Cras wrote:
I carry a kindle in my pocket, so the size wouldn't bother me.
Craster, yesterday
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
The Note 3 fits in my jeans pocket without a problem, I thought it would be too big, but it's not an issue at all. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
It's shocking how quickly you adjust to the size increase. |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
DavPaz wrote: It's shocking how quickly you adjust to the size increase. Is what your ex-girlfriend said. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
I carry a kindle in my pocket, so the size wouldn't bother me. |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Cras wrote: I carry a kindle in my pocket, so the size wouldn't bother me. Craster, yesterday |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 15:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
The man in the 02 will sell me an S5 for £32.60 a month with unlimited calls and texts and 2 gig data. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 15:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
That's no good, then. Is there anything you can do to get it under £30? |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 15:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
I'd really recommend going with Three if you have the option. The customer service is awful, but the actual service itself is pretty good. "Free" 4G, overseas calls and data coming out of your inclusive minutes etc... |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 16:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Grim... wrote: That's no good, then. Is there anything you can do to get it under £30? I could get an S4 or an s4mini |
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| Author: | Zio [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 16:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Another recommendation for Three here. I switched to them from O2 about 18 months ago and have never regretted it for one second. I'm on The One Plan, which is £36 per month, but gives me something crazy like 5,000 minutes, 5,000 texts, unlimited data and unlimited tethering, including on 4G. My girlfriend-or-whatever-the-hell-she-is has no internet at hers, so we tether my laptop off my Nexus 5 and watch Netflix via it with no issues at all. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 16:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
I will look at three. Ta. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 16:49 ] |
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MaliA wrote: Grim... wrote: That's no good, then. Is there anything you can do to get it under £30? I could get an S4 or an s4mini Don't get an S4 Mini, it's a piece of shit (comparatively). |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 16:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Noted, thanks. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 21:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mobi ... tomer.html Samsung S5 for free on EE £30 a month 1000 minutes Unlimited texts 1GB data |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 22:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
EE LOL |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
If you want a summary of the I/O event, Mat Honan has a pretty good one here. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: If you want a summary of the I/O event, Mat Honan has a pretty good one here. Quote: This announcement was interrupted by a protestor, who chanted “wake the fuck up,” and repeatedly claimed “you’re all working for a totalitarian company that builds robots that kill people.” So that's why myp is missing the BBQ. For my part I was disappointed that the rumours of a new >7" tablet announcement came to naught, but that was always a bit of a long shot. Also, I hope announcing the new OS version as just 'Android L' isn't the end of them dumping a new food-based statue on the lawn of the Googleplex every time as I always thought that was a nice touch. Also also, I wonder if Android One is the same thing as the rumoured Android Silver or if that's still to come at some point. I'm hoping the latter as Silver sounded like an excellent idea that would create more Google Play Experience type phones without all the bullshit custom UIs and fucking bloatware. |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
C'MON SHEEPLE |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
"But what about lock screens? Well, there’s a new feature called personal unlocking that looks at signals like location, Bluetooth, and even voiceprint to authenticate a user. It lets you unlock the phone just by swiping, so you don’t have to unlock the phone with a pin code in certain situations. If it can’t see, say, your Bluetooth watch, it will prompt for a PIN." That's nice, as if I needed another reason to get a Moto 360 though 
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
So when you mug someone for a phone, make sure to take their watch too. But, as my Google insider* says, the alternative seems to be that people don't lock their phone at all. * 
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| Author: | Trooper [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Indeed. But I expect the type of person who would take a watch as well as a phone, and know that they were both linked, and want access to the contents of the phone rather than just to flog down the pub, is also the type of person who would get me to tell them my pin when they mugged me... |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Trooper wrote: Indeed. But I expect the type of person who would take a watch as well as a phone, and know that they were both linked, and want access to the contents of the phone rather than just to flog down the pub, is also the type of person who would get me to tell them my pin when they mugged me... No. no. No. They take the phone so you can't immediately call for help. More often than not, they are dumped around the first corner. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
There you go then, even more reason that it isn't an issue. 
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| Author: | Bamba [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 10:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
MaliA wrote: Trooper wrote: Indeed. But I expect the type of person who would take a watch as well as a phone, and know that they were both linked, and want access to the contents of the phone rather than just to flog down the pub, is also the type of person who would get me to tell them my pin when they mugged me... No. no. No. They take the phone so you can't immediately call for help. More often than not, they are dumped around the first corner. Have you got a source for this? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Bamba wrote: MaliA wrote: Trooper wrote: Indeed. But I expect the type of person who would take a watch as well as a phone, and know that they were both linked, and want access to the contents of the phone rather than just to flog down the pub, is also the type of person who would get me to tell them my pin when they mugged me... No. no. No. They take the phone so you can't immediately call for help. More often than not, they are dumped around the first corner. Have you got a source for this? Knuckles McGee. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
MaliA wrote: Bamba wrote: MaliA wrote: Trooper wrote: Indeed. But I expect the type of person who would take a watch as well as a phone, and know that they were both linked, and want access to the contents of the phone rather than just to flog down the pub, is also the type of person who would get me to tell them my pin when they mugged me... No. no. No. They take the phone so you can't immediately call for help. More often than not, they are dumped around the first corner. Have you got a source for this? No, I made it up. Thanks for clarifying. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
I either read it somewhere, or it came up in conversation. It'd make some form of sense, though. |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
MaliA wrote: Someone else made it up and I'm just quoting it as fact. Thanks for clarifying. |
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Won't they be locked when nicked? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
American Nervoso wrote: MaliA wrote: Someone else made it up and I'm just quoting it as fact. Thanks for clarifying. <shrugs> If something comes up in conversation and it seems reasonable, I'm quite happy to take it that way. If Bamba wants to treat life as an examination paper or be spoonfed information without putting any form of thinking into it*, then that's all good. And I wouldn't take 100% of everything I say as compeltely serious. *Mug someone for wallet and phone to get some extra legging it time. Get cash, check phone and make a choice if it is worth selling on or not, most of the time probably not, discard phone as too much hassle for the reward, keep cash. Taking the phone stops the police being called immediately. Seems a reasonable course of events if Iwere to be in the business of mugging. I could have read it or the policeman I was out with the other month could have mentioned it. it's not consequwential information for me, so I don't store it in its entirety. |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
MaliA wrote: I wouldn't take 100% of everything I say as compeltely serious. O RLY? 
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| Author: | Trooper [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
American Nervoso wrote: MaliA wrote: I wouldn't take 100% of everything I say as compeltely serious. O RLY? Is Malia being serious about not taking him seriously? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:45 ] |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
MaliA wrote: If Bamba wants to treat life as an examination paper or be spoonfed information without putting any form of thinking into it Oh piss off. You were very firm with your assertion and so, when I couldn't find anything to back it up, I asked you about it; is that not reasonable? Trying to turn this round on me just because myp's now calling you out on it's a real dick move. |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
American Nervoso wrote: MaliA wrote: I wouldn't take 100% of everything I say as compeltely serious. O RLY? *Bins stockpile of red shirts* 
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:47 ] |
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markg wrote: American Nervoso wrote: MaliA wrote: I wouldn't take 100% of everything I say as compeltely serious. O RLY? *Bins stockpile of red shirts*
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| Author: | Bobbyaro [ Thu Jul 17, 2014 18:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
The Amazon free app of the day is a space bulk esque game. Not plagued it yet, but it looks quite good. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Fucksticks. The touchscreen on my phone seems to have developed a weird deadspot within which it only sometimes registers touches. I found this out when an icon got placed there by default and I couldn't move or delete the fucking thing. I had to end up using a large widget to nudge it out of the deadspot so I could get hold of it which was exactly as ridiculous a process as it sounds. I had hoped it was just a weird issue with the Apex launcher but I uninstalled that and got the same behaviour with both the GEL and Sense launchers so it looks like a hardware problem right enough. Is it really bad that my very first thought was, "Ooh! I could buy a new phone with a better camera!" Having to replace a phone I bought 8 months ago isn't very good but seriously HTC, your cameras are shite; I need to take practically every shot in HDR mode otherwise it looks like ass. 'Ultrapixels' my arse. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Could you not turn the phone upside down to move the icon? |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Grim... wrote: Could you not turn the phone upside down to move the icon? No, the 'desktop' doesn't revolve; does it do that on your phone? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
It does if I turn the appropriate launcher setting on. I don't though, because that's odd. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Grim... wrote: It does if I turn the appropriate launcher setting on. I don't though, because that's odd. Well, yeah, I suppose I could've dug through Apex's setting to look for such an option; I'll bear that in mind if it happens again. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Is the phone not under warranty any more? |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Grim... wrote: Is the phone not under warranty any more? I did a bit of poking around since posting that and yeah, HTCs warranty is actually two years so it should be. Thankfully I bought it from Amazon though so I might try them first as I know they're pretty good with this kind of stuff. I'm a little bit worried they'll tell me to fuck off when the see it because there's a small dent on the front and one on the back from drops so they could blame the touchscreen issues on that but we'll see. The idea of reverting back to my shitty backup phone while this gets looked at fills me with horror which means I'll put if it off longer than I should... |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Bamba wrote: I had hoped it was just a weird issue with the Apex launcher but I uninstalled that and got the same behaviour with both the GEL and Sense launchers so it looks like a hardware problem right enough. Why would you test this by switching launchers and not simply using any other app on your phone? |
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 13:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Fire up a drawing app or something, that should give you a pretty clear idea of what's going on with the touchscreen. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 13:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Bamba wrote: I had hoped it was just a weird issue with the Apex launcher but I uninstalled that and got the same behaviour with both the GEL and Sense launchers so it looks like a hardware problem right enough. Why would you test this by switching launchers and not simply using any other app on your phone? Because not every other app on the phone has a reactive UI object in the affected area. And because I wanted to completely rule out the fact that Apex wasn't sitting in the background fucking stuff up, given that the launcher is always active. It took about a minute and a half to whip it off, do a test, then stick it back on again and restore all the settings/desktop object from an SD card backup so it's not like it was a lengthy process. markg wrote: Fire up a drawing app or something, that should give you a pretty clear idea of what's going on with the touchscreen. I actually don't have anything like that on the phone, what I did to though is fire up the HTC test app and run the 'screen drawing test' which showed a massive strip across the middle of the screen that rarely reacted. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Aug 15, 2014 12:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
Hivemind! 3 have a deal that is 600 minutes of calls, unlimited texts and data for £35 a month with an S5 and no upfront cost. Vodaphonce are offering me unlimited minutes, texts and 1Gig data for about the same with an S5 and no upfront. how much is a gig? I will probably use data when I am out and about but not a ggreat deal, but the 250 meg I have at the moment doesn't seem to last a very long time. What should I do??? I've decided i want an S5 and more data ut I don't know how much data! I use twitter, facebook, g+ and beex and want to send mobile pictures to MrsA. |
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| Author: | markg [ Fri Aug 15, 2014 13:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Google Android |
If I were you I would probably have some idea from knowing how long it takes me to use up the 250MB. Just saying, like. |
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| Author: | markg [ Fri Aug 15, 2014 13:03 ] |
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But if it helps I have 500MB and usually only use it all if I've fucked up and absent-mindedly done things I'd normally do at home on wifi, like downloaded a few albums on Spotify or some apps or something. |
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