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Josh Lyman posted:I'm not sure if we're talking past each other, but it seems they count a cycle as a discharge to 0%, regardless of whether you started at 5% or 50% or 100%: "Evaluating battery life on counting cycles is not conclusive because a discharge may vary in depth and there are no clearly defined standards of what constitutes a cycle." We're not talking past each other, you've assumed they are using the terminology wrong, but they aren't. To be really clear - they're counting 10% to 0% as 1/10th of a cycle. Ten tenths makes a whole. They really haven't made a website to reveal that 10 x 10 = 100 x 1, honest. e: My car plugs into my 6 just fine, but the supplied lightning cable is too short to then rest the phone anywhere useful. Top design there.
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This is more of a general question, but any recommendations on car mounts for a 5/5s? If it clips to the AC vent even better because my car designs basically screams "gently caress you and your phone mounts hope you like rounded edges everywhere".
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Feb 8, 2016 18:20
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I got one that goes into my CD slot -- love it.
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Feb 8, 2016 18:30
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I got one that goes into my CD slot -- love it. That sounds like an interesting option. Got a link?
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Feb 8, 2016 18:35
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I have this vent mount, it works fine. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D901B4W?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00
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Feb 8, 2016 19:09
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I have a ProClip setup in my car, though I used a CD mount prior.
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http://lifehacker.com/five-best-car-smartphone-mounts-1728836505
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:That sounds like an interesting option. Got a link? Here's a CD slot magnetic mount. The vent mount is also there too.
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Feb 8, 2016 19:44
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A friend needs to replace the battery in their iPhone 5S, is this battery & kit okay to get? http://digitalsupplyusa.com/product...7DQERoCtMTw_wcB
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Feb 8, 2016 21:41
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Never heard of them, but it's the same price as the Ifixit kit, which is good.
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Endless Mike posted:Never heard of them, but it's the same price as the Ifixit kit, which is good. I'll recommend iFixit instead, I know they have a really good reputation.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:That sounds like an interesting option. Got a link? http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JXO095U?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00
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Can anyone recommend a car mount that the phone just sits in, as opposed to being secured in place by some kind of clamp?
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I'm so glad I'm a city-dweller and don't have to worry about all this car mount stuff.
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The rear end Stooge posted:Can anyone recommend a car mount that the phone just sits in, as opposed to being secured in place by some kind of clamp? This seems like an easy way to turn a phone and a minor fender bender into phone-parts and a head injury. I used one of those gas station dash pads for my old Nokia RAZR flip-phone until it did the exact thing I just said.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:This is more of a general question, but any recommendations on car mounts for a 5/5s? If it clips to the AC vent even better because my car designs basically screams "gently caress you and your phone mounts hope you like rounded edges everywhere". I found vent mounts to be worthless because in my car the plastic is flexible and isn't thick enough to support any weight. Obviously that will depend on your card model. Just for another data point, I used this CD mount: http://www.amazon.com/kwmobile-iPhone-perfectly-fitting-charger/dp/B00YPPZTB6 It was AUD$15 on eBay without a charger/lightning cable to possibly check there too.
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Thanks for all the recommendations! Ended up going for this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00V54LQO4/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Pivo posted:bluetooth audio is compressed which really sucks if you have a good audio system I don't think this has been true of BT technology for a few years? Sounds the same to me and I have a hard time believing that you could tell the difference between bluetooth vs. directly wired in a blind test.
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Michael Scott posted:I don't think this has been true of BT technology for a few years? Sounds the same to me and I have a hard time believing that you could tell the difference between bluetooth vs. directly wired in a blind test. Um. No, it's compressed. Apparently the 6s can send 256kbit AAC without transcoding if the BT device supports it, but I can't verify that. Regardless, it's still compressed. Most people who care about this stuff could trivially tell when a source has been stepped on by sending it through Bluetooth.
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Pivo posted:Um. No, it's compressed. Apparently the 6s can send 256kbit AAC without transcoding if the BT device supports it, but I can't verify that. Regardless, it's still compressed. Most people who care about this stuff could trivially tell when a source has been stepped on by sending it through Bluetooth. Yeah it's compressed but I still doubt that you could tell the difference in a blind test. I care about this stuff, thanks.
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How do you propose I set up the test? I don't want to spend money on Bluetooth headphones I'm not going to use, but I've used plenty, I suppose I could borrow someone's. How to make it blind, though? The whole process of pairing the phone / switching headphones / yada yada, even if done by a third party, would still be incredibly obvious even if I was blindfolded. We could record the output with a very high-end microphone and then replay the lossless recording through the best headphones we could find, but that's introducing variability and spending more money on audio hardware. So how do we do this blind test? You could just believe me that I can tell the difference when I stream music over Bluetooth, jeez. I'm not some superhero, teenage years spent in nightclubs means my hearing isn't what it used to be anyway, but I'm just a lot more anal about lossy compression than others. I notice because I'm listening for it, most other people just don't care and don't notice.
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I think it'd be pretty easy to set up the test. I have a BT speaker that takes line in as well. I'd play you a song over Bluetooth with you facing away, then the same song on line in, repeat like 40 times and if you get it right better than 50% then you can tell the difference. We'd also do the same thing with like 2500 other people. I mean, we don't need double blinding for this as long as you never see the tester. I bet there are good headphones that also have line in support.
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tuyop posted:We'd also do the same thing with like 2500 other people. Now, the matter of funding. Apple is rumoured to be pushing wireless audio on the next iPhone, so if you're right, this could be a study they'd be interested in. You never know, we might be able to get a car or two and some headphones out of this. Let's do this. the iPhone thread is on a mission.
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I'm usually listening to music in my lovely Civic instead of in my acoustically-isolated limousine, so using BT doesn't matter.
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Compressed audio is compressed audio, you don't need literal Bluetooth headphones to do an ABX test for compressed audio. That said, modern Bluetooth has enough bandwidth to stream basically lossless audio, so you can rest easy knowing that those frequencies you pretend you can still hear are being preserved 
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I have BT headphones and a BT FM transmitter and you can 100% tell that the BT audio is compressed.
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No one has been able to properly ABX 256kbs audio in forever, but the bluetooth audio spec is hot garbage so even at relatively high bitrates it achieves awful results. It's suitable for plenty of purposes, but if you actually get down to testing it, you can ABX BT audio about as easily as 128kbs AAC.
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All non poo poo BT headphones cost way too much money. The DAC of the iphone is really nice, so losing that would suck hard.
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Don't poke the audiophile nest.
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cowofwar posted:Don't poke the audiophile nest. Don't listen to this guy, it's way too much fun e: the panacea posted:The DAC of the iphone is really nice, so losing that would suck hard. Not just good, it's actually literally one of the best you can get your hands on. http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-5/audio-quality.htm Personal  perhaps, but I'd not buy an iPhone in a hurry if the quality was sacrificed for "thinness".The sad thing about it is, they can't advertise how good of a DAC it actually includes, because you just get the audiphools wailing about 24bit audio. Khablam fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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please don't link ken rockwell in any serious-posts photography thread might have to have a word with you
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Speaking of poking nests, what does the iPhone Thread make of the fact that Apple Store employees now have a machine to apply screen protectors for you? *backs away*
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Rockwell reviews devices he's never used then spends a paragraph begging for change. Use him for tech sheets and nothing else.
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Froist posted:Speaking of poking nests, what does the iPhone Thread make of the fact that Apple Store employees now have a machine to apply screen protectors for you? The end of Apple as we know it.
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New minor thing that annoys me: if I use the swipe-down on Facebook messenger notifications to write a message, and then don't press Send on the exact tiny hotspot it just takes you to the app and you lose the message.
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EL BROMANCE posted:New minor thing that annoys me: if I use the swipe-down on Facebook messenger notifications to write a message, and then don't press Send on the exact tiny hotspot it just takes you to the app and you lose the message. That happens in a few apps (sometimes in Messages maybe? Definitely in FB Messenger also) and it's annoying as gently caress. I had the Notification Swipe keyboard (the black one that looks cool as gently caress) stuck on my screen the other day after a dodgy FB Messenger notification. e: Ah I see you were also talking about FB Messenger as opposed to FB.
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Froist posted:Speaking of poking nests, what does the iPhone Thread make of the fact that Apple Store employees now have a machine to apply screen protectors for you? This is awesome. If it's a reasonable price I will be driving to my nearest apple store today.
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dik-dik posted:This is awesome. If it's a reasonable price I will be driving to my nearest apple store today. It's only applicable to the following two protectors: Invisiglass is $34.95, anti glare is $17.95
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dik-dik posted:This is awesome. If it's a reasonable price I will be driving to my nearest apple store today. I'm curious about the price. How close to the screen replacement fee does it get?  edit - nevermind, someone just posted the price!
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EL BROMANCE posted:Rockwell reviews devices he's never used then spends a paragraph begging for change. Use him for tech sheets and nothing else. I was going to do the rockwell trigger warning, but yeah I mean just look at the graphs. Other sources corroborate if you search around.
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