Yeah, same as every year it seems bar last year since the 810 was a dog. 820 will be in markets where they have to pay Qualcomm patents most likely.
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Android |OT6| Huawei or the iWay [Nobody Reads Edition]
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Yeah, same as every year it seems bar last year since the 810 was a dog. 820 will be in markets where they have to pay Qualcomm patents most likely.
brotkasten
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Motorola has a deal on the 360 here (239 instead of 299) and I'm seriously considering one. I just don't know why I'd need one.
Man where is that Google app update with the normalized icons?
It was pulled and patched out.
Probably going to be at least a month by the time they fix, retest and reintegrate the branch.
vivftp
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Hmm, it looks like Sony's diving deeper into the mobile segment by buying Israeli chip manu. Altair
http://www.geektime.com/2016/01/21/sony-buys-israeli-chip-manufacturer-altair-for-200-million/
That combined with them building a new factory to build smartphones this year has me hoping we'll see some fresh and innovative new products very soon.
... Come on new Z Ultra!
http://www.geektime.com/2016/01/21/sony-buys-israeli-chip-manufacturer-altair-for-200-million/
That combined with them building a new factory to build smartphones this year has me hoping we'll see some fresh and innovative new products very soon.
... Come on new Z Ultra!
Saiyan-Rox
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Got it on mine
it's a very pretty layout
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Radar is like 90% of what people really want. Other 10% just being a quick temp check.
I have this card, but has anyone figured out what adding a location actually does? I clicked the add that popped up on the bottom but nothing happened, and I can't find a quick list of locations anywhere
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brotkasten
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It does, but the old card showed the forecast for the next couple of days. In that sense it's a downgrade.
looks real nice. hope they update the gnow card as well.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
You wouldn't have to get it. It's just part of Google Now vs a separate Weather app.
-Pyromaniac-
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that's true, there's room there too
Just noticed that MS has released some nice apps for Android lately, like this alarm clock:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.mimickeralarm
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.mimickeralarm
xplicitone
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My Note 5 dramatically decreases in battery from like 15% to 1% while barely doing anything in about a 5 minute span. Then I plug in the charger (@1%) and instead of 1%, it says 14%. What gives?
Icyflamez96
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Soo has anyone done anything like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdc9zA-mGq8
Is it easier than it looks? I need to fix my phone asap
Is it easier than it looks? I need to fix my phone asap
The Faceless Master
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sounds like a bad battery.
-Pyromaniac-
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People use alarm apps other than what's built in!?
Frustrated_me
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Pretty cool actually, Microsoft doing good things lately.
Icyflamez96
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I think you replied to the wrong comment lol
This is my main alarm clock:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
Love tracking my sleep, I find it works really well in terms of that(though I still usually wake up really tired :S)
Well I'm now a few days into my Nexus 5X upgrade from my N4. Really pretty happy overall. The big problem with my N4, battery life, seems solved where after 36 hrs of normal use (which for me is I'll admit limited) is still on 40% where my N4 could die within 12 hours for me in recent times.
My one gripe seems to be transferring files from pc to phone. Transfer rate is really slow over usb. Dunno if thats a result of a cheap usb-c to 3.0 cable, my pcs interface or what.
My one gripe seems to be transferring files from pc to phone. Transfer rate is really slow over usb. Dunno if thats a result of a cheap usb-c to 3.0 cable, my pcs interface or what.
Jzero
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Poor fuckers that use Windows Phone get no apps hahahahaha
osiris3355
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The new nexus are only usb 2.0 even though its usb c.
Give the phone another few days or so without rebooting it to let the performance issues creep up. You will start to be less pleased. My only gripe with this phone besides the audio.
osiris3355
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Yep, but throttling doesn't help when software starts sucking
Edit: it will be nice when the Snapdragons are finally good again this year so google's crappy software wont be as noticeable.
https://code.google.com/p/android/i... Priority Owner Summary Stars Reporter Opened
I tried out remix os on my macbook. It looks super nice, but it's pretty much a buggy mess at the moment. Biggest issue was the trackpad fuctions, which I couldn't figure out for the life of me. Might be nice on a touch screen. But seriously, give it a normal mouse pointer, none of this osu shit. Everything felt unresponsive, laggy and finnicky. It's pretty clear android was not intended to be used on a desktop, but this is an alpha after . It's missing all those sexy material design animations too. Hopefully google can come up with something good when they mix chrome os with android.
Hamster Plugin
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Is there a way to make my Nexus 5's notification light light up more often? Right now when there is a notification it's 10 seconds of no light and then it lights up for a second, repeat. There's a high chance that I just don't notice it.
I had Cyanogenmod on it which allowed me to change the light speed and duration, but now I went back to Google stock because I wanted to get Marshmallow's battery life improvements. I forgot this was a serious annoyance with the Google ROM.
I had Cyanogenmod on it which allowed me to change the light speed and duration, but now I went back to Google stock because I wanted to get Marshmallow's battery life improvements. I forgot this was a serious annoyance with the Google ROM.
Bots are better than you
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Have you looked into Light Flow? You can customize your LED for various notifications, color, frequency, etc.
Lightflow let you customize the hell out of your notification led. Totally worth paying for the full version, even, which let's you customize in a per app basis.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Try using airdroid to send files over your network. It could end up being faster. Worth a shot at least.
Frustrated_me
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So, tablets...
I haven't really followed the market much. My wife has an iPad, and as much as I don't like using it, it's not like there's a need for another tablet in the household, so it is what it is. However, my parents have expressed an interest in "learning to Skype", so I figured a tablet would be their best bet for ease of use. As I expected, I've been tasked with to research tablets and tell them which one to get. "How hard could it be?", I ask myself.
Apparently, it's a gigantic pain in the ass.
I already told them to stay away from Apple devices, and I figured I should be able to find something decent in the Android tablet market, but my goodness, it's a lot to wade through. My initial criteria was to find something with stock Android on it, but apparently the only tablet on the market with vanilla Android is the Nexus 9?
I figured that would work, though, since I've had a good experience with the Nexus line in the past. I've used both a Nexus One and 6, and thought they were both fine. I figured since this was Google's own tablet, it should be good, right?
Apparently not. People crapping on it left and right.
So, with that in mind, are there any other tablets that are running vanilla android that are decent for the same general price point? I've been reading a ton of reviews, and apparently everything else has a bunch of unnecessary junk on it. This gets extra infuriating when the review is basically "Powerful tablet, tons of bloatware, FOUR STARS!"
I guess "tons of bloatware" is more of a dealbreaker for me than most people.
So, if vanilla Android is off the table, are there any tablets out there that aren't too bloated?
I haven't really followed the market much. My wife has an iPad, and as much as I don't like using it, it's not like there's a need for another tablet in the household, so it is what it is. However, my parents have expressed an interest in "learning to Skype", so I figured a tablet would be their best bet for ease of use. As I expected, I've been tasked with to research tablets and tell them which one to get. "How hard could it be?", I ask myself.
Apparently, it's a gigantic pain in the ass.
I already told them to stay away from Apple devices, and I figured I should be able to find something decent in the Android tablet market, but my goodness, it's a lot to wade through. My initial criteria was to find something with stock Android on it, but apparently the only tablet on the market with vanilla Android is the Nexus 9?
I figured that would work, though, since I've had a good experience with the Nexus line in the past. I've used both a Nexus One and 6, and thought they were both fine. I figured since this was Google's own tablet, it should be good, right?
Apparently not. People crapping on it left and right.
So, with that in mind, are there any other tablets that are running vanilla android that are decent for the same general price point? I've been reading a ton of reviews, and apparently everything else has a bunch of unnecessary junk on it. This gets extra infuriating when the review is basically "Powerful tablet, tons of bloatware, FOUR STARS!"
I guess "tons of bloatware" is more of a dealbreaker for me than most people.
So, if vanilla Android is off the table, are there any tablets out there that aren't too bloated?
Just get them an iPad.
Well, like I said, "ease of use" is a big issue. I'd rather not get them something that's prone to tons of crashes and with an unresponsive touchscreen, so an iPad's out.
Bloodember
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What are you talking about? IOS Is super easy to use and I have never heard Ipads crash. The one in my house certainly doesn't.
Vanillalite
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Except that's the exact opposite of iPads?
Whatever you are describing, it's not an iPad.
If you don't want an iPad, some users in this forum own ZenPads and they seem to be pleased with them.
brotkasten
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At least not a current model. An older one, like an iPad 2 or 3 with iOS 9? I'd say the description fits.
Will he be buying an iPad 2 or 3? Does his description fit the iPad Air 2 or the Mini 4, which are the iPads he'd potentially purchase?
Yeah, it's an iPad 3. While stuff like Netflix works fine, the browser crashes pretty regularly, and tap+hold doesn't really like to work about half the time either.
So yeah, I'm not really looking to inflict that sort of thing on other people.
Don't buy 4-year-old tablets?
You're obviously biased against iPads, the touchscreen is fine and it's responsive as hell. Also the standby battery time will wipe the floor with any android tablet out there. I'm saying this and I'm an Android fan.
iPad 3 was a mistake. I doubt they'll ever make that one again.
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