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Anyone know of any kind of free to use stock notepad svg icons that would match this style. All my attempts to make an icon have failed lol

The icons in the Android Asset Studio are SVGs on site.

http://romannurik.github.io/Android...24&padding=8&color=33b5e5,100&name=ic_example

You can right click > save images any from the clipart provided. Not sure if that's what you're looking for.

$25 for these is practically free too :)
http://www.androidicons.com/
 
What's the easiest way to add a bookmark to the home screen? When I installed the Google Now launcher, even though I told it to import my current layout it deleted all my bookmarks (GAF mobile primarily).

Bizarrely, both Chrome and Chrome beta seem to have removed the "Add to Homescreen" option - long pressing on the bookmark only allows it to be edited.
 
What's the easiest way to add a bookmark to the home screen? When I installed the Google Now launcher, even though I told it to import my current layout it deleted all my bookmarks (GAF mobile primarily).

Bizarrely, both Chrome and Chrome beta seem to have removed the "Add to Homescreen" option - long pressing on the bookmark only allows it to be edited.

Long Press homescreen > Widgets > Bookmark
 
The HTC M8 Prime was canned, according to evleaks.

HTC Plus and Advance are still coming.

If you were smart and followed the news you could already tell. Yesterday's leak specs for the Plus and Advance have a 13 MP camera.

The Prime leaked render still had the duo camera.

We are still getting a new phone just not the initial leaked render dubbed the prime. It appears yesterday's leak is what we will get instead.
 
And there goes the Moto Maker.

Motorola's American dream is over

Motorola won't be assembling phones in the United States for much longer. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company will close its Texas factory — essential to its Moto Maker assembly process — by the end of this year. Motorola has apparently confirmed the news directly. And the reason is simple: Motorola's smartphones aren't selling well enough to keep the place running. "What we found was that the North American market was exceptionally tough," Motorola President Rick Osterloh told the Journal. The plant's fate was thrown into question after Lenovo announced plans to purchase Motorola Mobility from Google.


http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/30/5764836/motorola-shutting-down-us-assembly-plant
 
And there goes the Moto Maker.

Motorola's American dream is over

Motorola won't be assembling phones in the United States for much longer. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company will close its Texas factory — essential to its Moto Maker assembly process — by the end of this year. Motorola has apparently confirmed the news directly. And the reason is simple: Motorola's smartphones aren't selling well enough to keep the place running. "What we found was that the North American market was exceptionally tough," Motorola President Rick Osterloh told the Journal. The plant's fate was thrown into question after Lenovo announced plans to purchase Motorola Mobility from Google.


http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/30/5764836/motorola-shutting-down-us-assembly-plant

:( :( :(
 
I still don't get why Google sold them. They have the money and size to develop a strong hardware presence.

The only reason that makes sense to me is that it would make it harder for other manufacturers to compete, or that it would at least piss them off. I guess that's the answer.
 
I still don't get why Google sold them. They have the money and size to develop a strong hardware presence.

The only reason that makes sense to me is that it would make it harder for other manufacturers to compete, or that it would at least piss them off. I guess that's the answer.

google doesnt and never wanted to be in hardware. they wanted defensive patents. My guess is it was the plan all along.
 
The HTC M8 Prime was canned, according to evleaks.

I bet the reason behind this is that they dont feel too pressured after the G3 reveal. Both Samsung and HTC expected g3 to be more than what it is, so they were also rushing a "prime" phone right after their flagships.
 
Oh, my God, we’re having a fire. Sale. Oh, the burning! It burns me! Evacuate all the schoolchildren! (Screaming. Singing “Amazing Grace.”) This isn’t a fever! (Continues singing.) Can’t even see where the knob is! (Dramatic sigh.) And scene.

With the coupon code AFFMTX, Moto is knocking fifty bones off of the 16GB model and seventy-five off of the 32GB model, making them $350 and $375 respectively. To make it an even better deal, you'll also get a free pair of SOL Republic Jax headphones (you have to add these to the card manually) and a free Moto Skip.


http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...pair-of-sol-republic-buds-and-free-moto-skip/
 
And there goes the Moto Maker.

Motorola's American dream is over

Motorola won't be assembling phones in the United States for much longer. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company will close its Texas factory — essential to its Moto Maker assembly process — by the end of this year. Motorola has apparently confirmed the news directly. And the reason is simple: Motorola's smartphones aren't selling well enough to keep the place running. "What we found was that the North American market was exceptionally tough," Motorola President Rick Osterloh told the Journal. The plant's fate was thrown into question after Lenovo announced plans to purchase Motorola Mobility from Google.


http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/30/5764836/motorola-shutting-down-us-assembly-plant

Article updated. Motomaker will still exist

The company tells us that it will continue to offer the service [MotoMaker], but there are plenty of unknowns about how it will be implemented in the future.
 
interesting. i don't think motomaker is cost effective without domestic assembly. (either you'd have to have enough of every combo on hand and/or ship the phones via air from asia.)

Laptops are custom built in China and air shipped to consumers around the world. Lenovo should know how to manage that better than anyone since they have the world's largest OEM PC business including the ThinkPad.
 
I bet the reason behind this is that they dont feel too pressured after the G3 reveal. Both Samsung and HTC expected g3 to be more than what it is, so they were also rushing a "prime" phone right after their flagships.

Again a phone is coming. Just not the "Prime" version.

It's obvious they had multiple prototypes, and this particular protype didn't make it.

The PLUS appears to be the one that did instead.
 
that sucks Moto's US plant is closing.

I'll probably get the X+1 unless Lenovo decides to make the G and E the budgety phones and try to make the X more of a flagship device (which it kinda sounds like with US plant closing and the rumored larger screen). Guess we'll see fairly soon.
 
Finally got my XPeria Z2 and let me tell you its a fantastic device. Feels very premium screen is better than M8 there are stereo speaker but they are pretty useless. Its very fast no visible lag which i even felt using S5. Absolutely fantastic device. And battery life is more than 7 hours with screen on

Negatives are slightly large. Finger print magnet some build issue. slight gap and off centered camera.
 
Another day of not making it through the day with my Nexus 4. First Mediaserver chewed the battery down to 80%, then even with babying it (putting it into airplane mode, turning down brightness, little use of 3G) it still manages to die on the train home. I hate Google not caring about battery life with the Nexus line, and for stupid Mediaserver and Play Services for coming out of nowhere and killing battery life.

I need a Moto X+1 with a Maxx size battery.
 
I need a Moto X+1 with a Maxx size battery.

Well good news: the Moto X got great battery life reviews, and the X+1 is still using the X8 SoC.

I'm curious how the camera is going to turn out though. They admitted the Moto X camera was subpar and said they were going to focus on it for X+1...
 
Well good news: the Moto X got great battery life reviews, and the X+1 is still using the X8 SoC.

I'm curious how the camera is going to turn out though. They admitted the Moto X camera was subpar and said they were going to focus on it for X+1...

I don't think much of my Moto X's battery. Lots of room for improvement.
 
RIP Moto Maker.

I was hoping to get my hands on a Bamboo back for my Moto X, but all of these 3rd-party substitutes ain't cutting it. Anyone know where I might be able to nab one?
 
Rumors now point to it coming out around the I/O event.

Remember when Google used to have two bigger releases a year? Now we're on the x.x.x updates at an IO. What a joke.
 
"So how do we differentiate between the S5 and the S5 active? Both are water and dust resistant?"

"Add physical buttons... And make it have camo on the back. Camo must make it more outdoorsy, right?"

That plus the "shock proof". It'd basically an S5 in a case that you can't remove.

Plus, there's two other colors. Silver/grey and red.
 
What's that?

You want another Galaxy Tablet?

OK!

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The icons in the Android Asset Studio are SVGs on site.

http://romannurik.github.io/Android...24&padding=8&color=33b5e5,100&name=ic_example

You can right click > save images any from the clipart provided. Not sure if that's what you're looking for.

$25 for these is practically free too :)
http://www.androidicons.com/

Thanks for the link I used some of the ones from the asset studio and i think it looks better. Now just to come up with an actual app icon to replace the little green android lol. I'm terrible at this artistic stuff =\

 
Talked to someone at AT&T today and they said that pre-ordering for the G3 starts on the 5th. Dunno if that was common knowledge already (and it could be wrong, it was just a sales person that said this) but there you go.
 
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