Recent content by jreacher

Are you satisfied with Android and see yourself continuing with it or are you thinking of switching platforms?

Not if it's a windows phone we won't

I'm embarrassed to be human right now

You have me genuinely intrigued - why then, after saying those things are you still planning to get another?

LOLOLOL!!! ...Oh wait you're serious? just razzing :p

I think you misunderstood me. Google is moving the API's for all of it's core services like Now, Hangouts, Gmail, Search, Maps, Music, Play Store, and others I'm forgetting to mention out of the OS and into Google Play Services. So rather than having to update the OS itself to change how those...

Kind of an obvious question but do you have both GPS AND data location services on? Google Now has told me in the past that I need both enabled to get all its functions

My take is that with the recent changes coming to Google Play Services it's not going to matter as much whether you're running stock or not anymore as far as updates are concerned, so this GE would be more of a special interest type of phone for developers. If it weren't for those changes my...

If you remember, quite a few websites covering the S4 launch made a brief remark about Samsung appearing to almost deliberately avoid mentioning anything about Google or Android during their presentations. Then a few stories floated around about a Google comment during an interview expressing...

today's talk about pulling the API's out of the OS and moving them to Google Play Services seems to support the OP's general overview of many features of Android being updated through the components listed above rather than complete OS updates running through the carriers and manufacturers

Am I understanding this right that using Hangouts for texting will send/receive texts through data rather than SMS?

The biggest thing I'm taking away from this I/O is that they're moving the API's from the OS to Google Play Services. In basic terms, this is AWESOME because it means more android updates will go through that rather than redoing the OS itself, which then means more phones running the same cool...

I'm running out of potential new phones to buy :( I have a feeling this is just a mid range and we haven't seen the high end (hoping anyway)