Recent content by littlenoodles

I wasn't talking about multi-window. Multi-user has been there since lollipop, and yeah, the pinning thing is kind of confusing, but multi-user is pretty straightforward. In any case perhaps 'unpopular' features should be made optional - and defaulted off, rather than removed for those of us...

I just got an Axon 7. Can't say I'm dissatisfied - the hardware works really well, and got a Black Friday deal. But having hemmed and hawed over its mixed reviews, I'm kind of disappointed in what the reviews *didn't* complain about. Most of the time, when a review talks about problems with...

I've seen photos of the Axon 7 with on-screen buttons - and without the markings for the capacitive buttons on the bezel. Are there different models that treat the navigation buttons differently, or is this just some pre-release image that's polluting the ad-space? And if on-screen buttons are...

It's interesting to me that Google's keyboard seems have more accurate prediction in swipe mode (pretty amazingly good in fact) than in tapping mode. The most annoying mistake that it seems to make constantly is not figuring out that garbage words with a C, B or V in between 2 valid words are...

Flashed CM13 last weekend. So far, so good, kinda. Except that at work, where I've had notoriously bad T-Mobile connectivity, it now is 'better, but flaky'. I seem to get a 4 bar signal, but it drops and reconnects constantly, which is doing bad things to my battery life. Am I supposed to...

Re: Priced too high? yep. No phone is worth $700 these days. Apple can charge it, because they have a monopoly on iOS phones - and there's a big enough market for them as status symbols that they can sell high and sell enough to make a tone of money. Samsung, to a somewhat lesser extent, is...

Re: SOLD Aren't there rumors that HTC is building the next Nexus? That could be a really nice combo.

Agree. The G2 was pretty successful, and should've been more so. Unfortunately, the original software on the G2 was seriously ugly looking. But they hit the sweet spot for form factor. Big enough screen, high enough resolution and really small bezels. Since then, they've followed Samsung...

To me, the G5 seems like a cute experiment - like the G-Flex and V10 were. Interesting stuff to show off LG's experimentalist chops, but not really mainstream. It shouldn't be LG's sole flagship this year. I hope they come out with another phone styled more or less like the G5 (I think it...

Looks like the hardware sweet spot. Right size, right screen res, good battery, fingerprint scanner. What the Nexus 5X should've been, but for some reason wasn't.

I won't be greedy. I'll take the 5X. I actually prefer it's smaller size ;-)

I like the idea of soft buttons - and I like them on my phone. But on a tablet in landscape mode, they simply take up too much screen space - especially on 16x9 tablets. I've finally migrated my desktop (linux and windows) systems to use a left-side taskbar. There needs to be a new paradigm...

If Marshmallow really runs more smoothly than Lollipop, then it really stinks that Google isn't providing it for the Nexus 4. This phone works pretty well on Lollipop 5.1.1, and it has as much memory as a Nexus 5X. So it's not hopelessly out of date for this OS. There's no excuse for their...

Nexus 6P has it all!. Not sure I want it all - but I'm willing to be convinced ;-)

I've been waiting for something to replace my Nexus 4. The 5X was gonna be it, but I'm on the fence (not enough RAM, still a little too big - though I think I'd get used to that). A free one would settle that for good ;-) So until the 1080P 5 inch nexus of my dreams comes along, I'd love to...