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Mr Newsman posted:Being against selfies was so 2014 That's true, now your phone takes constant photos of your face so the NSA knows where everybody is at all time and who forgot to put makeup on today Consent was so 2016. Google's version of consent is "you signed a thing, once upon a time, that said you were DTF and also DTEVERYTHINGELSEUNLESSYOUEXPLICITLYOPTOUTAFTERWEALREADYDIDTHETHINGTOYOU" I have to finish this off by saying of course I know DuckDuckGo is a lovely search engine and I'd rather have Google know what's growing on my testicle than have to sort through Altavista-style search results. Rickets fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Thermopyle posted:Do we really know this? When my Note 4 battery started instantly dying when reaching 30-40%, (about a year of use) I checked online and everyone having the same problem all admitted to using the fast charge almost exclusively, whereas the people who only used ordinary chargers were fine. Same story with my 6P. That's about as close to proof as you're gonna get, since Samsung/Google sure as poo poo aren't going to give us a postmortem without a class-action against them.
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Rickets posted:That's true, now your phone takes constant photos of your face so the NSA knows where everybody is at all time and who forgot to put makeup on today Don't forget the regular reminders about that thing you signed once that said you were DTF, just seeing whether you wanted to modify that every now and again
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Oct 5, 2017 21:01
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My Pixel 2 XL order showed up as shipped in my Google Feed, not cool Google.
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CLAM DOWN posted:This is like mega new phone day for me and yes I fully realize how hosed Up I am and need medical attention How do you like the Note? I'm gonna pick one up as soon as they're back in stock here.
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Ormy posted:How do you like the Note? I'm gonna pick one up as soon as they're back in stock here. Honestly, even with the reality that is Samsung being Samsung, it's fantastic. The only thing I don't like, is the absolutely pants on head retarded fingerprint scanner location. Everything else about this hardware is great. It's expensive which is good reason to avoid it, I obviously didn't pay for it nor most of my phones or I'd be flatout broke. I think my perfect phone is Note 8 hardware with a lower/central fingerprint scanner, with Pixel Android software/OS. I can dream...
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Twerk from Home posted:It's worth at least an asterisk that the dual rear cameras on the S are outright worse than the single camera on the non-S. The rest of the changes probably make the S better overall. In what way is it worse?
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Oct 5, 2017 21:28
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Anyone else pick up a fabric knit lookin case with their Pixel 2? I got the midnight with the red button since I got stuck with the all black 2XL. For $40 I hope it's good enough to prevent me from wanting a Speck case whenever they drop.
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Oct 5, 2017 21:38
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Uthor posted:I was told not to use my 5x charger with anything else. I thought the 6p one was fine? Maybe they're both bad. I don't know anything about the 5X charger.
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Oct 5, 2017 21:56
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The 5x charger is bad. The USBC cable with the 6p is bad.
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Oct 5, 2017 22:06
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I'm considering upgrading from an iPhone 6S to a Pixel 2. I've only ever been with iOS. The Pixel seems pretty interesting, and iOS has been kinda getting on my nerves lately. Is that crazy? Does it seem like a good idea?
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:I'm considering upgrading from an iPhone 6S to a Pixel 2. I've only ever been with iOS. The Pixel seems pretty interesting, and iOS has been kinda getting on my nerves lately. Its a terrible idea because then you will have to spend time deciding what mail and maps program you want to use.
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bull3964 posted:The 5x charger is bad. The USBC cable with the 6p is bad.  OK then.
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bull3964 posted:The 5x charger is bad. The USBC cable with the 6p is bad. gently caress, didn't know the cable was bad. Now I need to figure out which of my cables in use is the one from the 6P. 
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OctaviusBeaver posted:In what way is it worse? Smaller, less sensitive pixels on the sensor combined with a smaller aperture on the 5S.
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Solvency posted:I bought the protection plan myself it, but now that I know there is a flat rate to fix the screen, I don't think it's worth it. The deductibles are $79 and $99 for the Pixel and the XL with a cost of $129 for the plan itself. They will only cover two approved accidental damage claims within the 2-year term. If those are cracked screens, the math works out like this: Yea with fi though its a $5 monthly fee you can cancel which makes sense for at least the first year. You aren't calculating the cost of replacing your phone completely which can happen. It can become broken beyond a screen and not covered by warranty. At that point its saving you huge money. It is not hard to self insure and set aside money each month over the life of the phone but you should consider that case. The other nice thing about the plan is they will overnight you a phone. .
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The Pixel 2 XL looks really nice but it feels really hard to justify the price, even on the finance program. It's not as bad if you go for the 64 gig model and ignore the warranty, but it still isn't cheap. Just IMO the XZ1 Compact is an interesting option, too, and were I to move away from iOS it was something I was looked at. They're boring as hell, but for some dumb reason I really like the aesthetic.
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The issue with the 6p cable is it makes any compliant charger vbus hot instead of keeping power off until a device is connected. That also runs the risk of jolting a device with the previously connected device's negotiated power settings.
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bull3964 posted:The issue with the 6p cable is it makes any compliant charger vbus hot instead of keeping power off until a device is connected. That also runs the risk of jolting a device with the previously connected device's negotiated power settings. Is the charger usable if the cable is replaced? I can't remember if the cable is hardwired to the charger or not.
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Anecdotally, my pixel 1 (xl) was running super super slow and i thought it was just because it's a year old, but i looked at the storage space and it was 94% full. Once i cleared space, it runs just about as fast as it ever has. I've seen low space warnings before but this time one wasn't triggered. It would think it would at 10%, or at least 5%.
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My Pixel XL is very smooth to this day with one caveat. After upgrading to 8.0 the camera doesn't load as fast. After the security patch it got better but not as snappy as it was.
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http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/05/pixel-2-pixel-2-xl-usb-c-digital-audio-third-party-usb-c-headphones-need-support/ I know there's a pretty select audience that cares about this poo poo, but poo poo. At least support analog output if you're dropping the headphone jack.
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myron cope posted:Anecdotally, my pixel 1 (xl) was running super super slow and i thought it was just because it's a year old, but i looked at the storage space and it was 94% full. Once i cleared space, it runs just about as fast as it ever has. I've seen low space warnings before but this time one wasn't triggered. It would think it would at 10%, or at least 5%. The two things that slow down a modern Android flagship are lovely apps and full storage.
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Desk Lamp posted:The two things that slow down a modern Android flagship are lovely apps and full storage. And Samsung
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hot date tonight! posted:http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/05/pixel-2-pixel-2-xl-usb-c-digital-audio-third-party-usb-c-headphones-need-support/ Pretty sure that article is wrong.
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https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/phone-by-google/Yvy0RfOPFfU I mean the google community manager dude could be mistaken, and I hope he is, but I don't think so.
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Yeah but if you care about audio you would just use your existing 3.5mm buds or cans with the dongle... I doubt many people are buying usb c earbuds
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What's the deal with latency on Bluetooth earbuds now? Do you have to put up with sync issues if you're say watching a video?
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baka kaba posted:What's the deal with latency on Bluetooth earbuds now? Do you have to put up with sync issues if you're say watching a video? I would guess it depends on the video since I've never tried watching anything longer than a couple minutes long news clip, and there aren't sync issues with those.
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Never had sync issues with YouTube, Twitch or MXPlayer.
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CLAM DOWN posted:And Samsung This is redundant. lovely apps was already mentioned.
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AlexDeGruven posted:This is redundant. lovely apps was already mentioned. Nice
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i have a grand prime d with 8 gb internal storage, 2,9 reserved for android, 2,9 for apps which are 90% google things you can't uninstall like news stand, or phone provider bloatware and i hate this
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The existence of phones with less than 32 GB of storage in 2014 or later is abuse.AlexDeGruven posted:This is redundant. lovely apps was already mentioned. 
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ArfJason posted:i have a grand prime d with 8 gb internal storage, 2,9 reserved for android, 2,9 for apps which are 90% google things you can't uninstall like news stand, or phone provider bloatware and i hate this Do yourself a favor and pickup a Moto G or something.
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dont be mean to me posted:The existence of phones with less than 32 GB of storage in 2014 or later is abuse. i know right. At least it has sd cards and you can choose to move apps to the sd card! which moves like 20 megabytes of the 100 megabyte app god knows how chocolateTHUNDER posted:Do yourself a favor and pickup a Moto G or something. yeah 
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ArfJason posted:i have a grand prime d with 8 gb internal storage, 2,9 reserved for android, 2,9 for apps which are 90% google things you can't uninstall like news stand, or phone provider bloatware and i hate this Sounds like you definitely got the grand prime d in that deal holy gently caress
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also after i cleaned up and moved a lot of cached whatsapp stuff, the phone somehow started running *worse* recently i uninstalled a lot of accumulated google app updates (like books newstands) and its running fine but who the hell knows how long itll last
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FAUXTON posted:I would guess it depends on the video since I've never tried watching anything longer than a couple minutes long news clip, and there aren't sync issues with those. Well I mean more like a lip sync issue, the kind you can adjust for on home theatre receivers because your TV might be adding some latency. Basically is the tech fast enough to eliminate that or is there still a bit going on
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ArfJason posted:also after i cleaned up and moved a lot of cached whatsapp stuff, the phone somehow started running *worse* Please get a new phone, dear god
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