I realise that not everyone is in the US, but Verizon Exclusive, really?
Edit: Ah, I was mistaken. Contract exclusive, still outright.
Oops!
Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone
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#22And yet not a single hard detail in the article as to why the headline might be true. For going on ten years we've seen the "iPhone killers" come and go, and this article does nothing to tell me why this time it will be different. Perhaps because it won't be. Of what very few details the article outlines, they just go on about nifty hardware. Have we not learned by now that cool hardware still sucks when hamstrung by…
Probably a case of the editor providing a clickbait headline. Remember, the title author and the article authors are often not the same person.
PS Plus, it's Bloomberg. Not really expecting much in the way of technical details from them.
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#23> Burke says the company will eventually be able to ship its own custom “silicon,” a buzzword for customized processors that make devices work better. Silicon is not a buzzword. It is the element with which the processors are built. Perhaps it's colloquial or jargonistic to refer to processors as silicon, but it's not a buzzword.
Hm. RISC-V processor?! That would be cool. Or it may just refer to some machine learning co-processor to be added to the Qualcomm SoC.
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#24> Burke says the company will eventually be able to ship its own custom “silicon,” a buzzword for customized processors that make devices work better. Silicon is not a buzzword. It is the element with which the processors are built. Perhaps it's colloquial or jargonistic to refer to processors as silicon, but it's not a buzzword.
It's synecdoche.
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#25All it needs to have in order to be a threat is a 3.5mm port.
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#26Why is Google still insisting (with 7.1) that the 3 navigation keys (menu, home and back) need to be on screen - either wasting real-estate or annoyingly hidden - requiring a swipe to expose them? Old Android phones used to have hardware or software keys that were off the bottom of the screen - and in fact my Xiaomi Mi Note Pro still does - it frees the entire screen for content. If the '3 keys' regularly changed mea…
I prefer screen ones to hard buttons. First of all, it can make using a wallet style case awkward. Second, hard buttons click, wear out, and have other downsides. And third, they can be hidden - this gives you more real estate when you want it.
Sorry it I wasn't clear - my current android phone has software buttons below the screen, so fine in a wallet case, no hardware button to break and when not in use the backlight dims and it's 'hidden' from me - see here: http://images.fonearena.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/...
I'm using the Kindle Fire a lot right now, and the on screen buttons suck - a pain to trigger, and when in a view where you have to have them all the time they eat up space, esp in landscape view. Android still feels like tablets and landscape use are an afterthought. I LOVE android, but this just really riles me, and has steered me away from android tablets for a while now.
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#27I realise that not everyone is in the US, but Verizon Exclusive, really? Edit: Ah, I was mistaken. Contract exclusive, still outright. Oops!
Exclusive for a contract. Outright on the google store is an option.
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#28So will it come with non-removable carrier crapware or not? That's the main selling point of the iphone for me.
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#29And yet not a single hard detail in the article as to why the headline might be true. For going on ten years we've seen the "iPhone killers" come and go, and this article does nothing to tell me why this time it will be different. Perhaps because it won't be. Of what very few details the article outlines, they just go on about nifty hardware. Have we not learned by now that cool hardware still sucks when hamstrung by…
>Now, Google is no Samsung, but they're a long way from Apple or even Microsoft on the UX front.
Not sure I agree with this. I've been on android for a while, so I'm sure I'm biased, but stock AOSP Android is pretty much perfect for me. Very minimal and aesthetically beautiful, but still powerful and customizable.