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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Thinking of doing this (upgrading from a Pixel 2 to Pixel 3a XL). Is there any gotcha I should be aware of with the XL models? I just want the bigger screen and battery. Biggest difference will be the screen size. Anyone else pick up a 3a? What case are you using? Wish Diztronic made new cases, really liked theirs with the Pixel 2  got a Spigen Rugged Armor and would prefer a smaller matte black TPU case.
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EdEddnEddy posted:Ok so with the new gestures, did they remove the super useful one time rotation that came up when you rotated your phone, but didn't want to disable rotation lock? Why add such an amazing simple feature we have needed since forever, only to remove it again. Ugh Hopefully not, I really like that.
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https://www.androidcentral.com/pixel-3a-doesnt-support-rcs-t-mobile None of T-Mobile's Pixels support RCS messaging.
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Goggle: "We're going to continue supporting RCS instead of making an iMessage competitor because..."
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quote:RCS works on the Pixel 3a if you use it on another carrier, such as Sprint or Verizon, so it's rather peculiar that T-Mobile is choosing to omit the feature.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:In layman's terms, what goes into making RCS work on a particular phone/carrier and why would some carriers do it for a phone and some not/a carrier do it for some phones and not others? Carrier stupidity. That's it. (T-Mobile wants people to pay whatever/month for "Digits" which is iMessage with a pricetag and only works with other Digits subscribers)
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May 10, 2019 02:20
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poo poo, Samsung Messages supports RCS, and yet Verizon's site says only the Pixel3 and 3XL support it, not any of the Samsung devices.
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May 10, 2019 02:21
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RCS is a really stupid, and I have no idea how google thought it was a replacement for hangouts instead of being something complementary
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Celexi posted:RCS is a really stupid, and I have no idea how google thought it was a replacement for hangouts instead of being something complementary Probably because Google uses it to placate carriers and law enforcement, which coincidentally are the only factions that also support RCS.
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May 10, 2019 02:38
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RCS is just "what if SMS/MMS weren't total poo poo" and I think that has some value even though everyone should be using encrypted services
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Celexi posted:RCS is a really stupid, and I have no idea how google thought it was a replacement for hangouts instead of being something complementary google thinks everything is a replacement for hangouts
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May 10, 2019 04:18
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And yet hangouts still works fine? WTF is going to happen with it? Does google even know?
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May 10, 2019 15:11
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CLAM DOWN posted:That was accomplished with normal 60hz (I'm assuming?) screens. They're still buttery smooth with that. It's not possible to be even more smooth, there's like a smoothness ceiling and more hz just seems stupid battery wasting smartphone dick waving. This isn't like the audiophile "I SWEAR I can hear the imaginary bits in 24/192 audio." There isn't a "smoothness ceiling" and I bet a phone with a 120Hz (or even the 90 that OnePlus is claiming is coming) would probably look pretty sharp. There are literally a hundred things you can make the placebo argument for and this is the dumbest one because refresh rate has a tangible impact on viewing, especially w/r/t cinematic content which is continuing to shift towards mobile devices
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May 10, 2019 15:50
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Am I the only one who never really liked using hangouts for sms? I tried it and switched back to a regular sms app a few days later.
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I used it for a long time, but it wasn't a smooth experience (lots of "jumping" as images would load) and it would take a while to open. Switched back to Messages eventually.
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May 10, 2019 16:26
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Me: Man, the Pixel isn't available for Jump On Demand customers at T-Mobile. Also me: I'll get an S10e since it's supposed to be really good and Samsung supposedly stopped being poo poo. Me as well: *keeps bringing down the notification shade with my thumb on accident because I have giant hands and didn't realize everyone's complaint about the power button being too high would cause the opposite problem for me* (Device isn't poo poo so far, just lol that I keep activating this feature a lot of people claimed was difficult to use due to positioning)
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May 10, 2019 16:49
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Pixel 3a XL turned up yesterday. So far seems like a solid side-grade for my old P1XL that will continue getting updates for 3 years, and doesn't have a knackered battery. Would recommend for people that want up-to-date stock(ish) android, a headphone jack and don't care about performance or tiny bezels.
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redeyes posted:And yet hangouts still works fine? WTF is going to happen with it? Does google even know?
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couldcareless posted:Am I the only one who never really liked using hangouts for sms? I tried it and switched back to a regular sms app a few days later. I switched about the time messages for web came out, because that was the only reason I was sticking with Hangouts. Hangouts interacted poorly with app integration; I couldn't always be sure that an app I wanted to send SMS messages would use it.
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Tiny Tubesteak Tom posted:This isn't like the audiophile "I SWEAR I can hear the imaginary bits in 24/192 audio." There isn't a "smoothness ceiling" and I bet a phone with a 120Hz (or even the 90 that OnePlus is claiming is coming) would probably look pretty sharp. There are literally a hundred things you can make the placebo argument for and this is the dumbest one because refresh rate has a tangible impact on viewing, especially w/r/t cinematic content which is continuing to shift towards mobile devices Not only was this chain of discussion over and you're an idiot for bringing it back up, I'm also not "arguing". Calm the gently caress down and consider what you're posting prior to clicking that button.
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The cool thing about biology is that things can differ between individuals within a species. Some people have a lower threshold for seeing differences in refresh rates. Some people stop around 60, others 120 to 165, some can notice it up into the 200s. Not being able to perceive a higher refresh rate doesn't make someone wrong, it simply means they can't perceive it, or it's not sufficiently different enough for them to notice the difference.
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Branch Nvidian posted:The cool thing about biology is that things can differ between individuals within a species. Some people have a lower threshold for seeing differences in refresh rates. Some people stop around 60, others 120 to 165, some can notice it up into the 200s. Not being able to perceive a higher refresh rate doesn't make someone wrong, it simply means they can't perceive it, or it's not sufficiently different enough for them to notice the difference. I believe you, but why is it ok to say this about refresh rates, but mentioning audio quality gets you mocked? What's the difference?
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Alan_Shore posted:I believe you, but why is it ok to say this about refresh rates, but mentioning audio quality gets you mocked? What's the difference? Exactly! Also, I have some speaker wire that has been rubbed with special audio dirt. $1000/ft, interested? real response: the audiophile community is so poisoned by scammers that it's not worth discussing.
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Alan_Shore posted:I believe you, but why is it ok to say this about refresh rates, but mentioning audio quality gets you mocked? What's the difference? Because audiophiles are up their own assholes about high quality audio to the point where it's a joke. I believe that at higher encode rates and less compression people can in fact hear more detail, however, it's the circle jerking about the gear used to listen to it and codecs that cause them to be mocked. Also, like with screen refresh rates, there is a point of diminishing returns, which audiophiles seem to not acknowledge.
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Alan_Shore posted:I believe you, but why is it ok to say this about refresh rates, but mentioning audio quality gets you mocked? What's the difference? They don't have quantifiable numbers for "wider soundstage", "warmer sound", "directionality", etc. The industry uses qualitative claims with absolutely no standard for measuring or detecting them. Refresh rate is much more binary; you have a number of frames the display is rendering per second. You either notice it or you don't compared to a different rate of refresh. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 19:51 on May 10, 2019 |
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Audiophile Deathmatch: Monster Cables vs. a Coat Hanger
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That is a classic. Thanks And yeah I can see a difference up to maybe 120-140hz. Haven't really tried anything higher than that since the old CRT days. redeyes fucked around with this message at 21:47 on May 10, 2019 |
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Branch Nvidian posted:Because audiophiles are up their own assholes about high quality audio to the point where it's a joke. I believe that at higher encode rates and less compression people can in fact hear more detail, however, it's the circle jerking about the gear used to listen to it and codecs that cause them to be mocked. Also, like with screen refresh rates, there is a point of diminishing returns, which audiophiles seem to not acknowledge. I like my Sony MDR-V6 cans because they're still very standard in audio production and I like to pretend that means that I'm hearing what the people mixing the music did. Despite, y'know, the fact that the audio source is usually a medium-bitrate .aac file that's being processed through... whatever DSP chip my phone has and then is passed through a USB-C->3.5" adapter.  I had (still have, actually) an LG V20 and for all its claims of audiophile-level quad DSP the only thing I ever noticed was it was slightly louder than any other phone I've owned. Which is something quantifiable, at least.
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asecondduck posted:I like my Sony MDR-V6 cans  Thinking of getting a pair of 7506's next; the jack is starting to get staticy.
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I used a pair of Sennheiser HD-280 Pros for years. I actually still have them, but the headband pad came off. I have a set of Audio-Technica ATH-M50xRDs now, and they're pretty sweet. Plus my Note 9 still has a headphone jack  I was thinking about getting a pair of Galaxy Buds to use when I'm on the road (I travel ~3 days per week for work) so my M50xs don't get banged up in my backpack. Any thoughts on them?
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couldcareless posted:Am I the only one who never really liked using hangouts for sms? I tried it and switched back to a regular sms app a few days later. I switched to Messenger for SMS stuff but still use Hangouts for my old Google chat stuff. The issues I had with SMS in Hangouts were cosmetic in nature and easily fixable but someone at Google needed a promo so we got Allo instead
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Annath posted:I was thinking about getting a pair of Galaxy Buds to use when I'm on the road (I travel ~3 days per week for work) so my M50xs don't get banged up in my backpack. For bluetooth earbuds they are pretty good. They are better and cheaper than Apple Airpods. People really like the fit of the earbuds and often praise how comfortable they are. They last around 5-6 hours and the case carries an extra 7 hours of charge. People say the audio quality is pretty good and the Galaxy Wearables app works very well. There are a few problems though. The only low latency codec it has is Samsung proprietary, so non-Samsung phones will get AAC encoded bluetooth and higher latencies. Not much of a problem if you are only going to use them for music. Also, the microphone sucks so they aren't very good for making calls with. Quiet rooms are fine, but noisy rooms or being outside can result in issues. I've also hear some people say that it has range issues with the Pixel 3, but that's probably the typical Pixel bluetooth issues.
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Nalin posted:For bluetooth earbuds they are pretty good. They are better and cheaper than Apple Airpods. People really like the fit of the earbuds and often praise how comfortable they are. They last around 5-6 hours and the case carries an extra 7 hours of charge. People say the audio quality is pretty good and the Galaxy Wearables app works very well. I had so many problems with my PixelXL's Bluetooth, that was a major reason I couldn't ditched it in favor of the Note 9. It sounds like the Note would play nicely with the Galaxy Buds though.
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I've been using the Zolo Liberty+ earbuds for the past year and a bit and still strongly recommend them, if you're looking for wireless earbuds.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I've been using the Zolo Liberty+ earbuds for the past year and a bit and still strongly recommend them, if you're looking for wireless earbuds. Same, plus they recently updated them to have a longer battery life and quicker charges. mystes posted:Didn't they announce that consumer hangouts is deprecated and they're probably eventually going to kill it? No they said that it's deprecated and they're definitely going to kill it.
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LastInLine posted:No they said that it's deprecated and they're definitely going to kill it. They also said that both Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet will be available for non-G Suite users as well. quote:In March 2017, we announced plans to evolve classic Hangouts to focus on two experiences that help bring teams together: Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Both Chat and Meet are available today for G Suite customers and will be made available for consumer users, too. We have not announced an official timeline for transitioning users from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet. We are fully committed to supporting classic Hangouts users until everyone is successfully migrated to Chat and Meet. https://9to5google.com/2018/12/01/hangouts-chat-meet-consumers/
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Is the Google Play Music backup thing for your own music getting the heave-hoe? I use it as cloud backup for my music on the main PC but if it's getting stiffed I need to look at alternative backup options.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Is the Google Play Music backup thing for your own music getting the heave-hoe? I use it as cloud backup for my music on the main PC but if it's getting stiffed I need to look at alternative backup options. Google's been silent on that question so I'd have to assume it's going to vanish. I mean, they haven't definitively said it will stay and it's the best thing about Play Music so you have to assume if they weren't going to gently caress you over they'd say so.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I've been using the Zolo Liberty+ earbuds for the past year and a bit and still strongly recommend them, if you're looking for wireless earbuds. I cross shopped those with the Jabra Elite 65t and ened up with the Jabra. I am very happy with them. Might be another one to look at.
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