do our phones need something special to have RCS? Or we just need to wait until our carrier enable it? Any specification?
Sprint already launched RCS, T-Mobile has their own version of RCS but do plan to change to Google's Universal profile, and I believe AT&T has also signed on as a partner. Google Voice users will also have RCS.
Well. Good then. The question is will apple get on board?
I think Apple will eventually support RCS but it's very low priority for them. Google is going all in on it because their alternative is garbag. I know for a fact that they will add multi device rcs support probably next year.
Well. Good then. The question is will apple get on board?
smhMr.Shrugglesツ;230966874 said:
It looks like a $200 prepaid phone.
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whole family's here
mystic white, astro black, and ice platinum
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whole family's here
mystic white, astro black, and ice platinum
Well. Good then. The question is will apple get on board?
Why even buy a lg G6?
They have buttons for that.On Android tablets, is there any way to have iPad like gestures?
Particularly 5 finger pinch to go to home screen, or 4 finger swipe for multitasking?
Why even buy a LG anything?
G6 will bomb so hard. They're only gonna be out for 2 weeks longer than s8.
Why even buy a LG anything?
I know but I just got a tablet without on-screen buttons, so at times I don't know where the buttons are, it would be nice to just be able to do gestures instead.They have buttons for that.
Those LG OLED TVs though.
Reassuring to hear. I figured it was a server punt. I lost my YouTube subscriptionsOh, for anyone who got the "A change was detected on your Google account" and you were forced to sign in again today, I found this:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/140921?hl=en
"During routine maintenance, a number of users were signed-out from their Google accounts. If you were affected, please sign back in using your usual username and password at https://accounts.google.com."
So I guess we aren't all being hacked. Probably. That Cloudflare thing is kinda scary.
edit: A longer explanation is here:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?nomobile=true#!category-topic/gmail/Kfsx8YjqAS4
They're really not that great if you consider the whole package. I've owned plasma TVs, I know what zero black level (or close) is like. Black level is not, and has never been, the be-all and end-all measurement by which TV quality is judged.
OLED is fundamentally pretty cool as a display technology. I mean, I've owned these Samsung phones with Super AMOLED screens for like 5 years now. As far as TVs go however, LG manages to add poor supporting electronics which causes their TVs to get criticized for poor upscaling, motion handling, brightness, and near-black gray levels. On a TV where black is actually zero luminance, properly handling nearly black is pretty damn important. LG's LCD TVs consistently rank poorly compared to Samsung and Sony partly because they use IPS but also because their chipsets are quite bad.
Unfortunately Samsung is currently not in the OLED TV market at all. So we can't see how much better they would do than LG. Samsung's LCD TVs are well-known for top-quality chipsets, even though their LCD panels are so-so in everything but their top-end sets. Sony is actually introducing a line of OLED TVs this year, let's see how much better they can do than LG using LG's OLED panels.
They're really not that great if you consider the whole package. I've owned plasma TVs, I know what zero black level (or close) is like. Black level is not, and has never been, the be-all and end-all measurement by which TV quality is judged.
OLED is fundamentally pretty cool as a display technology. I mean, I've owned these Samsung phones with Super AMOLED screens for like 5 years now. As far as TVs go however, LG manages to add poor supporting electronics which causes their TVs to get criticized for poor upscaling, motion handling, brightness, and near-black gray levels. On a TV where black is actually zero luminance, properly handling nearly black is pretty damn important. LG's LCD TVs consistently rank poorly compared to Samsung and Sony partly because they use IPS but also because their chipsets are quite bad.
Unfortunately Samsung is currently not in the OLED TV market at all. So we can't see how much better they would do than LG. Samsung's LCD TVs are well-known for top-quality chipsets, even though their LCD panels are so-so in everything but their top-end sets. Sony is actually introducing a line of OLED TVs this year, let's see how much better they can do than LG using LG's OLED panels.
Mr.Shrugglesツ;231000806 said:In before BezelGate.
The most useful thing about iMessage to me is that it carries over and is consistent on all three of my Macs, my iPad, and my iPhone, which seems like such a low bar for Google to pass since...you know, Hangouts or fucking Gmail, but they're still fucking around.RCS is cool and all and a good step up from SMS but it's nowhere near imessage. Benefit of messages on ios is that it's all done in one app and done well from facetime to wifi messaging to sms'ing, etc...
I'm glad google is rallying around Android Messages and I'm glad OEMs are doing the same (fuck you samsung lol) but there's still going to be a separate app where I'm talking to the same people on allo?
Are they going to make Allo the one app that supports everything from desktop clients, to wifi messaging, to SMS which I assume they'll add soon. Or is Android Messages going to have those features as well. But like...what if it doesn't? Are we destined to use separate apps forever?
Their messaging strategy is still dumb as hell.
First pic of the Xperia XZ premium it seems
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Should have a 4k hdr display and the 960 fps camera. Might be my next phone.
From Sony I want a premium phone with the Xperia XA design
Battery saving mode shuts down internet connectivity for background apps. That's one of the ways it saves battery. You can turn off battery mode in the settings.Updated my HTC 10 to Nougat. My mail won't sync when I'm in Battery Saving mode and I can't find an option anywhere to adjust this. This can't be possible right? That's a completely ridiculous oversight.
Their messaging strategy is still dumb as hell.
The most useful thing about iMessage to me is that it carries over and is consistent on all three of my Macs, my iPad, and my iPhone, which seems like such a low bar for Google to pass since...you know, Hangouts or fucking Gmail, but they're still fucking around.
Looks like Samsung ain't backing RCS either. So the two biggest smartphone manufacturers that account for 40% of phones shipped annually aren't interested. Good luck.
Looks like Samsung ain't backing RCS either. So the two biggest smartphone manufacturers that account for 40% of phones shipped annually aren't interested. Good luck.