Give us reasonably sized phones that have reasonably good displays and reasonably good performance with reasonably good cameras and with reasonably good quality at a reasonably good price.
Using FLAC format for mobile player or say a car stereo is a waste of storage. Do yourself a favor, and download Foobar2000, so you can export your music collection into something like 256kbit mp3 files, apple lossy, or something similar.
Cheap phones, like Moto G5S Plus give you 4GB RAM/64 storage, which is a package costing like 250USD. There are also cheaper phones with "only" 32GB of storage, and frankly that's still plenty for most people. I have plenty apps installed on my tablet with only 16GB of storage. Several browsers, system utilities, and pretty much all streaming apps, although no games.
I have to say that some cheap phones such as Huawei Honor 6X orLenovo Moto G5S Plus have gone a long way and offer pretty much everything would want to have for a price that's under 250USD:
Large 1080p screen
Fingerprint reader
A fine camera
Plenty of RAM (at least 3GB)
Plenty of storage (at least 32GB)
Expandable storage to 100s of GB
A pretty adequare SoC, such as SD625, now built on modern 14nm process
Plenty of battery
The only thing I'd miss on these two phones would be a USB-C connector because I already started getting rid of micro-usb cables.
You 200USD smartphone is probably made by a Chinese manufacturer like Huawei or Lenovo with a terrible post-sales support. They give you barely any security updates, and they often give just one major Android version software update. This means than when your 200USD smartpohne is slightly more than a year old, it won't be receiving any OS updates, meaning your OS security patch level will be seriously outdated.
On the other hand, if you buy an Apple smartphone, it's pretty much guaranteed that you will be receiving update for something like at least four years. (Apple does not promise this, but look at the history. Four years old iPhone 5S is still running the latest OS)
This summer I got a Galaxy S8 for just 450USD after Samsung held briefly a trade-in program accepting pretty much any used smartphone as long as it worked. At this price, it's a fair deal to pay for a phone that at the moment was the fasters Android phone on the market and had tons of unique features.
HRC lost because she and her team run a terrible campaign. They did not _fight_ for battleground states, allowing Trump to win a number of them by a razor thin margin, and their discourse left out the concerns of the worker class of America.
But now they place the blame on anyone except themselves. Dems are loving it because, besides holding a gun to Trump's head, by spinning the Russiagate story, they're delaying the day of reckoning within their own party when the voters will finally see that the Dems are a party of corporate interests and urban coastal elitists who are flying in the skies. Heads will have to roll eventually.
No, so far has not been a proof of Russian _influence_ in the US election, no proof that Russians broke into DNC server or podesta's email account, and no proof that Russians leaked anything to wikileaks. All we have is a bunch of allegations by highly politicized heads of our dear three letter agencies. Funny how CIA/NSA/etc were caught red handed doing nasty shit like a million times, and how they were always the least trusted US agencies, but as soon as they make statements specially designed to sink the Trump administration, every leftie in the USA is now cherishing our always trusted and honest "intelligence community" which never illegally spied on Americans, never tortured anyone, and never provided false evidence for the Iraq war. Please, what a joke.
Do me a favor, next time there is big stink in your bedroom, look under the bed and see if there is a Russian troll or Putin himself hiding there!
I think you made a brilliant observation. These days, the information flows on the internet through a million streams in blogs, microblogs, social networks, and also lots of news sites you could consider "non-mainstream". No longer the likes of the NYT, Washington Post, and the cable news channels serve as the gatekeepers to the news or information. As a result, the mainstream media loves spinning the stories because "fake news". They're like "beware of getting any news or information from any outlet that's not a news source established at least half a century ago. it could be FAKE NEWS. BEWARE OF FAKE. Only our news is true" Right...
After the American media helped to drum up preparation for the war in Iraq, completely spun up and twisted upside down most issues related to say war in Syria, and took decisively the side of the Democratic presidential candidate last year, I sure can certainly trust our mainstream media a whole lot these days.
Actually assembling furniture is a pain in a butt. You see, I personally end up assembling furniture when I change cities. And you can imagine when you move from one end country to another, changing states and jobs, always tight on time, the _last_ thing you need to spend your precious time on is taking half of your day to assemble a sofa and a bookshelf, and the the entire evening to assemble a bed and a drawer.
So two hundred twitter and facebook accounts swayed the USA presidential election by spending 100,000USD on political ads. This is why Hillary Clinton lost, and not because she forgot to fight in the battleground states or because her discourse did not address the concerns of the worker class Americans. Mmokay.
So I already got a subscription to all or most of AT&T's Uverse's premium sports and movie channels, plus Netflix, plus Amazon prime. Now I find out that I need to buy one more subscription, through an entirely separate billing system just to watch one CBS show? Hello?
I understand that people wanted to have stuff a la carte, but the way I understand it, a la carte works best as a pay-per-view service through either the cable company, or amazon, or a similar centralized streaming service. No one wants to deal with a dozen different streaming sites and a dozen bills, one for every show I want to see. I guess I'll just wait until this show hits the Netflix after a while.
Anyone with a healthy sight can see how poor is the screen on those Amazon Fire tablets is. Amazon is releasing a tablet with FHD resolution now, but that a 150USD tablet, and still has pretty poor internal specs. The worst thing about Amazon tablets is that they're really just devices for shopping Amazon and Prime movies. So for me it's certainly worth to buy a better tablet maybe for 300USD to have modern specs and to get rid of the Amazon crap from it.
But lets assume you're fine using that headphone adapter. I suspect upgrading from the 6 could make sense because it has only 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage on base models. But if I had a 6s, I'd still hang onto it.
I suspect most people buying iPhones are basically on a carrier installment payment plan. They won't queue at the Apple store on the release day, but they will pick up their new iPhone when the time is up at the carriers store.
It seems like the phone manufacturers do not want to bring decent mid-range devices to the US, specially the Android vendors. If they did, their market for premium 600-800USD phones would collapse. So we have in the US lots of devices costing 200-250USD, loaded with pretty poor components, and lots of premium phones, but not much in between. There is the Honor 8, now more than a year old, and nothing much else. The iPhone SE fills the same space for Apple. "Hey psst, you can buy a more affordable iphone, but don't let anyone else know, or they'll stop buying regular iphones"
The logic behind that is probably, why change a design that already works? So they just tune the internal specs each year and still skim most of the profits in the mobile markets.
I guess, the iPhone family is still selling well enough for Apple, even though the iPhones 6 through 8 have indistinguishable cases. That's why they didn't bother to change the phone's design. The iPhone X is probably their pilot for testing where to take the next generation of iPhones.
If iPhone 8's biggest selling point is that it can perform like a desktop Core i5, that's just a superfluous feature for most people.
The A8 SoC in the iPhone 6 is still more than satisfying for all uses most people need their iphone for. It's basically a fancy messenger and a web browser, because most apps are wrappers around a web site.
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Give us reasonably sized phones that have reasonably good displays and reasonably good performance with reasonably good cameras and with reasonably good quality at a reasonably good price.
They have already arrived: Moto G5S Plus and Huawei Honor 6X.
Using FLAC format for mobile player or say a car stereo is a waste of storage. Do yourself a favor, and download Foobar2000, so you can export your music collection into something like 256kbit mp3 files, apple lossy, or something similar.
You bought the wrong cheap phone:
https://ask.slashdot.org/comme...
Cheap phones, like Moto G5S Plus give you 4GB RAM/64 storage, which is a package costing like 250USD. There are also cheaper phones with "only" 32GB of storage, and frankly that's still plenty for most people. I have plenty apps installed on my tablet with only 16GB of storage. Several browsers, system utilities, and pretty much all streaming apps, although no games.
I have to say that some cheap phones such as Huawei Honor 6X orLenovo Moto G5S Plus have gone a long way and offer pretty much everything would want to have for a price that's under 250USD:
The only thing I'd miss on these two phones would be a USB-C connector because I already started getting rid of micro-usb cables.
You 200USD smartphone is probably made by a Chinese manufacturer like Huawei or Lenovo with a terrible post-sales support. They give you barely any security updates, and they often give just one major Android version software update. This means than when your 200USD smartpohne is slightly more than a year old, it won't be receiving any OS updates, meaning your OS security patch level will be seriously outdated.
On the other hand, if you buy an Apple smartphone, it's pretty much guaranteed that you will be receiving update for something like at least four years. (Apple does not promise this, but look at the history. Four years old iPhone 5S is still running the latest OS)
This summer I got a Galaxy S8 for just 450USD after Samsung held briefly a trade-in program accepting pretty much any used smartphone as long as it worked. At this price, it's a fair deal to pay for a phone that at the moment was the fasters Android phone on the market and had tons of unique features.
HRC lost because she and her team run a terrible campaign. They did not _fight_ for battleground states, allowing Trump to win a number of them by a razor thin margin, and their discourse left out the concerns of the worker class of America.
But now they place the blame on anyone except themselves. Dems are loving it because, besides holding a gun to Trump's head, by spinning the Russiagate story, they're delaying the day of reckoning within their own party when the voters will finally see that the Dems are a party of corporate interests and urban coastal elitists who are flying in the skies. Heads will have to roll eventually.
I never said the GOP rigged their primary*. They did do a nice job of bending over for Trump, though, and didn't even demand any lube.
So basically, you're saying you didn't say shit. Only some profanities. The RNC primary bent over for Trump? Mmookay.
Yes, it's just you and your sick mind.
No, so far has not been a proof of Russian _influence_ in the US election, no proof that Russians broke into DNC server or podesta's email account, and no proof that Russians leaked anything to wikileaks. All we have is a bunch of allegations by highly politicized heads of our dear three letter agencies. Funny how CIA/NSA/etc were caught red handed doing nasty shit like a million times, and how they were always the least trusted US agencies, but as soon as they make statements specially designed to sink the Trump administration, every leftie in the USA is now cherishing our always trusted and honest "intelligence community" which never illegally spied on Americans, never tortured anyone, and never provided false evidence for the Iraq war. Please, what a joke.
Do me a favor, next time there is big stink in your bedroom, look under the bed and see if there is a Russian troll or Putin himself hiding there!
Here is a blast from the past for you:
https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...
the democratization of propaganda
I think you made a brilliant observation. These days, the information flows on the internet through a million streams in blogs, microblogs, social networks, and also lots of news sites you could consider "non-mainstream". No longer the likes of the NYT, Washington Post, and the cable news channels serve as the gatekeepers to the news or information. As a result, the mainstream media loves spinning the stories because "fake news". They're like "beware of getting any news or information from any outlet that's not a news source established at least half a century ago. it could be FAKE NEWS. BEWARE OF FAKE. Only our news is true" Right...
After the American media helped to drum up preparation for the war in Iraq, completely spun up and twisted upside down most issues related to say war in Syria, and took decisively the side of the Democratic presidential candidate last year, I sure can certainly trust our mainstream media a whole lot these days.
Actually assembling furniture is a pain in a butt. You see, I personally end up assembling furniture when I change cities. And you can imagine when you move from one end country to another, changing states and jobs, always tight on time, the _last_ thing you need to spend your precious time on is taking half of your day to assemble a sofa and a bookshelf, and the the entire evening to assemble a bed and a drawer.
So two hundred twitter and facebook accounts swayed the USA presidential election by spending 100,000USD on political ads. This is why Hillary Clinton lost, and not because she forgot to fight in the battleground states or because her discourse did not address the concerns of the worker class Americans. Mmokay.
So I already got a subscription to all or most of AT&T's Uverse's premium sports and movie channels, plus Netflix, plus Amazon prime. Now I find out that I need to buy one more subscription, through an entirely separate billing system just to watch one CBS show? Hello?
I understand that people wanted to have stuff a la carte, but the way I understand it, a la carte works best as a pay-per-view service through either the cable company, or amazon, or a similar centralized streaming service. No one wants to deal with a dozen different streaming sites and a dozen bills, one for every show I want to see. I guess I'll just wait until this show hits the Netflix after a while.
Anyone with a healthy sight can see how poor is the screen on those Amazon Fire tablets is. Amazon is releasing a tablet with FHD resolution now, but that a 150USD tablet, and still has pretty poor internal specs. The worst thing about Amazon tablets is that they're really just devices for shopping Amazon and Prime movies. So for me it's certainly worth to buy a better tablet maybe for 300USD to have modern specs and to get rid of the Amazon crap from it.
But lets assume you're fine using that headphone adapter. I suspect upgrading from the 6 could make sense because it has only 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage on base models. But if I had a 6s, I'd still hang onto it.
I suspect most people buying iPhones are basically on a carrier installment payment plan. They won't queue at the Apple store on the release day, but they will pick up their new iPhone when the time is up at the carriers store.
So far, the sales of Google's phones were basically a footnote despite much hype. It's difficult to see how buying HTC will change that.
It seems like the phone manufacturers do not want to bring decent mid-range devices to the US, specially the Android vendors. If they did, their market for premium 600-800USD phones would collapse. So we have in the US lots of devices costing 200-250USD, loaded with pretty poor components, and lots of premium phones, but not much in between. There is the Honor 8, now more than a year old, and nothing much else. The iPhone SE fills the same space for Apple. "Hey psst, you can buy a more affordable iphone, but don't let anyone else know, or they'll stop buying regular iphones"
I thought you could do the same in the previous versions of Android.
There is little change from the 7 to the 8.
The logic behind that is probably, why change a design that already works? So they just tune the internal specs each year and still skim most of the profits in the mobile markets.
I guess, the iPhone family is still selling well enough for Apple, even though the iPhones 6 through 8 have indistinguishable cases. That's why they didn't bother to change the phone's design. The iPhone X is probably their pilot for testing where to take the next generation of iPhones.
I had iphone 5 with pretty much a toasted battery after some use. It barely got over 50% performance of the new.
That little penis-like adapter is now a part that can get lost unless left dangling off the hardware all the time.
If iPhone 8's biggest selling point is that it can perform like a desktop Core i5, that's just a superfluous feature for most people.
The A8 SoC in the iPhone 6 is still more than satisfying for all uses most people need their iphone for. It's basically a fancy messenger and a web browser, because most apps are wrappers around a web site.