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Oct. 4
- reustle 10y agoWhatever it is, judging by the source code, it seems to be called "TenFour". This redirects, too http://google.com/tenfour http://google.com/tenfour
- TwoFx 10y ago10/4 is the day of the announcement
- stable-point 10y agoOr TenFour refers to the announcement date: 10/4.
- skykooler 10y agoOr someone ported TenFourFox to it. ...Okay, maybe not that.
- OJFord 10y agoMy first though was "that's just 4 October; I expect all URIs redirect". But they don't all redirect, so that is interesting (and presumably why that date). EDIT: `/tenfour` doesn't redirect either..? Though, to be fair, the `IMAGES` array has everything stored under 'tenfour' directory, still, I imagine it's just a code name for the project, given the release/announce date.
- slazaro 10y agoInteresting that they used both 10/4 and 4/10 for the URL... They care about internationalization!
- ashitlerferad 10y agohttps://xkcd.com/1179/ https://xkcd.com/1179/
- officemonkey 10y agoThat format also has the benefit of being in the correct order when sorting by name and by date.
- nobrains 10y agoI use that format to sort my picture folders. So, sorting by name sorts by date as well. Additionally, I add the month text (mmm) as well to the date, which makes it easy for me to quickly recognize the month, otherwise I mostly have to count :( So like, 2016-09(Sep)-19 That way, the sorting still works, and I get to see 3 letter month abbreviations as well.
- Aaargh20318 10y ago> Additionally, I add the month text (mmm) as well to the date, which makes it easy for me to quickly recognize the month, otherwise I mostly have to count :( I have the exact opposite: if I see a date with the name of a month I mentally convert it to the month number first.
- kalleboo 10y agoWhat's funny is since in work I mainly use SQL timestamps, and I live in Japan (which uses numerical months in their language), I actually have trouble with the named months now. Like I keep mixing up which of June and July is first...
- maxerickson 10y agoWindows Live Photo Gallery got this more right than anything else I've seen. You could filter by folder and display by date, or ignore folders and filter by date. And it had an easy UI for filtering by tags (that were pulled from photo metadata, not stored in an internal database). (I suppose I bring it up because it worked well enough to make manually fiddling with sorting photos mostly uninteresting)
- Symbiote 10y agoThat seems weird. I've known the month numbers since early childhood. Dates were often read as "the twentieth of the ninth, [twenty] sixteen", especially if they were being written down: 20/09/2016. Though now I see it can't make sense if read in the American order.
- HugoDaniel 10y agoMaybe they are planning a 6 month release cycle to up the game.
- JosephRedfern 10y agoLooking at the source, there are two arrays of image filenames specified between script tags on that page. One is "IMAGES", which is referenced by the JS elsewhere, and specifies overlayed over the rectangle. The other, called EXTRAS, defined but not referenced elsewhere. It contains two entries, pointing at these images: https://madeby.google.com/static/images/tenfour/extras/002.jpg https://madeby.google.com/static/images/tenfour/extras/002.j... and https://madeby.google.com/static/images/tenfour/extras/001.jpg https://madeby.google.com/static/images/tenfour/extras/001.j.... EDIT: oh, turns out this chap found it a while ago: https://twitter.com/hallstephenj/status/778033737040666624 https://twitter.com/hallstephenj/status/778033737040666624
- sakri 10y agoThe phone on the ground looks like it's got rounded edges like Samsung.
- 0x4a42 10y agoLike the rounded corners rectangle in Photoshop?
- awesomerobot 10y agoReally good low-light quality on that selfie.
- pen2l 10y agoIncidentally that's also one of the advertised high points about iPhone 7 -- great pictures in low-light. As an aside, I find the attention to photography by Apple, Google, et al quite intriguing. It makes total sense. On social media, we posture, we put out our best self. Having sophisticated pictures (bokeh? yeah that'll make it look fancy. Not a lot of noise (as is the case for pics taken in low light)? that's another something). In a fantastic way, it is actually the best way to advertise the phone -- the photos people take do it for you! You see your friend's great low-light pics, and you realize your phone can't do that. That's like one of the few remaining forces to compel you to invest into a phone: a phone being a device that's increasingly becoming a commodity for its lack of distinguishing factors. I wonder what will be the next area of war for phone manufacturers ... maybe AR/VR? Finally wireless charging that works well? Finally battery that can last days (of semi-active use) instead of hours?
- JohnTHaller 10y agoThe new phones, the Pixel and Pixel XL are rumored to start at $649 for the smaller phone in the smallest memory configuration of 32gb. If true, this would mean the old Nexus line is well and truly dead and Google is taking the Apple approach to pricing. The Pixel brand is supposed to be premium at a premium price but currently has one product that fills that niche (the Pixel Chromebook) and one that doesn't (the failed Pixel C tablet that was repurposed from an abandoned Chrome OS branch to Android and launched barely functional).
- blinkingled 10y agoI doubt many people will buy a $649 phone with run of the mill specs and only 18 months of updates even if it was made by Google (whatever that means). Google might not remember but nobody bought the Chromebook Pixel or the Pixel C.
- hammock 10y agoAll(?) of the top-end Androids in the Verizon store are priced at $650 and above.
- pjmlp 10y agoIn countries where we have the joy of buying phones without contracts, the majority of the customer, doesn't go above the 300€ line, when paying the full price out of their pockets.
- JustUhThought 10y agoCause people be sane.
- maxerickson 10y agoVerizon has at least broken the phone payments out, so a customer can compare the upfront price and a purchase contract. I guess the others have also. Their advertising is still ridiculously misleading. They say the "Verizon Plan" starts at $35 a month, but that's before activating a device (which is $10 for a tablet and $15 for a phone) and taxes/fees. Cheapest phone is going to be ~$55 per month, it's ridiculous that they emphasize the $35 in their advertising.
- flannell 10y agoMy guess? a smart phone that has machine vision built in? ten four? sounds like tensor flow - machine learning. Interesting how the search box grew to include images...
- chki 10y agoLike the already available App "Goggles" built right into the OS...might be possible. It is quite amazing what Goggles achieves actually (recognises places and things with very high certainty (aka reverse image search but nonetheless..))
- flannell 10y agoI hope it's the next step on. Goggles 2010 would compare the photo for similarities with other photos (I guess) where I'd like to think this would know the objects within the photo. This would likely improve better feedback. I'm likely wrong, but you never know.
- maxerickson 10y agoLike Tango? http://get.google.com/tango/ http://get.google.com/tango/
- dragonwriter 10y ago> ten four? sounds like tensor flow - machine learning. Sounds a lot more like "10-4" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-code
- publicfig 10y agoTen Four = 10/4 = October 4th = The date of the announcement
- nxzero 10y agoThe release date 10-4 is radio code for "understood": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-code https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-code
- WhitneyLand 10y agoIf you were leading the Pixel phone effort what would you choose as the top three market differentiators? To start one small thing I'd do is match Apple on the length of update support window.
- kalleboo 10y ago> To start one small thing I'd do is match Apple on the length of update support window. That will win you over the tech-fanboys, but is that anything normal people take into account when they pick a phone? I probably hear more complaints about new versions of iOS "making my phone worse" than Android users complaining about not getting updates.
- Chestofdraw 10y agoI honestly can't see why people care so much about having long update windows. Batteries simply aren't good for many cycles so it doesn't make sense to support a phone for longer than its battery will last. Also, it's a pretty reasonable assumption that users who don't care to be on the latest hardware don't care to be on the latest software.
- MereInterest 10y agoWhich is entirely by design, when they make batteries not be swappable. If your goal is to make a good product, it makes perfect sense to have a long update window, just as it makes perfect sense to offer replacement batteries.
- Chestofdraw 10y agoIf your goal is to make a good product then introducing points of failure around its power supply probably isn't a great idea.
- MereInterest 10y agoThe battery itself is a far bigger point of failure than the connection to the battery. If your goal is to make a good product, it is worth introducing a small failure mode in order to remove a larger one. Since most phones no longer have replaceable batteries, they are hosed once the battery no longer holds a charge.
- cvsv 10y agoPOU5F1
- forumninja 10y agoIt says 5 Oct. in Australia
- jffry 10y agoIt's going to be streamed at 9AM PDT (UTC -07:00), which is 2:00 AM the next morning in Sydney (UTC +10:00)
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- naringas 10y agoI get an HTTP 404 not found >The requested URL /fourten was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
- naringas 10y agoUnless I open the url with chrome. WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF THE OPEN INTERNET /s
- naringas 10y agoI got that 404 several times with firefox and none with chrome. The redirect to madeby.google.com works now, I wonder what happened...
- calgoo 10y agoI still get the 404... However, is there a typo in the title or did they do it on purpose? <title>Error 404 (Not Found)!!1</title>
- daveloyall 10y agoThey did that to be cute!!!1
- daveloyall 10y agoBack in the day, no link on a google domain that pointed to a google domain was a 404 link. That's right, zero 404s, site wide. So the 404 page was pretty much only seen by IT folk--people who would type in their own URLs instead of clicking links... And those people, the people who type a lot... had probably seen the old meme in which the trailing ! in a string of !!! is replaced by a 1, as would happen if you were typing quickly and let go of shift a little early...
- jshawl 10y agoUses angular 1.5.7
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- simonebrunozzi 10y agoIt's almost off-topic, but for people that grew up in my town (Assisi), including me of course, October 4th will always be St.Francis' day.
- JshWright 10y agoOctober 4th is many things... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_4
- lgats 10y agoThis phone is built by HTC and received fcc approval under two FCC IDS mid last month. https://fccid.io/NM8G-2PW4100 https://fccid.io/NM8G-2PW4100 and https://fccid.io/NM8G-2PW2100 https://fccid.io/NM8G-2PW2100 It's going to be model number G-2PW4100 and G-2PW2100 suggesting two different phones to be announced
- JustUhThought 10y agoI want... 1) a thicker phone, so I can grab it without the grip feeling precarious, and because it has a super-sized battery that easily lasts ll day and all night. 2) 2 cameras, yes, but specifically for depth perception, because omg all the amazing programs I could write! 3) waterproof, cause I like pulling my phone out in the rain and I'm a klutz.
- dman 10y agoYep on phones and laptops both the thinness trend has gone too far. Battery life and thermals both suffer because of this. Would prefer a slight correction towards thicker phones / laptops that run longer and cooler.
- gkya 10y agoThat's become a race, so we're mostly hopeless.
- sigmar 10y ago2 cameras aren't enough for an accurate depth map though, right? I thought you need infrared.
- daveloyall 10y agoI've never heard of a single infrared camera being used for depth-finding... Are you thinking of some active scanning technology such as LIDAR? Or the infrared grid-of-dots projection that the kinect uses?
- JustUhThought 10y agoInfra-red cameras are used in the LeapMotion controllers. I don't think it is anything special about the spectrum however, coupled with Infra-red lights it's an easy way to cut down on the noise in the comtrollers field of view.
- falkenb0t 10y ago
- yincrash 10y agoWill it have a headphone jack?
- DigitalJack 10y agoThat made me chuckle. Who would have thought having a headphone jack would be a defining feature?
- js8 10y agoWill it have a real, physical keyboard? That's why I bought the first Google phone and I still use it.
- Zhenya 10y agoYou still use the G1?!
- js8 10y agoCorrect.
- pritambaral 10y agoHow's the battery life? Genuinely curious. I'd like to use a phone with a hardware-keyboard as my daily driver too, but the only ones I can find are so old their batteries have worn down to the point of being functionally unacceptable.
- js8 10y agoI have bought a new battery twice, and the last one I have lasts about 1.5 day or so and I bought it maybe a year ago. I am not a heavy user but you can still find the battery on the market - the one I have was made by "Cameron Sino", model CS-HDE160SL, it's Lion battery with 1150 mAh (as they claim). I bought the G1 pretty late, I think two years after it was introduced, so I have it maybe 8 years now?
- benmcnelly 10y agoOKAY, so I get that they are promoting (probably) the camera/photos but with the photos filling the whole device, it almost makes you wonder if they are doing full color custom high DPI printed back covers (which would be good, since its so ugly if leaked pics are correct). Or maybe they are going to be the first with a full slab of glass on the front with seamless edge to edge display (hah yeah right) - if its not either of those things, they just set people up for massive disappointment.
- animex 10y agoNot looking forward to the new rumored price tag ($649+). Might have to go back to OnePlus then.
- daveloyall 10y agoMy money is on: + something like PTT (push to talk) for video. Like Google Duo but with whatever high-level OS/hardware changes were required to make it work well. + edge-to-edge screen (thanks benmcnelly) Why? Look at these people in the photos... They are hip (AF) and they are on scooters. They are mobile and care about appearances...
- metafunctor 10y agoIs this about the Daydream VR headset? http://uploadvr.com/report-googles-daydream-vr-headset-called-daydream-view-debuts-oct-4th/ http://uploadvr.com/report-googles-daydream-vr-headset-calle...
- apatters 10y agoI'm not sure if it's available in the US, but I bought a Samsung Galaxy A5 in Thailand for about $220 and with the level of quality it offers for such a low price, I have a very hard time understanding why anyone would pay 3-5x that for a "premium" phone: http://www.trustedreviews.com/samsung-galaxy-a5-review http://www.trustedreviews.com/samsung-galaxy-a5-review