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bull3964 posted:Bit of revisionist history here. Softcard (ISIS) was already being developed before Google released Wallet. One of the main sticking points for Verizon and other Softcard partners was an exclusivity agreement that was established before Google ever showed off Wallet. All the players involved here wanted their own piece of the pie, there was never going to be getting them on board with terms any reasonable person would accept. Which let's face it, is probably a large part of why Apple bided their time rather than getting involved.
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Rastor posted:Oh those poor carriers and credit card companies. It's not exactly like google is an underdog in all of this. They have plenty of weight to toss around if they care to. I wasn't painting a tale of woe. I was just stating a fact that Softcard wasn't a reaction to Wallet. It was already well under development when Wallet came out and by that point it was too late for Google to even attempt to make headway with the carriers and card companies.
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Mr SoupTeeth posted:Regardless, I'm sure HTC could ditch the huge bezels and retain the speakers. I wouldn't be surprised if the bezel is purely a design decision, and one of many rather poor ones. Not with their current speaker design, it spans the entire thickness of the phone and height of the metal lip: https://i.imgur.com/3BrpKre.jpg / https://i.imgur.com/ulI8EZi.jpg
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repiv posted:Not with their current speaker design, it spans the entire thickness of the phone and height of the metal lip: https://i.imgur.com/3BrpKre.jpg / https://i.imgur.com/ulI8EZi.jpg I see, that certainly explains their packaging decisions. Hopefully they'll at least improve the weight bias for the M9. Big bezel aside it could be an amazing device if they improved the handling, there was a lot to like about the M8, just not a lot to differentiate it from the usual competition. The Snapdragon 810 paired with a 1080 display is an intriguing proposition.
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Mr SoupTeeth posted:The Snapdragon 810 paired with a 1080 display is an intriguing proposition. This is why I'm strongly considering the G Flex 2.
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Desk Lamp posted:I never got the chance to play around with an M8 so I don't know how much is new, but I'm really liking the look of Sense. Very distinctive. As an outsider who hasn't used modern Sense I think it looks quite nice.
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:This is why I'm strongly considering the G Flex 2. This seems like the worst kind of buying from a spec sheet possible.
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:This is why I'm strongly considering the G Flex 2. I wouldn't consider it too strongly, apparently the G Flex 2/Snapdragon 810 has ridiculous overheating/throttling problems.
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I'm trying to decide on a phone or tablet or something that I can use to take notes in OneNote. How is the current Samsung S-Pen? And how well does it work with Android's version of OneNote? Are the Note 4 and Note Edge significantly different in a way that would affect notation?
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this_is_hard posted:I wouldn't consider it too strongly, apparently the G Flex 2/Snapdragon 810 has ridiculous overheating/throttling problems. So the G Flex 2 has a bad processor and a bad screen, but hey, how important are those on a smartphone anyway?
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Rastor posted:Also reviews have been complaining about the display. quote:Images, videos and text are bright and rich in detail. The screen is easily viewable in sunlight with the brightness turned all the way up, it has a wide viewing angle, and it's responsive as well. quote:The display itself is also very pleasing to the eye. I was never convinced that LG’s G3 needed a Quad HD resolution and the G Flex 2 reiterates the point: this new phone looks just as good, if not better, than its fellow 5.5-inch brandmate. 1080p resolution and the deep beautiful blacks of OLED make for vibrant, strong imagery whatever you’re looking at
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Rastor posted:Also reviews have been complaining about the display. That's a bummer, I was looking forward to seeing what a high end SoC would do with a reasonable display. UHD/4K screens are nice, but the GPU power isn't quite where it needs to be. Unless the device has a 9" display or you hold it a quarter inch from your eyeball I don't think it's worth the performance trade off. Hopefully the M9 puts on a better showing. Mr SoupTeeth fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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Moto E 4G announced with SD410, Moto Display and Lollipop out of the box. http://www.droid-life.com/2015/02/25/moto-e-4g-lte-specs-official/ Shame about the display, 720p at 5.1" 
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Hace posted:Moto E 4G announced with SD410, Moto Display and Lollipop out of the box. It's actually worse: 960x540 at 4.5" But it's still a great device for the money.
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Oop yeah totally misread that. Either way going below 300ppi still kinda hurts, though 245 isn't terrible or anything.
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Hace posted:Moto E 4G announced with SD410, Moto Display and Lollipop out of the box. E: Beaten
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butt dickus posted:G Flex 2 review quotes Yeah, I saw that one and the Engadget review (where they mentioned that the phone didn't get all that hot while watching HD video, etc.) and both left positive impressions but a lot of people have criticisms of those sites for reviews. I don't know - I don't really keep up on who does the best reviews these days. I do like the idea of that phone though and would consider getting one if the price wasn't so high.
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Here are some sourced quotes regarding the G Flex 2 display:quote:http://www.greenbot.com/article/2885053/lg-g-flex-2-review-a-powerful-curved-smartphone-that-might-just-convert-you.html quote:http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/02/18/lg-g-flex2-review-practical-less-interesting/
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dphi posted:Yeah, I saw that one and the Engadget review (where they mentioned that the phone didn't get all that hot while watching HD video, etc.) and both left positive impressions but a lot of people have criticisms of those sites for reviews. I don't know - I don't really keep up on who does the best reviews these days. I do like the idea of that phone though and would consider getting one if the price wasn't so high. quote:I asked Ramchan Woo if it’s designed to flex, to which he responded by throwing his G Flex 2 on the floor and stepping on it. "You can even sit on it," he said before vigorously demonstrating that very action multiple times over. I later put his word to the test by trying to crush the Flex 2 with my fist, stepping on it, and throwing it up to a height of 20 feet in the air. Admittedly, it was landing on a soft carpet rather than unforgiving concrete, but none of these extreme tests made even a dent in the Flex 2. LG’s even gone so far as to take Gorilla Glass 3 from Corning and give it a special chemical treatment that the company says makes it 20 percent stronger and more durable. LG calls this Dura-Guard Glass and points out that it’s a particular improvement at the edges of the screen, which is where Gorilla Glass’ durability is apparently not as great as at the center. Rastor posted:Here are some sourced quotes regarding the G Flex 2 display:
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Captain Yossarian posted:What's the story with the Oneplus One? It's interesting, but I don't know a drat thing about it other then reviews online... 
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Captain Yossarian posted:What's the story with the Oneplus One? It's interesting, but I don't know a drat thing about it other then reviews online... The story is that the spergs itt have a huge hate boner for it.
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Ok, since both the Nexus 6 and Moto X (2014) have made it officially to Amazon, I've got some questions for both devices. Last night, I watched Erica the Tech Nerd's review on the Nexus 6 and some other guy's review. Both state that the Nexus 6 has pretty bad burn in that happens very quickly. Is this the case for those of you who have had the 6 for a while? Are there any other hardware related issues I should be aware of? The 2014 Moto X seems to suffer from the same burn-in issues. Are there any 2014 X users with this issue? Are there any other hardware related issues I should be aware of?
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ThermoPhysical posted:Ok, since both the Nexus 6 and Moto X (2014) have made it officially to Amazon, I've got some questions for both devices. Burn in can happen on any device with an AMOLED panel. Whether or not your phone gets burn in largely depends on how you use it.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Ok, since both the Nexus 6 and Moto X (2014) have made it officially to Amazon, I've got some questions for both devices. No noticeable burnin on my N6 after a couple months, but I keep my brightness quite low.
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mobby_6kl posted:The story is that the spergs itt have a huge hate boner for it. I just don't think it's a particularly great phone; seeing OnePlus' other PR and manufacturing screw-ups is just funny, regardless of how good the phone is. Unless you have a really great reason for buying off-contract, I wouldn't consider it. Even then, I'd still prefer a 1st gen Moto X or a used M8 first.
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nimper posted:Burn in can happen on any device with an AMOLED panel. Whether or not your phone gets burn in largely depends on how you use it. Yeah, I understand that. My Nexus S had burn-in after a few years. However, the problem with these two devices seems to be it's happening with regular usage and very quickly (from a few days to a few weeks of receiving the new device). EDIT: CLAM DOWN posted:No noticeable burnin on my N6 after a couple months, but I keep my brightness quite low. That's good to hear. I'd probably be keeping the brightness down too. Do you use Adaptive Brightness? also, how is the battery life?
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ThermoPhysical posted:Yeah, I understand that. My Nexus S had burn-in after a few years. However, the problem with these two devices seems to be it's happening with regular usage and very quickly (from a few days to a few weeks of receiving the new device). I do use adaptive brightness, it works fine. Direct sunlight is not very good for viewing but pretty much every phone I've owned has had issues with sunlight. Battery life is amazing for my use case which is light during the work day and pretty heavy in the evening. I can usually get through a full day with charge to spare. Battery gets nuked if I use my phone heavily at work though because the cell signal is poo poo here and no wifi. Overall it's the best phone I've ever owned.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I do use adaptive brightness, it works fine. Direct sunlight is not very good for viewing but pretty much every phone I've owned has had issues with sunlight. Battery life is amazing for my use case which is light during the work day and pretty heavy in the evening. I can usually get through a full day with charge to spare. Battery gets nuked if I use my phone heavily at work though because the cell signal is poo poo here and no wifi. Overall it's the best phone I've ever owned. Yeah, sunlight seems to always be an issue for me too. I'm still kind of waffling between the two but mainly leaning towards the N6 mostly because no where around here seems to have a Moto X to mess around with for display. Battery life sounds better than the N4 which is good. I barely get 3 hours or so out of it now a days. Do you have that ambient notifications thing turned on? Any cases you (or anyone else) can recommend? Is Diztronic still the go-to thing? Loop ThermoPhysical fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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ThermoPhysical posted:Yeah, sunlight seems to always be an issue for me too. I'm still kind of waffling between the two but mainly leaning towards the N6 mostly because no where around here seems to have one to mess around with for display. I only use Diztronic cases so I can't very well recommend another one! I should mention too that I have the ambient display thing turned off, which is supposed to slightly improve battery life (the feature where if you lift your phone off a desk/table it lights up a portion of the display in b&w to show notifications).
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mobby_6kl posted:The story is that the spergs itt have a huge hate boner for it. Everyone who has an opinion that isn't 100% in line with mine is somewhere on the Autism spectrum, and probably guilty of at least one crime against humanity.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I only use Diztronic cases so I can't very well recommend another one! Yeah, it doesn't look like the ambient display works very well anyway. Does the Diztronic make the phone annoying to pocket?
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ThermoPhysical posted:Yeah, it doesn't look like the ambient display works very well anyway. Does the Diztronic make the phone annoying to pocket? Nope, it's a very minimal/light/thin case. Also like $9.99 so it's hard to go wrong.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Nope, it's a very minimal/light/thin case. Also like $9.99 so it's hard to go wrong. Awesome. Mine was $12 for the N4 one.  Oh! How's the camera? Erica's had focusing problems while taking videos. How's the picture quality?
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