Android Thread - The only phones with patented Kernel Panic™ technology!
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[QUOTE=benjgvps;42422422]Decided that getting my Note II fixed was too stressful (Swefox said he would need to take a train to another city to pick it up...), so I said fuck it and used my brother's upgrade to buy a Galaxy Note III. He used my upgrade last time to buy his iPhone 4, so now we're "Even".[/QUOTE]
Let me recommend two apps:
Papyrus for note taking in general
LectureNotes (+ PDFView to make it work) to write on PDF files.
There is no app that allows you to annotate PDFs like LectureNotes does.
There are quite a few apps that allow you to annotate on PDF's: Adobe reader, EZPDF, Soonr scribble, etc.
But they're all absolute shit in usability. Most of them use the PDF annotation tools. e.g. In adobe reader you can [i]only[/i] write in thick red. LectureNotes is really awesome with importing PDF's.
Papyrus is better for note taking in general, since you draw in vectors and have infinite page sizes.
[editline]6th October 2013[/editline]
Also, the more you'll use S Note, the more you'll get frustrated with it. Sure it has cool features (formula/shape recognition), but it gets [i]really[/i] annoying when it matches it wrong.
[QUOTE=PieClock;42426128]I will have ~[B]£[/B]250 to spend on a phone very soon, and I want to go with Android. Should I go with a Nexus 4 or is there something better that I should go with? I'd like a decent screen size but not something stupidly big like the note, with Jellybean and fast enough so it doesn't feel sluggish.[/QUOTE]
You answered yourself. I use the Nexus 4 and i have to say it's pretty good phone, i've compared it to my friends S3 and S3 felt a little more laggy than N4.
[QUOTE=FPtje;42432227]Let me recommend two apps:
Papyrus for note taking in general
LectureNotes (+ PDFView to make it work) to write on PDF files.
There is no app that allows you to annotate PDFs like LectureNotes does.
There are quite a few apps that allow you to annotate on PDF's: Adobe reader, EZPDF, Soonr scribble, etc.
But they're all absolute shit in usability. Most of them use the PDF annotation tools. e.g. In adobe reader you can [i]only[/i] write in thick red. LectureNotes is really awesome with importing PDF's.
Papyrus is better for note taking in general, since you draw in vectors and have infinite page sizes.
[editline]6th October 2013[/editline]
Also, the more you'll use S Note, the more you'll get frustrated with it. Sure it has cool features (formula/shape recognition), but it gets [i]really[/i] annoying when it matches it wrong.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, I'll look into those.
Google Maps complaint: Why the hell did they have shaking your phone as the gesture to report a problem with the map? I was driving to a party in a rural area and the road was bumpy enough to make that window pop up in the middle of the navigation screen.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;42432686]Thanks, I'll look into those.
Google Maps complaint: Why the hell did they have shaking your phone as the gesture to report a problem with the map? I was driving to a party in a rural area and the road was bumpy enough to make that window pop up in the middle of the navigation screen.[/QUOTE]
That happened to me too.
The strange thing was, I was actually raging mad at the thing. I didn't touch it, but I was in the middle of navigating.
The popup screen made me rage even harder.
And I thought the Menu button at the bottom left was dumb. That's just retarded.
[url=http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/05/more-nexus-5-details-break-cover-in-leaked-lg-service-manual/]Nexus 5 confirmed for watered-down LG G2[/url]
[QUOTE=benjgvps;42432686]Thanks, I'll look into those.
Google Maps complaint: Why the hell did they have shaking your phone as the gesture to report a problem with the map? I was driving to a party in a rural area and the road was bumpy enough to make that window pop up in the middle of the navigation screen.[/QUOTE]
you can turn it off in the settings
[QUOTE=Zero Vector;42433671][url=http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/05/more-nexus-5-details-break-cover-in-leaked-lg-service-manual/]Nexus 5 confirmed for watered-down LG G2[/url][/QUOTE]
fyi: LG asked AP to pull that manual
it's 100 percent confirmed
I know I already have an s4, but i'm probably buying a nexus 5.
I wish I could. All the CDMA radios in it are Verizon, though.
Fucking Verizon.
[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1numoc/behold_samsungs_shoddy_crooked_galaxy_note_3_home/[/url]
The sheer amount of Samsung fanboy defending going on in this thread is absolutely hilarious.
Samshit fetishism. Physical mediums fetishism.
But I'm a huge digital proponent anyway, so the same could be said for me, just on the opposite side of the spectrum.
But the article is right, that much money should get you a device that's fucking perfect in every physical way.
I find it weird how many people defend the stupidest shit in mobile phones
I like my Note 2 but the pen sucks and I wrap all my phones with cases so I don't give a fuck about the plastic, but outright defending it despite glaring flaws is just laughable.
Only reason I'll ever buy Sammy is because shitload of ROMs and the Nexus 4 isn't on Big Red.
[QUOTE=sdwise;42434974]Samshit fetishism. Physical mediums fetishism.
But I'm a huge digital proponent anyway, so the same could be said for me, just on the opposite side of the spectrum.
But the article is right, that much money should get you a device that's fucking perfect in every physical way.[/QUOTE]
I've actually noticed that Apple is probably the best when it comes to getting physical design right. The buttons break cleanly without any give, defects are incredibly rare, etc.
[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;42435022]I've actually noticed that Apple is probably the best when it comes to getting physical design right. The buttons break cleanly without any give, defects are incredibly rare, etc.[/QUOTE]
Absolutely. Aside from the size, they're like Nokia (or Nokia is like them) in that regard. At a 4.7 inch screen size and a proper 16:9 ratio, I would use the hell out of an iPhone if it ran AOSP.
[editline]6th October 2013[/editline]
But I'm not sure how good the 5C is. It looks like slippery S3 plastic, so that's an immediate 2/10 for me.
[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;42435022]I've actually noticed that Apple is probably the best when it comes to getting physical design right. The buttons break cleanly without any give, defects are incredibly rare, etc.[/QUOTE]
higher inspection?
[QUOTE=Hubber the 1st;42434705]I know I already have an s4, but i'm probably buying a nexus 5.[/QUOTE]
Any reason why?
[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;42434858][url]http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1numoc/behold_samsungs_shoddy_crooked_galaxy_note_3_home/[/url]
The sheer amount of Samsung fanboy defending going on in this thread is absolutely hilarious.[/QUOTE]
I would have never noticed it if it wasn't for this article
Even then it barely wiggles at all (at least on mine) so I don't give a crap
Someone on Tumblr just complained that the Android tag didn't have any robots in it.
"Except for that little green shit."
It was tagged "robosexual"
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;42435333]I would have never noticed it if it wasn't for this article
Even then it barely wiggles at all (at least on mine) so I don't give a crap[/QUOTE]
You'd expect a 700 dollar phone not to have little build quality annoyances like that though.
[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;42435022]I've actually noticed that Apple is probably the best when it comes to getting physical design right. The buttons break cleanly without any give, defects are incredibly rare, etc.[/QUOTE]
That's not exactly true though. The amount of people with simply broken home buttons on iPhones is ridiculous. There's an app in the iOS appstore which mimics the home button, on screen, because so many people have broken home buttons.
[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;42435022]I've actually noticed that Apple is probably the best when it comes to getting physical design right. The buttons break cleanly without any give, defects are incredibly rare, etc.[/QUOTE]
My experience with Apple is that their QC is pretty erratic.
I know people who are still using a 4 bought on the day of release and have had zero problems with it, whereas all the buttons except for volume down and home stopped working on mine within 6 months. One of my mates has a 4S that has done countless pavement dives and only has bezel scuffs to show for it but his girlfriend dropped her's a few feet off a bed on to carpet and got spiderweb cracks front and back.
[QUOTE=mobrockers;42435590]That's not exactly true though. The amount of people with simply broken home buttons on iPhones is ridiculous. There's an app in the iOS appstore which mimics the home button, on screen, because so many people have broken home buttons.[/QUOTE]
Which isn't nearly as big a deal when you have Apple's service support.
Replacement is easy with them, and if this was actually a widespread issue, more people would be making noise over it.
Also speaking of glass front and back SO PARANOID ABOUT DROPPING MY N4.
I also remember reading somewhere that the iPhone home button was only rated for something like 25,000 presses before malfunctions are expected. That seems like a lot but if you think about how many times you hit that button, especially with double and triple clicks to trigger functions you soon burn through them. Take that with a pinch of salt though as I can't find a source for that info.
[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;42435626]Which isn't nearly as big a deal when you have Apple's service support.
Replacement is easy with them, and if this was actually a widespread issue, more people would be making noise over it.[/QUOTE]
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5483751/Photos/2013-10-07_00-22-44.png[/img]
[QUOTE=mobrockers;42435590]That's not exactly true though. The amount of people with simply broken home buttons on iPhones is ridiculous. There's an app in the iOS appstore which mimics the home button, on screen, because so many people have broken home buttons.[/QUOTE]
it's not an app (because that would never fly by the guidelines)
it's an accessibility feature
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;42435697]it's not an app (because that would never fly by the guidelines)
it's an accessibility feature[/QUOTE]
Oh right, my sisters iPhone was jailbroken, forgot about that.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;42435453]You'd expect a 700 dollar phone not to have little build quality annoyances like that though.[/QUOTE]
If anything I'd rather criticize the Note 3 on its AMOLED screen which is still not "perfect"
At lowest brightness, there's purple smearing if you got anything scrolling around pure black, and there's a weird luminosity gradient from bottom to top too. This completely disappears above ~35% brightness (and it's not that much of a big deal since the screen's energy consumption seems to be very good in my experience, even near max brightness), but it's objectively bigger problems than a button that can wiggle by the width of a hair
(despite these problems, the Note 3's screen doesn't crush blacks or oversaturate the colors like the previous Samsung phones did, so it's a hell of a lot better than it used to be. but it could still be even better)
[QUOTE=mobrockers;42435682][img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5483751/Photos/2013-10-07_00-22-44.png[/img][/QUOTE]
That's not something immediately broken.
There's a difference between a design defect and a wear item. By that definition, Samsung ships a defective screen with every AMOLED phone because the display is a wear item that will be unusuable within 3-5 years.
[editline]6th October 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;42435728]If anything I'd rather criticize the Note 3 on its AMOLED screen which is still not "perfect"
At lowest brightness, there's purple smearing if you got anything scrolling around pure black, and there's a weird luminosity gradient from bottom to top too. This completely disappears above ~35% brightness (and it's not that much of a big deal since the screen's energy consumption seems to be very good in my experience, even near max brightness), but it's objectively bigger problems than a button that can wiggle by the width of a hair[/QUOTE]
If you expected AMOLED to be better than LCD at this point in its development, I have a bridge to sell you.
[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;42435731]That's not something immediately broken.
There's a difference between a design defect and a wear item. By that definition, Samsung ships a defective screen with every AMOLED phone because the display is a wear item that will be unusuable within 3-5 years.[/QUOTE]
Of course not, I'm just saying not everything on the iPhone is held to that high a standard. Most people I know who've had iPhones ended up having broken home / power buttons.
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