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by czhiddy 14y ago
Could this be purposeful on LG's part? Amazon Wireless sells the LG Optimus G (with essentially the same parts) at $599 unlocked. The Nexus 4 doesn't come in a 32gb model, but the 16gb phone sells for only $349. Unless LG is getting one hel
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by czhiddy 14y ago
How so? You can use the phone just fine without an Apple account - you just won't be able to download any apps. Bookmarks in Maps works without having to sign into anything.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
> You could start by inter-operating with the rest of the Android community. I can't get a photo transferred from the S3 to GNexus over Android Beam. Drop this "S Beam" island nonsense. Communities Dominate Brands. Get on board. Samsung
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Not sure how you're getting the 2x fps sensation. On a 4S, using the OpenGL ES analyzer in Instruments while browsing similar neighborhoods at similar zoom levels, I average ~35fps in Google Maps and ~55 in Apple Maps. Not terribly surprisi
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Sure, you have the option of not using their app store. Any sane developer would realize that its financial suicide to ignore Google Play and release a purely sideloaded-apk app (or through Amazon's store, for that matter). Google charges t
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Aside from PCMCIA/ExpressCard upgrades, which are useless nowadays thanks to USB2/3, the only upgrades available to laptops are memory + disk. RAM is cheap enough where companies can toss in 8gb (soon, 16gb) without a second thought, which
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Any user who doesn't know what Gatekeeper's purpose is (and how to disable it) probably stand to benefit from keeping it on. I imagine these people are the ones most at risk for downloading malware. People who don't want/like the walled gar
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Were there any rumors/news/anything today that triggered the movement? AAPL is behaving more like a penny stock than the $500-billion behemoth it is. It's also interesting to see how its P/E is lower than Microsoft's now. Given the generall
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Better yet, encourage openness by funding/using OpenStreetMaps and strengthening their dataset. Nobody wins if Google/Nokia end up being the only owners of accurate map data.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Android fragmentation was never really about the resolution differences. As stated by the various Nexus 7/10 reviews out there, many Android apps on tablets are just badly resized phone UIs, but they're still functional. Badly coded apps mi
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Samsung now makes much more money on mobile than Google makes overall.(businessinsider.com)
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by czhiddy 14y ago
None of my half-dozen friends at Google have 20% time. I think the common joke that it's "120%" time might actually be accurate.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
> For all the weird ad/spam accusations I've heard against Android, it shocks me how much this seems to be an iOS issue. Your shock is misplaced, since this issue is rampant on both platforms. Shitty software developers will do anything
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by czhiddy 14y ago
> People in their 20s (just), 30s, 40s know about the Apple 'cool' factor but on a recent trip to SE Asia I would guess 60% or more of the teens were using non-iPhones. I can't speak for the rest of Asia, but judging by my extended fami
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Wall Street (among other people) has this belief that Apple products are a temporary fad. Their argument is that at some unspecified point in the future, popular sentiment will do a 180, and the company will fall off the face of the planet
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Just prior to their acquisition by Google, Motorola was planning on suing other Android manufacturers to collect patent royalties [1][2]. Some of the commentary I've read speculated that the Motorola purchase was done partly to avoid civil
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Aren't these FRAND patent fees handled through the actual baseband chipset manufacturer? From a logistics point of view, it seems like it would much simpler for Qualcomm to charge each of the licensees a fee for using the licensed tech pres
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by czhiddy 14y ago
> Guess what happens when the $45 A-Pad Android Tablet comes to the USA and UK? Absolutely nothing? The type of person that would buy the cheapest equipment available with no concerns other than price wouldn't have considered Apple to b
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by czhiddy 14y ago
The only ones hurt by low pricing will be the manufacturers. Companies with no software expertise and no way to differentiate themselves (basically all the Android OEMs at the moment) will become the Dells and the HPs of the mobile space.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Build quality issues were rampant when the device was introduced. I had to swap out my Nexus 7 twice because of loose-screen / screen-flicker issues. I did order it the day it was released, so maybe there were some unresolved factory qualit
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by czhiddy 14y ago
The post I was responding to praised Google for ditching LTE buzztech in favor of (among other things) better battery life. Real world data shows that this isn't the case - the "buzztech" actually provides an enormous boost to battery life.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
According to AnandTech, the Nexus 4 gets about half the battery life while browsing on 3G compared to the iPhone5 on LTE. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6425/google-nexus-4-and-nexus-...
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by czhiddy 14y ago
It's not? Have you even tried the app? I've been stitching together 360 degree panoramas with it since 2009ish.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Welcome to 2008? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth
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by czhiddy 14y ago
The issues do lie with Asus, but your average consumer isn't going to make that distinction. All they see is Google/Nexus branding.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
The hardware/software split is too simplistic a view. The companies have their various strengths and weaknesses. For example, the graphics stack on iOS embarrasses Android's. It took how many years and how many hardware advances before flag
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by czhiddy 14y ago
I spoke to my friend @ Intel a while back, and he said that the company viewed Samsung as their main rival (not AMD, not ARM). His argument was that Intel's main competitive advantage (and where the majority of spending/R&D happens) was
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by czhiddy 14y ago
I think most of the criticism is about how Zynga is completely devoid of creativity and originality. They're the software equivalent of Chinese shanzhai electronics manufacturers.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
"Oh my god! There's a chip! It must be used for authentication!" I'd read up on some analysis from someone with a EE background before I'd trust a shop that sells $650 headphone cables (Double Helix, the original source that Slashgear conve
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by czhiddy 14y ago
If you're ray tracing, you might as well use a vec4 for that sphere. :)

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