Be Excellent To Each Other

Moto 360 owners! Are you happy with your purchase? Any buyers remorse? Do you find it incredibly useful or incredibly good at gathering dust on a shelf of your other techno-follies?

I'm considering getting one for jogging and listening to music and also navigation while cycling.

Yes. No. Yes. No.

We appear to have had this discussion: viewtopic.php?p=872809#p872809

Ha, so we have. Even better the second time.

I think it's superb. I would recommend it.

cheers Mali. How do you eat use yours?

Hope she fares better than I did with the Z5C. It's a lovely phone but I had to return it after 3 weeks because the bluetooth was incredibly flaky when connecting to my headphones and car, and the device had a tendency to get insanely hot while browsing the internet, which made me feel like I was reading Beex on a Pop Tart. And the camera was too slow for my liking. All of which is a shame as it's a nice form factor and a really nice device otherwise.

Incidentally that means I now have one of these in yellow cluttering up my desk , so if she's after a case, it's yours for postage.

Cheers Mr Fop, but she already has a lovely hand-knitted case that one of her friends made for her. Whilst we were in the MT shop she tried to slide a few standard sized smartphones into the case and none of them fit, whereas the Z5C went in all lovely and snuggly, I think the deal was pretty much done at that point TBH.

As for the wider issues, the reading I did suggested that the Z3C had more than its fair share of problems but these were ironed out for the Z5C, I guess time will tell. Lord knows the Z5C applied multiple massive system updates once it first got its hooks into a wireless network so maybe there have been a few fixes and improvements over the months.

Fingers crossed it's been behaving itself impeccably up to now and Mrs Hearthly is very happy with it. Takes a cracking picture too, and she likes the Sony media player thing that's on there as well.

Directions when driving, quivk replies to texts, seeing if email/facebook notificatioms worth looking at, telling the time, quock weather forecast checks.

Charge lasts about a day and a half.

Two different misspellings of quick in one post. Impressive

Keyboard is really small on s5 and i turned autocorrect off.

Fixed

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Hmmm yes this does seem to be a thing. Mrs H was fannying around on Pokemon Go for a reasonably extended period a little earlier and said to me her phone felt hot and was it OK?

She handed it over and it really was rather toasty, certainly the hottest I've ever experienced a mobile device to get. It's almost like stuffing the same high-end components that power the regular Z5 into a more compact chassis comes with some issues.....

It didn't seem to suffer any ill effects mind, but it was definitely on the wrong side of a heat level I'd be comfortable with.

Hopefully it won't melt or combust or burn the house down.

Do arm chips have thermal throttling?

I'd be surprised if they didn't, it's been a pretty standard feature of CPU technology for quite some time now.

One likes to think that Sony did some pretty decent testing on the Z5C, and as such it will hopefully do what's required in terms of throttling or suchlike to prevent it getting so hot that it inflicts injury upon itself.

As Mr Fop said in his post though, it really is on the wrong side of 'a bit too hot for comfort'.

Yes, of course. (So do the GPUs, which are an even more acute heat source.)

Close one, Mali! Surprised I got that.

28! 28! That was one hell of a turn.

You both then turned around and thrashed me. I did terribly there.

The AI hit me for 76 once

Any Nexus users received the N update yet?

Yup.

Not you, google-boy

Nope.

Nope, but at the weekend the 'torch' button seemed to have disappeared from my shortcuts (whatever you call that box that appears when you swipe down from the top twice), but is back today. That's.... exciting, right?

Perhaps it has a calculator built in to it now.

Guess what dropped this morning... The N update.

Shame it's a gig download and I'm on 2g in a Welsh campsite

I'm sure it'll be released for the Samsung Galaxy S7 before the end of the week.

LOLZ ROFFLES ETC.

M is a nicer letter than N anyway. After all, there's no such thing as 'the m word'.

Merc?

Back on WiFi.

N is amazing.

Just kidding, it's broadly the same so far. I like the app swapper.

S7 Edge in gold.

This is a smart piece of kit

The Edge screen is brilliant.

It is a lovely piece of hardware.

Stay in your lane, Apple boy.

LET ME FINISH

...rendered unusable by the spyware OS

I wasn't convinced by the Edge at all, slightly too big compared to the regular S7 (just the wrong side of being comfortable in my hand), the screen looked amazing but was fiddly to use and served no real practical purpose, and the handset got a bump in price too.

The price differential would have been fine if I actually liked the phone more, but having played with both the regular S7 won out.

The Edge is more like a lovely ornament, nicer to look at than it is to use.

I decided the looks were well worth the extra wedge.

It's a decent credo.

Whoops

Your timing is as impeccable as ever.

Nah, the normal S7 looks like a turd.

Doesn't matter anyway when they're both ticking time bombs in your pocket.

Completely wrong title to that article. It's the Note 7, not the S7.

So it is!

Admit it you're gutted. You wanted poor Mali's phone to explode in his pocket to teach him a lesson about not buying iPhones.

The stylus gives it away somewhat.

At least he didn't preorder it.

I'm not poor. I'm a distressed gentleman.

Does he charge his phones in his pocket?

No, that's just the way he walks.