Nexus announcement on the 29th if your budget can stretch to around $400.
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Nexus announcement on the 29th if your budget can stretch to around $400.
-Pyromaniac-
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nexus 5-2 coming soon, you're welcome.
7DollarHagane
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$400 isn't a ton of money but i'm just not that crazy about my phone to spend that much. I use it to listen to music and podcasts at work, a little web browsing, and watching youtube videos if my tablet isn't charged.
It annoys me that the nexus is $400 from google but if you do the ATT next they charge $600 for it, because reasons.
Baroquemantic
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Damn, I do the exact same thing. See, Pyro, this is why I like you.
LostMyNarbles
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AT&T NEXT Doesn't charge interest they only charge the cost of the phone at retail and divide that into monthly payments.
The new Moto G is just over $200 unlocked. Might be more your thing then.
-Pyromaniac-
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We are N'Sync.
I don't know what weird thing you're plotting here with this question but.... Nexus.
Haha, damn you're on to me. Nexus 5 is everything I want in a phone.. but damn if they trying to sell that for $350-400.
Back to my Windows phone and packing up the Nexus 6. Sad, sad night. I was so close to Valhalla.
The Faceless Master
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Worth a punt at £8, thanks!
They used to be really good.Then Topolsky left and it really did become iVerge.
You're right, I shouldn't.
they were never good
not even as TIMN
-Pyromaniac-
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The nexus 5-2 will be my default placeholder device until something blows me away next year. If the nexus turns out amazing then that's just bonus.
Baroquemantic
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Might sound crazy, but it ain't no lie.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Moto G 2 gig edition for $219
Asus Zenfone 2 Baller Edition $299 (64 gigs of storage)
Get one of those two phones
Jazzy Network
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Yep. Short of the battery life sucking (this will probably happen), Nexus 5-2 is more than good enough for a 1-year device.
cuevas. PhD.
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Can't believe android doesn't have 3d touch! They'll probably implement some shitty version of it in next droid release LOLS #applepie4life
Baroquemantic
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Bye
bye bye,
Jazzy Network
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The Verge continues to put their foot in their mouth. You know what? It's not even their fault anymore. They've been consistently terrible, but people still go there. So yes you people are to blame.
Some renders make the screen look a lot bigger. Wonder who's gonna get it right?
this looks much better (not gonna happen)
Jazzy Network
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Only want it if it's stock.
I followed The Verge since opening mainly because of Joshua moving from Engadget, which was my go to before. Now I see myself going back to Engadget again. But it's pretty deplorable where they are today. They always had an Apple bias, even when Joshua was there, but at least it was completely justifiable back then.
I'd rather have quickcharge, a notification led or wireless charging but ... yeah, more things the better, i guess.
I didn't even know this was on the way. Sounds interesting.
^^^^^^ I didn't know of it either.
27MP, that would mean something like a 1/1.7 sensor size? 20MP with 1.1µm is 1/2.4. Pretty impressive.
27MP, that would mean something like a 1/1.7 sensor size? 20MP with 1.1µm is 1/2.4. Pretty impressive.
Sounds good, really good. But 820 and next month? Compared to what everyone else is releasing, it sounds unlikely unless LG managed to get it earlier than most.
It won't be an 820, that was the old rumor but 820 isn't ready for a few more months IIRC. It's going to be a tweaked, properly cooled 810.
Heh, first Google result I got was posted yesterday and was still running with 820. But yeah even then, then rest sounds good.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
3D touch is excellent. It's a hover action. It makes things way more friction less. It probably took a crap ton of R&D, too. Very impressive. Also, ask the Hangout crew, I called it.
I missed the first post this year, guys
I missed the first post this year, guys
3D touch is excellent. It's a hover action. It makes things way more friction less. It probably took a crap ton of R&D, too. Very impressive. Also, ask the Hangout crew, I called it.
I missed the first post this year, guys
i still don't see it as a huge improvement, time will tell. But i guess apple fans need to search for something , and since the conference was quite dull, 3Dtouch (lol) makes it
Btw it seems that the camera diodes have shrunk their size due to the Megapixel upgrade. We will see how does this impact in low light performance
Nicktendo86
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3D touch is excellent. It's a hover action. It makes things way more friction less. It probably took a crap ton of R&D, too. Very impressive. Also, ask the Hangout crew, I called it.
I missed the first post this year, guys
I really don't know about 3D touch. On the one hand yes, it is very clever. However it is also quite un-apple like, it is not a simple solution in that it needs to be explained. It also goes against the years of conditioning that we have had using capacitive screens that tells us we just tap the glass, don't apply pressure to it. It will feel unnatural, at first anyway.
How much pressure needs to be applied for a hard press to be registered?
Yeah, I mean I get it right away, but when the guy was demoing the peek thing in mail and said "It's totally natural" I was wondering if he had the power to see through layers of things using the power of his touch. Touching his mail harder to have a look into the contents without opening the envelope.
That is your opinion, i have mine. Time will tell as i said. I don't see it revolutionary. Nice to have? Well, as long it doesn't make it more confusing (long press vs force press can be a mess unless well implemented).
Apple fans find brilliant almost anything apple shows so no surprise some find 3D touch revolutionary. I may eat crow, but i see it that way.
exactly. That is how i see it. I'll give you an example, my mother has psoriasis, so almost no sensivity on her fingers. Same for many old people. How are those supposed to use that?
Sure, some power uses will benefit from 3Dtouch, the same way i use IR blaster a lot and some others find it unnecessary.
Nicktendo86
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That's a good point actually, I hadn't thought about that. It seems to be going against the entire idea of the iPhone which was simplicity, a device that an 8 or 80 year old could use. You already need to remember a number of different taps on the home button to do things, now they are cluttering things up even further by having to work out what parts of the ui need to be pressed hard.
But what do I know, I didn't think fingerprint sensors would take off lol
I haven't tried the 3D touch, but I'm pretty sure they're using the haptic feedback to make it feel like a button. That makes it pretty simple as you just press until it "clicks".
A lot of the iPhone gestures were also odd at first like pinch to zoom.
well fingerprint sensors are popular now becasue they are accurate and fast, also are just for 'unlocking or paying instead of a pin, also are 'platform agnostic' ,and still optional to use, you can enable or disable (i tried my mother to use an s6 to see if she could use a finger print sensor phone and she couldn't so i will stick to phones without it or just keep it disabled)
3Dtouch on the other hand will behave differently when different apps or OS (iOS,ANdroid;WP) use them, so not really a 'universal' feature like pinch to zoom.
Just like a long press and vibrate feedback. Really, i find it hard to believe that really adds something to actual touchscreens. Spen has had multiple pressure levels for years and it has only been used, afaik, to simulate real pen behaviour.
Nicktendo86
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Now you see that explanation of making it feel like a button helps it make sense in my mind and the first thing I think of is playing Sonic on my phone and it being useful with that. However, the vibration may give you some feedback but you still don't have the tactile feeling of a button being pressed down, you also of course don't have the physical limits of the button there which is one of the advantages, you can feel for a button without looking but don't have that with this.
I dunno, I need to try it before I can really get my head around it I suppose. As I imagine using it I can't shake the feeling that long pressing would do almost the same job.
You're missing the fact that it isn't a mandatory feature. You can totally use the phone without taking advantage of it. At least right now, but I expect it to become a huge part of the UI in the future - by then, everyone will get used to it, though.
Btw, this is it. I'll be ordering my new phone this weekend. It has been a rough two months with my Sony Ericsson W200i. Still not completely sure what to order, but maybe you guys will be the ones helping me finally decide. Right now I'm torn between the new 6s or the Z5c.
Z5c pros: Waterproof, Better design/formfactor (imo), 300 euros cheaper
6s pros: I like 3D Touch, better Apps/App Store, iOS
Try a MacBook with force touch. A lot of people reply that they could swear they felt a button press even though nothing moves.
Edit: A lot of this just has to be tried first. Scrolling was awful pre iPhone because none of the other displays were capacitive and they didn't use a smooth and slippery glass surface over the screen.
Nicktendo86
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Interesting. Will do.
iPhone already has its own 2.1A quick charging breh.
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