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Do a factory reset and you have to log into the original owners samsung account

Not just Samsung... all Android phones. Though usually it's your Google account, not your Samsung account, that you need to authenticate to prove ownership after a factory reset. (In fact, even Samsung says it's your Google account; so I think maybe you're confused about that.)

This feature, called Factory Reset Protection (FRP) by the Android team, was implemented in both iOS and Android 4-5 years ago,, to comply with a California state law that mandated it. For Android, it was launched in May 2016, in Android 5.1. Although it is only legally required for devices sold in California (AFAIK), it's generally a very good idea. Device theft was rapidly ballooning into a huge problem, but thanks to FRP has ceased to be a significant issue. If you set a password on your phone, thieves get no value from it.

However, there's no reason that FRP-locked devices have to be destroyed. At least in the Android world, device makers install keys on the devices which can be used to bypass FRP. These keys are only accessible to authorized refurbishing centers, of course, because if they leak to phone thieves then the purpose of the feature is defeated.

Last I checked (Q1 2018), the mean revenue per user for paid apps and in-app purchases was so much larger on Apple's App Store than on Google Play Store that it outweighed Android's larger user base: "$5.08 was generated per device with the App Store during Q1 compared to only $0.47 with the Play Store."

With the exception of the market for tools to develop smart phone applications. If you develop such an application on any computer other than a Mac, it will be Android exclusive, and Android users tend to be less willing to pay for apps than iOS users.

So your logic is that Apple should be broken up because its users pay more for apps? Because Android people (disclaimer: I am one) are cheap fuckers, Apple should get broken up?

That some type of liberal logic?

Android has more users and more apps, but the users are freeloaders so we should break up Apple...

Okay there sparky............

Smart phones? Last I heard Android outsells iPhones by 10-1, worldwide.

Last I checked (Q1 2018), the mean revenue per user for paid apps and in-app purchases was so much larger on Apple's App Store than on Google Play Store that it outweighed Android's larger user base: "$5.08 was generated per device with the App Store during Q1 compared to only $0.47 with the Play Store."

You have alternatives in every market they are in.

With the exception of the market for tools to develop smart phone applications. If you develop such an application on any computer other than a Mac, it will be Android exclusive, and Android users tend to be less willing to pay for apps than iOS users.

Fun part I recently ran into with Huawei phone that friend was using. You can't install VLC on them any more through play store. You have to get APK package from elsewhere.

Apparently, Huawei has some out of spec handling of battery management that interferes with many apps, and VLC folks just had enough. So keep that in mind if you want to get one:

https://www.androidcentral.com...

Oh clever little man, you posted a link that says your Apple product will just wear out if you leave it plugged in, not explode. But then, there are these exploding Apple products, which is it? Do they suck because the battery wears out when plugged in, or do they suck because they explode if left plugged in? Or both?

It would seem that A) from the news reports and B) Apple's own blogs that the answer is "both". Not like we had to ask.

Now scurry away and fix your products.

No. Apple's statement is that you might experience reduced battery life if you leave your product plugged-in. That's because Apple's guidelines for best-practices include a suggestion that you do at least a monthly deep-cycle discharge and recharge. That isn't Apple's suggestion; it's the battery industry's.

That's because LiOn/LiPo batteries, no matter who's device they are in, while not experiencing much "memory effect" (look it up), DO experience SOME "memory effect". This, plus the fact that the internal controller chips inside these batteries become slightly miscalibrated over time of many shallow discharges, and a deep-cycle keeps them calibrated. This is most certainly NOT an "Apple Thing:

https://www.androidcentral.com...

https://lifehacker.com/5875162...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/...

So yes, facts ARE "clever".

Now go away.

...non-removable...

You can disable Bixby. I have.

I do wish I could find a way to re-purpose the dedicated button, though. It's just wasted real estate now.

Umm no ass-hole. Ellison claimed Google took stuff from Oracle. Which is true. As a court ruled: Google owes Oracle for unfair use of Java in Android. https://www.androidcentral.com...

Google was unable to develop their own language for Android so they used Java, hoping to tap into that eco system. Which is ironic since Google also berated the Java language.

Coming soon? Here's an article from 2012 detailing how you can set up your Android phone to emulate the iPhone X.

Last I read, only a Chromebook in developer mode can sideload APKs, and in developer mode,

You should read more often:
https://www.androidcentral.com...

Google is moving radidly into the full PC desktop space with ChromeOS aka Linux (check out Crostini [chromeunboxed.com]) and they already have a lock on the cloud productivity space.

Are you high? ChomeOS is a blip in a rounding error of the market share.

Are you drunk? Chromebook shipments surge by 38 percent, cutting into Windows 10 PCs. Chromebooks are perennial Amazon bestsellers. Chromebooks hold a majority of the US K-12 market. Chromebooks can do everything Android can. Time to sober up. Or don't, nobody cares about your Slashdot upchuck.

Did I mention, Chromebooks are pretty damn secure.

Why don't you just buy AT&T service indirectly from an MVNO? AT&T gets the bare minimum from them for tower service and you get a decent plan at probably a better price than you're paying. Here's a list of all the MVNO providers that use the AT&T network.

How many times do people charge their phone off a "public" USB charge port in an airport or on public transportation? Any one of those ports could be trying to slurp confidential data.

If you rely on either your phone's security, or trusting whatever 3rd party provides a charge port, you're doing it wrong.

Just use a charge-only cable that has only power wires, but no data lines in it. Or bring an AC -> DC adapter as well, and use an AC mains outlet. Or bring a powerbank. Or charge from your laptop.

And hope your phone doesn't have the blueborne vulnerability which renders all of your efforts moot.

Google bought Android when they were already developing a smartphone OS. It originally was going to compete with the Blackberry, as early prototypes had a Blackberry style keyboard and windows-style task switcher. Once the iPhone came out, they redesigned the OS to be touchscreen-based.

Android Pre-iPhone:
https://www.androidcentral.com...

Android Post-iPhone:
https://support.t-mobile.com/_...

Young folk are crossing their eyes inward and squinting their way to near blindness.There's other blindness too, one of the tech articles actually says, "due to lacking developer support and no proper optimizations for the OS on the big screen" Like it's rocket science. To me it's like saying, "Google tried (and failed) to make the Android OS -- which scaled up to read and use comfortably on a tablet, to their great astonishment and horror -- to be as vision-destroying and glare sensitive as smartphones displays riddled with car-key scratches. Which are now the 'gold standard', go figure."

Like bigger type is a bad thing. Weird.

Isn't this ridiculous to say, even to claim when trying to divine some grand corporate purpose? Let's take a real trip back in time, say 600 years to the 'golden age' of illuminated manuscripts, even early moveable type. People were not struggling to make type smaller, they were trying to communicate to a wide audience. This includes people over 30. People over 40 have some other interesting personal habits too that help them to dismiss the 'disadvantages' of tablets... such as women carrying purses and men with briefcases, which they don't lose track of. These weird people would think nothing of toting a piece of electronics around that held as many books as a library, or gave them that actual 'videophone' or even 'speakerphone' and 'electronic book' that was PROMISED decades ago in sci-fi literature.

But instead of just scaling up the smartphone by improving its sound quality (real speaker, low distortion, loud, anyone? Anyone?) and marketing it to the people who don't mind carrying large things around (yes 9" x 12" is large), they reproduced the worst sound the smartphone could make and crippled its cell phone capability, like a mean afterthought. It was a mechanism to force you to consume cell data plans. In order to achieve this we must discourage its ability to conveniently make voice calls.

Which is one of the reasons the elderly are starting prefer basic phones now. They have the smarts to use them but not the vision to see them, and don't need the aggravation and expense. With a direct campaign and decent product that easily and effectively replaces a cell phone they could have been convinced.

But I am massively disappointed by the fact that Google have erased the Nexus line and expect me to jump up to a top-tier phone...

In Android land, you get the flexibility to pick a whole selection of devices with personal customization. But it also means you get quite the trade-off. Cheap and you get bloat and no-update or Google-tier and you get expensive hardware and get updates. Compare to iPhone land, iPhone only gives you one option, Apple-tier expensive hardware and get updates. After all, if you want updates you need to pay devs to update your device somehow.

Depend on your preference, picking an iPhone might be your easiest and best choice at providing you long update cycle. But if you really want your current Nexus 5X to last a little longer, you could spend some time to install a custom rom still supported after the end of support from either xda-developers or lineageOS. If you donation or pay the devs there, they will be encouraged to continue to support your device, keeping it up to date.

There's Android One but after reading their website I still can't figure out exactly what the hell it is.

What is Android One - tl;dr devices where manufacturers have committed to give clean android updates to the device. As for how long, it will be at least 1.5 years after device launch.

You can buy them by clicking on the devices at the website. If not, you could just copy the device name and ebay / amazon it to Australia. It's not that hard if you really want one. Not to mention, they are cheaper than Pixel phones.

Pixel phone on the other hand is still directly supported by Google and get 2-3 years at device launch (1-2 years remaining).

The "release date" isn't really comparable to iOS release dates. Google releasing Oreo is just the starting point of the development cycle. The phone manufacturers then get it (in its final form) and adapt it to work with their hardware. Then the carriers get the phones and modify it again to their liking (they shouldn't be able to do this, but that's the way it currently works - Apple managed to negotiate contracts which prevents carriers from messing with the OS). The date when the carriers release the update to the phones on their network is the equivalent of the release date when Apple puts out an iOS release.

Google got Oreo out on their Nexus and Pixel phones because they control both the software and hardware on those (like Apple does with the iPhones). That's the 1%. The phone manufacturers are mostly still working on adapting Oreo to their phones. If your phone is rooted, you'll be able to install the update then. If it's not rooted, you'll have to wait yet again for your carrier to mess around with it before it's finally released to your phone over their network. So technically, for the vast majority of Android users, Oreo still hasn't truly been released yet.

It is available for the most popular mobile OS too

I opened Google Play Store on my Galaxy Tab A 8" and searched for apple music. Many of the top 16 results imitated the Apple Music eighth notes icon, but not one was published by Apple. I opened Chrome on the same tablet, navigated to your comment, and clicked the link to the app only to see a notice in Google Play Store: "Your device isn't compatible with this version." Nor does it give me a list of devices, and I've noticed the app is also incompatible with a lot of other Android devices.

Is Apple manufacturing an incompatibility to make Android look more fragmented in order to encourage Android users to switch to iOS on grounds that iOS is less fragmented?

Funny how other phone manufacturers don't seem to have the "phone shuts down when it is cold" bug that Apple had and was the excuse to throttle old devices.

Also funny Apple didn't just have a message saying "Your battery is worn out. Please visit an Apple store for a repair. In the meantime you may see lower performance".

Posting as AC to avoid undoing mods.

You are a either a moron, or are willfully ignorant.

Do about 2 seconds worth of Googling, and you will see EXACTLY this issue for EVERY phone OEM, including the supposed "bulletproof" iPhone 4s and 5.

But Samsung, LG, HTC, et al., ALL have multiple reports of "sudden shutdowns" when battery charge is in the 50% or lower range, and/or the phone gets cold.

Here's some random examples:

https://us.community.samsung.c...

https://us.community.samsung.c...

https://forums.androidcentral....

https://thedroidguy.com/2016/1...

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers...

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgv20...

https://forums.androidcentral....

https://forum.xda-developers.c...

https://androidforums.com/thre...

https://android.stackexchange....

https://discussions.apple.com/...

http://iphone-tricks.com/tutor...

https://apple.stackexchange.co...

So, it appears that Apple actually found a REASONBLE software fix for an INDUSTRY-WIDE problem.

Their ONLY "sin" was in not being clear about the fix.

Funny how other phone manufacturers don't seem to have the "phone shuts down when it is cold" bug that Apple had and was the excuse to throttle old devices.

Also funny Apple didn't just have a message saying "Your battery is worn out. Please visit an Apple store for a repair. In the meantime you may see lower performance".

Posting as AC to avoid undoing mods.

You are a either a moron, or are willfully ignorant.

Do about 2 seconds worth of Googling, and you will see EXACTLY this issue for EVERY phone OEM, including the supposed "bulletproof" iPhone 4s and 5.

But Samsung, LG, HTC, et al., ALL have multiple reports of "sudden shutdowns" when battery charge is in the 50% or lower range, and/or the phone gets cold.

Here's some random examples:

https://us.community.samsung.c...

https://us.community.samsung.c...

https://forums.androidcentral....

https://thedroidguy.com/2016/1...

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers...

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgv20...

https://forums.androidcentral....

https://forum.xda-developers.c...

https://androidforums.com/thre...

https://android.stackexchange....

https://discussions.apple.com/...

http://iphone-tricks.com/tutor...

https://apple.stackexchange.co...

So, it appears that Apple actually found a REASONBLE software fix for an INDUSTRY-WIDE problem.

Their ONLY "sin" was in not being clear about the fix.

Just to let you know there's a hard(ware) brick and a soft(ware) brick.

soft brick = bootloop, software error, recoverable without professional repair
hard brick = cannot boot, not recoverable, it's basically a paper weight
what-difference-between-hard-soft-brick

If I could get one of these with a modern processor, screen, etc. I would.

https://www.androidcentral.com...

Your information is several years out of date. On "newer" versions of Android (basically any phone made in the past 3-4 years)

Let's correct a common misconception to help open a few eyes; there's a few grim reasons for the "out of date" statement... it's not that out of date. Here's the gist of what turned out to be a long post:
"Android has had granular permissions for a while" only affects people on Android 6 (Nov 2015) and newer. It's just December 2017. Most people repeating the factoid also don't tend to consider that there's only a near-coinflip chance (46 versus 54 per hundred) that their Android-wielding listener lacks that assumed protection due to grim realities in Android version penetration issues.

To see why Android usage is an important part of smartphone versions, here are some numbers. Smartphones make up about 35+ % of site visits with some projections from 2016 estimating 2017 ownership at close to 5 billion around the globe. Though /.ers have known that Apple had a commendable granular permissions setup for a long while, about 85% of those worldwide smartphones are on Android.

I can't find numbers on whether Android phones for most non-tech folks are OEM-upgraded flagships phones. Apparently Apple and Samsung (and HTC) dominate the vast majority of phone purchases, so perhaps things aren't too bad given the first 2 are known for expensive flagships. Flagships are important because other phones in Android land usually get stuck with no updates, and even dare ship with the Android version from a year or two PRIOR to their release date.

Version SIX is where all the touted granular permissions came out for Android.. That it was a new feature back in 2015 is discussed on paragraph 3 of this read for a beta of what was released some months later in 2015. This other read is more useful but puts up an anti-popup warning)

I bought an LG G3 phone in May 2015, (it had been LG's newest flagship 12 months earlier and had already been phased out by the G4 when I bought it). It runs a version 4.4 build that I did not bother upgrading to v5. Apparently version 6 did get released over the air for my carrier, but today is first I've heard of it. That release was in May 2016. Marshmallow, Android version 6 came out in November 2015.

We're STILL in 2017. This permissions empowerment is slightly over 2 years "new", not 4. The number TWO is also associated with the years a US contract lasts out there*. There are probably a thousands of US consumers out there that are still tied to that contract with a phone built with the old all-or-nothing permissions model, or just got a new phone with that model, living under 2 years of app tyranny.

Versions 6 and 7 of Android have this model, but only make up 46 percent of Android phones as of September, but this leaves a whopping 54% of Android users in the all-or-nothing world. Here's a chart from Sept 2017

It feels good denying random crap to apps. Maps wants "Contacts" "Location" "Phone" and "Storage". It freezes when I deny it location access, but the funny thing is, it then lies about this:
"This app won't work properly unless you allow Google play services' request to access" Calendar, Camera, Contacts, Microphone, Body Sensors, SMS, Storage. Notice that even with the new model, that shows a clear, dubious discrepancy be

Sony Xperia XZ1, Android 8.0 Oreo

On the market since weeks.

https://www.androidcentral.com...

Ok, my phone was not in English so couldn't check the real name in
English : privacy guard. My rough translation turned out to be stupid.

Again, this was less about my privacy and more about attack surface in an app that wnats to be seen as highly secure.

I respect that, but these privacy enhancing steps do reduce the attack surface too to some non-trivial extent. E.g. when you use Xposed to block some method call by the app, the real code to , say, obtain your contacts, is not run, but Xposed shows the middle finger to the app.

Remember - permission by itself doesn't hurt you unless it is used. By the app intentionally, or after being hacked. Xposed prevents the usage of the permission. It doesn't prevent the method being called - but it does the next best thing - implementation is changed to a much simpler one protecting your data as well as reducing attack surface.

It would be best to not have all that attack surface area, but we need to live in reality.

https://www.androidcentral.com...

...but the Xiaomi Wi box is supposed to be superb and available for $70.

I think you mean the Mi Box . I don't see Nintendo letting that fly having another device that hooks to your TV and plays games with a name that's phonetically the same.

What's the deal with Google and HTC? and From the Editor's Desk: HTC x Google These seem to be well thought out and in more depth than many. It sounds like Google and HTC complement one another pretty well in what it takes to succeed in the smartphone business, and it also sounds like Google is getting excellent manufacturing at a very good price. I wonder how long before they also have a product that competes well with MS Surface?

I assure you that when you have little internal storage and can't get rid of dropbox, Uber, and other apps, it is a problem. You may not be forced to use them, but you are forced to let them eat up your valuable available storage. This problem is real, and I have had to deal with it.

So the whole "problem" here has been mischaracterised and it's just a simple matter of needing more storage space. Looks like there's lots of solutions or buy a phone that is supported by LineageOS.

You can still install from unknown sources, only now the system manages that in a more fine-grained way. Read: https://www.androidcentral.com...

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Netflix is the server; The client (s) are the web browsers requesting domain name resolution.

You couldn't be more correct- and since the client (web browser/netflix) did actually make the request to the glibc nss mechanism, the glibc nss mechanism also allowed it, and forwarded it off to the systemd-resolve daemon, who also allowed it, tossed it through its punycode IDNA library, and then forwarded it to its system-configured resolver, everyone in that chain agreed it was perfectly valid. libidn2 simply had a bug where it removed the underscore. This bug is acknowledged.
You've defeated your own fucking argument so many times everyone here has lost count. You are not a very literate person. I suspect that could be corrected with a little effort on your part.

Donald Trump uses a plain off-the-shelf Samsung, probably a Galaxy S3.

I was referring to the policy option in Windows and Android not to perform some background downloads over connections that the operating system believes to be metered. (See metered connections in Windows and metered connections in Android.) Which operating systems offer a way to make the operating system believe the connection to be metered only during certain hours?

A Chromebit or Chromebox as described here: http://www.androidcentral.com/... coupled with a portable Bluetooth or USB dongle-connected keyboard and mouse should work. We've been playing with these for signage but trying them out at home or at hotel rooms. They plug into HDMI TVs or monitors, and you can even install Ubuntu on them for a full stand-alone experience. (See https://www.reddit.com/r/chrom... for example.) Yes, you can find Windows alternatives, but what's the point?

One of the biggest reasons Android conquered mobile was the cheap price. If you wanted to get a $150 smart phone off-contract, you can't get an iPhone, period. Most of us in the tech industry or in comparatively wealthy neighborhoods are walking around with a $600 smart phone. But Android consumed the market because a McDonald's employee could walk into a Best Buy and get a $100 LG Android phone.

So most people can't vote with their wallets. I don't know if this is reliable, but look at the one put together by Android Central for devices receiving security updates last month: http://www.androidcentral.com/... It's horrifying. There are devices on that list that are cheap now, like the Nexus 5. But I don't think anything on that list was below $400 when it launched.

Only if Google provides a mean to get the OEM unlock code. Sony has a website you can go to, but not all their phones are unlockable.

Google does not provide the carrier unlock code, the carrier puts that on, enforces it and removes it. I was talking about the bootloader unlock like here for the Nexus 5x

Carrier locking is more of a problem with the unregulated US telecoms industry, here in the UK carriers are required to unlock my phone at my request. Not that I've bought a phone from a carrier... ever. Living in Oz and the UK means that I could buy off the shelf phones that worked on most if not all carriers. Its the same with Iphones, if you want that carrier unlocked you have to talk to Verizon or AT&T, not Apple.

I still firmly belive that carrier locking should be outright illegal.

Don't know what OS, but he is using a Samsung Galaxy S3.

http://www.androidcentral.com/...

http://www.androidcentral.com/...

Uncanny valley must be the explanation for how I feel about full HD TV, from the mostly razor sharp pixel image to the overbright picture, which still is washed out in dark parts (due to inferior LCD technology, not as good as PAL/SECAM CRT TV), grown up people who talk like kids, obviousness of stage lighting and such (but real world places aren't immune to the uncanny valley either), and even the fact that 16:9 is too wide.

Close an eye and try to assess what your field of vision is. Not Cinemascope!! With both eyes, it's wider. YET the horizontal field of vision you focus on or have good vision on is really shallow, and there's about as much vertical as there is horizontal. You only have too look at VR stuff to see how's a real world's human eye field of vision :
http://www.androidcentral.com/...
I had found dual, raw small LCD or OLED panels for VR application (one per eye) on the web, can't find them again but aspect ratio is about 1.2, a far cry from 1.7777777.

Real life isn't wide LCD displays with sharpen filter and weird grey blacks. Weird how VCRs (disclaimer : I didn't live in NTSC land) were more lifelike than that.

Or maybe it's because Note 7 sales only accounted for 0.6% of 3Q 2016 Android sales. (2 million Note 7s vs 328.6 million Android handsets sold (autoplay video warning). Yes, Android sales for the quarter were nearly 1.5x the iPhone's typical sales for a year. 2016 sales figures aren't in yet, but in 2015 Android sold 1.2 billion units. The Note 7 sales would only be 0.17% of that.

The only people who make a big deal about the Note 7 fiasco are Note 7 owners, Samsung stockholders, and Apple fanboys (where TFA comes from). Compared to Android's overall sales, Note 7 sales were a drop in the bucket. Every single Note 7 owner could've switched to iPhones and you would've needed 3 significant figures to even notice.

Google needs to start working with vendors in the markets that use these lower end phones to make secure and reliable hardware. If there are a couple vendors making reliable phones for the ultra low end, with Googles official support and endorsement, it could go a long way in killing the market for these sorts of devices and win them a lot of favor in places where they might not be so highly regarded.

Google created Android One as an attempt to do exactly this. But people who sell phones that are subsidized by malware creators are able to sell those phones for even less. Go figure.

There's no pre-empting going on. Apple is not the originator of these ideas - they may be talking about adding them to the next iPhone, but Android has had them for close to 7 years. My Samsung Galaxy S (the first one they made) didn't have physical navigation buttons - it had capacitive touch buttons and used the phone's vibrate module to generate haptic feedback. The navigation buttons were simply a separate touch-sensitive OLED display. Heck, my current Nexus 5 does the same thing except the buttons are part of the main display (has been since Android Honeycomb).

The media is just dominated by Apple fans who refuse to tell the truth and say that Apple is copying Android with these "new" ideas, or who have never taken a serious look outside the iOS ecosystem so they have no idea what else has been available for close to a decade.

You're no longer limited to 256kbps outside of the US, you get full LTE rate.

http://m.androidcentral.com/go...

In that case they're telling people to go to the store where they bought their phone. Most carriers will give them a substitute Samsung phone to use in the interim. Supposedly, Samsung is also providing loaner J-series phones, though I haven't seen details.

The delay for a replacement is apparently a combination of a shortage of Note 7s using non-Samsung batteries (their battery division is new, and apparently not quite ready for prime time). And time to get FCC approval for a Note 7 with new batteries (probably made by the same Samsung battery division).

Tuesday, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:13 pm EDT

1.4 billion active devices worldwide, how exciting!

http://www.androidcentral.com/...

So far, my objection is that they don't work well. I got a BT hands-free headset, and had the idea of listening to audiobooks on my commute. Nope - after a while, my Android phone somehow borked the volume. It plays so soft I can't hear the thing. Until this tech gets much more reliable, it's too early to kill the analog jack.

In the US at least the state can demand you to give your fingerprints to them: http://www.androidcentral.com/...
That doesn't mean you don't own if of course. But what is owning?

Yet another reason not to buy apple products

If Apple gets away with this, everyone else will follow.

You mean if Motorola gets away with this. http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-z-doesnt-have-headphone-jack

Predicted Fandroid answer: Apple is again latte to the party.

It depends on how intrusive or useful this is. Featured ads when I am searching generally (for food for instance) that are appealing would be fine, and fit in with what you see on other search pages (amazon, yelp, other companies do this). If it shows up in a way that it makes my search longer however - less welcome. If I'm searching for an address and have to dismiss an ad to get to it, google maps on my phone will have for many situations become unusable. It already takes ages to load.

So what other apps are out there worth using? Android Central - Alternatives (Click "view all").

These asshats http://www.androidcentral.com/... were going to do 512GB - and as late as January of this year were saying the just hadn't released them because they hadn't sold their stocked supplies of smaller cards.

At least Samsung will probably deliver. And just in time for me not to need it as Dropbox introduces Infinity.