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On October 01 2013 15:39 skyR wrote:
The Nexus 4 is completely sold out and the S4 Mini is a $500 phone.
The Nexus 5 is the same size as the Nexus 4 (dimension wise).
Like the phone itself is the same size and the screen just takes up more of the surface area. That would actually make me more happy then. I'm personally not a huge fan of the ridiculous size that phones are becoming today and would prefer to have just stuck with a phone that is about the size of a iphone 4s but apple managed to screw that part of their phone up as well.
Also if it means waiting for the s4 mini to drop in like 8 months i'd still probably do that since I try to spend as little on my phone as I can and still get a good deal out of it.
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Yep, bigger screen but same size. I'm with you, I hate Samsung's obsession with their giant screens.
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Lalalaland34501 Posts
So I just bought a Note 3.
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Serious question. Why do people buy huge phones?
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Because huge things are very manly.
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How's your note 3? I have a note 2 and think the upgrade is not worth the money.
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On October 02 2013 03:34 a176 wrote:
Serious question. Why do people buy huge phones?
Because reading books, webpages, watching movies, playing games, reading emails, etc. is more enjoyable, and it still fits in my pocket, so the size doesn't really have any drawbacks.
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On October 02 2013 03:34 a176 wrote:
Serious question. Why do people buy huge phones?
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 and can't stand screens smaller than 4" anymore (I recently held my sister's iPhone 3GS, damn that thing is just tiny!). Large screens really make browsing the web and reading stuff very comfortable.
We're actually getting to a point where the "phone" part of a smartphone isn't the most important anymore. These are portable media devices. You don't have to use a laptop or a desktop computer anymore do check your mails or go on facebook. You don't even need a tablet anymore. A 5-6" smartphone with 720p or 1080p screen will do. Mid-range phones are becoming increasingly powerful as well. A Samsung Galaxy S2/3, Xperia T or HTC One X may not sport the latest hardware anymore, but that doesn't mean that they're slouches.
Surprisingly, I have no trouble using my S4 with one hand. Like the person above me said, it also fits in your pocket perfectly.
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On October 02 2013 03:59 maartendq wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2013 03:34 a176 wrote:
Serious question. Why do people buy huge phones? I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 and can't stand screens smaller than 4" anymore (I recently held my sister's iPhone 3GS, damn that thing is just tiny!). Large screens really make browsing the web and reading stuff very comfortable. We're actually getting to a point where the "phone" part of a smartphone isn't the most important anymore. These are portable media devices. You don't have to use a laptop or a desktop computer anymore do check your mails or go on facebook. You don't even need a tablet anymore. A 5-6" smartphone with 720p or 1080p screen will do. Mid-range phones are becoming increasingly powerful as well. A Samsung Galaxy S2/3, Xperia T or HTC One X may not sport the latest hardware anymore, but that doesn't mean that they're slouches. Surprisingly, I have no trouble using my S4 with one hand. Like the person above me said, it also fits in your pocket perfectly.
I have an S4 too and I cant imagine having a bigger (or smaller now) phone than it because I can use it with one hand OK but I think I'd have too much trouble if I had a bigger phone and I had to reach to the top left of the screen with my right-thumb to tap something.. Moreover, I'm surprised by the battery life on these things. The last smart phone I had was from like 2011 and its battery was really terrible.
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Lalalaland34501 Posts
On October 02 2013 03:54 Reno(TE) wrote:
How's your note 3? I have a note 2 and think the upgrade is not worth the money.
I came from a Nexus 4, which is an amazing phone, but I felt pulled to the bigger screen and the battery life of the Note series.
My brother and dad have Note 2's and from my limited moments using their phones I don't think it is worth the upgrade.
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On October 02 2013 03:54 Reno(TE) wrote:
How's your note 3? I have a note 2 and think the upgrade is not worth the money.
I think thats the trend going on with the upgrade path with Samsung devices, every other generation seems ideal.
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On October 02 2013 06:43 Firebolt145 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2013 03:54 Reno(TE) wrote:
How's your note 3? I have a note 2 and think the upgrade is not worth the money. I came from a Nexus 4, which is an amazing phone, but I felt pulled to the bigger screen and the battery life of the Note series. My brother and dad have Note 2's and from my limited moments using their phones I don't think it is worth the upgrade.
Smartphones have become so powerful (and Android is getting leaner with each new version) you don't really need to have the latest and greatest to have a very nice and fluent experience. Even my old Galaxy S2 was still plenty fast.
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I have the HTC One GE (google Edition) and it is pretty amazing, it feels so solid in your hand and I am running CMMOD 10.2 which I absolutely love (ROM's have gotten so much more stable in the past year) the screen size I thought would make it harder to use but I actually can navigate my phone with one hand very easily.
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I just started using my new 5" phone, and anything smaller than 4.5" feels like it's too small for me already!
Also, it is silly what you can get for around 120€ 150$ from china nowadays.
Got myself a q9000 and my mother a Lenovo A820 and those things feel great.
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does anyone here has experience with the LG G2? cause i planning to buy that phone :3
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Lalalaland34501 Posts
On October 02 2013 21:40 maartendq wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2013 06:43 Firebolt145 wrote:On October 02 2013 03:54 Reno(TE) wrote:
How's your note 3? I have a note 2 and think the upgrade is not worth the money. I came from a Nexus 4, which is an amazing phone, but I felt pulled to the bigger screen and the battery life of the Note series. My brother and dad have Note 2's and from my limited moments using their phones I don't think it is worth the upgrade. Smartphones have become so powerful (and Android is getting leaner with each new version) you don't really need to have the latest and greatest to have a very nice and fluent experience. Even my old Galaxy S2 was still plenty fast.
My smartphone experience began with the original Galaxy S. It was the most powerful phone of its time, but that phone had a huge flaw in the way Samsung designed its file system, resulting in an incredibly laggy software experience. Custom ROMs tackled the problem to a certain degree but it wasn't enough, and I jumped at the change to upgrade to an S2 when my carrier offered an early upgrade to me, even if I had to pay a little for it.
Upgrading from an S to an S2 was a huge change. I don't remember if there was a huge leap in hardware but the difference in performance was night and day. Things were breezing along smoothly after Samsung had fixed their filesystem problems. The S2 was truly a marvel in smartphone engineering and I'd happily nominate it as the best phone at the time of release for the last five years or so. I disliked the Touchwiz overlay that Samsung introduced on all their phones but had the ability to flash custom ROMs that were closer to the stock Google experience, something I greatly enjoyed.
However as time moved on Samsung's stance on custom ROMs were becoming much stricter. Developers were having a lot of difficulty implementing the newest Android features onto their custom ROMs due to Samsung's reluctance to release the source for hardware drivers (or something along those lines). Huge Android changes such as Project Butter took many long months to be introduced to the S2, and even then it wasn't completely smooth.
Then the Nexus 4 was announced. This was a phone that would have the raw Google experience, something I desired back then. Flashing custom ROMs would not be a problem and I was able to experiment as much as I liked. The screen was also gorgeous; while it wasn't much bigger than the S2's screen, the screen resolution jumped up from 218 ppi on the Galaxy S2 to 316 ppi on the Nexus 4. This made browsing the internet and watching videos a million times better on the Nexus 4. On top of it all, the insanely low price made it an offer I could not resist. I bought it, and although the experience improvement was not as big as it was from the S to the S2, it was still wonderful.
However the biggest flaw of all three smartphones I had used (aside from the lag of the original Galaxy S) was the battery life. I am an incredibly heavy user of my phones, and I frequently had to consciously throttle my usage as I approached 2pm, sometimes even earlier if I was watching videos as well. I dealt with this by carrying a charger in my bag at all times and trying to sneak in moments to charge my phone, something which isn't always possible. The Nexus line, while great in all other aspects, has always been notorious for having poor battery life, and it was starting to bother me.
Another thing I analysed about my smartphone usage was that I no longer was following the custom ROM scene so much. Gone were the days when I would refresh XDA-devs' forums countless times waiting for the latest updates and bug reports and what not. Instead I had hit the point where I simply wanted something that looked good and worked well with good battery life.
In the meantime my brother and dad had both acquired their own Note 2's. My brother bought a Note 2 because he was studying architecture and was doing a lot of graphics designing on the side, so the large screen and stylus was an obvious bonus for him. For my dad, the main attraction was that big screen = easy to use. I had the opportunity of trying their phones and found that I liked the size of the screen. It made browsing the internet much easier, and the main argument of being too big to fit in my hand or pocket did not bother me. The fact that the battery life was also famously impressive also caught my interest.
So here I was, debating between the newly released Note 3 and the yet-to-be-officially-announced Nexus 5. Reviews for the Note 3 were starting to come out, and they all seemed to say the same thing: the build quality was, well, OK (it's obviously no iPhone or HTC One), but the screen was gorgeous and the battery life was amazing. On the other hand, Nexus 5 rumours and leaks hinted that the battery had only received a small upgrade, which would be offset by the slightly bigger screen, and that there were no new killer features. It would still have the stock Google experience and the ease of experimenting with various custom ROMs, but my interest in that had long since subsided.
I bought a Note 3. I've had it for less than 24 hours and I am already impressed with it. The screen is a beauty, and the battery is chugging along nicely. With the initial excitement of a new phone added on to my usual heavy usage, my phone has now gone 9 hours (8am - 5pm) and is sitting at a healthy 57% battery left, something none of my old phones would have even come close to.
So yes, if you look at the little hardware upgrades that each phone has over each other, you are right that it is not necessary to have the latest and greatest to have a long and good experience with a phone. However each and every one of my purchases had a lot of reasoning behind it, and I don't regret or think any of my purchases were unnecessary.
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How do I conveniently change between two keyboard-languages on the new Nexus 7?
When I hold Space on my Galaxy S+, I get the option to switch between German and English, but that doesn't work on the N7.
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On October 04 2013 04:21 SixStrings wrote:
How do I conveniently change between two keyboard-languages on the new Nexus 7?
When I hold Space on my Galaxy S+, I get the option to switch between German and English, but that doesn't work on the N7.
You can activate that in the default keyboard.
Edit: Just tried it, my first answer was too much. Apparently it is enough to add a second language to the Google keyboard.
The checkbox activates a new language changing button button to the left of the space bar:
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(Sorry non-german speakers, I just know the german menus)
Einstellungen -> Sprache & Eingabe -> Google-Tastatur -> Erweiterte Einstellungen -> activate Sprachwechsel
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Lalalaland34501 Posts
Swiftkey allows you to have up to three language dictionaries/autocorrect/predictive whatever active at the same time. Pretty killer feature for anyone who types in multiple languages that no other keyboard offers to my knowledge.
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Hulu+ is now available on Chromecast.
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