Recent content by mj0

I know I will. Had the 5 before and loved it, although truth be told the 4s I'd used for a short time in between was even better in terms of form factor but had a dying battery and mediocre camera compared to today's phones. It ran iOS 9 very well and noticeably faster than iOS 8 though, which...

So, turns out it wasn't true. Instead we got dancing stickers (hello, China), bubbly effects (hello, China), full screen animations (hello, China), and some other stuff that seems to have been copied straight out of the #1 messaging app in China, WeChat. Seems to me that Apple wants to get a...

Welcome to my world! Can't really do anything now while I'm still traveling but as soon as we settle in the US, which should be somewhen between October and December 2016, I know for sure the first thing I'll do is ditch my current iPhone 6 Plus for an iPhone SE. This 5.5" monstrosity is...

Rumors are that Apple is also working on money services such as sending money from one iMessage user to another. Kinda what WeChat has been doing for ages only that nobody outside of China really cares. If that were true then multiplying ones potential user base by adding Android to the game...

Re: Gmail vs Inbox - Your Preffered Email App? I've tried Inbox when it first came out and quickly deleted it again after only a few minutes of usage. The reason for this being that I somehow didn't get what it was doing to my perfectly organized inbox and how whatever it was that it was doing...

I have to admit: doze is truly fantastic. Where with the stock Samsung Android 4.1.2 or CM12.1 I had to charge after a day even if I hadn't used it all day the phone now lasts for two to three days with moderate to light use with CM13. The battery is still shot, no doubt, but it'd be interesting...

The battery is not the best anymore but should still do for now. The phone will be put into a box in about a month anyway, and I won't have access to it for at least nine months. After that, I'll take care of the flakey USB board and the battery. Either way it's also much better now with CM13...

Since I'm not actively using this phone right now as my daily driver I went wild and installed CM13 beta 1.1 (Android 6.0.1) on the phone. What can I say - it feels just as fast and I haven't found any show stopping bugs yet. I wonder how much this phone will profit from doze, the battery drain...

You're good, really good. There was some dust in the USB port which I managed to get out using a toothpick. The error persisted though but I was able to find out what it was. The latest behavior was a bit different than before - the phone didn't notice when I unplugged the charger. It didn't...

Indeed it did. I went for it today since the stock ROM was unbearable. I didn't feel like fiddling with CM10.1 or 11 and went straight for CM12.1 NightOwl 20151211 (Android 5.1.1) from xda-developers. It went great even though I had to flash twice. The first attempt went well but I decided to...

This is getting ridiculous... the phone is so slow at times that sometimes I have to wait for up to five seconds until it reacts to my input. I think I'll try CM12 and see whether it improves performance or not. It's no fun to use it this way and even though it's a four year old it shouldn't be...

The Note that I've acquired recently has now finally, after a few days use, shown its ugly face. Occasional, the phone seems to think it's charging even though it's unplugged. It alternates between charging and not charging every two seconds or so and doesn't properly recognize a charger either...

Sorry I didn't mention it but that was obviously the first thing I did. My wife's boss's personal data was on there so before I even took it we performed a factory reset together so he could be sure that everything was erased.

I've gotten hold of a Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 phone that, according to the previous owner (my wife's boss), was supposed to be broken. According to him the phone refused to charge at all and replacing the battery didn't help. Also, when unplugged it tended to alternate between charging and not...

While it's true that people are watching more and more video on their phones you should pay close attention to how they do it. More often than not I see people watching video in portrait mode not realizing that if they rotate the device 90° either way their video watching experience will improve...