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On The Verge since Jul 30, 2013
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$249 seems reasonable. The 3DS launched at 249 as well, and that had less to justify that price than the Switch does.
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Bendgate was never a real thing. The phone bent a little because people sat on it. You’re not supposed to sit on it. End of story. The media just blew it way out of proportion, as if you were supposed to be able to sit on your phone.
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Still, the difference between one every 24 hours, and not a single one after a month, is much too big. 285 000 phones are still out there.
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I’m starting to suspect it may have been sabotage. We can never be entirely sure, and the theory does sound outlandish, but the signs are there. Phone released, fires start. Samsung suspends production, begins investigation, issues replacement batteries, fires continue. Then production is terminated, and end of story. Like not even a single incident in a month, last month one was catching fire every day. 285 000 phones is still quite a lot of potential fire hazards, yet not one has caught fire. Someone may be pulling the strings here don’t you think?
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Google Messenger (the SMS one) isn’t a required app either, and almost always the OEM ships its own solution instead of Google’s. Hangouts is now optional as well.
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That’s the problem. There are a hundred people in your friend’s list all thinking "I’ll do whatever everyone else does."
Few have the balls to actually try something new and encourage others to do the same. This is how monopolies are born. Especially so in social media and communications. But when a lucky few projects take off, they take off in a big way: there are no lasting small players in this field, everyone is big, and the small ones come and go.
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This article is missing critical info. Huawei’s entire launch event was focused on reducing aging performance, improving battery and camera, and yet this article quickly skims over the latter two while completely ignoring the former.
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The criticism isn’t that Apple is taking away, it’s that it’s taking away trying to make money off it. If they truly cared for their customers, they would ship every MacBook with the C, A and HDMI adapter, because that’s what customers expect from a laptop. Yet somehow, in a $1200+ machine (in the case of the rMB, and even more for the rMBP), they couldn’t find it in them to take a small profit margin hit to ship out a cheap dongle they sell for $80 instead.
There’s also a lack of consistency. Their laptops and phones now have two very similar ports that are alas, incompatible with each other. You can’t even connect your iPhone to your laptop now with the tools given out of the box. And that’s before mentioning the audio jack situation. You now have earphones from your iPhone that don’t even work on your Mac anymore. Your iPhone no longer includes a DAC, because it’s now up to audio equiment OEMs to take a hit on their margins and include one in their products.
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Battery life is expected to be a strong suit on this model. 54.5Whr battery vs 49.2Whr, and the CPU is the 15W, not 28W. They probably claim 10 hours on the Touch Bar model cause they don’t want to admit that that model has worse battery life than the cheaper one, and that they’d rather delight customers moving into their $1499 Pro than underwhelm customers of the $1799 model.
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That will be arriving with Android Nougat.
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But a Note 7 will burn a hole in your pocket.
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What colors? This is the only one the US is missing.
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We also knew things about the 810 and 808 (2015’s chips), when the 805 had just started shipping back in 2014.
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16, student and part-time online journalist
Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, 6 month cycle (usually go with flagships, but sometimes go for the lower-cost devices as well)
Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8" 2015, 2 year cycle
Laptop: Samsung Series 5 Ultra 13" 2012 with Ivy Bridge, 5 year cycleThe laptop has lasted an impressively long time. Bought it as Ivy Bridge first launched, and it was the only one I could find with the chip at the time. Battery life sucks, even after replacing the battery, but everything else is great. Is built like a fking tank too, spilled hot chocolate on it once, dropped it twice, and has no signs of damage. As speedy as the day I bought it, without ever doing a full wipe.
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pointing out that LG’s software has defaults you don’t like isn’t a reason to knock the phone if said settings can be changed. That’s more of an FYI aspect. Also, favorite apps, quick tools, and audio controls alone justify the second screen (though I understand your assessment of the signature and recent app screens as I stopped using those within the first week). Furthermore, presence of carrier apps is the carrier’s fault; again, not a reason to knock the phone.
If the defaults are there and set, and you have to jump into settings to change it, then it’s entirely likely at least half the general population never will: most of my relatives haven’t the slightest idea how to navigate the settings menu of a typical phone. So, in that sense, it is LG’s fault.
And the latter is too. Google showed us that Android OEMs CAN get a say in what apps their phone launches with, even if the Pixel’s initial launch is limited to Verizon. It’s time for companies to step up their efforts and stop their bullying from carriers.
Although I do agree the score is too harsh. An 8 would be much fairer.
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Because this photo is a result of Google’s image processing. The iPhone 7 could’ve taken a nice shot, which could then be edited into something similar to the shot above, and same goes for the Galaxy S7 in RAW mode, but it definitely couldn’t have taken this shot out of camera.
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So you would rather there be a continuous string of text next to the back button?
" < Back to YouTube home page O [] "
" < Back to WhatsApp message from mom O [] "
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Price. The $199 iPod Touch is half the cost of the iPhone SE, and also $70 less than the iPad mini 2 which comes with older tech in a big body. It’s still a fantastic entry point into the iOS ecosystem for those who want to play around in it, and also a solid gaming device.
And it’s also peace of mind for parents who want to give their kids a device without the worries of a full-on phone.
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