"I'm updating my Marshmallow" surely can't be said with a straight face? WTF is "Marshmallow" anyway (aside from the obvious )

and why is a mere update - for a phone - 400MB?

You're such a Google apologist.

So's your face.

Oh, and:



Yeah, that happened.

To cut a long story short, I've updated my play music sub to use my Google play credit as the payment method, stupidly thinking it would use whatever was in there and make up the shortfall with one of the many other payment methods attached to my account. Apparently, this isn't the case and not enough credit = no payment.

My only option at the moment is to get them to try and take the payment again from my play credit, but as there doesn't appear to be a way to top that up other than a physical card, I still don't have enough credit.

I've changed the default payment method for the sub to my credit card, but when they automatically try the payment again later tonight, will they take it from the credit card or will they still try to take it from my play credit? Anyone know?

Anyone know how to block an incoming number in the Marshmallow dialler? All the instructions I can find online must be for older versions because I'm not getting the option at the point they think I should.

So that's why you're not answering

I didn't realise you'd moved to Jersey.

Anyone know how to block an incoming number in the Marshmallow dialler? All the instructions I can find online must be for older versions because I'm not getting the option at the point they think I should.

There doesn't seem to be a built-in way. There will be apps that do it, but that's not exactly perfect

Well, shit. I wonder why in the hell they'd remove that feature? It seems like it would be useful and relatively trivial to implement.

Well, shit. I wonder why in the hell they'd remove that feature? It seems like it would be useful and relatively trivial to implement.

Anyone know how to block an incoming number in the Marshmallow dialler? All the instructions I can find online must be for older versions because I'm not getting the option at the point they think I should.

Progress!

They'll be removing wireless charging next.

Of course they won't - we've all bought wireless chargers.

Any (popular) phone with a removable battery can be fitted with a wireless charge system.

If you turn everything apart from voice/text off in a modern phone, and just use it for the odd call or text, then it will easily go a week I find.

At this rate we'll almost have mobile phones with battery life as impressive as we had in 1999....Admittedly you could only play Snake on it, and it only held about 40 text messages before you had to start deleting some.

Hey what if those two statements were related somehow?

The 5110 had a 600 mAhr Li-Po or a 900 mAhr "slim line" Li-Ion battery, compared to the 1800-3500 mAhr batteries found in modern smart phones. It's not like there's a conspiracy to make them not last as long. They just do a fuckton more stuff, and also, battery chemistry has barely advanced since the 5110 days because physical sciences don't follow Moore's law.

This is a bit like complaining that you get better fuel economy out of a car than a helicopter. I mean, you do, but it's not like those two things are equally capable.

do wonder though if they'd invested as much time in battery technology as they had in cramming a 2560x1440 display into a fucking phone, if we'd have mobiles by now that didn't effectively brick themselves every 24 hours if you don't plug them into something.