Recent content by mmcpher

I signed up for the AT&T preorder and was #3517 , if that means anything. I would like to see one in person before I give up my Note 9 s-pen. There's also the rival Huawei Mate alternative and also rumors of a new larger sized Note 10 Pro. I certainly am interested in larger screen form factors.

Maybe someday they will make an indestructible phone that would allow clumsy oafs like me to use them without destroying them. But not today, so I too have tried the Spogen Armour case (wallet version) which is quite good but utterly transforms the look and feel of the phone. I am currently...

My current work setup is a lousy single monitor. My desk is large enough and my eyesight poor enough to make me wish for dual widescreens (though I'd have to shred the paper wastes splayed around me). I'd also like to be able to bump up the contrast. Right now we are on old Windows7 pc's and...

Re: i don't understand why people like Stock Android so much? I have a Note 8, laden with competing apps wrestling and sneaking to gain control of texts, contacts, emails, photos, music, browsers, telephone calls. . . . I am continually having to reset defaults which seem to hang on only for a...

With all the concentration and effort on battery life, you would think a method of smart-charging would be developed that accounted for "degradation" once 100% had been reached, where the phone basically went into a resting state.

I had a Galaxy S8+ and a Note8 in the pipeline so the Essential wasn't an option for me. But I visited the Essential the other day and it is gorgeous device! Stood out even among the Samsungs and the Iphones. I worry that the pricing discount will cause subsequent Essentials will have...

I am currently using a "Spigen Slim Armor CS Galaxy Note 8 Case with Slim Dual Layer Wallet Design and Card Slot Holder for Galaxy Note 8" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073RWKCQ8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=hawk-future-20&ascsubtag=UUacUvbUpU6061810 It holds 2 credit...

Contacts are a critical component for most users, so its surprising to see the way Android allows them to be tossed back and forth across the general scrum between "pure Android" (presumably Google Contacts) and Samsung Bloat Contacts. To say nothing of the need to sycn and intergrate with...

Jeez, my GS8+ does this all the time and it is unbelievably irritating. To have this damn chirping, even through phone calls. It may have something to do with my email notifications but its hard to tell because it mostly and sporadically just chirps without further explanation, like a pop-up...

I am or was the one confused, piqued, irritated. I run two versions of uBlock so I had to disable both. I really don't begrudge AndroidCentral some reasonable advertising revenue. I come here, WindowsCentral and Crackberry all the time and get a lot out of the MobileNations, so I don't mind...

Who doesn't love to be reminded that they have an an ad-blocker running? By a site that is in the habit of triggering ad-blocking because it aggressively sells space all over its website, top-bottom-sides? It's a wicked life but what the hell, oh everybody's got to eat. But even on AC...

I almost always use an SP and want particularly to do so with my S8+ because I may trade it when the Galaxy Note 8 comes out. I got the S8+ shipped from ATT but there's a Verizon store right next store so I bought the SP there and had them put it on and it works fine. Except for the glare...

I have been on W10M as my daily driver for as far back as the Lumia 1520>950XL and now the HP Elite x3. During that time I have also used Android phones as backups, including a BB Priv and an LG10. But for the first time I am going to be running an Android phone side-by-side with my W10M daily...

Yah.

I'm new to the Android world. I am a Blackberry and Windows guy. But I bought my father a smart phone and I needed the large display of the Note. He didn't want the 7 inch tablet, so Note seemed like a good choice. I am hopeful that the pen functions will be useful to him as well. He isn't...