J Tourettes
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Yuck, Sense 3.0.
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Yuck, Sense 3.0.
JonathanEx
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I've had 2 years on the HTC Desire, so I'm alright with Sense.
It's Sense 4.0. Quite an improvement. Engadget reviews are up:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/02/htc-one-x-review/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/02/htc-one-s-review/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/02/htc-sense-4-0-review/
They got the critic on sense 3 and toned the 3d effects and other things down in sense 4.
Ah, beaten.
The Verge reported that while Sense 4 is a vast improvement, there are still some inconsistencies in areas which haven't been skinned. I still believe Sense is incredibly better than TouchWiz. I've never seen Blur and whatever Sony's skinning is called.
This whole skinning thing is undoubtedly why OS updates take so longer to roll out. Does anyone know if the Huawei phones come with some skin? It's such a shame that it's so near impossible to get stock android experience aside from the Nexii.
This whole skinning thing is undoubtedly why OS updates take so longer to roll out. Does anyone know if the Huawei phones come with some skin? It's such a shame that it's so near impossible to get stock android experience aside from the Nexii.
That's kinda where I stopped wanting one...
JonathanEx
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What's annoying me about new Sense is that although they looked at ICS and saw "oh that's how it's done" they don't appear to have properly read the design guidelines. Like, the bottom tabs here that's not what they look like with tabs.
I mean there's putting your own stamp on things and then there's annoying my OCD style guide sensibilities.
I mean there's putting your own stamp on things and then there's annoying my OCD style guide sensibilities.
when are those Huawei phones out. They look sick!!
July for the quad core
Randy Lanzarote
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It strikes me as an expensive use of screen real estate. I'm guessing it'd be cheaper for manufacturers to go for smaller screen and strip of touch buttons, as opposed to bigger screen with onscreen buttons. If nobody else jumps on the bandwagon, I won't be disappointed.
/Galaxy nexus owner
// I accidentally hit there home button when typing this message. Stupid buttons.
Edit: were in ot community now? Can we piss and moan as the sports guys did?
It strikes me as an expensive use of screen real estate. I'm guessing it'd be cheaper for manufacturers to go for smaller screen and strip of touch buttons, as opposed to bigger screen with onscreen buttons. If nobody else jumps on the bandwagon, I won't be disappointed.
/Galaxy nexus owner
// I accidentally hit there home button when typing this message. Stupid buttons.
Edit: were in ot community now? Can we piss and moan as the sports guys did?
But did you see the mess which emerged from the HTC One ICS phones?
Look at the waste for a silly menu button.
Randy Lanzarote
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But did you see the mess which emerged from the HTC One ICS phones?
Look at the waste for a silly menu button.
The silly thing is, there is already a menu button on the top right corner....
Hopefully this is a 'feature' exclusive to HTC phones, and everyone else is on top of things.
Exactly. YouTube is already ICS optimized. There no reason to have another menu button.
JonathanEx
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Wait, so the lack-of-menu-button-so-we-make one workaround, which I could just about live with if I used mainly ICS apps... but on an ICS app? Really? That's just shoddy.
Randy Lanzarote
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Flash the phone with CyanogenMod or some other AOSP ROM. It takes some technical knowledge, but I'd hardly call it impossible.
Well, I caved. My Desire battery is starting to give up the ghost, and it's painfully low on memory/storage. And since I was due an upgrade anyway, I'll take a 'free' HTC One X. Unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB data for the same price I was paying already, and they're throwing in an HTC Medialink HD, a completely unnecessary toy, as part of the deal. Could have waited to see what the SIII has to offer, but the Desire has impressed the hell out of me, and the One X looks pretty solid too, especially couple with HTC's hacker-friendly policies.
Could have waited to see what the SIII has to offer, but the Desire has impressed the hell out of me, and the One X looks pretty solid too, especially couple with HTC's hacker-friendly policies.JonathanEx
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Well, I caved. My Desire battery is starting to give up the ghost, and it's painfully low on memory/storage. And since I was due an upgrade anyway, I'll take a 'free' HTC One X. Unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB data for the same price I was paying already, and they're throwing in an HTC Medialink HD, a completely unnecessary toy, as part of the deal.
What're the contract details (operator/price etc)? Might as well keep a good match with you for another two years. My T-Mobile one is due for renewal... uh, now, so the second it comes available I'll go for it and see what I can haggle upgrade-wise.
Rather than the battery giving up the ghost here, I killed the USB port beyond repair so I use a battery charger. Not convenient but better than a non-removable battery.
He must not have seen the Xperia S or an SAMOLED+ screen.
It's the O2 1GB Data Unlimited On & On - 24 Months contract through Phones4U at £36/month and free phone. Everyone else seems to be charging a higher rate for this one - Carphone Warehouse wanted to charge an extra £5 a month, and to charge for the phone too. Called P4U and they tried to tell me it was a new contract only deal, but before I could try to persuade them otherwise they'd already told me they could do it at that rate.
Only downside compared to my old contract is that I used to be on unlimited data, which nobody really does any more. Will have to keep an eye on data usage when I'm away from home, I guess.
Oh don't worry, I've had Android since the HTC Hero, I've been doing this stuff for ages, but I can't tell everyone who sees my phone and exclaims how pretty and smooth it is that they should flash CM
even though I do tell them that
Recently got an Optimus One (P500) and promptly flash ICS on it. This is my first time using ICS. Everything works well excepted for the camera and videos which isn't properly hardware accelerated. The later issue made me try an AOSP Gingerbread rom just for fun and then a revelation came to me: ICS is goddamn beautiful and the Gingerbread interface now seems "amateurish". I can't go back ;_;
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Pentile's been a non-issue for me on my GN but that just may be because it's 720p and has a great DPI. Looks 99% as good as paper to me.
J Tourettes
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It's the O2 1GB Data Unlimited On & On - 24 Months contract through Phones4U at £36/month and free phone. Everyone else seems to be charging a higher rate for this one - Carphone Warehouse wanted to charge an extra £5 a month, and to charge for the phone too. Called P4U and they tried to tell me it was a new contract only deal, but before I could try to persuade them otherwise they'd already told me they could do it at that rate.
Only downside compared to my old contract is that I used to be on unlimited data, which nobody really does any more. Will have to keep an eye on data usage when I'm away from home, I guess.
Three does unlimited data still and at a pretty good rate too.
Nope, he's reviewed both. Sounds like it has better viewing angles than the Xperia screen and their SLCDs are more color accurate than AMOLEDs in my opinion.
Jonathan, the review mentions there's almost no difference in handling between the two phones, I'd go with the X.
Coverage is still patchy compared to other networks, though. O2 and Vodafone are bad enough at times in a lot of the places I visit. Couldn't survive on Three.
wash the board in deionized or distilled water, put in toaster oven at max operating temp (usually ~125F) for 4-6 hours.
Ephemeris
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My girl's overdue on an upgrade. After reading the reviews, I'll probably get the S, instead of waiting for T-mobile to get the X.
Then when my line comes around at the end of Sept, if T-mobile has the new Nexus, I'll cop that and give her the S.
I too am concerned about the Pentile display though.. :/
eh????? I have never heard of putting a phone in a toaster oven.
6 hours to dry wasn't enough. You should have let it dry for days. Nothing you can really do now except keep it in that rice with the battery out and all that for a while.
J Tourettes
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That is their downside. Outside of the big cities, coverage can be shocking.
Randy Lanzarote
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Friend of mine is on Three, the speeds he gets on his 4S are ridonculous. 8mbs when out and about, he posted a Speedtest from his work toilet once with 4.5mbs. Meanwhile I'm on Orange and max out at 1.8mbs, and that's best case scenario.
Needless to say, I'll be switching to Three as soon as my contract is up.
(Course outside of major cities, its probably not the best option)
Needless to say, I'll be switching to Three as soon as my contract is up.
(Course outside of major cities, its probably not the best option)
But did you see the mess which emerged from the HTC One ICS phones?
Look at the waste for a silly menu button.
thats real?
there are no facepalms big enough
Going to get it for my girl on three. Think its £38 a month for 2000 mins, 5000 texts, 5000 three to three mins and unlimited data.
The phone isn't out yet is it? I went into the 3 store today and they said Thursday or Friday?
But did you see the mess which emerged from the HTC One ICS phones?
Look at the waste for a silly menu button.
Couldn't this be fixed by putting a menu button on the hardware? I don't understand why they would take it out.
I guess the menu button is sort of obsolete with ICS, that's why.
Deprecated more than obsolete at this point, right?
cuevas. PhD.
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Menu icons on IOS suck, I don't know why they decided to go that way when they have 3 other buttons anyway.s
I've successfully resurrected a phone left in snow overnight this way and I'll be taking a crack at another here this week. As long as the phone isn't getting any power during the process it should be fine, since it's actually rated to operate at those temperatures. The distilled water is important (no messy metal ions floating around). Off course if the battery is crapped out just buy a new one, don't heat the battery.
For my fellow Nexus S (AT&T) owners who have been suffering through the long wait for ICS, the day has finally come. Download the official 4.0.4 update package here:
http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/google_crespoa/IEzMw3FU.zip
This is an upgrade from 2.3.6, so make sure you're running stock 2.3.6 GB on your Nexus S before trying to install the update. Otherwise, it won't work.
You don't need to be rooted or even have an unlocked bootloader for this package to install. Just rename the ZIP file to "update.zip," move it to your phone's SD root folder, then boot to stock Recovery and install the update.
I haven't run into any errors whatsoever so far, but you may need to reinstall certain apps to make sure they are updated to run properly with ICS. The performance is very snappy on the Nexus S, which is a relief. I immediately installed Apex Launcher and the Chrome beta after installing the update. Gotta love ICS.
http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/google_crespoa/IEzMw3FU.zip
This is an upgrade from 2.3.6, so make sure you're running stock 2.3.6 GB on your Nexus S before trying to install the update. Otherwise, it won't work.
You don't need to be rooted or even have an unlocked bootloader for this package to install. Just rename the ZIP file to "update.zip," move it to your phone's SD root folder, then boot to stock Recovery and install the update.
I haven't run into any errors whatsoever so far, but you may need to reinstall certain apps to make sure they are updated to run properly with ICS. The performance is very snappy on the Nexus S, which is a relief. I immediately installed Apex Launcher and the Chrome beta after installing the update. Gotta love ICS.
I use the menu button on my GS2 ICS all the damn time!
This doesn't sound right. The storage changes came around honeycomb 3.2 or something like that. External + Internal storage works fine on other devices running ICS (xoom, for example)
They're making it a point with ICS (and beyond) applications to have the menu button either displayed in the app as the 3 dots on the action bar or somewhere else. I'm fine with the idea because it's silly when you have to guess whether or not the app/screen you're in has extra options, but they should've went with on-screen softkeys to make it less ugly.
Why that youtube app has the menu button displayed on the bottom when there's one in the top right following the guidelines, I have no idea.
Apparently there is (or was) an option to remove the menu button from the screen and instead make a long press of the multitasking button work as menu. Not sure if it made it into final units or not.
I think we're going to see this setup become much more common now because it gets rid of the complaints people have about the way the system handles storage. It'd be nice if phones start shipping with 64GB, though.
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