Just noticed something. If you look at a work out on Endomondo it works fine using iPhone. However not only can you view maps. Streetview works too! Holy workarounds batman!
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Just noticed something. If you look at a work out on Endomondo it works fine using iPhone. However not only can you view maps. Streetview works too! Holy workarounds batman!
Sorry to hear your news Henners, ditto the above sentiments :(
Mark, I can't get street view in Endomondo but I have installed it again on my new phone yesterday so maybe that's switched it to Apple Maps?
Henners, you have nothing to be apologetic for as far as I can see. So you made it sound like the iPhone had some sort of NFC type of way of sharing content. Who gives a f***?
J4MIE I mean the website via Safari. Not the app
Brilliant. Thanks!
I've noticed that if you have a link from streetview on a PC then open it on the iPhone then street view will open full screen as good as the previous app!
Just a pity they don't have this in the maps for mobile.
His definition of fragmentation leaves a lot to be desired.
Nice. Whats it like to set up from the point of an Android user? Can you import google contacts?Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Finnish mobile startup Jolla has announced it will be unveiling its forthcoming MeeGo-based mobile OS — codenamed Sailfish — at an event in Finland next month.
Jolla Confirms It Will Unveil Sailfish MeeGo-Based OS Next Month | TechCrunch
and again I will point out that Windows Phone has done both of these things since launch ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I know, but I'm just trying to make the point that Windows Phone had Facebook integration into the OS almost 2 years ago :) I've thankfully not needed to test any companies customer service for a good couple of years, but back in the day Nokia were pretty good :)Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
first of all i would liked to tell you that apple has doing great job...i phone 5 is very powerfull AT&T mobile,the image processing is very heavy.........ipad also have .
Really? :andrea:
My HTC Desire is 3 years old and it had FB already back then when i bought it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Also HTC just releases an upgraded version of the One X, called One X+ which have a faster CPU,
larger battery and doubled sized storage space which is now 64GB.
I Still don't like that HTC have gone down the Iphone road with non exchangeable battery and non extendible storage (although 64b should be enough).
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Originally Posted by henners88
Its not about that Henners, but mere about how apple and its followers (ajfåns) constantly talking about as it was something new in the world of smartphones.
This is just anothe case of Apple generally claiming that they invented / were first with features and functions.
Pretty much like how the Chinese communist party constantly claims that every invention was invented in china.
Must we get into this all the time - Oh I just did XZY on my CoolDevice.
Hey - OldDevice was doing that in 1952, so you can stick your CoolDevice up your....
No, he was responding to a specific question from me regarding whether it was easy to import contacts for someone who previously used an Android phone.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
If this illustrates anything, its the way in which you interprete just about anything involving Apple in a negative light. I have no idea when Apple started 'integrating' (whatever that means) facebook but its irrelevant to the question I asked Henners and his response.
Thanks, I appreciate hearing about your experiences.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Right now top of my list is the new HTC One X plus which seems to cover the shortfalls of its predecessor that I was worried about. The only concern is that the only way I get my current sensation to improve its performance is by physically removing and reinstalling the battery every few days, this wouldn't be possible with the new HTC as the battery is fixed but then again I shouldn't encounter the same performance issues (fingers crossed).
The Xperia T is next on the list with the iPhone 5 a distant third at the moment. I go through phases when the iPhone sounds like exactly what I want then at other times I don't fancy it at all....
Yes I have, it was the first thing I did. Helped a little but not significantly and the lag worsens after 2 or 3 days but reduces if I take the battery out. Merely switching off/on never worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Considered installing a cyanogenmod OS but my model of sensation isn't unlocked so couldn't. Grrr
EU laws say handsets shall be unlocked after as little as 6 months into your contract.
Not sure EU laws apply in the UK though! :p
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Originally Posted by ioan
Sorry I didn't mean network unlock, I meant a bootloader unlock.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Well, wife's colleague's son dropped my S3 from shoulder height, like a toy, onto hard concrete (why that wretched little %@#&! :mad: ). Anywhoo, it landed face first, and since I am such a daredevil, I didn't have a protective cover on it. :)
Now I have a cracked screen at the top left side, and two hairline cracks across the screen from top to bottom. The below pic is not of my phone, but it gives an idea of the crack on my screen:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TVrJs30PHc...ken+galaxy.JPG
The phone still works fine, and so I asked the Samsung guys if I could only get the front glass screen changed. They said no. Cost estimate for changing the screen + digitizer is around $210.
Since the phone was bought in Romania, and I have to live here for the time being, I wrote to their Samsung rep about warranty. They said because of physical damage, the warranty is now void, even if I pay for it and get it repaired at the authorized repair center. :confused:
I also wrote to the UK rep, who said that the physical damage won't void warranty as long as I get it repaired by them. I am inclined to believe this second guy as this is how things work in India as well. If you have physical damage and you get the gadget repaired at the authorized repair center, the warranty still remains.
Well, moral of the story. No matter how much they beg, don't give your smartphones to those little......precious bundles of joy.
Henners , I'm a little late expressing my condolences , but I thought I'd do so anyway .
My wife and I went through three miscarriages , and they suck .
The good news is , though , that my son has just come home from college for thanksgiving .
He's a gift , and worth what we went through .
On the phone front , to keep this on topic , I have a short story .
Being a firmly entrenched Luddite , up until just a short time ago , I had an old Samsung flip phone , worthy of Captain Kirk .
When my lad went off to school , it came time to be connected to him , electronically .
It was a huge hassle , which I won't bother going into , but we got two Blackberry Curves for nothing on a two-year plan .
Apart from playing Tetris a few times , and Wordmole very occasionally , I use it as a phone , to call him , or the wife .
Two or three weeks ago , it went missing .
We looked everywhere , about six times , as the replacement was set to cost us $350.00 .
I figured it had slipped out of the pocket , as it's slim and slippery , and since Bell told me it hadn't been used , I figured It was in some ditch somewhere .
Within the time period , it rained , and hard , several times . It even hailed heavily during one downpour .
It was over , I thought . Time to go back to the Samsung , as a new Berry was not in the budget .
It was as I was about to type in "Bell telephone" into Google , when the land line beside me rang .
It was my wife , asking me if I could guess what had just walked into my coffee house .
It was my Blackberry . A neighbour had found it in the grass whilst dog-walking .
Two or three weeks of sitting in the tall grass , getting rained on , and it fired right up . It had a whisp of a little moisture inside the screen for a few hours , until it was fully charged , and is now working like a trooper .
Tough might not have been how I would have described my Berry before , but it is now .
Bad luck CR...Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
Moral of the story though is to have a proper cover for your phone. Mine has an imitation leather cover front and back and is tough enough to double up as a teething toy for my son (actually its a lot better at that job than it is being a phone) bought for a princely £3-50 on ebay. Explains why you don't have a problem with the size of modern phones though, a similar cover attached to an S3 would make it pretty unusable IMO.
Hope it all gets sorted.
Thanks Malbec. I was looking into buying a cover, even tried some of them, but I guess I bought into Samsung's gorilla glass crap. I dropped my S2 many times and it never cracked, maybe that's why. I even dropped the S3 a couple of times, but mostly in the house on the wooden floor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malbec
As for the phone being too big with the covers on, after trying both flip covers and silicone protective ones, the phone still didn't seem too big and fit fine in the front right pocket of my jeans.
I felt exactly like that, especially after hearing the cost of repairing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Well, I'll be buying a cover now FOR SURE. I'm looking at either one of these:
http://static.pcgarage.ro/products/1...b11e2bcaab.jpg
http://static.pcgarage.ro/products/1...fbaaf4adca.jpg
I don't like the look of either one of those. I'm guessing the second one is better for the screen, but it won't protect the sides that well.
The phone is still working fine with two gigantic cracks across the screen, and the spiderweb crack on the top left corner, held together for now with a piece of sellotape.
Am I risking damaging anything inside the phone further, does anybody know? Or is it fine working this way for a while? The screen and digitizer are gonna be changed anyway. I've got to wait until I sort the warranty fiasco out.
As long as you keep it dry it should be ok to use.
My nephew cracked the screen of his ZTE somethinsomething much worse than in the pic you linked a year ago and it's works just fine even if the protective film is pretty much the only thing keeping the screen in place.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
CR, I'd get something like the second jacket. Mine is similar but with thicker covers and better side protection. At £3-50 you can't go wrong even if you won't be winning any style awards.
China's Huawei and ZTE pose national security threat, says US committee | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Interesting article especially since Huawei in particular is getting lucrative contracts in the west to sort out mobile phone infrastructure, they are building Britain's 4G network as we speak. Both companies already market mobiles in the west too.
Bah, Nokia did that first too. ;)
In the eighties/nineties their weren't allowed to US markets unless they build backdoors for the phone system built in Soviet Russia. It would be fun to know what kind of features KGB wanted for western products. :p
Talking about features, Apple has learned their lesson from previous models, before they weren't that forthcoming to say that the Iphone's warranty is void if used in below freezing temperatures(0C), this time they've complied to Finnish consumer boards advise and made the temperature limit known beforehand. :up:
I actually bought one today similar to what you've mentioned. It's made of leather and has cushioning. A bit thicker than the official Samsung case because of the cushioning, but still surprisingly fits fine in my jeans pocket. Cost 10 pounds, but almost all GS3 cases are over 10 pounds. The only problem is the hanging flap thingy when it's open, but I guess I'll get used to it after a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malbec
I actually agree with that, don't like to hide my phones. But well, really can't afford breaking the screen again. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I'm thinking of getting a screen protector as well. The S3's screen is already scratch resistant, so not much advantage on that front, but I'm guessing it would still provide some sort of protection towards big scratches or even some shock, preventing the screen cracking perhaps?
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Funny thing is I haven't bought a cover for any smartphone previously in my life, because I never broke one this badly. Now I'm going paranoid and trying to protect the new screen as much as possible. LOL.
Once bitten, twice shy I guess.
They all perform quite good in drop tests and other tests. But as I have learned, at a huge cost, never to take a chance again.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I saw this video a while ago:
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And thought well, the S3 can handle small drops easily. I even dropped it inside the house many times, not a scratch. But I guess outside in the real world and on concrete is a different story altogether.
Strange thing is I must have dropped my previous phone, the Galaxy S2, at least 10-15 times on all terrain, even concrete, and it didn't crack. It's still running fine. The S3 cracked the first time it hit concrete. I'm guessing a design flaw, because the screen does look like protruding above the side casing, which is always bad if it falls face first.
Talked with another Romanian Samsung rep again, says future warranty will be void even if repaired at the authorized center.
A friend talked and confirmed with the UK Samsung rep, says future warranty continues or remains if repaired at the authorized center.
Another friend talked with the Samsung rep in Mumbai, India, says future warranty remains if repaired at the authorized center.
The last two is how I remember it has been for phones like forever, and how it should be.
Why is it different in Romania? Is it some EU or Romanian specific law I am not aware of? Does anybody know?
If any future warranty is gonna be void anyway, I can try to replace just the front screen glass. Costs just about $20 and Youtube is filled with such DIY videos:
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Best case scenario: I save $190 and learn something valuable in case the screen cracks again in the future.
Worst case scenario: I mess it up, and even if I do, it's only $20 down the drain, and I can still get the screen and digitizer changed ultimately.
They are trying to screw you over in Romania, that's how they do 'business' over there. I am rather sure that the EU laws are more like what they tell you at Samsung UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
Just send it over to your UK friend to have it serviced there and be done with it.
Yep, it is a bit weird. Talked again to some helpful bloke this time and he said he isn't sure about it and will have to ask his colleagues. :confused: - I mean they are the authorized service center. They should be on top of these things!Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Sending the phone to UK via courier alone will cost me a fortune. So, I'll get it done in India in December when I go there most probably, unless these guys here figure out the meaning of warranty.
I mean software wise I'm not really concerned, because if there's any software problem, I can root the phone and install a vanilla Android OS anytime. But who wants to lose a 2 year warranty anyway?