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Surprise Giraffe posted:Whats the threads opinion on the s8/+? Upgrading soon and three dont sell pixels https://store.google.com/gb/product/pixel_phone?hl=en-GB
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:How do I do this? You have to go into security and reset up your pin/lock and it will ask you if you want to require it at launch.
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Apr 2, 2017 22:37
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Mega Comrade posted:You have to go into security and reset up your pin/lock and it will ask you if you want to require it at launch. Thanks for this.
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Apr 2, 2017 22:39
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Surprise Giraffe posted:Whats the threads opinion on the s8/+? Upgrading soon and three dont sell pixels 8+ is too loving big according to all of the people I've talked to. It's hard to hold in one hand. The 8 though is ridiculously responsive and good. So unless you have king Kong hands the 8 is the way to go
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Apr 2, 2017 22:56
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The fingerprint scanner location is a dealbreaker for me personally on the S8 but I'll probably get one at work for free anyways.
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Apr 2, 2017 23:08
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I got bit by the Nexus 6p battery issue where it would start turning off regularly around ~20% or so. I preordered so I was out of the 1 year Google warranty but didn't want to drop the $79 on a nexus protect claim so I decided to try talking to Google. They did an exception and sent me a refurb. Whose battery has has 363mAh capacity out of an original 3450. HELL OF A REFURB JOB, GOOGLE. Edit: luckily you get 30 days of warranty with a refurb device, so I just called up and requested another device and didn't have trouble since it's now under active support. I wish I thought to check the battery before putting on the screen protector though. H2SO4 fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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Apr 2, 2017 23:48
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Wow my Pixel. It's still great. Caseless, scratchless, snappy as ever.
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Apr 2, 2017 23:50
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RZA Encryption posted:Wow my Pixel. It's still great. Caseless, scratchless, snappy as ever. Agreed
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Apr 2, 2017 23:55
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vyst posted:8+ is too loving big according to all of the people I've talked to. It's hard to hold in one hand. The 8 though is ridiculously responsive and good. So unless you have king Kong hands the 8 is the way to go The Verizon store I went to in North Dallas yesterday had the S8 and S8+ on display. The Plus didn't feel any bigger or harder to handle than my Note 4. Of course I have and like a Note 4 because my hands are on the King Kong side of the bell curve...
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RZA Encryption posted:Wow my Pixel. It's still great. Caseless, scratchless, snappy as ever. 
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Apr 2, 2017 23:59
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CLAM DOWN posted:The fingerprint scanner location is a dealbreaker for me personally on the S8 but I'll probably get one at work for free anyways. Supposedly the rumor is they were going to put one in the screen but the technology wasn't ready so they had to scramble due to lack of real estate and that's where a dual camera was going to go
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Apr 3, 2017 00:08
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RZA Encryption posted:Wow my Pixel. It's still great. Caseless, scratchless, snappy as ever. I mean it's only like 6 months old so I would hope so.
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Apr 3, 2017 01:23
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My Sony z3c died (rip, you beautiful bastard) and I got a Moto G5 Plus (64gig HD / 4gigs RAM) and it's pretty drat good. If this is 'mid-range' then I am completely fine with that.
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Apr 3, 2017 01:27
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RZA Encryption posted:Wow my Pixel. It's still great. Caseless, scratchless, snappy as ever. 
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Apr 3, 2017 01:30
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RZA Encryption posted:Wow my Pixel. It's still great. Caseless, scratchless, snappy as ever. The only reason I have a case on mine is because magnetic car mounts rule.
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Apr 3, 2017 01:53
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H2SO4 posted:I got bit by the Nexus 6p battery issue where it would start turning off regularly around ~20% or so. I preordered so I was out of the 1 year Google warranty but didn't want to drop the $79 on a nexus protect claim so I decided to try talking to Google. They did an exception and sent me a refurb. Lol. I got Google to swap my 6p about 6 weeks out of warranty. Battery was legit, and have given me trouble. The Android trouble I'm having now is random lock up. On camera and falls asleep? Lock up. Navigating and loses gps? Lockup. Wtf Android.
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Had a good full day of usage and so far battery life on G5 plus is excellent. In the last 12 hours I've been out and about running errands and using the phone a few small times. I did a 2.5 hour run with GPS logging banging away the whole time too. As of right now battery is at 60%. That's the best I've ever had in a phone personally. Could probably push this to two days of use on a full charge in a pinch. The fast turbo charging is excellent too. Overall I'm really liking the phone.
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Apr 3, 2017 08:26
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Idk if it's just my Pixel or everyone's, but the screen definitely doesn't respond to pinch zooming all that accurately. First discovered on Instagram while trying to zoom in on a photo, and confirmed in Google Maps as well. The issue appears to be that when you put two fingers in the screen and spread them apart, the phone doesn't recognize this until your fingers have traveled an inch or so while touching the screen. It also seems like if you spread apart your fingers very slowly, it won't recognize this action at all. I can easily move two fingers away from each other without the objects on the screen moving at all even though I'm touching the screen the entire time. I wonder if this has anything to do with Apple being the first developers of multi-touch? The last Android phone I had was the Nexus One and I think it didn't have multi-touch at first because of patents or whatever and then the functionality was patched in. e: oddly enough, tapping to view someone's Twitter profile and zooming on that image is hyper responsive. But, tapping to open an image someone shared as part of a tweet still suffers from that zoom lag. So weird. Kind of a disappointing experience as I get more and more used to Android and am growing to really like it otherwise. ShoogaSlim fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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Apr 3, 2017 09:02
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Apr 3, 2017 10:59
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ShoogaSlim posted:Idk if it's just my Pixel or everyone's, but the screen definitely doesn't respond to pinch zooming all that accurately. First discovered on Instagram while trying to zoom in on a photo, and confirmed in Google Maps as well. Sounds like it's just the app in question if it works well sometimes but not others.
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LastInLine posted:Sounds like it's just the app in question if it works well sometimes but not others. That'd be fairly surprising (though not impossible, because Android), since gestures are system calls.
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Apr 3, 2017 13:47
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Grumpwagon posted:That'd be fairly surprising (though not impossible, because Android), since gestures are system calls. I can reproduce the described behaviour in Google Maps. It's also possible to get it into a state where it is accepting zoom but not twist or twist but not zoom gestures. Most likely it's reading the basic touch/drag events directly and interpreting them into gestures itself and just has some bugs in that logic.
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Apr 3, 2017 13:54
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Tunga posted:This is not really true. There are different ways to consume gesture/touch events on different types of views and in many cases you have a choice of level to handle them at. This is a good and accurate post that mirrors my thoughts on the subject. Maps has been around so long that u bet they've implemented a lot of things in the app rather than using system api calls. Instagram uses React Native for at least part of its app and who knows what this doing with regards to touch and gesture events.
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Apr 3, 2017 14:31
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I need to upgrade and the Pixel isn't an option S8 or G6?
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Apr 3, 2017 17:46
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Eejit posted:I need to upgrade and the Pixel isn't an option I'd recommend the S8 in that situation.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I'd recommend the S8 in that situation.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I'd recommend the S8 in that situation. That's how I was leaning as well. Is there a way to get Assistant on the S8? From what I'm reading, Bixby is nowhere as good I'm going to be sad because I love my Nexus 6 and am pretty much balls deep in the Google ecosystem, but it is starting to show its age
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Apr 3, 2017 18:03
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Eejit posted:I need to upgrade and the Pixel isn't an option
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Apr 3, 2017 18:03
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Not on Verizon and able to get a discount on carrier upgrade is my guess. That LG G6 does look sexy too, but the S8 will have a bit better hardware overall and less chance of Bootloop of Death in a year. Also it may actually get a few more updates as LG seems to do a one and done and completely forgets about their last flagship once their next phone is Leaked/Announced. But the S8 may still explode so it's a tossup at that point. I will say that the S835 may make even whatever bloat Samsung has all over the S8 near invisible for how fast the drat thing is. That CPU flat flies with good storage to back it up.
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EdEddnEddy posted:I will say that the S835 may make even whatever bloat Samsung has all over the S8 near invisible for how fast the drat thing is. That CPU flat flies with good storage to back it up. This has been said every time Samsung releases a phone and it's never been true.
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Apr 3, 2017 18:18
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Just bought an nvidia k1 as it had some features I liked such as hdmi out however the wifi is terrible. I'm getting cut outs all the time even if I sit 2 feet from the router. I know they had issues with the marshmallow upgrade but I have now upgraded to nougat. Will be trying a full clear of the cache and reinstall nougat and if that doesn't work then it's going back. Any advice or recommendations for a cheap tablet?
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Apr 3, 2017 19:28
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Why's the Pixel not an option? Gonna assume money or "I want it now"
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Apr 3, 2017 19:31
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EdEddnEddy posted:Not on Verizon and able to get a discount on carrier upgrade is my guess. I feel like for all of Samsung's previous faults, the one thing this phone won't do is explode.
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Apr 3, 2017 19:36
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vyst posted:I feel like for all of Samsung's previous faults, the one thing this phone won't do is explode. Even their factories and stores are lighting on fire now.
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Apr 3, 2017 19:37
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FAUXTON posted:Even their factories and stores are lighting on fire now. Battery fires happen pretty regularly across the entire electronics sector to be fair. I'm pretty confident the S8 isn't going to blow up (  ???)
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vyst posted:I feel like for all of Samsung's previous faults, the one thing this phone won't do is explode. Not sure. The latest LG is more likely to boot loop than other phones due to their history of doing so. Same logic applies to phones exploding. It's way more likely than not to be non-exploding, but it's simultaneously also probably the most likely new flagship to explode.
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EdEddnEddy posted:Not on Verizon and able to get a discount on carrier upgrade is my guess. Ding ding ding Gonna go chat with a rep tonight and double check my math, but I'm pretty sure preordering an S8 is gonna be my best option
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Bigsteve posted:Just bought an nvidia k1 as it had some features I liked such as hdmi out however the wifi is terrible. I'm getting cut outs all the time even if I sit 2 feet from the router. I know they had issues with the marshmallow upgrade but I have now upgraded to nougat. Still the K1, just see if that doesn't fix your issue, see if you can swap it out for a good one wherever you bought it. The wifi issues seem to be device specific, and the only main other issue is short bettery life compared to other tablets, but as far as options and updates go, the K1 is hard to beat unless you want a Samsung and only getting like one good update before they forget about it. K1 has gotten everything from 4.4 to 7.0 which is pretty incredible.
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