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Nexus 4 |OT| Quality for everyone
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Zombie James
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Ideally, it's the web development side that should be handling this by doing proper feature detection instead of user-agent filtering.
virtuoso88
Member
Download chrome ua and it'll change the settings for you.
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
How do I install flash?
The Faceless Master
Member
Wimax AND LTE
they dropped Wimax. they haven't made any new devices with Wimax since the start of the year and they also started rebadging their Wimax devices and selling them on their prepaid brands, Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile. Wimax is done.
Good lord I haven't seen the verge around for long but they sure are turning into a running joke fast. Way to show how bad your site is setup when you're trying to show off your iphone.
The Faceless Master
Member
those screenshots on the Android Market are old, it's been holo-ized a bit
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Gigs, all Twitter apps on Android aren't that great. Gruber also prefers Plume, like me. You may see why after using it. But it's still not particularly good.
Oh give me a break. What bank do you work at? I worked at Morgan Stanley. I suppose you're right that I did judge on phones. All I gave a shit about was that the scrub analysts' phones worked at 2 AM so they could be around to do my bitch work on demand.
On that note, the phone is ugly as hell.
Oh give me a break. What bank do you work at? I worked at Morgan Stanley. I suppose you're right that I did judge on phones. All I gave a shit about was that the scrub analysts' phones worked at 2 AM so they could be around to do my bitch work on demand.
On that note, the phone is ugly as hell.
The Faceless Master
Member
HSPA+ isn't Wimax though. it's HSPA+. Hell, if you wanna get technical, the Sprint and Verizon GS3s and iPhone 5s have HSPA+
They have a limited number of tokens, yes. Which is why they will stop selling to customers for a while. This is why they made their Mac app expensive, to be able to turn a profit (and provide support) with limited users.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
Did anyone suggest Reader HD? The interface is clean, it supports a couple different mobilizers, and caching for offline reading. The magazine mode is really nice too. Https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ageofmobile.reader
The Faceless Master
Member
Thanks for all the responses guys!
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It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a real Reeder and Tweetbot alternative. GoodNews does look pretty nice, so maybe it will serve. Plume…not a fan after seeing the screenshots.
Here's an example of what I mean by "readability mobilizer." You know how you see an article on your RSS, but they only post the first paragraph or so? Readability goes in and fetches the entire article without having to load their site.
It does the same for twitter links: http://blog.readability.com/2012/02/read-twitter-links-comfortably-with-tweetbot-readability/
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Android has intents and "share to..." so any app that's properly configured can accept requests like that. i use Pocket and the standard Twitter app, but i assume that any other Twitter app and other reading apps like Readability and Instapaper would work in the same way... you just press the "share to" button
oldschool:
onlyindreams
Banned
anyone know how much Google charges for shipping on their devices from the Play store? and if there's tax?
I heard shipping in germany costs 10. So 10$ in the us? Maybe someone who ordered the N7 can help.
onlyindreams
Banned
eh added a nexus 7 to my cart to see, they do charge tax and shipping was $14.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Yep. Also, Good News works where you just click the header of the feed and it will instantly mobilize the article for you, giga.Android has intents and "share to..." so any app that's properly configured can accept requests like that. i use Pocket and the standard Twitter app, but i assume that any other Twitter app and other reading apps like Readability and Instapaper would work in the same way... you just press the "share to" button, then from the list of available accepting apps, touch Readability. 2 presses. then that article/link/whatever is added to the app's reading list...
oldschool: [IMhttp://i.imgur.com/dhSnu.png?1[/IMG]
Ooh, awesome. Can you test some additional sites for me? Try these:Here's the verge with user agent switched to iphone. Video plays.
ESPN: http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=8598711
NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/11/06/nyregion/100000001887223/back-to-school-for-some.html
CNN: http://www.cnn.com/m/audiovideo
RoadHazard
Gold Member
What annoys me just slightly about Photosphere is that there always seems to be a black circular area at the top and bottom. I guess there's some technical limitation that makes a full sphere difficult to accomplish, but it's still a bit disappointing. Looking up and seeing that black disc breaks the cool illusion Photosphere otherwise does so well.
EightBitNate
Member
The only reason it's so cheap is because Google pays you're the phone a little so that they can get more people using their services.
Well some of the pictures have pretty small ones at the top. Like this one.
As for the bottom, I think that's unavoidable since otherwise you'd just have super distorted views of the photographer's feet.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Yeah, that one is pretty good. But still, I would prefer the software to fill in the blanks by interpolating from the surrounding image data. It wouldn't look perfect, but it would be less daunting than the solid black discs we get now.
That's true. They could easily patch in some sort of fill for the top hole at least if it detects that it's sky. I'm not sure about the bottom though, I have no idea how this stuff works.
Your work sounds like one shitty place.....
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
They could do something like a smart content fill that adobe photoshop does, but even at their best they tend to stick out like a sore thumb.
I know a guy who works at a bank and says he's forced to stick with his blackberry because he's afraid of how he'll be viewed.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Well, that's what they do with Street View. The camera obviously can't capture the street underneath the car, so they fill that data in the best they can. Doesn't look great, but better than if there had been a large black area on every image. So yeah, I think they should make Photo Sphere do the same thing.
Another cool thing I haven't seen people talking about as much is that the new Gallery apparenly has a "tiny planet" filter which turns photo spheres into just that:
fluffydelusions
Member
yep
criesofthepast
Member
That looks so cool!Another cool thing I haven't seen people talking about as much is that the new Gallery apparenly has a "tiny planet" filter which turns photo spheres into just that:
I guess nobody still knows how much phones can one person get...
I'm baffled as to why they're not doing pre-orders on it.
I think Asus fucked it up for all of us. Looks like they (Asus) hadn't even delivered Google's pre-order allotment before they had given retailers thier Nexus 7s. Creating this huge cluster fuck. I think Google wants to make sure they have the phones in stock. It could have been something internal at their end too, but who knows.
Something just went wrong with with the Nexus 7 launch, and they don't want to repeat it.
That is the scariest Fernando Alonso I've ever seen.
345triangle
Member
google region locks the play store, right? am i going to have to order this thing through a VPN and pick it up when i visit my folks at christmas?
Ah right, hadn't really followed the N7 launch at all.
It's an uncanny wax work of him, I'll not embed the images as I don't want to derail the thread.
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/7135/5a74a8906b3eaf3b824b639.jpg
http://wtf1.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/alonsoweirdo.jpg
Yeah it's region locked. Also, you have to have a Visa/Mastercard with the same registered address as the shipping address. No virtual cards accepted.
criesofthepast
Member
Is official twitter app really that bad? Tweetbot praise is kinda crazy. I've tried it. Other than looking slick I don't see the major functionality differences between it and the official app. The official app does what I need it to do on iPhone. Is it worse on android or something? Only thing I hate is the official client removed the translation feature I used very often.
I'm willing to pay $450 dollars for a 16gb Nexus 4 shipped to Texas if I can pay directly with a credit card (not paypal - amazon or google payments can work, though). Anyone?
Wat. The 16 gb one costs 350 dollars and I'm pretty sure it can be shipped to texas directly from google. Am I missing something?
I don't have an american credit card (I live in mexico).
