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Because I'm super cautious and careful, not to mention lazy and skint, I have only just set up android pay on my phone. It's awesome. And paying for you Tesco meal deal with a casual flick of your phone makes all surrounding panties damp and other men cower in inferiority.

Probably. It felt like that anyway.

We pay for things with our watches now

The new Pixel phone is priced the same as an iPhone 7

I wonder if Apple can sue for infringement of business model?

I'd imagine they're too busy laughing.

What, "selling things for money?" I think there's some prior art.

Google fanboy lulz

Everyone I work with thinks I'm an Apple fanboy, so...

Those are people I imagine wearing Google underwear though.

You can be both. You have a beard.

I imagine a lot of people in their underwear.

Feeling lucky?

Actually -- kidding aside, now -- not at all. We spend literally our entire working lives identifying and fixing the broken stuff, right? So we have exactly zero fanboyish illusions about how perfect everything is.

Oh good as googlephotos appears to ve broken on my phone

They would help but they're all too busy bouncing around on space hoppers and playing table football and not wearing proper shirts and ties.

I love the colour options for the new Pixel phone

https://madeby.google.com/phone/?pageId ... 8995912175

Very Black
Quite Silver
Really Blue

You can't get the Really Blue one in the UK, which is clearly the best one

Apparently you will be able to one day, though.

Feex

A BATTERY THAT LASTS ALL DAY.

Amazing. What times we live in.

Nokia 3310. A battery that lasts two weeks. *





* Yes I know, don't even start.

Does the 3310 have wireless charging?

I've got a phone at home that doesn't even need a battery, never goes flat. So much for so-called 'progress'.

It has the same wireless charging functionality as Google's new £600 Pixel phone does.

In the customise case section of the new pixel phone website https://madeby.google.com/intl/en_uk/phone/

You can see the block of flats I grew up in! (Granted you can see about 1/4 million other peoples houses too) but woo!

If you like that you're gonna love maps.google.com

I quite often load it up and browse to the various places I used to live/work/went to school and so on. so ner!

In Google maps I want to plan a route leaving tomorrow morning. Is this possible? I need to now how long it will take. Ta

Yep. When you plan your route, there's a bit at the top that says what time it's planned for - you can change it there.

It says "leave now" with a dropdown.

Is there a way to make Google photo assistant deliberately make a panorama photo?

Am I being thick?

I don't think you can do it in car mode.

Yep, public transport only. I guess it has no idea what the traffic will be like.

Didn't realise this was the android thread, works in car mode on the PC (which may not be useful) but may be an alternative.

It should. Stupid Google.

Don't think so - I can see 'create new alblum/collage/animation/movie' but nothing for panorama. Maybe they don't trust people not to try and stitch wildly different pictures together.

Not much help after the event, but you could've take a panorama with the camera. Or, afterwards, I suppose you download a photo stitching app of some sort.

Can I pay for stuff using my moto360 watch with android pay?

No.

Ta

The usually reliable and excellent Google Now screen, has become distinctly erratic over the last few weeks.

For absolutely no reason I can possibly fathom it's decided that I'm really interested in American Football, specifically any matches that the Dallas Cowboys are playing in.

It's started putting recent news about them at the top of my Google Now feed, offered me video links, and has now even started blipping notifications at me about games that are in progress. (The Cleveland Browns are up 3:0 against the Dallas Cowboys right now!)

I aggressively swipe away/clear anything and fucking everything that it foists upon me relating to them, but they just keep coming back. It's getting quite annoying.

Now, I log into my Google account on every device I use, so that's main PC, media centre PC, kitchen PC, smartphone, Shield tablet, Chromebook, and occasional use of upstairs media centre PC - but never, ever, have I shown any interest whatsoever in the Dallas Cowboys on any of those devices, or read anything about them, or any other tangentially related activity I can think of.

I have wondered if it's some strange porn thing it's got a handle on somehow but I don't like cowboys in that way and besides which that's what Firefox in Private Window mode is for.

I've checked the customise options and there are no entries for sport in there, nor have there ever been. It does have a history on some things I've told it to fuck off about, like 'Interested in cricket?' to which the answer was of course 'NO'.

OH MY GOD EVEN AS I TYPE THIS POST IT'S COME BACK AGAIN.

Maybe it's my destiny to play for the Dallas Cowboys, or something.

Gaywoooooooooooooooooooood!

For the Cowboys, Everett Gay would have done better had he not been a receiver in a rush orientated team.

Shush you.

The algorithm is never wrong. You like American football now. HTH HAND.

All the news I wanted to see this morning about the Dallas Cowboys. Thanks Google!

That the Browns lost is not news. Honestly, you'd think you weren't a fan of American fireball