Well, to be fair, in that sense so does the iPhone 7 - just plug in any external battery or slab on a new battery case. That's all the Moto Z mod is. I'm talking about an internal battery which does not change the size of the phone.
I like that Ars didn't even bother to test phone usage (aka talk time or 3G/LTE) in their tests - only performance on WiFi. You know, when you're most likely to be close to an outlet and not need great battery life. Even then, the 7 was 2nd of the 4, and in the WebGL it ranked 3 of of the 4. The HTC seems like the anomaly, but there's no way to tell if the tests were wonky or HTC just has shitty wifi battery efficiency.
You should put it up against these in their test. How long does it last *while talking on it*, and how long does it last while surfing the internet using their sites? Most flip phones won't last 20+ hours of talking, as the longer lasting phones here do. I doubt it can do the internet duration as well.
Over 4 million people have died (1) since it was revealed that the Note 7 had batteries which could end the world as we know it (2). How many more have to die before this problem is fixed (3).
(1) Based on world human mortality rates. Deaths are unrelated to the Note 7. (2) Not really. (3) 151,000 people per day. As noted in (1), these deaths are in no way related to the Note 7, more than 2/3 of which had already been replaced as of the end of last week.
Battery size is the old MHz (GHz) game that CPU manufacturers (mostly) used to play. It's more about system optimization and total component draw vs that battery installed. Especially now that most flagship phones don't come with easily removable batteries, and NO flagship phone allows for hotswapping of a backup battery, the unit as an assembly is what really matters most.
Have you seen the decay beneath an old growth canopy - it's simply a solid carpet of decay - producing CO2 and methane at an astronomical rate. And that doesn't even mention the amount of CO2 and methane produced by the billions of creatures wihch call the forest home. Old growth can't possibly expect to keep up with the CO2 generation, and does noting to ameliorate the methane production. What we need to do is completely deforest the planet and plant new, fast growth trees to both eliminate the forest floors and natural habitat for all the CO2 producing microbes and animals. That will eliminate much of the CO2 and methane production, and the new trees will soak up the CO2 at a much quicker rate./s
Not only that, but many trips were in confined spaces with a limited number of people. Example: Jamestown was originally settled by sending 104 people on a 144 day voyage in ships with 8m beams and 20-25m decks.
The bigger question is why you would throw away a $1000 device that was clearly faulty. Does everyone really have that kind of spare cash to say - meh, it's broken after a week, guess I'll just go buy something else.
And yet, somehow, they were able to file a claim and provide a point of contact following the demise of their phone.
TBH, the headline should be 26 Cases of Samsung Note Fires Have No Evidence Of Being Caused By Faulty Phones. But that's long and not very click-baity so nobody would read it.
I expect HTC, Apple, and Huawai to all have phones experience a thermal runaway (referred to as an "explosion" by media) in the next 12 months. It's a numbers game, really, and not news in the sense that there's anything inherently wrong. Pack that much energy into a small, thin package and every so often one will fail.
Don't confuse the public's ability to tell the difference from their desires. Most people still feel safe with the TSA screening process, even though it's not really any better than before 9/11 - heck, the even demand "tighter" security. Look at all the shitty 4k TVs out there running 4:2:0, but everybody's proud of their "4k" TV they're watching.
Well, not at the moment - they would just have an approximation. But as we get closer, NORAD should have a very accurate idea of where and when it will re-enter.
If you start with a small syringe - say 0.5cc - it's practically impossible to (dangerously) overdose except in a very small child. Of course, and IMHO, everyone should know how to successfully administer an IM injection. It's one of those common sense, walking around things we seem to have forgotten about.
Well, sonofabitch - I wish my Note 7 had that. Maybe Samsung can add it to TouchWiz, just like Ford added the V8 sounds to my V6 Turbo F150 over the cabin speakers. They might roll it out with the Nougat update. Fingers crossed, girls!
Actually, this is a use case (presuming anonymized data points are used) which argues FOR the use of persistent telemetry. State DOTs pay tens of millions of dollars a year to collect a tiny fraction of this data for traffic studies. All the while, we sit on an amazingly complete set of data which, though crowdsourced traffic mapping, has become a reality.
Of all the seemingly infinite ways this data can be misused, traffic and route mapping data falls outside of the "always bad" mantra.
And everything they touch is horribly flawed because their corporate policy has been Fuck The User for so long, they have no idea how to interact. Everything they make the kick over the fence around Redmond and there is zero support. Their own flagship table, the Surface Pro, can't sleep - not because of userspace issues, but because their own drivers cause the system to to be permanently in high gear. Their own OS doesn't work properly on their flagship device. It's like nobody there even has a SP4 to test their builds. And their support - well, lets just say I get more prompt and helpful responses from eBay and Aliexpress customer service.
The problem isn't the power consumption of the CPU, it's Microsoft's inability to solve the "hard problem" (Panos Panay's own words) of an OS with control over sleep functions. The Surface Pro 4 has a battery barely 3x the size of flagship phone and yet manages to play video on a screen with 6x the area for 9 hours, and do regular work for 5-6 hours. The problem is that the OS has no control over the drivers, and MS is to fucking lazy to write their own, so a poorly behaving wifi driver (or BT driver, or USB driver, or even internal OS programs like memory management) means the entire system stays awake, burning power nearly as fast as if the machine were playing HD video.
When the SP4 is tuned just right and nothing is screwing up, it will last - in an suspended/active state (instant on/"phone sleep") for about 200 hours. Trim back all those internals and kick every driver out of ring 0 and a (formerly known as) m series x86 could probably be tweaked to provide decent life in a smaller form factor. But MS / Windows is to bloated and riddled with special exceptions to fix. They need to go Apple on the OS and blow it away and restart with a fresh core.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, to be fair, in that sense so does the iPhone 7 - just plug in any external battery or slab on a new battery case. That's all the Moto Z mod is. I'm talking about an internal battery which does not change the size of the phone.
I like that Ars didn't even bother to test phone usage (aka talk time or 3G/LTE) in their tests - only performance on WiFi. You know, when you're most likely to be close to an outlet and not need great battery life. Even then, the 7 was 2nd of the 4, and in the WebGL it ranked 3 of of the 4. The HTC seems like the anomaly, but there's no way to tell if the tests were wonky or HTC just has shitty wifi battery efficiency.
You should put it up against these in their test. How long does it last *while talking on it*, and how long does it last while surfing the internet using their sites? Most flip phones won't last 20+ hours of talking, as the longer lasting phones here do. I doubt it can do the internet duration as well.
Over 4 million people have died (1) since it was revealed that the Note 7 had batteries which could end the world as we know it (2). How many more have to die before this problem is fixed (3).
(1) Based on world human mortality rates. Deaths are unrelated to the Note 7.
(2) Not really.
(3) 151,000 people per day. As noted in (1), these deaths are in no way related to the Note 7, more than 2/3 of which had already been replaced as of the end of last week.
Battery size is the old MHz (GHz) game that CPU manufacturers (mostly) used to play. It's more about system optimization and total component draw vs that battery installed. Especially now that most flagship phones don't come with easily removable batteries, and NO flagship phone allows for hotswapping of a backup battery, the unit as an assembly is what really matters most.
Most Americans would just write the pin on their card so that they wouldn't forget it.
If only they'd built a wall around it before September hit.
Have you seen the decay beneath an old growth canopy - it's simply a solid carpet of decay - producing CO2 and methane at an astronomical rate. And that doesn't even mention the amount of CO2 and methane produced by the billions of creatures wihch call the forest home. Old growth can't possibly expect to keep up with the CO2 generation, and does noting to ameliorate the methane production. What we need to do is completely deforest the planet and plant new, fast growth trees to both eliminate the forest floors and natural habitat for all the CO2 producing microbes and animals. That will eliminate much of the CO2 and methane production, and the new trees will soak up the CO2 at a much quicker rate. /s
http://imgur.com/LYppQjZ
Humans have precedent for sending out vessels filled with people who have a good chance of dying on their journey.
Not only that, but many trips were in confined spaces with a limited number of people. Example: Jamestown was originally settled by sending 104 people on a 144 day voyage in ships with 8m beams and 20-25m decks.
The bigger question is why you would throw away a $1000 device that was clearly faulty. Does everyone really have that kind of spare cash to say - meh, it's broken after a week, guess I'll just go buy something else.
And yet, somehow, they were able to file a claim and provide a point of contact following the demise of their phone.
TBH, the headline should be 26 Cases of Samsung Note Fires Have No Evidence Of Being Caused By Faulty Phones. But that's long and not very click-baity so nobody would read it.
I expect HTC, Apple, and Huawai to all have phones experience a thermal runaway (referred to as an "explosion" by media) in the next 12 months. It's a numbers game, really, and not news in the sense that there's anything inherently wrong. Pack that much energy into a small, thin package and every so often one will fail.
Don't confuse the public's ability to tell the difference from their desires. Most people still feel safe with the TSA screening process, even though it's not really any better than before 9/11 - heck, the even demand "tighter" security. Look at all the shitty 4k TVs out there running 4:2:0, but everybody's proud of their "4k" TV they're watching.
"Capacity of Samsung's New 960 Pro and 960 Evo SSDs are bursting at the seams, With Blazing-Fast Speeds"
(calm down...I own a Note 7)
$30k? No, hipsters are ready to shell out $60k for a brand car. And, on the up side, everybody will want one.
Note 7: £749 (~$930), though it does have 64GB of internal storage.
Apple definitely doesn't have a lock on pricey phones, though their 7+/256 is a whopping £919
Well, not at the moment - they would just have an approximation. But as we get closer, NORAD should have a very accurate idea of where and when it will re-enter.
But it does mean that you can store your entire collection on a second (or third) SD card, which fits in the smallest of bank safe boxes.
If you start with a small syringe - say 0.5cc - it's practically impossible to (dangerously) overdose except in a very small child. Of course, and IMHO, everyone should know how to successfully administer an IM injection. It's one of those common sense, walking around things we seem to have forgotten about.
But that's still roughly double the parts cost, which is entirely appropriate
FTFY. Having a raw parts:shelf ratio of 1:2 is pretty much standard for many goods (give or take).
Well, sonofabitch - I wish my Note 7 had that. Maybe Samsung can add it to TouchWiz, just like Ford added the V8 sounds to my V6 Turbo F150 over the cabin speakers. They might roll it out with the Nougat update. Fingers crossed, girls!
Actually, this is a use case (presuming anonymized data points are used) which argues FOR the use of persistent telemetry. State DOTs pay tens of millions of dollars a year to collect a tiny fraction of this data for traffic studies. All the while, we sit on an amazingly complete set of data which, though crowdsourced traffic mapping, has become a reality.
Of all the seemingly infinite ways this data can be misused, traffic and route mapping data falls outside of the "always bad" mantra.
And everything they touch is horribly flawed because their corporate policy has been Fuck The User for so long, they have no idea how to interact. Everything they make the kick over the fence around Redmond and there is zero support. Their own flagship table, the Surface Pro, can't sleep - not because of userspace issues, but because their own drivers cause the system to to be permanently in high gear. Their own OS doesn't work properly on their flagship device. It's like nobody there even has a SP4 to test their builds. And their support - well, lets just say I get more prompt and helpful responses from eBay and Aliexpress customer service.
The problem isn't the power consumption of the CPU, it's Microsoft's inability to solve the "hard problem" (Panos Panay's own words) of an OS with control over sleep functions. The Surface Pro 4 has a battery barely 3x the size of flagship phone and yet manages to play video on a screen with 6x the area for 9 hours, and do regular work for 5-6 hours. The problem is that the OS has no control over the drivers, and MS is to fucking lazy to write their own, so a poorly behaving wifi driver (or BT driver, or USB driver, or even internal OS programs like memory management) means the entire system stays awake, burning power nearly as fast as if the machine were playing HD video.
When the SP4 is tuned just right and nothing is screwing up, it will last - in an suspended/active state (instant on/"phone sleep") for about 200 hours. Trim back all those internals and kick every driver out of ring 0 and a (formerly known as) m series x86 could probably be tweaked to provide decent life in a smaller form factor. But MS / Windows is to bloated and riddled with special exceptions to fix. They need to go Apple on the OS and blow it away and restart with a fresh core.