brotkasten
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No, I'm sick of the OLED screen in my Nexus.
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No, I'm sick of the OLED screen in my Nexus.
The Faceless Master
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oversaturation is just a calibration issue... or rather, a deliberate calibration decision.
I prefer LCD to bad OLED displays with poor calibration. But a Good RGB OLED display with proper calibration for great color accuracy is just beyond the reach of LCD.
brotkasten
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Does good calibration prevent ghosting and burn-in?
Neither occur on current phones.. sorry if you have a crappy Gnex with old gen Oled.
Saying that I am pretty impressed with the clear black LCD on the 920, pretty close to Oled for blacks.
The Faceless Master
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actually, yes, good calibration does prevent burn-in. and ghosting is more of an LCD issue, or maybe bad display drivers, OLED has faster response times and refresh rates than LCD.
brotkasten
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Time to throw my old 2011 hardware away.
For the past few months, many have been waiting for the Nokia Lumia 928 to break cover but we now have the first look at the phone that will land on Verizon in the near future. Even though we had previously heard that the device would be clad in aluminum, the images show that Nokia is sticking with the polycarbonate exterior that has become a staple of the Lumia line of devices.
The images, while small, were released by the ever-reliable @evleaks and appear to be the real deal; they also represent our first look at the phone. A few notable differences we can see is that the back of device looks different than the existing Lumia 920 with what looks like to be a xenon flash as opposed to the LED flash on the current device. In addition, you can see that the back bar text has changed and the word Nokia has been removed and replaced by Carl Zeiss.
More importantly, the location of the worlds Carl Zeiss has been changed and replaced by PureView, which would confirm that the phone will use Nokia's PureView imaging sensors for the phone.
To no surprise either, the phone will be able to connect to Verizon's LTE network. The front of the device appears relatively unchanged and looks a lot like the Lumia 920 but with Verizon branding.
Beyond that, the exterior looks similar to the rest of the Lumia family and should hopefully hit store shelves in the near future.
http://www.neowin.net/news/verizons-lumia-928-leaks-not-made-of-aluminum-packs-pureview
VanMardigan
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How did they get voicemail to be a separate tile from the phone tile?
lastflowers
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maybe that's a Verizon thing. My 8x also has this.
If all technology is driven by porn, maybe BB got an ace up their sleeves.
(Yes, this is 2 days old)
(Yes, this is 2 days old)
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
But can any WP8 phone do this? If you unpin that tile, how can you get it back?
brotkasten
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brotkasten
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From the Android thread:
Looking at Google's current WP support, I think giga is right. A move like that could kill WhatsApp for Windows Phone.
Looking at Google's current WP support, I think giga is right. A move like that could kill WhatsApp for Windows Phone.
Would whatsapp sell if that was a possibility? Seems like they wouldn't want to chop into their userbase like that, buyout or not.
But yeah, hopefully thats not true, unfortunately the relationship between MS and Google (WP and Android in particular) is so incredibly soured, that such a thing is possible. Whatsapp immediately loses value if it ceases to work on multiple platforms. I hope they realize that.
VanMardigan
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So giga is calling us Symbian users now? smh
The Faceless Master
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but money.
after Reader, i wouldn't put anything past Google.
MS needs to kill of WP8 and fork Android with their own infrastructure. that would be fantastic.
Well, there's at least 1 app from Google on Windows Phone, it would be worse if Facebook bought them.
brotkasten
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He probably forgot about Windows Phone, list most people do.
VanMardigan
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Horrible idea. Even worse if you can't access the play store like with Amazon.
Unknown Soldier
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The OLED screen on Galaxy Nexus is pretty bad though.
OLED has always had dramatically superior motion resolution over LCD. If you put a phone with an OLED display (or a PS Vita) side by side with a phone that has an LCD display and play the same game on both, it's pretty obvious to see. OLED doesn't have the ghosting and motion blur characteristic of LCD because the individual LEDs have instant response time like plasma. The other problem, sample-and-hold, is unfortunately shared between OLED and LCD, whereas the phosphors on a plasma panel rapidly lose brightness between screen refreshes like a CRT's phosphors and so the plasma's motion resolution is better still than either OLED or LCD.
The biggest reasons why home theater enthusiasts have been looking to OLED TVs as their messiah are the infinite contrast and zero black levels and the vastly superior motion resolution over LCD, but without the various issues which plasma TVs have. Both plasma and OLED can have burn-in so it's a wash there, and OLED won't be suitable for mass-production TV use until they solve the burn-in problem.
Face it Tiger..
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Hire him, MS.
Windows Phone 8.1 concept. I could live with these updates.
e: Forgot to add, GIVE ME CUSTOM NOTIFICATIONS MICROSOFT. Such a small thing, but I do love customizing those little sounds.
I don't even care for custom sounds all I want is different vibrations to be selectable as notifications.
I want to keep the ringer on but when email comes in for work to vibrate not chime. I would also want my Gmail to vibrate differently than my work.
The Faceless Master
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They'll have the Windows Phone A store. And since the apps would be binary compatible, it would have great dev support.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
And lose all the synergy with Windows, brilliant idea! Plus we'll get better spec phones since it'll definitely need it. Sounds like win-win to me.
Cute Dragon Here
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Heh.
However, hiding the address bar on the Internet browser? That's a big no-no for me. It has to be an option, or at least temporarily displayed during loads, and shortly after finishing loading.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Yep, not feeling that concept. Way too much unintuitive swiping and buttons. Some things I like, third party app notifications on the Me tile being one, but not much else.
The Faceless Master
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they can code in all the synergy they want into their fork.
frontieruk
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so they are going to rework RT and then lose it to the community?? Doesn't sound like Microsoft to me
The Faceless Master
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you need to look further back than the past few months.
Have you even used Android? This concept is orders of magnitude better in terms of design while significantly closing the gap in terms of functionalities.
FUBAR McDangles
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So the Ativ S is coming over to Sprint this summer, eh? Looks like I'm going to be getting my first smart phone.
Any guesses on how much it'll cost on an upgrade?
Any guesses on how much it'll cost on an upgrade?
Man... as a Canadian who uses TELUS, I wonder when the heck they're going to get more Windows Phone 8 phones 
Their last one is a Nokia Lumia 620 which is a decent phone. However, what about the 820 and 920 ? What about the HTC ?
Their last one is a Nokia Lumia 620 which is a decent phone. However, what about the 820 and 920 ? What about the HTC ?
The Faceless Master
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gonna guess $99
520 is such a kick ass device for only $180. Too bad Xbox Music sucks as the 520 would make a great Zune replacement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mMK9f43kbVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mMK9f43kbVk
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