+- Madison Motorsports (https://forum.mmsports.org)
+-- Forum: Madison Motorsports (https://forum.mmsports.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Forum: Lounge (https://forum.mmsports.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=6)
+--- Thread: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread! (/showthread.php?tid=9507)
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JustinG - 07-21-2017
Jake Wrote:Yea, fuck Samsung.CaptainHenreh Wrote:Things I miss about Project Fi:
Text messaging integration with Hangouts.
Things I don't miss about Project Fi:
Literally Everything Else.
Was the service that bad? Who'd you go with now?
As Google/Samsung have continued to push updates, I've grown increasingly more annoyed at my S7 Active, and my S7 Edge was hatefully bad. It's all the TouchWiz bullshit slowing the phone down, I think. Too many software bugs that should never make it to production level software.
Pretty curious to see what the 10-year-anniversary iPhone ends up being this fall, and what/when the Pixel 2 will turn out to be. Can't wait to rid myself of this S7, the camera is the only good thing about it... when it chooses to save the photo, that is.
Buy a Pixel or Pixel 2 from Google, put it on VZW. Done.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JustinG - 07-21-2017
Oh and FYI, apparently Pixel LifeProof cases are discounted to $45 at VZW. I already bought in when I got my phone, but I still love my LifeProof case since it comes with me to the pool.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Apoc - 07-21-2017
GS8 or GTFO
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - WRXtranceformed - 07-22-2017
Apoc Wrote:GS8 or GTFO:thumbup:
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Jake - 07-22-2017
Nope, no more Samsung after two different S7 family devices that have been awful. Glad the Pixel sounds solid though.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Apoc - 07-22-2017
S7 was basically a reskinned S6. S8 is a new phone. You know you want it.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Jake - 07-22-2017
But I don't, because it'll end up being junk in a year like everything else they seem to produce. Seriously, TouchWiz kills it.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - .RJ - 07-22-2017
Apoc Wrote:S8 is a new phone
Until its not.
I'm nearly 2 years in on my jesusPhone 6, and it works the same now as it did when I bought it :dunno:
Jake, stop kidding yourself and just get another jPhone.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Apoc - 07-22-2017
So did my S6?
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - ViPER1313 - 07-22-2017
.RJ Wrote:Apoc Wrote:S8 is a new phone
Until its not.
I'm nearly 2 years in on my jesusPhone 6, and it works the same now as it did when I bought it :dunno:
Jake, stop kidding yourself and just get another jPhone.
I'm normally a hardware slut who wants the greatest feature set for the least price, but after 2 Samsung phones, no more Android for me either. My jPhone just works, and that works for me.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - WRXtranceformed - 07-23-2017
New iPhone rumored to be $1100 right? Have fun with that. My S8 is a powerhouse and my wife's Note 5 is still running like a champ even after replacing the LCD and glass after a fall. I still keep my S7 around for media and it runs great too, the battery life just sucks
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JPolen01 - 07-23-2017
Where did you come up with that? Price on iPhones has always been consistent.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - WRXtranceformed - 07-23-2017
JPolen01 Wrote:Where did you come up with that? Price on iPhones has always been consistent.One of many articles:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/07/20/apple-iphone-8-cost-price-release-date-availability/#775260c76bc8">https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkell ... 5260c76bc8</a><!-- m -->
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - ViPER1313 - 07-23-2017
This page explains the problem with Android - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.cultofandroid.com/68099/androids-fragmented-hell-stew-getting-worse-app-makers/">https://www.cultofandroid.com/68099/and ... pp-makers/</a><!-- m -->
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JPolen01 - 07-23-2017
Please. Typical rumors before every iPhone release. No chance they double the price of the phone. That's laughable.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Apoc - 07-23-2017
ViPER1313 Wrote:This page explains the problem with Android - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.cultofandroid.com/68099/androids-fragmented-hell-stew-getting-worse-app-makers/">https://www.cultofandroid.com/68099/and ... pp-makers/</a><!-- m -->
Except I'm not an app maker and every app I need, I have.
Fragmentation was so 2012.
JPolen01 Wrote:Please. Typical rumors before every iPhone release. No chance they double the price of the phone. That's laughable.
Quoted for posterity.
The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread! - ViPER1313 - 07-23-2017
Except it does matter, because there is no way with the # of models / features that Android manufacturers release that they can maintain any notion of upgradeability or backwards compatibility.
The IPhone 5 released in 2012 still works with IOS 10.3.3 released 3 days back. All apps still run on it.
If you bought a Galaxy S3 in 2012, you are stuck on Android 4.3 unless you go 3rd party ROM. How many apps made today still work with Jelly Bean?
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - rherold9 - 07-23-2017
Yeah if you want to give Android another try the Pixel is the way to go right now. I had issues with my S5 within the 1st year like having to factory reset or it freezing. I would say I was a Samsung fan but not so much from the phone perspective now. Pixel still going strong. In 4 months it will be a year with no hopefully no issues. Then again I don't use my phone as much as I used to so I'm not sure if that has something to do with it or not
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Apoc - 07-23-2017
ViPER1313 Wrote:Except it does matter, because there is no way with the # of models / features that Android manufacturers release that they can maintain any notion of upgradeability or backwards compatibility.
The IPhone 5 released in 2012 still works with IOS 10.3.3 released 3 days back. All apps still run on it.
If you bought a Galaxy S3 in 2012, you are stuck on Android 4.3 unless you go 3rd party ROM. How many apps made today still work with Jelly Bean?
That matters if everyone didn't upgrade their phone every two years. I've never heard a single person I know say they can't do something because they're stuck on an old version. I don't even use a laptop I bought in 2012... and I'm a slow upgrader. Show me US customer sentiment about fragmentation and I might start to think it's an actual thing.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - ViPER1313 - 07-23-2017
I normally upgrade every 3 years. I know a ton of people who keep their phones longer than that.
Customers could care less about fragmentation, but they do care about seamless user experience. High fragmentation of OS / hardware variants makes it hard for application and 3rd party hardware developers to deliver good experiences due to the wide variation of hardware / OS versions they have to support. Users complain that the apps are glitchy, their phone crashes (due to said glitchy apps), about Bluetooth integration with 3rd party devices... all symptoms of said fragmentation.
When an app or hardware manufacturer tests their software, they do so on IOS, then some subset of Android devices. This pretty much guarantees devices / apps will work well on any IOS device; your mileage will vary on Android. The older the version of Android, the more chance your stuff will glitch out / not work with said hardware.