Rodney McKay
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I just go full screen to avoid that, but a black mode would have been nice, especially with how all Samsung phones have AMOLED displays these days.
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I just go full screen to avoid that, but a black mode would have been nice, especially with how all Samsung phones have AMOLED displays these days.
Must just be the os beta. sideloaded and it works fine
If you're secondary sim can connect then at least we know your Honor 6x has the necessary bands. It sounds like your primary cellular carrier from home doesn't have a roaming agreement, or the plan that you're on isn't provisioned for international roaming. I would check with your carrier.
Another option is getting a prepaid sim card with a US number while you're here.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
It seems that I can but I never turned it on.
Probably roaming issues. Honor 6x is a gsm phone so go to AT&T or t mobile and get a prepaid data card.
Vanillalite
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Chrome allows me to sync all my shit though. So like it's Chrome or I guess FireFox if I want to sync my shit across my phone, tablet, and desktops.
Vanillalite
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Samsung pay is the best mobile pay in existence.
The rest of the bloat is sorta worthless unless it's the S Pen stuff on the Note.
Wireless charging pads are awesome, but don't feel like you need to rush out and get one if taking 2 secs plugging in isn't an issue.
Personally I'd wait till you see the charging pad go on sale.
I'm so jealous of you right now. I'm just sitting here with my Nexus 6P knowing I have to keep this thing alive for as long as possible. Phones aren't cheap. :/
-Pyromaniac-
Member
just install a launcher and ignore all samsung apps imo.
Also, the Android market claims another victim:
If you're too lazy to read it all, it's the same story. They grew really quickly, plateau'd too fast, got caught up in the race to the bottom, and now the next chinese company is beating them where that growth occurred. They're making lots of money but their growth has halted.
Not being able to crack the US market does damage man. Apple and Samsung running game in that (mostly Apple). No one else can get in it seems.
china is a bloodbath lol.
don't be me. Or be motivated to make enough money to do this lol.
-Pyromaniac-
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Makes me wonder if there will ever be a third player in the USA. Google has the best shot if they...you know...tried.
jim2point0
Banned
Luckily the Nexus 6P is a damn good phone and if I didn't completely destroy mine, I'd still be using it and loving it.
Try going back to the HTC M8 after that while you wait for the S8 to be released. THAT'S rough
Think they are in a tough position. While it's easy to say they have to many models (brands?) and should have spent more in marketing those fewer phones that might not really work in China. Is OnePlus doing well in Asia? OnePlus and Google are the only ones providing a focused line up like Apple.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Do we already have Store launchers with on-screen buttons ala S8? I likely will go with a custom launcher over Samsung's. I'm just afraid none will do the dimensions of the phone justice. Luckily with how popular the phones are they're likely to make updates right?
Vanillalite
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Hawaii released too many damn similar phones both between their main brand and their Honor sub brand.
Pair down the lineup and they'd perform better.
Pair down the lineup and they'd perform better.
Yeah, knowing they have a dozen phones causes me to care about none of them. I don't have the time to figure out all the minute differences.
BoboBrazil
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S8 snapdragon 835 antutu benchmark 164692, bleh
WhiskerFrisker
Member
Isn't that roughly the same as the 3T?
BoboBrazil
Member
Yeah lol We will have to see what OnePlus can get out of the snapdragon 835.
SolidSnakeUS
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BoboBrazil
Member
And hope it's Verizon capable
Probably won't happen. I don't see them supporting cdma.
Store launcher?
Stuff like nova launcher already supports arbitrary resolutions like for tablets so it should work fine on s8.
Unlike ios Android apps are generally designed for arbitrary resolutions. Most should fill out the s8 or g6 just fine without updates.
Mostly games and 16:9 video will naturally have black bars.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Held the s8 today. Game changer. Such a gorgeous device. The sides felt great, no worries with the edge screen.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
Yeah, it's a pleasant experience while holding it.
The Faceless Master
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Admiral Woofington
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do the charging pads work with the official S-flip cases from amazon? The ones with the covers?
my mom needed an iphone for work, so I gave her my 6s plus and got back the axon 7.
With it updated to 7.1.1... shit is easily my fav 2016 phone .
Performance is snappy. still not a huge fan of their skin, but its really only noticeable in the notifications and settings. put nova and your good.
supports daydream now and them loud stereo speakers... increasingly a rarity.
For a phone thats frequently on sale under $400.... Really curious what zte is bringing for 2017.
no more of that kickstarter bullshit please.
With it updated to 7.1.1... shit is easily my fav 2016 phone .
Performance is snappy. still not a huge fan of their skin, but its really only noticeable in the notifications and settings. put nova and your good.
supports daydream now and them loud stereo speakers... increasingly a rarity.
For a phone thats frequently on sale under $400.... Really curious what zte is bringing for 2017.
no more of that kickstarter bullshit please.
BoboBrazil
Member
My fav 2016 phone too. Regret selling mine. Those speakers and screen were excellent. When I sold mine the development community wasn't what it is now though.
The Faceless Master
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not the same camera sensor as last year
Erica Griffin said:
fixes the weird selfie cam postiion from v1 at least lol
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
To be expected.
Samsung software struggles on benchmarks and in general Qualcomm sucks at benchmarks. Most of the overall benchmarks (vs individual) are seeing mainly GPU gains.
That Apple A11 10nm chip gonna shit on this from high. As it is the 835 is barely hanging with the A10 except for the GPU.
Samsung winning the screen game, but everywhere else is sorta meh outside of the camera.
Jazzy Network
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Benchmarks is so fucking stupid. Anyone who puts clout in benchmarks needs to get a life. The 625 proves benchmarks is literally for nerds with no life.
as long as phones are fast enough, then w/e.
I guarantee that if I had my Xperia Z3 Compact with me, it would be still running butter smooth.
But I'm also not the type to have 20 apps in background and get pissed when I can't reload the 18th one that I used 3 hours ago (I know some of you fuckers here would).
No, but it supports extensions so you can get one.
No bezel at the bottom makes it the most unusable phone ever
crazy monkey
Banned
Looks great. I have mi5 no complaints.
Why exactly? I'm not sure no bezel there makes it worse than other places. I actually though no side bezels would be worse as that's where I grip things. Well unless its got good palm rejection detection.
Vanillalite
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I haven't used the 625 enough to know.
BUT last year's Moto G with the 617 was fine yet still noticably slower. Ask Kingroin who recently went from his Moto G4 to a GS7 that his work gave him.
Said the performance was night and day.
That being said at the high end I'm not sure how much functionally faster the 835 is over the 820 in real world use.
Snap625 (and any other cpu that has eight Cortex A53 cores) is virtually indistinguishable from highest end processors in real world performance.
Here is a comparison between pixel and moto G5 plus.
App bootup and memory management is pretty similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItTd4FFMsmw
These days file read write speeds are generally more important
App bootup and memory management is pretty similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItTd4FFMsmw
These days file read write speeds are generally more important
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Ehhh it doesn't really show memory management, and ever since the switch to art a lot of boot performance is solved during the download/install.
Not to say the G5 Plus isn't solid. It's way faster than the G4 Plus after checking some reviews. Guess the 625 is 14nm vs 617 being 28nm. So the smaller processor allowed them to clock up the cores a fuck ton.
Bigger issue I have is mid range Qualcomm arm designs are a step up from the low end 4XX series. The adreno gpus aren't though. GPU performance on the 6XX series chips aren't much better than the 4XX series. So it's either low end or high end in the 8XX series. They need a better mid range gpu option.
Also I was hoping lpddr4 wouldn't still feel so "new" and be cheap enough to proliferate down into non flagship chips.
Wish G5 Plus US version had nfc. I want to get rid of Honor 8 so badly. Hopefully OnePlus 4 can shrink the bezels so it's about the size of 5.2inch phones. I'm still amazed how fast OG OnePlus is every time I pick that up. Using it as my replacement for Nexus 7 until a decent and inexpensive 7 to 8 inches table comes out.
It's hard to get the op3 smaller width wise. Barely any bezels there already lol. I guess they could Samsung curve it a little to get it thinner.
Not from what I can tell. Samsung TouchWiz for ya.
I've generally been using Chrome beta these days without an issue.
But I generally just use the browser for gaf, which is smooth and quick in mobile mode even on 2g lol.
New HTC phone leaks. http://m.gsmarena.com/htc_u_ocean_leak_reveals_pressuresensitive_frame-news-24343.php
It's like the HTC u ultra doesn't exist lol.
height is the bigger problem fitting it in some of my pants when the phone is larger than 5.2in. I don't mind if they get rid of the buttons and move finger print to the back center, in fact that's preferable.