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Internet Explorer posted:Not trying to nitpick, but I honestly didn't even know I had an LED. Why is it needed with Ambient Display? It consumes less battery than ambient display, and it's just a personal preference. I use lightflow to give me multicoloured lights based on what the notification is, I love it, always have  RZA Encryption posted:Notification LEDs haven't been good since the nexus one glowing orb. Samsung LEDs are bright and great!!
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CLAM DOWN posted:It consumes less battery than ambient display, and it's just a personal preference. I use lightflow to give me multicoloured lights based on what the notification is, I love it, always have Ah, yeah, would totally make sense if you turn off Ambient Display and it's great that there's the option.
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cage-free egghead posted:Anyone get the Essential Phone from the Sprint deal? Apparently you can get it all said and done for around $150 if you pay it off early. It's tempting for me but I'm not sure if I want a hard pull on my credit just for a smartphone. Use of the search function tells me there are three goons who have (or had) an Essential: EdEddnEddy posted:I have an Essential PH-1 coming MA-Horus posted:So i pulled the trigger, walked into the Telus store and picked up the last Essential phone they had in stock. Cao Ni Ma posted:I broke down and bought the essential phone from amazon now that they put the black one in stock.
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Rastor posted:Use of the search function tells me there are three goons who have (or had) an Essential: Right but I was looking to see if anyone had taken part in the Sprint promo they had. Thanks tho
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cage-free egghead posted:Right but I was looking to see if anyone had taken part in the Sprint promo they had. Thanks tho Go to the massive Slick Deals thread. I'm surprised Sprint hasn't re-locked these phones out of spite. People are ordering like 3 at a time and returning them with tears and anger when they can't get it unlocked. Well no poo poo, the phone isn't really $150. To answer your question it looks like you can still do it. If you do it in a store they insist on activating before you leave, forcing the 50-day unlock rule to take effect.
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hotsauce posted:Go to the massive Slick Deals thread. I'm surprised Sprint hasn't re-locked these phones out of spite. People are ordering like 3 at a time and returning them with tears and anger when they can't get it unlocked. Well no poo poo, the phone isn't really $150. Interesting. I got an iPhone SE from them that was automatically unlocked within a couple days of paying it off, but I did activate it at home.
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hotsauce posted:Go to the massive Slick Deals thread. I'm surprised Sprint hasn't re-locked these phones out of spite. People are ordering like 3 at a time and returning them with tears and anger when they can't get it unlocked. Well no poo poo, the phone isn't really $150. I've read a few pages of it but it looks like experiences are all over the map. I'm probably just going to hold off or get the phone through a different channel just in case Sprint realizes wtf they did and punishes the people ordering 5 at a time.
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Nov 16, 2017 21:44
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Phandroid lists 10 cool Android tricks: https://phandroid.com/2017/11/16/android-tricks/ A very hit or miss list but there are a few legitimate power user tips in there.
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My Elephone S8 turned up today. FIrst impressions are pretty good; the screen really is great, phone is plenty fast/smooth enough and it feels good in the hand. The camera is crap but I don't really use it. I'll come back in a few days with a bit more in depth stuff but I am very happy so far.
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Nov 16, 2017 22:23
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My Pixel 2 xl finally grabbed the November Security update. This saturated mode looks good. I see the point about it not being accurate, but I like this. The old vivid mode looked washed out even compared to my 6p. Now it's about the same.
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So far im pretty happy with the essential. Got used to the weight, now my old nexus 5x feels like a toy. Screen is great outside of being really easy to scratch, partially my fault because I like to put a ton of poo poo on these huge cargo pockets in our uniforms and gorilla glass 5 is poo poo for these tiny scratches and because no good tempered glass screens exist for it. The 8.0 beta is super solid and I'm guessing they are only withholding it from normal release because of the bug causing bluetooth from draining more battery than normal. Camera is poo poo though, but it seems like they are getting patches out for it every other day thats slowly making it bearable if you refuse to put the pixel camear app on your phone for whatever reason
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I don't understand how people can use smartphones with terrible cameras. That's like, the biggest dealbreaker for me on a phone. It has to be good.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I don't understand how people can use smartphones with terrible cameras. That's like, the biggest dealbreaker for me on a phone. It has to be good. I personally dont take a whole lot of pictures.  Like over the 2 years Ive had a nexus 5x Ive taken about 10 pictures that weren't work related. The rest are pictures of routers/switches, broken down antennas, business cards, etc. I buy phones to play gatcha games and read SA while at work basically. Either way, the camera itself is fine, the software is just junk.
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Nov 16, 2017 22:57
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Fair, I'm a photographer and take a literal gently caress load of pics. I don't always have my dslr on me so an amazing phone camera is essential. Holy poo poo the Pixel 2 XL meets that requirement.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I don't understand how people can use smartphones with terrible cameras. That's like, the biggest dealbreaker for me on a phone. It has to be good. All I take photos of is cats and stuff I need to remember. All I do with a phone is browse really!
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Nov 16, 2017 23:21
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I personally dont take a whole lot of pictures. To be fair, I used to be the same way until I got a Pixel. Having a good, fast camera always on you does encourage you to use it more often.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Fair, I'm a photographer and take a literal gently caress load of pics. I don't always have my dslr on me so an amazing phone camera is essential. Holy poo poo the Pixel 2 XL meets that requirement. I mean...what did you expect the answer to be?
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CLAM DOWN posted:I don't understand how people can use smartphones with terrible cameras. That's like, the biggest dealbreaker for me on a phone. It has to be good.
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The Merkinman posted:I don't understand how people can record video holding the phone in portrait orientation. Unironically same
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The Merkinman posted:I don't understand how people can record video holding the phone in portrait orientation. Potentially dumb question, coming right up: Is there a technical limitation preventing a phone from recording in landscape when held in portrait? Even if the display isn't portrait, but shows the video in landscape (with huge borders on top/bottom)? At least an option would be nice since every single news worthy video is lovely portrait. Can't the sensor just switch on it's own and do landscape even if the phone is physically being held in portrait?
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Holding the phone upright is natural because that's how you're typically holding your phone when a spontaneous moment occurs. It would be cool to have a phone that recorded from the back camera in landscape automatically and cropped out the unused pixels for 4k. Most sensors are well above 9MP that 4k takes up, and would exceed the 3840 horizontal pixels on their short axis. The viewfinder would look kinda weird, but in my mind it could just be like the YouTube app layout, with that unused UI space used for controls. I bet there's a software solution.
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The Merkinman posted:I don't understand how people can record video holding the phone in portrait orientation. I can. You're a person who primarily or solely interacts only with media on a telephone and prefers to hold your phone in portrait orientation. To them, landscape video is more difficult to view and not preferable. Additionally, they may be recording something that is framed better in portrait, like a person talking, and because of their limited experience recording video for others' viewing, doesn't realize that the extra space to the sides are so you don't have to keep the subject perfectly in frame. They might not be expecting to need horizontal space in the frame. Another obvious explanation is someone who is quickly recording something unusual and is doing so without paying attention to the recording itself but rather devoting attention to avoiding being injured or involved. In doing so they hold the device in the way most comfortable and most secure, which is portrait.
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hotsauce posted:
The sensor itself is not a square, it's the same aspect ratio as the photos it takes (usually 4:3 on phones, i think?) So, sure it's possible. They would just need to install the sensor rotated 90 degree.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I personally dont take a whole lot of pictures.
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LastInLine posted:To be fair, I used to be the same way until I got a Pixel. Having a good, fast camera always on you does encourage you to use it more often.
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ilkhan posted:I never took phone pictures until I had a good camera on my phone. It matters. Everyone that knows me- "Gosh you keep going to different states and parts of the world because of work and you never take pictures!" Me (outwardly)- "Im sorry everyone the camera in my phone sucks and I hate using it!" Me (internally)- "I loving hate taking pictures and a better phone camera will not make me change my mind"
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CLAM DOWN posted:Fair, I'm a photographer and take a literal gently caress load of pics. I don't always have my dslr on me so an amazing phone camera is essential. Holy poo poo the Pixel 2 XL meets that requirement. Same. Getting the 2 has been like getting my first DSLR
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Oh god, you guys are going to drive me into spending $1000 CAD on a drat phone.
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Buy a thousand dollar phone and a three thousand dollar dslr imo
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Tsyni posted:Oh god, you guys are going to drive me into spending $1000 CAD on a drat phone. It responds to being hugged with "Hi, how can I help" which is unusual but not the worst response to a hug.
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butt dickus posted:I still use mine about the same amount, around 10 pictures per month. Yeah that's about what I take but in the decade prior to getting it I took maybe ten pictures in total so that's quite an increase for me. 
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Blue Train posted:Buy a thousand dollar phone and a three thousand dollar dslr imo Don't doxx me
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CLAM DOWN posted:Don't doxx me They didn't say 7 $1000 phones.
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One thing I really miss about the Pixel is having the unlimited storage encouraged me to use it all the time. Even for boring poo poo. Same with the super quick camera.
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cage-free egghead posted:One thing I really miss about the Pixel is having the unlimited storage encouraged me to use it all the time. Even for boring poo poo. Same with the super quick camera. There's still unlimited original quality storage for the Pixel 2. Or did you get something else
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Yo goons. I'm about to put my O.G. 128gig Pixel (not XL) up on buy/sell. Has exactly 1 year of Pixel Protect left, no claims ever been used. It's the Play Store version, not Verizon. Will update post soon. Please form an orderly line: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2755031&pagenumber=13&perpage=40#post478471927 CLAM DOWN posted:Hotsauce join me, get a Pixel 2 I did...and sold it within 48 hrs. I was one of the discerning goons who thought the blue tint was too much. Guess I use my phone at extreme angles at all times or something. \/ \/ \/ \/ hotsauce fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Nov 17, 2017 |
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hotsauce posted:Yo goons. I'm about to put my O.G. 128gig Pixel (not XL) up on buy/sell. Has exactly 1 year of Pixel Protect left, no claims ever been used. It's the Play Store version, not Verizon. Will update post soon. Hotsauce join me, get a Pixel 2
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