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PostPosted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 13:30 
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A mate of mine had a very similar issue with her GS4 and had it back to Samsung numerous times for a repair to no avail. Eventually during all this her contract expired so she just gave up with the GS4 entirely and upgraded to a new Sony.

That fills me joy. I'll flog the fucker.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 13:32 
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The Moto G is an entirely adequate phone, I use it for work. Apart from it just randomly reboots sometimes.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Couldn't be arsed sending my phone off to HTC so took it to my network supplier. Young lad who served me was next to useless. They appear they are happy to lose business to their competitor as they did absolutely nothing to make me want to stay. Phones gonna take 4-6 weeks to fix. 4-6 weeks!

Good news is that the loaner phoner boner they gave me is the same phone albeit with a massive crack down the screen. Anyway, contract due to end soon so I'll be buying my next phone from Amazon.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 14:59 
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The Moto G is an entirely adequate phone, I use it for work. Apart from it just randomly reboots sometimes.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 15:05 
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I have the moto G dual sim phone. I quite like it.

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Why do you have the dual SIM one?!


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Why do you have the dual SIM one?!

Missus / bit on the side obv

I wish all my phones were dual SIM. Saves carrying around a separate work phone.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Why do you have the dual SIM one?!

Work and personal

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Malc wrote:
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Why do you have the dual SIM one?!

Work and personal

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Ugh, no thanks. I like to keep my personal life and work life separate.

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Future Warrior wrote:
Malc wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Why do you have the dual SIM one?!

Work and personal

Malc

Ugh, no thanks. I like to keep my personal life and work life separate.


Hence the dual-sim...


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 16:00 
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I can turn the work sim off if I need to, or I can see that the call is incoming from the work sim and ignore it. (that used to be easier, the sims were colour coded, but since I've been lollypopped the colours are the same).

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If you can turn the work SIM off then that's better, I guess.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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I am joining the fold, forgoing the windowsness and stepping into the light. Sony xperia z3 will be with me on Thursday. Fucking squeee! Gots a free chromecast too which is nice.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Voice command fail.

Say OK Google then "set alarm seventeen forty" and it knows you want to set an alarm but can't parse the time element because it bizarrely doesn't understand 24 hour clock format. Now say "set alarm five forty" and it sets the alarm properly but the confirmation voice message actually bloody says, "Setting alarm for seventeen forty." So it knows how to say it but not how to hear it!


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 21:02 
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Worked immediately in iOS. HTH

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Also worked when I tried it on my Samsung. :shrug:

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Weird, I just tried it again and it definitely doesn't work on my Nexus 6.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:33 
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Could it be an accent thing?

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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So i was thinking about having a new phone in the 200€ range, and from what i heard, the moto G is the phone to beat, but i don't like its look. The Asus Zenfone looks great, but there aren't many reviews around, and the Samsung S3 is also around those prices.

Besides that i have a work colleague that wasn't to sell me an Xperia Z1 for around 150€, but i'm not really into buying used stuff, specially for something that usually doesn't last long like smartphones.

What are your opinions of where should i spend my money?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:17 
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I like the moto G, but it is boring and vanilla. Like me


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:46 
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RuySan wrote:
So i was thinking about having a new phone in the 200€ range, and from what i heard, the moto G is the phone to beat, but i don't like its look. The Asus Zenfone looks great, but there aren't many reviews around, and the Samsung S3 is also around those prices.

Besides that i have a work colleague that wasn't to sell me an Xperia Z1 for around 150€, but i'm not really into buying used stuff, specially for something that usually doesn't last long like smartphones.

What are your opinions of where should i spend my money?


The Moto G V2 is a really solid if unspectacular phone.

I got one for Mrs Hearthly after she broke her S4 Mini (£350!) less than six months into a two year contract. (The phone was 'free' at £35 per month over two years. Yes, we get fucking gouged for phones over here.)

It's not going to win any style awards, but it uses a mostly vanilla Android (very similar to my Nexus 5), and the specs are decent, as is the 720p screen. (Anything more than that is wasted on a phone IMO.)

Also because it's Motorola (i.e Google) it gets Android updates very quickly, unlike other manufacturers who let their phones become abandonware after 18-24 months and/or take months to roll out OS updates.

Don't underestimate that vanilla Android experience, it's so much better than all the shit that other manufacturers like to stick on their phones.

Pretty crap camera would be the only real criticism, but a lot better than on the 1st Gen Moto G.

I'd recommend it if you just want a usable, solid mobile.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:48 
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Yeah, stay away from liquid mobiles.


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Waterproof, though.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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DavPaz wrote:
Yeah, stay away from liquid mobiles.


What about handsets constructed from a gas though?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Yeah, stay away from liquid mobiles.


What about handsets constructed from a gas though?

I find that concept hard to grasp.


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What about handsets constructed from a gas though?


I believe you can get them freon a 12 month contract.


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What about handsets constructed from a gas though?


I believe you can get them freon a 12 month contract.

Bravo, sir.

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DavPaz wrote:
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Yeah, stay away from liquid mobiles.


What about handsets constructed from a gas though?

I find that concept hard to grasp.

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Anyone who, like me, was slightly annoyed by the removal of the refresh button from the nav bar in the phone version of Chrome might be pleased to know that the most recent update has added a 'pull down to refresh' feature that's very useful.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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If google is backing up the photos from my phone, can I delete them all?

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If google is backing up the photos from my phone, can I delete them all?

From your phone? Yes. But check they've backed up first.

And back them up to your computer also.


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If google is backing up the photos from my phone, can I delete them all?

From your phone? Yes. But check they've backed up first.

And back them up to your computer also.


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Last year's auto-hoffsome April fools thing was brilliant, where it backed up a photo then stuck a photobombing Hoff in it. I then saved the photo to my phone, where of course it backed up the photo and immediately stuck another Hoff in it....

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If I delete a photo from my tablet using the Photos app it warns me that it'll be deleted from all location when I do it so I'd be wary here.


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The Nexus Player is out in the UK now

http://www.google.co.uk/nexus/player/

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Want. Can't justify the expense.


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Gaywood has something like that. It's pretty good.

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Wow, that looks..... Pointless.


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Wow, that looks..... Pointless.

Why? It's basically Chromecast +. If you have a lot of Google stuff (or a plex server) then it's ideal.


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Not really, a Roku will do more for cheaper, so will the Amazon Fire Stick.
The Nexus Player is missing a lot of apps apparently. No iplayer, no spotify, etc... I'm sure they will come in time, but other options already have them.


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DavPaz wrote:
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Wow, that looks..... Pointless.

Why? It's basically Chromecast +. If you have a lot of Google stuff (or a plex server) then it's ideal.


I've never seen any of these little box things come close to the functionality of a cheap media centre PC.

I mean, our bedroom 'media centre PC' is just Mrs Hearthly's old laptop connected to a big telly via HDMI, and comes with all the functionality of a full Windows PC. (And the kitchen 'media centre PC' is an ancient Samsung laptop with a monitor sat on top of it and a wireless keyboard and mouse. IIRC that laptop must be six years old or more now.)


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It's £80 and you use a remote. Like a TV.

A laptop isn't £80 and doesn't have a remote. It isn't like a TV.

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I mean, our bedroom 'media centre PC' is just Mrs Hearthly's old laptop connected to a big telly via HDMI, and comes with all the functionality of a full Windows PC. (And the kitchen 'media centre PC' is an ancient Samsung laptop with a monitor sat on top of it and a wireless keyboard and mouse. IIRC that laptop must be six years old or more now.)


Seriously? Did any of your 'comparison' machines cost anything like £80?

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Right? I've got a £30 dongle stuck in the back of my TV. It plays stuff off my media server, Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, and a massive amount of other things. What exactly am I missing that would justify buying even a 'cheap' laptop instead?

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I mean, our bedroom 'media centre PC' is just Mrs Hearthly's old laptop connected to a big telly via HDMI, and comes with all the functionality of a full Windows PC. (And the kitchen 'media centre PC' is an ancient Samsung laptop with a monitor sat on top of it and a wireless keyboard and mouse. IIRC that laptop must be six years old or more now.)


Seriously? Did any of your 'comparison' machines cost anything like £80?

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Well they were basically free, since they were just reprovisioned old machines that would have gone to the tip otherwise.


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Right? I've got a £30 dongle stuck in the back of my TV. It plays stuff off my media server, Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, and a massive amount of other things. What exactly am I missing that would justify buying even a 'cheap' laptop instead?

What are you missing that would require you to buy the Nexus player?

Also, hearthly, that is not free.


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I'm not, so I wouldn't. But saying the nexus player is pointless because it's not a £300+ laptop is a ludicrous comparison.

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I'm looking at getting one to *replace* a (an?) HTPC, amusingly. The PC that I've got can't do hardware accelleration on HTML5 or flash video. Which is shit.

My plan was: powered USB hub into an OTG cable, into the micro USB. My wireless keyboard/mouse will go into that with a USB IR receiver so I can use the Logitech Harmony remote. As long as I can get a RDC app, it'll be perfect.


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