@Bob I have no data limits, but the LTE is too crippled at my desk at work (about 0.9 Mbps down and worse than 3G up) to make decent use of cloud storage
the only way I can listen to Spotify without it dropping out at work is to save all the music to my microSD
if I want to listen to a new piece of music while I'm at my desk, one that isn't downloaded, I add it to a playlist, make the playlist save offline, then listen to another album I already have saved while it's downloading
@Bob that's about as inelegant as me toting around a USB HDD with my laptop in college (mid-2000s) when the ThinkPad internal capacities were like 80 to 120 GB
@Bob the Nexus 6 and all the other Motorola-made phones have "separate softkeys", except that the home button is just another softkey, rather than being a big physical button with a builtin fingerprint reader like the Galaxy series
the battery and MicroSD are also very important to me, though
@Bob If you're playing the long game, technically you would still go with the Note 4, because it's a foregone conclusion that, despite releasing with 4.4.4, the Note 4 will SOMEDAY sport Lollipop. Of course, in Australia, that someday may be 2017.
> Android L also has a "battery saver" feature that lowers the device performance and cuts the background data and screen brightness when the device hits 15-percent battery
There it is.
Except... pretty sure I had that on my S2 running Gingerbread.
And I have it now on JB.
So, perhaps it's something Samsung added over core Android, but still pretty meh.
@allquixotic Considering my screen has used 82% of my total usage for today so far (totalling ~70%)... there won't be much to improve on over reducing screen brightness.
Looks like reducing data usage might be something Samsung's implementation doesn't do, but that accounts for a rather small portion of my usage.
@Bob wouldn't reducing the display's actual refresh rate also improve battery life? basically similar to what Nvidia G-Sync is doing on the desktop, except that, rather than to eliminate tearing, the purpose of varying (reducing, more specifically) the refresh rate on a phone's LCD is to save energy
@Bob I use it when I go to sporting events, extended outings at restaurants and shopping, etc. to ensure that my phone will be there when I need it, unless I'm toting my 10 Ah Anker battery
I only carry my extended battery sometimes. but with power saving mode I generally don't need it
I'm always estimating how long I expect to be away from a charger or charged battery pack -- if it's more than 4 hours, I'll put the phone into power saving mode
Hmmmm. @JourneymanGeek, I was at a clients machine, on Windows 8 which had a start menu! They had email issues and whilst the Immersive Control Panel looked like the standard control panel, things like Task Scheduler and EventViewer will not load... I'm guessing they've installed some things they shoudln't have
I don't have W8 so I wasn't sure if it was a rebranding (or not)
I'm guessing when they installed IOBitStart Menu (or some similar name) it's done some additionally unexpected nonsense
ah, same kind of thing as the iobit thing as well then. Well, I'm guessing IOBit does bad things as well, despite having lots of rewards etc (I would have thought it be a trusted applicaiton)
Well, at least I now know that W8 didn't rebrand it...
I wonder if the IOBit has nothing to do with this, and the immersive is something else completely ... It's insanse, I run their website (I tried to do IT support but found it too difficult) so not sure why I'm playing IT pro!!! :S
However, I got their email working and left it with "since they don't use Task Scheduler or need the event viewer, let's leave it as is". It's a PC which gets used to send emails and book keeping! And they use it 3 days a week..
@Boris_yo a panasonic lummix 5MP . because "digital" zoom just uses parts of the sencor, and optics are really important (bigger lenses tend to gather more light, plus any abberations are smaller), even for my "compact" camera I wanted to have a fair sized optical zoom, for wildlife like stuff, and it had to be on the camera not attachment, because there is never enough time.
On the other hand, some of the best optics , and zoom tend to be on cameras that a person is not going to have with them as often. no pictures is probably worse than bad pictures :-) the DSLR style are often superior cameras lens sencor , and even viewers. When is a megapixel not a megapixel? when that is not the sencors Real actual pixels , instead it is interpolated from a lesser sencor (and they lie about it too).
More light hitting the sencor, and not jumping registers, means that all this big numbers is meaningless unless there is good lens, and a quality sencor. Optical zoom adding much size.
while all flash in compact and subcompact cameras suck, and do not make it past 10feet, a mid sized zenon flash tube is still better than even 2 leds when it comes to pictures, good luck doing any video though without a light that can stay on for some time (leds) a flash tube is only useful for pictures.
if your married, the wife gets the good one, although if you have kids :-) you can unload the lesser one on them. now you know why it is so important to be married with children
@Psycogeek I was argumented when I thought zoom equals quality like zoom 21x Samsung WB350F compact camera offers. Conversely it's like you said, sensor, optics and aperture size. So I think they said that even top-level compact camera like Sony RX100 can have enought aperture for good zoom.
And does your camera have touch screen?
There are some that have and I wonder if they have Android OS?
the total zoom length doesnt really define the quality, there are cameras with internal lens arrays that suck, some very long zooms start to lose F-stopie things at the far end of the zoom, and are hard to focus. using 15x of a 20X zoom is not an option, because if it gets messy, you end up fighting it everytime your at that end.
@Boris_yo no my camera is old, because i have not upgraded, and the upgrade is much different, not sure i will like it.
Best pictures i have ever seen still came from the nicon 35mm thing, but those days are gone.
@Boris_yo processing lab does not even exist (one), the digital is ok, and i do not even very often print the pics, so generally it is more econo/envromentaly . Although i think there is and going to be a lot of pictures that dissapear because they are not printed, including crap printed with the computer in inkjet that may not have the longevity
I think the average user (picture taker) is not so wise with backups untill it is to late, thier moldy shoebox of photos from 1960 , is more likely to exist in 2020.
my floppies all died before transferring anything, that i do not even know what , or where. the floppies were the shoebox, they would dig out, and well nothing.
it would not be easy if in the 50 years that people had thier photos for, they have to change the paper they were on 4-5 TIMES?? Plus the average users know little about resolution, compression, and preserving the quality itself of the picture. They drag out some "web" pic and think it is the same as the original
I work with customers photo stuff, and can assure you for the average person, the mindless hunk of photo they got 2 copies of , was way more likely to live.
The dissaperaing ink of the "easy" photo they printed, and the costs (thanks to highway robbery ink) is higher .
ok how about how easy it has been for them to instead of taking 2-3 really good pictures, taking 500 half assed ones, than having to weed through them (well eventually they are going to) to find the 2-3 that can be preserved. yes easy :-) easy to end up with more junk.
film has a much wider range of contrast, it can capture, digital (still) has a very small contrast ratio. Which does not mean it is contrasty. If i take a shot in bright sun with shadows, film was somehow able to capture both. digital will blow one out or dissapear the other. Once captured, scanning the photo into the computer , a person could still maintain that Range.
@Boris_yo "what is worth saving forever?" the limited lifetime warrety that does NOT cover data loss :-)
Talk talk talk, lets see them back it up with a guarentee that it will do what it says, and a company that will not be sold (swollowed up or dissolved) in 5 years or less.
@Boris_yo at least it is dvd density, but to have something more permenent in optical burn media (glass masters) first you need a Co2 laser of 40watts :-) then a plastic materials that last time, then either no layers or glue that lasts time.
Oh, where do I begin... late 90s I was putting together PC's, in the 00s I was mostly sorting out user issues or coding. Nowadays I call myself 'consultant', but that only means I do whatever people ask.
I cant think of a better way to showcase ones photography and editing skills than displaying a portofolio of really mindnumbingly dull pictures like those.
@Boris_yo You definitely can, if your subject is well lit and not too far from the lens. If you have artificial light and are no more than 1-2m (3-6 ft) from the subject, you should get decent results.
