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04-03-2014 , 10:23 PM

#626

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04-03-2014 , 10:30 PM

#627

KPowers

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Perfect

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04-04-2014 , 03:16 AM

#628

rockrock

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Originally Posted by KPowers

What's the easiest way to get text from a PC to my phone? Like if I want to link someone to a website.

Mightytext is awesome for texting from desktop

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04-04-2014 , 04:33 AM

#629

sba9630

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AirDroid [play.google.com]

Manage your Android devices on the web, all over the air.

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04-04-2014 , 06:04 AM

#630

Mr.mmmKay

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yeah android is a great app, easiest way to transfer stuff to your phone imo

another cool feature is that you can show your camera input on your screen and take pics and stuff

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04-04-2014 , 10:18 AM

#631

GatorXP

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Originally Posted by BABARtheELEPHANT

Google Music is better. I still stick to Spotify because I have all my playlists there but last time I checked, Google Music had a bigger library, the option to import 10k (or maybe 100k) songs of your own and albums seem to release faster on the google platform (1 week earlier for the last Cudi).

That flow hard vid is awesome, I see they are rocking the chromebooks at SwiftKey.

can you download from google and move to an ipod?

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04-04-2014 , 10:20 AM

#632

Mr.mmmKay

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yeah android is a great app, easiest way to transfer stuff to your phone imo<br />
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another cool feature is that you can show your camera input on your screen and take pics and stuff

Airdroid*

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04-04-2014 , 11:26 AM

#633

BABARtheELEPHANT

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Originally Posted by GatorXP

can you download from google and move to an ipod?

I don't think you can. You basically buy the right to listen to the music, sort of a licence, you don't own the music itself. You can download the music and listen it offline within the app tho.

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04-04-2014 , 11:35 AM

#634

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How do all the free MP3 downloaders work? My little brother told me about them, and sure enough, they're in the store.

Are they illegal, spyware, both, what? I don't see why someone would pay for music when these are available.

I throw music on my phone from my PC so I've never really bothered to download one. Plus, I'm not sure I trust them.

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04-04-2014 , 01:38 PM

#635

Jibninjas

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Anyone go from the HTC M7 to the M8? I really wanted to switch this year, but kinda underwhelmed by the M8. I love HTC and could not bear to give up the front facing speakers or Sense, so I don't see any other option out there. But the M8 just doesn't seem like a big enough improvement. The camera has already gotten some bad reviews (not bad really, just not great).

I have not had to flash a custom ROM on my current One, so I am thinking about just doing that and trying to hold off another year. But that seems like sooooooo long.

Thoughts?

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04-04-2014 , 02:48 PM

#636

rakeme

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I use Spotify just for the convenience. I used to download all my music from Kazaa and limewire when I was younger, which took a ****load of time. Now with Spotify, I have every song I want already available to me without having to download them. For $8 a month, you can't beat that.

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04-04-2014 , 02:50 PM

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Never used the m7, but the m8 is the best phone I've ever used. Lightning fast, and I ran a benchmark test app and it crushed the competition. No other phone came close in performance.

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04-05-2014 , 10:00 AM

#638

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Originally Posted by BABARtheELEPHANT

I don't think you can. You basically buy the right to listen to the music, sort of a licence, you don't own the music itself. You can download the music and listen it offline within the app tho.

But you can on spotify?

From Spotify--->
"Play any song, anywhere
Download music & listen offline in high-quality audio"

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04-05-2014 , 10:24 AM

#639

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ok so i have been an apple/iphone user for 5ish years. i have an iphone 5, ipad air and macbook pro. i havent had any issues with apple, but i am kinda looking for a change because i think there are better product out there. is it work swapping everything?

iphone --> galaxy s5
ipad --> galaxy note pro
macbook --> samsung

thoughts are appreciated.

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04-05-2014 , 10:43 AM

#640

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Originally Posted by beauvanlaanen

While i can see GS5 beeing an upgrade over iphone
No chance you d enjoy going ipad air to galaxy note pro , and macbook air are still really good

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04-05-2014 , 10:50 AM

#641

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You dont need to have one company make all your tech or even run all of everything on one ecosystem. Id use an Android phone and probably the new Nexus tablet that I bet is being released soon (3rd gen 7 and maybe a 2nd gen 10 as options) but you can make a good argument for sticking with the iPad.

But you get nothing out of changing from Macbook to some kind of Windows running Ultrabook.

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04-05-2014 , 10:50 AM

#642

pwnsall

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Tasker is too intimidating. Where are the cool tasks i can just copy directly from others?

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04-06-2014 , 11:02 AM

#643

rckyu

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After having used the Nexus 7 the last months I barely could look at the iPhone 4S anymore. After using Link Bubble for a couple weeks I was finally fed up with iOS, small screen and being handcuffed (even with jb), so picked up the Nexus 5 yesterday. Very happy with it so far as everything is obviously crushing my old 4S.

Only thing that annoys me so far is using my Apple EarPods / Bose AE2i and people can barely hear me using the inline mic.

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04-06-2014 , 12:37 PM

#644

champstark

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Is there anyway to set up Textra or another messaging app (if people have suggestions lmk) to show who a message is from on the lockscreen? I don't want the message to pop up, just the sender, like it is on the iPhone.

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04-06-2014 , 01:45 PM

#645

[Phill]

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Maybe dashclock and a plugin?

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04-06-2014 , 03:00 PM

#646

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Tasker is too intimidating. Where are the cool tasks i can just copy directly from others?

+1!

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04-06-2014 , 04:25 PM

#647

CrazyEyez

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Originally Posted by [Phill]

Maybe dashclock and a plugin?

Yes.

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04-06-2014 , 05:53 PM

#648

[Phill]

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Oh, didnt even realise I had that set up on Dashclock already, shows how I just drag down the notification shade without checking who messaged me first.

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04-06-2014 , 06:46 PM

#649

Steve350

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Does anyone have Verizon and the HTC One (M8) Google Play edition? I need to know if it works on the Verizon network. Verizon is just so direct and helpful.

TIA.

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04-07-2014 , 09:19 AM

#650

Jibninjas

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Originally Posted by Split aces

Hey, I went from last years One to this year's m8.

The new phone flies, like I'd feel downgraded if I went to the m7 after having used it for a week. Sense is cleaner and more refined. The biggest issue I have is that the new screen is actually smaller than the old one save for video watching or using the camera. That's the biggest gripe I have. And while the phone is still the sexiest android out there by far, it's a bit wider and much taller than the m7. The new camera is a bit better than the last one but you already know what the camera is like. BoomSound is louder than last year, and the volume is better dispersed.

If you like the m7 you'll like the m8. Truly, it ****ing flies. I still think that last year's model had the slightly classier design. Go to Verizon and hold it in your hand

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Originally Posted by Split aces

Couple more things coming from the HTC one m7 to the m8:

They got rid of the stock browser, this has been hard to get used to but dolphin browser has taken its spot. Text reflow on the stock browser was flawless and its integration with sense was awesome. Dolphin is the only one that can handle reflow reasonably well, but it's not as tight as the stock browser.

It's awesome to have a phone this big and be able to double tap the screen to turn it on.

Thanks for the input. I use chrome browser most of the time anyway. I will probably go in and check it out once tmous has it in stores. But I am kinda thinking that I will just root my M7 and throw on a custom ROM with sense 6 and hopefully that will last me until they come out with their next phone. If they would have added a 8UP or 13MP camera it would have been a no brainer. Adding a stupid second sensor while losing OIS makes it less desirable.