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My brother and I imported one each from the UK. After 4 days of use I am very, very happy with the hardware (display, sound, weight), but still have to get used

My brother and I imported one each from the UK. After 4 days of use I am very, very happy with the hardware (display, sound, weight), but still have to get used to the software (changes in 4.x seem to confuse me, my phone still doesn't offer it. Sidenote: Never ever buy a phone from LG if you can avoid it). Especially Google Now, while certainly interesting, seems to be useless to me so far (or I just don't get it?). Even after this short time I'm confident that I'll bring this thing with me wherever I go and it already feels _wrong_ to look at the phone display again. Do yourself a favor though and install Firefox Beta. Give it a shot against Chrome - for me the experience is so much better that I'd wish for a way to uninstall Chrome.

sogrady 14y ago
> Especially Google Now, while certainly interesting, seems to be useless to me so far (or I just don't get it?). this is interesting, because for my usage, Google Now was one of the most useful additions in Jelly Bean. i use it all the time, and love the notifications about nearby public transit, time and distance notifications for appointments from my calendar and so on. it's pretty basic at present, but it's already useful for me day to day and if they were to open the API could be dramatically more so. > Do yourself a favor though and install Firefox Beta. Give it a shot against Chrome - for me the experience is so much better that I'd wish for a way to uninstall Chrome. several people have said this as well, so i will definitely be giving it a shot.
- Roritharr 14y ago
  I guess you are living in one of the rare places on earth where google maps works for public transit. It's sometimes really frustrating to use technology in a place that is not the San Francisco...
  - ry0ohki 14y ago
    Works fine in the megalopolis that is Pittsburgh
  - weenis 14y ago
    Works great in Seattle as well.
    - njs12345 14y ago
      For me, it's not as good as OneBusAway (although obviously the UI is much better); the bus times are a bit off for the bus I get to work.
  - sogrady 14y ago
    worked for me in Boston, Portland, ME and Portland, OR
  - mikeevans 14y ago
    Works in Washington DC too.
  - runjake 14y ago
    Works fine in my town of 3,000 people that is 15 minutes outside a "metro" area of 200k people.
  - ConstantineXVI 14y ago
    The transit info works well here in Louisville (except for TARC being incredibly incompetent and/or unfunded, but Google can only do so much)
  - lemieux 14y ago
    It works in Montreal, Canada.
  - Aldor 14y ago
    I know everyone else is saying this, but it also works in NYC and a lot of the tri-state outside of the city.
ineedtosleep 14y ago
re: Google Now. The only ways I've seen it noticeable function is when you leave your current "home location" and if you turn on your Google web history (on the account that is tied to Chrome on the Nexus 7). Since I neither leave my home location often nor want to turn on web history, for either of my accounts, it's relatively useless for me.
- darklajid 14y ago
  For me, so far, it shows me - Commuting times to several places Here I don't know where it takes the address from. In the beginning it listed a couple off-by-one addresses for friends and family, by now (how..?) it resolved two of these addresses to contact names, so I have now a travel plan to visit my brother, dad or my company. It also includes a wrong address of my in-laws. This is impressive, technically, but a little creepy and totally, 100% useless for me. I _was_ at these places, but I really don't plan to go there again anytime soon. Why is this listed? - The weather, for the local town I'm in. The Standard Thing (tm) - A Google Translate widget to translate between German and English. I .. feel insulted. ;-) I used Google Translate a lot, in Israel, for Hebrew <-> English. German <-> English? I can do that myself, thank you very much. Why is this listed? - A widget that lists the exchange rate between EUR and ILS. Yes, I used to be interested in that, up until I moved back to Germany more than a month ago. Why is this listed? - The time and day of week. Off by one hour. Again - no clue why. But this at least gives a hint: Somehow Google decided that I'm still living in Israel. It shows me currency exchange rates, the time at 'home' and a translator widget (why between english and the local language though?). My problem: I don't want _any_ of that. Mostly not because I don't feel that they add anything of value (they don't, for me), more because ~everything~ listed there is irrelevant/wrong. Since the whole idea of Google Now seems to be a magic sauce trying to find stuff that you want to be informed about, I'm unable to 'fix' my data set here.
  - wickedchicken 14y ago
    > I'm unable to 'fix' my data set here. Try latitude -> location history -> menu button -> change home location.

sogrady 14y ago

> Especially Google Now, while certainly interesting, seems to be useless to me so far (or I just don't get it?). this is interesting, because for my usage, Google Now was one of the most useful additions in Jelly Bean. i use it all the time, and love the notifications about nearby public transit, time and distance notifications for appointments from my calendar and so on. it's pretty basic at present, but it's already useful for me day to day and if they were to open the API could be dramatically more so. > Do yourself a favor though and install Firefox Beta. Give it a shot against Chrome - for me the experience is so much better that I'd wish for a way to uninstall Chrome. several people have said this as well, so i will definitely be giving it a shot.

Roritharr 14y ago
I guess you are living in one of the rare places on earth where google maps works for public transit. It's sometimes really frustrating to use technology in a place that is not the San Francisco...
- ry0ohki 14y ago
  Works fine in the megalopolis that is Pittsburgh
- weenis 14y ago
  Works great in Seattle as well.
  - njs12345 14y ago
    For me, it's not as good as OneBusAway (although obviously the UI is much better); the bus times are a bit off for the bus I get to work.
- sogrady 14y ago
  worked for me in Boston, Portland, ME and Portland, OR
- mikeevans 14y ago
  Works in Washington DC too.
- runjake 14y ago
  Works fine in my town of 3,000 people that is 15 minutes outside a "metro" area of 200k people.
- ConstantineXVI 14y ago
  The transit info works well here in Louisville (except for TARC being incredibly incompetent and/or unfunded, but Google can only do so much)
- lemieux 14y ago
  It works in Montreal, Canada.
- Aldor 14y ago
  I know everyone else is saying this, but it also works in NYC and a lot of the tri-state outside of the city.

ineedtosleep 14y ago

re: Google Now. The only ways I've seen it noticeable function is when you leave your current "home location" and if you turn on your Google web history (on the account that is tied to Chrome on the Nexus 7). Since I neither leave my home location often nor want to turn on web history, for either of my accounts, it's relatively useless for me.

darklajid 14y ago
For me, so far, it shows me - Commuting times to several places Here I don't know where it takes the address from. In the beginning it listed a couple off-by-one addresses for friends and family, by now (how..?) it resolved two of these addresses to contact names, so I have now a travel plan to visit my brother, dad or my company. It also includes a wrong address of my in-laws. This is impressive, technically, but a little creepy and totally, 100% useless for me. I _was_ at these places, but I really don't plan to go there again anytime soon. Why is this listed? - The weather, for the local town I'm in. The Standard Thing (tm) - A Google Translate widget to translate between German and English. I .. feel insulted. ;-) I used Google Translate a lot, in Israel, for Hebrew <-> English. German <-> English? I can do that myself, thank you very much. Why is this listed? - A widget that lists the exchange rate between EUR and ILS. Yes, I used to be interested in that, up until I moved back to Germany more than a month ago. Why is this listed? - The time and day of week. Off by one hour. Again - no clue why. But this at least gives a hint: Somehow Google decided that I'm still living in Israel. It shows me currency exchange rates, the time at 'home' and a translator widget (why between english and the local language though?). My problem: I don't want _any_ of that. Mostly not because I don't feel that they add anything of value (they don't, for me), more because ~everything~ listed there is irrelevant/wrong. Since the whole idea of Google Now seems to be a magic sauce trying to find stuff that you want to be informed about, I'm unable to 'fix' my data set here.
- wickedchicken 14y ago
  > I'm unable to 'fix' my data set here. Try latitude -> location history -> menu button -> change home location.