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So how awful is the LG G6? My Nexus 6 is getting pretty fickle about taking a charge, and T-Mo's deal where $24/mo + tablet dataplan gets you a LG G6, Google Home, and LG G-Pad tablet. Already got a Home so I'd just turf that for another $80 off the whole mess.
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IOwnCalculus posted:So how awful is the LG G6? My Nexus 6 is getting pretty fickle about taking a charge, and T-Mo's deal where $24/mo + tablet dataplan gets you a LG G6, Google Home, and LG G-Pad tablet. Already got a Home so I'd just turf that for another $80 off the whole mess.
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May 4, 2017 22:48
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IOwnCalculus posted:So how awful is the LG G6? My Nexus 6 is getting pretty fickle about taking a charge, and T-Mo's deal where $24/mo + tablet dataplan gets you a LG G6, Google Home, and LG G-Pad tablet. Already got a Home so I'd just turf that for another $80 off the whole mess. Not just that, but they're taking $150 off the device cost right now, so it's $20/24mo. But like Syrinxx said, hardware issues may or may not occur after a year. fartzone_42069 posted:Wow. I didn't have to jackshit besides plug it in and set a password. Times have changed! Thank you for your recommendation! Glad it seems to be working for you. Branch Nvidian fucked around with this message at 22:59 on May 4, 2017 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:So how awful is the LG G6? My Nexus 6 is getting pretty fickle about taking a charge, and T-Mo's deal where $24/mo + tablet dataplan gets you a LG G6, Google Home, and LG G-Pad tablet. Already got a Home so I'd just turf that for another $80 off the whole mess. I don't know anything about that deal, but pretty much any modern-ish flagship is going to be fine-ish. When we fight about smartphones and say such and such phone is poo poo, generally, we mean relative to other choices. They're mostly all amazing compared to not having one or having a Windows Mobile device from 10 years ago. People usually miss this subtlety when they're DYP'ing their device. edit: Oh, I forgot the most important part. LG has been having lots of problems with their phones basically becoming unusable. So, if you're getting the phone for a low enough price or if you're confident in T-Mobile replacing it or some combination of those factors than the above all holds. Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 01:10 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 5, 2017 00:17
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Don't buy Lucky Goldstar telephones
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May 5, 2017 00:25
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May 5, 2017 00:42
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Just got my Nexus 6P back from an under warranty battery replacement. They ended up changing the screen, casing and glass over the camera too so I'm guessing either they just have me a refurb or really messed up taking it apart. Will be interesting to see how long the new battery lasts, by the end I was down to 2.5 hours screen on time (by the time it shutdown between 15 and 30%)
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May 5, 2017 04:55
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Anyone know a way to screencast multiple Android phones onto a chromecast or similar simultaneously? Ideally I want the screens of three separate Android phones up on a projector without having to buy a video mixer.
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May 5, 2017 07:56
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:Anyone know a way to screencast multiple Android phones onto a chromecast or similar simultaneously? Ideally I want the screens of three separate Android phones up on a projector without having to buy a video mixer. We use it for our app demos at work. Tunga fucked around with this message at 08:29 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 5, 2017 08:27
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IOwnCalculus posted:So how awful is the LG G6? My Nexus 6 is getting pretty fickle about taking a charge, and T-Mo's deal where $24/mo + tablet dataplan gets you a LG G6, Google Home, and LG G-Pad tablet. Already got a Home so I'd just turf that for another $80 off the whole mess. You'd really have to be willing to roll the dice to get an LG at this point but if you do, remember to keep an eye on the class action suit that will inevitably follow. Last time I bought an LG, I got $60 for my trouble (nowhere near worth it). Thermopyle posted:So, if you're getting the phone for a low enough price or if you're confident in T-Mobile replacing it or some combination of those factors than the above all holds. T-Mobile's warranty thing is usually pretty generous but I think you have pay for it. My buddy has it and probably went through ten Nexus 4s until they eventually ran out about a year ago. I couldn't believe how much they put up with.
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May 5, 2017 09:10
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https://twitter.com/Androidheadline/status/860453387992612865 flyme 
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May 5, 2017 12:34
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lmao OnePlus "confirms" to The Verge that the OnePlus 5 will be out this summer. It will include 8gb of memory. It's like they know they're a loving joke.
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May 5, 2017 16:33
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cage-free egghead posted:lmao OnePlus "confirms" to The Verge that the OnePlus 5 will be out this summer. It will include 8gb of memory. Reddit is going to loving love that
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May 5, 2017 16:37
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May 5, 2017 16:56
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May 5, 2017 17:08
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May 5, 2017 17:14
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These basement smaug phones need truckloads of RAM to make up for the fact that their OS implementation is unoptimized and the skin they slap over it uses needlessly massive images for icons everywhere. That doesn't even get to the  likelihood of user data being covertly transmitted to an unidentified third party at all times so the background process is a constant nag on resources.How much RAM does the Pixel XL have again? Oh right, 4GB and it's still a world-beater six, seven months into its lifetime.
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May 5, 2017 17:14
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RVProfootballer posted:OnePlus 4??? OnePlus 4x2
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May 5, 2017 17:22
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I can't wait til Google partners with OnePlus to manufacture the Pixel 3.
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May 5, 2017 17:28
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Lmao if your phone can't render video in Adobe Premiere
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May 5, 2017 17:30
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docbeard posted:I can't wait til Google partners with OnePlus to manufacture the Pixel 3. That would actually be a good idea since Google was able to work with HTC and help them make a good phone.
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Let's also not forget that one of the founders of OnePlus claimed that the aggressive memory management in the OP3 was due to battery saving measures and the 6gb benefits the camera and others modules. Whatever that means. He said that 6gb was new to Android so there was "still lots to explore" and the team is "optimizing for further enhancements". Eventually someone on XDA had found a fix and the next month there was amazingly an official update put out by Oxygen OS. How surprising!
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May 5, 2017 17:48
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cage-free egghead posted:lmao OnePlus "confirms" to The Verge that the OnePlus 5 will be out this summer. It will include 8gb of memory. And they're still gonna gently caress it up cage-free egghead posted:Let's also not forget that one of the founders of OnePlus claimed that the aggressive memory management in the OP3 was due to battery saving measures and the 6gb benefits the camera and others modules. Probably like this!
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May 5, 2017 18:16
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Why the h*ck does a phone need 8GB of ram?!
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May 5, 2017 18:43
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Thermopyle posted:I don't know anything about that deal, but pretty much any modern-ish flagship is going to be fine-ish. Oh, yeah, I get that they're all in the category of "good enough". Mostly just debating if I want to roll the dice on LG's reliability, and the more I think about it, I'm not liking it. If the G5 Plus had a bigger screen, I'd probably just buy one of those and be done with it.
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May 5, 2017 18:45
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Why the h*ck does a phone need 8GB of ram?!
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datajosh posted:It doesn't but XDA is gonna love it They better because they're going to be the ones writing the software to make it work.
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http://phandroid.com/2017/05/05/motorola-verizon-droid-branding-rumor/amp/ Everyone can thank me. Motorola sent me quite a few surveys at the end of last year (probably wondering why my string of Moto ownership was broken) and I slammed them on backtracking on fully universal devices after releasing the MXP. I ranked that just behind monthly security updates as reasons why I wouldn't recommend the devices to others and reasons why I wouldn't consider buying a new Moto device. So, YOU'RE WELCOME.
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May 5, 2017 19:52
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Eight jeebees is unnecessary, but is there any primary negative consequence to more RAM? I say primary as opposed to secondary consequence like "it will encourage developers to be less frugal with algorithms' performance."
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May 5, 2017 19:58
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Any time you are lighting up more transistors, you have the possibility of consuming more power if there's not some sort of gating going on. At some point the sizes are going to go up just because of packaging. They cram more density into a module, the minimum amount you can buy goes up.
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docbeard posted:I can't wait til Google partners with OnePlus to manufacture the Pixel 3. I can't wait til Google buys oneplus
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What the gently caress is wrong with people, this is regarding why on earth a phone needs to come with 8gb of ram.quote:A regular phone and a regular user doesn't need that much, for sure. But some users, like myself, are heavy multitaskers that constantly switch between apps that use like a gig or more of RAM. I also want to be able to run Linux comfortably, or maybe even a Windows virtual machine. 8GB also opens up the doors for so many use case, for instance, convergence - connect a monitor, keyboard, mouse and with Linux, one could use the phone as a viable laptop/desktop alternative.
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May 5, 2017 22:17
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Just get a loving laptop you goddamn neckbeard.
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You just know they are running a citrix sesh on their sweet phone already. May as well trim it all down and run a full linux server environment on their phone. Some people torrent from their phone. Some host a torrent community. Dream big.
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May 5, 2017 22:43
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Everyone loves drinking a coffee and messing with their phone am I right? Well what if the the phone could brew the coffee??? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mokase/mokase-your-mobile-phone-cover-makes-even-coffee
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Ehh, I mean if someone needs 8GB to do their nerd poo poo, I'm glad the device exists for them to do so. An awesome world to be in. Of course, I'm sure a significant portion of people who think they need it, don't...
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May 5, 2017 23:31
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Scaramouche posted:Everyone loves drinking a coffee and messing with their phone am I right?
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I really don't see a use for 8GB of RAM until Google comes up with something for Android to do with all that memory and bakes it into the OS.
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Unless OnePlus changes a lot about how Android works, that memory is probably going to be going to waste.
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azurite posted:Unless OnePlus changes a lot about how Android works, that memory is probably going to be going to waste. Much like their phones
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