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grimcreaper posted:I think windows10 phone and Continuum say your wrong. Marketshare says otherwise. Windows phone has reached an unrecoverable level. Satya Nadella himself has already admitted that Windows on mobile is "unsustainable" at this point. Last quarter saw a 57% drop in sales compared the the prior year. It has less than 2% marketshare now, Blackberry is more likely to pull out a win at 3rd place at this point. It's a shame because the market really needed a strong 3rd option, but there's no denying facts at this point.
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bull3964 posted:Marketshare says otherwise. Windows phone has reached an unrecoverable level. Satya Nadella himself has already admitted that Windows on mobile is "unsustainable" at this point. Last quarter saw a 57% drop in sales compared the the prior year. It has less than 2% marketshare now, Blackberry is more likely to pull out a win at 3rd place at this point. And thats where your wrong. I can deny any facts as vehemently as i need to. Anyone can, look at Smythe for example with his claims that Nexus phones are best phones.
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DuckConference posted:
Thats the first one ive ever seen. Talk about lovely. Galaxy App pushing ads, must be how Samsung is gonna recoup Gear VR Costs.
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Mar 7, 2016 04:44
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I've never seen an ad on my Note 5 like that (yet), poo poo
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Mar 7, 2016 04:56
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You can and should turn those off in the settings.
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Desk Lamp posted:You can and should turn those off in the settings. lol, Smythe is right in every way
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Mar 7, 2016 05:18
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You mean disabling all the Samsung apps isn't the first thing everyone does when they get a Galaxy phone?
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Mar 7, 2016 05:20
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DuckConference posted:
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Daily Forecast posted:You mean disabling all the Samsung apps isn't the first thing everyone does when they get a Galaxy phone? i like the samsung apps. They bring versatility to a bare device. Unlike Nexus which requires you to search out those nasty 3rd party non-google apps on your own. I get to experience the joys of the Samsung App Ecosystem, finely tuned to bring me a great experience. The Google "pure" experience forces you to go outside of their hugbox and find those apps which dont mesh correctly with the True Pure(TM) Google Experience. Serious Question time: Is there a big difference between samsung and sandisk microsd cards? Im looking a couple class 10 UHS U1 cards that both claim up to 80megs read/write but the Sandisk is 6 bucks cheaper. Ive pretty much used Samsung only cards since a few of my PNY ones crapped out on me fairly quickly (less than a couple months each) which have held up well, and i trust Samsungs specs based on personal usage of their Evo lines. grimcreaper fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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grimcreaper posted:i like the samsung apps. They bring versatility to a bare device. Unlike Nexus which requires you to search out those nasty 3rd party non-google apps on your own. I get to experience the joys of the Samsung App Ecosystem, finely tuned to bring me a great experience. The Google "pure" experience forces you to go outside of their hugbox and find those apps which dont mesh correctly with the True Pure(TM) Google Experience. lmao grimcreaper posted:Serious Question time: Is there a big difference between samsung and sandisk microsd cards? Im looking a couple class 10 UHS U1 cards that both claim up to 80megs read/write but the Sandisk is 6 bucks cheaper. Ive pretty much used Samsung only cards since a few of my PNY ones crapped out on me fairly quickly (less than a couple months each) which have held up well, and i trust Samsungs specs based on personal usage of their Evo lines. I've heard of issues (not many, though) with Sandisk and PNY cards. Meanwhile I've used nothing but Samsung SD cards and never had a single one fail on me. I guess this is just purely anecdotal evidence but there ya go.
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grimcreaper posted:
I've always had the impression that Samsung is the top of the line. I always check amazon reviews. Someone will post a benchmark. The main question I have is do phones actually take advantage of the speed.
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Daily Forecast posted:lmao Yeah, ive got a small balance left on my amazon account so i think ill stick with Samsung. Its a shame Amazon didnt pricematch samsung.com's offer on the 64gig pro+ card for 30. the evo+ looks pretty good, almost all positive reviews. a couple claiming slow write speeds, but they dont provide info on their phones or sd reader/writer so it could be bad cards or slow readers. BeastOfExmoor posted:I've always had the impression that Samsung is the top of the line. I always check amazon reviews. Someone will post a benchmark. For most things, no they dont. Where the speed comes in handy is for high quality video recording with newer flagship phones. If you think you might record some 4k video then you need a high speed card. While i dont have intentions to do so frequently, i may go back east and visit some family and having some good video might be nice. Otherwise id just grab one of the 850 evo cards that are dirt cheap on sales everywhere. grimcreaper fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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DuckConference posted:
 GOLDMINE MOTHERFUCKER *Racking and blasting epic shotty over and over into the ceiling* GOLDMINE! 
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Kreez posted:My Moto X 2013 finally exploded. At first I was excited that it was an excuse to get a new phone, but everything out there seems to have just as many drawbacks as improvements compared to my Moto X. I decided to buy a new screen and try to replace it, but half the screws inside the phone came stripped from the factory, so there's no way I'm going to be able to repair the phone with any reasonable amount of time and effort spent. I'll just buy a new phone and eat the lovely restocking fee on the new screen and battery I bought. I was in the same boat as you about a month ago - Moto X broken, and you'll have to make some trade-offs indeed. The only good small phones nowadays are in my opinion the iPhone and the Sony xperia z3 compact or z5 compact, but they both come with a hefty price tag. Nexus 5X seemed pretty good but some people apparently do have hardware issues with them, plus the European prices are just ridiculous. But they have a great camera and a fingerprint reader. I got the Moto g3 16 gb (don't get the 8 gb variant, it has less RAM, which will really hurt performance, and 8 GB is way top top small) as a replacement, mainly because of the price tag. It's actually quite decent, performance and camera are on par with the Moto X 2013, and the battery life is way better: I get 2 days on a single charge, when I got about 12h from the old X. However, don't let the screen size fool you - it is the same size as the Moto X play, which is huge coming from a small phone. You get used to it, but I still prefer the smaller size. And I find the screen to be not as good as the old amoled one personally, although you keep the notifications. Also, I just got the marshmallow update: doesn't change much (apart from app permissions) but it is nice to have an up-to-date OS. Basically the extra price of the Moto X Play gets you a better SOC, a nicer screen and a better camera (and quick charge), otherwise they are pretty much identical. One plus is a joke. Don't buy anything from them.
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So I got the S7. It is cool and good. I may write up detailed thoughts when I get a chance.DuckConference posted:
I wouldn't know about that one; Galaxy Apps, like the other preloaded Samsung apps, can be easily disabled when you're setting up the phone. Also the color scheme shows that screenshot is clearly not from a current-gen Marshmallow touchwiz.
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Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 2, android 5.0.2 At home, on wifi, the battery gets drained ridiculously fast. Sometimes 20% can be gone in 2 hours, even after I uninstalled all Facebook apps and rebooted clean. I've had it drain 80% battery in half a day, with little to no use. At work, on the work's wifi (some advanced enterprise setup), it's fine, and drains battery very reasonably (i.e. almost nothing when just idling). What can I do to attempt to figure out what's happening?
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Do you have lovely cell signal at home?
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Whizbang posted:Do you have lovely cell signal at home? This should go in the OP. All phones, regardless of brand, handle poor reception about as well as an epileptic handles the paparazzi. They spaz the gently caress out in every which way because so much of a device's user-facing function is contingent on the presence of an internet connection. Take that away and you have a dozen apps relentlessly trying to update and timing out over and over and nothing is there to tell them to stop outside of disabling background data. On top of that you have the SOC trying to manage a bad signal through error correction and additional processing, increasing the antenna gain, etc. It's worse than having no signal at all, though, because the phone will just acknowledge the attempt and not even try if there's no signal. If it's spotty, though, you have the phone latching onto that glimmer of hope and trying every time.
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A poor cell signal shouldn't cause apps to fail to get updates if Pilsner's on wifi, though.
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Whizbang posted:Do you have lovely cell signal at home? On various phones I've experienced battery drain on, it's always been a form of data (wifi or 3G/4G) issue, where some app is going nuts polling or receiving (internet) data. I've never had it be related to the old fashioned cellular network, as in finding a network. I'll try testing by disabling mobile data as a start and see how it goes.
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hooah posted:A poor cell signal shouldn't cause apps to fail to get updates if Pilsner's on wifi, though. Depends on whether the wifi is blocking something.
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Rastor posted:I wouldn't know about that one; Galaxy Apps, like the other preloaded Samsung apps, can be easily disabled when you're setting up the phone. Like, I understand and agree you've got to weigh this against the benefits you get out of an S7 (disclaimer: I'm seriously considering getting an S7), but the mind boggles that this is just something people are like "oh well" about.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Samsung kind of notorious for selling phones with X amount of GB, except that it's only half of X because Touchwiz takes up so much? Seems like if their S apps are such poo poo that even Samsung users have the attitude of "just disable them" that maybe they shouldn't be installed at all? Or at least make then fully removable so you can get the storage back.
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How's installing cyanogen on the S7 looking? I don't think a compiled rom is out yet but should it get rid of some of the samsung bloat?
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I read reports about the S7 that some Samsung apps can be moved to the SD card and deleted from there. Is that crap?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I read reports about the S7 that some Samsung apps can be moved to the SD card and deleted from there. Is that crap?
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You should really, really reconsider your choice in phone if your first thought is "Hey should I install a custom ROM?"
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Thermopyle posted:Like, I understand and agree you've got to weigh this against the benefits you get out of an S7 (disclaimer: I'm seriously considering getting an S7), but the mind boggles that this is just something people are like "oh well" about. Hold down notification ad > click block notifications. TouchWiz is Not Good but the only part you'll ever actually have to deal with after disabling/replacing all of it (as long as you don't have a note or edge) is the notification shade and settings menu. Both are fine. So yes, TouchWiz is garbage but, at least for me, it's not even close to a dealbreaker against getting the best screen.
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Saw that Verizon has shipped my S7. Countdown to happily during down this Windows Phone, 2 days. Even though my store said I get Gear VR and a coupon for Gear S2, I'm sure that is an additional wait and they didn't pack it in.
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Smythe posted:
I mean yeah it was partially a joke but to be serious if I were to buy an S7 Edge the ads are pretty easy to turn off right? Would the different carrier versions have their own fuckery?
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DuckConference posted:I mean yeah it was partially a joke but to be serious if I were to buy an S7 Edge the ads are pretty easy to turn off right? Would the different carrier versions have their own fuckery? On my S7 there are zero ads so far. And I didn't even disable the Samsung apps, in my experience (of a few days) they do not display ads. There were one or two notifications promoting features specific to the phone, but they were actually much fewer and much less annoying than the ones I encountered on my Moto X Pure (2014). Each carrier will spec their own bloatware/fuckery. I have the T-Mobile version. It's very light on preloaded software, which is nice. However it looks like like they disabled the identify unsaved numbers feature, instead promoting the paid "T-Mobile Name ID" service.
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Require More Fire posted:Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Samsung kind of notorious for selling phones with X amount of GB, except that it's only half of X because Touchwiz takes up so much? Require More Fire posted:Seems like if their S apps are such poo poo that even Samsung users have the attitude of "just disable them" that maybe they shouldn't be installed at all? DuckConference posted:Would the different carrier versions have their own fuckery?
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It's 2016, stop loving buying carrier locked phones hth
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Syrinxx posted:It's 2016, stop loving buying carrier locked phones hth Is there a place to buy unlocked Samsung phones in the US that is like Motorola's store, and gives you a couple years free financing like Moto and the various carrier programs? Not advocating financing consumer electronics, but it's what most people do.
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Thermopyle posted:Like, I understand and agree you've got to weigh this against the benefits you get out of an S7 (disclaimer: I'm seriously considering getting an S7), but the mind boggles that this is just something people are like "oh well" about. You should, I'd like to see your thoughts on it. Anyone in this thread will be able to disable all of these apps/extra clutter in the notification bar, etc. in a matter of minutes and it's a one-time thing. When we are talking about the general public who have only had Galaxy phones/are switching from an iPhone... I think most of them will be indifferent on the matter, maybe an "oh well" at worst if they even get what's going on. I'm not saying that makes it right, but really, it doesn't affect those who actually care about it/are bothered by it (aside from on a principle level) and obviously it can't affect those who honestly don't care to begin with.
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Is there a place to buy unlocked Samsung phones in the US that is like Motorola's store, and gives you a couple years free financing like Moto and the various carrier programs? No. I mean you could I guess buy the phone without a contract but it will still be locked to X carrier. I think it technically is unlocked until you put that carrier's SIM into there but odds are the carrier will already do that before you get the phone. You can buy an unlocked variant from the UK but that will have no warranty since it is an international phone.
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So I drove by a local store and took a good look at S7 and Edge. Side by side with S6 they look like very incremental improvemens, but they felt so nice. I nearly bought a black S7 for its camera and speed, but they had none in stock :/ Anyways, is there any way to combine nice looks and durability? My Note has fallen from 1-1,5m so many times, I've fastballed it past my couch/bed etc. and it just has some paint missing from the edges. I assume S7 would just break horribly when I eventually drop it.
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Syrinxx posted:It's 2016, stop loving buying carrier locked phones hth Alternatively, do what you want with your money.
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