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LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Post by digi_owl »

dandrews wrote: post #68
mikeash wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, the obsession with thinness drives me batty. My iPhone barely makes it through the day sometimes. I usually have no problem, but occasionally I find myself around 9PM and my battery is down to 5% and I have to plug it in somewhere. This leads me to plug it in more than I strictly need to, just to ward off these moments. This would all become a non-issue if the battery were twice the size. Then my phone might…

My daughter would disagree with you in re: thinness. The newer thin iPhones are easier to pocket - women's fashion being more form fitting than men's. It's a trade-off that she and presumably lots of other people are willing to make.

Time for people to stop bending to fashion and buy sensible clothing then.

Also, i could have sworn that Galaxy Note was a hit with with ladies as they put them in handbags rather than pockets...

Not that i know much about fashion, as my wardrobe is stuffed with cargo pants.

Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Post by throwaway41597 »

danielconde wrote: post #50
throwaway41597 wrote: post #47

- Replaceable battery is always good - Proper camera handle and better DAC too, but not as mutually exclusive modules What I want is: - A robust and replaceable bumper that integrates with the design (i.e. isn't ugly). The phone should not be designed as if the user isn't going to slap an ugly case on it. - A hole for a wrist strap so I don't worry I'm gonna drop my phone. All cameras have one, but now that phones ar…

Those are excellent points. Old small flip phones sometimes had a small place for a strap loop so you can fish it out of a bag by the strap, and of course also to hold on to it. Phone straps are popular in Japan, and I've seen some that connect to the headphone jack, but it doesn't really work well, so the sturdier ones connect to a bumper. A bumper-design (maybe a groove to hold a bumper) is a good idea too. One can…

All agreed. I'd add that the market is slowing down, so bumpers could end up bringing more profits. First, customers would be more willing to invest in higher margin products if the device was more robust and likely to last. And manufacturers could sell official bumpers with advanced shock-proofing, a nice metal finish, perfect fit to the case, many different colors, ...

Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Post by digi_owl »

danjayh wrote: post #64

Interesting phone, horrible article. Typical of the modern Engadget, the article is light on facts and heavy on superlatives. For instance, I had to head over to some random Android website (androidHeadlines) to find out that yes, it does have Micro SD card support, and that it has 32GB of built-in storage (pathetic, Engadget). I do really like the idea of extensive expandability, but I wish it could be standardized…

More likely than not, Ars is likely to piss all over the device because it uses that "fragmented" Android. This even though they hired an Android guy to write about the topic some years back. He seemed to have fallen in with the party line quite quickly.

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Post by mikeash »

dandrews wrote: post #68
mikeash wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, the obsession with thinness drives me batty. My iPhone barely makes it through the day sometimes. I usually have no problem, but occasionally I find myself around 9PM and my battery is down to 5% and I have to plug it in somewhere. This leads me to plug it in more than I strictly need to, just to ward off these moments. This would all become a non-issue if the battery were twice the size. Then my phone might…

My daughter would disagree with you in re: thinness. The newer thin iPhones are easier to pocket - women's fashion being more form fitting than men's. It's a trade-off that she and presumably lots of other people are willing to make.

Which is why phone makers should make some variety here. Make thin phones for people who prioritize size, make thick phones for people who prioritize battery life.

I'm not saying every single phone on the planet should be the kind I want....

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Post by digi_owl »

danjayh wrote: post #70
klausa wrote: post #69

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God forbid a tech site writes about anything else than phones, tablet and laptops. The horror!

I realized the irony of complaining about Engadget going inappropriately off-topic and then doing so myself, and edited that out. Trying my best to stay on the rails :). I do stand by my opinion that even their tech-focused articles are horrible these days, including this one. To anybody reading this now -- klausa is not just writing crazy replies, I did previously have a blurb about a graphically explicit non-tech E…

On that note, the last time i read Engadget actively was back when they edited hockey masks on all faces on Friday 13th.

Sadly all the big sites head this way. Likely because their owners are breathing down the editors necks to be more "hip and social conscious".

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Post by dandrews »

tdicola wrote: post #40
mkesper wrote: post #36

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The article stays the phone goes dead and reboots when changing modules.

And this is a problem because?

Because (at least on my Moto X 2012, Android v5.1 Lollipop) rebooting can take upwards of ten minutes. Some OTA updates apparently trigger an 80-some-odd module "optimizing" run, which I presume is ART doing its AOT thing. If you're in a hurry to use your phone this can be maddening.

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Post by joenathan »

colszowka wrote: post #33
protomyth wrote: post #31

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To be fair, the Newton allowed you to change batteries with power still supplied. It used watch batteries. Switch one battery or the other and keep everything. People aren't asking for the world, they're asking for something that's been a solved problem.

To be fair, no cat video watching on the Newton though

The HP TC1100 Windows XP tablet had hot-swappable batteries, granted you had to put the device to sleep first, but was ultra convenient.

Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Post by digi_owl »

notatoad wrote: post #48
mattmcknight wrote: post #43

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Not 5.0, and it's the applications, not Android. Things like the Kindle app and most Google apps refuse to run from, or store data on, the SDcard. My Galaxy S5 is constantly full, so full that the OS can't upgrade, even after I clear 5GB of space. I have a an SDcard where 100GB of 1TB is used, but am always running out of space, even after all of the apps that allow being moved the SDcard are moved there. It's a real…

In Android 6 (the version of Android that is installed on the device this thread is about) SD cards with high enough speeds can be adopted onto the system storage and the combined size appears as a single block of internal storage to apps, they don't know they're running off an SD Card.

I'm iffy about that adoption system, as it also makes the cards useless as removable/swappable storage.

This because the adoption process formats and encrypts the card, thus anything stored on it can only be accessed from within the device that adopted it.

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Post by maxerickson »

danielconde wrote: post #29
noobie wrote: post #23

Rant. It really bugs me when consumers ask for more features regardless of their feasibility, here we have a great phone with changebale batteries and yet we ask for it to be still on while we swap the batteries! Hasn't it occurred to us that maybe it's technically difficult to add in a supercap. Just be thankful. This is like constentaly asking for phones with more RAM and processing power, I am really glad Moore's…

I agree. With automobiles, people seem to be more aware of the constraints and the balance of capabilities to make a vehicle that fits a segment. I.e. sports cars aren't always comfortable. One day, people may understand tradeoffs in phones and realize that long battery life may require a thick phone.

Of course no true sports cars have it, but some cars claiming to be sports cars have dial-a-mode for their suspension. Driving to work? Select smooth and comfortable. Driving for fun? Select performance.

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Post by throwaway41597 »

darklajid wrote: post #20

My "is it worth even thinking about a particular device" litmus test is "can it run CM". Unfortunately that's impossible to tell for future devices, most of the time.

Totally agreed. Also it's hard to tell for current devices as reviewers, such as Engadget, Ars or GSMArena, never mention it. It's surprising given that tech review sites target many power users.
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