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It's more like when someone takes a Beamer and puts an awful body kit on it. Beamwiz
ThatObviousUser
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Droid Maxx acquired~
Battersea Power Station
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I saw very briefly that the touchless voice app was released for the Moto X and the new Droids. Do all of them have the SoC optimizations, like only using one or two cores for certain operations?
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Da fuq you talking about?
Vermillion
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Hey - anyone know how to pin all of my music to my phone, all at once? It was doable with the old music app, but I don't know how to do it with this newer one.
No good cameras with which to do this
No good cameras with which to do this
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Sorry if the quality sucks as I suck at taking pics!
Sorry if the quality sucks as I suck at taking pics!
Hardware pr0n
Jack Scofield
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Just tried this out. It basically does the same thing as the calender app, right? It's too bad Keep doesn't sync all my tasks and events from the calender app (unless it does and I can't find it).
Square Triangle
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My upgrade is up, I have Verizon. No idea what to get. Should I wait? I have an S3 at the moment.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
S3 is still a really good device honestly I'd hold out till next year when the GS5 hits.
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The Faceless Master
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Note 3 gets announced soon.
Square Triangle
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Pfft, that's boring though!
So VZW customers won't get a choice in colors? How is the camera?
My wife has the Note 2, way too big for my taste.
The Faceless Master
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iPhone 5S drops soon... LG G2?
camera is terrible. that's one thing the reviewers agree on!
your wife has great taste in phones
Square Triangle
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What current android device offers the best camera?
The Faceless Master
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GS4. well, i mean unless you're counting stuff like the Galaxy S4 Zoom... you know you want DAT NOTE TREY
Unknown Soldier
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If you only take pictures when it's pitch black, the HTC One.
Otherwise I would go with the GS4 over the One for camera.
Praise be to Brettison!Sorry if the quality sucks as I suck at taking pics!
On an unrelated note, being able to just say "weather please" to Google now and it responding is pretty cool.
Vermillion
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Update for anyone who was wondering as well - it doesn't seem that there's any way to do this, but from the phone, you can go to the "Last Added" playlist, and then you can make a new playlist from there, with all your songs.
After that, you can pin the new playlist to your phone in its entirety, and pretty much pin all your songs to your phone that way.
GHG
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Sony are meant to be announcing a new flagship in early September that will rival the 1020 in terms of camera.
Unknown Soldier
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Something's wrong with your phone or settings then. Google Now doesn't normally suck down the battery. Do you have it set to always listen for your voice trigger? I think that kills the battery.
Nah but I think it's the Location Wakelocks. Google loves to create location based wakelocks
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Okay, short impressions of day one with my new Droid Maxx...
Can't give the ever-important impression on battery life, as when I was using it, I hadn't charged it to 100%. But it mixed usage from whatever point it came charged at, it seemed to do decently.
Touchless controls seem to work from a decent distance. I'm 4'11" away from the phone (I had measuring tape handy), and it seems to respond well enough even still. The main problems seem to come when trying to speak when it's playing music, for expected reasons, I suppose. So long as you speak pretty clearly, it should be fine.
Also, I have trouble getting it to recognize Yeezus as Yeezus, instead of Jesus. Almost sounds like a line that would be somewhere in that album, come to think of it. Still great fun, though.
Now, because I only had Android 2.3.3 on my last smartphone, an Xperia Play (you can't root on 2.3.4, apparently, and many of the ROMs were 2.3.3, so... but the highest it went was 2.3.4, officially), this is my first time owning a 4.x phone (my tablet got 4.0, though). It's pretty damned good, IMO. Fun to play with. The phone as a whole is pretty responsive and smooth, but coming off my last phone I could say that about anything. Only time will tell if this holds up.
When it comes to general design, I get why people prefer phones that curve in your hand. While the Droid Maxx is by no means uncomfortable to hold, it certainly lacks the level of comfort that even my Xperia Play had with its curved back. As for the size... I was worried about the screen size being 5", but I've adjusted quickly enough.
Other comments... it was really nice being able to set up everything so that I could migrate all of my texts and my call history and stuff to my new phone. I didn't expect the stuff on my SD card to come with it, but I guess it *did* say pictures and videos, so I have the episodes of FMA: Brotherhood I downloaded a while back on my new phone. Gravy. Memory doesn't seem to have taken a big hit at all. I still have 22~24GB left, and 3GB is already in use. Again, coming off of my Xperia Play (Which had less than 1GB of internal storage), this is pretty glorious.
Overall, I like the phone so far. We'll see how long this works out for me. Also, 6 free months of Google Play All-Access (see, I don't pay for All-Access, so the last time I used it was with the 30 day free trial)!
Can't give the ever-important impression on battery life, as when I was using it, I hadn't charged it to 100%. But it mixed usage from whatever point it came charged at, it seemed to do decently.
Touchless controls seem to work from a decent distance. I'm 4'11" away from the phone (I had measuring tape handy), and it seems to respond well enough even still. The main problems seem to come when trying to speak when it's playing music, for expected reasons, I suppose. So long as you speak pretty clearly, it should be fine.
Also, I have trouble getting it to recognize Yeezus as Yeezus, instead of Jesus. Almost sounds like a line that would be somewhere in that album, come to think of it. Still great fun, though.
Now, because I only had Android 2.3.3 on my last smartphone, an Xperia Play (you can't root on 2.3.4, apparently, and many of the ROMs were 2.3.3, so... but the highest it went was 2.3.4, officially), this is my first time owning a 4.x phone (my tablet got 4.0, though). It's pretty damned good, IMO. Fun to play with. The phone as a whole is pretty responsive and smooth, but coming off my last phone I could say that about anything. Only time will tell if this holds up.
When it comes to general design, I get why people prefer phones that curve in your hand. While the Droid Maxx is by no means uncomfortable to hold, it certainly lacks the level of comfort that even my Xperia Play had with its curved back. As for the size... I was worried about the screen size being 5", but I've adjusted quickly enough.
Other comments... it was really nice being able to set up everything so that I could migrate all of my texts and my call history and stuff to my new phone. I didn't expect the stuff on my SD card to come with it, but I guess it *did* say pictures and videos, so I have the episodes of FMA: Brotherhood I downloaded a while back on my new phone. Gravy. Memory doesn't seem to have taken a big hit at all. I still have 22~24GB left, and 3GB is already in use. Again, coming off of my Xperia Play (Which had less than 1GB of internal storage), this is pretty glorious.
Overall, I like the phone so far. We'll see how long this works out for me. Also, 6 free months of Google Play All-Access (see, I don't pay for All-Access, so the last time I used it was with the 30 day free trial)!
Rayven_king
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speaking of the maxx, what are the top 5/10 newish phones in terms of battery life, I was supposed to get a note 2 in june but I had to fix something with my car, so I'm still weighing my options to see whats out there
prodystopian
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I thought the new youtube was supposed to allow videos to keep playing with the display off. Is coming later, or is there a setting I can't find?
I don't think this has been implemented yet, but probably coming later on.
prodystopian
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Thanks, I thought it was part of this big update, which is a great update from what I've seen so far. Looking forward to finally getting that, too.
Vanillalite
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You asked for port pics so I tried to oblige! I aim to please Android-GAF!
It is almost certainly not coming. It's probably been built, but Google's music licences do not allow them to roll it out and I don't see that changing.
I'll make sure to return the favour. When all of you have forgotten about it... When you all least expect it, a barrage of photos will commence.
Today seems to be the first day of Moto X's huge marketing campaign.
Walking through Penn Station this morning, Moto X ads were spattered across TV screens.
I remembered watching Erin Andrews' energy drink billboard being removed yesterday, so I took a quick detour and LO AND BEHOLD!
Walking through Penn Station this morning, Moto X ads were spattered across TV screens.
I remembered watching Erin Andrews' energy drink billboard being removed yesterday, so I took a quick detour and LO AND BEHOLD!
Google now is pretty useless in Canada so i have it disabled.
prodystopian
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Do you have a source for that? Couldn't they just disallow it for music similar to how they filter content not available on mobile? I mostly want it for listening to lectures and long talks.
Thanks. I'm seeing that google doesn't ship to many countries and that your cc info must match the place of shipping, sucks.
I just deleted this from my lockscreen widgets, and I can't find it anywhere.
On PA 3.6 ish IIRC if that matters.
I hate the default time widget, and even with hybrid setup, I can't find anything that looks this good in my other widgets.
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Found it.
it's a framework-res mod I had done
EDIT 2:
No it isn't
On PA 3.6 ish IIRC if that matters.
I hate the default time widget, and even with hybrid setup, I can't find anything that looks this good in my other widgets.
EDIT:
Found it.
it's a framework-res mod I had done
EDIT 2:
No it isn't
Junior Mint
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Moto X has been available in Canada since the weekend and it feels like there's been no buzz at all.
Probably has something to do with us not getting the colour options. What a colossal moronic mistake.
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