I saw somebody shopped a Note 7 into a picture of freshly-scarred Harvey Dent.
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Makes a lot of sense. Manufacturers are cramming amounts of transistors and other components that are in orders of magnitude larger than anything that's ever done before into spaces that are orders of magnitude smaller than anything that's been done before in recorded history.
And I don't think the technical reasoning behind the new technology has caught up with the technical processes that are in use to make said new technology. They're doing things because they can, not necessarily because they should.
I'm carrying around a phone that makes my first PC look quaint and outdated and that was only about seventeen years ago. And that was so much more powerful than the one that sent man to the Moon that you could barely compare the two. I think as time goes on we're going to see increasing numbers of these kinds of issues, not less, because the clamour of making everything smaller and faster is going to drown out those that want progress but at a safer and less inflammatory rate. Pun definitely intended.
News post double post.
Apparently Samsung has not heard of the Streisand Effect, as that seems to be the only reason why it's been pulling videos from You Tube that show their infamous Smartbomb, oops, Smartphone, the Note 7, showing up as a replacer mod for the Sticky Bomb in Grand Theft Auto V.
Thankfully, You Tube themselves have put the original video showing off the mod back on to the service.
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Samsung is putting full-page apology ads in US newspapers
The message to Note 7 customers, which was also published online, addresses the company’s “valued customers” and explains that an “important tenet” of Samsung’s mission is to offer “best-in-class safety and quality”.
“Because we had not gone on general sale in Europe with the Note 7, there were a small number of affected customers here. For those customers who received the device during the pre-order phase, we recognise that we have not lived up to your expectations, or our own high standards. For this, we are truly sorry.” “We take seriously our responsibility to address concerns about safety and quality. In collaboration with government agencies and industry partners around the world, we are taking proactive steps to do better”. The letter then goes on to give an update on what Samsung has been up to in the wake of the Note 7 disaster. For starters, the Note 7 is no longer in production but while the main cause of the battery issue has still not been narrowed down, the company is still committed to investigating and has enlisted experts to carefully revisit every aspect of the device from design, hardware, software and the manufacturing process.
KitGuru Says: We have yet to see how the Galaxy Note 7’s recall will impact Samsung’s smartphone sales next year but it seems, for now, Samsung has done everything it can to try and move past this situation and start to make it right with customers. Have any of you been put off buying Samsung devices?
Well, this is probably going to be buried under the other awful news...
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Yeah. Like 9/11. I remember it happening there and it wasn't pretty.
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Following that, the Samsung Galaxy S8 will likely be delayed, and will feature Viv AI
According to sources familiar with the matter speaking with The Wall Street Journal, Samsung’s executives are now looking to delay its Galaxy S8 announcement from late February until sometime in April.
This extra time will be used by Samsung to ensure it has all of its bases properly covered. On top of that, this will be the first Samsung device to feature its new virtual assistant, based on the Viv AI, which was developed by the same team that invented Siri prior to Apple’s acquisition of it.
Kit Guru Says: If you have been keeping up to date with Samsung over the last couple of months, then this news likely won’t be much of a surprise. After all, Samsung needs to ensure it does not repeat the failures of the Note 7 in order to win back consumer trust and avoid long-term reputation damage.
"Just as planned."
To be honest, after what happened and how it relates to the battery and circuitry, I'm hoping that more phone makers will give us removable batteries soon enough.
My next phone is looking likely to be an LG for this exact reason, unless I can't get one in which case I'll grab one of Google's phones.
(Main reason for it simply being that I do occasionally go to places here I may not be able to charge up, so a replaceable battery goes a long way to that.)
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Samsung phones typically do have removable batteries IIRC. iPhones, on the other hand...
"Just as planned."
The last Samsung one with a removable battery was the Note 4 - it's been pretty much JUST LG for now.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
On the Android tip, that's true, but there's still a few Windows phones with removable batteries and stuff.
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Well, that sucks. I mostly find battery removal a good way to handle a frozen phone if nothing else works.
I think Android devices have been shying away from replaceable batteries out of a drive to make the phones water resistant. I know mine certainly claims to be.
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PSA: All claims for water resistance are based on laboratory tests that usually have the square root of sod all to do with what a fondlephone or featurephone is going to have to face in the real world.
Especially when being either drunk, or tired, you drop your phone down what we in Scotland call the kludgie. (Toilet/Water Closet) When it's full of whatever usually ends up there. And with the trend in unibody phones to have uniformly smooth surfaces even on the rear, it's hella easy for a phone to go flying out of your hands at the best of times. Even a dunk in a puddle can screw up your fancy "water resistant" phone if there's muck as well as water.
I think the standard is "it'll be OK if you drop it in the sink and get it straight out, or if it gets rained on".
Whereas I believe Apple designs it's phones to brick if water touches if for a fraction of a femtosecond.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
I carry my Lumia 640 around with me in a ziploc bag. Or in a succession of them if I'm being honest. They don't last long but penny for penny they're better value than an expensive case.
Whereas I did get a case for my 630, but only after it came out of my pocket while I was on a run.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
I maybe need one of those that can go on a bike's handlebars when I finish paying off my new bike sometime in February. GPS, man. Saves buying a dedicated unit. Though the stand/case would have to be pretty sturdy.
"Just as planned."
I have a Windows phone for general out-of-work use, but for work I need to have Android due to a general move away from Windows at work, and the applications we use have Android and iOS mirrors, hence I'll be moved to an Android tablet and phone for work use.
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Study claims iPhone users less honest than Android users.
The actual study is paywalled and I haven't checked to see if I can get into it through the uni. At some point I'll try and pull it apart.
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An iphone user will be the one to upload it to that Robin Hood of scholarly journal portals.
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Mwahahaha. More bad news and same-same publicity for the Cult of the Orchard after their wholesale making everyone's 3.5mm jackplug-bedecked headphones/earphones/Uncle Tom Cobley and all (including their Beats brand ones - Mwahahaha) useless unless you fork out even more lots of money for one of their hideously badly designed dongles, with the release of their new fondlephone, the Iphone 7, this year.
"The US Supreme Court has thrown out an order forcing Samsung to pay Apple $399m (£314m) for copying key parts of the iPhone, a victory for the Korean group in the long-running dispute between the two smartphone giants."
Samsung could use this win, especially since they manufactured all those Smart Incendiary Bombs, oops... the Note 7 and had to recall them - twice.
edited 6th Dec '16 5:38:05 PM by TamH70
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I haven't received any app updates since December 23. Is this happening to anyone else?
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I find when I stop getting app updates, it's because my OS version is below the support level of the new versions of the apps.
My old phone stopped getting OTA Android updates years ago, and the apps on it are starting to get stale.
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My OS is up to date, though. That's the weird thing.
Hmm.. I read an article that claims that the reason of these accidents is due to having too much cramming of features in a device, thus adding the propensity of punching a shortcut between the two sides of the battery (hence, short circuit)
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Does it make sense?
edited 12th Oct '16 9:01:18 AM by Jamiester
ACCOUNT NO LONGER USED. *straps on jetpack*