The great combined Smrtphone OS thread

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by Jodi

Wife actually loves the windows phone and is angry that MS is dropping it.

She went to use an android phone and was instantly pissed off with it, as everything was slow and nothing made sense.

Wasn't much impressed with an iphone either.

Grandma it's even worse, so we are going to give her our old windows phone 7.

There's got to be a name for that. The irritation at the necessity to have to migrate technology to keep up.

[The Edge]

I liked my Windows Phone too, but it sucked once Microsoft really took it over and got rid of the Nokia branding. I use Android now and a lot of things are a bit better.

Although, speaking of Nokia...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/g...in-new-zealand

[crocos]

If you really miss Windows Phone, I don't know about other brands or if this is a general Android thing, but Huawei has a mode with a simple interface that permits just the apps you want, and turns off ~80% of Android's advanced features. Sure your battery last a week and the interface looks very Windows-Phone-ish but then you can't DO squat other than your pre-permitted apps.

[[fe]]

WTB a smaller size phone ~ 2009 with min-bevel. Not likely to happen.

Realised I've never seen a windows phone in the 7+ years they've been available.

[crocos]

p13, every damn time:
http://explosm.net/rcg/pbskprdrb

[crocos]

Verizon and Palm, of all outfits, have created the phone Ab wants...

However it's Verizon-exclusive and not sold as a phone by itself, but as a plan add-on instead.

[Ab]

The phone I want already exists, it's the iPhone SE. Goddammit.

[Ab]

Google gave a $90m severance package to Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android mobile software, but concealed details of a sexual misconduct allegation that triggered his departure, the New York Times has reported.

According to unnamed sources who spoke to the Times, Google investigated and found credible claims from a female employee, who said Rubin forced her to perform oral sex in a hotel room in 2013.

Soon after, Larry Page, Google’s former CEO, asked for his resignation. However, the company continued to pay him millions of dollars in installments of $2m a month for four years.

Page praised Rubin when he left the company, saying in a 2014 public statement: “I want to wish Andy all the best with what’s next. With Android, he created something truly remarkable – with a billion-plus happy users.”

Last November, the Information exposed that Rubin had an “inappropriate relationship with a subordinate”, which violated company rules. At the time, a spokesperson for Rubin stated the relationship was consensual and not a misconduct violation because the female employee did not report to him, emphasizing that his decision to leave the company was unrelated.

According to the New York Times report, it was not the first time Rubin had got into trouble. In another instance, current and former Google sources told the Times, Google docked his bonus after security found bondage videos on his work computer.

Rie Rubin, his former wife, who divorced him this year, said in a civil suit that he engaged in “ownership relationships” with several other women while they were married.

In an email he sent to a woman in 2015, that was included in the suit, Rubin wrote: “Being owned is kinda like you are my property, and I can loan you to other people.”

Rubin, who joined Google in 2005 after the company acquired Android, was an integral part of growing its success. Often referred to as “the father of Android”, the engineer and entrepreneur created the software now used in 80% of the world’s smartphones.

wrap it up

[pxpx]

All those android poors better be throwing their rapey phones into the bin right now!

[Lightspeed]

If we start throwing out such rapey things, would there be anything left?

[Jodi]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

would there be anything left?

Windows phones!

[Ab]

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/sa...23-p51gb3.html

#samsung #quality #androidlife

[DrTiTus]

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/1...te-millennials

#samsung #verticalvideoproblemsolved

[Lightspeed]

Damn phones with more memory and a better screen than my desktop.

OnePlus 7 Pro

[pxpx]

try this link https://www.tomsguide.com/us/oneplus...view-6472.html

[Lightspeed]

Thanks, I was on mobile, waiting for cheeseburgers.

[CCS]

Boy, 11, lucky to be alive after charging tablet burns hole through his bed

"It serves as a stark reminder not to leave items charging on materials that could catch fire when hot," he said.

Yeah sure, everyone should have an asbestos pad they can leave their device on while it charges.

[Ab]

#samsung #quality #androidlife

[Ab]

https://apple.news/AD0SJ2hrrSa62Et69jaPhcw

Apple's chief design officer, Jony Ive, is leaving the company

[CCS]

Originally Posted by Ab

#samsung #quality #androidlife

Whoa there fella. #samsunglife. Don't tarnish all Androids with Samsungs battery failures!

[mr selfdestruct]

Windows is dead Ab!
$33.7B in revenue last quarter

[Ab]

How much of that was Windows Phone OS?

[mr selfdestruct]

What is a 'Windows phone' ?

[Ab]

wooosh

[Ab]

Apple just fucked up bad on privacy:
https://daringfireball.net/2019/08/siri_privacy_trust

[Ab]

lol the galaxy S8 keypad screen can’t send DTMF tones because Samsung

[CCS]

So Google got to Q and couldn't think of a dessert? Good job.

If Q is 10 then working back, then Android 1 is Honeycomb? Maybe Google likes the sound of 10.

[MadMax]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queijadinha

Yeaaahhh can’t see that happening.

[CCS]

Quindim would've been fine.

[Ajax]

Quince jelly

[CCS]

Or even Quint's Jelly.

[crocos]

Small form factor phone fanciers rejoice! The iPhone SE is back!
https://www.macworld.com/article/353...s-release.html

... but porkier, having grown from a 4" to a 4.7" screen

[Ab]

Originally Posted by crocos

Small form factor phone fanciers rejoice! The iPhone SE is back!
https://www.macworld.com/article/353...s-release.html

... but porkier, having grown from a 4" to a 4.7" screen

Bring back the goddamn IP4 form factor, 3.5" is perfect.

Nevertheless I care more about the new SE than any other phone. TouchID has always been awesome.

I mean, insofar as an unemployed person gets to care about phones.

[mr selfdestruct]

Stop projecting your penis size to your preferred phone size Ab.

[Ab]

I've got your projection right here

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasb.../#2d61be161b2a

all the way to CHINA!

[OdditY]

Got a new SE, up from old SE.

It does indeed rule. Works properly with water on it and when its plugged in (both things the old SE was bugged on)

[[fe]]

An iphone 5S made its way into HQ the other day (so light!). The 4/5 is one of if not my favourite piece of mobile phone design along with the nokia n9.

[Ab]

I still use my IP4 (mostly as an AppleTV remote) and it's a perfect 2D size. If it were a bit thinner and a bit lighter that would be my ideal form factor. Plus TouchID.

[Lightspeed]

[mr selfdestruct]

Google Pixel 5 - Everything you want in a phone. Perfect. Purchased.