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jippie

6:30 AM

morning

W5VO

7:24 AM

@jippie mornin

jippie

@W5VO You're up late today?

W5VO

@jippie yeah, just about on my way to bed

jippie

@W5VO In that case good night then. I'm away for a couple moments grabbing my coffee.

W5VO

7:40 AM

@jippie Night, enjoy the brew

maybe see you in a few hours

abdullah kahraman

8:15 AM

Hi :)

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W5VO

4:18 PM

mornin all

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The Photon

5:36 PM

Morning

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KyranF

8:06 PM

Maybe you guys can give some advice! Trying to pick between: performance vs. age of product vs. price, on the following four+ smartphones, for my next phone:

-Samsung Galaxy S4 or S5 (they are only ~$100 difference, for a whole year difference in product dates and features are very similar)

-LG "Google" Nexus 5, or maybe wait for the 6... If it's super cheap then it will be worth the fact it has less awesome features in some areas.

-HTC One M8 (very aussie sounding!) which seems really good, is 'new', and has (low res) stereo vision cameras for depth of field data. About the same price a…

I currently use the HTC One X (2.5 years old now! released April 2012) and it's pretty good. I had a Samsung Galaxy S3 prior to this.

W5VO

@KyranF sorry, wrong room

The Photon

@KyranF, I have an LG phone and I'm totally fine with it.

W5VO

;)

The Photon

It's the one with the "KitKat" version of Android, I think.

W5VO

I'm happy with my S4

slips out of my pocket too easily without a case, but that's my main complaint. After 1 yr, battery is more than adequate

The Photon

8:15 PM

On the other hand, I'm not really a "power user" when it comes to phones.

The only apps I've installed are: Stackexchange, HP-48gx emulator, Sudoku game, and a German-English dictionary.

KyranF

my HTC's battery is really weak after 2.5 years, as you might expect. And it's only 1.8Ah. Some of the new phones on offer have 2.6Ah -3.3Ah and far more efficient hardware, and some have the capability (as long as the charger can do it ;) ) to charge at up to 3A which is pretty damn fast.

The Photon

@KyranF AFAICT, screen size (and how much you use it) is the big battery consumer. If the battery has 1.5x more capacity, but the screen has 1.5x more area you might not see any improvement in battery life

KyranF

LG worked with Google to make the Nexus 5 phone, which is cheap and seems reasonably okay. I do like the Galaxy S4/5 so I think if the options are too vast i'll just knee-jerk to one of those. The HTC One M8 is the newest of all, and as a roboticist I really like the stereo vision depth of field stuff (I can make 3D maps using the phone!)

the screen size for most of these phones is only 10% larger than my current one.. but yes I agree.

processing power for heavy duty apps like 3D games matches the screen power consumption easily though, or more. Hopefully these newer SoC processors are more efficient. They are getting crazy now, like 2.6 Ghz quad cores, with 2-3GB RAM. That is almost better specs than my laptop

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