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bitsandboots
3y ago
I don't understand the value of this. Is it just "big screen=better"? Because, my phone's screen is already bigger than the standalone GPSs of the past, and has voice, so I've never thought that I needed a bigger sc
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bitsandboots
3y ago
In what? What are you doing that hasn't become so fast it's imperceptibly different on all modern phones? They all seem to text, browse, email, and play media at the required FPS and load time to me. Yes I have seen synthetic benc
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bitsandboots
3y ago
Honestly I don't know how I live without the back button, either. The back button on Android 5+ stopped being "back", it's now some weird system I don't quite understand where it tracks, I think, "activities&qu
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bitsandboots
3y ago
I don't get "Android Auto" and "Android Automotive" They aren't open source, and when they don't work, your car is left with a weird system that can't be substituted. They make it less likely that I&#
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bitsandboots
3y ago
Sony's phones seem best to me. Vanilla android with headphone jacks and microsd slots. They're just expensive. Nobody ever talks about Sony's phones for some reason but I think that's great because I wouldn't want t
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bitsandboots
3y ago
Had a similar experience with the Rift and it made me buy a different VR headset. The software stack is critical to these devices not being painful or pleasant. Devices that are steamvr native have been so much nicer to use, just plug&p
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3y ago
Wont know until we get specs. They at least claimed it could present 4k movies, but, I already have a 4k VR headset and while it is one of the few headsets that can decently display text in the way they're suggesting, it's still n
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3y ago
"Apple's new VR Headset" not so much. It seems very much to be an AR headset. As a person who uses VR daily, I was curious if it would move VR forward, but it seems unrelated. Maybe one day they'll address tracking of pe