Android Thread

[Grey Fox]

I don't know, I suspect a small grain of sand in my pocket.

[Caliga]

My Galaxy did something I thought was really cool last week.  It was around 5:30 pm and it buzzed (I have it set to buzz in a heartbeat pattern for notifications).  I picked it up and the screen showed me a traffic map and said something like "Your commute home will take an estimated 46 minutes due to heavy traffic on KY-155".



Mind you I've never actually told my phone where I work or where I live.... I don't think.

[DontSayBanana]

My Galaxy did something I thought was really cool last week.  It was around 5:30 pm and it buzzed (I have it set to buzz in a heartbeat pattern for notifications).  I picked it up and the screen showed me a traffic map and said something like "Your commute home will take an estimated 46 minutes due to heavy traffic on KY-155".



Mind you I've never actually told my phone where I work or where I live.... I don't think.

That's Google Now in action.  It factors your current location and your location history.  We just got it on iOS, but it's restricted to bringing up "cards" while the Google search app is running.

[viper37]

I've been offered HTC One for free, are they good?

Headlines of reviews seem good.
I am waiting for a new high-end model that has physical keyboard and supports multiple bands of LTE.

Got it.  I got mistaken though, it was the One X they offered me for free, the One was 49$ after rebate.
Anyway, I got a few new phones, the HTC One and One X among others.  I kept the HTC One for myself

Still trying to figure how it works.  The HTC app for synchronizations says it sync everything, but then I don't see my image collection on my phone.  Weird.  ANyway, I'm installing a bunch of apps now.  Hopefully, there's a way to easily transfer that from one phone to the other.

[fhdz]

15 days until I can upgrade to the Galaxy Note II!

[viper37]

can you use more than one Google account to download apps?  I want to use Google Play store to put necessary apps on the phones, but if an employee wants some app for himself (I locked the internet connection out of their phones so they can only use wifi ), can he use his own Google account to add some more apps?

[Grey Fox]

You can use more then one account in Jelly Bean. Wasn't the case in ICS.

Why did you locked the Internet Connection? You are snipping away half the functionnality of having an Android phone.

[DontSayBanana]

You can use more then one account in Jelly Bean. Wasn't the case in ICS.

Why did you locked the Internet Connection? You are snipping away half the functionnality of having an Android phone.

To not have to worry about employees going over the data cap, I'm guessing.

[fhdz]

You can use more then one account in Jelly Bean. Wasn't the case in ICS.

Why did you locked the Internet Connection? You are snipping away half the functionnality of having an Android phone.

To not have to worry about employees going over the data cap, I'm guessing.

Data caps sure make me glad I'm on Sprint.

[Vricklund]

My Galaxy did something I thought was really cool last week.  It was around 5:30 pm and it buzzed (I have it set to buzz in a heartbeat pattern for notifications).  I picked it up and the screen showed me a traffic map and said something like "Your commute home will take an estimated 46 minutes due to heavy traffic on KY-155".



Mind you I've never actually told my phone where I work or where I live.... I don't think.

That's Google Now in action.  It factors your current location and your location history.  We just got it on iOS, but it's restricted to bringing up "cards" while the Google search app is running.

I wouldn't go , I would go . To have something like that running by default is seriously f*cked up.

[Phillip V]

You can use more then one account in Jelly Bean. Wasn't the case in ICS.

Why did you locked the Internet Connection? You are snipping away half the functionnality of having an Android phone.

To not have to worry about employees going over the data cap, I'm guessing.

Data caps sure make me glad I'm on Sprint.

How is Sprint's 3G/4G in your area?

[fhdz]

You can use more then one account in Jelly Bean. Wasn't the case in ICS.

Why did you locked the Internet Connection? You are snipping away half the functionnality of having an Android phone.

To not have to worry about employees going over the data cap, I'm guessing.

Data caps sure make me glad I'm on Sprint.

How is Sprint's 3G/4G in your area?

3G is great, 4G is decent. I never use 4G anyway because it's a fucking battery hog.

[Phillip V]

Beginning this summer, Sprint's 3G should get better at building penetration as the year progresses.

[Berkut]

Pretty harsh review of the S4:

If the HTC One was a glimpse of Android's promising future of thoughtfully crafted hardware paired with elegantly designed software, the Samsung Galaxy S4 represents its poorly conceived and shoddily constructed past. Like countless Android handsets before it, the Galaxy S4 is spec and feature-rich, but limited by its cheap, flimsy hardware and unnecessarily bloated suite of proprietary software. It's not a bad phone — in fact, there's plenty to like — it simply lacks the level of polish and consideration found in a growing number of its competitors.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/17/samsung-galaxy-s4-review

[Phillip V]

Good. They should release a Galaxy S4 version with physical keyboard.