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I've been looking for a new phone for a while (s6 currently) and the Essential looks good. How long will it get updates for?
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IMJack posted:The vibration in my moto x4 is hosed. Can I get something like a bluetooth silent ring/alarm device or am I stuck replacing the phone? Mi band 2.
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Google Butt posted:I've been looking for a new phone for a while (s6 currently) and the Essential looks good. How long will it get updates for? The company is dead in the water but has been delivering timely updates, roll the dice.
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nimper posted:6P camera is not Pixel 2 level but it's actually pretty good. I meant how is the Essential Phone's camera compared to the Nexus 6P's. I have a 6P, but dust from work has gotten in between the camera lens and glass top and has ruined any photos I want to take.
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Aug 17, 2018 04:42
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the cases for the essential are straight up rear end drat
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Essential Phone Case, OEAGO Essential... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077T1YKTL?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf That's the one I got and it's very slim, has good texturing on grippy bits and doesn't moosh the nice action on volume buttons to much. If I was a betting man I'd say the Pie upgrade is probably the last point release this device sees but it'll continue to get security patches and intermittent updates to the camera app. Heck I got one down the pipe yesterday which is cool. It boils down to the relative level of "my gripe with what I have is X" and your budget to address that level of gripe within the constraints of the hypothetical device. MC Hawking fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Aug 17, 2018 05:09
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Synnr posted:Does anyone know how the hell you get to the apps... Drawer? Or whatever it's called in Android 9? I updated this morning and loving hate it already. I feel like my father right now. Swipe up twice.
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Aug 17, 2018 05:21
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OhFunny posted:I meant how is the Essential Phone's camera compared to the Nexus 6P's. I used to have a 6P and now I have an Essential phone. PH-1 photos are noticeably worse in low light, but you can get some decent shots in the right conditions.
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Android in 2018 is straight on disappointing with the number of compromises you have to make with each phone.
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Ragingsheep posted:Android in 2018 is straight on disappointing with the number of compromises you have to make with each phone. Pixel 2 ftw
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sourdough posted:Pixel 2 ftw Dated design and the specter of hardware issues that seems to be plaguing all Google released devices.
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I got the essential, fingers crossed that the poo poo's good.
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Not a big surprise but the Moto G5 series will not be updated to Android 9: https://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-android-pie-update-895384/
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My phone(honor 8) got updated to 8.0 and I am sorta weirded out. I'd like some hints from the experts. 2. Huawei added their set of bullshit apps which have authority to add apks, is there a master toggle (like it used to on 7.0) to disable all third party sources or do i have to disable it on every app in the settings menu? 3. Battery graph is all hosed up, showing 7+ hours while the charge percentage goes down by a digit per minute, ampere seems to provide the same bullshit data. Which is the best app i can use to get a valid estimate? 4. The firmware supports Treble, I take that future firmware will still require intervention from huawei/honor to provide me with 8.1 and any future updates? Thanks! SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Incessant Excess posted:Not a big surprise but the Moto G5 series will not be updated to Android 9: I'm still waiting for Oreo on my G5.
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IMJack posted:The vibration in my moto x4 is hosed. Can I get something like a bluetooth silent ring/alarm device or am I stuck replacing the phone? elmer chud posted:Mi band 2.
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sourdough posted:Pixel 2 ftw if I say headphone jack will I get probated
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Can I stop my Nokia from making the loudest noise in the world when I turn it on
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rapeface posted:if I say headphone jack will I get probated I was going to say it. I'm still pissed at having to use Bluetooth like every other day.
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Amppelix posted:Can I stop my Nokia from making the loudest noise in the world when I turn it on
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That really the only way? ugh.
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Amppelix posted:Can I stop my Nokia from making the loudest noise in the world when I turn it on You could not turn it off? Other than that, probably not. Motorola's boot noise is so obnoxious they added a toggle to disable it but I don't know if Nokia did as well. Maybe have the volume turned all the down prior to turning it off?
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Amppelix posted:That really the only way? ugh. (though perhaps they see respecting silence DnD as doing this already, who knows)
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SlowBloke posted:4. The firmware supports Treble, I take that future firmware will still require intervention from huawei/honor to provide me with 8.1 and any future updates? What Treble does is make it easier, in theory, to update phones. Heavily customized Android forks still require for the OEM to develop, test, and deploy the updates, which can't even begin to happen until Android releases their final version. If you're looking for quick updates to Google's version of Android your choices are still the Pixel and maybe Android One (some people would say Essential as well, but Motorola released their Kitkat update really quickly as well and we all know how every other update from them has worked out). For OEMs with heavily customized versions of Android the main benefit of Treble would be the ease of developing their update between hardware variants such as Samsung's Snapdragon and Exynos Galaxy versions. The effect on their release schedule should be minimal.
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Speaking of hardware issues or just lag in general, is it normal to have some operations randomly take 5-10 seconds, like unlocking the phone or double tapping the power button to open the camera? I always figured it was normal but I'm now starting to question it. Edit: power button, not camera ILikeVoltron fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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No, that shouldn't happen.
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ILikeVoltron posted:Speaking of hardware issues or just lag in general, is it normal to have some operations randomly take 5-10 seconds, like unlocking the phone or double tapping the power button to open the camera? I always figured it was normal but I'm now starting to question it. Maybe you need more RAM? 
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ILikeVoltron posted:Speaking of hardware issues or just lag in general, is it normal to have some operations randomly take 5-10 seconds, like unlocking the phone or double tapping the power button to open the camera? I always figured it was normal but I'm now starting to question it. Lag (when present) should be a couple of seconds, where its usually one, for example. And usually with a reason. If it randomly takes literally 5-10 seconds that's an issue somewhere.
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https://9to5google.com/2018/08/16/google-pixel-3-xl-leak-public-notch/ "With the Pixel 3, we were really setting out to top apple in *screen to bezel ratio" *specifically iphone 4, and to have an even worse screen-bezel ratio 
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codo27 posted:https://9to5google.com/2018/08/16/google-pixel-3-xl-leak-public-notch/ Please, explain how this is better than just a normal bezel up top. Please, I'm begging you. Anyone.
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Hell of a deep cut.
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It's also just a random-rear end photo of a suspected P3XL "in the wild" which have very rarely turned out to be the case.
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codo27 posted:https://9to5google.com/2018/08/16/google-pixel-3-xl-leak-public-notch/ Maybe they're trying to use that notch for some sort of split-screen feature.
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In all reality though, it's just like the V10/20 extra screen, but on both sides of the earpiece. Really notches aren't really taking away from the screen, but they ruin the flow of the screens we are used to of being clean rectangles even if we are gaining some top ends to put notification bits that don't really need to eat normal screen real estate for. Though I agree they are still ugly and I hate apple for normalizing this crap. The Mi Mix did it right and hopefully this notch thing is only a phase. I don't see a real need to upgrade from my 2XL anytime soon short of maybe an RMA in another year or so for something like the battery or speaker rattle.
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There's also a big difference between the Pixel notch and what the latest chinaphones are doing: Oppo R17, the likely base for the next Oneplus phone I hope the reason Google decided to go with the enormous notch on the 3 XL is because of an improved face unlock feature, something to rival Apple's face ID.
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Why would you even want face unlock. A ton of bigass sensors and a much slower unlock process compared to your fingerprint, which is super fast and reliable.
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That oppo looks immeasurably better than the pixel.
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Taffer posted:Why would you even want face unlock. A ton of bigass sensors and a much slower unlock process compared to your fingerprint, which is super fast and reliable. I've not tried face ID myself but I was under the assumption that it was pretty snappy and reliable?
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EdEddnEddy posted:...Really notches aren't really taking away from the screen...
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Taffer posted:Why would you even want face unlock. A ton of bigass sensors and a much slower unlock process compared to your fingerprint, which is super fast and reliable. Because apple does it. At this point just assume the new features list on pixels are a copy paste of last year's iphone
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