Spiritreaver
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AMAZING. And now the phone is flawless, thanks. I love you.
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Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
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Just use Nova or try out the Google Experience Launcher that is free and works with all devices now
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I love swype.
Also man wireless charging seemed kinda useless at first but it's kinda cool. I still can't see any benefit to it though other than you don't have to plug your phone up which is a minor inconvenience at best. Still, good to use if you have it.
Also man wireless charging seemed kinda useless at first but it's kinda cool. I still can't see any benefit to it though other than you don't have to plug your phone up which is a minor inconvenience at best. Still, good to use if you have it.
not for me, so far swype has been the best predicting when i was typing, swiftkey, not so much
Unknown Soldier
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"I hate my screen so much that I want to waste it on displaying fucking buttons instead of content"
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Not as deep as he thinks
For swiping, I agree. I can't stand flow on SwiftKey so I disable it. I've mentioned in this thread before, but over time Swype just seems to lag for me. It's fine as first, but then there's just way too much delay in key presses. If it didn't have that problem for me, I'd use it more because I actually like the keyboard.
i haven't had those issues, maybe because i don't use their online sync option, i always skip that when installing the app. I've read about those lag issues, but never happened , crosses fingers
Jazzy Network
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Would someone be so kind to tell me what it's like to be able to use your phone for more than 10 minutes without seeing your battery running way?
What's your daily driver? A N5?
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
He has a N4.
Marty Chinn
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This is the worst direction of Android phones. Why do you like wasting screen space?
Unknown Soldier
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Would someone be so kind to tell me what it's like to be able to use your phone for more than 10 minutes without seeing your battery running way?
I never have that problem with my Note II. Nearly 2 years now of all day battery life using it continuously to surf the web and run apps.
Using the navigation murders the battery though.
BoboBrazil
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What is the benefit of wasting screen space on buttons and what makes them so great compared to capacitive hardware buttons? I don't get it.
longdi
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That is correct! fucking hate software keys, when i surf Neogaf on my Z2, the top 5% is taken by Android status bar, the next 10% is taken by Chrome address bar, and the bottom 10% is the Android menu bar, which makes the viewing area slightly larger than my old S2! And that is with a 5.2" screen. It practically makes <5" phones undesirable.
Imo the best of both worlds is what LG does by letting you hide the Android menu bar.
I hope Google steals CM's software feature from CM11S. Force OEMs to use both software and hardware buttons. Give the consumer the choice between the two. We need to hear both sides. One hand hardware buttons is some 2011 shit. On the other hand, software buttons waste screen space. What about a buttonless design that uses gestures?
*drops the mic*
*drops the mic*
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Bullshit cause when you scroll on Chrome the bar hides. That's the fucking purpose of immersive mode.
Unknown Soldier
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Gestures have their own issues, Google tested a gesture command wheel in AOSP Android browser but it never made it into Chrome because it was not very effective compared to just having buttons.
soundahfekz
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This. M7 did it right. M8 fucked up with software keys
Unknown Soldier
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This is what Chrome looks like on my Note II.
#TeamButtons
#HardwareButtonsMasterRace
Edit: wtf Dropbox, fuck this I'll fix it later
Jazzy Network
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Lol no. M7 had no menu button. It fucked up. You could have at least said the One X.
You could just make it the swipe up or hold down on Home button or just change the HTC logo into the menu button. I rarely ever use the menu button nowadays anyway.
Bob Dobalina
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I wish manufacturers would go back to disappearing softkeys on the bezel like some HTC models. All of the benefits for exterior design with none of the viewable content compromises.
It doesn't really seem that L is going to do anything new with the status bar even with the introduction of material design. God help us all if we have to deal with a Google button like those androidpolice rumors from a while back.
It doesn't really seem that L is going to do anything new with the status bar even with the introduction of material design. God help us all if we have to deal with a Google button like those androidpolice rumors from a while back.
longdi
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Speaking of gestures, google fucked one of chrome best feature, swipe L/R anyway to switch tabs. Now we are forced to hold our 5" phones in a most awkward manner to switch tabs via the address bar. They should have at least an option to choose whether to use the top or bottom part of chrome to swipe. Google getting more evil by the day.
Someone sent me an email recently.
I can't get into details but apparently samsung has some awesome new screen coming soon. Sharp Aquos is gonna look like an antique.
It's not quite hologram tech, but it might as well be.
Samsung is on the forefront of display tech, I'm usually one to shit on them but wow, from the tech videos I saw. It's gonna change how we interact with technology. Not just phones or computers.
I can't get into details but apparently samsung has some awesome new screen coming soon. Sharp Aquos is gonna look like an antique.
It's not quite hologram tech, but it might as well be.
Samsung is on the forefront of display tech, I'm usually one to shit on them but wow, from the tech videos I saw. It's gonna change how we interact with technology. Not just phones or computers.
Marty Chinn
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Yep. The M8 has a "bigger" screen, but all you did was made the phone bigger and yet have the same relative screen size since the software buttons kill any advantage in a bigger screen size that you got. It's now just a bigger version of the M7.
but would I have to use it with TouchWiz?
Probably, it was mostly about hardware, I'm sure samsung will fuck it up.
Honestly this is more HTC being stupid. What they should have done was remove the stupid black bar that was reduced to only housing the HTC logo. Remove that and you have a much more compact phone.
Immersive mode + transparent nav buttons = pretty much fullscreen without having to deal with hardware buttons.
Have you tried Google Keyboard? I actually switched to it a few weeks ago and I'm like its swiping/prediction even more than Swiftkey.
This is what Chrome looks like on my Note II.
#TeamButtons
#HardwareButtonsMasterRace
Edit: wtf Dropbox, fuck this I'll fix it later
This is what happens when you forsake the software buttons god. He smites your cloud storage.
#Teamsoftbutts
#Thatsoundskinky
#◁ ◯ □
#CapacitiveSucks
Unknown Soldier
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It's actually because Dropbox deprecated the old Public folder and the Dropbox mobile app doesn't understand what to do with my legacy Public folder.
Software buttons are bad and people who like them should feel bad.
funkystudent
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Hey. If I wanted a tablet for video watching on a long travel trip and can not wait for the new Nexus Tablet is the 2013 Nexus 7 still the best option or is there something else?
dat steve jobs grave stomp
SolidSnakeUS
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We need the Moto event to come faster lol.
Eanan
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watch out or you might cut yourself on that edge
Jazzy Network
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My OPO can last the full day now but just barely. Why is it so shitty?
Unknown Soldier
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Well we all know you hate usability on phones. A smartphone with a dead battery isn't very useful is it?
Marty Chinn
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Ya, HTC is being stupid here, but to be fair, the guy used the M8 as an example of why it's awesome. I have yet to see anyone other than maybe Sharp lose enough bezel to show a reason for getting rid of hardware buttons. In almost every case, there's plenty of bezel on the phone to fit hardware buttons and all you do is lose screen space as a result. I've yet to see one good reason to have them. In theory they can be dynamic, but that's not ever really the case to keep a consistent interface.
At least I don't feel like personally attacking every single person by coming up with reasons that have nothing to do with the subject at hand because they might have said something bad about my favourite smartphone maker.
While true that most phones still have enough bezel to house hardware buttons, software buttons are still better for both manufacturer and consumer. The manufacturer has less moving parts to deal with, thus lessening production times and costs (even if miniscule), as well as reduce potential broken parts to repair.
For the consumer, they're better for usability. They're not really taken advantage of as one thought they would, but the whole thing with them spinning with your orientation or changing shape depending on what you're doing? That's huge for cognitive understanding and help a beginners get what's going on. The OEM could also simply add or remove or change buttons at the flick of a button, instead of having to produce new devices just to change button layouts.
I will forever be #teamsoftbutt, even though they're not utilised to their full potential.
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