The Gadgetry Thread

[Raziel]

Yeah, iPhone users are amazed at shit Android users are already used to.

My wife has a Windows phone and just got the Cortana update. She constantly shows off to my father-in-law how much better than Siri Cortana is (in law is an iPhone user, who's asking me how the new stuff works.)

[Bustronaut]

In other news, iOS 8 is so much peppier that I have to keep reminding myself that I didn't actually get a new iPad, and it's still the same old slow thing I was using before Wednesday.  Any other changes are "whatever" but many it blazes now.

 

The predoctive text/autocorrect is pretty stupid out of the gate.  The first day it changed a lot of correct words.  Lost became lot, etc.

[evilwaldo]

This is interesting.

 

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/17/apple-says-incapable-of-decrypting-user-data-with-ios-8-even-for-government-agencies

 

Apple says incapable of decrypting iOS 8 user data, even for government agencies

[Raziel]

But the rolling iCloud backup still is.

[piranesi]

Anyone ever play around with a JXD S7800b Android gaming emulator thingy?  It looks pretty swank on Youtube.

[Dolfan in NYC]

Posted last night: 

[Tabe]

Apple phones are so awesome you'll come back from the dead to buy them.

[glfpunk]

I just wanted someone else to post first, what the fuck?

[Brian Fowler]

Presumably, it was a sponsored thing with a timed post and all that, and no one realized it was still going to roll out until after about a million people saw it.

[Petey]

I've been an Android guy since the day the original Droid launched on Verizon. Never had an iPhone or an iPod Touch. I was using my friends iPhone 5S (with iOS 8) and the predictive text is horrendous. I'm sure it'll get better in time but it was a huge step down compared to what I've been using.

 

Another friend got the iPhone 6 (not the plus). It looks nice and seems way better now that it doesn't have a baby screen. I'm just too entrenched into the Google/Android ecosystem to ever consider switching unless Apple manages to do something totally revolutionary again. I'll be more than content with getting either the new Moto X, Droid Turbo or heaven forbid Nexus 6/X.

[Zimbra]

I've had an old Galaxy Tab2 sitting around that was barely usable because it was so slow.  This weekend I finally got a wild hair to put Cyanogen mod on it, and now it's like a whole new tablet.  The installation was a bit tricky until I figured out that I didn't have the correct USB drivers, but totally worth it.

[Craig H]

Apparently the iPhone 6+ has an issue where the thing will bend from being in your front pocket, especially if you wear skinny jeans. I don't wear skinny jeans, but the amount of "well, wear loose jeans" comments out there annoys me. No. Make a phone that doesn't have these strange defects. Guess I'll wait on the 6/6+.

[Petey]

Must be growing pains.

[Cliff Hanger]

Yeeeeah, I am not a wearer of skinny jeans, but that just caused the GalNote 4 to take the lead in my next phone consideration.

[glfpunk]

I've actually been considering a Note 4.  But I'm not big on AMOLED displays so I'm def. going to wait to see what the Nexus 6 has to offer.  I looked at the new iphones and it seems like decent hardware.  Good screen and camera for sure.  But the OS was a dealbreaker. 

[evilwaldo]

Apparently the iPhone 6+ has an issue where the thing will bend from being in your front pocket, especially if you wear skinny jeans. I don't wear skinny jeans, but the amount of "well, wear loose jeans" comments out there annoys me. No. Make a phone that doesn't have these strange defects. Guess I'll wait on the 6/6+.

Meh, as phones get smaller this will be an issue for every brand.  

 

I don't see this as an issue unless you want a phone that is six inches thick and weighs five pounds.

 

Just a bunch of whining.

[Craig H]

Well, no, it isn't a bunch of whining because the phone is fucking expensive as shit. If you're paying that much for a phone, it shouldn't be as malleable as Silly Putty where you put the damn thing in your pants pocket and it gets warped. That's ridiculous. It's like the antenna issue from a couple years ago. How could this thing, again, go through QA without discovering it can be bent and warped?

 

However, it's ok. The iPhone 6s and 6+s will fix this issue next year.

[glfpunk]

That's kind of a weak argument anyway.  It isn't some revolutionary design that's thinner and lighter than any phone ever made.  I haven't heard other manufacturers having this issue. 

[Ace]

Replaced my stolen 2012 Nexus 7 with the 2013 model. Hell of a lot lighter.

[evilwaldo]

Yeah it is a whiny argument. IF the phone was thicker people would be complaining that it is uncomfortable in their skinny jeans.

Seriously, skinny jeans wearers are whining and haters pick up on it like kids.

Do you wear skinny jeans everywhere?

[Craig H]

Are you not reading what we're saying? It has nothing to do with the phone being thicker. There are other phones with that thickness that don't have that issue. It also isn't just people wearing skinny jeans that are whining. 

[evilwaldo]

I am reading it and it sounds like a lot of whining,  

 

You referenced people that wear skinny jeans.  Why do you see the need to get bent out of shape about it?

[Craig H]

I...what? 

[glfpunk]

This is classic.

 

I think the point is that if the phone actually bends just from it conforming from someones pocket in a short time, what other issues can/will arise from normal use scenarios? And will this incident of bending over a short time cause a weakness that could cause a breakage of some sort in the frame or screen?

 

Also just to clarify: iphones aren't exclusively sold to hipsters wearing skinny jeans.  There is a fairly large market of women consumers who might not dress in baggy cargo pants. 

[Craig H]

Nope. Just whining. FFS...