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Are you jailbroken?
Also, is it possible to download media through the browser and play it on the device like you can with Android? I never tried it out but if I were to download an album or a movie in MP3 or .mkv format, is there a Downloads section or something that I can tap the file and it plays in the native player?
Also, is it possible to download media through the browser and play it on the device like you can with Android? I never tried it out but if I were to download an album or a movie in MP3 or .mkv format, is there a Downloads section or something that I can tap the file and it plays in the native player?
Ah, that's true. I wonder if Cydia has a workaround for that.
I downloaded the leaked first episode of Shameless on my phone and watched it on there. It's a real convenient thing to be able to do, and the download was pretty fast on my 4G connection. To me, that's actually a huge feature and if iOS doesn't have it then I don't know how those people live. I'd hate to be bound to a computer just to get a file on there.
I downloaded the leaked first episode of Shameless on my phone and watched it on there. It's a real convenient thing to be able to do, and the download was pretty fast on my 4G connection. To me, that's actually a huge feature and if iOS doesn't have it then I don't know how those people live. I'd hate to be bound to a computer just to get a file on there.
Well, there are some neat tweaks I use on my iPad. Activator is one of them, which is a more user friendly (I think) version of Tasker for Android. And then there's SmartClose that hibernates apps "intelligently." And I use CCleaner to clear out all the cache files, much like I use TiBU on Android to do the same. My sister is big into social apps, so Vine, Tumblr, IG, etc. all build up a cache in the GBs after just a few weeks, so she uses that app to clear all that shit out because I don't think there's another way to do so.
I am lurking.
The fingerprint sensor on the S5 is not as good as on the Iphones, but also it seems like it's a hit-or-miss thing now - those sensors.Some companies are ignoring it completely, like 3D on TVs. We'll see how it develops.
The S6, new HTC One, LG G4 and perhaps Xperia Z4 are just around the corner though, and it's going to be quite exciting, because not much has been happening for the past.. almost 2 years. The downside is the most high-end chipset right now is the Snapdragon 810, which is a "waiting phase" product between Krait and Taipan (or whatever they'll call the new core) based on stock ARM cores based on an old 20nm process. Samsung moved to 14nm on similar cores, which is already better, and Nvidia have superior K1 on Denver cores, although it's not popular at all.
Not much has changed except Iphones catching up to the rest of the world.. almost..the screens, bezels and OS didn't yet - all had mixed feelings changes to them though.
iOS just sucks. I always felt that way about it on phones but now even on the iPad it's a bit retarded. I still haven't used an Android tablet and experienced tablet use with widgets properly. I had the TouchPad with Android on it and it was ok.
The finger print sensor seems to be huge pluses for my dad and sister in unlocking their phones. It works pretty well for them. Neither complains and my dad uses it a ton to make calls and answer pages so we're talking 20+ times a day it's being used.I was really hoping the S5's sensor was adequate at at least unlocking the phone. Doesn't it serve as a pulse sensor as well, for S Health or something? I could be wrong. But I hope that the fingerprint at least works 90% of the time.
I tried face unlocking for a bit and it was nice, but I felt like a tool in public trying to unlock my phone.
About your Snapdragon comment, http://www.androidpit.com/htc-one-m9-benchmark-leaks-online-revealing-specs-and-horsepower
Another phone (flagship) shipping with it.
Did I just find a reason to not upgrade my phone again because this Snapdragon thing is like a placeholder until the big stuff gets released whenever in the future? It's a losing game, I know, to keep waiting. I'm not desperate to upgrade though.
The finger print sensor seems to be huge pluses for my dad and sister in unlocking their phones. It works pretty well for them. Neither complains and my dad uses it a ton to make calls and answer pages so we're talking 20+ times a day it's being used.I was really hoping the S5's sensor was adequate at at least unlocking the phone. Doesn't it serve as a pulse sensor as well, for S Health or something? I could be wrong. But I hope that the fingerprint at least works 90% of the time.
I tried face unlocking for a bit and it was nice, but I felt like a tool in public trying to unlock my phone.
About your Snapdragon comment, http://www.androidpit.com/htc-one-m9-benchmark-leaks-online-revealing-specs-and-horsepower
Another phone (flagship) shipping with it.
Did I just find a reason to not upgrade my phone again because this Snapdragon thing is like a placeholder until the big stuff gets released whenever in the future? It's a losing game, I know, to keep waiting. I'm not desperate to upgrade though.
This doesn't matter. Just because they earn more revenue, it doesn't make their products any more appealing from user's perspective. When you are selling the most expensive devices on the market that cost significantly less to make than competing devices, and figure out how to sell lots of them (which they did) it's bound to happen.
Do you know that in China, to make a phone sell it has to either have a gold color option, and Android phones NEED to have 8 CPU cores? Qualcomm changed their whole roadmap and design for their custom core (instead of 2-4 wide, awesome cores they will use 4-8 of average efficiency) just because of the growing Chinese market and.. Mediatek being considered superior there because they had a 8-core (although super shitty) CPU there first.
This doesn't make such phones any better, but people are buying them almost exclusively. God knows why, but they do, and the world wonders why so many gold-colored phones are appearing everywhere, even though it doesn't seem like anyone would like to get caught using one from our perspectives. So the fact that something sells well to some people doesn't always make it an awesome choice either.
In my opinion, each to their own. I have an Ipad Air and while I like the hardware, I consider it the functionally challenged/retarded tablet for youtube videos and web browsing when it seems more cozy than reaching for the PC. I can't count on it to get shit done, or be convenient for general tasks that I use my computer for. While Android phones are just phones and not as convenient, I can get shit done there when needed and have peace of mind.
With Ipad, I once took it to a business trip instead of a laptop. It was hell, spending half of the meeting paranoid, trying to download that power point presentation and make final corrections to an excel table. I downloaded a browser that allows to download files and it was super slow, when it finally worked, it crashed my Ipad, after restart MS Office didn't launch because of some common glitch I was googling there. I had to ask someone to download a file from that website, atach it to email and send to my private gmail, and then managed to download gdocs and open, although it made it look messy and wasnt a convenient process as well. And they're such basic things that on Android would be natural - just download, open and edit. If you wanna send something, you do it easily in so many ways.
I have all of my work files grouped in folders on my phone's SD card and I can easily access all the information there at any time, and they're shitloads of different file formats. On iOS, I couldn't even begin doing that.. because there is basically no way to store files. So to me, I still like using my Ipad these days, but grew to see it as a very primitive device if it comes to usability, but it's quick to use for basic entertainment and googling.
Since that story, however, I'm even more paranoid with iPads, and use them only when there's PC around. In reality, it's not leaving my house, and spends 99% of time on my sofa for when I wanna do super basic things like quickly check something on the interwebs. For me, it's not understandable why Apple chooses to cripple their OS as much and how they can get away with it. I consider myself a minimalist, I keep only what I need/want on my phone, so half the stock apps are gone and I have maybe 15 installed in total. I appreciate that Android allows me to customize, but I appreciate having the option to do things I might need to do, and wouldn't feel comfortable not having such option, especially knowing it means paying more. What seems logical would be if Apple were like "ok, we've got a product that won't do as much, and it's overly tied to our ecosystem, but because of that you get it for cheaper and it's nicely designed". However, it's the opposite with the price part. It's just not reasonable, logically. But I understand that Apple created their own reality around Iphones, that affects Iphone buyers, and people with very simple requirements can actually be happier using those products. I also recognize that I'm not one of them. since design wins are not worth the rest of the whole package.
At this point I really don't care about the Apple vs. the rest of the world thing since I owned a Macbook Air and still have Ipad Air, which are really greatly designed pieces of hardware (also tech design), but I don't consider Apple's software to be on par, or Iphone's hardware to be on par with what I can easily get elsewhere. That's why for me, the Iphone is like that golden Xiaomi, or 8-core CPU that doesn't do much work. Even though I can observe it selling and having its fans, it's just not something I would recommend to a friend - because people buying such devices have their minds simply set on it, and don't give it much thought, they just like the idea, and hey, I can't argue with that, it wouldn't make sense, I sometimes make some decisions just because I feel like it as well, even if someone tried to convince me logically not to, it wouldn't work and I'd be happy in my bubble. Some people just have the convenience of being able to stay in one, and they're happy there. It's all good unless they're trying to claim there's nothing outside of it though.
Just my story, after a long break.
Also, update and another story:
Life is very unpredictable at times. Currently I am working at a Korean telecom that makes the world's fastest LTE networks, and fastest fiber optic broadband projects. I work on a big ass EU-funded infrastructure project, currently the biggest telecom project in Europe, I'm one of the managers for it.
But the senior manager I work with was moved here from sales dept.. The reason I mention him is because he contributed to making the Iphone enter the East-Asian market. This company was the first to sell it there, and now half of the people in Korea use Iphones.However, within company, it's not allowed (unless it's a secondary device for private use), even though we have lots of ipads and iphones at the office to give as gifts.
Koreans say that they perceive Iphones as more of luxury items, and that's why they sell so well, because they like items that are western and make them feel more rich and blend in, since they associate it as one of the most popular products of the western world, even though in reality their own Samsung sells better. That was an interesting perspective to hear.
Life is very unpredictable at times. Currently I am working at a Korean telecom that makes the world's fastest LTE networks, and fastest fiber optic broadband projects. I work on a big ass EU-funded infrastructure project, currently the biggest telecom project in Europe, I'm one of the managers for it.
But the senior manager I work with was moved here from sales dept.. The reason I mention him is because he contributed to making the Iphone enter the East-Asian market. This company was the first to sell it there, and now half of the people in Korea use Iphones.However, within company, it's not allowed (unless it's a secondary device for private use), even though we have lots of ipads and iphones at the office to give as gifts.
Koreans say that they perceive Iphones as more of luxury items, and that's why they sell so well, because they like items that are western and make them feel more rich and blend in, since they associate it as one of the most popular products of the western world, even though in reality their own Samsung sells better. That was an interesting perspective to hear.
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