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Never a fan of htc. LG was the smartphone that got me interested in phones. Then I bought an iPhone. At the time, I just thought a phone was just a phone. Didn't know anything about iOS, Android or Blackberry. Literally. You would have asked me, I would not have a single clue.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Never a fan of htc. LG was the smartphone that got me interested in phones. Then I bought an iPhone. At the time, I just thought a phone was just a phone. Didn't know anything about iOS, Android or Blackberry. Literally. You would have asked me, I would not have a single clue.
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While not a huge HTC fan myself... Their build quality is simply amazing... Just saying!
 
nuurhasan said:
No not a big fan of Samsung anymore. Always liked HTC and now LG better :)
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The last time Samsung released a Nexus phone was in 2011....you know that right?

Nexus is a Google line, not a Samsung line. They contract out the manufacturing to different OEMs. HTC had the One, Samsung had the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus. LG had the Nexus 4 and 5, and now we have the Motorola Nexus 6.
 
Good morning folks :) Where is our coffee?

Oh and my random thought..?
Stop being afraid and start living your life. Today will not get a second chance.
 
boyo1991 said:
Ha awesome. And (for the most part) not even by apple lol
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Well there's actually a real belief amongst many Chinese that Apple products, that they pay a lot of money for and are considered a luxury, are made in the USA. In fact I was looking at this student's iPhone 5s, and it did not have "Assembled in China" on it, just had "Designed by Apple in California", and it was a real one as well. And I convinced him it was made here, by showing the underside of my Apple Macbook that was originally purchased in the UK, which has "Assembled in China" on it. I've seen iPads here that have "中国制造" on them which means "Made in China", but not so the iPhones apparently. I've even seen in the local China Mobile stores, with the iPhones on their price tickets, they have written "美国制造", and that means "Made in USA". Showed him my Oppo phone, and he knew full well where that was made of course.

The Foxconn suicides where almost unreported on Chinese state media. Similarly with Gucci handbags, many here believe that they're made in Italy, despite the fact that most of them are made in countries like China and Cambodia. Same thing with genuine Nike sneakers, and those can be very expensive here.
 
mikedt said:
Well there's actually a real belief amongst many Chinese that Apple products, that they pay a lot of money for and are considered a luxury, are made in the USA. In fact I was looking at this student's iPhone 5s, and it did not have "Assembled in China" on it, just had "Designed by Apple in California", and it was a real one as well. And I convinced him it was made here, by showing the underside of my Apple Macbook that was originally purchased in the UK, which has "Assembled in China" on it. I've seen iPads here that have "中国制造" on them which means "Made in China", but not so the iPhones apparently. I've even seen in the local China Mobile stores, with the iPhones on their price tickets, they have written "美国制造", and that means "Made in USA". Showed him my Oppo phone, and he knew full well where that was made of course.

The Foxconn suicides where almost unreported on Chinese state media. Similarly with Gucci handbags, many here believe that they're made in Italy, despite the fact that most of them are made in countries like China and Cambodia. Same thing with genuine Nike sneakers, and those can be very expensive here.
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*facepalm* dang.. I'd say well google it but yet of course... Lol get a proxy I spose then google it :p

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New random thought. How do they "puff" rice and corn? Off to google!
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Will where the Nexus 6 be made? I know Motorola manufactures all their phones in America. Chicago I think. Go Chicago. Are they made in America?
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Isn't that been closed down though?
Motorola shutters U.S. factory as costs outweigh gains | BGR

I guess the Nexus 6 is very likely to be made in China, by Foxconn quite possibly. They're by far the largest OEM that takes on this sort of work, including Apple(everything), Microsoft(Xbox), Sony(Playstation), HP and Dell.

Don't think it's been approved yet, Lenovo are buying Motorola from Google. And I'm sure we all know where Lenovo comes from. They make all their phones in Xiamen and laptops are made in Beijing. What are Lenovo's plans for Motorola? Will they absorb them (assimilate them Borg style), or keep Motorola going as a subsidiary? It's not the first time that Lenovo bought a large and important US business, IBM's PC and laptop division, the inventors of the PC.

Lenovo are a huge phone manufacturer as well as PC manufacturer, but don't any North American presence at all for phones. Motorola are a famous brand in North America of course. Maybe they just want the brand as a way into the that important market. Happened in the past of course with TVs, many used to be made in America, e.g. RCA, Magnavox, Sylvania, all now made by Changhong, TCL, Haier, Konka, etc.
 
mikedt said:
Isn't that been closed down though?
Motorola shutters U.S. factory as costs outweigh gains | BGR

I guess the Nexus 6 is very likely to be made in China, by Foxconn quite possibly. They're by far the largest OEM that takes on this sort of work, including Apple, Microsoft(Xbox), Sony(Playstation), HP and Dell.

Don't think it's been approved yet, Lenovo are buying Motorola from Google. And I'm sure we all know where Lenovo comes from. They make all their phones in Xiamen and laptops are made in Beijing. What are Lenovo's plans for Motorola? Will they absorb them (assimilate them Borg style), or keep Motorola going as a subsidiary? It's not the first time that Lenovo bought a large and important US business, IBM's PC and laptop division, the inventors of the PC.

Lenovo are a huge phone manufacturer as well as PC manufacturer, but don't any North American presence at all for phones. Motorola are a famous brand in North America of course. Maybe they just want the brand as a way into the that important market. Happened in the past of course with TVs, many used to be made in America, e.g. RCA, Magnavox, Sylvania, all now made by Changhong, TCL, Haier, Konka, etc.
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Props to Lenovo for their smart moves they are taking in buying Motorola. They saw that they were up for sale, knew the value in them, and took the opportunity.

Since their purchace, I think they have been doing a very good job with the company. New Moto X. Moto maker. Nexus 6. I would be highly interested in their next tablet.

Either way, America isn't a manufacturing country. We only have 300 something million people, which compared to China, a few billion people. I can see why we choose China as a manufacturing place for tech.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Props to Lenovo for their smart moves they are taking in buying Motorola. They saw that they were up for sale, knew the value in them, and took the opportunity.

Since their purchace, I think they have been doing a very good job with the company. New Moto X. Moto maker. Nexus 6. I would be highly interested in their next tablet.

Either way, America isn't a manufacturing country. We only have 300 something million people, which compared to China, a few billion people. I can see why we choose China as a manufacturing place for tech.
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Yeh, China has a lot of people...:) ..around 1.5 billion I believe. Other thing of course is pay-rates. Mind me asking SF, what are you getting paid at McDonald's now? Because the average Foxconn worker may only be making $2-$3 an hour, for a 12 or 14 hour a day, 6 days a week, sometimes 7, 2 weeks unpaid holiday a year, often living in a factory dorm., a long way from family and home usually. Working for Foxconn or other high-tech is considered a good factory job in China, there's far worse, like toys and apparel.

Most regulars on this forum likely know I'm not actually Chinese, I'm British, but living and working here, an expat, and have just started my own business, English school. Basically I couldn't find any good jobs in the UK that I liked doing, and working in a supermarket, fast-food restaurant or a warehouse didn't turn me on much, so here I am. :thumbup:
 
mikedt said:
Yeh, China has a lot of people...:) ..around 1.5 billion I believe. Other thing of course is pay-rates. Mind me asking SF, what are you getting paid at McDonald's now? Because the average Foxconn worker may only be making $2-$3 an hour, for a 12 or 14 hour a day, 6 days a week, sometimes 7, 2 weeks unpaid holiday a year, often living in a factory dorm., a long way from family and home usually. Working for Foxconn or other high-tech is considered a good factory job in China, there's far worse, like toys and apparel.

Most regulars on this forum likely know I'm not actually Chinese, I'm British, but living and working here, an expat, and have just started my own business, English school. Basically I couldn't find any good jobs in the UK that I liked doing, and working in a supermarket, fast-food restaurant or a warehouse didn't turn me on much, so here I am. :thumbup:
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Currently making like $8.55 / hour. Paycheck, on a good pay roll (With school n stuff) I can make about $225 in a 2 week period. So about $450 / month.

However, Living in Chicago, Probably named one of the most expensive if not the most expensive city in America, it's simply impossible to make a living by myself on that pay. Like if I were to not be living with my parents, I would actually be homeless, or living in my car. (That ill be getting next month).
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Currently making like $8.55 / hour. Paycheck, on a good pay roll (With school n stuff) I can make about $225 in a 2 week period. So about $450 / month.

However, Living in Chicago, Probably named one of the most expensive if not the most expensive city in America, it's simply impossible to make a living by myself on that pay. Like if I were to not be living with my parents, I would actually be homeless, or living in my car. (That ill be getting next month).
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Here in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, can actually live quite comfortably for around equivalent of $500 a month, which is what a school teacher or white-collar worker might be making here in this city. To rent this two bedroom, new "luxury" apartment is only $1,000 a year, and public transport is very cheap, bus rides 15c, taxi rides $1 in the city, utility bills are quite cheap as well. But on the other hand I don't quite know what a McDonald's or other restaurant or shop-worker might be making, $80-$200 a month, I guess. Thing is we don't make many things in this part of China, very few factories. Coal mining and tourism are large industries around here. Most factories are in the east and south, huge new cities like Shenzhen. Special Economic Zones as they originally called them, and you actually had to have a sort of passport to go into them. Not now though.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Since their purchace, I think they have been doing a very good job with the company. New Moto X. Moto maker. Nexus 6. I would be highly interested in their next tablet.
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Actually......the transition hasn't completed yet. All of that has happened under Google's direction. :p
 
Subject to approval I believe. The sale has already been agreed AFAIK.

Could take a while. But Lenovo manufacturers all their own products "in-house" in their own factories, including the Thinkpads, rather than paying the likes of Foxconn to do it for them, as many non-Chinese companies do.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
95% of the crap open source software on Windows is malicious.
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Exaggerate and dissemble much? :rofl:

Crap software is crap software. Please don't slag open source because you tried some bad freeware.

Open source software for Windows, from known and reputable sources - iow, basically all of it - Cygwin, the Sourceforge GnuWin32 Project and a whole host of others - are absolutely not malicious in any way, shape or form.

I challenge you to cite any malicious open source software by name.

I'll personally test and evaluate it and the truth will win.

But it has to be open source, not "kinda sorta open source and it's all the same if it's free" nonsense. ;)

Take your time, I'm prepared for a long wait. :D
 
EarlyMon said:
Exaggerate and dissemble much? :rofl:

Crap software is crap software. Please don't slag open source because you tried some bad freeware.

Open source software for Windows, from known and reputable sources - iow, basically all of it - Cygwin, the Sourceforge GnuWin32 Project and a whole host of others - are absolutely not malicious in any way, shape or form.

I challenge you to cite any malicious open source software by name.

I'll personally test and evaluate it and the truth will win.

But it has to be open source, not "kinda sorta open source and it's all the same if it's free" nonsense. ;)

Take your time, I'm prepared for a long wait. :D
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Lol okay boss. Yes I know most of it is not malicious. It's just hard to find a quality app I need.

Just installed camstudio. Seemed legit, got a virus I had to deal with.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Lol okay boss. Yes I know most of it is not malicious. It's just hard to find a quality app I need.

Just installed camstudio. Seemed legit, got a virus I had to deal with.
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CamStudio is indeed open source, there's the source code for it. x264vfw | SourceForge.net

...however where did you download it from as a compiled Windows executable? Because I know many freeware download sites, like C-Net, put a lot of their own adware stuff into their downloaders and installers, that the application is bundled into. Like never download GIMP from C-Net.

Decent Windows screen capture software you may have to pay for it. FRAPS was always well regarded, especially for capturing gaming, $37.
 
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