I agree with this. Also, is the X performance the z6......?
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I agree with this. Also, is the X performance the z6......?
longdi
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Sony continue to disappoint loyal supporter like me...what is the point of this X line and only in summer?
What kind of name is X Performance? Smh...and why do you put a SD820 but with small battery, small ram and likely slow ass flash storage. Who is going to buy this half a flagship? Why are you wasting your stocks of SD820 on this? Why do you want to look silly after what LG and Samsung just did
Head of Sony mobile and Sony pictures need to harakiri
Average spending power of your typical Android user at work here. Can afford cheaper plastic phone, buys it, complains that it feels cheap. Nicer phone comes out, user can't afford it, complains about price.
Because having two Z flagships in a year was a mess for anywhere that wasn't Japan. Having a seperate "budget" brand makes much more sense.
i3allistic
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Fuck the S7 and S7 Edge, where my update for S6 Edge T-mobile ...
AFAIK we don't know a damn thing about the Z6.
Jigolo
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If you live on the internet, sure, this might be true.
The reverse, actually. In the real world, far fewer people per 100 have flagships than on nerdy internet forums.
Idol 4S for $350 would be amazing, but it's rumored to be $500.
EDIT: I actually think the 4S looks better than the S7, but the lack of a fingerprint scanner turns me off since i need security on for work.
Junior Mint
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Given the same price between a Galaxy and an iPhone, people probably take the iPhone 9 times out of 10.
That's because Apple doesn't allow 90% the same experience at 1/3rd the price via OEMs. An Android user is right to shy away from a flagship when phones like the Idol exists.
Jazzy Network
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I actually don't care for a fingerprint scanner since I have a smartwatch with smart lock enabled. I'm hoping it's not $500. $400 maybe, but $350 is sweet spot.
it will have fast charging
It's not about that, it's rather how different the two platforms work on the free tier because of music labels. For example the fact that you can only shuffle on mobiles and can play any song you want on desktop is one such requirement. There's a whole bunch of these tiny rules they set specifically for mobile and not other platforms
brotkasten
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€699 and €799 for the S7 and S7 Edge seems so crazy. It will be interesting to see how long it takes for the price to go down. The included Gear VR with the pre-orders is nice, though.
just read about it. good stuff.
For music that's because 90% of use is on mobile, and about the same of revenue.
Desktop it's much harder to enforce these things, and ultimately nobody gives a shit about investing time and money changing that because that wasn't where you making any money anyway.
My god, the Oneplus One is the absolute worst phone I've ever had. I can't even express how utterly pissed off I am at OnePlus right now. The thing is essentially useless after owning it after just over a year.
When I got it last January, it was great, i was really happy with it! Super snappy, great camera for what it was, battery commonly lasted me 2 days without need for charging. It was perfect.
Then they updated it to Lollipop.
God. Fucking jesus, it's unusable. The phone became completely crippled. Doing anything was impossible. I commonly wait upwards of a minute for apps to open, even ones that are already running in the background. Constant freezes. keyboard problems. Random restarts. Slow as all hell, to the point where theres no point in using it. It was even worse for the first few days after updating, where it was unable to make calls or texts - the main functionality of it, as a PHONE, was broken, not working, until they released a patch after a few DAYS. How backwards is that? And here's the thing: the battery went from 48+ hours, to about 9. It just barely made it through the workday.
I vowed to never update it again, lest the break it even more.
Well, I updated it by accident last night, and it's broken even more.
I get 5 hours of battery life. Unplugged my phone, fully charged, at 8:30 this morning. Its now 1:15, and I just got the 15% battery notification.
This is fucking ridiculous. I can't afford a new phone right now. Anyone else experiencing this? What did you do?
When I got it last January, it was great, i was really happy with it! Super snappy, great camera for what it was, battery commonly lasted me 2 days without need for charging. It was perfect.
Then they updated it to Lollipop.
God. Fucking jesus, it's unusable. The phone became completely crippled. Doing anything was impossible. I commonly wait upwards of a minute for apps to open, even ones that are already running in the background. Constant freezes. keyboard problems. Random restarts. Slow as all hell, to the point where theres no point in using it. It was even worse for the first few days after updating, where it was unable to make calls or texts - the main functionality of it, as a PHONE, was broken, not working, until they released a patch after a few DAYS. How backwards is that? And here's the thing: the battery went from 48+ hours, to about 9. It just barely made it through the workday.
I vowed to never update it again, lest the break it even more.
Well, I updated it by accident last night, and it's broken even more.
I get 5 hours of battery life. Unplugged my phone, fully charged, at 8:30 this morning. Its now 1:15, and I just got the 15% battery notification.
This is fucking ridiculous. I can't afford a new phone right now. Anyone else experiencing this? What did you do?
Finally said fuck it and decided to install Marshmallow even though CM doesn't support my phone officially.
Runs so much better than 5.1.1.
Delete Facebook app.
Runs so much better than 5.1.1.
Delete Facebook app.
Ugh. I'm really careful about preserving data (never deleting texts, keeping all my music downloaded, etc), so I try to avoid wiping my phone at all costs. Even the text message backup apps will not backup some texts, and dont backup MMS. Is there any android equivalent of what iPhone backups are? Those were the one thing I liked about iPhones.
That's some sort of anomaly. Facebook has never used that much battery before, only since updating last night. Even so, that wouldn't account for all of the battery issues.
Facebook app is notorious for being a battery drain. Even if it doesn't show up in that list, it uses way more battery than it has any right to.
BoboBrazil
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Root it and install cm13 nightlies. Rock solid here now and still running great after owning the phone over 1 1/2 years. SMS backup and restore also backs up mms messages.
No seriously though, this is a requirement...
do your best to back up w/e in various ways, but you really should factory reset
BoboBrazil
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It seems like Samsung didn't have any S7s on the show floor with the 820 in it? From all the benchmarks I've seen it's been the exynos version.
My wife's OPO battery crapped out after about a year. She would get 4-5 hrs at most. After replacing the battery myself it's as good as new again. Could be the same issue for you if FB is just a fluke.
nature boy
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MWC is in Barcelona and the European market gets the Exynos version.
BoboBrazil
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Yeah, but it just makes that quote yesterday for the phone getting hot kind of moot for NA users. Is exynos using the liquid cooling like the qualcomm version?
rocketskates
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that LG G5 ball would be a fun as hell pet toy.
seriously though, that thing is awesome.
seriously though, that thing is awesome.
Unknown Soldier
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It will be half the price in a few months. They are just trying to reel in a few high priced sales before the iP7 drops.
nature boy
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Both of them are running hot. Even the Exynos.
Although the 820 they were comparing to was in the G5, so we don't know yet if the liquid cooling is more effective with the 820 S7.
Pretty much. I fully expect combination tradein/free stuff deals like LG and Verizon did last year. You would get a G4 for $350 not long after launch.
I'm saying that a factory reset is a must after any upgrades to the version of Android you're running. Even doing dirty flashes when running stock roms and custom roms causes issues sometimes and they are much less bloated and the carrier skins. I can't imagine much shit is waiting to get fucked up when people upgrade their software on carrier skins with all the old app data mixed in.
osiris3355
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Ignore this post. Factory reset is a cop out but there are very good reasons why it is recommended whether we are talking Windows or Android.
You can tinker with a pc and clean it out for weeks and still not find the issue. Do you want to sit on here and diagnose user's phones for extended time or do you want to tell them to just do a factory reset and get it over with?
Xperia X Performance not heading to Germany and UK
http://www.xperiablog.net/2016/02/22/xperia-x-performance-not-heading-to-germany-and-uk/
Sony.
http://www.xperiablog.net/2016/02/22/xperia-x-performance-not-heading-to-germany-and-uk/
Sony.
prolly cuz they have different flagships planned for them, but still
S7 vs S6 vs 6S pitch black room camera results are pretty impressive.
http://phandroid.com/2016/02/22/iphone-6s-vs-galaxy-s7-lowlight/
http://phandroid.com/2016/02/22/iphone-6s-vs-galaxy-s7-lowlight/
nature boy
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Damn it's not even close.
Really nice. Don't mind the megapixel reduction if the quality is improved. I'm already with the S6's default mode, too. Especially macro shots:
nature boy
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Damn, new Sandisk microsd cards have a read speed of 275MB/s and writes of 100MB/s.
64GB $150, 128GB $300.
Cheap
64GB $150, 128GB $300.
Cheap
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Wait, what? S7 only coming in 32gb size? LOL if true!
http://phandroid.com/2016/02/22/galaxy-s7-edge-microsd-apps/
http://phandroid.com/2016/02/22/galaxy-s7-edge-microsd-apps/
BoboBrazil
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Not a big deal when you can get a micro sd card and increase internal storage in Marshmallow.
The G5 and S7 both seem to block microSD cards from being treated as internal memory. In other words, no installing apps on them.
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