comparing with N5, obviously it's too expensive.
Nexus 6
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Re: Nexus 6
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If I only wanted to use the core functions of the phone (browsing, calls, etc.), I would definitely buy a Windows Phone. It's just lacking a lot of fun, useful apps.
To be honest I only use Here Drive, ebay, weather and the built in apps (which are fantastically good) so you may be right however all the major names are there now. The mail client and search destroys all other devices if you ask me.
Love the keyboard too, and there's a really good Soundcloud client. Yep Windows Phone 8.1 is pretty kick-ass
Re: Nexus 6
#663Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be honest I only use Here Drive, ebay, weather and the built in apps (which are fantastically good) so you may be right however all the major names are there now. The mail client and search destroys all other devices if you ask me.
Love the keyboard too, and there's a really good Soundcloud client. Yep Windows Phone 8.1 is pretty kick-ass
Yep. I miss key a lot less than my old android. Plus I just found out you can download mp3s straight to storage and play them in xbox music.
I'm selling the kids' iPhones and getting them winphones so I don't have to deal with itunes.
Super happy.
Re: Nexus 6
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This will probably sound like a troll as I understand windows phone isn't popular here but my Nokia 630 lasts over 48 hours of medium usage EASILY on a tiny 1830mAh battery, has a perfectly sized 4.5" screen, has navigation that doesn't shit itself in the countryside and costs £99 SIM free off Amazon. The camera is shit but I tend to lug around a DSLR anyway if there's anything worth taking a photo of, so the phone i…
I considered the Nokia 630, but only having 3G is a deal breaker for me. I just got the Sony Z3 compact, which is smaller than the 630, has LTE, and a bunch of other advantages (better specs all round, front-facing camera, etc.).
They do a 635 with LTE as well.
I've owned a Sony android device (Xperia SP) Never again. Total bag of crap. Sold it and got a Moto G which was crap too. Neither devices could handle more than three tabs open without losing one and refreshing. The 630 can with half the RAM. I think NT scales down better than Android on handsets.
I'd have got the 830 if I wanted a camera phone but I lug a Nikon D3100 around.
Re: Nexus 6
#665The screen is a deal breaker for me too. I was super excited for this phone. It's a Moto X with all the stat bumps I really wanted. Sure the camera and battery are the weak points but both better than what I have in my 1st gen Moto X. But I don't want a phablet, so i'm out of luck.
Re: Nexus 6
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The average human has better than 20/20 vision. The average is actually closer to 20/16 to 20/12, and doesn't drop to 20/20 until 60 years of age.
Could I impose for a citation for this? A quick check indicates that in the industrialized world, between 50% and 70% of individuals require corrective lenses.[1][2] That seems to indicate that the _average_ human does NOT have 20/20. It's possible in developing countries less than half the population does not need vision correction, but I'm not terribly convinced. [1] National Centre for Social Research and Universi…
Most of those people (IME) need the lenses to correct for short-sightedness, which if anything would make them better rather than worse at discerning phone pixels.
Re: Nexus 6
#667Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could I impose for a citation for this? A quick check indicates that in the industrialized world, between 50% and 70% of individuals require corrective lenses.[1][2] That seems to indicate that the _average_ human does NOT have 20/20. It's possible in developing countries less than half the population does not need vision correction, but I'm not terribly convinced. [1] National Centre for Social Research and Universi…
> “Normal” visual acuity for healthy eyes is one or two lines better than 20/20. In population samples the average acuity does not drop to the 20/20 level until age 60 or 70. http://precision-vision.com/Introduction-to-Visual-Acuity-Me...
Thank you. I think I see where you're coming from.
That article has some interesting phrasing which I think is causing confusion. (For me at least.) It looks like they're using 'normal' to mean 'average in the range' some of the time and 'mean population visual acuity' other times. Mostly they're using the former. So 'normal vision' or 'average eyesight' refers to the range of 20/20 eyesight and not 'mean eyesight'. That doesn't explain that second sentence, though, which seems to go back to 'mean human visual acuity'.
At the very least, they could stand to revise the writing in that sentence. If they did mean to imply that the average person has 20/20 vision, I think they're going to have to provide a source. I did slightly more digging and I couldn't find any journal publications that list less than 60% of adults as having corrected vision. Either the remaining 40 have strongly superhuman vision or the number is off. I think there is at least one blind person (legally worse than 20/200) for every person with super human (20/10, the physical limit for humans) vision.
A simple numerical test based on that last point seems to illustrate the unlikeliness of a 20/20 average. To state again, 20/10 is the physical limit for human vision. Any higher and it's not physically possible to pack more photoreceptors into the retina or focus the pupil tighter. Bad (legally blind) vision is in the realm of 20/200. The National Federation for the Blind[1] shows there are roughly 6,700,000 blind Americans of all age groups. We will assume that they're exactly at the legal bound for blindness and not worse. To find how many superhumans we need to make the average 20/20, I think we can use (6700000200 + x10)/2 It's still possible that number is correct and that the average American has 20/20, but at this point the majority of the scientific publications and formal surveys do not support the idea. If you can find additional sources (I'm so sorry to keep asking), please let me know.
Re: Nexus 6
#668Earlier quoted context omitted.
> “Normal” visual acuity for healthy eyes is one or two lines better than 20/20. In population samples the average acuity does not drop to the 20/20 level until age 60 or 70. http://precision-vision.com/Introduction-to-Visual-Acuity-Me...
Thank you. I think I see where you're coming from. That article has some interesting phrasing which I think is causing confusion. (For me at least.) It looks like they're using 'normal' to mean 'average in the range' some of the time and 'mean population visual acuity' other times. Mostly they're using the former. So 'normal vision' or 'average eyesight' refers to the range of 20/20 eyesight and not 'mean eyesight'.…
No, the thing you are missing is that corrective lenses are a thing that exists. We're really quite good at taking someone with 20/100 vision and turning that into 20/20 or better.
Re: Nexus 6
#669Earlier quoted context omitted.
Love the keyboard too, and there's a really good Soundcloud client. Yep Windows Phone 8.1 is pretty kick-ass
Yep. I miss key a lot less than my old android. Plus I just found out you can download mp3s straight to storage and play them in xbox music. I'm selling the kids' iPhones and getting them winphones so I don't have to deal with itunes. Super happy.
I'm sure your kids will be thrilled.
Re: Nexus 6
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> Its simply too large for the average user. > Why can't smartphone manufacturers understand that a longer battery life is whats lacking in mobile devices? I think it's quite bold to speak in such factual terms when talking about the "average" consumer or the market. Your opinion does not necessarily apply to everyone, or even the majority of the users. Not that I disagree with you, mind. It seems to me that these ma…
Or, it's just that battery life is not something you realize when you're in the shop. You see the device, the screen, how responsive it is, but until you've lived a few days with the device you don't really know what the battery life is. So it's harder to market.
Or most people have their phones charging all day in their office and all night at home so it really doesn't matter that much.