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Yea I just Google now swipe up.
you have any sports teams? I don't use it, i just dropped it there for the screenshot.
On a creepy google note, i'm not sure how long this has been there for as I have always taken public transportation until i moved to CA... but for my commute home card on a no traffic 25 minute ride, i will often see Traffic to Home - 44 minutes (6 minutes less then usual). So, it knows how much normal traffic is for the time i leave... which is creepy as shit
If anyone is interested, Amazon is finally selling the AT&T and Sprint versions of the Galaxy Note 3. For some reason, the AT&T build will set you back $749 (instead of $699 buying direct from AT&T) and $799 for Sprint. I'm hoping they get the Verizon version next week. I would rather buy it from Amazon for $749 than from Verizon for $50 less.
A buddy of mine had something like 8,000 people ahead of him the other day. He got in the following day.
A buddy of mine had something like 8,000 people ahead of him the other day. He got in the following day.
The Faceless Master
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Samsung gonna samsung.
thats a future politician right there
Nah, I don't follow the stock market either. I'm a boring person I guess.
lol nice try buttfaces
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
That's what I'd say if I were them, too. It's honest. What are benchmarks for, if not to show max power? It's not day to day power. Apple already made that distinction awhile ago. Therefore, I don't see the issue Apple fans take with Samsung Samsunging.
ThatObviousUser
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Probably gonna be $300/400 again.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
If that's the case, <3 my Nexus 4.
$300/$350! I swear the Nexus 4 launch is the most misremembered phone launch of all time. People think it had weak specs, cite wrong price points, etc. That's a testament to how game changing it was.
I think I'm going to just expect it to be $450.00. This way I don't get price sticker shock
T-mobile sell the Nexus 4 at: 427.99 full retail price
I really think people downplay the fact that Google pretty much gave the NEXUS 4 away (dirt cheap).
Battersea Power Station
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It was definitely not game changing. Whether it was gutsy or whatever is one thing, but the game is very much the same in the US: buy on contract for $0-$200.
Eanan
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Im guessing that will be the 8gb model? As £275 for a 16gb nexus 5 on release is a good deal. Maybe I should have waited instead of getting the Nexus 4 16gb for £200 last month...
EDIT: Wait, is that $446 unlocked or on contract?
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ThatObviousUser
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Hmm I'll go with $350/400 if that was the case. I don't see how they can squeeze the G2 specs down below $400 for the top end model.
cuevas. PhD.
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Sell it at cost? If they do it could be $350
Junior Mint
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Dude at AndroidPolice says Hangouts with SMS integration is in testing for 4.4.
https://plus.google.com/107797272029781254158/posts/g3R51JxPjcC
https://plus.google.com/107797272029781254158/posts/g3R51JxPjcC
Vyse The Legend
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Actually, it's very much in-line with the Nexus 4 launch price in the UK, which was £239 for the 8GB and about £275 for the 16gb. The source for this article is a UK retailer.
Sure, but it's going to be <$400 for sure, if this rumor is accurate.
EDIT: Less than.
This is nice. Except I use Google Voice for SMS and calling. WHEN YOU GONNA INTEGRATE THAT, GOOGLE?! HANGOUTS IS USELESS TO ME RIGHT NOW.
ThatObviousUser
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Um, this is that integration lol.
Hangouts already has calling. All that's left is SMS, which this rumor is about.
MEGATON
Baroquemantic
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I love you and your vast arsenal of smiley gifs. Always good for a smile.
Um, this is that integration lol.
Hangouts already has calling. All that's left is SMS, which this rumor is about.
MEGATON
Kind of. Google Voice calls your Hangout/Google Talk account and does it that way. But all your voicemail are still on the Google Voice end of things, both the site and Android app. I want it to be merged into one thing.
But didn't iMessage require iOS5+ or whatever?
But on Android all the Google apps and services have been separate from the OS updates for a while now. It's all done through Google Play.
But what's the point of putting out all your apps on the Play Store if you're just going to go back to restricting it to the latest version again? It's a miracle non-Nexus phones are seeing 4.3 fairly soonish after it came out as is. I don't know that the odds of them seeing 4.4 anytime soon are as high.
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It definitely wouldn't. They're just testing it on 4.4 since 4.4 is internal-only to Google at the moment.
I know, I'm just putting things in perspective. I don't think they'd have a requirement like that, maybe initially. But there might be some carrier involvement or under the hood type stuff that won't allow older versions to use the app like that.
I was thinking maybe there'd be some new API in 4.4 that was required for it. That would be a pretty big let down if it happened that way.
ThatObviousUser
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Guys there is no way Hangouts will require 4.4. This is an app that runs on Android 2.3 and Google made a big deal out of that five months ago at I/o.
The app itself maybe won't, but the SMS integration might.
Nicktendo86
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Possible, us in the nexus master race won't care though.
ThatObviousUser
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I doubt that (Google Voice app has had it since Android 1.0...), but I suppose anything could happen.
Heh, I've bookmarked a couple of posts by Galaxy users who insist that the latest version of Android adds nothing over Touchwiz. Would love to see their reactions if Hangouts+SMS/MMS is 4.4 only (even if I doubt that will happen).
MMS integration is huge. Sending mms (gifs in particular) is just broken on Android and is a big reason I want to switch to the iPhone 5s (just been waiting for Pebble to get their act together and support iOS7)
So this sms feature is different from google voice?
octave one
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you want to switch operating systems so that you can send animated gifs?
It would make it pretty useless if you need a Nexus device for it considering how little they sell to begin with. I guess people might catch up by 2015.
Dunno, I'm just laying out the possibilities here.
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Because SMS/hangouts integration would be a legitimately good feature, not a gimmick that has minimal utility beyond generating a bunch of news stories?
Google Now was never launched on previous versions of android before JB, Hangouts is already on older versions of Android. SMS integration isn't a huge deal, not sure why you think they'd block it.
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