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a topic so non-controversial that this forum basically stopped talking about it when the old android thread got closed
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I had a nokia 770 it was pretty sweet to use while traveling and had no purpose the other 50 weeks of the year
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Apr 10, 2017 00:28
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Endless Mike posted:lol using a samsung on sprint that's a spec sheet shopper if I've ever heard one
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May 9, 2017 01:33
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I'm curious how "wild" became the official descriptor for the fuscia interface because it looks pretty normal to me, one might even call it... mild? 
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May 9, 2017 17:39
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Condiv posted:yeah someone said fuschia is on par with maybe something that would be released 40 years ago. also dart is gonna be the new language. cause it's java that's to blame for anroid being such poo poo, not google being unable to write a worthwhile userland after years of anroid existing not saying you're wrong but has anybody ever deployed an actually good user-facing java system?
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May 10, 2017 18:44
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Cocoa Crispies posted:early mac os x days had supported java bindings for cocoa so it's entirely possible that there were some sufficiently-concealed java apps that worked and nobody knew about oh I know that works I mean where the whole stack is java, e: not webos qirex fucked around with this message at 19:06 on May 10, 2017 |
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May 10, 2017 18:59
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Endless Mike posted:it's really depressing knowing this guy can't do anything without having a screen in his face blaring animes he's a bellweather for dying technologies: hd-dvd owner plasma owner windows phone owner surface owner now complaining about how 3d tvs are going away he's an ok guy he just has a habit for picking exactly the wrong technology
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Jun 1, 2017 02:36
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remember that phone that was so bad it started dozens of fires and had to be pulled from the market? it's back!quote:Samsung plans to release a “fandom” edition of the Galaxy Note 7 that is ostensibly safer to use. The company was hit hard by around 3 million recalls of the Note 7 last October after multiple phones caught fire due to defective batteries that were prone to overheating. Samsung ended production on the device and began a months-long quest to get the device out of users’ hands as it worked out refunds and tried to repair its image.
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Jun 28, 2017 16:04
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Essential, the smartphone maker from Android co-founder Andy Rubin, is staying mum on whether its titular gadget has been delayed. News organizations began pinging the company last week when it was clear Essential missed its 30-day shipping deadline set by Rubin himself at the Code Conference in late May. The company has not appeared to respond to any of these requests, including The Verge’s, leaving pre-order buyers and other interested parties in the dark on the fate of the Android-powered handset.
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Jul 10, 2017 23:42
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carry on then posted:reminds me of all the bottom barrel windows shitboxes that came with free trials of norton and office and loving zone alarm I worked for zone labs 2005ish and I think the average payment to get presintalled was like $3 million for lenovo up to $15 million for dell and that was for a single product line
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Jul 17, 2017 18:50
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But in practice, using Bixby Voice to do things on your phone is not any faster or easier than just tapping the touchscreen the old fashioned way. It takes so long for Bixby Voice to launch (whether I press and hold the Bixby button to activate listening mode or use the “Hi Bixby” wake command) and hear what I’m saying that I could have performed the task three times by the time it has processed what I said and performed my action. Further, there are many times when I ask Bixby to do something and it either doesn’t understand me or just doesn’t do what I expect it to. Just this morning I asked Bixby to “take a screenshot and share it to Twitter.” It got the screenshot part right, but then it attempted to share the image in a private DM conversation instead of a public tweet. I had to start the process all over again in order to do what I could have done manually the first time. Basically, after weeks of using Bixby Voice, I still can’t trust that it will do what I want it to. That means that I won’t use it and will continue to use my phone the same way I always have. Trust will be even more important when Samsung brings Bixby to other appliances — the last thing I need is to ask my washing machine to wash delicates and have it instead set itself to high spin and hot water modes.
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Jul 19, 2017 17:29
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I bought a pair of those headphones, they're awful plus the first pair I got wouldn't hold a charge so I took my replacement pair and sold them on amazon marketplace instead of even trying them out
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Aug 5, 2017 15:37
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Silver Alicorn posted:imageine if iPhone made phones out of luxury materials like hardwood, marble, ivory lol yeah because vertu is doing awesome quote:In its most recent financial report in 2014, the company made a loss of £53 million on sales of £110 million.
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Aug 21, 2017 22:03
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that's a hell of an act what do you call it? android!
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Aug 30, 2017 19:52
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maybe nobody who was there 5 years ago is still on the team?
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Sep 7, 2017 19:38
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surely htc's problems aren't major marketplace softness and overall structural problems with their business, they just aren't googley enough
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Sep 7, 2017 19:46
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sony v6 or v7506 are probably the "good" headphone you should try first before inevitably falling down the internet rabbit hole and ending up at $1500 chinese electrostatics that need a special amp
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Sep 18, 2017 16:15
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love it when companies copy even apple's bad decisionsquote:The Pixelbook will reportedly come in only one color, silver, and have three different storage tiers: 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. Those will sell for $1,199, $1,399, and $1,749 — at which point you could have easily bought five cheaper Chromebooks instead. One particular oddity: despite the high price, the Pixelbook apparently won’t ship with its stylus, called the Pixelbook Pen, which is supposed to sell for an additional $99.
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Sep 19, 2017 21:51
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lol sprint exclusive
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Sep 27, 2017 17:49
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once microsoft's blank check for buying studios and exclusives dried up all they're left with is their same basic microsofty manchild trash like halo and gears except all those manchildren are 35 now
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Sep 28, 2017 17:36
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Endless Mike posted:to the surprise of absolutely no one, oneplus has been phoning home. it's almost like these tiny pocket computers cost actual money to build
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Oct 10, 2017 16:18
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if we just make a good enough android we can totally charge iphone prices for it it'll be a money printing machine! - like 5 different oems now
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Oct 23, 2017 03:39
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i just received my fourth LG-made Nexus 5X via warranty replacement. i think I'm going to try and replace this new one too because it rattles when i shake it does it have optical image stabilization? that might be on purpose
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Oct 24, 2017 20:40
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I was just trying to be polite
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Oct 24, 2017 20:58
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it was dumb because bluetooth/wifi and awkward form factor but those clip on cameras sony made had some minor merit to them, you could get one with a 1" sensor and stabilized F1.8 lens
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Oct 27, 2017 18:33
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quote:Criticism about the Pixel 2 XL's pOLED display arose shortly after the review units went out, with complaints including reports of dull colors, graininess, a strong blue tint when viewed at an angle and, in some cases, reports of display burn-in. Google's VP of Product Management Mario Queiroz addressed two of those issues, the burn-in and vividness, in a post on Google's forums. 2. there is actually no burn-in/image retention problem 3. We're extending the warranty [but don't count on using it for "differential aging" replacement]
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Oct 30, 2017 18:40
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that said samsung makes sure the display in every device they make is super oversaturated, this is why they pioneered super glossy screened flat panels that are actually bad if they're anywhere near a window
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Oct 30, 2017 18:54
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EL BROMANCE posted:I like the honking noise chip readers in the US make when your purchase is approved, that makes it sound like your purchase wasn’t approved. I bet you they tested a less annoying noise but people kept leaving their cards
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Dec 13, 2017 20:09
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:It floundered and died years ago until apple decided to do it google had two or three nfc systems that had a few thousand users max one other thing about apple pay was it was relatively easy for banks to implement, last place I worked I knew a guy on the team that did it and they got it set up in under a year [which for a big bank is a miracle]
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Dec 13, 2017 21:50
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chip is too slow, so sabotaging my card and having to wait for it to fail 3 times and take the card in and out so I can eventually swipe is a totally feasible solution
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Dec 14, 2017 16:50
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lol at anyone who doesn't think that's been the endgame for these things from the beginning
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Jan 3, 2018 20:24
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The Management posted:google doesn’t have that. they can make marginal money by having you pay for music, but in general they’re doomed to try pushing ads into it and then watch the backlash happen.
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Jan 3, 2018 21:05
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Endless Mike posted:so basically it's faster to just use my phone anyway
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Jan 4, 2018 00:53
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Silver Alicorn posted:palmos would still be around too no, they would have figured out a way to go out of business no matter what
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Jan 18, 2018 18:31
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Blue Train posted:Hoarding shoes, eventually to be killed by an avalanche of such. rip #lifegoals
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Feb 8, 2018 09:11
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indexing my songs into a single searchable database ruins my ~*music listening experience*~
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Feb 10, 2018 17:28
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essential reaching for those coveted microsoft kin numbers in phone sales https://mobile.twitter.com/fjeronimo/status/963054359000113152
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Feb 12, 2018 19:53
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the only reliable way to make money on mobile devices is selling premium currency in games, all other markets are loss leaders and even IAP is pretty saturated
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Feb 12, 2018 20:03
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I guess this is why tim was so mad the iphone faceplate leakedquote:The freshly announced Android P has “display cutout support,” aka notch support. Developers will be able to test how their full-screen apps work with notches through the tools Google is releasing today. This is good and useful because a few of these notch iterations have looked horrible, mainly because the software wasn’t built to consider these cutouts.
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Endless Mike posted:here's some of that quality tech "journalism" we all love: there's a typo in the url as well "laid bear"
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