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What's a good car charger that supports quick charge for my Moto X pure?
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Feb 21, 2016 23:53
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:What's a good car charger that supports quick charge for my Moto X pure? I use this one and it's great. http://www.amazon.com/Anker-Charger...uick+charge+3.0
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Feb 21, 2016 23:56
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bull3964 posted:Yup, the cycle HAS started, to drop 16gb. We saw it with the N6P as well. Eventually, 128gb may become a common option on the top end, but probably not in most devices that have an SD card as I don't think apps themselves have gotten to the point to necessitate that much storage. Nexus 6 was only available in 32/64 GB too. No one has had to buy a good Android phone with 16 GB storage since the Nexus 4.
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Feb 22, 2016 00:36
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Let's talk about SD Cards!!!!
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Feb 22, 2016 00:43
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Captain Yossarian posted:Let's talk about SD Cards!!!! poo poo, never mind. The only storage offered is 32gigs. There goes my conspiracy theory. Strange move IMO. hotsauce fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Feb 22, 2016 01:04
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hotsauce posted:Strange move IMO. No, it's not. See my post on the previous page. Adoptable storage is only suitable for devices with a CRIPPLINGLY low amount of storage. It's a pretty poo poo feature the way it's setup on devices with even a modest amount of internal storage. You can tell it was really made for Android One devices with like 4g of internal storage. bull3964 fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Feb 22, 2016 01:26
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I agree, their implementation is a lot better, more so when their internal storage is as speedy as it is.
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Feb 22, 2016 02:18
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Adoptable storage is a time bomb and only really useful for disposable devices with very low specs and expected lifespans.
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Feb 22, 2016 02:24
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Does anyone know a decent app for scrolling wallpaper? Don't quite understand why this is not already a thing on my m8 but yeah. There's a couple I've tried but there trends to be some lag on the scrolling.
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Feb 22, 2016 02:32
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El Grillo posted:Does anyone know a decent app for scrolling wallpaper? Don't quite understand why this is not already a thing on my m8 but yeah. If you just mean it scrolls to the left/right as you swipe between home pages: Nova Launcher. It does a lot of great things in addition to wallpaper fun and won't lag your phone. Spend the cash for the Prime version of it- so worth it.
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Feb 22, 2016 02:37
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Nova Launcher I recommend 100% to anyone with an Android phone, it's fantastic. The only thing I wish was possible was having Google Now if I swipe left from the home screen.
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Feb 22, 2016 02:49
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orange sky posted:Only thing I'm scared about with moto X is the size, 5.5 or 5.7 seems huge for my hand I don't know if it's practical at all. I have a droid turbo 2 and the adjustment from a moto x 2013 didn't take long. CLAM DOWN posted:Nova Launcher I recommend 100% to anyone with an Android phone, it's fantastic. The only thing I wish was possible was having Google Now if I swipe left from the home screen. The launcher on moto x 2013 let me use any screen as the home screen, so when I swiped left it would show my calendar widget, and to the right it showed my other widgets. It won't let me do that on the turbo 2. Only the left most screen can be home screen. I've tried other launchers but then I miss out on swipe up for Google now. Doctor Butts fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Feb 22, 2016 03:02
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effika posted:If you just mean it scrolls to the left/right as you swipe between home pages: Nova Launcher. It does a lot of great things in addition to wallpaper fun and won't lag your phone. Spend the cash for the Prime version of it- so worth it.
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Feb 22, 2016 03:13
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Doctor Butts posted:I've tried other launchers but then I miss out on swipe up for Google now. What? That shouldn't be the case. I've never used the stock Google launcher and can access Now by swiping up from the home key.
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Feb 22, 2016 03:39
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I recently bought a nice pair of noise-cancelling headphones with a built-in mic, and I'd like to use them instead of the speakerphone. The problem is, I can't hear myself talk while using them, and it bugs me. Hunting through the settings app doesn't show an option to turn it on, and apparently this option that I would consider a feature is considered an annoying bug by 99% of the rest of the world. Which would be fine itself, if anyone would state the fix for the bug so I could do the opposite. Huawei Y536A1, Android 4.4.3. Any solutions?
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Feb 22, 2016 04:07
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Captain Yossarian posted:Let's talk about SD Cards!!!! lol if you use onboard storage It's 2016, get in
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Feb 22, 2016 06:07
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hooah posted:What? That shouldn't be the case. I've never used the stock Google launcher and can access Now by swiping up from the home key. Is that on Nova Launcher? If so the other reason I don't use Nova is that most of my background photos are bright and I can't find the option to make the status bar semi transparent.
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Feb 22, 2016 06:17
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If I want to do quick sketches with a stylus pen on a phone (that isn't TOO huge and heavy), what would my options be?
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Feb 22, 2016 07:05
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KinkyJohn posted:If I want to do quick sketches with a stylus pen on a phone (that isn't TOO huge and heavy), what would my options be? The Galaxy Note and pretty much nothing else as far as I'm aware.
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Feb 22, 2016 07:32
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Carphone Warehouse and the UK mobile network websites only have 32GB versions of the Galaxy S7 and Edge. The tech sites are saying the capacities are 32, 64 and 128GB. I take it the tech sites are wrong?
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Feb 22, 2016 10:41
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orange sky posted:Only thing I'm scared about with moto X is the size, 5.5 or 5.7 seems huge for my hand I don't know if it's practical at all. I used to have a Moto G first gen and I updated to the Moto X Style some months ago. I spent a long time debating myself between the X Style or the Nexus 5X, ended up with the Moto and I'm really happy with it. The only two things it does worse than the Nexus is the lack of a fingerprint reader (which you are not used to and even then, I use it on an iPhone I have and it's not really a life changer) and that in very marginal conditions the camera is better on the Nexus 5X. With the Moto you have an additional gig of RAM, a better display, an SD card, a better battery fast charging, etc. I was super scared at the size as well but now I couldn't have a much smaller phone.
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Feb 22, 2016 13:29
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Doctor Butts posted:Is that on Nova Launcher? If so the other reason I don't use Nova is that most of my background photos are bright and I can't find the option to make the status bar semi transparent. Swiping up for Google Now literally has nothing to do with the launcher you're using. For the notification bar, that option for Nova Prime (dunno about regular Nova) us under Look and Feel, but as the option says, it depends on your OS version and any OEM shenanigans.
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Feb 22, 2016 13:36
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Carphone Warehouse and the UK mobile network websites only have 32GB versions of the Galaxy S7 and Edge. The tech sites are saying the capacities are 32, 64 and 128GB. Most regions of the world are only getting 32GB versions.
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Feb 22, 2016 14:13
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Why so quick to blame it on Lenovo? Could ha e been Verizon saying gently caress it, we don't wanna spend anymore money on QA testing updates for these phones we sold 3 years ago. Oh, I am sure that it is Verizon's fault/decision. I was more sarcastically thanking Lenovo for the worthless $100 discount on a carrier exclusive phone that will probably get the same treatment.
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Feb 22, 2016 14:54
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Carphone Warehouse and the UK mobile network websites only have 32GB versions of the Galaxy S7 and Edge. The tech sites are saying the capacities are 32, 64 and 128GB. Most of the early rumors from reputableish sites said the storage will only be 32/64, but since announcement we've found out that only 32 will be available in most regions. Makes sense, anyway: a Samsung evo+ 128gb SD card only goes for $60 on Amazon.
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Feb 22, 2016 15:07
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Lowen SoDium posted:Oh, I am sure that it is Verizon's fault/decision. I was more sarcastically thanking Lenovo for the worthless $100 discount on a carrier exclusive phone that will probably get the same treatment. I did some carrier QA for a cellular broadcasting device with Verizon a couple years ago. Essentially my company manufactured a laptop NUC PC with a built in touch screen that had slots for 8 WWAN daughter boards that had Verizon branded Huawei modems in them. We had to go through carrier approval to do a partnership with Verizon. They process consisted of them emailing me about four hundred pages of excel sheets that all cross linked each other and required me to fill out every field among the ten thousand fields. Most of them requested the same twenty pieces of information, but asked in different ways . Some cross linked, so filling out one field would auto populate the wrong field on another form. There were drop down menus that were entirely blank that were required to fill out, and the sheets were locked so you couldn't add anything. it was a huge mess. I emailed them back and forth for months, and each time they'd respond with one error, I fix it, and they'd wait two weeks to report the next error. It was a nightmare, and clearly designed to make it nearly impossible to figure out what they wanted.
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Feb 22, 2016 16:07
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:I did some carrier QA for a cellular broadcasting device with Verizon a couple years ago. Essentially my company manufactured a laptop NUC PC with a built in touch screen that had slots for 8 WWAN daughter boards that had Verizon branded Huawei modems in them. We had to go through carrier approval to do a partnership with Verizon. They process consisted of them emailing me about four hundred pages of excel sheets that all cross linked each other and required me to fill out every field among the ten thousand fields. Most of them requested the same twenty pieces of information, but asked in different ways . Some cross linked, so filling out one field would auto populate the wrong field on another form. There were drop down menus that were entirely blank that were required to fill out, and the sheets were locked so you couldn't add anything. it was a huge mess. I love this. I mean, it's about exactly what I'd expect a large, ancient company that largely exists because of monopolies and that's full of bureaucracy to have going on.
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Feb 22, 2016 16:19
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Google is finally doing something with their Jibe acquisition. Announced a new partnership at MWC to bring the GSMA and RCS to a bunch of carries with a cloud based RCS system. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160222005526/en/Global-Operators-Google-GSMA-Align-Adoption-Rich And a new Jibe website: http://jibe.google.com/ Hopefully this means that RCS on Android and at least Fi is coming sooner rather than later. Then like 50% of tiny cell phone companies, then ATT and Verizon in 3 years or never.
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Feb 22, 2016 16:31
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Could you explain to the rest of us what Jibe is,a long with GSMA and RCS?
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Feb 22, 2016 17:16
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Thermopyle posted:I love this. I mean, it's about exactly what I'd expect a large, ancient company that largely exists because of monopolies and that's full of bureaucracy to have going on. Our gear was just a laptop with a WWAN card, but they couldn't figure it out. Their testers complained that I didn't send them detailed information, and they couldn't figure out of we were vetting the WWAN boards (which were already certified), our motherboard (which didn't have any cellular hardware on them), our custom antenna, or what. My response was "uh, you guys saw us at NAB and approached us, so talk to your people." In the end it took months, and it was stalled since they couldn't figure out a way to use the touch screen while it was in a faraday cage. I ended up quitting before it went any further.
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Feb 22, 2016 17:48
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hooah posted:Could you explain to the rest of us what Jibe is,a long with GSMA and RCS? Jibe is a company that made software to implement RCS for the carriers along with compatible mobile apps. Google bought them a while back. GSMA is a standards making body. They're the people who figure out how to make the phones talk from network to network. RCS is rich communication services, the next gen version of MMS, SMS, and what not. Idea is to make these things proper CARRIER services so you can have a carrier-level interoperable messaging, video chat, etc. Long story short. SMS and MMS generally work between networks. You don't have to sign up for anything or install an app or other poo poo, they just work. Well, they do now, but it was a huge pain in the rear end for the carriers to get right. And they're poo poo protocols for what people actually want them to do in the smart phone era. So, RCS is the basis for replacing them with a real system that will actually scale and talk between networks. GSMA is the standards body pushing this to get the carriers to accept, but it requires infrastructure. Jibe made that infrastructure, Google bought them. Now, Google is announcing that they're working with GSMA to really push RCS and have signed a bunch of networks up for the first wave of the effort. And they're going to offer the RCS infrastructure on Google's cloud, so you don't even have to run it yourself. And they're going to bake the functionality into Android (probably Messenger) somehow. Services that are expected to be part of RCS Messaging: Reliable delivery and ordering, high quality images, sound, and video. Delivery and read receipts. Presence and typing indicators. I haven't looked at the standard yet to see exactly what is included, but these are the kind of things coming to SMS via RCS. FunOne fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Feb 22, 2016 17:49
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That sounds great, so I expect Canada to get it in 2040 or so.
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Feb 22, 2016 18:10
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I've been reading through the thread but didn't see anything regarding this - do most people find the Nexus protect option worth it?
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Feb 22, 2016 18:36
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FunOne posted:Jibe is a company that made software to implement RCS for the carriers along with compatible mobile apps. Google bought them a while back. Suddenly I'm not so disappointed in what they did with hangouts. It makes some sense i suppose.
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Feb 22, 2016 19:21
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Zom Aur posted:Suddenly I'm not so disappointed in what they did with hangouts. It makes some sense i suppose. The whole transition to RCS is speculated to be the reason why they did what they did with SMS & Hangouts. That being said RCS is currently pie in the sky and it's one of those things that if if the big players aren't telling you it's coming soon, it's best not to plan on it being here any time soon.
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Feb 22, 2016 19:52
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Since the LG G5 doesn't have an app drawer (or does? optionally?), and the Galaxy S7 optionally doesn't, that means Google is going to remove the App Drawer in Android N?
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Feb 22, 2016 20:58
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LastInLine posted:The whole transition to RCS is speculated to be the reason why they did what they did with SMS & Hangouts. That being said RCS is currently pie in the sky and it's one of those things that if if the big players aren't telling you it's coming soon, it's best not to plan on it being here any time soon.
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Feb 22, 2016 21:00
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Zom Aur posted:Yeah, no, i assume it won't be out for some time, if ever. I don't even live in the states, so i don't think we'll be getting in on this any time soon. In this case, being in the states might be a hindrance to obtaining the features. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160222005526/en/Global-Operators-Google-GSMA-Align-Adoption-Rich quote:Global operators, including América Móvil, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Globe Telecom, KPN, Millicom, MTN, Orange, PLAY, Smart Communications, Sprint, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, Telstra, TIM, Turkcell, VimpelCom, Vodafone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services quote:Vodafone, Claro, Deutsche Telekom, KT, LG U+, MetroPCS, Movistar, MTS, O2, Orange, SK Telecom, Slovak Telekom, Sprint, Telcel, Telekom, T-Mobile US Some overlap there obviously, but still, broad ex-US support. Sorry Canada though, I'm not seeing any of your carriers.
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Feb 22, 2016 21:06
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The more I read about the S7 Edge the more I want one http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/galaxy-s7-and-s7-edge-hands-on-these-phones-are-so-good-you-can-almost-forgive-touchwiz/
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Feb 22, 2016 21:11
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FunOne posted:In this case, being in the states might be a hindrance to obtaining the features. Huh. I suppose it might come way sooner than I'd have guessed.
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