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Android |OT2| - Patent pending
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-Pyromaniac-
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Except the HTC One X shipped with a 1800mah battery. Which is much worse. I've never used an extra battery in my life so I guess I just don't care.
huh??Judging from a preview I read on the Optimus G the other day the battery life isn't going to be that great on a 2100mah battery. Perhaps Google will be able to squeeze a bit more life out of it on stock Android, but it doesn't look like its going to be near the market leaders.
I'm also starting to think that the Nexus 4 will be GSM/HSDPA only, with no LTE. I just can't see LG producing a Nexus for Google with the same feature set as the Optimus G. They need the Optimus to have an edge in some areas so the Nexus doesn't cannibalise its sales. Hopefully no LTE modem would have a positive effect on battery life.
Just a guess though, only 10 days to go until we find out what Google have up their sleeves.
Stock should help with that and when compared to the galaxy nexus, between new the screen, SoC and a ~400 mah bump it battery it'll be just fine... Throw some custom ROMs and kernels into the mix and it'll be beautiful.
As far a the Nexus Cannibalizing the G's sales... Nexus phones appeal to a very niche market. LG has nothing to worry about.
-Pyromaniac-
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Engadget liked the battery life as well, They also said the S4 basically shits on everything out there. but I'll just quote the battery part:
keep in mind that's still running ICS and not Jellybean, AND it's running with LGs stuff on it.
edit: and that is the battery with LTE as well.
keep in mind that's still running ICS and not Jellybean, AND it's running with LGs stuff on it.
edit: and that is the battery with LTE as well.
isnt it also LTE?
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ah yeah I forgot to say, that quote is about the LTE version as well.
Also about the camera, they echo the same words as some other sites. That it's MOSTLY held back by shitty software. So hopefully stock android will help that out as well.
Phanatic8390
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I'm starting to lose hope the Nexus 4 is going to come to Verizon.
I need a new phone dammit.
I need a new phone dammit.
Randy Lanzarote
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Well that's a better write-up than what I read the other day, can't remember for the life of me where I saw it though. The writer claimed he only got a couple of hours screen-on time out of it before it died. If it's keeping up with the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3's of the world then great!
As for cannabilising the sales, I only say that as LG don't seem to have the greatest of reputations, and if Joe Public walks into a store and is told that the Google Nexus and LG Optimus are exactly the same phone, I think he's probably going walk away with the Nexus. I can see LG wanting to nerf the Nexus in some way so that doesn't happen (that is of course if it is going to be offered by carriers....and the US carrier scence confuses the hell out of me so I'm not even going to attempt to guess what the results of that would be!)
HTC Droid Incredible Butterfly.
Phanatic8390
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I don't know how I feel about another HTC phone.
I'm currently on an OG Incredible and I'm pretty sick of sense. Aren't the bootloaders locked on all HTC devices?
All I want is a flagship phone running stock! Is that so difficult?
Sony confirmed the update for most 2012 Xperia phones. Q1 2013 for T,TX and V. No ETA for the early 2012 range yet.
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/product...rades-jelly-bean-for-2012-xperia-smartphones/
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/product...rades-jelly-bean-for-2012-xperia-smartphones/
That's nice... how about the actual release date for the Xperia V.
BootlegSnackz
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Dunno. I want a Nexus so badly. but why do I even want stock android when i would still want to flash roms anyway... aokp just gives a little more customization and they are starting to add features not available in stock android.
plus i've decided, the next phone i get has to have an sd slot. until they start making phones that start at 32gb and move up to 64gb i need an sd card slot.
if nexus 4 had 32gb and lte, i'd be on board. not going to go backwards up in this piece.
thing is its not even the speed that bothers me, hspa+ is fine, but it's the fact that if i'm not on an lte phone at&t will throttle my unlimited plan at 3gb instead of 5gb
plus i've decided, the next phone i get has to have an sd slot. until they start making phones that start at 32gb and move up to 64gb i need an sd card slot.
if nexus 4 had 32gb and lte, i'd be on board. not going to go backwards up in this piece.
thing is its not even the speed that bothers me, hspa+ is fine, but it's the fact that if i'm not on an lte phone at&t will throttle my unlimited plan at 3gb instead of 5gb
LOL no 2011 models to JB. Sad, these phones should've come out with ICS in the first place. That's like if Apple stopped supporting the 4S.
More reason to never go for anything but a Nexus. There's absolutely no reason for 1 year old (Sony) flagship phones to be effectively discontinued. Seems like most manufacturers are happy doing one update then giving up on the phone.
More reason to never go for anything but a Nexus. There's absolutely no reason for 1 year old (Sony) flagship phones to be effectively discontinued. Seems like most manufacturers are happy doing one update then giving up on the phone.
It's funny. I always assumed that once a new version of Android came out, manufacturers that have phones speced to handle it would by default have it. But I guess that's the curse of manufacturer-driven diversity.
I'm also curious about these multiple Nexus devices. What's the incentive for these manufacturers? Are they meant to be just standard development editions of that iteration of hardware? Can't see that happening if they end up changing the hardware to differentiate from the hardware it's based off of.
They just want you to buy a new phone. It does suck considering they mentioned 18 months of upgrades.
BootlegSnackz
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they really are making too many phones.
they should have six phones per year...max
Flagship
Mid level
Low end
and then six months later have upgrades to those phones (possibly with different designs or new features)
wash rinse repeat....
but i guess the billions and trillions of people in the world need more choices
can't hate on that, but they have to be able to slim down on their fat handed phone making...flooding the market with androids so that we can activate 1 million+ per day, ha.
-Pyromaniac-
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another annoying thing about Android is the non stop fucking updates for apps. Which is of course a symptom of there being so many goddamn phones they have to support. It's excessive.
Pretty crappy for people who don't buy high end phones either. I doubt my brother's HTC One V will ever be updated to JB. No update for the Xperia U either.
I'm sticking with Nexus once the N4 is out. I wonder how long consumers are going to be willing to have their phones discontinued after a year.
I'm sticking with Nexus once the N4 is out. I wonder how long consumers are going to be willing to have their phones discontinued after a year.
This is why I support low(er) end Nexus phones that are more affordable (kinda like the nexus 7)
Google should do that much more often.
A blessing and a curse. As I read this, my phone has 17 updates downloading.
fuck that shit, i love the updates, it makes me fell warm and fuzzy inside when i see an update. Also, it shouldn't matter as 80% of them don't require any kind of user intervention.
The Faceless Master
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I don't feel like my Android apps update any more often than my iPhone apps did.
-Pyromaniac-
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as someone that uses an iphone with tons of apps and a nexus 7 with less apps, the nexus 7 is constantly updating. The same fucking apps too, over and over. Never notice any changes for me because they're mostly fixes for one of the trillion other phones.
I set it to only update on wifi. None of these updates are essentaul, really.
You can also turn off the update on most of the apps.
-Pyromaniac-
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But for someone who is all OCD on updates or something like me, it can be pretty annoying.
You probably can make a Tasker action to automatically clear the update notifications for you if you are anal.
-Pyromaniac-
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But I'll know.
BootlegSnackz
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-Pyromaniac-
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Doesn't solve the OCD part of me that wants everything to be up to date.
Nicktendo86
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Then set your apps to auto update!
-Pyromaniac-
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But dat battery. I don't keep my stuff plugged in all the time.
Om Malick estamate google has sold 700k-1 million Nexus 7.
http://gigaom.com/mobile/so-how-many-nexus-7-tablets-did-google-sell/
Is that good? Doesn't seem that much to me?
Edit: oh directly from google web store. So the actual number is higher.
http://gigaom.com/mobile/so-how-many-nexus-7-tablets-did-google-sell/
Is that good? Doesn't seem that much to me?
Edit: oh directly from google web store. So the actual number is higher.
Over the years and way back in the day when I first started ripping my CD's I never took care of the metadata. So with my library uploaded to Google Music, sometimes I load it and start correcting and fixing album art and album data.....then before I know it an hour has passed.
Good lord I can lose a lot of time fixing that. I just cannot stand that so many thousands of songs are incorrectly or not tagged at all. I have to fix them
:twitch:
Good lord I can lose a lot of time fixing that. I just cannot stand that so many thousands of songs are incorrectly or not tagged at all. I have to fix them
:twitch:
-Pyromaniac-
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well good in comparison to tablets not named ipad? yes. Otherwise, not really
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BootlegSnackz
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jobber
Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
If he's on Sprint, the new Nexus won't show up until April like always.
Unknown Soldier
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The US Note II announcement is next week! Get hype!
AndresON777
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4G let is so good. Lol I'm going to fly thru my data plan :/
Because you won't have to mess with unlocking the boot loader in some crazy method. You also don't have to worry about an update breaking said method.
As long as the unlocking method us safe I don't see the problem. Its still much less of a problem than dealing with no sd card and no removable battery.
After trying various custom roms I am back using UK version of the official rom for my International Note.
IMO a stable official rom is pretty much 98% useable.
Rocket Scientist
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I cannot find how to move a file/folder from the sd card of the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 to Google Drive.... I feel stupid. Can anyone help?
Use upload in the Drive app? Or share on Drive by long-pressing the app in a file explorer?
-Pyromaniac-
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Being in Canada I wouldn't know, never paid attention
That sucks if Sprint takes that long.
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