I live in a country with 1/4 the population density of Norway, and where Norway's tallest mountain wouldn't crack the top 100 of ours. We have 3 times more protected nature area than Norway has total surface area.
Seriously, the reason you have such great cell coverage everywhere is your high population density, and lack of major mountain ranges. It's easy to have good coverage in an area like that.
Exactly this. I had one phone that I dropped from 25' up on to concrete and it survived just fine, but a month later I dropped the same phone one foot on to packed dirt and the screen shattered. It's all about how it lands
I disagree. It's a symptom of insufficient competition to push them to innovate. You only have to go back a couple years to see a wide range of phones with different features. Many of which were in high demand and are no longer available.
The SUV example you give us another market ripe for some innovation and disruption.
Near as I can tell I'm not really it's target market, and I don't want one, but I am glad someone is entering the market with something different. Line up all the flagship phones from all the manufacturers right now and they're all almost identical. Nothing at all to set them apart from eachother, and nobody has released any feature that counts as exciting in a very long time. I don't want to buy this phone, but I do want other manufacturers to actually compete with it. We may yet see some innovation in an extremely stagnant industry.
Near as I can tell this is a thick sturdy phone with a decent CPU and a long life battery. Nobody has released drop test results yet.
I'd call it ambitious.
That said, I'm not really it's target market, and I don't want one, but I am glad someone is entering the market with something different. Line up all the flagship phones from all the manufacturers right now and they're all almost identical. Nothing at all to set them apart from eachother, and nobody has released any feature that counts as exciting in a very long time. I don't want to buy this phone, but I do want other manufacturers to actually compete with it. We may yet see some innovation in an extremely stagnant industry.
On the bright side, the odds of actually having to read the alert are minimal, if you touch the screen anywhere the alert vanishes completely never to be seen again.
I'm sure there could have been a worse implementation, but it's really hard to see how.
On average in the entire country of Canada there is about one child a year abducted by someone they don't know. If Amber alerts were only used for this, and only in a reasonable radius, you'd only get one about once a decade or even less.
The was however a recent legal case that said that the sender of a message could be responsible in the case where the recipient was involved in a collision due to distracted driving. I suddenly changed my mind about that ruling, I now think I've found the perfect place to apply it!
I have a phone that isn't sold by any carrier in the country, and is not listed as being compatible with this system. I still got the alerts.
On the bright side, mine doesn't appear to respect the government mandate that you can't turn them off because I have settings to do just that. (Except for "presidential alerts" whatever that means in a country that does not have president) but I have turned off amber alerts. (Unless of course the government is actually sending all alerts as "presidential") we'll see next time an alert is sent in my province.
Did you even read my post? I didn't advocate for a metal back, in fact I stated that it was only marginally better than glass (i.e. still not good) I suggested going back to plastic. Plastic is better in every single way. It transmits wireless signals better than glass, it's more durable, it can easily be molded to have an actual texture to it, and with the right texture will look more premium, and won't require a case.
Using glass or metal as the back for a phone is completely inexcusable.
Also compatible with polycarbonate, plastic, leather, and many other materials that are all better in every single way than glass for the back of a phone.
Even if you want wireless charging, that's no excuses to put glass on the back of the phone.
Plastic is also compatible with wireless charging, is more durable, less expensive, less slippery, and with the right texture looks more premium (and doesn't even need a case)
I wish they would stop muting things and actually block them. I think it's ridiculous that I have to waste my very limited LTE data plan downloading videos that I have no intention of watching.
Of course this wouldn't be a problem if Chrome would allow extensions on mobile because then I could use something like ublock and not have to see all these ridiculous videos. It seems these days as if 3/4 of the sites I go to have auto-playing video, it's great that I don't have to hear it anymore, but I want my bandwidth back!
A few years ago the most expensive phones on the market had some variety of plastic on the back of them. Take a look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 or the Galaxy S5 those phones had premium plastic backs and not a single person ever complained that they looked cheap. In fact there was a lot of comments when they finally got rid of those about how ridiculous it was that they were replacing them with metal and glass.
Plastic can look cheap if you want it to, but then so can glass and metal. It's all about how you make it.
It's actually very obvious that people don't have a problem with plastic backs on their phone. Because every single phone out there right now has a plastic back to it, I've never seen a case with a metal or glass back on it and every single phone these days is in a case. So what's the point of making the phone have a glass back and then covering it with plastic?
Right now they're working on expensive fragile instead of cheap fragile. Phones have not gotten more durable, they have not gotten more features, but they have definitely gotten way more expensive.
And that's just it, a couple of years ago phones were actually thinner. No not the phone itself, that's thinner now, but a couple of years ago there were no cases on most phones so the end result is that the new phones are actually thicker because of the case. But you can't go without a case anymore because the new phones are slippery almost like a bar of soap.
But because they're so shiny and slippery, nobody ever ever ever sees the back of a phone every single phone has a case on it. I looked around the office the other day, I couldn't find a single phone that was not in a case. Couple of years ago that wasn't true, in fact the majority of phones were not in cases, what actually happened is as phones have gotten thinner they've actually gotten thicker because they now need cases. Prior to this fad phones could actually be held in your hand without jumping out onto the floor.
As long as there any phones out there that do not have a glass back I will never buy a phone with a glass back. Why on Earth would you make the most fragile material known to man an integral part of your case? Glass is a stupid idea for a back, only marginally better is metal because they're always polished to the point where you can't hold the device. We need to get back to reasonable materials on phones. a good textured back in a premium plastic style would avoid the need for a case on most of these phones, would look better, and be more durable.
There's only one reason manufacturers use glass backs on their phones, and that's to try to get you to buy more phones when you can't hold on to your existing one because it's so slippery you drop it and inevitably shatter the back of the phone.
voiceprints won't stop a dedicated attack against a specific person, however they would instantly make all "spam" style attacks useless.
Stopping the vast majority of attacks should not be dismissed simply because it doesn't stop the last few percent. Those should of course be addressed, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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I live in a country with 1/4 the population density of Norway, and where Norway's tallest mountain wouldn't crack the top 100 of ours. We have 3 times more protected nature area than Norway has total surface area.
Seriously, the reason you have such great cell coverage everywhere is your high population density, and lack of major mountain ranges. It's easy to have good coverage in an area like that.
You should try a country with good mountain ranges.
Exactly this.
I had one phone that I dropped from 25' up on to concrete and it survived just fine, but a month later I dropped the same phone one foot on to packed dirt and the screen shattered. It's all about how it lands
I disagree. It's a symptom of insufficient competition to push them to innovate. You only have to go back a couple years to see a wide range of phones with different features. Many of which were in high demand and are no longer available.
The SUV example you give us another market ripe for some innovation and disruption.
Near as I can tell I'm not really it's target market, and I don't want one, but I am glad someone is entering the market with something different. Line up all the flagship phones from all the manufacturers right now and they're all almost identical. Nothing at all to set them apart from eachother, and nobody has released any feature that counts as exciting in a very long time. I don't want to buy this phone, but I do want other manufacturers to actually compete with it. We may yet see some innovation in an extremely stagnant industry.
Near as I can tell this is a thick sturdy phone with a decent CPU and a long life battery. Nobody has released drop test results yet.
I'd call it ambitious.
That said, I'm not really it's target market, and I don't want one, but I am glad someone is entering the market with something different. Line up all the flagship phones from all the manufacturers right now and they're all almost identical. Nothing at all to set them apart from eachother, and nobody has released any feature that counts as exciting in a very long time. I don't want to buy this phone, but I do want other manufacturers to actually compete with it. We may yet see some innovation in an extremely stagnant industry.
On the bright side, the odds of actually having to read the alert are minimal, if you touch the screen anywhere the alert vanishes completely never to be seen again.
I'm sure there could have been a worse implementation, but it's really hard to see how.
Statistically it's way more than 90%.
On average in the entire country of Canada there is about one child a year abducted by someone they don't know. If Amber alerts were only used for this, and only in a reasonable radius, you'd only get one about once a decade or even less.
The was however a recent legal case that said that the sender of a message could be responsible in the case where the recipient was involved in a collision due to distracted driving. I suddenly changed my mind about that ruling, I now think I've found the perfect place to apply it!
I have a phone that isn't sold by any carrier in the country, and is not listed as being compatible with this system. I still got the alerts.
On the bright side, mine doesn't appear to respect the government mandate that you can't turn them off because I have settings to do just that. (Except for "presidential alerts" whatever that means in a country that does not have president) but I have turned off amber alerts. (Unless of course the government is actually sending all alerts as "presidential") we'll see next time an alert is sent in my province.
Did you even read my post? I didn't advocate for a metal back, in fact I stated that it was only marginally better than glass (i.e. still not good)
I suggested going back to plastic. Plastic is better in every single way. It transmits wireless signals better than glass, it's more durable, it can easily be molded to have an actual texture to it, and with the right texture will look more premium, and won't require a case.
Using glass or metal as the back for a phone is completely inexcusable.
Also compatible with polycarbonate, plastic, leather, and many other materials that are all better in every single way than glass for the back of a phone.
Even if you want wireless charging, that's no excuses to put glass on the back of the phone.
Plastic is also compatible with wireless charging, is more durable, less expensive, less slippery, and with the right texture looks more premium (and doesn't even need a case)
It's funny how courage has been re-defined to mean "didn't take away too many of the features people depend on".
I wish they would stop muting things and actually block them. I think it's ridiculous that I have to waste my very limited LTE data plan downloading videos that I have no intention of watching.
Of course this wouldn't be a problem if Chrome would allow extensions on mobile because then I could use something like ublock and not have to see all these ridiculous videos. It seems these days as if 3/4 of the sites I go to have auto-playing video, it's great that I don't have to hear it anymore, but I want my bandwidth back!
A few years ago the most expensive phones on the market had some variety of plastic on the back of them. Take a look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 or the Galaxy S5 those phones had premium plastic backs and not a single person ever complained that they looked cheap. In fact there was a lot of comments when they finally got rid of those about how ridiculous it was that they were replacing them with metal and glass.
Plastic can look cheap if you want it to, but then so can glass and metal. It's all about how you make it.
It's actually very obvious that people don't have a problem with plastic backs on their phone. Because every single phone out there right now has a plastic back to it, I've never seen a case with a metal or glass back on it and every single phone these days is in a case. So what's the point of making the phone have a glass back and then covering it with plastic?
If you find a more fragile one, don't tell any smartphone manufacturers, because I can guarantee it will be on the next model.
Right now they're working on expensive fragile instead of cheap fragile. Phones have not gotten more durable, they have not gotten more features, but they have definitely gotten way more expensive.
And that's just it, a couple of years ago phones were actually thinner. No not the phone itself, that's thinner now, but a couple of years ago there were no cases on most phones so the end result is that the new phones are actually thicker because of the case. But you can't go without a case anymore because the new phones are slippery almost like a bar of soap.
But because they're so shiny and slippery, nobody ever ever ever sees the back of a phone every single phone has a case on it. I looked around the office the other day, I couldn't find a single phone that was not in a case. Couple of years ago that wasn't true, in fact the majority of phones were not in cases, what actually happened is as phones have gotten thinner they've actually gotten thicker because they now need cases. Prior to this fad phones could actually be held in your hand without jumping out onto the floor.
As long as there any phones out there that do not have a glass back I will never buy a phone with a glass back. Why on Earth would you make the most fragile material known to man an integral part of your case? Glass is a stupid idea for a back, only marginally better is metal because they're always polished to the point where you can't hold the device. We need to get back to reasonable materials on phones. a good textured back in a premium plastic style would avoid the need for a case on most of these phones, would look better, and be more durable.
There's only one reason manufacturers use glass backs on their phones, and that's to try to get you to buy more phones when you can't hold on to your existing one because it's so slippery you drop it and inevitably shatter the back of the phone.
Glass back, notch, horrible aspect ratio.
So basically, everything people said they didn't want in the surveys that OnePlus did before the launch.
Good work guys!
Just because burglary is illegal doesn't mean you shouldn't have a lock on your front door.
As for the reputable companies we probably don't need to worry about them. It's the disreputable companies that I'm worried about.
You don't have to voice print every phrase only the wake up word.
voiceprints won't stop a dedicated attack against a specific person, however they would instantly make all "spam" style attacks useless.
Stopping the vast majority of attacks should not be dismissed simply because it doesn't stop the last few percent. Those should of course be addressed, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.