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Germstore posted:Why pay twice as much for a metal case when you are covering it in plastic? You are covering your thin sleek EXPENSIVE metal case with plastic and make it look like a much cheaper phone. I used Nokias for years because (a) I really wanted Windows Phone to work  and (b) they were basically indestructible. I hate cases, they look tacky, they make your phone bulkier, and it's bullshit that they're basically a necessity with a lot of phones. Now I have an S6 Active because it seemed to be the best option AT&T had for phones that do not shatter immediately at the slightest tap, and so I still don't need a case.
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Germstore posted:Why pay twice as much for a metal case when you are covering it in plastic? You are covering your thin sleek EXPENSIVE metal case with plastic and make it look like a much cheaper phone. The phones are intentionally designed to need a case. It's all a scam
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loquacius posted:I used Nokias for years because (a) I really wanted Windows Phone to work Wtf
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loquacius posted:I used Nokias for years because (a) I really wanted Windows Phone to work hosed up if true
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It has the best UI out of any of them, it was just way too late to the game and was then driven into the ground by MS's horrible top-level business decisions Like the Zune: a good device, ruined by awful decisions
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I had a Windows phone beater for a few weeks and the UI is not good
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Sep 9, 2016 15:25
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 If you tihnk this UI looks good you need to pull that pencil out of your brain.
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Sep 9, 2016 15:27
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Also the way the back button works is weird and illogical
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Sep 9, 2016 15:28
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i wonder if they'll backpedal with the 7S doesn't matter rockin my SE for the rest of time
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Sep 9, 2016 15:31
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Live tiles are a good concept. Android widgets are a better execution of the concept.
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a bone to pick posted:
I'd take this over the "wall of icons" thing both Android and iOS have going on ten times out of ten, and I miss it  (I don't miss it as much as I appreciate having a phone with a healthy ecosystem though)radiatinglines posted:Also the way the back button works is weird and illogical I don't have any specific memories of this messing me up in any way but iOS doesn't even HAVE a back button
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Young Freud posted:Sorry, this sound can only be heard by Apple's iCortex auditory cortical implant. Think of augmenting yourself today. George Orwell feared the wrong kind of future. This is the real terror.
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The Skeleton King posted:George Orwell feared the wrong kind of future. This is the real terror. Not even Shadowrun saw proprietary fragmentation coming  "Sorry, chummer, I can't hack into this Matrix terminal because my cyberdeck has an Aztechnology port and the terminal only takes NeoNET cables"
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Sep 9, 2016 15:40
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I like the coax plug with the little twisty spring lock thing
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Sep 9, 2016 15:42
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It wouldn't be so bad if they just went with USB-C like Android and their own products like MacBook. At least then companies could make two kinds of wired headphones and adapters, USB-C or traditional 3.5mm. now they have to make 3 and guess what? There will be twice as many Lighting poo poo. Bluetooth audio is pretty good these days, fine for casual listening at the office, etc. Bluetooth 4.0 and protocols like aptx make a difference But both devices have to support it. 
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shoophobo posted:It wouldn't be so bad if they just went with USB-C like Android and their own products like MacBook. Yes, but Apple doesn't get $4 for every USB-C socket.
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Sep 9, 2016 15:43
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Bluetooth sounds like garbage.
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Yeah again I could absolutely accept this with only a little griping if they were using a standard instead of their own proprietary poo poo. I had the same reaction to Sony pushing Blu-Ray instead of HD-DVD. Maybe this'll turn out to be as largely irrelevant as that one did
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Aeka 2.0 posted:Bluetooth sounds like garbage. maybe you just have a bad DAC, bro, maybe you just have a bad DAC.
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No literally, the word "bluetooth" sounds like garbage.
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My workmate spent all day bitching about the new iphone yesterday so naturally he preordered one this morning. £900 lmao.
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removing the jack was a real dick move but a smart one because all the Apple People are gonna buy the phone anyways AND the adapters that have licensing fees attached to them AND like it you filthy whore I dropped your Lightning connector on the floor; pick it up if you want it you bitch I KNOW YOU WANT IT ALSO YOU'RE FAT AND UGLY opus111 posted:My workmate spent all day bitching about the new iphone yesterday so naturally he preordered one this morning. £900 lmao. case in point I kind of wish there was a good smartphone that was also small and had good battery life and had a tactile keyboard attached that was worth a drat with a removable battery also it makes me breakfast and makes sound long-term investment decisions for me
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Mange Mite posted:Buy one now, they're switching to lovely Chinese companies now for political reasons and they are going to suck
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Garbage phone for garbage people the correct reply
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I've been thinking about this and Apple really is uniquely suited to cut out poo poo whose time has passed but which everybody still loves and make otherwise unpopular decisions, because everyone fuckin' loves them and will defend whatever and get in fist-fights with each other because they're so eager to buy everything. And then they get credit for being visionaries. When other companies make sacrifices in the name of progress everyone always stays in the laughing-at-them-forever phase until they apologize and roll it back. This also grants them freedom to make this progress in really lovely ways w/r/t their proprietary technology (luckily they were never able to force FireWire on everybody so maybe the Lightning-headphones thing will blow over)
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a bone to pick posted:No literally, the word "bluetooth" sounds like garbage. It is named after a danish king with rotten teeth
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tenspott posted:I saw the one that lets you add on a real camera or a projector and it was interesting but not interesting enough for me to buy it. The projector is $300 and only works with that phone.
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Mange Mite posted:The projector is $300 and only works with that phone Sounds like a billion-dollar idea if it were made of molded white plastic and had an Apple logo on it
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The camera is also $300. The same price as an actual camera
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Really if you aren't on Google fi as a cell service then you done hosed up
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KakerMix posted:Really if you aren't on Google fi as a cell service then you done hosed up This is true. I paid $27 for my service last month. Get the 5X though, the 6P is apparently poo poo. e: on the other hand now google knows even more about me, and it fills me with existential dread once in a while.
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loquacius posted:When other companies make sacrifices in the name of progress everyone always stays in the laughing-at-them-forever phase until they apologize and roll it back. ... unless Apple then steals the idea, in which case Apple will say they're "doing it the right way" and everyone will fellate them as visionaries.
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loquacius posted:Sounds like a billion-dollar idea if it were made of molded white plastic and had an Apple logo on it I somehow don't doubt this.
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loquacius posted:I've been thinking about this and Apple really is uniquely suited to cut out poo poo whose time has passed but which everybody still loves and make otherwise unpopular decisions, because everyone fuckin' loves them and will defend whatever and get in fist-fights with each other because they're so eager to buy everything. And then they get credit for being visionaries. When other companies make sacrifices in the name of progress everyone always stays in the laughing-at-them-forever phase until they apologize and roll it back. Trouble is they're only doing it to make even thinner phones. Who are these people that are all buying thinner at the expense of everything phones? Give me a fat old phone with decent battery life and doesn't look like it'll snap in half if you look at it wrong.
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Good phones with good features like removable batteries are getting increasingly difficult to find.
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I have boost mobile and I've never had a name-brand phone, everything has been knock-off Samsungs like Kyocera and ZTE. My phones have always been terrible and my life is a living hell, but at least I'm not a garbage trash iphone user.
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Internaut! posted:the greatest thing about Apple has always been and continues to be the sheer rage they instill in nerds, especially the variety of nerd who gets apoplectic at the stoplight when a nice car pulls up beside his econobox
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Berious posted:Trouble is they're only doing it to make even thinner phones. Who are these people that are all buying thinner at the expense of everything phones? Give me a fat old phone with decent battery life and doesn't look like it'll snap in half if you look at it wrong. Actually the new iPhone isn't any thinner thsn before
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That Fi thing looks cool and I'll keep it in mind but I'm currently in a situation where I'm using an old Verizon unlimited contract to wirelessly tether as my only internet and using like 100GB a month on streaming and online gaming and other things
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