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I'm sure I read the Sony z2 has an awesome battery life. If i were against getting a Samsung I'd get that right now. Really good phone that borrows tonnes of the better ideas from the competition.

I bet the LG g3 is good too, but im out of the loop about how good.

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06-18-2014 , 05:28 PM

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You guys read over the specs of the Amazon phone ? I'm going to go look at phones tomorrow. Will update.

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06-18-2014 , 05:31 PM

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Re: Amazon phone - some cool concepts, but I suspect most of them will be gimmicks. I'm fairly deep in the Amazon ecosystem (Prime, MP3s, Kindle, etc), but the fact that it's a heavy Amazon skin and doesn't even have Google Play is a pretty big turn-off for me.

But the Mayday feature alone might make it a good phone to buy for parents...

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06-18-2014 , 05:57 PM

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You guys read over the specs of the Amazon phone ? I'm going to go look at phones tomorrow. Will update.

It is extremely average and uncompelling in every way except perhaps if you are very heavily bought into the Amazon ecosystem. Not letting me use the apps I have bought from the play store is a big problem for me.

It's not even cheap, basically the big reason the fire tablets are worthwhile.

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06-18-2014 , 07:54 PM

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I'm not following what you mean by "somehow I have IT and a spell check happening", can you clarify?

I don't know of any way to disable the word suggestion bar.

by IT i meant "it"I.E the suggestion bar along with spell check ( which i finally found and shut off)

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06-18-2014 , 09:31 PM

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about battery life: have a look at http://www.anandtech.com/show/8031/h...ate-2-review/2 , where you see a good comparison of some major phones atm. (the ascend 2 is just the newest review, that's why i picked it. the phone has sick battery life, but is otherwise not really suitable imo)

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06-18-2014 , 09:33 PM

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It's not even cheap, basically the big reason the fire tablets are worthwhile.

Yeah not sure how the specs/features justify $200 on contract. That suprised me. Can't imagine a ton of people choosing that over the other 200 dollar phones available.

I had heard a rumor re: if you're streaming amazon instant video then it wouldn't count against your data. Did they say anything about that today? I didn't see it.

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06-19-2014 , 09:25 AM

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My bluetooth is stealing priority over Chromecast. I have a Marantz receiver with bluetooth and during the middle of streaming music (not video which the receiver obv couldn't play so that makes sense) bluetooth connects and Chromecast drops.

For now I'll just disable bluetooth but I'm hoping there is a way to prioritize these.

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06-19-2014 , 01:01 PM

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What phone/ROM/Android version are you using?

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06-19-2014 , 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by MiRee446

What phone/ROM/Android version are you using?

Moto X unrooted 4.4

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06-19-2014 , 07:11 PM

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curious who has rooted and rom'd an N5...what rom are you using?

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06-19-2014 , 08:18 PM

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And now for something completely different... http://betanews.com/2014/06/19/wirel...s-coming-soon/

Don't forget to check out the comments

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06-20-2014 , 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by UbinTook

curious who has rooted and rom'd an N5...what rom are you using?

I was running AOKP with Faux's kernel until they added some CAF elements. Now I'm running stock (still with Faux's kernel) with Xposed framework and the Gravity Box module (among others). I've found that Gravity Box give me just about all the features I liked without a custom ROM. I think the only feature it doesn't have that AOKP did was quiet hours which I was able to get from another app.

That being said recently I've been thinking about trying out a new ROM

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06-21-2014 , 06:57 PM

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Can someone please tell me exactly how to enable the number row on SwiftKey i cant find it anywhere.

Edit nm just wasn't updated

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06-21-2014 , 07:02 PM

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Can someone please tell me exactly how to enable the number row on SwiftKey i cant find it anywhere.

on the swiftkey keyboard look in the lower left, there is a button with 123 and the swiftkey symbol.
press and hold that button until a menu box appears,
choose settings
choose layout
touch the box next to number row
done

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06-25-2014 , 12:04 PM

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google i/o keynote about to start. live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtLJPvx7-ys

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06-25-2014 , 02:09 PM

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Chromecast will soon allow direct screen mirroring from your phone. I'm super pumped for that so I can play games on my TV (such as Zelda OoT). That + a PS3 controller paired via Bluetooth = awesome.

I can sort of do that now via the beta Mirror app and Cyanogenmod 11, but it seems to slow my phone way down. Hopefully doing it via Chromecast is less power intensive, but it could just also be that my S3 can't handle it. Either way, doing it natively from a Google application has to be better.

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06-25-2014 , 04:07 PM

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that update will be sick. i hope mediatech give some proper 5.0 update to xiaomi

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06-25-2014 , 04:30 PM

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I lost my 4th phone this year.... thinking about what to buy now... Im in malta, Sliema and i want to get phone asap. Any ideas? Xiaomi, Oneplusone seem like a solid choice but i havent seen any of these in 3 stores, i went to.

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06-25-2014 , 04:32 PM

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after breaking 2 phones within 1 years i settled for a 150$ xiaomi phone untill i can trust myself again

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06-25-2014 , 04:50 PM

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Hmm, im not convinced with the look of L. Maybe when I get it on my n5 shortly I will be won over though.

Quick settings is improved in functionality at least. The battery life extension and faster smoother stuff under the bonnet is nice though.

The watches are more interesting to me than before but I'm not sold on them yet.

Android TV is mine after my holiday when I have some spare cash. Looks really nice.