Help Noob questions

[kurtyyyyyy]

First of all hi and how are you all

Just got the phone and really happy with it! Its unbelievable.
Just a few questions and opinions needed!

1. Do you leave charged overnight.

2. Does Dolphin HD use up battery - love this browser, but are there any better ones? I love the voice option in dolphin.

3. Is swiftkey worth it?

4. What is the widget 'negative colours', what is its purpose?

5. How do i prevent facebook and weather etc in the background to save battery

Thankyou in advance!

 

[snilloconator]

First of all hi and how are you all

Just got the phone and really happy with it! Its unbelievable.
Just a few questions and opinions needed!

1. Do you leave charged overnight.

2. Does Dolphin HD use up battery - love this browser, but are there any better ones? I love the voice option in dolphin.

3. Is swiftkey worth it?

4. What is the widget 'negative colours', what is its purpose?

5. How do i prevent facebook and weather etc in the background to save battery

Thankyou in advance!

1. Yes

2. Destroyed my battery, un installed and now using Opera.

3. Yes

4. Don't know.

5. You should be able to set these in each app. Hit menu than settings.

 

[davidmanvell]

I like the Chrome browse that comes with the stock S3. Widget just reverses the colors. Sometimes its easier to read at night that way or in bright sunlight. Not sure what you mean about preventing them. Maybe you are talking about putting their widgets on the home screens?

Yes swiftkey is really worth it

 

[kurtyyyyyy]

What i mean is, i am limited to 500mb a month and i dont really want alot running in the background.. i.e weather apps, and i get facebook notifications, i dont want them.

 

[liteon163]

1. Whether I leave it charging overnight depends on how low I am when I go to sleep. Basically, anything under 33% and I charge. Anything over, I wait until I hit 5% the next day and then charge fully (until phone says unplug).

2. I don't use Dolphin HD, I use Opera Mobile. With your low cap, I'd check into Opera Mini, since it uses data compression to reduce the amount of data consumed by your device.

3. Swiftkey is definitely worth it.

4. Negative Colors does exactly what it sounds like: it reverses colors, like a camera's film negatives. I think it's meant to help people with color-blindness.

5. You should be able to set Facebook and your weather app to update only when you want to. If you can't get Facebook to do so, use a different app (like Friendcaster) or even use the mobile website. Same goes for Weather...

 

[ylexot]

Go into the app settings and disable the notifications.

As for the keyboard, I'd try the free Swype beta before paying for a different keyboard.