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The Verge
Cool Matty
On The Verge since Nov 19, 2011
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Yeah, now we get to deal with another generation of Disc Read Errors! Progress!
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Was this sarcasm? Literally nothing good came of this change, thanks to the complainers. You lose tons of features, just to keep a dying used game market on life support. Gamestop should have died with this generation.
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Not only that, but if your disc gets scratched or lost? Too bad.
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Yes, it is. Discs died ages ago on the PC, why the hell are we still dealing with this crap on consoles?
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So far benchmarks have shown that even under the worst conditions, you can still expect around 7 hours. Unless I’m getting a 17" behemoth, the performance improvements will not outweigh the battery. The CPU isn’t all that terrible once they ramp up, especially the 1.7ghz model (which holds its own against even the MBP’s).
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This is actually fairly quick as far as large-scale lawsuits are concerned.
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Money ain’t free. They needed cash to keep up with their competitors with expansion/upgrades.
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I really wish The Verge would get us some numbers on the CPU upgrade. I am REALLY curious if it’s worth the $150, and if it cuts significantly into the battery life. Can one of the editors tell us if they plan on at least revisiting this review with that info? No one else out there has been talking about this. Thanks!
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Just because I /could/ find a power outlet doesn’t mean I’d want to be tied to one. Besides, 12 hours is only web browsing. Doing anything more intense cuts into that. So if you’re getting more serious work done, other laptops won’t cut it.
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If they put a haswell chip in it, it wouldn’t even be the same device anymore. It’d be a miniature PC and cost way, way more.
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Based on people who own A6 devices, I have no reason to believe it was solely based on the CPU. Besides, they DO still sell devices like the iPad Mini which is essentially an iPad 2 in repackaged form. If Apple is making compromises, and the compromise is lagginess, then no one should be claiming iOS doesn’t lag.
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That’s because Infinite’s shooting aspect is probably more of a hindrance to the type of story it’s telling. That said, it’s way, way better than any other game that’s come out this year, or even last year.
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As an actual realistic user of Apple products, I can definitively say:
iOS lags.
Yes, yes it does. It not only lags, it lags quite often, to the point where iOS users should probably shut their traps about it. While certain things, such as the home screen, are often smooth, there’s other parts of the interface that outright break down at times. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of where I regularly see lag, even on newer devices (like an iPad 3rd generation):
1. Any time a notification bubble pops up. Especially in a game.
2. Switching apps.
3. Any app that uses a webview (like Chrome). Thanks Apple for nerfing third party apps on this! Wouldn’t want an equal playing field!
4. Maps.
5. Any time the device runs low on RAM and has to reload parts of the interface (like the keyboard)With these sorts of results, iOS is honestly just as laggy as a powerful Android device these days.
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Also keep in mind that battery technology has improved over the years, resulting in longer lifetime batteries. With its current rating, if you fully charge (0-100%) the phone nearly every day, it will still have 90% of its original capacity in 2 years.
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Looks fairly dead center to me. Left/right isn’t relevant (and even if you wanted to say it was relevant, that’d just shoot down his original claim anyway???)
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I’m not going to sit here and read every thread just because you think you have some answer. Either you know the answer or you don’t (I’m leaning towards the latter).
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Unless Apple started putting dead weight in their phones without telling me, the weight is pretty much dead center on both phones. That’s where the battery is, and the display covers the whole device. Those two parts make up most of the device’s weight.
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No, what I said was fine, actually. Saying “it’s the metal” makes no sense at all otherwise.
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All I have to test it with is the HTC one, but here’s my info:
A. It detects anything about 2 inches above it and closer as “close”.
B. The delay is never more than 1 second (I imagine the polling rate is 1 second)
C. There’s no way to customize how often it polls in Tasker, so I use the defaults on this.
D. The battery drain is so small that I can’t even measure it. I seem to remember somewhere that the power draw for running the proximity sensor is something less than a single milliamp.I’ve been using this for about three weeks, came up with it myself independently (although after Googling it looks like I’m not the first). About the only issue with this is accidental activation. To avoid this, I use several conditions to reduce it:
A. Disable it entirely while in landscape mode. This keeps it from triggering while playing games and such.
B. Disable it in the Camera app, since it doesn’t trigger landscape events despite being in landscape when rotated.
C. Disable when there’s a call (in any state). So that it doesn’t interfere with standard operation of that.Additionally, you can add a delay + if condition to the off task, so that it only turns off when it detects that the sensor has been “close” for 2 seconds or so. I don’t use this anymore (I preferred responsiveness), but it’ll keep it from activating if you accidentally run your hand over it, such as reaching for the power button.
Finally some gotchas: Make the off and on profiles separate, not just an start/exit task of the same profile. For some reason, Tasker is really flaky if you try to keep it all in one profile. Also, make sure the proximity sensor is turned always on in Tasker preferences, otherwise it won’t work with the device off. I also recommend you add a simple, short noise that plays when it activates, so you have that extra bit of assurance that it did what you wanted. I have mine set to play the “Facebook Pop” noise when it closes.
It’s not perfect, but its reliable enough that I have come to really be addicted to it. It’s also handy without the cover, as turning it over will have the same effect as the cover. Same with sticking it in your pocket, although that does run the risk of accidental presses before it kicks in.
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I’d think about it but Google hasn’t told me I’m going to think about it yet.
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Step 1: Buy the HTC One flip cover (or similar for your phone, if it exists)
Step 2: Add a proximity profile to tasker that locks and unlocks the phone when the sensor detects close/far. Download “Secure Settings” from the Google Play store in order to unlock the phone. (Tasker can’t do this itself, but can use that as a plugin). -
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Your tests were flawed, then. Basic laws of electricity, really. The pixels themselves use no additional power when the screen is white or black. It’s only the backlight.
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Every single time Swype screws up the word “try” or “has/had” or “God/good”, I hate it a little more. Swiftkey at least knows what the hell I’m typing is actually what I wanted to say.
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Metal doesn’t intrinsically get hotter than plastic.
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Still a couple unstyled icons, but otherwise it’s pretty great.
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It weighs literally 0.1 ounces (4 grams) more than the Nexus 4. You’d have to be some weight-measuring genius to feel the difference.
What I’m curious about is why your phone is heating up. Unless you’re doing some seriously intense browsing, playing a game, or running the GPS hard, it shouldn’t warm up (like other phones). Also keep in mind that aluminum will radiate heat faster, but it will also cool down faster, even in your hand.
As for the power button, I just use the flip cover and have my proximity sensor lock/unlock the phone as I close/open the cover.
Finally, unless for some reason you’re giving the phone a death grip, the rounded edges shouldn’t be hurting at all.
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Flesky seems less of a beta and more of an alpha product right now. It’s missing huge amounts of features, there’s some big UI issues, and its autocorrection is the worst of any current keyboard I’ve used.
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Is it muddy? Yes. Could you do better on another phone without these mics? I doubt it. The problem is that on an iPhone or similar, the outright volume of the music being played would be so intense that the mics will clip (sounding like static and just plain unlistenable). The HTC One isn’t trying to give you perfect FLAC-quality recordings for you to listen to, it’s just trying to make it listenable. And it does a bang up job of that.
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It does more than this.
It actually will attempt to re-compress all images on the site into webp format (Google’s JPG/PNG/GIF all-in-one replacement). If the resulting image is smaller, it’ll send it along. Overall quality is pretty similar too, unlike Opera or similar services which just re-compress to lower quality JPG.
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Putting in the minimum amount of effort to pull $15+ out of your customers is not a way to run a long-term, sustainable business. Besides, you have no idea how successful those games would be if they either:
A. Cleaned them up to be actually worth $15.
B. Reduced the price to something more in their category ($3-5).What if they sold it for $5 and sold 6x as many copies? Pretty obvious decision, no?
Besides, we live in an era where our phones can easily emulate games. I can play all those classics, at full quality, with relatively equal terrible UI, all using the existing copies of the games I already own from decades ago. If Square Enix can’t even beat basic emulation level of quality, what the hell are we paying $15 for?
