Okay I thought the camera on my Nexus 4 would kick ass but it sucks compared to an iPhone. The only way I'm going to purchase this 5 is if it has iPhone-esque camera quality.
Definitely agree.
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#112Engadget says no Verizon support. Is this true? I thought they had Verizon's LTE bands listed but I'm not very familiar with all this stuff.
They have one of Verizon's LTE bands but it's more likely that Verizon will block the phone. Their networks run on a whitelist.
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#113Engadget says no Verizon support. Is this true? I thought they had Verizon's LTE bands listed but I'm not very familiar with all this stuff.
Verizon's band 13 LTE (700 c-block) is not listed as supported, but band 4 is (AWS). Slim chance of connectivity if Verizon has deployed AWS in your region.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems to have become much less annoying in the Chrome beta. Have you tried it recently?
I just did, following your suggestion. Unfortunately, it's still the same unusable garbage. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnl8m9ioi9ric5v/2013-10-31%2020.04... - latest chrome beta (release looks absolutely identical) https://www.dropbox.com/s/867wrehnqsiu3oc/2013-10-31%2020.04... - CM10.1.3 stock browser
I dont think news.ycombinator.com is that usable on iphone either. I use ihackernews.com for 98% of my HN browsing.
Try it on your phone.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
>WebView is now based on Chromium Does that mean that there will no more be stock 'Browser' app? I refuse to use Chrome on Android because of brain-dead, non-disablable 'font-boosting' that makes (among many others) Hacker News absolutely unusable. If that means that the same engine is the only one officially supported on 4.4 forwards, then that's really sad and unfortunate.
Well, there's always Firefox and a whole bunch of other browsers if you don't like Chrome.
I just tried it, and it's even worse. While it doesn't do anything as brain-damaged as font boosting (at least not on HN), I uninstalled it after 45 seconds when I saw what it does to fonts. I don't care what it does wrong, but fonts definitely look different than on the whole OS and just generally bad. I know that getting this thing quite right isn't easy, but holy hell, is it annoying.
I'm too lazy for this shit. If there's no popular, working, desktop-class browser available for this platform, then, sincerely, fuck this shit, my next phone is iPhone, thank you very much.
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#117Still no qwerty slider. No thanks.
If I wanted to waste half my screen on a keyboard I'd buy an iPhone.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is in stark contrast to iOS, which runs on a phone released in June 2010.
The most recent iOS only now deprecated the iPhone 3GS which was released in June 2009. Up until two months ago a 4 year old device was still running the latest version of iOS. Why is Google unable to do the same?
It's not about Google.
It's because each OEM would have to obtain, merge and release a new Android image for each of their old phones that have the specs to run the new Android. And the images originate from chip makers (because Android needs kernel and probably some userspace support for a particular chipset). And same merging and releasing process applies for the chip makers as well.
I would suppose that all OEMs and chip makers are currently busy porting the new Android for their new phones that will be out in the spring or the summer.
For Apple, the backporting process is linear rather than NM.
Based on history, it seems that some* chip makers and OEMs are willing to port a new Android to their previous-generation devices sometimes.
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The Galaxy Nexus came out at the end of 2011. It can only handle the latest OS for so long...
I have iOS 7.0.3 on my iPhone 4S. Released a month before the Galaxy Nexus.
Have you gotten all the features, the iPhone 5S got?
Do you have the nice blurred Control Center background?
Android's Problem is fragmentation, and it wouldn't help at all to just backport some functions to older devices, because then developers coulnd't be sure about tthe availability of any API.
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