[Chatter] "Where everybody knows your name ..."

[nexusisneecesary]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHFOwlMCdto

 

[kct1975]

Well tomorrow is a holiday for many of us in the US.

Ya...I'm glad to have the day off...however...I'm stuck in the house because of more snow...

 

[davidnc]

What kind of holiday? Presidents Day?

Yes

 

[davidnc]

Re: [Chatter] "Where everybody knows your name ..."

Happy Monday ChatterHeads Its been a cold weekend ,snow flurries on Friday.The "big storm" passed us by ,no snow ,sleet,freezing rain,or plain rain yet.
Warming up after today for the rest of week,,next weekend in the mid 60's

 

[anon(5719825)]

Winter forgot about us here in Denver. We're supposed to be near 70 a few days this week and 50s and 60s through the rest of the month. March is coming though and it's usually a snowy month.

We had one snow storm at the beginning of the month with 12". That's all melted now.

 

[davidnc]

Good Morning Chatterheads
It turns out started freezing raining around 3 pm til around midnight. So the bridges in Charlotte were slick enough to cause wrecks.
After midnight thunderstorms /heavy rain with warming Temps.

Good news is today and though the weekend suppose to be warm and sunny almost spring like

 

[worldspy99]

Here are some pictures of a new device I received yesterday. I will post a mini review in the subsequent post.

 

[worldspy99]

Elephone P9000 mini review.
I am really liking the Elephone P9000 so far. I like that it has a very light (pretty much stock Android) and bloat free ROM. It is stupid fast at least for the tasks I want it to perform. Camera is decent and has laser focus like that found on the LG devices. It has a lot of options that are standard on Cyanogen like LED notifications, double tap and gesture features. Screen size is 5.5" but phone does not feel very large in the hand and I did not have any issues using it in one hand. It is a better OnePlus X in my opinion because it has a great metal band and the back reminds me of the OnePlus One sandstone back. There is a slight camera bump but with the two cases that came with the device this is a non-issue. The main phone box only has phone, TPU case, USB Type C cable, SIM tool and manuals (with typos galore). The secondary box has a really nice flip cover case, tempered glass screen protector, rapid charging power brick and additional USB Type-C cable.

This phone only gets H+ data speeds (on T-Mobile) and that is okay for my usage patterns (~8 Mbps down). Wireless charging works very well. I like the fact that it has USB Type C. Also like that I can choose between on screen buttons or just use the home button and have more stuff show up on the screen. It has NFC and the fingerprint scanner works just fine. Feel in hand is great and the phone is pretty lightweight and yes it does support SD cards. Audio output on speakers is decent and on headphones is actually quite nice, lot better than I expected. Quick charging is superfast on this phone and topped the device to full from 30% in about 30 odd minutes.

For the $, I think this is a stellar device. If this got LTE I would use it as a daily driver. Quite impressed, this is a much much better device than the P7000 and they seem to have done all the right things to get there.

For US based users, the only negative is lack of LTE bands, otherwise this is probably one of the best MTK Chinese devices out there, period. And I have sampled pretty much everything from Xiaomi, Meizu, Lenovo and Elephone in the last year or so and this is probably my favorite. It's only a matter of time before US LTE bands are supported and then it will be quite interesting to see how things progress. Of course customer support and timely software updates are big unknowns but otherwise this device ticks all the right boxes IMO. q

 

[worldspy99]

Hello fellow Chatterheads, specifically Moderators. Would it be possible to create a sub-forum for Chinese devices that actually support Google Play Store? Would be nice to just post pictures or mini reviews there. If not, I will just plug the unboxing pictures and mini reviews here.

 

[VDub2174]

Hello fellow Chatterheads, specifically Moderators. Would it be possible to create a sub-forum for Chinese devices that actually support Google Play Store? Would be nice to just post pictures or mini reviews there. If not, I will just plug the unboxing pictures and mini reviews here.

Let me check.

 

[worldspy99]

Let me check.

Thanks!

 

[James Falconer]

Hello fellow Chatterheads, specifically Moderators. Would it be possible to create a sub-forum for Chinese devices that actually support Google Play Store? Would be nice to just post pictures or mini reviews there. If not, I will just plug the unboxing pictures and mini reviews here.

Which devices specifically are you talking about? Would love to accomodate!

 

[Laura Knotek]

Which devices specifically are you talking about? Would love to accomodate!

I believe that he is referring to ANY devices from Chinese OEMs that support Play Store out of the box, with no manual installation needed. If you look at some of the articles on the AC blog page, many Chinese OEM devices do not ship with Play Store pre-installed.

It would need to be a general forum, not device specific.

 

[worldspy99]

Which devices specifically are you talking about? Would love to accomodate!

I believe that he is referring to ANY devices from Chinese OEMs that support Play Store out of the box, with no manual installation needed. If you look at some of the articles on the AC blog page, many Chinese OEM devices do not ship with Play Store pre-installed.

It would need to be a general forum, not device specific.

I agree with what Laura says. There is one small caveat, there are sometimes two versions of the Chinese devices where the international version does have a Play Store. Also Xiaomi devices have tutorials right on en.miui.com that help you install Play Store even on Chinese versions of the devices.

 

[worldspy99]

Which devices specifically are you talking about? Would love to accomodate!

Here is a list of phones I sampled in 2015 and 2016 where I ran pretty much all Google services.
Meizu MX4 Pro, Meizu M1 Note, Meizu M2 Note
Xiaomi Redmi 2, Mi Note Bamboo, Mi Note Pro, Redmi Note 2, Mi 4C - the Mi Note Pro had Play Store installed and the others were a one click install for Gapps.
Elephone P7000, P8000 and now P8000
Yu Yureka and Yuphoria (made by Micromax India but assembled in China)
Zopo Speed 7
Lenovo ZUK Z1

Except the Xiaomi, all other devices had Play Store factory installed. All these devices get H+ max download speeds in USA. But in EU they do get LTE.

 

[Laura Knotek]

 

[worldspy99]

Saw this today and was really impressed. Enjoy.
Untitled Self Portraits
http://imgur.com/gallery/XZd4c5e

 

[davidnc]

Good Morning Chatter
This is a pic of an "ity bity snake" my sister friend found in her house/ apartment .It wasnt hers,she lives in Australia .I think they said was a carpet snake ( harmless)

 

[kct1975]

Just wanted to say that, at the age of 40, and in my current place in life...this song has a lot of meaning for me...

https://youtu.be/c3uatcJqt54

There are a lot of aspects of my life that I am proud of and a lot of aspects of my life that I wish I could do over and change

 

[worldspy99]

Slick roads with rain that was much needed here, thanks to El Niño = lots of $$ out of my pocket thanks to a car accident at a really shoddy curve on the way to work today morning. I'm going to be busy for the next week or two sorting that out.