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EdEddnEddy posted:I may attempt to roll a Essential naked, but not without glass on its glass.. Looks like the screen itself is relatively flat out to the edge of the display, then the surface falls off with a filleted edge. Better get that tempered glass positioned juuust right. 
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:Huawei is a piece of poo poo company and you are crazy as hell for wanting to buy their products with how they deal with their customers Or, I've had the Mate 9 since the beginning of the year and it's arguably the best phablet you can buy and has been completely reliable. Besides, what phone manufacturer isn't a "piece of poo poo" company to someone at this point.
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Mental Hospitality posted:Or, I've had the Mate 9 since the beginning of the year and it's arguably the best phablet you can buy and has been completely reliable. I don't know from Huwaei but yeah there isn't a company that hasn't been a piece of poo poo to their customers at one point. At all.
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sirbeefalot posted:Looks like the screen itself is relatively flat out to the edge of the display, then the surface falls off with a filleted edge. Better get that tempered glass positioned juuust right. That's what it does look like. Sigh. I don't quite understand the reason everyone is doing the just slightly curved at the edge screen. I'm not a fan of the feel and in this case, if you get a protector yet run caseless, the protector edge if it has any nano bit of lip on the edge, will catch and get gunk under it over time. I am pretty good about getting protectors on perfectly, but this one might be a challenge.... ^^ Essential Hasn't...... Yet. One thing I don't remember seeing mentioned here yet, but I believe starting with Android 7.0... The notifications pulldown. When you have multiple notifications, and a few from the same source (text, e-mail, whatever) as you go to swipe them away, does it not really piss off anyone else when they rearrange themselves after you swipe one away and do it right as you're going for the second, causing you to swipe away something you might have wanted to tap on instead of swipe? I don't remember having this issue with 6.X but since 7.0 I believe this happens on 3+ devices I have used it with and its downright retarded. Does it still do it for anyone that's used the Android 8.0 builds? EdEddnEddy fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B019Q67ORK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_eX3Lzb3XZ9BRG Is that one of the compliant chargers? I would rather not pay £29 direct to Google for their official one.
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EdEddnEddy posted:Sammy I hate you and I went back and forth on a massive probation just for using this word. WRT Essential, I wanted to like it so much, but I'm not getting a phone with a sub-par camera after having owned my 6P. I don't even use the camera that much, but I want the pictures to look awesome and to be easy/fast to take when I do take a picture.
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I've been using a loaner Galaxy Express Prime ever since my Note 4 went for a swim and I have to say I'm surprised by how usable a $60.00 piece of poo poo phone can be in 2017. Not that I would ever recommend anyone seriously looking for a phone get this thing, it's got no fingerprint sensor and it's got a tiny screen that's 5" at most. But that said it does remove any doubt that anyone looking for a phone who is not committed to a super high end Galaxy or Pixel should be more than happy with the Moto G. Hell, I'm sure I'd be better served going with a Moto G myself, but I'm still probably going to jump on the Note 8 as soon as it launches anyways. Still, I'm impressed with what you can get in the <$100.00 range nowadays.
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Thermopyle posted:I hate you and I went back and forth on a massive probation just for using this word. The one thing that turned me off the Essential was that it's probably incompatible with cases/bumpers by design and no matter what space age material it's made of glass is still glass and will break when its slippery ceramic body eventually flies off from my sweaty rear end hands
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WattsvilleBlues posted:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B019Q67ORK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_eX3Lzb3XZ9BRG Based on the list of chargers reviewed by Benson and Nathan, I'd be hesitant to get any Choetech stuff. That list hasn't been updated in a while, so the company may have released newer compliant stuff since then. Still, I'd recommend checking if any of the compliant chargers on that list are available where you live first.
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Calaveron posted:The one thing that turned me off the Essential was that it's probably incompatible with cases/bumpers by design and no matter what space age material it's made of glass is still glass and will break when its slippery ceramic body eventually flies off from my sweaty rear end hands Grip tape sticks to titanium and ceramic. Thermite melts steel beams. What a time to be alive!
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Prisma is such a great app; turns photos into instant artsy shots, even if they're sub par. 
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Thermopyle posted:I hate you and I went back and forth on a massive probation just for using this word. I can explain about 3 separate excuses on how that came out as Sammy and not Samsung being I typed the full word multiple times in the same post ahead of that. (But before the edits on different devices) but I'm just not going to make that mistake a second time instead. On to the Essential camera vs 6P, I am in the same boat but being the device has a 15day return window, I figure that would be long enough to see if I can live with it and its camera (and see if the ported Google Camera works as good on it as it does on a U11 I have tried it on), as well as see if I can deal with its naked back and sides. (Already ordered a glass protector) If the device fails to live up to my hopes I can always just wait for the Pixel XL2, and it is almost a guarantee that its camera, as well as probably most everything else is going to be optimized to hell if they plan to top their last years models.
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Why do companies insist on making devices that look and feel so great? Don't they understand that I'm going to cover it in cheap Chinese plastics until it looks like it was designed by Playskool? I mean come on, why design it for the people who don't break their poo poo when they should be designing it for me, a person more accident prone than Moe from the Three Stooges?
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LastInLine posted:Why do companies insist on making devices that look and feel so great? Don't they understand that I'm going to cover it in cheap Chinese plastics until it looks like it was designed by Playskool? I mean come on, why design it for the people who don't break their poo poo when they should be designing it for me, a person more accident prone than Moe from the Three Stooges? I, too, enjoy making disingenuous comments on the SomethingAwful dot Com.
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LastInLine posted:Why do companies insist on making devices that look and feel so great? Don't they understand that I'm going to cover it in cheap Chinese plastics until it looks like it was designed by Playskool? I mean come on, why design it for the people who don't break their poo poo when they should be designing it for me, a person more accident prone than Moe from the Three Stooges? Shemp was the accident prone one, Moe was a victim of the other two idiots. I'd kill for some straight up, bright rear end, Windows Phone primary colour Nokia phones.
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Android 8 being released on Monday 21st August TYOOL 2017. http://www.androidauthority.com/android-eclipse-event-794452/ You know, for Pixel etc.
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Huh, I've just been using Open Camera as my default camera app on my 6P, since I like the granularity of options and being able to save the RAWs. Reminds me of my old point-and-shoot. But I guess I'm a chump and should just be using the stock Google Camera App, then?
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Unless you're a legit pro, Google's post-processing is better than anything you can do with the RAWs.
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The stock 6P camera app is almost the same as the Pixels. (I believe it's the same hardware) Outside of being a bit slower, and with HDR+ turned on, it takes really, really good photos. So yes, use the stock app a bit with HDR+ turned on and see how it does.
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Android Oclipse is coming out today!
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RZA Encryption posted:Android Oclipse is coming out today! I can't wait for Android Orangina!
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Android Organs Developer Preview 4 is makings battery life on my Google Pixel much gooder. I hope the final release is even better. 91 minus now. https://www.android.com/eclipse/#eclipse WattsvilleBlues fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Aug 21, 2017 |
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It's a hell of lot smaller too, I gained a good gb of storage on my 5x
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It's Oreo, surprise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiW2k-80Ruo
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CLAM DOWN posted:It's Oreo, surprise Andromeda was canceled to pay for the licensing rights to oreo.
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I wonder when they're going to release Google Lens finally. It's kinda been hyped up at Google IO, and nothing's happening.
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Wait, was that the entire stream? 
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sleepwalkers posted:Wait, was that the entire stream? Seriously, wtf Google.
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The eclipse turns into an Oreo with a cape, hands out milk, stream starts buffering (but it's over), links go to a 404 It's here and looking good!!
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Factory images for Nexus/Pixel devices are available if you swing that way: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/o/download.html
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How do we Pixel Warriors install it now? It's not auto updating from Developer Preview 4. Is the download link https://developer.android.com/about/versions/o/download.html for the final release? Edit  Edit 2: Any way to install it now without using a computer? Won't be home for a few days and the wife's laptop doesn't have USB C and I don't carry my adaptor 
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Picture in picture? Wow, 1980s tv technology in my smartphone. Well, not my smartphone because the nexus 6 doesn't get it but hey. Guess I'm stuck with boring old screen splitting.
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Typically, they update the dev preview to final after the OTA finishes. That's why I never use the dev preview on a device I use a lot.
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How long does Verizon historically hold up OTA updates like this on the Pixel?
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Mogomra posted:How long does Verizon historically hold up OTA updates like this on the Pixel? 0ms
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Wheres my goddamn ota 
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Is installing 8.0 right now a good idea? I haven't heard much scary from the developer previews but I haven't been on Android through a major release before either!
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Tivac posted:Is installing 8.0 right now a good idea? I haven't heard much scary from the developer previews but I haven't been on Android through a major release before either! Much like every release, there's likely to be something that is broken. Hopefully not bluetooth but chances are unlikely.
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Tivac posted:Is installing 8.0 right now a good idea? I haven't heard much scary from the developer previews but I haven't been on Android through a major release before either! Did you get a Pixel? If so, install it as soon as it pops up as an OTA! No need to wait  If you have another phone, you'll have to wait until that OEM releases their update, sadly
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