I tried it out on my new Galaxy because - hey - I'm always up for a free $20 (GC after 3 trasnsactions). I was surprised how many placed had upgraded to NFC, especially given how rare the android pay and apply pay apps worked. Then on about the 5th transaction, I realized that is WASN'T NFC that was doing it - it was working on old swipe-only readers. So instead of swiping or dipping my card, Samsung was having Chase issue a unique, one-time-use card number and mimicing the mag stripe. Easy, universal, more secure than the original card. And since even chip and sign cards have no real second factor, the phone is probably more secure than anything in my wallet. I'm good with that.
They'll sell a special tethering cord for them if you need more than 5 hours. It's a slim cable that is shaped like a Y, and connects to the end of each airpod. the third end plugs into the bottom of the phone, making the whole thing powered by the iPhone. Wireless *and* infinite battery life*. I realize that this is a radical departure from normal wireless headphone usage, but that's what makes Apple such an innovator in the space.
*life limited to the endurance of the transmirting device
I want this new wireless audio standard (which is not BT, if reports are correct) to be a near-zero latency. Right now BT aptX is 60ms, and regular BT is 300+ ms. If 3rd parties start making transmitters and receivers on the standard with 2-6ms latency, and price them at consumer levels ($100), that will mean I can skip buying half a dozen $1000 Sennheiser IEM (in ear monitors) for my band and just pick up some AppleSound(TM) packs instead.
There are decent bluetooth headphones, but there still is no low-latency BT audio transmission. The best out there is 30-60ms for aptX (which iOS does not support), which is still too long for any critical work. Normal bluetooth latency is measured in hundreds of milliseconds, making all non-compensated video noticeably out of sync. The head unit in my van was nearly a second out of sync with my iPhone 5 (the last iPhone I owned). Obviously that's not a huge deal for the driver, but if you happen to be watching the video as a passenger while listening, it's down right infuriating.
None, generally. Batteries don't generally come in non-rectilinear shapes, and the headphone jack is situated in a "dead corner" which is bounded by the lightning port.
A company who stands behind its products and recalls an entire model over a 0.002% failure rate, or one that tells you you're holding it wrong when your hand shorts out the antenna or tells you you've mishandled the phone when your touchscreen controller fails?
Yeah...good luck finding a flagship with a replaceable battery that isn't riddled with problems. We'll see what LG does with their V20 today, but after my experience with the G4, which left tens of thousands of users stranded thanks to bootloop issues and (in my case) absolutely hideous performance, I'm loathe to trust another LG.
I'm wondering if there was a supply chain breakdown and they didn't properly associate the lot numbers of batteries with the IMEI numbers on the handsets. Or they were just guessing at the 0.1% number.
You have to wonder when the quoted official saying "The most important thing is the safety of our customers and we don't want to disappoint our loyal customers," doesn't want to be identified. I mean, that's not the kind of quote you usually give to a reporter "off the record" because you're worried its going to reflect poorly on you or the company.
The announcement didn't specify anything at all about what is going wrong, except that the batteries appear to catch fire. I wish they were a bit more forthcoming with the details. Personally, I plan on holding on to mine until there are replacements in the pipeline as I traded in my old phone when I got the N7. I'm sure there are dangers, but at this point I'm willing to take that chance.
Which basically means that Apple will take advantage of it, but Microsoft won't. This was touted as one of the prime features of the Surface Pro 4, along with the deep sleep states. Except that the W10 OS is so horribly managed that it never turns over control to the CPU of clock speed, and any process of any type can prevent the OS from allowing the CPU from going into a deep sleep state. And, by all user accounts, that's exactly what happens on the Surface Pro. The SP4 team has pretty much given up on the connected sleep and you just expect that the machine will randomly stay awake until it hits 0% battery after 12 hours or so in your bag. The OS group, otoh, has made the Anniv. Update a CPU killer by locking the CPU at it's maximum 100% of the time under default settings, and there is no "fix" from MS - just users who have figured registry hacks to allow forced low power states so you can manage clock speed in meatspace. Not exactly a ms-level response time to changing needs.
The same can be said for just about any music genre. It's not your mainstream pop, nor some jazz great. It sure as hell isn't classical. It's one of the comedy/social commentary genres where the interest is more in the lyrics than in the vocal prowess of the lead singer (or the ability of an engineer to autotune the lead singer into the perfection we've grown accustomed to). Go back and look at the successful social commentary singers of the 1960s to see a somewhat similar type of music. Tom Lehrer was one, Flanders and Swann another.
What they should have done was to inform them on day 355 that their mission was being unexpectedly extended for 26 additional months and gauge their reaction.
They are. As soon at they determine that 40 hour workweeks are unproductive/not required, they will phase those out and everyone working 30 hours will be at 100% salary and benefits. It's merely coincidental that 100% salary happens to have the same value at 75% of what 40 hour workers used to get paid.
but the second mouse gets the cheese. Uber may survive being one of the early distributed ride hailing services, but the danger is that the spend so much money in the process that they go bankrupt and only the name will carry on after someone buys it in a fire sale when the company assets are liquidated.
Expert: I mean, look at it - it's a bunch of nails and duct tape around a low explosive core which doesn't have nearly the proper confinement for even 50% of the maximum shock wave capable, much less the ability to transition to detonation. And this wiring - that's just disgraceful - the solder didn't even flow properly here, and this is entirely unsheilded - anything could set this off accidentally, even a cell phone. If you were in my training program, you're fail miserably.
Terrorist: We used one of these yesterday to kill 25 people and injure another 70 in a market in Aleppo.
People DON'T want to have to change their phones, it's true - it's a pain in the ass. What they didn't ask is if people preferred to have phones that are no longer supported or have significantly inferior components. There's nothing wrong with an iPhone 3Gs. Personally, I think it was the most ergonomic model. But it's no linger supported, doesn't get OS security patches, most apps won't run on it any more and the camera, let's face it, sucks ass compared to today's phones. Just go back 2-3 years and you see a pretty big performance gap.
I'd answer I never want to change my phone again. But I sure as hell don't want some laggy, grainy-camera, unpatched handset either.
I get a brand new phone every 2 years for free. I paid into the system once about 6 years ago, and now the sales price (or trade in value) of my 2 year old phone is equal to or higher than the brand-spanking-newest phone on the market. Now when I say "free" what I mean is that I don't pay any more to have a new phone than I would pay for identical service if I were to keep my phone forever. My plan rate is basically fixed no matter what device I use.
So instead of having a CDMA locked phone with dial-up modem speeds and 8GB of memory and a mobile OS which is no longer supported (which also means being locked out of revisions to the applications I run), I have this year's latest and greatest, with a pen to take notes on the screen, enough space to hold everything I need, two options for biometric authentication (if I should choose to use them), a camera which is as good or better than my last point-and-shoot, significantly more secure storage, and internet that is faster than all but one of the land-line providers to my house.
I would love to have a phone that never needed upgrading, sure. But I'll bet Greenpeace didn't ask if you wanted a phone that was insecure, limited in usability, and had poor performance on current generation software.
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I tried it out on my new Galaxy because - hey - I'm always up for a free $20 (GC after 3 trasnsactions). I was surprised how many placed had upgraded to NFC, especially given how rare the android pay and apply pay apps worked. Then on about the 5th transaction, I realized that is WASN'T NFC that was doing it - it was working on old swipe-only readers. So instead of swiping or dipping my card, Samsung was having Chase issue a unique, one-time-use card number and mimicing the mag stripe. Easy, universal, more secure than the original card. And since even chip and sign cards have no real second factor, the phone is probably more secure than anything in my wallet. I'm good with that.
And nobody has stopped them from doing so. Government puts caps on things which are not subject to efficient market pressures.
Interesting fact: your chances you dying from a lightning strike are similar to the chances of your Note 7 catching fire.
They'll sell a special tethering cord for them if you need more than 5 hours. It's a slim cable that is shaped like a Y, and connects to the end of each airpod. the third end plugs into the bottom of the phone, making the whole thing powered by the iPhone. Wireless *and* infinite battery life*. I realize that this is a radical departure from normal wireless headphone usage, but that's what makes Apple such an innovator in the space.
*life limited to the endurance of the transmirting device
I want this new wireless audio standard (which is not BT, if reports are correct) to be a near-zero latency. Right now BT aptX is 60ms, and regular BT is 300+ ms. If 3rd parties start making transmitters and receivers on the standard with 2-6ms latency, and price them at consumer levels ($100), that will mean I can skip buying half a dozen $1000 Sennheiser IEM (in ear monitors) for my band and just pick up some AppleSound(TM) packs instead.
There are decent bluetooth headphones, but there still is no low-latency BT audio transmission. The best out there is 30-60ms for aptX (which iOS does not support), which is still too long for any critical work. Normal bluetooth latency is measured in hundreds of milliseconds, making all non-compensated video noticeably out of sync. The head unit in my van was nearly a second out of sync with my iPhone 5 (the last iPhone I owned). Obviously that's not a huge deal for the driver, but if you happen to be watching the video as a passenger while listening, it's down right infuriating.
None, generally. Batteries don't generally come in non-rectilinear shapes, and the headphone jack is situated in a "dead corner" which is bounded by the lightning port.
If my Surface can be mistaken for an iPad, I don't see why my Note 7 can't be an iPhone.
My Sony travel cam had this 5 years ago. With a single lens.
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A company who stands behind its products and recalls an entire model over a 0.002% failure rate, or one that tells you you're holding it wrong when your hand shorts out the antenna or tells you you've mishandled the phone when your touchscreen controller fails?
Yeah...good luck finding a flagship with a replaceable battery that isn't riddled with problems. We'll see what LG does with their V20 today, but after my experience with the G4, which left tens of thousands of users stranded thanks to bootloop issues and (in my case) absolutely hideous performance, I'm loathe to trust another LG.
Yeah - luckily the Protons are not, in any way, subsidized by the Russian government so that makes the comparison unfair?
I'm wondering if there was a supply chain breakdown and they didn't properly associate the lot numbers of batteries with the IMEI numbers on the handsets. Or they were just guessing at the 0.1% number.
You have to wonder when the quoted official saying "The most important thing is the safety of our customers and we don't want to disappoint our loyal customers," doesn't want to be identified. I mean, that's not the kind of quote you usually give to a reporter "off the record" because you're worried its going to reflect poorly on you or the company.
The announcement didn't specify anything at all about what is going wrong, except that the batteries appear to catch fire. I wish they were a bit more forthcoming with the details. Personally, I plan on holding on to mine until there are replacements in the pipeline as I traded in my old phone when I got the N7. I'm sure there are dangers, but at this point I'm willing to take that chance.
And, lucky for us, the Slashdot submitters and editors always ensure that summaries are 100% accurate before posting.
My suspicion is that this has nothing to do with the batteries and everything to do with faulty charging circuits.
Which basically means that Apple will take advantage of it, but Microsoft won't. This was touted as one of the prime features of the Surface Pro 4, along with the deep sleep states. Except that the W10 OS is so horribly managed that it never turns over control to the CPU of clock speed, and any process of any type can prevent the OS from allowing the CPU from going into a deep sleep state. And, by all user accounts, that's exactly what happens on the Surface Pro. The SP4 team has pretty much given up on the connected sleep and you just expect that the machine will randomly stay awake until it hits 0% battery after 12 hours or so in your bag. The OS group, otoh, has made the Anniv. Update a CPU killer by locking the CPU at it's maximum 100% of the time under default settings, and there is no "fix" from MS - just users who have figured registry hacks to allow forced low power states so you can manage clock speed in meatspace. Not exactly a ms-level response time to changing needs.
The same can be said for just about any music genre. It's not your mainstream pop, nor some jazz great. It sure as hell isn't classical. It's one of the comedy/social commentary genres where the interest is more in the lyrics than in the vocal prowess of the lead singer (or the ability of an engineer to autotune the lead singer into the perfection we've grown accustomed to). Go back and look at the successful social commentary singers of the 1960s to see a somewhat similar type of music. Tom Lehrer was one, Flanders and Swann another.
What they should have done was to inform them on day 355 that their mission was being unexpectedly extended for 26 additional months and gauge their reaction.
They are. As soon at they determine that 40 hour workweeks are unproductive/not required, they will phase those out and everyone working 30 hours will be at 100% salary and benefits. It's merely coincidental that 100% salary happens to have the same value at 75% of what 40 hour workers used to get paid.
but the second mouse gets the cheese. Uber may survive being one of the early distributed ride hailing services, but the danger is that the spend so much money in the process that they go bankrupt and only the name will carry on after someone buys it in a fire sale when the company assets are liquidated.
Expert: I mean, look at it - it's a bunch of nails and duct tape around a low explosive core which doesn't have nearly the proper confinement for even 50% of the maximum shock wave capable, much less the ability to transition to detonation. And this wiring - that's just disgraceful - the solder didn't even flow properly here, and this is entirely unsheilded - anything could set this off accidentally, even a cell phone. If you were in my training program, you're fail miserably.
Terrorist: We used one of these yesterday to kill 25 people and injure another 70 in a market in Aleppo.
Expert:...
Misread the title as "to remove memory" and though that the CIA was outsourcing again.
People DON'T want to have to change their phones, it's true - it's a pain in the ass. What they didn't ask is if people preferred to have phones that are no longer supported or have significantly inferior components. There's nothing wrong with an iPhone 3Gs. Personally, I think it was the most ergonomic model. But it's no linger supported, doesn't get OS security patches, most apps won't run on it any more and the camera, let's face it, sucks ass compared to today's phones. Just go back 2-3 years and you see a pretty big performance gap.
I'd answer I never want to change my phone again. But I sure as hell don't want some laggy, grainy-camera, unpatched handset either.
I get a brand new phone every 2 years for free. I paid into the system once about 6 years ago, and now the sales price (or trade in value) of my 2 year old phone is equal to or higher than the brand-spanking-newest phone on the market. Now when I say "free" what I mean is that I don't pay any more to have a new phone than I would pay for identical service if I were to keep my phone forever. My plan rate is basically fixed no matter what device I use.
So instead of having a CDMA locked phone with dial-up modem speeds and 8GB of memory and a mobile OS which is no longer supported (which also means being locked out of revisions to the applications I run), I have this year's latest and greatest, with a pen to take notes on the screen, enough space to hold everything I need, two options for biometric authentication (if I should choose to use them), a camera which is as good or better than my last point-and-shoot, significantly more secure storage, and internet that is faster than all but one of the land-line providers to my house.
I would love to have a phone that never needed upgrading, sure. But I'll bet Greenpeace didn't ask if you wanted a phone that was insecure, limited in usability, and had poor performance on current generation software.