The Cell Phone / Mobile Phone Thread

I've only actually been able to transfer the SIM once in three phones. When my mom got hey second phone she decided it was too much phone for her and the one I had at the time was better for her, and I wanted hers too, so I just switched cards between them.

After that phone, I switched carriers, and then my next upgrade was incompatible in some way and I had to use the new card provided.

How do they even plan to make that work?

QR codes?

I'm imagining it'll take the present circuits in a SIM and make it an internal circuit instead - although probably done in such a way that it can't be fried as readily as some other parts.

Android Central wrote a review of Google Now Launcher and I decided to try it. Lasted two days before I switched back to Nova Launcher. There's just too much functionality I lost in exchange for having Now cards a swipe to the left, which I could get with a 5x4 widget in Nova.

I'm mulling getting a replacement for the Apple EarPods that came with my iPhone, and there really doesn't seem to be much in the way left (at least in these parts) in terms of earphones that are not in-ear and come with a inline microphone.

I've looked at some Armageddon products due to them being rather easily available in local bookstores of all places, but reviews of them are sparse, and their parent company SonicGear is known for making hit-and-miss products. And I'm worried whether the 90 degree jack can fit in my phone socket courtesy of the lip my Magpul case has.

edited 11th Aug '15 3:33:22 AM by Krieger22

I have Skullcandy Ink'd 2.0 earbuds. They work well, they're often on sale for ludicrously cheap prices, and since they can come in black, they're much less of a magnet for muggers who like the white Apple ones because they tell them who to beat the crap out of for their mobile phone/mp3 player. They don't have a ninety degree plug angle so they should fit your case.

Plus they also have an in-line microphone.

Product page here:

http://www.skullcandy.com/earbuds/INKD2.html

edited 11th Aug '15 3:53:54 AM by TamH70

I have those too (in pink for whatever reason) and they keep falling out of my ears, even with the large buds fitted.

Might as well make your purchase worth it.

These're cheap and have served me well for the last few months. Though it does have a right angle plug.

edited 11th Aug '15 4:39:05 AM by Boxen

Android M is now officially Marshmallow.

"Android M" sounds cooler.

I can't believe that my phone needs (estimated) 25 minutes of time for an update, during which the phone is unusable.

Talking about software updates, is anyone else dissatisfied with how Verizon treats them?

When you have the best technical service, you can afford to have the worst customer service.

In my experience they have been the last or penultimate carrier to roll out updates, consistently. It happened with Windows Phone 8.1 and it happened with Android 5.1. The former example is even more baffling to me because "supposedly" Microsoft has full control of how and when they roll out.

I mean I understand why it happens, but it's really off-putting.

Also you can't do as heavy of modding with a Verizon phone, because there isn't an open version of their radio drivers (meaning it stops being a phone and starts being an iTouch).

Though maybe that's changed.

Apparently it's the same since the bootloader has been locked by Verizon for the S6.

It's because Verizon use CDMA which isn't much used elsewhere in the world, and the GSM version of it is used pretty much everywhere else.

South Korea is pretty much the sole user of CDMA other than Verizon and Sprint, and most networks which use it elsewhere only do so because it would be too expensive to go to GSM.

edited 19th Aug '15 2:45:23 PM by RatherRandomRachel

INDUSTRY STANDARDS EXIST FOR A REASON DAMMIT.

America. So special.

NTSC is the broadcast video standard in only America and Japan.

Or as it's sometimes known: "Never Twice the Same Colour"

edited 20th Aug '15 10:14:41 AM by RatherRandomRachel

My brother has at least one US TV series on "Region 2 NTSC" DVD.

Actually, quite a number of countries in close relations to US use the NTSC.

PAL-NTSC-SECAM map