Android Thread V4 - Got money? Samsung Galaxy S II. No money? ZTE Blade. - Hardware & Software

Just got Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830. Good choice?

To those complaining about the Galaxy Nexus' short battery life! [img]http://www.furstatic.com/lobo/randomcrap/battery.png[/img] 2 days, still had 13%. Stock battery, no battery-saving apps... running GPS (when applicable), Wifi and Data with weather apps and facebook and the like, with moderate usage. (Updating apps, responding to messages).

[QUOTE=Gubru;33826647]To those complaining about the Galaxy Nexus' short battery life! [img]http://www.furstatic.com/lobo/randomcrap/battery.png[/img] 2 days, still had 13%. Stock battery, no battery-saving apps... running GPS (when applicable), Wifi and Data with weather apps and facebook and the like, with moderate usage. (Updating apps, responding to messages).[/QUOTE] Looking at your screen ON and Awake stats, you probably have some wakelocks or something

How do I disable the auto-startup of G-talk on ICS? There's no option to disable auto-sign-in. :/

[img]http://www.imgur.com/3XgfW.jpg[/img] I think I need a new browser. What can you guys suggest?

IF that doesn't show up all the time but goes up and down, then it's pretty much normal as the browser is rendering a page or so. But if it stays red all the time, you have a problem. Personally I [B]love[/B] Opera Mobile (or Mini for mobile internet). [I] Funny thing is that the destkop version is my least favorite browser[/I]..

[QUOTE=Ezhik;33827161][img]http://www.imgur.com/3XgfW.jpg[/img] I think I need a new browser. What can you guys suggest?[/QUOTE] That was happening to me too, so I switched to opera.

I love Boat Browser, very awesome with neat transitions between pages. :D

[QUOTE] "Apple has had quite a week in patents for the iPhone, and it's only Tuesday. First was the victory at the International Trade Commission over HTC. And now there's a shiny new patent on switching to an app during a live phone call (#8,082,523). There may be non-infringing ways of doing something similar, but they probably will be clumsy in comparison."[/QUOTE] [url]http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/2343258/apple-patents-using-apps-during-calls[/url] Someone go make a thread

[url]http://phandroid.com/2011/12/21/apple-awarded-patent-on-in-call-app-switching-multitasking-smartphones-sound-familiar-to-you/[/url] now I wish the planes on 9/11 targetted Apple's HQ instead.. FlamingSpaz are you serious? :(

[QUOTE=Ezhik;33827161][img]http://www.imgur.com/3XgfW.jpg[/img] I think I need a new browser. What can you guys suggest?[/QUOTE] Opera Mobile

Or try safari

Alright, I've tried searching but so far nothing. Recently my SGSII updated to 2.3.6, and now when I double tap the home key to bring up the voice command, nothing happens. I actually used it a lot, did it get moved around from the last update?

[QUOTE=iCole;33827298][url]http://phandroid.com/2011/12/21/apple-awarded-patent-on-in-call-app-switching-multitasking-smartphones-sound-familiar-to-you/[/url] now I wish the planes on 9/11 targetted Apple's HQ instead.. FlamingSpaz are you serious? :([/QUOTE] Hang on a second, Apple tries to make the iPhone capable of multitasking? Or are they just jealous that every other smartphone can?

[QUOTE=Van-man;33827668]Hang on a second, Apple tries to make the iPhone capable of multitasking? Or are they just jealous that every other smartphone can?[/QUOTE] It'll be an iOS9 exclusive. Older handsets won't even get iOS9 :v:

new iphone 5 this one can do what all the other smartphones in the world have been doing for the past 3 years

I thought it already did multitasking

[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;33827292][url]http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/2343258/apple-patents-using-apps-during-calls[/url] Someone go make a thread[/QUOTE] iPhones can't do that already? Even my old, cheap, shitty Spica could do that...

[QUOTE=Ezhik;33827161][img]http://www.imgur.com/3XgfW.jpg[/img] I think I need a new browser. What can you guys suggest?[/QUOTE] Holy dumb fuck. I've never seen go that high before. Maybe 30 MB max.

[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;33827292][url]http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/2343258/apple-patents-using-apps-during-calls[/url] Someone go make a thread[/QUOTE] What the ffffffffffff wow Apple, right when I enjoyed watching iGenuis in business class

On the subject of UK speeds, I'm running Vodafone UK Nexus S (ICS) and on my standard 3G connection (no HSDPA) I'm getting 5.5mbps down and 2.2mbps up. I need to go to other rooms to test HSDPA and that's a lot of effort.

it uses 100 MB even with no tabs open... Sadly it is still the best browser that I've ever used :-(

[QUOTE=Jacko2007;33828395]On the subject of UK speeds, I'm running Vodafone UK Nexus S (ICS) and on my standard 3G connection (no HSDPA) I'm getting 5.5mbps down and 2.2mbps up. I need to go to other rooms to test HSDPA and that's a lot of effort.[/QUOTE] how the fuck I only get 2000kbps or so, if I'm lucky

I don't like opera because it doesn't use android UI and never loads pages in background

Intel showing its first android phone [IMG]http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2011/12/1571e131f4c666997499063d386f6ab1.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]The guys over at Technology Review were lucky enough to get a sneak-preview of Intel's reference designs—devices which have been sent out to inspire manufacturers interested in building products around Intel's latest technology. Intel hopes that its first all-in-one mobile processor design can strip away some of the luster from UK-based ARM, which currently dominates the Android market. The Technology Review team actually got their hands on a pair of Medfield prototypes running Android: a phone similar in size to the iPhone, running Gingerbread, and a tablet close to the iPad 2 in thickness, running Ice Cream Sandwich. So, are they any good? From what they say, the phone seems promising. They report that it could play Blu-Ray-quality video and stream it to TV, and that web browsing was smooth and fast. Apparently the Medfield chip is designed specifically to speed up Android apps and Web browsing, so that probably has something to do with it. Elsewhere, the camera seems impressive. With a burst mode which captures 10 full-size, eight-megapixel images in 0.66 seconds — equivalent to a rate of 15 frames per second — it seems real effort has been put into the image-processing capabilities of the devices. The Intel tablet, which uses the same Medfield chip as the phone, runs Ice Cream Sandwich. With a slightly larger screen than the iPad 2, it was about the same in thickness and weight, and their short trial suggests that it was much nicer to use than many current Android tablets. Which isn't that hard, but it sounds promising. Of course, there's the ever-looming question of battery life that has dogged Intel's mobile efforts in the past. All that power could mean a whole lot of drain. Still, Intel's wanted a piece of this market so badly for so long, one hopes that they wouldn't be diving in unless they'd really cracked it. Intel VP Stephen Smith told Technology Review that Intel "expect products based on these [chips] to be announced in the first half of 2012." But with these references designs already with the big manufacturers, might we see some early announcements at CES in January? Let's wait and see. [Technology Review via The Verge; Image: Intel][/QUOTE] [url]http://gizmodo.com/5869995/this-is-the-first-intel+powered-smartphone[/url]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;33828517]Intel showing its first android phone [IMG]http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2011/12/1571e131f4c666997499063d386f6ab1.jpg[/IMG] [url]http://gizmodo.com/5869995/this-is-the-first-intel+powered-smartphone[/url][/QUOTE] inb4 Apple sues Intel for "copying" the iPhone

that phone looks pretty sexy

It honestly does resemble the iphone but that's what apple gets for making a cuboid for a phone.

lock button and volume rocker are switched sides copyright THAT, apple

[QUOTE=iCole;33828610]that phone looks pretty sexy[/QUOTE] You must think the iPhone is sexy too