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Vanillalite
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I wonder what Samsung's sales expectations are.
will wait for Nokias WP8 before deciding but seieng as I have gone focus/Focus S I have no problem going ATIV next... looks pretty sweet to me.
Looks like a really solid phone. I will wait to see what HTC, and more specifically, Nokia can offer before deciding which one will succeed my HD7.
I've heard reports of it happening to people with galaxy nexuses so it's possible.
brotkasten
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My Nexus has bad ghosting, I always think it actually burned in. The screen is pretty terrible in general.
nokia it is then
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
will wait for Nokias WP8 before deciding but seieng as I have gone focus/Focus S I have no problem going ATIV next... looks pretty sweet to me.
I went the same route, and this phone looks good overall, but I'm concerned about the camera. Samsung isn't really highlighting it and I felt very disappointed going from Focus to Focus S from a camera standpoint. The Focus S already has an 8mp sensor and I don't think I can put up with this same sensor for another year.
so, what will everyone be doing on the 5th? i'm on the west coast so thankfully i don't have to miss any work to catch the conference. suppose to be 7-8am pacific time.
oh, there's the new york event then the nokia world event in finland the same day. anyone have the times for that?
oh, there's the new york event then the nokia world event in finland the same day. anyone have the times for that?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I really, really want to see that phone with the screen on. Have we ever seen Windows Phone on a high def screen?
ffs turn it on
I work from home so I will definitely be watching it.
brotkasten
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Samsung is not allowed to show the OS in public, which is why the Ativ phones don't have a battery in them.
The one on the S3 is much better, I have never seen ghosting like on my G Nex.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I know Samsung isn't giving them the battery to power that thing on, but if I'm them I'm using the SGSIII charger to power it up quickly and get that on tape.
Sure, they'll get kicked out of IFA, but they'll get millions of Youtube hits and be the first to show Apollo running in HD on an actual consumer device.
Sure, they'll get kicked out of IFA, but they'll get millions of Youtube hits and be the first to show Apollo running in HD on an actual consumer device.
I suppose that if I were to watch the video longer than the first couple seconds I would notice it lacking a battery. ADD for ya.
I had burn in on my OG Focus as well. Luckily I was able to exchange it for a 900.
...How?
brotkasten
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Phones turn on without a battery?
I had got the extended warranty.
Damn. If I would have known that was even remotely possible.... I would have picked up the extended warranty.
They gave me some grief that burn in wasn't covered, but I bitched and stood my ground. It was at Best Buy. The coverage pamphlet doesn't say it is not covered and I considered burn in to be defective and hampered my experience with the phone.
which will also probably be using samsung AMOLED HD screens!
Gonna go against the grain and say this looks generic as fuck. The metal back is fine, but the front looks like same old samsung but with a windows logo. Nokia will do better.
Complex Shadow
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Looks god awfulGonna go against the grain and say this looks generic as fuck. The metal back is fine, but the front looks like same old samsung but with a windows logo. Nokia will do better.
IIRC anything other than white uses more power on LCD, but it's so nominal it isn't even mentioned
where do you think Nokia gets their screens from?
Was gonna say..lol
yeah, sadly they're not exempt from samsung's QC considering all the complaints lumia 900 users had about the grays turning purple at low brightnesses. Clearblack and better auto-brightness functionality than samsung's android devices are not going to mitigate the flaws of the HD panel if it's the same as what appears in the galaxy nexus/GS3.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Just tried it with my Focus S. Nope.
Yeah, the front is meh, but the back looks wonderful. Or it did, until I found out the battery cover is actually plastic. At this point, I'm assuming only the chrome around the screen and lower back speaker grill is aluminum, with everything else being glass/plastic like the SGSIII. Very disappointing that they just painted the back cover to look metallic.
I don't think NFC would be possible with an aluminum back. It was pretty obvious from the pictures it was just the same "brushed metal texture" plastic crap as what's on the back of the GS3.Just tried it with my Focus S. Nope.
Yeah, the front is meh, but the back looks wonderful. Or it did, until I found out the battery cover is actually plastic. At this point, I'm assuming only the chrome around the screen and lower back speaker grill is aluminum, with everything else being glass/plastic like the SGSIII. Very disappointing that they just painted the back cover to look metallic.
Just tried it with my Focus S. Nope.
Yeah, the front is meh, but the back looks wonderful. Or it did, until I found out the battery cover is actually plastic. At this point, I'm assuming only the chrome around the screen and lower back speaker grill is aluminum, with everything else being glass/plastic like the SGSIII. Very disappointing that they just painted the back cover to look metallic.
I went back to the blog post. Only the speakers and buttons are metal. Sigh.
This part made it sound like it was aluminum? Really odd.
lastflowers
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There you go, my only hope for buying another Samsung phone....dashed.
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lastflowers
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I <3 you guys too! <3
Make <3 not WAR.
I <3 you guys too! <3
And then he gets banned lol
frontieruk
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Cute Dragon Here
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Has anyone ever wondered how Windows Phone stays fluid even on single-core hardware? I still can't believe my phone outpaces my old phone, and runs circles around it, despite it being only supposedly ~40-50% faster than my old phone.
brotkasten
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Full hardware (GPU) acceleration of the UI. Something Android only got with Jelly Bean. iOS and Windows Phone had it from version 1.0.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Don't bother, just upload all your music to Google and use Gooroovster.
Also, I find it amusing that MS has spent the last year removing features and basically just shitting on the Zune desktop software while acting coy about its follow up, particularly for those folks who don't plan on getting Windows 8. Would it kill them to do a blog post about the Xbox Music app and how that will sync with Wp7.5 devices (if it does)? I mean, if it was just a quick transition, I wouldn't care, but to spend the past year neutering the Zune app and removing features, doing the opposite of improving it, without letting us know what the successor will be or how it will differ or be the same is just irresponsible.
brotkasten
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The Xbox music app doesn't do any syncing. Windows Phones will get a new sync software.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I like the messages I get when I boot up Zune "Hey, you've got new features!!! Restart Zune software", then I restart and see that the apps are gone, or music videos are gone. Gee, thanks guys!
Also, the email I got on August 29th that told me I'd lose about a dozen features within the next two days was a nice touch. They called it a "Feature Update". Update as in "we're taking them away".
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