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3rd October 2012, 08:54 AM | #401 |
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COGrizzly if you think the S3 is too big, wait a couple weeks, they are supposedly coming out with an S3 mini.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/03/s...ni-october-11/ It should have the same number of pixels as it's big brother, which means that the DPI (Pixels Per Inch) should be awesome! Which means it will look very nice. |
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10...d-google-maps/ Some iPhone users have mourned the loss of Google Street View in iOS Maps, and Google has heard their cries. The company has added Street View to the mobile Web-based version of Google Maps for iOS. It's not quite as integrated as the desktop version or the previous iOS Maps app, but it seems to work quite well and, naturally, doesn't require Flash. |
4th October 2012, 10:34 AM | #409 |
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I've since upgraded my iPad to iOS 6 so I could have a look at Apple Maps. It's actually OK as a map - better than I expected.
In a delicious irony I entered 'Starbucks' into both Apple Maps and Google Maps in mobile Safari. Apple Maps correctly located the nearest Starbucks while Google placed it about 2 miles away from where it actually is . Of course this is the exception rather than the rule. I also finally got my hands on an iPhone last Sunday. It's a very nice device to hold and use. I never really liked the feel of the glass back on the 4s and much prefer the size, weight and feel of the 5. Yesterday I heard the 4G fiasco has finally been settled and that EE is now free to go ahead and launch. Finally - decision made |
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Just out of curiosity, how do they improve maps over time? Does it somehow learn by my using it? Is there a feedback mechanism?
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4th October 2012, 05:27 PM | #412 |
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Ask Maggie on Cnet has useful points in the comparison between the GS3 and the iPhone 5.
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4th October 2012, 09:23 PM | #413 |
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Yes, it has a report home function. It works as follows: if the user searches for something, the phone tracks the user using it's gps to see if they go to that location. If they do, and the location is wrong, then the phone reports home with it's last dying breath that it is being stomped to death. Apple marks whatever is in the database for that point as needing to be checked for accuracy.
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More trouble for Apple factories in China. Supply issues will continue.
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I suppose this is the best place to ask this, so how does the iPhone compare with other phones for memory? I have a 32GB iPod and I have to down-convert to 128, which luckily iTunes does automatically. For 64GB I could down-convert to 192 or 256 and still have room for all the non-music junk. (And before you ask, yes, I need every one of my songs .)
But I tried looking at the other smartphones and the most I saw was 16GB, but generally memory is not even listed. I'm guessing they'll take removable memory cards, but I've been out of that market for so long I don't know what is available anymore . |
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Many are available with different memory specs, but generally you can shove a 64Gb memory card into any of the ones that take a memory card. The only top-end range that I can think of that doesn't have a memory card slot are the HTC models.
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I never bothered to load any of my iTunes into my iPhone. I just listen to Pandora, XM or Spotify. Almost every album I want to listen to is on Spotify anyway, and when I look for it, I often find something even better to listen to. Now I have both a physical media graveyard and a virtual media graveyard.
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Google doesn't make phones (well now that it owns Motorola I guess you could say it does). Samsung does. Its most popular phones have microSD cards.
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Played with the Samsung this weekend. No good. Far too big.
Played with the iPhone5 - Maps is crap. Utter crap. Dont need a changeable battery or extra storage so will probably get a cheap upgrade to the iPhone. |
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I did notice how you just contradicted your own argument. Google does not make the phones. Samsung, HTC, Motorola, etc. do. Google just makes the OS. Google is not Apple. They're not "pushing towards" anything. The handset manufacturers will continue to make the phones they figure will sell the best, just as they've always done. |
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Google controls android. Google owns the trademark. Google controls the specifications and rules regarding which phones may be marketed as android phones through the open handset alliance.
Google also wholly owns Motorola, maker of the popular droid phone. Google commissioned the design for the Nexus family of devices, the reference device for android implementations. Google definitely has the ability, and uses it, to control many aspects of Android. I don't see the contradiction. |
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Agreed. Pretty much the only way to get the full Android experience is to buy the Google "Nexus" phones, or else root your phone. So what? Wrong. Google does not "control" anything through the Open Handset Alliance. The Open Handset Alliance is an open standards organization with some 84 member companies. Neither Google nor any other single company "controls" it. That's why they call it, you know, an "open alliance." What's your point? Are you not aware that the latest Motorola Droid phones are microSD-enabled? Yeah, and the Galaxy Nexus has a built-in microSD card. Of course Google "controls many aspects of Android" (the OS which it plays a major role in developing), but it does not dictate all the specs of all the OHA hardware. Any manufacturer can make OHA hardware. So long as that hardware conforms to the OHA standards, Android will run on it. The OHA standards obviously do not prohibit the use of microSD card storage, because lots of Android phones still use it (including the latest Android devices manufactured by Google's wholly-owned subsidiary, Motorola). You alleged that Google is somehow leveraging their OS to "push" the handset manufacturers into dropping support for SD cards. Do you have any evidence to support your contention that Google is trying to get rid of microSD? |
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Google may not control Android through the OHA but it unquestionably controls the platform through other means. If you want early access to new versions of Android, or you want to market your devices as Android compatible, or you want to include Google applications on the device, you are required to agree with Google's terms and license.
Hell, it was reported that Acer abruptly canceled the release of a device last month because Google threatened to cancel their Android license. Assuming the reports are true, that sure meets my definition of control. http://www.pcworld.com/article/26227...ne_launch.html |
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Acer is part of the Open Handset Alliance and has to play by the rules. Amazon and Barnes & Nobles aren't, so Kindle Fire and Nook tablets get a pass.
As for Aliyun, the following article explains the issue more clearly: http://www.zdnet.com/is-aliyun-os-re...th-7000004318/. |
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Well the S3 mini is confirmed, but it is not as much smaller as I had hoped:
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The Open Handset Alliance is a technology consortium dedicated to the standardization of mobile phone handsets. Android is a user interface for mobile devices which is owned by Google and licensed as open-source software. Google is not the only manufacturer in the Open Handset Alliance, nor does it dictate standards to the OHA.
Why are you guys nitpicking at my argument? Have you not been following the discussion? This whole thing started with me challenging L8Elvis's contention that Google is using the OHA to "push" handset manufacturers into dropping support for MicroSD cards. He's been making that same argument for almost a year now. As I recall, it all started in the "What's so great about Apple" thread as a misguided attempt to forward the idea that Apple is leading the cell phone market by refusing to adhere to standards, thereby forcing users to buy proprietary peripherals, pay outrageous prices for additional storage, and bring their phones in for servicing to replace dead batteries. He's been arguing that Google is pushing the Android platform in that direction also, starting with the elimination of MicroSD cards. Now here we are almost a year later, and there's absolutely no indication that MicroSD cards are going away from the Android platform any time soon. |
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Another article, with full specs, on the S3 mini announcement:
http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-announc...cs-7000005639/ And yes, this new phone (which will sell 1 jillion copies) has a microSD slot. Samsung isn't stupid. |
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What do people use these microSD slots for? I have all my stuff in a cloud someplace, so can't imagine a use for a memory card on my phone. It was a real pain in the Blackberry, with the phone forgetting it's there and me having to dig the thing out and re-boot to find the photos.
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