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Is this your first time with WP? If so, I'd be interested in some quick opinions, always been interested in it.
Wait for that prism blog, you guys are gonna shut down after I write it.
(does WP7 launcher count as WP? =D )
Lol. When honestly, I'd like to see a WP from an Android users perspective article!
I'm reading How to post iPhone 5s slo-mo videos to Instagram and elsewhere and shaking my head.
On my nexus 7, it's a kernel thing. I would guess other phone kernels do it also.
So it seems the Sept 25 Hangouts update I installed yesterday is not version 1.2, which explains why I don't see status icons.
The app is marked as 1.2 in the Play store, but 1.1 in the About section of the app. What is going on?!
Nicktendo86
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In a lot of ways iOS is so behind the game it is not even funny, I try to explain these BASIC features that iOS is missing to iPhone users and most of the time they just don't care. Dat ecosystem lock in.
Edit: Fatalah, they do staged rollouts so only some people get the update at a certain time. Idea is they can locate bugs and fix them before everyone gets the update, but it is frustrating. Sometimes the log can update, you think you are getting the latest version, but you are updating to an older version.
Just in time for the new NBA season. Im really happy about this. Fuck timed updates.
Lord have mercy, I am howling.
To be honest, I played around with my co-workers recently updated (to iOS 7) iPhone 5 and animations on that OS are far ahead of anything I've seen on the Nexus line.
Not sure how el Goog will ever get Android to be that smooth. Maybe never.
They also seem to be causing actual motion sickness for some users :-D
In pretty sure if you added up all the time wasted waiting for the animations in ios7 and compounding that over years it could be in the days of your life wasted
Well, that's a testament to their "realism".
:-D
It's useless I know, but it's pretty and it sells phones.
First impressions are important. To someone coming from iOS looking to jump onto Android, the OS might seem slow and buggy as fuck. Which is not the case. It just might be perceived that way.
Pppss animation transition is so beginner. I only use gesture to launch apps. Zero transition.
iOS: Looking great while not doing what you want to do (see: video sharing issue above)
I never quite understood why smoothness/animations are widely considered to be the the number 1 and 2 'features' which make an OS good. It baffles me as much as the rendering resolution/refresh rate for games.
A shitty game at 1080p60 is still a shit game.
A good game at a lower resolution, stuttery is still a good game but with annoying traits.
A shitty game at 1080p60 is still a shit game.
A good game at a lower resolution, stuttery is still a good game but with annoying traits.
Where was it marked as 1.2? Remember the description section when updated is updated instantly where as the apk and version section is stagnated (still have no idea why this and OTA are this terrible to release)
cuevas. PhD.
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Bad analogy. Watching a movie on a flickering SD TV is not as enjoyable as watching it on a well calibrated hdtv. It's the means not the end.
You're conflating two different things. People that tout iOS' smoothness is talking about the responsiveness in the interaction of your fingers and the OS (see: the old scrolling on web pages, double tapping on an area and zooming in on a text block accurately).
A better metaphor is:
A game with tight, precise controls.
Becasue this is one thing iPhone fanboys can always count on that has been better, is better and will always better than other systems.
What I don't understand this has never been brought up in OSX vs Windows frame wars. Mac OS (since OS9 ) has always had much smoother and more consistant transition than WIndows but nobody seem to care.
Kingdom Rush Frontiers is (finally) out.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ironhidegames.android.kingdomrushfrontiers&hl
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ironhidegames.android.kingdomrushfrontiers&hl
brotkasten
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Because it's simply a shitty and annoying experience. I find it exteremly annoying to use my Galaxy Nexus, when the scrolling and animation all stutter. It makes me feel like I'm waiting half of the time for the task to finish, because the animation is so slow and stuttery.
So the Hangouts online notification works.
This is my cousin:
She has two Gmail accounts (Google+ accounts) and occasionally she logs off of one of them.
So if someone has Hangouts on their phone and they are logged into it, the indicator will show green. If they log off, it will show gray.
Oh, and I'm sorry to actually point out something positive about iOS. God forbid another mobile OS does something better than Android >_>
This is my cousin:
She has two Gmail accounts (Google+ accounts) and occasionally she logs off of one of them.
So if someone has Hangouts on their phone and they are logged into it, the indicator will show green. If they log off, it will show gray.
Oh, and I'm sorry to actually point out something positive about iOS. God forbid another mobile OS does something better than Android >_>
Vyse The Legend
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Well that's slightly more useful but it's still not an online status unless you're going to log off every time you want to appear offline.
Actually Windows Phone had animations from day one and has always been smoother* than the comparable iPhone imo, especially when comparing the cheaper models the cheap nokias are smoother than an iPhone running iOS7.
*smoother but thus slower than android and webos
So you're saying that a bad movie on a calibrated HDTV is better than a great movie on a flickering SD TV. I'm not saying iOS is 'bad' or that the experience doesn't matter and obviously it's better to watch a movie on a well calibrated HDTV than on a flickering SD TV. But the fact remains that you can't claim that Suckerpunch is better than the Godfather because you watched Suckerpunch on an HDTV and the Godfather on a 24" SDTV.
Whatever, different analogy, same point. A bad game with tight, precise controls isn't better than a good game with some input lag or imprecise controls. It's more annoying to play the latter but it doesn't make it a worse game.
I too have a GN and I feel your pain. But even though it stutters to scroll, I can still don't have to upload a video to a mail server and get it back to send it to another application.
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I get that not being smooth is a big flaw in Android, but I don't get why that's the only metric that people take note of. Do people really only judge books by the smoothness of their page turning?
If you are on your phone and connected to the internet, you are online. It's simple as that.
The Faceless Master
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Oh I didn't think about not being connected to the internet. Yeah, I guess that is useful.
Yeah that amazed me too. I never realized that when filming in slow motion it's actually capturing at a higher framerate than the eye can perceive. I always thought that slow mo cameras literally warped the time-space continuum, slowing down the entire universe but themselves and kept recording at a steady 30fps.
Also, I presume that when SMS integration finally arrives that for those contacts that do not have Hangouts installed, the application will just use their mobile # and send out a text message vs a hangouts message.
Here is hoping.
Hahaha
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It isn't, but it's a pretty critical factor when using a touch-based operating system.
Look, all (well most of us besides one or two people) are reasonable enough to know there are pros and cons with the two (relevant) operating systems in the mobile space.
Vyse The Legend
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The September 25 update is marked version 1.2 under the Play Store's "What's New" release notes.
Jesus, now I just feel bad for anyone who is stuck with that shit.
Samsung'd?
...why?
brotkasten
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Did Samsung seriously release a fake stitched leather back for the Note 3?
The Faceless Master
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region locked phones!? WAT? that is ... bizarre. someone needs to contact Samsung and ask what the fuck is up.
that's the stock backplate.
Did Samsung seriously release a fake stitched leather back for the Note 3?
Where have you been?
Did Samsung seriously release a fake stitched leather back for the Note 3?
Holy fuck. WTF
Battersea Power Station
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Samsung is going backwards technologically. The Note 4 will eschew a SD card in favor of a 120GB HDD and it will look like Gordon Gecko's phone. TouchWiz will complete its transformation to a Windows XP style OS, and it'll have all kinds of stuff running in the taskbar, like McAffee and Intel Integrated Graphics Control Panel.
The Faceless Master
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okay, so it's not quite as ridiculous as it could have been, though it still sucks.
after checking with XDA and Twitter, it seems like you have to use an in-region SIM first, then you can use any region SIM. well, at least on the non-carrier models.
carrier models still need to be unlocked by the carrier...
after checking with XDA and Twitter, it seems like you have to use an in-region SIM first, then you can use any region SIM. well, at least on the non-carrier models.
carrier models still need to be unlocked by the carrier...
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