advantage?
shinshoryuken
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That's exactly my set up right now on the One. Long press back button for menu(no annoying 3 dots on the screen). Long press home for Google now and double tap for the app switcher.
its a simple mod. Somebody probably will make a mod the day its release.
If I'm not mistaken now, the deassembled unit had no button triggers on the HTC logo, the custom kernels for it just took the advantage of some group of pixels above the logo to map them as a button.
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