-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Android |OT3| This thread is incompatible with all of your devices.
- Thread starter ThatObviousUser
- Start date
- Status
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Biggest thing is companies need to work on their display tech beyond just pixel count. Color accuracy, brightness, viewing angles are all important too.
That being said I think the 4th gen iPad gets solid battery despite having such a high res display.
ThatObviousUser
ὠαἴÏÏιÏÏÎ¿Ï Ïαá¿Ï εἶ
Tablets are a much different beast. They can have far bigger batteries and most of them don't have to worry about 3G/LTE.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
I don't disagree.
I'd rather see HTC perfect their already awesome SLCD3 display in the HTC One verses just upping the Pixel count. I DO see value in 1080 displays over 720 though.
Yeah, I agree with that all the way. But honestly, at this point battery life is worse off than screen quality.
ThatObviousUser
ὠαἴÏÏιÏÏÎ¿Ï Ïαá¿Ï εἶ
Here you go Coppy.
Time alerts in Google Keep, along with custom "Remind me later..." options.
Edit- Oooh, Keep also has the slidey-drawer design now too.
Time alerts in Google Keep, along with custom "Remind me later..." options.
Edit- Oooh, Keep also has the slidey-drawer design now too.
Junior Mint
Member
Man why did they use a gradient for the action bar in YouTube? Looks terrible, should've kept it black.
I was about to post about this.
Too bad I have to wait for the damned staged rollouts >=|
I hope this replaces their shitty tasks.
ThatObviousUser
ὠαἴÏÏιÏÏÎ¿Ï Ïαá¿Ï εἶ
I just opened Tasks in Gmail for the first time in about four years and I realized that it probably would have been Spring Clean'd a few springs ago but pretty much everyone's forgotten about it, lol.
BertramCooper
Banned
Okay, so I use Google Voice as my primary number for my Nexus 4, and I also have the Hangouts plugin installed in my Chrome desktop browser.
About ten minutes ago, I got a call through Google Voice, and a split second before my phone rang, I got a pop-up through the Hangouts plugin telling me that I had a call coming through Hangouts.
This hasn't happened to me before. Anyone else experience this? Maybe I'm just totally behind the times or something, but I've just never seen Hangouts respond to my Google Voice number.
About ten minutes ago, I got a call through Google Voice, and a split second before my phone rang, I got a pop-up through the Hangouts plugin telling me that I had a call coming through Hangouts.
This hasn't happened to me before. Anyone else experience this? Maybe I'm just totally behind the times or something, but I've just never seen Hangouts respond to my Google Voice number.
Don't mind me I'll just be over here fapping
Nicktendo86
Member
Hey, I go on honeymoon to the Dominican republic on Friday and Google now is now showing me the Dominican weather as well as local. Been said before but I say it again, Google now is magical.
I use Google voice with the same email as hangouts and that has happened a few times. I only use the Google voice number for Craigslist transactions though. You can make phone calls through hangouts to cell and home numbers uses your Google voice number.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Apple needs to work on massive battery length. That's the only way other manufacturers will follow. Whatever Apple does, everyone else copies. Touch screens, on screen keyboards, high res displays, beautiful designs. That's my biggest hope for the iPhone 6 of 2014. It won't happen with this 5S model.
I get it and it is awesome.
I get it and it is awesome.
The Faceless Master
Member
keeps getting better.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
hardy har har
ThatObviousUser
ὠαἴÏÏιÏÏÎ¿Ï Ïαá¿Ï εἶ
Actually, the original Droid kicked off the Res Wars.
FWVGA (854 x 480) vs. the then-iPhone's HVGA (480 x 320.)
The Faceless Master
Member
if they start that war even with 48 hour battery life, we could be talking all week life in a year.
my GPU at home can run a game at 4k. Doesn't mean it should.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Well, maybe but truly, nope. Nothing matched the iPhone 4's screen for maybe 2 years. Not just pixels. That beautiful glass being fused closer to the pixels. Blew my mind when I first saw it.
Ha, yeah, that's usually how Android manufacturers work. That would be awesome.
I was blown away by how shitty the resolution was on the iphone.
First time I saw it...wtfisthishit since I was rocking the nexus one, and my previous phone was a t-mo htc shadow was blessed with a vga screen at 2.6" which is like 300ppi or something like that.
T.M. MacReady
NO ONE DENIES MEMBER
Took a few attempts, but I finally have my T-Mo Galaxy S4 rooted with Google Edition 4.3 flashed, and apps2SD working perfectly
feeling like this guy for the first time since i ditched my shitty VZW G-Nex and started the process of hacking/customizing this new phone
feeling like this guy for the first time since i ditched my shitty VZW G-Nex and started the process of hacking/customizing this new phone
This would be so good though. I miss batteries that lasted ages.
the batteries haven't changed, their use has. Tech for week-long, let only even 2-day batteries just isn't in commercial stages yet.
Li-Ion power density can only get so far. It's a problem a ton of people are trying to solve.
It's actually easier to attack it from the opposite end - the consumption side.
A Chem E friend that designs robots for the Army and I had a good talk about this a year ago. Obviously he could explain it better, but his rough statement was that it's basically tapped out at the price point that consumer electronics firms demand.
If they're willing to pay 10, 20, 30 times more with much lower yields then there are options out there.
It's actually easier to attack it from the opposite end - the consumption side.
A Chem E friend that designs robots for the Army and I had a good talk about this a year ago. Obviously he could explain it better, but his rough statement was that it's basically tapped out at the price point that consumer electronics firms demand.
If they're willing to pay 10, 20, 30 times more with much lower yields then there are options out there.
I'm pretty sure of the answer to this but I thought it best to check first.
My friend just got a new Android phone (not sure of the make) and she says it has some strange ideas like swiping to open apps instead of tapping - if I tell her to install a different launcher like Nova and she wants to go back to the default, can she just uninstall Nova through Google Play and that's it?
I think so, just checking - I know there's a 'clear defaults' way etc but I don't know how the phone is set up settings-wise without being able to see it.
My friend just got a new Android phone (not sure of the make) and she says it has some strange ideas like swiping to open apps instead of tapping - if I tell her to install a different launcher like Nova and she wants to go back to the default, can she just uninstall Nova through Google Play and that's it?
I think so, just checking - I know there's a 'clear defaults' way etc but I don't know how the phone is set up settings-wise without being able to see it.
Yeah, as soon as she uninstalls nova it'll go back to the default launcher. If there's another launcher installed, it'll prompt you to pick one.
The Faceless Master
Member
what phone? and uninstalling the 3rd party launcher will revert to the default one yes.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
OK so I wrote my Nexus 7 review. You broodies want any more pics?
My entire body is aching for more.
And y'all can expect a buttload of pics from me when I get mine.
whenever that is
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Has it released in Canada yet?
Probably. Maybe. Ask Pyro that. It'll probably be a couple more months before a proper Euro release.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Best buy and staples in Canada has had it for over a week I think.
Know what is absolutely awful in stock android? Receiving MMS messages. I hate getting pictures and having to view them in slide show mode. This really needs to be fixed in 5.0
http://i.imgur.com/eufSwL3.png
TURRIBLE
http://i.imgur.com/eufSwL3.png
TURRIBLE
Strangely my HTC One GE doesn't do this.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Stock is the most overrated part of android. I would hate, hate, hate to go from Sense 5 to stock.
THIIIIISSSSS. I fucking hate this. I hope KLP fixes this. Googy pls
Okay...let's not be silly now.
The Faceless Master
Member
stock camrys are perfect. a toyota the way it was intended.
I've had mine since day 1
i probably should snap some pics one of these days...
ThatObviousUser
ὠαἴÏÏιÏÏÎ¿Ï Ïαá¿Ï εἶ
More like Google Voice needs to get MMS and Hangouts needs to get Google Voice.
Sqrt_minus_one
Member
Display Test
So someone did a completely unscientific test on all the popular mobile displays out there but it illustrates what I think about all of them you really need to be looking for the smallest differences to spot them.
At this point I fail to see any kind of difference between the displays, viewing angles were surprisingly good on all who views their phone at angles greater than 160 degrees anyway.
So someone did a completely unscientific test on all the popular mobile displays out there but it illustrates what I think about all of them you really need to be looking for the smallest differences to spot them.
At this point I fail to see any kind of difference between the displays, viewing angles were surprisingly good on all who views their phone at angles greater than 160 degrees anyway.
My Galaxy S2 on stock rom (4.1.2) keeps on crashing with the message of Google framework has crashed. Basically my android keeps on restarting, which is causing me this problem. It was working perfectly before and I have not placed custom roms on my phone. All I have Launcher EX+, but that shouldn't be causing a problem.
Its getting annoying with constant rebooting. :| I like the phone, but I don't like it keeps on crashing though.
Any suggestions?
Anyone guys? My cell phone keeps on restarting...
Its becoming a real problem as the restarting drains the battery. Anyone guys? My cell phone keeps on restarting...
No idea, could it be hardware related? If not, root!
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Anyone guys? My cell phone keeps on restarting...
Are you on the latest Google services? You could always factory reset and see how it goes.
- Status