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codo27 posted:I remember getting the S3 and all the iPhone people making fun of my massive phone. God why can't there be a good small sized phone I might get a Sony Xperia 5 iii or 10 iii, if that is indeed the correct jumble of letters which they have encoded their product names with. https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_10_iii-10698.php https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_5_iii-10851.php It's not exactly compact, but pocketable at least.
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bull3964 posted:Because. quote:
lol yea nobody wants a small phone anymore the current 6.1in iphone size is pretty much perfect with how thin modern bezels are. I used to think i wanted a small phone until i tried a larger one and yea, small screens can suck it
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Aug 11, 2021 22:21
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The best small phone experience is now the z flip 3, sorry goons, embrace Samsung.
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I have this Nokia not-even-android thing in a drawer somewhere and its size always tempts me back to a simpler time.
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Aug 11, 2021 22:41
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If you want a small phone get a watch with LTE.
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Aug 11, 2021 23:53
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 There was this thing from someone that licensed the Palm brand (Yes, that Palm).
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MikusR posted:If you want a small phone get a watch with LTE. I want a small watch, too! I hate the men's style of chunky watches. I had a slim Fitbit Versa, but that was still too big and I am wearing a bracelet style band instead.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:31
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Ola posted:I might get a Sony Xperia 5 iii or 10 iii, if that is indeed the correct jumble of letters which they have encoded their product names with. I commented on a Sony mobile facebook post with regards to how ridiculous their naming scheme is and a whole bunch of (presumably) fanboys jumped all over me with iTs NoT tHaT cOmPliCaTeD. Phones are all stupid and terrible anyway but they can at least come up with sensible names for them instead of everything being [x] # Pro/Max or otherwise being incomprehensible
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Aug 12, 2021 00:53
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eSporks posted:Was this the thing that was intended to be used a back up phone? IIRC, it didn't worth without being paired to a normal phone, but it also required its own sim and separate data plan. The logic was that you take this one with you on the go! while you leave your other phone somewhere else? More or less, it was basically an LTE watch but a phone. But when that didn't pan out they sold it as a standalone phone that worked without a companion phone, they tried to target it as a kids phone with that functionality. But I think it is pretty much dead at this point.
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Uthor posted:I want a small watch, too! I hate the men's style of chunky watches. I had a slim Fitbit Versa, but that was still too big and I am wearing a bracelet style band instead. wtf how small are you, the versa 3 looks fine on my 5'2 wife's tiny wrists that I can nearly wrap my hands around twice.
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Sony, for all their camera smarts, makes pretty bad smartphone cameras unfortunately.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:wtf how small are you, the versa 3 looks fine on my 5'2 wife's tiny wrists that I can nearly wrap my hands around twice. 5'9", wear medium gloves, I do have small wrists. It's not the look so much as the feel. I don't want something chunky on my arms. I may have kept the Versa if it wasn't a piece of poo poo. A lot of the stuff I wanted out of a smart watch didn't work and the stuff that did, well, Fitbit sells a smaller and cheaper bracelet that does the same thing.
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Aug 12, 2021 02:16
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Still waiting on a Google Glass-a-like that connects to your phone instead of being a stand-alone unit. Folding phones, palm phones, watches, all lame choices compared to a HUD.
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Uthor posted:5'9", wear medium gloves, I do have small wrists. It's not the look so much as the feel. I don't want something chunky on my arms. Nice. I'm currently wearing a 48mm watch that is so thick that it can go 2,000m underwater so I guess I'm bizarro you. 
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Tetrabor posted:Still waiting on a Google Glass-a-like that connects to your phone instead of being a stand-alone unit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FlvL2yLmWg Google bought this company right before the release of the second version, which was rumored to be significantly improved. I was actually planning on buying the first version but by the time they were semi-broadly available the second version was allegedly right around the corner. But Google does Google things, it's feeling like it was an acquihire with no plans on continuing development of their current product pipeline.
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Wheeee posted:lol yea nobody wants a small phone anymore Small phones for small minds In actuality it's closer to large phones for aging eyes ClassActionFursuit fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Aug 12, 2021 |
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Uthor posted:I want a small watch, too! I hate the men's style of chunky watches. I had a slim Fitbit Versa, but that was still too big and I am wearing a bracelet style band instead. You don't have to wear it on hand. Turn it into a necklace or keep in a purse (or the place a small phone would go).
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Aug 12, 2021 11:50
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Flipperwaldt posted:I have this Nokia not-even-android thing in a drawer somewhere and its size always tempts me back to a simpler time. Unironically this. Give me a cross between a smartwatch and a candybar phone and I'd be happy 
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Aug 12, 2021 11:56
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Lately Gmail has been slow to load the entire email for ones that have the "view entire message" thing at the bottom. Like ~30 seconds vs at most 5 previously. Is this happening for anyone else?
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Aug 12, 2021 12:25
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My Pixel 3a started boot looping last night and I can't even get into the recovery mode to do anything (will just reboot the second I try to do anything) Anything else I can try while I wait for the battery on this to die?
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Aug 12, 2021 18:58
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Teardown sleuthing has determined that the Pixel 6 is likely running the Samsung ISOCELL GN1 as the primary camera. It's a 1/1.31" 50mp sensor with dual pixel autofocus. That's a significant bump up from the 1/2.55" sensor in past Pixel phones. Excited to see what they can do with more light. That's SLIGHTLY larger than S21 Ultra's main sensor.
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Aug 12, 2021 19:16
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given how good pixel photos still are on their shitbox hardware i’m expecting the pixel 6 to yeet everything else on the market in that regard, and that they can now do all that processing on 4k30 video implies maybe they’ll finally lead in video too exciting times that there may be a legit good hardware android phone that isn’t a fuckin samsung soon
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I'm not sure if this is a great place to ask this, but it is somewhat Android related. I'm about to move to Europe (from Australia) and I'm trying to work out how to deal with losing the phone number I've had for decades and all the poo poo linked to it, like confirmation codes etc. At the moment I was thinking of just downgrading my plan to the lowest tier and leaving the SIM here in a spare phone with someone who'll keep it charged up, at least until I've been over there for a couple of months and maybe things are a bit clearer. Can I do that and then access everything through the Windows phone app, or something like AirDroid, or am I misunderstanding how those work (do they need to be on the same wifi network to sync or something)? Is this dumb? Is there a better way, or is there some trap I'm missing where this plan would completely fall apart? My current phone that I'll be taking and using with a new local European SIM is a Pixel 3 if that's relevant. I guess international roaming is also an option, although I'm not really sure how that works with my cheapass carrier.
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Is there number portability in Australia? If so you can port to a VOIP service and just use it remotely. Apparently Google Voice doesn't offer lines in Australia, but when I added my husband to my phone plan there was a crazy good deal for adding a new line of service or porting a line from another carrier, but he was already with the same carrier. We ended up just porting his line to Google Voice, starting a new line of service with our carrier for him and he could access all his texts and phone calls through Google Voice while he informed everyone of his new number or if some random thing/person needed to contact him through his old number.
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SebAndSeb posted:I'm not sure if this is a great place to ask this, but it is somewhat Android related. I'm about to move to Europe (from Australia) and I'm trying to work out how to deal with losing the phone number I've had for decades and all the poo poo linked to it, like confirmation codes etc. At the moment I was thinking of just downgrading my plan to the lowest tier and leaving the SIM here in a spare phone with someone who'll keep it charged up, at least until I've been over there for a couple of months and maybe things are a bit clearer. Can I do that and then access everything through the Windows phone app, or something like AirDroid, or am I misunderstanding how those work (do they need to be on the same wifi network to sync or something)? Port the number to Google Voice and then just use the Google Voice app. Google Voice, as a service, doesn’t work for Australians in that they cannot get a phone number from the service and then use it to call other Australian phone numbers, but you should be perfectly fine using your US number through Google Voice anywhere you go. You can’t forward the texts and calls to your Australian number, but having a dedicated app for US texts and confirmation codes etc etc may be useful in your use case.
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SebAndSeb posted:I'm not sure if this is a great place to ask this, but it is somewhat Android related. I'm about to move to Europe (from Australia) and I'm trying to work out how to deal with losing the phone number I've had for decades and all the poo poo linked to it, like confirmation codes etc. At the moment I was thinking of just downgrading my plan to the lowest tier and leaving the SIM here in a spare phone with someone who'll keep it charged up, at least until I've been over there for a couple of months and maybe things are a bit clearer. Can I do that and then access everything through the Windows phone app, or something like AirDroid, or am I misunderstanding how those work (do they need to be on the same wifi network to sync or something)? Isn't the Pixel 3 dual-sim capable? https://www.lifewire.com/best-dual-sim-phones-4586278
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Three Olives posted:Is there number portability in Australia? If so you can port to a VOIP service and just use it remotely. quote:Port the number to Google Voice and then just use the Google Voice app. Google Voice, as a service, doesn’t work for Australians in that they cannot get a phone number from the service and then use it to call other Australian phone numbers, but you should be perfectly fine using your US number through Google Voice anywhere you go. I'm not sure Google Voice can help me, I'm in Australia going to Europe, so there's no US number involved, and it just says it's unavailable for me. But I'll look into VOIP services in general, thanks, I don't really know what they are but it's possibly what I'm looking for. Assuming number portability just means you can transfer between carriers then that should be ok, I've done it multiple times with this number. quote:Isn't the Pixel 3 dual-sim capable? https://www.lifewire.com/best-dual-sim-phones-4586278 Didn't think about this, but it would also depend on what it costs to operate my Australian number in roaming mode. But could definitely be handy if that turns out to work ok, cheers. Thanks for the help, I may need to ask on a more Aus-centric forum, I have a vague sense that mobile phone infrastructure is set up quite differently in North America.
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I didn't really have any issues with losing my phone number in 2019, other than my PlayStation account 2FA, but that was my fault because I thought I wasn't going to play any video games being outside all the time in Australia in 2020. lol Xbox account transfer was fine because unlike Sony their support isn't complete garbage.
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I normally don't post about carrier deals, but it seems like Samsung is tossing around some SERIOUS marketing money for their new devices. T-Mobile is taking a dizzying array of phones for straight up trade for the Z-Flp 3. It's $1000 over the course of 24 bill credits, but they are taking stuff like the Pixel 4a and giving full credit as long as you are on one of the newer plans ($500 if you are on an older plan). They will even take a Pixel 2 and give $700 for it if you are on one of their newer plans. I did order a Z Fold 3 from Samsung for shits and giggles and traded in the Note 20 Ultra I had sitting around, got $850 for it (which is more than I paid for it) and got another $200 credit to put towards a Watch 4, but I'm seriously considering cashing in on this T-Mobile deal and getting rid of the 4a I have lying around (with its broken L3 Widevine) and grabbing a Z Flip 3 as well and really see what that 3rd gen of foldables are like. Once again, the conservative, phone-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!
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Aug 13, 2021 16:31
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I've noticed the last couple of days that when I swipe away a notification for a single email from Gmail, all the notifications go away a couple of seconds later. This is cool and good for someone who uses Gmail notifications as a to-do list.
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Aug 13, 2021 16:39
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Verizon is currently offering $540 for the Note 10+. If I wasn't familially entrenched in VZW, I'd consider flipping just for that.
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Heh, T-Mobile is offering a grand for that phone for either the Flip or the Fold as long as your are on the newer plans (Magenta Plus and Magenta MAXX).
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What's the $200 champion phone that has all of the radio bands? I recently switched to mint and I'm missing band 12 which makes things a little lovely sometimes when I'm in certain areas. I have a global version of the launch poco m3. Is there a new value champ in the sub $200 range for an Android phone or would I have to spend more to get the bands I need?
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bull3964 posted:I normally don't post about carrier deals, but it seems like Samsung is tossing around some SERIOUS marketing money for their new devices. T-Mobile is taking a dizzying array of phones for straight up trade for the Z-Flp 3. It's $1000 over the course of 24 bill credits, but they are taking stuff like the Pixel 4a and giving full credit as long as you are on one of the newer plans ($500 if you are on an older plan). Deals here are pretty nuts too, the biggest carrier is giving away a free Samsung 48" 4ktv with a fold purchase as well as $300 in accessories, and the second biggest is giving away the watch 4 and $300 in accessories.
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Well, found out the hard way Google wasn't syncing data properly after even more crashing forced a factory reset. Shouldn't even be happening on a new S21+ but here we are. Ah well. poo poo happens.
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gently caress it, yolo, just got the Fold 3 as well. $2000 AUD/$1,473 US including tax, Buds Pro and Samsung Care+ so I can sell it for that if I don't like it. Edit: Can get just under $1,800 for my s21 ultra and tab s7+ here too. UnfortunateSexFart fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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God speed you beautiful bastards
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Am I the only one who wants a zfold 3 so I can just pretend it's a GBA SP and flip it open and closed over and over?
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You could buy a gba SP or DS or whatever
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