Recent content by Matthew Merkle

My EVO 4G LTE shows black bars in the viewfinder....

Specifically, in the Dropbox app on your phone, go to Settings, and it's in the Camera Upload section.

That's up to Dropbox (currently has an option to enable or disable camera uploads over mobile data).

It's a matter of perception versus benchmarks. They will not be perceptibly slower, but you can see it in a benchmark. I don't consider apps like that to be a skin really, although I can see why you would. That is simply poor programming (Samsung doesn't have the best software engineers, see...

That's why I use a combination of Spotify and Google Music. Spotify covers the vast majority of music I listen to, and it does automatic syncing of playlists that I use often. If there's something it doesn't have or not on my playlist, then Google Music has my entire music collection in the...

Seeing as I don't have a time machine, you're more than welcome to do the pixel math yourself off of the graph (678 pixels wide, 8 minutes per pixel (678 / 84 hours) of Screen on). Otherwise, I'm not terribly interested in running my battery all the way down to 2% again over the course of 3 days...

A. I even stated my claim was with wifi on. Don't make this into something it's not. B. No, the screen was on for multiple hours over the course of the the charge. Keep in mind you're looking at over 84 hours on that graph. Based on pixel math, it was on ~2 1/2 hours. Which seems about right...

Proof here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/awpb0hk70seyd2u/2013-03-04%2015.17.51.png?dl=1 Full disclousure: battery was at 2% when that was taken, and I did charge it for about 5 minutes to regain about 5% of battery life near the end (you can see this in the graph). Either way, still way over 3...

On the one hand, that's annoying. On the other hand, I don't think I'd want it any other way. Using a proprietary format for Zoes would just mean another dead format. This way, you have everything they use to make a Zoe without having to use proprietary software to use it. However, based on the...

At this point, the phones are fast enough that the skins don't really reflect on performance. ANY skin, even a minor one, is going to be "slower" than stock Android. That said, there's been initial coverage of the phone already, and none of the reviews have said any problems with lag. And yes...

The only news anyone has for ANY carrier is sometime before the end of March.

I can get over 3 days out of my EVO 4G LTE if I'm on wifi, and I could get about 2 days out of my old EVO 4G near the end of its life. This is running with mostly stock roms (aka, with Sense), no fancy tricks, kernels, or whatever. Only rooted for running specific apps. You can get good...

Honestly, if I were HTC, I'd skip 4.2 and wait for 4.3/5.0, which Google will likely announce+release at Google I/O in the coming months. If Google wasn't lying, HTC should have access to prerelease code for that already.

There's no one here who even has an HTC One, save for the staff that picked up review units just this week. :P That said, I'd recommend using a different browser, such as Google Chrome. It's a drop-in replacement and it's fantastic.

Frankly, as far as statistical facts go, unless it came from Anandtech I just assume it was anecdotal (aka worthless). I'll be waiting for their report on what the battery life actually is. This whole "well under my usage scenario which was full of completely random variables, I got x hours!" is...