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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1125 on: July 09, 2014, 02:00:06 PM »
Having on-screen buttons all the time seems like a waste of screen real estate. If you're not going to do physical buttons you should at least activate these kinds of things with some kind of touch screen gesture instead.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1126 on: July 09, 2014, 02:18:21 PM »
The big point people pushed in these debates is having a smaller bottom bezel but all I'm seeing is an empty bottom bezel.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1127 on: July 09, 2014, 05:11:18 PM »
Insano - since 4.1 onscreen buttons are not there all the time, if the app developer wants it that way. Apps go into fullscreen mode, and you swipe down from the top to make the buttons appear. Honestly with large screens, onscreen buttons do not bother me one bit. It comes down to the app and if it would actually benefit from an extra 6-8% of screen space. Also, with onscreen as opposed to physical buttons, the position (and orientation) of the buttons changes with the orientation of the screen. This is (one reason) why I would never own a Galaxy Tab. Onscreen wins over physical every time.


And bezels have definitely gotten smaller, but they haven't, and simply cannot go away, yet. There has to be somewhere for the flex cables to extend from, and they also make it so when you hold your phone in landscape with one hand, you don't cover any of the screen.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1128 on: July 09, 2014, 05:53:02 PM »
That makes sense. Honestly, I haven't spent much time with Android so I was just going by what I've seen in screenshots. I like the physical home button on the iPhone, though, and if it stayed there despite Steve Jobs' rabid, outspoken hatred of buttons then there must have been pretty good arguments in its favor.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1129 on: July 10, 2014, 01:48:12 PM »
Physical buttons are better for one reason alone: you can press them underwater.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1130 on: July 10, 2014, 04:35:49 PM »
That's what a Go Pro is for.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1131 on: July 13, 2014, 05:39:16 PM »
Took me way too long to think of this, but my TV has 5 HDMI inputs and I need 6 (really I need 8 so I can hook up the 360 and PS3 again). I have my Xbox One, PS4, Wii U, cable box, and Ouya hooked up, but no room for the Chromecast. Thank you, XBox One, for your HDMI input. Now I have the Chromecast hooked up to that input, essentially giving me 6 HDMI inputs.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1132 on: July 13, 2014, 05:50:43 PM »
Why would you keep an ouya hooked up?

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« Reply #1133 on: July 13, 2014, 05:53:24 PM »
Because it has CM11 flashed on it and now is a great emulation center and HTPC (with a 2TB HDD of movies and TV shows hooked up to it).
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1134 on: July 15, 2014, 11:38:51 AM »
A bit lttp but the only problem with buttons on a phone was I felt HTC perfected it early on.



I don't mind the current look but I wish there was an actual search button.

Anyway I feel the same way about Physical buttons as I do SD card slots, they're not needed. Only thing I thing I think should be optional is removable batteries in case of emergency, but even than I'd glady sacrifice for a better design.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1135 on: July 16, 2014, 09:26:06 PM »
So anyone pick up an Android Wear device?


Here's what the L play store will probably look like.






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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1136 on: July 16, 2014, 09:29:34 PM »
Your image isn't showing (for me), but the Play Store should be the same on every Android version...
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« Reply #1137 on: July 16, 2014, 10:10:15 PM »
Nope its getting a bit of a Material based overhaul.




http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/07/13/exclusive-google-prepping-play-store-update-thats-one-step-closer-to-material-with-beautiful-new-listing-ui/


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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1138 on: July 18, 2014, 07:26:00 PM »
so moto g impressions/thoughts, It's a nice phone overall, I still prefer physical/capacitive buttons and I don't like not having a menu button but here are some overall impressions

+this thing feels really snappy in terms of preformance given its price

+ its pretty friendly for one handed use

+ motorola had the common sense to add a 'dump anything that isn't an app onto the SD card. Basically the company formerly owned by Google has the best implementation of the sd card ironically enough.

(Observation) The way the sd card slot is placed implies they were planning to have a different battery cover cover that would have an opening so you could quickly access it but that at some point they just decided to use the regular moto g cover.

Now I have some nits to pick so let's go.

- holy **** this thing is a pain in the ass to remove the cover from if you want to access the sd card or sim.

- this thing is almost too thin, like I feel like it just doesn't have the heft it feels like a device of that size should.

- holy **** that camera is horrible,

- the usb cable is white despite being included with a black version of the phone. Said cable is like 2 inches long and doesn't come with an ac adapter what kind of cheap, greedy company would be so desperate to avoid irrelevancy as to not include a ac adapter with their new gizmo in order to cut a few pennies off the cost

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- I absolutely positively hate the way the notification/quick settings menu is set up. Samsung had it right by having the quick settings toggle things as a little sidebar (except it's on the top but work with me) on the notification menu and many other companies have been doing it that way since gingerbread.

- by god the transparent notification/digital buttons on the home menu just looks ugly to me, luckily I found a wallpaper that is cropped in such a way that the black borders on the top and bottom cover them perfectly so it looks like they aren't transparent but on the fucking home menu that really should be a setting.

- the google keyboard is an abomination.

- I wound up disabling like half of the preinstalled apps

- I officially hate the stock google launcher, switched to nova in 24 hours

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1139 on: July 19, 2014, 12:57:27 AM »
Not liking Stock Android (where you using the google experince launcher) and deleting the pre installed apps. What the? (what came installed BTW?).


I was thinking of picking up a Moto G/E sometime to use as a workout MP3 Player. Probably will do it early next year since its the year i'll upgrade all my tech.


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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1140 on: July 19, 2014, 02:00:35 AM »
Alot of stuff like google+, play music/books/magazines/video

Basically the less necessary parts of googles whole app pack deal.

And I was using the built in launcher. Just didn't feel right for me, idk... guess I prefer touchwiz.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1141 on: July 19, 2014, 02:49:48 AM »
That's understandable even though i'm running everything through google for the most part. I want to say whatever the Moto G isn't exactly stock andoid, but to the poit touchwiz as a skin has many more features than stock/near stock.


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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1142 on: July 19, 2014, 09:07:12 AM »
That's a lot of bitching about the best LOW-END android phone you can buy (which was made when Google did own all of Motorola Mobility). This phone is not any type of flagship device, it is a cheap phone - the cheapest Android phone from one of the top manufacturers.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1143 on: July 19, 2014, 10:59:11 AM »
It's not even bitching it's nitpicking. I thought I made that clear.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1144 on: July 20, 2014, 12:26:42 AM »
Just picked up a near-mint factory unlocked Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) for $50...not sure what I'm going to do with it though.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1145 on: July 20, 2014, 11:55:31 AM »
Just picked up a near-mint factory unlocked Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) for $50...not sure what I'm going to do with it though.

You want to give it to me.... is it Verizon?

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1146 on: July 20, 2014, 12:20:51 PM »
Depending on the carrier I would be interested in it. I believe it is a GSM phone so I can use it on the T-Mobile network. Let me know if you are interested in selling it.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1147 on: July 20, 2014, 12:27:53 PM »
It's from Claro, it won't work on Verizon. I'm probably going to give it to my wife but if not I'll let you guys know. Trying to find out what non-Claro ROM I can flash on it, because Claro has all these stupid apps and custom icons and boot animations that are really dumb.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1148 on: July 20, 2014, 03:54:04 PM »
Anyone who likes Touchwiz andits bloatware over stock doesn't know what they are talking about. Even if you are nitpicking, its a 200 dollar phone at full price. You can't really complain.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #1149 on: July 20, 2014, 05:08:15 PM »
$50 on Verizon (or was a couple weeks ago), full retail price. I should have bought one just for development.
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