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[brotkasten]

I know design is subjective and all, but why does Motorola insist on making the speaker grill/line on their phones visible? It's the uglies part of all their phones. It's so awful. At least give it the same color as the front and try to make it blend in, but don't make it silver. Ew.

How can anyone look at that and say it's a good and sensible design decision?
And why do I always have to be right about this and professional industry and product designers so wrong? Jesus!

 

[Groof]

there's a 32gb version no?

if there is it's not on sale here :/

 

[Hasney]

I like it on the N6, but it is the same colour on the front there.

 

[Volotaire]

I know design is subjective and all, but why does Motorola insist on making the speaker grill/line on their phones visible? It's the uglies part of all their phones. It's so awful. At least give it the same color as the front and try to make it blend in, but don't make it silver. Ew.

How can anyone look at that and say it's a good and sensible design decision?
And why do I always have to be right about this and professional industry and product designers so wrong? Jesus!

I dislike it too.

 

[Wreav]

All moot points, no fingerprint, no sale this year.

 

[……forgetit]

Here's your Moto X Play US dudes!

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/08/25/droid-maxx-2-verizon/

Fucking Verizon -_-

 

[Toki767]

I'm impressed Verizon didn't manage to put their logo on the front.

 

[……forgetit]

I'm impressed Verizon didn't manage to put their logo on the front.

It's not on the front of the turbo either, I should know, I'm posting from on.

 

[Kill Your Masters]

Yeah, the deep sleep stuff is like Xperia phones and that seems to make the biggest difference in M.

My Z3 stamina mode broke with L so I hope Google fixes this in M at least.

 

[Junior Mint]

I know design is subjective and all, but why does Motorola insist on making the speaker grill/line on their phones visible? It's the uglies part of all their phones. It's so awful. At least give it the same color as the front and try to make it blend in, but don't make it silver. Ew.

How can anyone look at that and say it's a good and sensible design decision?
And why do I always have to be right about this and professional industry and product designers so wrong? Jesus!

Yeah, it's really ugly but this is the company that thinks the flat tire look on a smart watch is acceptable so I'm not surprised.

Tbh, I'd rather they just give up on front facing speakers cause it just ruins the look of their phones.

 

[VoxPop]

Here's your Moto X Play US dudes!

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/08/25/droid-maxx-2-verizon/

Loving that Edge service, Verizon Voice Mail, Verizon Messenger, and awesome Verizon + Droid logo. You didn't even need to add them from the app drawer. They are all readily available!

 

[jwk94]

Fucking Verizon -_-

That bloat ware is awful.

I know design is subjective and all, but why does Motorola insist on making the speaker grill/line on their phones visible? It's the uglies part of all their phones. It's so awful. At least give it the same color as the front and try to make it blend in, but don't make it silver. Ew.

How can anyone look at that and say it's a good and sensible design decision?
And why do I always have to be right about this and professional industry and product designers so wrong? Jesus!

I actually like the speaker grills. Didn't they take those away from the Moto G?

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

I know design is subjective and all, but why does Motorola insist on making the speaker grill/line on their phones visible? It's the uglies part of all their phones. It's so awful. At least give it the same color as the front and try to make it blend in, but don't make it silver. Ew.

How can anyone look at that and say it's a good and sensible design decision?
And why do I always have to be right about this and professional industry and product designers so wrong? Jesus!

I actually like the grills

I don't like the 2 dots on the bottom one though

 

[Quixzlizx]

I guess I'm lucky that I don't care what the phone looks like, considering I put a case on mine anyway. One less potential reason to declare a skip year.

 

[mrklaw]

my work got rid of individual desks a while ago meaning anyone can sit anywhere on a given day so I'd have to plug in the wireless charger every day :/

I like the play more than the style in the end. Smaller and much better battery life. I hate that it's 2gb of ram though instead of 3. Like pls.

Offices should provide micro USB chargers at desks as standard. As important as a normal AC outlet these days.

They never really made those claims with Lollipop, though. All they said was they were adding energy saving mode for consumers and giving developers a shit ton more battery stats for their apps. Lollipop left it up to the developers to optimize battery usage, which was silly and never going to really work. Now, with Marshmallow, Google is tackling stand by mode drain directly.

Mind you, my understanding is that you need to have the device motionless for it to kick in (sitting on your desk at work for example). If it's on you, it doesn't really work. Hence why some are reporting little difference with M. But, they are finally fixing the mobile radio drain in the final M, so who knows...

Is there any difference between lollipop's energy saving options and Xperia's stamina modes? Almost too many options for battery saving on an Xperia now but I'd like to choose the best option. Right now I just have stamina kick in around 15% battery, but allow email to still run in the background, and queue up background processes.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Loving that Edge service, Verizon Voice Mail, Verizon Messenger, and awesome Verizon + Droid logo. You didn't even need to add them from the app drawer. They are all readily available!

Devices with support for Advanced Calling (VoLTE) get upgraded to Visual Voice Mail when they activate that. The Verizon Voice Mail app then serves as the Visual Voice Mail box. It used to be decorative bloat, now it has a function.

The Verizon Messages app is something I actually tried and liked, I posted about it a few pages back. I was as surprised as anyone else would have been here to find out it is better than the Samsung messenger app and Hangouts which is a huge pile of shit. The Verizon app is the only way to send text and MMS over WiFi on Verizon's network, because fuck you that's why. I would even be mad about it if I didn't unexpectedly like it so much.

There's a lot of shitty bloat I had to disable on my Note 4 but those 2 things in particular I have left enabled and even use. You want to bitch about bloat, let's talk about shit like VZ Navigator and wonder why anyone would pay to use that shit when Google Maps is free. Or better yet let's ask why DT Ignite is on my phone, how about a nice cup of fuck off Verizon.

 

[VoxPop]

Devices with support for Advanced Calling (VoLTE) get upgraded to Visual Voice Mail when they activate that. The Verizon Voice Mail app then serves as the Visual Voice Mail box. It used to be decorative bloat, now it has a function.

The Verizon Messages app is something I actually tried and liked, I posted about it a few pages back. I was as surprised as anyone else would have been here to find out it is better than the Samsung messenger app and Hangouts which is a huge pile of shit. The Verizon app is the only way to send text and MMS over WiFi on Verizon's network, because fuck you that's why. I would even be mad about it if I didn't unexpectedly like it so much.

I always found Visual Voicemail a clusterfuck on Android when its so well done natively on iOS. Not all that surprising to me that the Verizon Messaging app is better than the other garbage SMS/Messaging apps on Android like Samsung's and Hangouts. They really need a good native SMS app made by Google (no, Messenger is not even close)

Look at these awesome apps to get you started. You can't delete them without rooting btw

Caller Name ID ($2.99/mo)

VZ Navigator ($4.99/mo)

Verizon Cloud

Verizon Support & Protection

Verizon Mobile Hotspot

My Verizon Mobile

Amazon Kindle
Amazon Music
Amazon Appstore
Facebook
iHeart Radio
Candy Crush Soda
Cookie Jam
Panda Pop
IMDB
Instagram
NFL Mobile
Slacker
Uber

that value

 

[JudgeN]

Question any internet browsers that support download to SD?

Tried Dolphin and it can't access my SD card on Asus Zenpad S 8.0. Seems odd that in 2015 I can't download directly to my SD slot.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I always found Visual Voicemail a clusterfuck on Android when its so well done natively on iOS. Not all that surprising to me that the Verizon Messaging app is better than the other garbage SMS/Messaging apps on Android like Samsung's and Hangouts. They really need a good native SMS app made by Google (no, Messenger is not even close)

Look at these awesome apps to get you started. You can't delete them without rooting btw

Caller Name ID ($2.99/mo)

VZ Navigator ($4.99/mo)

Verizon Cloud

Verizon Support & Protection

Verizon Mobile Hotspot

My Verizon Mobile

Amazon Kindle
Amazon Music
Amazon Appstore
Facebook
iHeart Radio
Candy Crush Soda
Cookie Jam
Panda Pop
IMDB
Instagram
NFL Mobile
Slacker
Uber

that value

The good news is I disabled most of that and discovered that most of it is stubs which use no space on the phone. This is better than before when you would eat precious internal memory for all that garbage.

Not being able to truly uninstall it sucks though, the DT Ignite always lurking like herpes just waiting to reactivate when I receive an OTA update is infuriating.

 

[thenexus6]

I actually like the grills

I don't like the 2 dots on the bottom one though

Only visible on the white model if you were wondering.

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

Oh HTC.

 

[LostMyNarbles]

Oh HTC.

.....Nobody reads.

 

[Groof]

I don't like the 2 dots on the bottom one though

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

it's a face D:

 

[Talon]

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[BoboBrazil]

When are Moto X style/Pure reviews going to hit?

By the way the 5.1.1 update just came out for one plus one owners.

 

[DrFunk]

looks like a katamari character

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

.....Nobody reads.

No, I posted that because it's the first time I've seen the front. I know the back had been posted in here already.

 

[Wreav]

NOBODY READS, OK?

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

http://www.androidauthority.com/ouk...and-a-battery-life-of-up-to-120-hours-636614/

This phone packs a Mediatek MT6735M processor, which does beat the Snadpragon 410, but only by a bit. In addition, the phone has 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage, which can be extended by up to 64 GB via microSD.

There’s more features on board, such as an IR blaster, fun gestures and more.

That's... Pretty neat.

 

[Bboy AJ]

I really want a phone with a rear e ink screen. Too bad the Russian one died. This one looks too underspeced for me.

Nexus 6 speaker grills are great for trapping lint.

 

[MarkusRJR]

I would love to have a flip phone with an e-ink screen as a secondary phone. Would last like a month on battery.

E-ink really doesn't make sense on modern smartphones though. Too much animation and scrolling for it to be viable as anything other than a weird secondary screen like on the Yotaphone and that one above.

BTW, random question: Do you guys know of a good cheap dumbphone that last a long time on battery? Looking at getting something for my dad (only uses his phone for calls and occasional texts). I was thinking of getting one of those credit card style slim phones, but I don't know where to buy one or if they only support 2G? My dad's carrier doesn't have any kind of 2G compatibility (only 3G in 850/1900 bands).

 

[thespot84]

Anyone playing with vysor? having the damndest time getting it to work.

A

 

[The Faceless Master]

We highly recommend our Galaxy Note 5 users follow the instructions in the user guide to ensure there are no issues

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...en-inserted-backward-or-get-hopelessly-stuck/


That's a terrible response. Also, the instruction manual for the Note 5 warns against this very thing, but the manual of the Note 4 doesn't... For those of you that don't read, both Unknown Soldier and myself tried this on a Note 4 and it goes in about 5/6 of the way but doesn't get stuck or damage the pen removal sensor.


TLDR; they knew and released it like that anyway

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

I know design is subjective and all, but why does Motorola insist on making the speaker grill/line on their phones visible? It's the uglies part of all their phones. It's so awful. At least give it the same color as the front and try to make it blend in, but don't make it silver. Ew.

How can anyone look at that and say it's a good and sensible design decision?
And why do I always have to be right about this and professional industry and product designers so wrong? Jesus!

Lol I been thinking the same for a long time. Uggo.

 

[Nikodemos]

The Xperia M5 looks mighty impressive for a midrange Android device. Might wait a year and nab it for cheap once my lock-in expires.

 

[zewone]

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...en-inserted-backward-or-get-hopelessly-stuck/


That's a terrible response. Also, the instruction manual for the Note 5 warns against this very thing, but the manual of the Note 4 doesn't... For those of you that don't read, both Unknown Soldier and myself tried this on a Note 4 and it goes in about 5/6 of the way but doesn't get stuck or damage the pen removal sensor.


TLDR; they knew and released it like that anyway

They should recall all Note 5s and destroy all their inventory until this issue is fixed and a new batch of Note 5s with idiot proof pens can be manufactured.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

You guys see this HTC phone. It looks just like an iphone 6, check it out:


jk lol

 

[VoxPop]

You guys see this HTC phone. It looks just like an iphone 6, check it out:


jk lol

Yeah. Exclusive first look here. Thank me later.

 

[DrFunk]

the 1+2 has a grounding issue: https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/2-home-button-issue.347531/

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

the 1+2 has a grounding issue: https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/2...-issue.347531/

lol this phone tho

 

[Jazzy Network]

Never settle. Unless you are settling for a broken POS.

 

[BoboBrazil]

the 1+2 has a grounding issue: https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/2-home-button-issue.347531/

Seems like a software issue.

 

[soundahfekz]

lol this phone tho

whats even worse is them OPO board comments

It's not made for a marathon challenge. use it or not

Havo you done the OTA?

just disable it till a fix is out

lmao

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

whats even worse is them OPO board comments



lmao

lol I don't even know what that first one means

 

[VoxPop]

Poor people being suckered into buying a falsely advertised flagship killing phone. At least it was cheap?

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

I'd rather get a moto X play over a OP2 any day of the week. 2016 flagship killer pls.

Still waiting on that goddamn nexus battery leak. It's almost september

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I'd rather get a moto X play over a OP2 any day of the week. 2016 flagship killer pls.

Still waiting on that goddamn nexus battery leak. It's almost september

It will be 4000mah, have a power drain bug in Google Play Services, and battery life will be 2 hours screen on.

 

[Jazzy Network]

It will be 4000mah, have a power drain bug in Google Play Services, and battery life will be 2 hours screen on.

So you're saying it'll have better battery than any 2015 flagship?

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

It will be 4000mah, have a power drain bug in Google Play Services, and battery life will be 2 hours screen on.

So you're saying it'll have better battery than any 2015 flagship?

lol ;_;

If it has 3000mah we in win territory. Give or take 100mah.