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Does it have a floppydrive?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have several pairs of headphones in my house and no floppy disks.
Whoosh, right over your head.
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Eh, who has a phone longer than 2 years now?
I don't (unless I break or lose phone). I try to keep using the same computer/phone/gadget for 3-4 years to get my money worth these days. I just feel like it's a rip off to ask me to shell out £500 every two years for new iPhone, £600 for new iPad and £2000 for new MacBook Pro (prices are my best guess, I think new iPhones actually go for as much as £700 with better specs). So I try to go using my current tech longe…
I'm still clinging to my iPhone 5. Im waiting patiently for the soon to be announced iPhone 8 and I am only buying the 8 because my poor 5 is starting to not hold a charge, and is totally out of space and OS updates have ended.
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#103What OS does it run? What type of SDK does it provide?
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#104Pardon the tangent, but here's a quote from their website:
> There’s a reason titanium is used to build rockets and replace bones. Unlike aluminum, which is what most phones are made of, titanium doesn’t scratch, dent, or bend.
The reason why titanium is used to replace bones is not its strength (though it certainly doesn't hurt). It's because titanium is the most biocompatible metal and has a capacity for osseointegration. Meaning the bone around it will fuse with the titanium.
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Batteries don't last that long still, last I heard you get about 1000 charges before you need to do serious maintenance to a phone, in which case you'll probably want the latest and greatest anyhow.
in which case you'll probably want the latest and greatest anyhow. Why, if it still works fine? //Nexus 7 (2012) user here
Oh and btw, it's very possible that speed is a software issue. Latest gmail app update tweaked a few things in how mailboxes are loaded and it's way snappier.
I have a moto g3 quadcore and 1G(maybe 2G)RAM. I cannot reason about slow performance for non gaming / pixel heavy stuff.
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#106Maybe I'm just buying into the marketing hype, but this actually seems pretty cool and I'm curious what the OS feels like.
The sub-sections underneath the "Phone" menu are Accessories, Materials, Colors, Screen, Camera, Specifications, Order. OS doesn't seem like something they want to discuss much. (They are all about this whizzy 360º camera though!)
Phone > Specifications:
System Architecture / OS
Android
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#107It is not available, it is still on preorder / reservation. What is the purpose of this blog post? Nothing seems to have changed in a couple months!
Those who preordered can now pay for the phone, as I have, and expect to physically have one in a few days.
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#108> Devices shouldn’t become outdated every year.
> Essential Phone will get guaranteed Android OS updates for 2 years and will get monthly security updates for 3 years.
That's honestly not much of an improvement, and I'm not aware of any current phones that are outdated after a year (unless you're one of those gadget fanatics who has to have the most cutting edge phone).
> we've tried to make our phone as affordable as possible.
$700 is affordable now? What world are we living in!? Silicon Valley, I guess?
> Simple is always better.
> we put nearly a year’s worth of development into making a camera that integrates into the body of the phone (without the tell tale camera hump)
Really starting to question their priorities at this point...
Maybe "essential" is the wrong word for what they're doing, because it seems like they spend a lot of time on things that aren't essential at all. Who needs a 360 camera? And who cares about a 1mm camera protrusion? And since when do we all agree that a 3.5mm headphone jack isn't "essential"?
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#109> Your phone is your personal property. It’s a public expression of who you are and what you stand for. No, it's really not. It's literally just a tool I use for communication.
Fair. But, it seems to me that having to choose between Android, iOS, or any other OS is an expression of who you are. For others, there are more properties that express them. /shrug
So, do tell. What does my choice of an iPhone express about who I am?
People seem to believe they can infer a very weird amount from a smidgen more than 1 bit of information.
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#110Pardon the tangent, but here's a quote from their website: > There’s a reason titanium is used to build rockets and replace bones. Unlike aluminum, which is what most phones are made of, titanium doesn’t scratch, dent, or bend. The reason why titanium is used to replace bones is not its strength (though it certainly doesn't hurt). It's because titanium is the most biocompatible metal and has a capacity for osseointeg…
But we can't let science get in the way of marketing copy, now can we?
(Thanks for the interesting tangent, btw)