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Is the Essential the first phone of this company? Yes? Then wait for their second phone.
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Rexxed posted:Is the Essential the first phone of this company? Yes? Then wait for their second phone. Dang you're probably right When's the Pixel refresher coming up anyway? September?
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Calaveron posted:Dang you're probably right Pixels were announced on October 4, 2016 and shipped later that month.
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Wacky Delly posted:Pixels were announced on October 4, 2016 and a few shipped later that month. fixed
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I'm here the vent about garbage USB-C chargers. When I first got my Nexus 6P the charger it came with stopped working the day after and I had to replace it. Now the car charger I purchased from the Google store a few weeks ago has ceased charging my phone too. You have one job chargers! 
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Apparently dialing 911 causes the OnePlus5 to reboot. I'd think of something else to say about it but that short sentence really says it all. E: following the link from Google Now it seems to be just one guy on Reddit from what I can see, maybe it's just one freak occurrence. Desk Lamp fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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Desk Lamp posted:Apparently dialing 911 causes the OnePlus5 to reboot. I'd think of something else to say about it but that short sentence really says it all. I changed my mind, I think One plus is a beneficial force for society
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Desk Lamp posted:Apparently dialing 911 causes the OnePlus5 to reboot. I'd think of something else to say about it but that short sentence really says it all. Just dial 116 instead.
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Ragingsheep posted:Just dial 116 instead. ¡ʇuǝןןǝɔxǝ
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Desk Lamp posted:Apparently dialing 911 causes the OnePlus5 to reboot. I'd think of something else to say about it but that short sentence really says it all. Nope. Seems like others are mostly having the same issue.
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I dialed 911 and my local emergency services number and neither caused a reboot to occur. 
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Ragingsheep posted:Just dial 116 instead. Thread title
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Don Dongington posted:No, by that I meant buy a new phone every year, rather than every 4, as I've been doing with the expensive iphone/Galaxy Sx flagships in the past. Well to be fair that's only really been a choice once the Moto G got good enough to be good enough but yeah, that's the sensible choice for most users. A pretty good phone for ~$250 every year (or even two if it stretches that far) is a much better option than a $750-850 phone that, let's face it, will really be limping along at the three year point. And I'm saying this as someone who bought Pixels.
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Ragingsheep posted:Just dial 116 instead. 
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Mogomra posted:I remember when the HTC keyboard was the keyboard to have, and everyone sideloaded it because all other keyboards were garbage.* The third-party keyboard they introduced with the 10 was so off-putting even before it started serving ads that I sideloaded the old keyboard day 1. 
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Ragingsheep posted:Just dial 116 instead. 👎🙃
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Ragingsheep posted:Just dial 116 instead. 
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For emergencies dial one plus one plus six
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FAUXTON posted:For emergencies dial one plus one plus six So it'll work on the next phone, but not the 5.
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Does anyone know how to prevent certain apps from appearing in my "share" menu. I enjoy a lot of my messaging apps and what not, but I never ever am going to share things to them, so I don't want them appearing in the list when I tap "share". I'd rather not uninstall them, but I do want a cleaner simpler share menu.
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You used to be able to install replacements for the share menu that give you a bunch of options the default Android one doesn't. I never used them and am frankly unsure if they still work, but try searching for them. I wanna say Lifehacker had a rundown a long time ago.
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What an age we live in. Where screens are installed upside down, ads on your keyboard and dialing 911 causes your phone to reboot. What's next? I'm calling dibs on camera lenses shattering and the next coming of phones exploding.
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the state of Android these days really feels like a poo poo show tbh
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ulvir posted:the state of Android these days really feels like a poo poo show tbh Smartphones in general. iOS is stale yet top of the line hardware. Android seems to be a race to the bottom now, with high end phones being okay but missing features. You're almost always compromising buying any Android phone. Please come back, WebOS.
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False Toaster posted:What an age we live in. Where screens are installed upside down, ads on your keyboard and dialing 911 causes your phone to reboot. What's next? I'm calling dibs on camera lenses shattering and the next coming of phones exploding. We've already had the exploding phones.
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I'm going to go for a G5 or G5 Plus. In general I prefer smaller and cheaper. The price diff between the two isn't that big though, perhaps in % but not in absolutes. Is the camera and performance diff worth it?
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cage-free egghead posted:Smartphones in general. iOS is stale yet top of the line hardware. Android seems to be a race to the bottom now, with high end phones being okay but missing features. You're almost always compromising buying any Android phone. I'm totally fine with a stale phone OS, provided it works as well as ios/pixel-flavored android does. I just want the dang thing to work.
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RZA Encryption posted:I'm totally fine with a stale phone OS, provided it works as well as ios/pixel-flavored android does. I just want the dang thing to work. No you don't. Extensive consumer research shows that Android customers like phones that have any or all of the following: explosions, jelly scrolling, keyboard ads, emergency service call crashes, grip tape, squeeze sensors, and boot loops. Bonus points for crapware that can't be uninstalled, and for preinstalled apps that do the exact same things as the default Google apps.
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Protocol7 posted:No you don't. Extensive consumer research shows that Android customers like phones that have any or all of the following: explosions, jelly scrolling, keyboard ads, emergency service call crashes, grip tape, squeeze sensors, and boot loops. Oh, now you've gone and set him off.
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Ola posted:I'm going to go for a G5 or G5 Plus. In general I prefer smaller and cheaper. The price diff between the two isn't that big though, perhaps in % but not in absolutes. Is the camera and performance diff worth it? What's the price difference where you are? G5 Plus has headphone jack at the bottom, which is inarguably better, CPU is a year newer, more internal storage and RAM probably, better battery. sourdough fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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The iPhone hardware is fine - the only real complaint I have is the screen is an LCD so looks bad with dark content in a dark environment. iOS on the other hand is really hard to get used to after Android because notifications are such a mess.
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dissss posted:The iPhone hardware is fine - the only real complaint I have is the screen is an LCD so looks bad with dark content in a dark environment. Yeah, I got an SE to muck around with and it's crazy fast still and for the most part totally interchangeable with Android in terms of functionality and switching between the two is fine (use Google services for most everything). I just really don't like badges/iOS notification shade rather than good proper persistent Android notifications, and also using a physical home button feels way weirder than I thought it would after having on screen (or even capacitive) ones for so long. Otherwise, no complaints. A Pixel or an iPhone is great, they'll keep taking ideas from each other to improve, and webOS and Windows Phone and all the other garbage can stay dead.
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RVProfootballer posted:What's the price difference where you are? G5 Plus has headphone jack at the bottom, which is inarguably better, CPU is a year newer, more internal storage and RAM probably, better battery. $100 diff, ~245 vs ~345 USD.
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Laugh all you want but Windows phone was the only good mobile OS I've ever used except for the lack of apps which I was fine with til snapchat disallowed third party apps (never was an official one available). But it was infinitely smoother and more stable than Android and iOS and I really liked how it was lightyears ahead of them in hands free control. I could easily read texts out loud in the car and dictate responses with no physical input at all which I still can't do with Android, and that's just bonkers. Partly the fault of my Honda too which leaves a lot to be desired in that regard. They have a big hard on for Apple but I have gently caress all functionality with anything else and the drat car is a '15. Sony doesn't get any regard either but the Z3 compact I had was one of, if not the smoothest experience I've had on Android. But at this point I'm only still with Android because the only other option is far worse. Be nice if Google could hire someone who could create a menu interface that isn't hot garbage visually, or just give us drat control at least over the colors. Yes yes launchers launchers but you shouldn't need them, nor to do stuff like change the grid layout of your home screen. I'm a power user and all my computers are reflective of that but there's no power user option for phones. Go buy whatever flagship you want and it will still stutter more often than it should but that's the price you pay for being able to actually do things unlike on iOS.
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Google apparently put a lot of their top developers on the Fuschia project which is supposed to replace Android someday
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Ola posted:$100 diff, ~245 vs ~345 USD. And is that like top end G5 vs low end G5 Plus or what? If it's like a 1ish year phone til you'll buy a new one and the storage and RAM is fine for you right now, might as well go cheaper. If you'll have it for like 1+ years, and especially if that G5 Plus price is for 4/64, it should be pleasant to use for an extra year or two over a G5 with less RAM.
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RVProfootballer posted:And is that like top end G5 vs low end G5 Plus or what? If it's like a 1ish year phone til you'll buy a new one and the storage and RAM is fine for you right now, might as well go cheaper. If you'll have it for like 1+ years, and especially if that G5 Plus price is for 4/64, it should be pleasant to use for an extra year or two over a G5 with less RAM. I'd have a hard time believing a phone with 2GB of RAM is usable for anyone but the lightest of phone users.
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LastInLine posted:I'd have a hard time believing a phone with 2GB of RAM is usable for anyone but the lightest of phone users. I am the lightest of phone users and basically use spotify, maps, awful, chrome, default phone/text. It is usually good enough for this but if I'm using maps and on a heavy site it will start being janky with a 2gb moto g4, so 
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LastInLine posted:I'd have a hard time believing a phone with 2GB of RAM is usable for anyone but the lightest of phone users. I think the highest model G5 has 3, but could be wrong. If the plan is to just use it maaaybe til Pixel 3 is announced or heavily rumored, I think 3 should be fine, 2 might be tough but also should be fine if you're just doing phone, text, email, browser, awful, etc. For me personally, that's like 90%+ of my time using it. sourdough fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jul 19, 2017 |
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cage-free egghead posted:Please come back, WebOS.
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