Streaming is good for people who want just to have one or two high quality channels, like say Netflix and Amazon. But if you have a household with kids, and everyone has his favorite show, soon you realize you want to have a full service cable subscription, because it has all the movie channels, all the cartoon channels, all the sports channels, and all the news channels.
Let's be honest, the Nexus 5X was a bad, unreliable, sloppily designed smartphone. One of the biggest disappointments in the history of all of Google Nexus brand. Even ignoring the bootloop issue which was supposed to show up only on 15percent of those phones, they had plenty of other flaws. Only 2GB of RAM (the only smartphone using SD808 SoC with so little RAM) making 5X effectively a single-tasking phone, poor audio quality because of poor shielding from other phone components, the useless included USB-C to USB-C cable which you could not connect to anything besides the charger, yellowing screens, and charging system that can't charge your phone with the screen on.
But despite all those problems, these phones do get swift security and OS updates, which makes them still somewhat interesting at this point.
Long story short if you give up watching TV cord cutting is effective.
Doh. Slashdot cable cutters finally show their true colors. They don't like TV! Guess what, that's fine, but stop running around telling people who DO subscribe to and watch cable that this Netflix thing or antenna will replace the cable content they care about.
So you're single living alone. That's fine. But once you live a household of 2,3.. 5 people with diverse interests you realize that that only Netflix or another streaming service won't cut it for them.
Bah. Finally the Slashdot cable cutter crowd is admitting that they simply don't like watching TV, and hence don't need a cable subscription. But please stop running around and telling people that your Netflix or Amazon subscription can provide the same content. Your advise is just as dumb as saying "stop going to a gym, you can work out in a local park for free", "stop taking ski trips to colorado, the tiny hill next to your home is free to ski", "stop buying expensive sushi, make your own", etc.
In a large household of 4-5 people, there will be enough people with diverse interests that you will realize that a full service cable subscription is worth it.
Finally the cord cutters are admitting that they're cutting the cable primarily because they watch TV, and not because there is a better cheaper internet bundle of the same channels or content out there.
Amoled screens are terrible for battery life under pretty much all usage scenarios except for watching movies 24/7.
Fingerprint sensor on the damn back.
That's where it _should_ be. That's perfect for one handed operation. As you reach out for the phone in your pocket, tap the back sensor as you pull it out. It should unlock before you even look at it. The Nexus 5X/6P and the Pixel line got this bit right. There is no need to change it.
Who are they marketing to? Is it the 20-something group?
I think it's more like 20-something group plus the teens. In my extended family and the circle of friends, most of whom have good education and jobs to be able to afford halo phones, I am seeing people sticking to their old phones for something like 3 years. On the other hand, for some reason, the high school kids who are manning the cash counters at the grocery stores or who are clerks at my gym often working for the minimum wage usually boast the latest iphones, or a Samsung Galaxy with a ginormous screen.
As others have pointed out, if there is a plan where you pay 1 dollar a day (like AT&T Next) to always use the latest phone, there will be people who will sign for it. If you offer enough credit or installment placements, there will always be people taking such an offer.
Has anyone ever bothered to count the number of caricature troll videos, gifs, and pictures that troll political leaders such as GWB, Obama, Clinton, and yes Trump? What's _shocking_ is that CNN actually went out of its way to locate the source of the video. What's next? They're going to intimidate anyone who is going to mock them? I think the result is going to be the opposite of what CNN intended. We're going to see more memes and videos making fun of CNN, the biased news network.
I like Google photos, but these AI features are annoying and only get in the way of using it. For those who don't know, Google Photos is an online photo storage and sharing service. It is the biggest freebie of the modern internet, which seems to be strangely ignored by most of people. Simply install the G Photos app on an Android or iOS smartphone, or on a PC, and your photos are automatically uploaded to their servers. The service is completely free if you agree that your photos are compressed to something like 16megapixels, which means that the storage for smartphone-grade photos is effectively free. You can organize the photos into albums and share them with friends, or anyone. Yet, strangely, barely any Android users know what this service is. No wonder Google needs to come up with AI assistant inside of Google Photos to actually entice the clueless masses to use it.
Even the most of Android smartphone users don't understand what it does.
Lenovo has a relatively inexpensive line of new Yoga Tab 3 tablets and Huawei started selling the Mediapad M3 this year for 300USD, which I think a good price for mostly a good spec tablet. The developer community does seem to be pretty poor. I am still sticking to my 2014 Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 tablet, as I haven't seen a compelling replacement for it either. I could imagine going for a new replacement of the Nexus 9, but not for the big bucks Google wanted for the Pixel tablet.
What a great idea. I can imagine the sales pitch. Spend $1200 on a GPU then waste lots of energy to mine the shitcoin of the week. Great business model. It will work very well for the vendors of hardware.
High crime, high taxes, high cost of living, high cost of _public_ education, high pollution in big cities, classic big government everywhere. Lefties are ruining everything.
The NSA documents are legit: Russia interfered with the election.
Doh, the USA interfered with nearly every election in the post-Soviet space and rest of the post-Soviet block, including the Russian election of 1996 and 1993. USA's State Department, NGOs, and private individuals have pumped billions of USD in political aid to various political organizations in Georgia and Ukraine, resulting in three unconstitutional "revolutions" (more like coups) that replaced the current democratically elected administrations with rabid russophobic demagogues and pro-NATO forces. So please don't cry us a river about "russians interfered with the election."
As for the leaked documents, those are extremely vile actions. I mean, we can be near _certain_ that intelligence agencies posses also a whole lot of internal classified reports saying "no, russians did not interfere or there is not sufficient evidence" or "who knows who did it". Somehow those documents are never leaked. Instead, we see on a weekly basis highly selective leaking of classified documents that designed primarily to get the the WH administration rather than deal with the Russian hooliganery.
I guess, this is happening because Obama simply slapped that idiot Manning on her wrists instead of letting her rot in prison. I hope this "Winner" and the like actually receive and serve the sentence prescribed by the constitution.
Let's start by noticing that vast majority of cable providers do not ever promise to deliver 1080p. What they promise is 1080i, which needs to be deinterlaced. 720p and a deinterlaced 1080i basically have the same level of compression. The 1080i basically delivers your TV 1080p at 30fps, and then let the processing to make up the other 30 fps.
And netflix of course, can deliver all the same content such as news and sports channels, food and travel shows, or say all the shows that AMC or FX have..
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Streaming is good for people who want just to have one or two high quality channels, like say Netflix and Amazon. But if you have a household with kids, and everyone has his favorite show, soon you realize you want to have a full service cable subscription, because it has all the movie channels, all the cartoon channels, all the sports channels, and all the news channels.
Let's be honest, the Nexus 5X was a bad, unreliable, sloppily designed smartphone. One of the biggest disappointments in the history of all of Google Nexus brand. Even ignoring the bootloop issue which was supposed to show up only on 15percent of those phones, they had plenty of other flaws. Only 2GB of RAM (the only smartphone using SD808 SoC with so little RAM) making 5X effectively a single-tasking phone, poor audio quality because of poor shielding from other phone components, the useless included USB-C to USB-C cable which you could not connect to anything besides the charger, yellowing screens, and charging system that can't charge your phone with the screen on.
But despite all those problems, these phones do get swift security and OS updates, which makes them still somewhat interesting at this point.
Long story short if you give up watching TV cord cutting is effective.
Doh. Slashdot cable cutters finally show their true colors. They don't like TV! Guess what, that's fine, but stop running around telling people who DO subscribe to and watch cable that this Netflix thing or antenna will replace the cable content they care about.
So you're single living alone. That's fine. But once you live a household of 2,3.. 5 people with diverse interests you realize that that only Netflix or another streaming service won't cut it for them.
Bah. Finally the Slashdot cable cutter crowd is admitting that they simply don't like watching TV, and hence don't need a cable subscription. But please stop running around and telling people that your Netflix or Amazon subscription can provide the same content. Your advise is just as dumb as saying "stop going to a gym, you can work out in a local park for free", "stop taking ski trips to colorado, the tiny hill next to your home is free to ski", "stop buying expensive sushi, make your own", etc.
In a large household of 4-5 people, there will be enough people with diverse interests that you will realize that a full service cable subscription is worth it.
Finally the cord cutters are admitting that they're cutting the cable primarily because they watch TV, and not because there is a better cheaper internet bundle of the same channels or content out there.
128Gb is unacceptably small for a device
Thanks for providing some good laughs. Some people who post on the smartphone topics do indeed live in an ivory tower.
I don't think the battery is changeable
Most people don't care about this any more, and most phones don't have this feature.
Screen is not amoled.
Amoled screens are terrible for battery life under pretty much all usage scenarios except for watching movies 24/7.
Fingerprint sensor on the damn back.
That's where it _should_ be. That's perfect for one handed operation. As you reach out for the phone in your pocket, tap the back sensor as you pull it out. It should unlock before you even look at it. The Nexus 5X/6P and the Pixel line got this bit right. There is no need to change it.
The lack of audio jack is indeed a problem.
Who are they marketing to? Is it the 20-something group?
I think it's more like 20-something group plus the teens. In my extended family and the circle of friends, most of whom have good education and jobs to be able to afford halo phones, I am seeing people sticking to their old phones for something like 3 years. On the other hand, for some reason, the high school kids who are manning the cash counters at the grocery stores or who are clerks at my gym often working for the minimum wage usually boast the latest iphones, or a Samsung Galaxy with a ginormous screen.
As others have pointed out, if there is a plan where you pay 1 dollar a day (like AT&T Next) to always use the latest phone, there will be people who will sign for it. If you offer enough credit or installment placements, there will always be people taking such an offer.
A 10 billion dollar ship can be sunk with a missile or a torpedo that costs 1000 times less. What else is new?
- And Hitting ESC key must stop the gif animations, like it used to be originally.
Don't bring the facts here. The Daily Beast needs the sensation for more of those ad-click dollars.
Has anyone ever bothered to count the number of caricature troll videos, gifs, and pictures that troll political leaders such as GWB, Obama, Clinton, and yes Trump? What's _shocking_ is that CNN actually went out of its way to locate the source of the video. What's next? They're going to intimidate anyone who is going to mock them? I think the result is going to be the opposite of what CNN intended. We're going to see more memes and videos making fun of CNN, the biased news network.
I like Google photos, but these AI features are annoying and only get in the way of using it. For those who don't know, Google Photos is an online photo storage and sharing service. It is the biggest freebie of the modern internet, which seems to be strangely ignored by most of people. Simply install the G Photos app on an Android or iOS smartphone, or on a PC, and your photos are automatically uploaded to their servers. The service is completely free if you agree that your photos are compressed to something like 16megapixels, which means that the storage for smartphone-grade photos is effectively free. You can organize the photos into albums and share them with friends, or anyone. Yet, strangely, barely any Android users know what this service is. No wonder Google needs to come up with AI assistant inside of Google Photos to actually entice the clueless masses to use it.
Even the most of Android smartphone users don't understand what it does.
Lenovo has a relatively inexpensive line of new Yoga Tab 3 tablets and Huawei started selling the Mediapad M3 this year for 300USD, which I think a good price for mostly a good spec tablet. The developer community does seem to be pretty poor. I am still sticking to my 2014 Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 tablet, as I haven't seen a compelling replacement for it either. I could imagine going for a new replacement of the Nexus 9, but not for the big bucks Google wanted for the Pixel tablet.
So where is the actual meat of the proof? Where are the actual technical proofs? Logs, times, IP addresses? Please.
All this means is that the Netflix lemmings are missing some of the greatest shows.
What a great idea. I can imagine the sales pitch. Spend $1200 on a GPU then waste lots of energy to mine the shitcoin of the week. Great business model. It will work very well for the vendors of hardware.
The stupidity of butt-hurt liberals has no limits.
High crime, high taxes, high cost of living, high cost of _public_ education, high pollution in big cities, classic big government everywhere. Lefties are ruining everything.
Knowingly exposing others to HIV should no longer be a felony, state Senate says
A Pell Grant will probably cover all tuition, fees and textbooks at a community college.
The NSA documents are legit: Russia interfered with the election.
Doh, the USA interfered with nearly every election in the post-Soviet space and rest of the post-Soviet block, including the Russian election of 1996 and 1993. USA's State Department, NGOs, and private individuals have pumped billions of USD in political aid to various political organizations in Georgia and Ukraine, resulting in three unconstitutional "revolutions" (more like coups) that replaced the current democratically elected administrations with rabid russophobic demagogues and pro-NATO forces. So please don't cry us a river about "russians interfered with the election."
As for the leaked documents, those are extremely vile actions. I mean, we can be near _certain_ that intelligence agencies posses also a whole lot of internal classified reports saying "no, russians did not interfere or there is not sufficient evidence" or "who knows who did it". Somehow those documents are never leaked. Instead, we see on a weekly basis highly selective leaking of classified documents that designed primarily to get the the WH administration rather than deal with the Russian hooliganery.
I guess, this is happening because Obama simply slapped that idiot Manning on her wrists instead of letting her rot in prison. I hope this "Winner" and the like actually receive and serve the sentence prescribed by the constitution.
Let's start by noticing that vast majority of cable providers do not ever promise to deliver 1080p. What they promise is 1080i, which needs to be deinterlaced. 720p and a deinterlaced 1080i basically have the same level of compression. The 1080i basically delivers your TV 1080p at 30fps, and then let the processing to make up the other 30 fps.
And netflix of course, can deliver all the same content such as news and sports channels, food and travel shows, or say all the shows that AMC or FX have..