Junior Mint
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That is hilarious. Samsung single-handedly held back Android design for 2 years by refusing to remove that stupid ass menu button.
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as much as i hate on touchwiz they should be allowed to do what they want with the ui as long as the standard stuff is all in there. the menu button has to go though.
oh and they should modernize their ux. by a lot. because it looks like shit.
Google to sell Motorola to Lenovo, say reports
By Jacob Kastrenakeson January 29, 2014 04:09 pm
Google is reportedly nearing a deal to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, a move that would give the Chinese smartphone manufacturer a major presence in the US smartphone market. News of the potential acquisition comes from both Reuters and China Daily, with the latter reporting that the acquisition could be announced as soon as Thursday morning in Beijing just a matter of hours from now. Reuters reports that the deal is worth close to $3 billion, a number corroborated by China Daily's report over a deal worth over $2 billion.
Developing...
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5358620/lenovo-reportedly-buying-motorola-mobility-from-google
WHAT??!!!!
zomgbbqftw
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Oh wow. Expected though, Google had no place in handset ownership. Wonder how many patents they will hold onto.
Sqrt_minus_one
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Damn $8B written off, former Motorola CEO must be laughing his ass off.
PS - i will believe it when i see it
PS - i will believe it when i see it
Junior Mint
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So I guess no more quick updates for Moto X.
zomgbbqftw
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All of those Made in America stickers going to be wasted now. Should have gone for the Designed on America route like Apple...
ThatObviousUser
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Fuck. Moto just got good again too.
Page can't be this stupid can he? That's a $9 billion loss, at least.
Page can't be this stupid can he? That's a $9 billion loss, at least.
The Faceless Master
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you mean Google right?
Google made it an option when they should have nuked it immediately.
Google probably saw that not only Sony, but yet another unnamed company were now making Windows 8 Phone devices and decided to dump Moto.
Fjolle
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They sold the stb part for 2.3B in 2012, but still o.0
Have they found one that was worth anything yet?
Junior Mint
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Unless the rumors about them dropping the Nexus program are true
and their next partner is Lenovo... thus the Motorola Nexus phone rumour is true!
WTF
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hey could have them defensively to prevent suits. And the no attack mutual agreement with Samsung may in part be based on these patents.
What's wrong with Google Voice? And what phone and carrier? Some carriers have their own.
Junior Mint
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I hope Sony releases a Google Play Edition version of the Z1 Compact. I don't have any faith in Lenovo releasing timely updates for my Moto X if Motorola gets sold... and there are no similarly sized alternatives.
It's a lot easier to contract an OEM partner to help with manufacturing a Nexus phone every year (based on a flagship platform), than to have your own Mobile handset manufacturer.
Besides, the Nexus brand is pretty popular, especially with the Nexus 7. I just don't see the point in killing off the program. If the Nexus phones go, then the tablets should too.
I've used Youmail before and never had issues.
Google Voice is US only. I'm helping setup a Moto G and would rather preload a nice visual voicemail app now that leave them with carrier app that will likely suck, assuming one is available.
OriginalThinking
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UK Android GAF Represent!
Long story short, I've got a £10 Google Play voucher to give away.
At 9:41pm tonight, I've taken a screen grab of my remaining battery life on my Nexus 5. The person who guesses closest to the percentage of battery life from my screen grab wins the voucher. Don't bother replying if you aren't a UK user as the voucher likely doesn't work overseas. I'll check any answers in this thread over the next 24 hours and announce the winner at 10pm UK time tomorrow night.
Just quote this post with your guess at what the battery percentage is. One guess only, no multiple posts and I won't accept edited posts. Good luck!
Long story short, I've got a £10 Google Play voucher to give away.
At 9:41pm tonight, I've taken a screen grab of my remaining battery life on my Nexus 5. The person who guesses closest to the percentage of battery life from my screen grab wins the voucher. Don't bother replying if you aren't a UK user as the voucher likely doesn't work overseas. I'll check any answers in this thread over the next 24 hours and announce the winner at 10pm UK time tomorrow night.
Just quote this post with your guess at what the battery percentage is. One guess only, no multiple posts and I won't accept edited posts. Good luck!
Junior Mint
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Looks like it's a done deal. Lenovo acquires Motorola.
OriginalThinking
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With this and Sammy apparently working closer with El Goog bombs are being dropped tonight.
Baroquemantic
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Wassup people. Just saw all the news, Google is dumb, assuming any of it ends up being true. They haven't even truly tried with Motorola yet. They've been half-assing it since they bought the company. They've been half-assing it with Nexus devices. The main problem, in my opinion, being marketing/advertising, which is ridiculous considering it's Google. They seem to be unwilling to spend the money to let people know that these products exist. It would've been cool to see a Moto turnaround with them becoming a viable competitor to Samsung.
I really hope selling Moto and ending the Nexus program are not true, as a Moto or Nexus would be the only Android devices I'd be willing to purchase now that I've had a lot of hands on experience with non Nexus devices this post year.
. . . .
Anyway, is there a way to extract the wallpapers from an icon pack directly on a phone, in like a file explorer? I know how to do it from a PC, but my computer is now dead and has been for months.
Edit: Welp, it's true. Gotdammit, Google.
I really hope selling Moto and ending the Nexus program are not true, as a Moto or Nexus would be the only Android devices I'd be willing to purchase now that I've had a lot of hands on experience with non Nexus devices this post year.
. . . .
Anyway, is there a way to extract the wallpapers from an icon pack directly on a phone, in like a file explorer? I know how to do it from a PC, but my computer is now dead and has been for months.
Edit: Welp, it's true. Gotdammit, Google.
The Faceless Master
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$500m marketing campaign for a subsidiary sale.
cartoon_soldier
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wtf...
brotkasten
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At least Andrex' Moto X w/wood back might be a collectors item soon!
Oh, and hey, you guys remember that XFON guy? What is he doing these days?
Oh, and hey, you guys remember that XFON guy? What is he doing these days?
The Faceless Master
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next up... Nokia XFON
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Let's see if Microsoft can avoid the same fate this year with Nokia phone business. Although there is no question that Nokia is a more valuable company than Motorola.
I'll be the martyr for a better tomorrow!
cuevas. PhD.
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But moto was doing so good to us consumers :O
brotkasten
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And that's why we can't have good things!
cuevas. PhD.
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They got what they wanted.
MS traditionally just take a giant dump of write-off.
So this is what Steve Job's toilet looked like after he wiped his ass?
Jayayess1190
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Moto will be fine. It's not like Lenovo has butchered Thinkpad's at all.
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