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Manky posted:This is the first android device that I've owned that I've quite purposefully avoided loving with.
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Is the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (dual sim) any good? The S4 Mini is hardly cutting edge, but it's a definite improvement over the Nexus S and for essentially $0 it's hard to recommend against. It's running 4.4 and unlikely to get 5.0, but you're not really missing out on much unless you're a huge phone nerd. If you don't care about the latest and greatest it should fit your purpose just fine.
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Jan 29, 2015 03:54
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Splinter posted:upgrade worries Who cares if you decide to upgrade sooner when the device is only 200? I moved to the X from a GNex. It's a massive upgrade.
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Jan 29, 2015 04:01
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I love my Turbo but yeah I have the same left hand problem sometimes. It is a bit too big and looking back on it my S3 is way more comfortable to use, though the new Lollipop app UI takes up too much screen real estate.
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Jan 29, 2015 06:57
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Desk Lamp posted:The S4 Mini is hardly cutting edge, but it's a definite improvement over the Nexus S and for essentially $0 it's hard to recommend against. It's running 4.4 and unlikely to get 5.0, but you're not really missing out on much unless you're a huge phone nerd.
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Jan 29, 2015 07:53
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It's okay guys - I checked the website today and groupon is now offering another phone as well. You're speaking to the proud owner of a brand new Nokia Lumia 635! kidding
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Jan 29, 2015 10:01
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I put car wax on my screen, it's doing an okay job keeping the fingerprints off so far. Haven't tried RainX yet.
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Jan 29, 2015 12:56
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Holy poo poo I need to do this with the Aquapel with whatever's left after the car 
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I'd rather have a Lumia 635 than a Galaxy S4 Mini. At least the Lumia comes in bright orange.
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Jan 29, 2015 15:32
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Alright, so I bought a Note 4 two days ago and it is nice so far except the bloatware etc. I could live with that though IF it got the awesome battery life I thought it was supposed to get. Is this what everyone else gets? 29% Android System usage, and having the battery drained by the end of the day to 0% with moderate screen usage? Is the processor super power hungry or something? Even exchange is draining quite a bit I guess. I thought people were talking about getting 1.5 days of battery life with the Note 4. I feel like I should do at test and just let the phone sit idle for 8 hours and see how much it uses from full charge. I'm estimating like 5% an hour.   BossTweed fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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Jan 29, 2015 15:45
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Did you just add a large Exchange account or something? That is an awful lot of battery used by Exchange services.
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Give it a week or so. Your phone is doing all sorts of battery taxing background stuff in the first couple of days. I almost sent back my Nexus 6 because the battery didn't get through half a day at first. Now it's chugging along just fine.
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Internet Explorer posted:Did you just add a large Exchange account or something? That is an awful lot of battery used by Exchange services. The account itself has a ton of email, but it is only be syncing 2 weeks worth of email. One of my folders gets a ton of email but I hadn't opened it yet, so it hasn't even synced it. I'll give it a little time. I'm trying to figure out if I should do a system wipe and just do some "bare bones" battery tests where I don't have my email synced, and try to reduce the number of variables so I can figure out if I need to exchange it or something.
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Jan 29, 2015 16:10
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Looks like my next phone purchase wille coming from Amazon for about $300 or so. Doors Amazon have phone sales or an I stuck with that horrible Fire Phone?
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Vagrancy posted:
Please tell me they're just going to make a basic flip phone and stay out of the Android community
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ThermoPhysical posted:Looks like my next phone purchase wille coming from Amazon for about $300 or so. Doors Amazon have phone sales or an I stuck with that horrible Fire Phone? http://www.amazon.com/cell-phones-service-plans-accessories/b/ref=nav_shopall_wi?ie=UTF8&node=2335752011
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enojy posted:evleaks leaked a promotional photo of the HTC One M9 (far right.) Front runner for replacing my now off contract M7. Should be interesting to see what the S6 looks like after the S5 was an underperformer. (all metal?) In a month we'll know what the Z4, G4, S6 and M9 all look like.
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Jan 29, 2015 16:44
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The Sayguys V2 is suppose to go on preorder today. Pretty interested. 550 for the preorder price. Though I'm going to wait for the reviews on it first...
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Jan 29, 2015 17:47
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Qualcomm basically confirmed that the S6 is going to be Exynos only yesterday when they cut their financial outlook citing that a "major" smartphone flagship will no longer be using the 810. Seems Samsung is going to double down on stupid.
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I'm gonna go with the 2013 X. Can someone confirm that this (XT1060) is the model I want for Verizon compatibility? I'm a bit confused as it says it's for Verizon and GSM, but won't work on Sprint and other CDMA networks. I thought Verizon used CDMA...
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Jan 29, 2015 18:30
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Splinter posted:I'm gonna go with the 2013 X. Can someone confirm that this (XT1060) is the model I want for Verizon compatibility? I'm a bit confused as it says it's for Verizon and GSM, but won't work on Sprint and other CDMA networks. I thought Verizon used CDMA... Yes that's the right model for Verizon. Sprint will not activate Verizon CDMA devices and vice versa.
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Vagrancy posted:
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My lg one m8 has just told me it wants me to install lollipop. Is it a good idea to update now or is there some reason I should wait ?
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Cojawfee posted:What's this? It looks to me like OnePlus is referencing Breaking Bad (for unknown reasons) to say things aren't going so well with Cyanogen and in the future they're going to build their own rom, presumably based on AOSP and without Cyanogen's added features.
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Jan 29, 2015 18:59
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No. Cyanogen Inc. is a software company developing Cyanogenmod. OnePlus is a hardware company with some kind of link to OPPO, and which inked a deal to use Cyanogenmod as the software on the OnePlus One. In other news: new rumors again claiming Samsung has plans to address the complaints about TouchWiz.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:My lg one m8 has just told me it wants me to install lollipop. Is it a good idea to update now or is there some reason I should wait ? You should probably hold off since your phone is confused about it's manufacturer. Give it time to decide on its own how it identifies itself before making any drastic updates.
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Rastor posted:No. Cyanogen Inc. is a software company developing Cyanogenmod. OnePlus is a hardware company with some kind of link to OPPO, and which inked a deal to use Cyanogenmod as the software on the OnePlus One. I'm curious about touchwiz haters (I don't like it but I can stand something like the note 4 version, rooted and with less bloat  ) if Samsung finally decides to go closer to AOSP.
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Guillermus posted:I'm curious about touchwiz haters (I don't like it but I can stand something like the note 4 version, rooted and with less bloat I'm more interested in what 5 is going to look like on the Xperia phones. I know the general opinion around here is the current Sony skin is lightweight and unobtrusive but drat is it ugly.
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Splinter posted:It's finally time to replace my Galaxy Nexus that I've been using as my primary phone since it was first released on Verizon. Hooray! I was in this boat, looking for a phone that was basically a better GNex. I went with a 2013 Dev Moto X since it was the best option where I could easily get root, and it turned out to be perfect. Honestly if you're coming from a GNex, pretty much everything is going to be better in every way.
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Endless Mike posted:You should probably hold off since your phone is confused about it's manufacturer. Give it time to decide on its own how it identifies itself before making any drastic updates. Haha I didn't even notice, it is of course an HTC. My previous phone was lg hence the mistake.
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Endless Mike posted:You should probably hold off since your phone is confused about it's manufacturer. Give it time to decide on its own how it identifies itself before making any drastic updates. We try to be inclusive of trans-brand phones in this community 
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Guillermus posted:I'm curious about touchwiz haters (I don't like it but I can stand something like the note 4 version, rooted and with less bloat What do you mean you're curious? I mean, if they hate TW, and TW goes away, then....what are you saying again?
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Well, this is a thing. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/microsoft-to-invest-in-cyanogen-hopes-to-take-android-away-from-google/ Hot on the heals of Cyanogen's comments about wanting to take Android away from google, Microsoft is going to pump $70mil of cash into them.
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Thermopyle posted:What do you mean you're curious? I mean, Touchwiz haters hate it because all the bloat and menu changes, if Samsung removes that and goes AOSP, will they keep hating samsung because it's samsung? Was just wondering, sorry if typing TW and samsung is offensive 
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bull3964 posted:Well, this is a thing. Someone should update the wikipedia page for "Throwing good money after bad" with this link.
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If that means making a Lumia with Android on it, count me in.
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Lblitzer posted:If that means making a Lumia with Android on it, count me in. Even if it did, it would mean a forked version of android cutoff from google services.
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bull3964 posted:Qualcomm basically confirmed that the S6 is going to be Exynos only yesterday when they cut their financial outlook citing that a "major" smartphone flagship will no longer be using the 810. I haven't been following mobile tech much in the past year, but that article keyed me into the rumor that the Snapdragon 810 is prone to overheating, and that it might ship underclocked as a band-aid fix. Is this old/debunked news or what? I was getting hyped up about the HTC One M9 in about a month, but that'll almost certainly feature a Snapdragon 810, and I don't want no problems with my drat flagship telephone. Besides, aluminum body phones get hot enough as is.
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