No it doesn't Android phones require a "Google" account - not a gmail account. Although unlike Microsoft passport (Live) accounts created for MSN messenger, for the most part - I'd speculate most people do end up getting a full Gmail account.
EVERYONE I know with an opinion on this topic is getting put MORE off Apple devices by it than on. I work on a floor of 40 nerds / gadget freaks, there is only 3 iphones left and 2 of those users intend to switch to Android as well.
I hope so, the damn thing is quite good now. Funny enough I found a dead "line" of pixels on mine - makes swype "break up" words early and ruins my draw something pictures! - it was only a single line though AND intermittant, bloody annoying - so I need to de-android it entirely and return it.
Someone mod this guy to +50 Even fucking Android is going the way of the fucking IDIOT. Hey guys, users like our simple phones, we don't have too many buttons, but we don't have too little, seems good and it's becoming popular!
I know, let's remove the menu button (right click, context, options, etc) and make it a roaming softbutton, anywhere on the screen - just like the iphone which half our customers got sick of, to go to Android! Let's make the multitasking button more important,........... (who the FUCK uses it? Hold down home for fucks sake? Just re-open the app? it remembers where you were, UGH)
I will find the fucking moron at Google who made this decision and I will throttle the piece of shit.
Really, REALLY? This is what made you snap? What about the,.. what 2,3 - maybe even 4 times now they've had re-designs of the frontend and "oops!" accidentally reset the majority of your security permissions to an open account?
Remember when NO ONE could add you as a friend if you locked it down - but now friends of friends can add you if you like it or not (sure, you have to aprove but it can still provide for awkward, obviously bullshit "oh, I didn't get that" conversations you shouldn't have to have)
The user interface got worse and worse, each time the users accepted the new shitty UI and accepted it but it's getting to the point it's virtually abuse now. I nuked my account late 2011 and I don't miss it, it's poison.
Interesting, I was under the impression that was one of the new motion controls! Well ok the notification light is awesome and the little tiny vibrate when you pick it up with a message you haven't checked is just adorable. It just feels/smart/
Extensive use the battery is like most smartphones - with such a mammoth screen, they got a mammoth battery. However the HTC One X battery is an utter guzzler for some reaosn.
If you leave the S3 idle without use, it's bloody good - 2days, 7 hours on idle and 37% remaining last weekend (wifi was on) - I find it more than acceptable. It chews it in use but nothing more excessive than anything else.
Disclaimer: I'm an ex iphone user who switch to Android 18 months ago.
I love it, I goddamn love this thing, I upgraded from a Galaxy S2 - knowing it was kind of a very unecessary upgrade but I can't help it, I guess I got "must have latest" from being an ex Apple person.
So at first I thought, ok it's prettier and bigger but it seems quite similar to my Galaxy S2 - but the subtleties have grown on me. I specifically like the motion based silence mode, if I see a call I don't like, just upturn the phone face down, put it on the desk - silenced, love that. Battery life is really bloody good, better than I expected. Pentile screen, I was shitting myself, worried I'd hate it - don't notice a thing, it's great.
People claim there's some high end audio chip and music is better in the thing, it SEEMS better but that could be a placebo. I have tiny tiny little hands and found the S2 I could only just hold - however the S3 despite being larger, is about the same due to the curved corners, it's still one hand-able - not easy but possible. I also figured before hand, we're going to 2 hand if we like it or not as the 'all in one' tricorder, tablet, phone, portable tv player, electronic wallet merges - so I have to deal with bigger eventually.
It's fast (duh) - and even on 3G on a good network (Telstra Australia) - surprisingly damned fast. Only "con" I know of is that there's some issues installing swype to it but that can be gotten around. (it FASCINATES me that Apple users don't know what this is, as far as I'm concerned there is no other alternative on a touchscreen, PERIOD - swype is without question leaps and bounds ahead of other keyboards - hunt and peck keyboards to me are like watching newbies type, it's ghastly!)
I seriously can't think of a thing wrong with it. I was enamoured with my iphone 3G when I got my first smartphone, my 3GS was incremental as an upgrade, my Iphone 4 was bloody pretty in style and the screen - but then my switch to a HTC HD2 was also quite impressive and my Galaxy S2 - but none of them have impressed and continue to impress me like this. I love the weight and size, it feels completely right. Complaints about "plastic phones" being awful are ludicrous, the S2 pulled it off as does the S3 - it weighs less, less inertia, lighter in the pocket - less chance of damage when dropped. Nope it's just great.
This is excellent news! I love my Galaxy S3 and I will be sure to put my dollars towards HTC in the future if this occurs. Ensuring a competitive marketplace. I have 0 interest in one manufacturers own fork, I'm done with that.
I friended 2 people long ago, now I would feel bad de-friending them but I see no value in the circle jerk system - if anything, anyone who follows and uses it is a sad little person.
I'm an internet contrarion, it's simply "what I do" - it's how I function. Be it for entertainment, debate or genuine opinion - more often than not it's simply because I'm different and dislike things most like and like things most dislike, it works out kind of bad for me.
At a recent family function I realised all the males on my side of the family are the same, we're ALL smartasses but in a hysterical ridiculous humour kind of way, frequently exaggerating what we say for comedy effect, not because we mean it. This too gets me the troll label, even if the underlying message was my real and valid opinion.
I certainly dislike the idea of being singled out more than I already am online because people don't like it when we have an internet debate.
It's not even that I don't like environmental charities, if anything I think they are probably the most deserving of charities to be honest.
It's simply a case of these always being the same old thing, if I wanted to donate to charity though, I would. However in an instance like this, with the interesting feel good (bad?) story in his blog entry, I kind of would rather donate to the guy himself
1, just to spite the idiots at funnyjunk 2, to help with possible legal fees he may have to deal with, regardless if the other people are successful or not.
It just seems a good occasion for him to raise real revenue for himself, a feelgood story of a webcomics audience showing him and his opposition how they feel by giving him a truckload of money is great. Charity isn't bad but I feel as if it's been SO many times before, what if I didn't like those charities but still wanted to make a point? You get the idea - it was just an off the cuff comment which has pissed a few people off and I felt like explaining why I made it. No ill will to the web comic, other donators or charities in general.
Absoloutely correct - that's why I made my post, just an opinion really. Expressing my... I guess groaning disapointment at the move. Yet another white knight on the internet. Why can't people be straight up and keep the money? It's not that I hate charity, I just loved the feel good story of him making huge dollars, only to find he's giving it away.
Here look, someone paypal me, money for being a general douche. scottylans@paypal.com - feel free to insult me with the donations!
I'm being quite serious, everyone on the internet in this situation gives X to charity and does Y - and look some charity is good but just for once would a guy like this have us actually donate to him, directly and he take a photo of all the money his readers sent him to KEEP and he sends that photo to the guy. That would have far better effect.
I was going to donate but I didn't realise he's giving it to charity. Just for once I wish one of these web guys would keep some or part of this kind of cash for themselves. Happy to donate to a down and out webcomic, not happy to donate to some poorly managed charity.
Google really should copy Apple's imessage system - we need some kind of way to contact other Android users, for free (besides chat) - it should default to a replacement or seamless app like the iphone.
I loathe apple but I have to give credit where credit is due. These meebo folk could've helped on creating Googles all in one messaging solution that works on the desktop or mobile - putting the meebo team to Google plus is a waste
Surely though the way linked in was storing the data means most passwords would be compromised (I have no crytpto knowledge)
For the most part a 12 digit password with that combination should surely be fairly good. The more important thing though (for me) is the convienience of how quick it can be input.
I really hate to link xkcd but they are on the money with this one. http://xkcd.com/936/
I'm getting tired of having to have ridiculous passwords, now I'm just either ALWAYS making the first character an uppercase because it's easier, or doing quick pattern based passwords for the ultra fussy systems. 123qwe!@#QWE - that's surprisingly quick to input yet keeps those stupid systems quiet.
Considering the direction Microsoft is taking with the desktop (Windows 8) and rumours I've heard about Gabes opinion on Microsofts decisions with 8 (apparently extremely unhappy / disapointed) I suspect Valve is looking towards a future where linux is on significantly more desktops than it is now.
Admitedly, it's highly unlikely but you never know, Microsoft really are making a mess with Windows 8
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No it doesn't
Android phones require a "Google" account - not a gmail account.
Although unlike Microsoft passport (Live) accounts created for MSN messenger, for the most part - I'd speculate most people do end up getting a full Gmail account.
EVERYONE I know with an opinion on this topic is getting put MORE off Apple devices by it than on. I work on a floor of 40 nerds / gadget freaks, there is only 3 iphones left and 2 of those users intend to switch to Android as well.
Apple are doing themselves no favours at all.
I hope so, the damn thing is quite good now.
Funny enough I found a dead "line" of pixels on mine - makes swype "break up" words early and ruins my draw something pictures! - it was only a single line though AND intermittant, bloody annoying - so I need to de-android it entirely and return it.
Painful :(
Someone mod this guy to +50
Even fucking Android is going the way of the fucking IDIOT.
Hey guys, users like our simple phones, we don't have too many buttons, but we don't have too little, seems good and it's becoming popular!
I know, let's remove the menu button (right click, context, options, etc) and make it a roaming softbutton, anywhere on the screen - just like the iphone which half our customers got sick of, to go to Android!
Let's make the multitasking button more important,........... (who the FUCK uses it? Hold down home for fucks sake? Just re-open the app? it remembers where you were, UGH)
I will find the fucking moron at Google who made this decision and I will throttle the piece of shit.
Really, REALLY? This is what made you snap?
What about the,.. what 2,3 - maybe even 4 times now they've had re-designs of the frontend and "oops!" accidentally reset the majority of your security permissions to an open account?
Remember when NO ONE could add you as a friend if you locked it down - but now friends of friends can add you if you like it or not (sure, you have to aprove but it can still provide for awkward, obviously bullshit "oh, I didn't get that" conversations you shouldn't have to have)
The user interface got worse and worse, each time the users accepted the new shitty UI and accepted it but it's getting to the point it's virtually abuse now.
I nuked my account late 2011 and I don't miss it, it's poison.
One over rated moderation, I love it. Someone is crying in their turtle neck. Post more pictures on instragram fucktard!
Interesting, I was under the impression that was one of the new motion controls! Well ok the notification light is awesome and the little tiny vibrate when you pick it up with a message you haven't checked is just adorable. It just feels /smart/
Extensive use the battery is like most smartphones - with such a mammoth screen, they got a mammoth battery. However the HTC One X battery is an utter guzzler for some reaosn.
If you leave the S3 idle without use, it's bloody good - 2days, 7 hours on idle and 37% remaining last weekend (wifi was on) - I find it more than acceptable.
It chews it in use but nothing more excessive than anything else.
I'm going to sex this phone.
Disclaimer: I'm an ex iphone user who switch to Android 18 months ago.
I love it, I goddamn love this thing, I upgraded from a Galaxy S2 - knowing it was kind of a very unecessary upgrade but I can't help it, I guess I got "must have latest" from being an ex Apple person.
So at first I thought, ok it's prettier and bigger but it seems quite similar to my Galaxy S2 - but the subtleties have grown on me.
I specifically like the motion based silence mode, if I see a call I don't like, just upturn the phone face down, put it on the desk - silenced, love that.
Battery life is really bloody good, better than I expected.
Pentile screen, I was shitting myself, worried I'd hate it - don't notice a thing, it's great.
People claim there's some high end audio chip and music is better in the thing, it SEEMS better but that could be a placebo.
I have tiny tiny little hands and found the S2 I could only just hold - however the S3 despite being larger, is about the same due to the curved corners, it's still one hand-able - not easy but possible. I also figured before hand, we're going to 2 hand if we like it or not as the 'all in one' tricorder, tablet, phone, portable tv player, electronic wallet merges - so I have to deal with bigger eventually.
It's fast (duh) - and even on 3G on a good network (Telstra Australia) - surprisingly damned fast.
Only "con" I know of is that there's some issues installing swype to it but that can be gotten around. (it FASCINATES me that Apple users don't know what this is, as far as I'm concerned there is no other alternative on a touchscreen, PERIOD - swype is without question leaps and bounds ahead of other keyboards - hunt and peck keyboards to me are like watching newbies type, it's ghastly!)
I seriously can't think of a thing wrong with it. I was enamoured with my iphone 3G when I got my first smartphone, my 3GS was incremental as an upgrade, my Iphone 4 was bloody pretty in style and the screen - but then my switch to a HTC HD2 was also quite impressive and my Galaxy S2 - but none of them have impressed and continue to impress me like this. I love the weight and size, it feels completely right. Complaints about "plastic phones" being awful are ludicrous, the S2 pulled it off as does the S3 - it weighs less, less inertia, lighter in the pocket - less chance of damage when dropped. Nope it's just great.
This is excellent news! I love my Galaxy S3 and I will be sure to put my dollars towards HTC in the future if this occurs. Ensuring a competitive marketplace.
I have 0 interest in one manufacturers own fork, I'm done with that.
Ever seen Species? I dunno we might have something here, ... well momentarily.
I friended 2 people long ago, now I would feel bad de-friending them but I see no value in the circle jerk system - if anything, anyone who follows and uses it is a sad little person.
I'm an internet contrarion, it's simply "what I do" - it's how I function.
Be it for entertainment, debate or genuine opinion - more often than not it's simply because I'm different and dislike things most like and like things most dislike, it works out kind of bad for me.
At a recent family function I realised all the males on my side of the family are the same, we're ALL smartasses but in a hysterical ridiculous humour kind of way, frequently exaggerating what we say for comedy effect, not because we mean it. This too gets me the troll label, even if the underlying message was my real and valid opinion.
I certainly dislike the idea of being singled out more than I already am online because people don't like it when we have an internet debate.
It's not even that I don't like environmental charities, if anything I think they are probably the most deserving of charities to be honest.
It's simply a case of these always being the same old thing, if I wanted to donate to charity though, I would. However in an instance like this, with the interesting feel good (bad?) story in his blog entry, I kind of would rather donate to the guy himself
1, just to spite the idiots at funnyjunk
2, to help with possible legal fees he may have to deal with, regardless if the other people are successful or not.
It just seems a good occasion for him to raise real revenue for himself, a feelgood story of a webcomics audience showing him and his opposition how they feel by giving him a truckload of money is great. Charity isn't bad but I feel as if it's been SO many times before, what if I didn't like those charities but still wanted to make a point?
You get the idea - it was just an off the cuff comment which has pissed a few people off and I felt like explaining why I made it. No ill will to the web comic, other donators or charities in general.
I've genuinely never read it, nor do I agree with that statement, that's madness.
Absoloutely correct - that's why I made my post, just an opinion really. Expressing my ... I guess groaning disapointment at the move. Yet another white knight on the internet. Why can't people be straight up and keep the money? It's not that I hate charity, I just loved the feel good story of him making huge dollars, only to find he's giving it away.
Here look, someone paypal me, money for being a general douche.
scottylans@paypal.com - feel free to insult me with the donations!
I'm being quite serious, everyone on the internet in this situation gives X to charity and does Y - and look some charity is good but just for once would a guy like this have us actually donate to him, directly and he take a photo of all the money his readers sent him to KEEP and he sends that photo to the guy. That would have far better effect.
I tire of everyone on the internet being a shining fucking beacon of light. It gets SO boring.
Charity in general, why does he need to give it to charity? This would've been substantially cooler had his readers donated just to him.
I was going to donate but I didn't realise he's giving it to charity.
Just for once I wish one of these web guys would keep some or part of this kind of cash for themselves. Happy to donate to a down and out webcomic, not happy to donate to some poorly managed charity.
What the hell are google thinking?
Google really should copy Apple's imessage system - we need some kind of way to contact other Android users, for free (besides chat) - it should default to a replacement or seamless app like the iphone.
I loathe apple but I have to give credit where credit is due.
These meebo folk could've helped on creating Googles all in one messaging solution that works on the desktop or mobile - putting the meebo team to Google plus is a waste
This is making the xkcd post even more relevant then :/ frustrating.
Surely though the way linked in was storing the data means most passwords would be compromised (I have no crytpto knowledge)
For the most part a 12 digit password with that combination should surely be fairly good.
The more important thing though (for me) is the convienience of how quick it can be input.
I really hate to link xkcd but they are on the money with this one.
http://xkcd.com/936/
I'm getting tired of having to have ridiculous passwords, now I'm just either ALWAYS making the first character an uppercase because it's easier, or doing quick pattern based passwords for the ultra fussy systems.
123qwe!@#QWE - that's surprisingly quick to input yet keeps those stupid systems quiet.
Considering the direction Microsoft is taking with the desktop (Windows 8) and rumours I've heard about Gabes opinion on Microsofts decisions with 8 (apparently extremely unhappy / disapointed) I suspect Valve is looking towards a future where linux is on significantly more desktops than it is now.
Admitedly, it's highly unlikely but you never know, Microsoft really are making a mess with Windows 8