shinshoryuken
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Runs in the family..
The Faceless Master
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i have a Surface Pro, not a Samsung tablet.
osiris3355
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Well maybe you should spend some time educating her than? Touchwiz is considerably slower less clean and harder to use than vanilla android. I've never seen a single Samsung including their latest devices come anywhere near the user experience of a nexus device.
Jazzy Network
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Oh cool another section of shitting on Samsung. Never gets old.
look... we're tech nerds. Of course all the phones and tablets Samsung releases now-a-days are legit and great devices. But we demand better, and there are better out there, so FUCK SAMMY.
The Nexus 9 is already looking like a disappointment for me if that price point from those leaks are accurate. The Nexus 7 is still a beast and I expected the Nexus 9 to improve on more areas that I care about other than screen size and not actually go backwards. Oh well, I'll wait and see the announcement.
At least there's hope for my future phone:
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Jazzy Network
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Let's ignore all the things they do right, by just shitting on everything they do wrong.
How is it harder to use? Vanilla android is overrated.
Jazzy Network
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Tegra Note baby!
The Faceless Master
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educate? she likes TW features and doesn't care much for stock and even has apps that mimic TW SW and features on her Nexus 7.
Samsung did that 2 Galaxy Tabs ago.
osiris3355
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Its confusing as crap to the general consumer. I've seen phone buyers multiple times have a much easier time on vanilla than touch wiz. If you think its intuitive to have two voice search apps, two stores, two messaging apps, etc and a million power control toggles than you are lost.
Edit: Oh and the best feature these days is completely hidden. (Google now)
osiris3355
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I can't think of a single service or app that is better on TW but if she knows what she's doing good for her.
The Faceless Master
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well, off the top of my head, her 2 most used are Superbeam to mimic S Beam and Notification Toggle to mimic the Touchwiz toggles.
I like the quick toggles always being on the top of the notification shade and I like the brightness slider.
I like that the lock screen can be swiped from anywhere on the screen to unlock it.
Jazzy Network
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Please tell me you are trolling.
Maybe it's confusing to YOU, but the general consumer seems to pick it up just fine based on Samsung's sales. If you find that insulting you should stop insulting the general consumer and calling them easily confused. If the crowd you run with gets easily confused maybe you should show them the iPhone? If you still think you're right that touchwiz is just too difficult, can you back that up with studies?
Doesn't Google also offer multiple email and photo gallery apps on stock Android?
I don't have a Samsung phone btw. Everyone looks for something different in a phone, and for me I'd rather have battery life and and a good camera over stock android.
For email apps they offer one for gmail and one for all other, exchange type mail accounts. As for gallery apps, they used to have the stock AOSP Gallery app which was replaced by the Google+ Photos app. The problem with replacing stock apps that ship preinstalled on a device is that even if they're rendered defunked or is stopped supported it can't be removed. However, any subsequent devices won't have the previous app anymore and only the new one.
Up to you. The Photos app is pretty stupidly designed and for gallery purposes the old one is better in my opinion. But as this is android, you're free to use whichever app you want.
The Faceless Master
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fixed.
The Photos app is a mess and you know it.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
So what am I supposed to do with that sd slot? My favorite podcast app isn't even letting me save the podcasts to sd, and they blame kit Kat.
Hey look this Google car has great gas mileage and heated seats, but it's missing a backup camera.
Hey look this Samsung car has great gas mileage, heated seats, and a backup camera. But it also has a cheap plastic interior and the wheels are the latest trend, they're cubes.
I still don't understand the removable battery discussion, if the phone has great battery life you don't need to even worry about it. My 2 year old Droid Razr HD lasts 1.5 days on average, so I just plug it in every night, and I don't have to fucking worry about it...
This. I feel like the mass phone sales are from newcomers to android, because I haven't had one friend pleased with their Samsung after spending time with it. Slow, confusing, ugly are common complaints, and then they say they want to go back to iphone. Well no shit.
I hate how the Photos app can't default to local photos. It keeps on trying to show me my photos in the cloud BUT I DON'T PUT MY PHOTOS IN THE CLOUD. So I just use Quickpic.
My favorite podcast app lets me save to the sd card. And I store all my music on a 64gb microsd card.
Google trying to sabotage microsd card slots for inexplicable reasons doesn't make them less of a great feature, it makes Google morons.
And removable batteries are good if you want to keep your phone longer than two years.
So hangout gaf doesn't really care about an app affecting my phone after being uninstalled.
Scenario:
Installed Beautiful Icon Styler since it can change icons on google now launcher without root.
It was all good, until I decided I got bored of it. So I uninstalled it, and my icons got changed to this shit:
Dear Google, how the fuck is it possible that an app can do this without root, and after being uninstalled?
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My only remedy was to re install and then disable the icon pack.
I want some technical insight into how this work, please.
Scenario:
Installed Beautiful Icon Styler since it can change icons on google now launcher without root.
It was all good, until I decided I got bored of it. So I uninstalled it, and my icons got changed to this shit:
Dear Google, how the fuck is it possible that an app can do this without root, and after being uninstalled?
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My only remedy was to re install and then disable the icon pack.
I want some technical insight into how this work, please.
Part on android silver says only Sprint and TMobile are expected to participate. What a joke.
The Faceless Master
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even at 1 year, you're looking at as low as 85% capacity on a phone charged every day.
did you try restarting the phone?
Unknown Soldier
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The Tegra K1 is the first Tegra with Tiny Kepler in it and early reports are it's roughly twice as powerful as the nearest competing top-end mobile GPU.
Tegra K1 is real as fuck and this isn't even the version with Project Denver and Tiny Maxwell yet.
osiris3355
Banned
I don't have studies. I see it first hand. People return their Galaxy's left and right for iPhone. I have never seen an unhappy or lost user with a Moto X/G or recent Nexus.
Samsung's sell because they are the only alternative to the iPhone that people know about due to their huge advertising. I shouldn't even have to say this.
I hope google shows something on the home automation side. Sure they have nest, but I'm hoping Android at home isnt dead rather than see Apple drive this thing going forward.
The Faceless Master
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i need to dl a virtual chalkboard app.
Tegra 2= NVIDIA serious about mobile
Kal-El
WayneGrey
LoganParkerErista
Yes faceless.
This used to happen to me on older versions of Android but I assumed it was because of the launcher having references to uninstalled apps stored differently and lacked any cross-referencing capability. I don't recall if it was the default launcher, but I Imagine at the time I was probably using Nova/ADW/Francisco Launcher. I don't get them at all, these days. The last time I do remember seeing this was when I restored an old launcher backup where I didn't yet install all of my apps again, that was a long time ago.So hangout gaf doesn't really care about an app affecting my phone after being uninstalled.
Scenario:
Installed Beautiful Icon Styler since it can change icons on google now launcher without root.
It was all good, until I decided I got bored of it. So I uninstalled it, and my icons got changed to this shit:
Dear Google, how the fuck is it possible that an app can do this without root, and after being uninstalled?
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My only remedy was to re install and then disable the icon pack.
I want some technical insight into how this work, please.
Not sure if you're using the built-in launcher or a 3rd-party one.
But that can be said for most manufacturers, , for example sony have their Sony Select store, and some have their own bloatware and duplicate apps too.
My only concern about touchwiz is that is too hungry and makes their hardware lag where others don't: i have a nexus 5 snapdragon 800, my wife galaxy s4+, same soc, mine does not lag at all, hers does.
I do not have these issues with xperia or htc phones, like z1 for example.
Besides that, TW isn't that confusing. It has some nice features too, like more accessible toggles or app drawer editing.
They should optimize it, or just use another launcher (i don't know if that makes TW disappear and make the device faster overall or still runs in background)
Plus google also makes weird things with their apps, for example recent drive,docs/sheets split, hangouts now is decent, photos tied to G+ is a fucking mess, etc etc
well I assume the software on the Nexus 6 is still a bit buggy.
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