Recent content by danthman

I'm typically a "start from scratch" guy, but this time, I made a snap decision to just give the auto transfer a try. I figured I could always do a factory reset later if I regretted my decision. So far, I have been entirely happy with my decision. Everything transferred over from my Pixel 1...

Nexus 6 - too big Moto X - poor camera, poor battery life GS6 pros: great screen, great camera, fingerprint sensor, quick charging, heart rate sensor, IR transmitter, (eventually) Samsung pay, nice form factor/size/weight cons: battery life, bloat, some bugs/glitches

I like the pureness of the Nexus UI, but I significantly prefer the S6 device.

Ultimately, I'd be happier if all Android phones were Nexus (or "pure Android") phones, and Samsung, LG, Motorola, and HTC just concentrated on making great hardware. If they want to make software too, fine, they should put it up in the Play store where I can learn more about it before...

Again, just because I have one complaint that I voice doesn't mean I want to ditch the phone! I'm not going to wait for another phone that will have a different set of problems. Rather, I just hope Google and Samsung both continue to improve their products and services and integrate them...

Fair point that the apps in question may not be Samsung installed bloatware, but it's still bloatware. As I said above, the problem is that there should be stock Android utility apps for things like viewing PDFs, viewing images, and watching videos. If an app developer wants to try to make a...

Yes of course I can go through the trouble of doing that, but I just feel a basic utility app like a PDF reader should be stock Android, not something that comes bundled with other apps. Same with image/photo viewers. If I want to upgrade any of these things beyond the default, I'll find a...

I was attempting to open a PDF when this dialog popped up. I wasn't attempting to do anything with Google Drive, Office, or Dropbox. What exactly is going on with Android that so many app developers feel the need to bundle in a PDF reading capability? My phone has multiple apps that do the...

Thank you for clearing that up. One negative comment about the phone must mean I hate it.

I made a good faith attempt to disable literally everything I didn't want that came pre-installed on my phone. I can tell you that I did not specifically install any of these three apps (though they may have been bundled with something I did install). The problem is, I have no idea which of...

How many PDF readers do I need on my phone? How about ONE?! Why are there three?

And that experiment is now over. Back to SwiftKey. Gradually, I came to realize that the default Samsung keyboard just can't match SwiftKey in terms of word prediction, and that's the most important factor by far if you want to get your thoughts down as quickly and accurately as possible.

Seriously? Even more pixels? 1440 x 2560 pixels (577 ppi pixel density) is not enough? When will you be happy? When an individual pixel can only be seen with an electron microscope? Just give me a battery that can last all day with moderate/heavy use.

This is really interesting to me. Despite soft buttons being the Android standard, I've never owned an Android phone with them. In fact, I've always seen them as a negative because they take up the bottom strip of the screen (making the screen effectively smaller), and they can't be operated by...

Wait, what? Hardware buttons? As in, you'd rather the buttons were taking up screen real estate?