Unless they malfunction, cables and chargers still work great after 5 - 10 years. Throwing them away is a waste, so standard connections are a definite plus.
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Unless they malfunction, cables and chargers still work great after 5 - 10 years. Throwing them away is a waste, so standard connections are a definite plus.
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Bnice
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Ok so all I've ever owned has been android phones and wonder what is all the talk of iphones- people going crazy over them! I talked to a guy that said he'd never own another android because the ipone is so smooth but didn't elaborate.
I do know that the i5 is now 4G but that's all. I've got my flame suit on so if there are any non bias opinions, I would love to hear them!
If folks was going so crazy for the iphones and the supposedly 9 mil sold, why the drastic price drop.?
Walmart, Best Buy Already Slashing iPhone 5c Prices - DailyFinance
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
They only sold 5.5 million to consumers, but 9 million to carriers. They always lie about selling both Microsoft and apple. Google just says that there are 900000 android devices being activated every day.
Codegerm
Android Expert
I have always felt that the biggest drawback to Apple products was that they are priced too high.
Revenant Ghost
Android Expert
And you could always find an Android with equal or better performance at a fraction of the price.
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
Nexus 10 ftw
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
I really want one of those. One of my friends has one. He loves it.
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
I love it, too, but wish it had a better battery. The iPad has it beat by four or more hours per-charge. For the $499 price I expected the 10+ hours the same-priced iPad 3 has. Was disappointed there. Six-seven if you're lucky.
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
Oh, that's awful. But it is supporting that screen resolution. I mean its a beautiful display. Best ever put into a tablet.
jhawkkw
Chinchillin'
Yeah, but the market is catching up. The new Asus TF701T should be hitting the market soon with the same resolution but boasting much better battery life. Plus it's rumored that Asus is doing the 2nd Gen Nexus 10 that is coming soon as well.
rabidhunter
Android Expert
Apparently, the new iPhone 5s is not without it's bugs. It crashes a lot and gets the blue screen of death. I thought that, "it just works."
Apps on iPhone 5s are crashing twice more often than on previous models
Apps on iPhone 5s are crashing twice more often than on previous models
Is it the hardware (iP5S) or the software (iOS7 and/or poorly-written apps) though? From reading the cited article, and the few adult comments to it, it would seem that the culprit is actually the OS mainly at fault.
Yep. My daughter has the earlier iPhone 5 and hates the update because it broke working things. Important things, not nuisance stuff.
The meme is that Apple is fast to update and everyone gets it.
The truth is that it *always* takes some serious update cycles before you really have the goods on any of their major revision changes.
That's just how they've rolled with all of their stuff since OS X 10.2, roughly ten or more years ago.
Informed Apple consumers expect it and weather the storm patiently.
The Kool Aide drinkers freak out when it happens to them, but because there's no magic, just a business practice, we see the outcry and infighting every time.
It's past boring because it's so predictable.
VoidedSaint
Resident Ninja
what is the new usb thing?
redpill2016
Well-Known Member
MicroUSB 3.0
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
I dont think that will happen. They already have the nexus 7, why give them all the credit. I think HTC needs some love with the nexus line. Maybe they should finally make a tablet to wow us.
bjacks12
Android Expert
Yup. Common sense dictates that you should wait before updating, no matter what the OS. I waited a few weeks before updating my Nexus 4 to 4.3, and I will probably wait to update it to 4.4.
That's the nice thing about root for Android, even if you don't want to change anything and just run stock, iow, just as you bought it.
The stock rooted updates hit within hours or days of the OTA.
With root, you can make a full, perfect backup of what you have, and then give the new stuff a go.
If you don't like the update, you can go back to what you had within a few minutes and then wait for the fixes.
Rooting isn't everyone's cup of tea but the access to full nandroid backups you get with it makes the initial setup trouble really worthwhile.
All that and you don't leave the Android/Google ecosystem at all.
IOWA
Mr. Logic Pants
iPhone 5s Users Seeing 'Blue Screen of Death' | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Literally Lol'd at this one while at work. At least I work with fellow geeks, so they understood why it's hilarious.
Literally Lol'd at this one while at work. At least I work with fellow geeks, so they understood why it's hilarious.
iowabowtech
root@android:/ #
Best comment following the article:
The brass at Apple has got to be thinking - why did it have to be blue? ANYTHING but blue!!
The brass at Apple has got to be thinking - why did it have to be blue? ANYTHING but blue!!
rabidhunter
Android Expert
Best comment on that article:
Codegerm
Android Expert
Best comment following the article:
The brass at Apple has got to be thinking - why did it have to be blue? ANYTHING but blue!!
They needed to have a cool Guru Meditation Error like you could have on the Amiga.
Stannis the Mannis
Rapscallion
Many Apple die hards like to bring this up when bashing Windows (though i haven't had a blue screen since Vista) but seeing this now... is funny lol.
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
I had a BSOD, but it wasn't Windows fault. It was HP's. Bad Memory they put in there.