You'd be looking at the Moto G. The 4G version is £90 with CPW on PAYG upgrade
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You'd be looking at the Moto G. The 4G version is £90 with CPW on PAYG upgrade
zomgbbqftw
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Yes, I had heard that, but I have also heard that the new camera module isn't going to be ready until the second quarter so that may also have been a factor and the integration of high resolution audio hardware is going badly so that could also be a factor.
I am also not sure about the S810 heat issues, almost all of those rumours have come from Korean media sources aligned with Samsung who have so much excess foundry capacity they forced their mobile division to go with Exynos and drop Qualcomm. The bigger issue with the 810 is software optimisation to use the 8 cores properly, again something for which all of the OEMs will have to spend resources modifying Android which takes time. The G Flex 2 heats up, but it has a strange design and LG are pretty terrible with software and they fuck up with heat dissipation quite regularly.
Nope, poor assumption on my part. I didn't realise anyone would be insane enough to use the Toshiba sensor now that the IMX220 is available to external customers.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
"The HTC One M9 is the world's most beautiful disappointment."
Sums up my feeling towards the M9. His impression on the camera is beyond disappointing if it's true. He did zoom in on the photo and there was an abnormally large amount of noise in it.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
So with the camera sucking and the design being the same, it's basically an M8. GG.
#teamHuaweiLGNexusMotoX2015
#teamHuaweiLGNexusMotoX2015
Where can I find that?
Moto E for that price by the looks of it
Saw it on HotUKDeals, seems the deal is done.
Alternatively Tesco sell it in black or White for £99 http://www.tesco.com/direct/tesco-m...-4g-white/631-6473.prd?sc_cmp=tp4_aff_1018132
An unlock code is £1.69 on eBay to remove the Tesco sim lock.
weekend_warrior
Banned
Alcatel announces the IDOL 3 pair of smartphones
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Alca...ng-to-rival-Apples-dream-iPhone-6-duo_id66532
Pretty looking phone.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Alca...ng-to-rival-Apples-dream-iPhone-6-duo_id66532
Pretty looking phone.
Alcatel announces the IDOL 3 pair of smartphones
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Alca...ng-to-rival-Apples-dream-iPhone-6-duo_id66532
Pretty looking phone.
Those bezels are huge.
I was actually scared that HTC trolled everyone extremely hard and were going to show the evleaks version when they were showing that video during the conference where the front of the phone was hidden and looked like all glass. I'm glad it turned out to be M8.2 because I've already convinced myself not to get the M9.
And it looks like the camera still sucks despite being upgraded to a 20 MP shooter, removing the only reason I would even consider upgrading for.
Sorry HTC, you dropped the ball hard this year. Also, loved the dig by Verge at the beginning of the video, they pretty much released the M8 again design-wise.
brotkasten
Member
Remember that bezels are getting smaller and smaller. There's no way they could've put a pair of capacitive buttons down there.
Lets not use shitty design to argue about shitty capacitive buttons.
brotkasten
Member
Show me a good design with software buttons and tell me that they couldn't possibly fit capacitive keys down there.
the nexus 6, that one was easy brot, people are going to think this was a setup
brotkasten
Member
My bad, I thought we were talking about phones.
sure, phones that are the same size as other phones but have a much larger screen. shocking. or its little brother, the moto x, some people who use the z3c say it, but i can't tell from pictures.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Based LG G3
Big screen without the shitty bezels
Big screen without the shitty bezels
brotkasten
Member
Now that I'm looking at the Moto phones again, I'm afraid you're right. Although you have to admit that they cheated a bit, by making it look like they have dual front speakers going on, but have that huge and ugly grill at the bottom for the microphone.
Still not thin enough to warrant the wasted screen space. I'll accept them, once everyone moved one to something like that Sharp Aquos phone, but less ugly.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
I hope LG reveals a phone that isn't so disappointing.
The lg g3.
I don't even want a phone with no bezels, think it would be terrible to use, but you are alright in my book for not liking the aquos.
brotkasten
Member
The fourth software button on the M9 is customizable. You can switch between a power button and a notification button that opens the notification center. I suppose you can turn it off as well.
Still enough space.
And yes, I don't want a phone without bezels either. I'm just saying that if that were the case, I'd see a reasonable need for software buttons.
Still enough space.
And yes, I don't want a phone without bezels either. I'm just saying that if that were the case, I'd see a reasonable need for software buttons.
brotkasten
Member
Most users here dislike the double bezel (triple, if you count the software buttons) and its size for a phone with a 5" screen.
The official Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2015 Live Stream will begin in 26 mins.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
M9 isn't a bad phone, but there are better options for the price tag entry.
There are better options for 1/4 the price. They moved away from ultrapixels but STILL have a shitty camera
I think the design is getting slightly progressively worse as they've moved on. Looking at the hands on videos in the past hour, it doesn't look as bad as I envisioned or as the leaks showed. Still, it has some questionable design choices. Apart from that, I think other posters want some real change from the handset. Moreover, with the weakest aspect of the One series (the camera), the previews of the camera do not sound appealing (something they have struggled with for the past two years).
weekend_warrior
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The M8 was a nicely built phone, but it fell short in some key areas, namely the screen size/ bezel ratio and camera. The early pictures by evleaks showed a gorgeous phone with much smaller bezels, so the revelation that the M9 looks identical to the M8 is highly disappointing. That and the camera might not be all to great either and it really makes you wonder what HTC had been doing all year.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
To be fair I hate the idea of shitty. OG Nexus was shitty.
Not as good as other competition is better IMO.
BoboBrazil
Member
HTC didn't even try this year. It's like they gave up on phones. Samsung will be much better. New design. Revised software. Better camera. Neither seem like a huge jump over my OnePlus One and I only paid $350 for that compared to the $700 these will retail for.
If you aren't as good as phones from the previous year, I think shitty is a good description
brotkasten
Member
Working hard on the silver/gold finish, according to the guy at the press conference. I'm not even kidding, it's exactly what he said.
Jazzy Network
Member
Industry first bro. So innovative.
It's the same exact phone for the 3rd year in a row, except uglier. They did improve on the M8 a little bit but still uglier compared to the M7.
The camera is garbage too, and, outside of the theme customization, which I think is cool novelty but nothing groundbreaking, they're not doing anything too exciting on the software front.
Their only saving grace at this point is the speakers and the fact that Touchwiz still looks disgusting compared to Sense.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
HTC still has the best audio in the business, and I am talking more than just the speakers.
-Pyromaniac-
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"reached something entirely new" lol
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Don't even know why i'm watching these at this point
with that though these companies love to say "innovative"
with that though these companies love to say "innovative"
BoboBrazil
Member
HTC event had like 75k people watching. Samsung event has almost 350k.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
It's a damn shame samsung's software design is absolutely atrocious. What could have been.
BoboBrazil
Member
Samsung also put the headphone jack on bottom now! That's a huge improvement.
Saiyan-Rox
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5.0.2 had a fix for some tablets it hasn't been released for any of the phones just tabs. (except for custom ROMS)