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isndl posted:Is it just me or did Google force Translate to always sit in the notification tray for Tap To Translate in the newest update? Just posted about it in the apps thread. Edit: all I see is hiding the icon and minimizing the notification. Can't make it go away.
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Oct 6, 2018 03:36
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:The only Android UI I've had trouble with was LG's skin, and even then it only took me a couple of minutes to realize there wasn't an app drawer and then it was smooth sailing. Literally the first thing I did after I got my V20 and saw that lovely stretch animation when I scrolled to the edge was download an alternate launcher. LG made some other minor changes to the UI but I actually really like most of them--the settings app is tabenated, the way it's set up and organized is actually really well done. These days of course I'm running with a modified version of Pixel Launcher that has the Pixel's Weather app and Now Feed on the left hacked in and the ability to hide apps (why the gently caress is there dedicated Device Unlock and Tether apps anyway?) and I couldn't be happier.
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Oct 6, 2018 03:49
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Yay or nay on the Pixel 1 XL 128GB for $150 while waiting for the Pixel 3? Yeah the 3 drops next week but I'm not wanting to grab it immediately and the Nexus 6 kind of needs a replacement since it can't take pictures anymore and it gets really, really hot. Ex said the screen has been replaced but works the same and there's no marks as it's been in a case.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Yay or nay on the Pixel 1 XL 128GB for $150 while waiting for the Pixel 3? Yeah the 3 drops next week but I'm not wanting to grab it immediately and the Nexus 6 kind of needs a replacement since it can't take pictures anymore and it gets really, really hot. Sure, why not? Should be able to sell the Nexus 6 for a good chunk of that price, and can always sell the Pixel XL if/when you buy the 3.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:12
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Probably the best you can get for $150 if it really has no issues and you absolutely need a phone now. That latest Hong Kong leak confirms something else via the retail packaging. Pixel boxes always have the tagline "Designed by Google, Made in x" . The P2 XL says "Made in Korea" since it's built by LG. The normal P2 would say "Made in Taiwan" since it's made by HTC. The P3 XL retail box says "Designed by Google, Made in China" which pretty much confirms Foxconn as the manufacturer as previously speculated. Also, I don't think we have to worry about the display for either of the models (both likely made by LG). LG's new generation plants are online as they've been tapped for iPhone screens. Also, a few of the reviews of the v40 have mentioned noted improvement over last years v30. From The Verge: quote:Like the Samsung, this screen is an OLED panel, so it has rich colors, deep blacks, and excellent viewing angles. It’s noticeably better than the V30’s OLED screen, and I don’t have any complaints with it. No, it's still not going to be able to top Samsung's flagship displays that Samsung puts in their own devices, but the differences are ones that are likely only going to show up in benchmarks (600 nits of brightness vs 570, 220% of the sRGB colorspace compared to 160%). I think we can assume that the P3 models are going to have similar screens to the v40.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:25
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Also did I hear 3750mah battery in that Hong Kong leak video? That's hefty, if true.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:28
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Keep in mind that it's still only basing that on software running on the phone which may or may not be accurate.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:33
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bull3964 posted:Keep in mind that it's still only basing that on software running on the phone which may or may not be accurate. Ahh, I thought it was printed on the box he had. Fair.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:33
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So the Pixel 3 will be available Oct 9th after the announcement. Any idea how long it'd be until it physically arrives?
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Oct 6, 2018 18:53
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The Merkinman posted:So the Pixel 3 will be available Oct 9th after the announcement. Any idea how long it'd be until it physically arrives? Depends where in the world you are.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:57
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The Merkinman posted:So the Pixel 3 will be available Oct 9th after the announcement. Any idea how long it'd be until it physically arrives? Pixel 2 was announced Oct 4th and available Oct 19th. Pixel 1 was also announced Oct 4th available Oct 20th. Pixel 3 will probably be available Oct 29th or so. https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/9lsxco/more_leaks_price/ Prices have leaked due to Canadian carriers jumping the gun and sending out upgrade offers. In CAD: Pixel 3 64gb - $999 Pixel 3 128gb - $1129 Pixel 3XL 64gb - $1129 Pixel 3XL 128gb - $1259 Which puts US prices at: Pixel 3 64gb - $771 Pixel 3 128gb - $871 Pixel 3XL 64gb - $871 Pixel 3XL 128gb - $971 Probably bumped up or down a little
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Oct 6, 2018 19:02
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OhFunny posted:Pixel 2 was announced Oct 4th and available Oct 19th. Pixel 1 was also announced Oct 4th available Oct 20th. Pixel 3 will probably be available Oct 29th or so. This depends on where in the world you are. Are you referring to US dates?
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CLAM DOWN posted:This depends on where in the world you are. Are you referring to US dates? Yes.
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Oh it'll be available for pre-order on the 9th, I see. Well hopefully living in NYC will give me an advantage in getting it relatively soon after availability. The case for my Nexus 5 is disintegrating, let alone still using a ~5 year old phone itself.
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Oct 6, 2018 19:09
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OhFunny posted:Pixel 2 was announced Oct 4th and available Oct 19th. Pixel 1 was also announced Oct 4th available Oct 20th. Pixel 3 will probably be available Oct 29th or so. My mind just boggles at spending laptop money on a phone. I really don't understand why there isn't a $200-300 pixel phone to compete with other midrange Android phones. Maybe the OEMs are pressuring Google to stay out of their market.
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Oct 6, 2018 20:36
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mod sassinator posted:I really don't understand why there isn't a $200-300 pixel phone to compete with other midrange Android phones. This is the exact purpose of the Android One program.
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Oct 6, 2018 20:45
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mod sassinator posted:My mind just boggles at spending laptop money on a phone. I really don't understand why there isn't a $200-300 pixel phone to compete with other midrange Android phones. Maybe the OEMs are pressuring Google to stay out of their market. A phone is a device you use almost every minute of every day. It's not unreasonable to spend a lot on it.
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Oct 6, 2018 21:02
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nimper posted:This is the exact purpose of the Android One program. Yeah and they're all pretty poo poo devices in the $200-300 range unfortunately. I'd love to find something otherwise but in the US there's nothing good in Android One.
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Oct 6, 2018 21:11
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Jerk McJerkface posted:A phone is a device you use almost every minute of every day. It's not unreasonable to spend a lot on it. That's my desktop and laptop you just described, not my phone. My phone is an emergency computing device when one of those two is not available to me.
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Oct 6, 2018 21:20
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Kerning Chameleon posted:That's my desktop and laptop you just described, not my phone. My phone is an emergency computing device when one of those two is not available to me. Fact is, desktop usage has been dropping in recent years while mobile usage has been going up. And younger people are less likely to own a desktop than older people.
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Oct 6, 2018 21:30
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mod sassinator posted:Yeah and they're all pretty poo poo devices in the $200-300 range unfortunately. I'd love to find something otherwise but in the US there's nothing good in Android One. What, exactly, are you expecting Google to do in that space that Nokia has not.
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Oct 6, 2018 21:30
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bull3964 posted:What, exactly, are you expecting Google to do in that space that Nokia has not. Check out all the midrangers in China... these things are $200-300 and completely blow away anything in Android One and the US: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVJ5yuUCk8wCD57ZG3xh1vNddiLDBwvAb Stuff like the Pocophone have a snapdragon 845 (that's flagship level CPU), tons of RAM, great screens, good cameras, etc. for a third of the price of a $1000 phone. I'm expecting Google to offer something similar. And this isn't just Xiaomi having some secret sauce--there are dozens of China midrangers with great processors, screens, cameras, etc.
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Oct 6, 2018 21:45
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Aren't those the phones that can't play HD video
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Oct 6, 2018 21:47
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Do your research before believing whatever FUD you read. Some of the cheap ones don't support security level 1 and Netflix's app won't do HD. But if you actually take time to look at the reviews and specs you'll see ones (some even in the Android One program but not sold in the US) have full support for security level 1. They even support stuff like Google's Treble and such which a lot of phones in the US don't even support.
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Oct 6, 2018 21:50
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Where exactly are you getting this? This post on the official forums says supporting Widevine L1 is being "investigated": https://en.miui.com/thread-3935216-1-1.html
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Check out Huawei's phones, like the Honor Note 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riv_oykNsfk&t=671s If you really for some reason need HD for just Netflix on the tiny phone screen then there are options. Personally I'll save the $600+ and get a Xiaomi phone... if it's an option. But this is all avoiding the issue.. there's no reason why these phones shouldn't be available in the USA--a ~$300 phone with good specs, Android One, etc. Not the $300 crap that's years old we get today.
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Kerning Chameleon posted:That's my desktop and laptop you just described, not my phone. My phone is an emergency computing device when one of those two is not available to me. Fine but recognize you're in a rapidly plummeting minority. A phone is the primary computing device for a lot of people now, and we're completely willing to pay those prices for a good one.
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Nah, sorry $1k+ flagship buyers are absolutely the minority. 99% of Android phones are cheap ones sold to billions of people around the world. Now of course those $1k+ phones are where the biggest profits are to be made so we're sold a bill of goods that we need to buy them, but the fact is there are fantastic $200-300 phones with much better performance and specs than more expensive phones. Just not in the US, because... well I don't know why.
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mod sassinator posted:Nah, sorry $1k+ flagship buyers are absolutely the minority. 99% of Android phones are cheap ones sold to billions of people around the world. Now of course those $1k+ phones are where the biggest profits are to be made so we're sold a bill of goods that we need to buy them, but the fact is there are fantastic $200-300 phones with much better performance and specs than more expensive phones. Just not in the US, because... well I don't know why. I think you're misunderstanding me. I was pointing out the shift from desktop to mobile computing
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The Merkinman posted:So the Pixel 3 will be available Oct 9th after the announcement. Any idea how long it'd be until it physically arrives? Well if you are in Hong Kong you can buy one right now! https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/06/store-hong-kong-already-selling-pixel-3-xl/
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CLAM DOWN posted:I think you're misunderstanding me. I was pointing out the shift from desktop to mobile computing I'm not, and I don't dispute that. But I do dispute that you need a $1k phone to replace your desktop/laptop computing. A $200-300 phone can do just great there. My frustration is that Google, et. al. aren't offering anything.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Fine but recognize you're in a rapidly plummeting minority. A phone is the primary computing device for a lot of people now, and we're completely willing to pay those prices for a good one. Fine, but if your gonna pay desktop/laptop prices for a phone, you should at least get desktop/laptop support window for that phone even if it isn't an Apple. $1000+ for a 2-3 year device life, tops, is absolutely absurd to me. Hell, I stuck a SSD and Windows 10 on a 10-year-old Dell desktop and it still works fine for standards user usage.
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Even if you want to say phones are the new laptop/desktop, the latter are supported for far more than the relatively paltry 3 years you get with a Pixel. So it's not fair to say they should cost the same when they are being obsoleted as a much higher rate.
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This may be old news at this point, can't keep track of all the leaks. https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/google-pixel-slate/ Looks like a new Chrome OS tablet.
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mod sassinator posted:I'm not, and I don't dispute that. But I do dispute that you need a $1k phone to replace your desktop/laptop computing. A $200-300 phone can do just great there. My frustration is that Google, et. al. aren't offering anything. I didn't say you did need that. I, and obviously others, are perfectly willing to pay it.
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Kerning Chameleon posted:Fine, but if your gonna pay desktop/laptop prices for a phone, you should at least get desktop/laptop support window for that phone even if it isn't an Apple. $1000+ for a 2-3 year device life, tops, is absolutely absurd to me. i think this is a fair point and one i didn't really think about when buying a p2xl outright. hopefully i'm not lusting after some new device in 2019 because it'd be good to get 3 years out of this phone if it holds up
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Pocophone F1 is a market anomaly since it's currently only available in India. We'll see if that $300 price holds as they ramp up production and go to other markets. There are also reports that when this device is used in it's home region, India, there are ads littered throughout, so it also could very well be a subsidized situation. We'll see how this thing is when they start doing it globally. As far as something like the Honor Note 10, I just don't find it that compelling because again, I'm not convinced corners haven't been cut. For example, I have have a Mediapad M5 with a Kirin 960 that benches very well. But it can't run Hulu without dropping frames while my ancient Nexus 7 with a Snapdragon Pro in it can.
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I'm definitely willing to pay for the pixel 3 when it comes out. But if the Essential drops down on sale to as low as it was a couple months ago I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
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bull3964 posted:Pocophone F1 is a market anomaly since it's currently only available in India. We'll see if that $300 price holds as they ramp up production and go to other markets. There are also reports that when this device is used in it's home region, India, there are ads littered throughout, so it also could very well be a subsidized situation. We'll see how this thing is when they start doing it globally. Yeah but have you seen the specsheet
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