Platty Posted September 13, 2013 Posted September 13, 2013 It's a bit fatter than my HTC one but the pure androidness is lovely. Good bye HTC Sense!! I now have a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 10. May as well get the 7 and complete the family! Slowly turning into Mr Google :P
Platty Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 Sorry should have made that clearer. I have a HTC One X. It's not broken as such just things have been going wrong and just had enough. I was tempted to upgrade to the HTC One but my experience of using the One X has turned me right off HTC. - Battery has seriously degraded over the past 18 months and it was depressing not being able to use the phone for fear of running out of juice at lunch time and not being able to text the missus. - Giro sensors kept packing up so auto rotate, gps etc wouldn't work. Therefore apps and games that relied on a giro sensors wouldn't work and this also made the camera go all screwy. I worked out a temp fix but every time I need to reboot the phone they would pack up again. Annoying. - Wifi was screwed for a bit - well known problem on the 1st gen HTC one X where the antenna would squash/bend down and it wouldn't make a good connection if any connection. Instead of sending off I fixed it myself with some tin foil.... yeah that's right I opened up the phone and fixed the wifi issue with tin foil. - As it was HTC and on O2 I would wait FOREVER for updates. It is still sitting on 4.1.1. I wanted pure Android and quicker updates which I now have. Love the Nexus 4. Only worry I have with it is only 16gb. My one X was 32gb but I will just have to stop being lazy with not deleting stuff off the phone!!
Cube Posted September 19, 2013 Posted September 19, 2013 I've never found benchmarks to mean all that much in Android. You can get ROMs which massively increase benchmark scores, but with minimal visible difference. It just means how well configured to each text the software/hardware is, rather than any real world performance.
Sheikah Posted September 23, 2013 Posted September 23, 2013 In case anyone is interested, you can now get the new Nexus 7 for £179 from Tesco Direct using a voucher code. Full details.
Shorty Posted September 26, 2013 Posted September 26, 2013 Anyone got an OTG cable working with the 2013 Nexus 7 (unrooted)? I've read some positive reports on Nexus Media Importer working but that YMMV depending on the choice of cable... @Ashley @Sheikah
Sheikah Posted September 26, 2013 Posted September 26, 2013 Sorry haven't tried it, I mostly use the Emit app to stream media from my PC in the front room, which works really well.
Shorty Posted October 2, 2013 Posted October 2, 2013 Am I just being thick or are there no next/prev buttons when filling out forms on android? Ie to emulate the function of tab/shift+tab.
Cube Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 I'm not sure about on websites, but in apps "Next" replaces the enter button.
Sheikah Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 Yeah AquaMail. I had the same problem with the default mail client.
Sheikah Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 Bah so many issues within android. I am really finding this transition tough. The speed and polish is a huge let down. I thought they were quite similar? Even when i want to send a text the default texting app is slow in loading up. On an ios7 on an iphone 5 its instant. As it is I am thinking of returning/ selling the phone. Apple are pretty far ahead on all fronts so far. I went from iOS to Android and Android is a lot faster and more intuitive. iOS is really just for phone illiterate people mesmerised by brand power in my opinion. I'm guessing your problems lie with your phone or something.
Diageo Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 Unless he has a HTC One, Galaxy S4, or any of the high end smartphones, to compare the two is just laughable. It's a typical apple user problem where they buy a cheap android phone or windows pc and then complain the speed and polish isn't the same. I don't know what you're talking about Choze. On good phones the messaging app opens instantaneously. The speed is comparable, and differences negligible. Some things are slightly faster on one and some things on the other.
Mr-Paul Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 Installed about 200 apps so far. That's probably one of your problems, apps running in the background clogging up RAM. 200 apps seems excessive!
Sheikah Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 I am quite surprised. In my opinion there's maybe about 30-40 apps that are truly worth downloading.
Sheikah Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 In my opinion the Mail on iOS was pretty flawed. You had to click the email button whereas here I can set a widget to show my mail in the background. Sure the default mail app isn't great on android, but Aquamail is. Similarly, you could say that Google maps is a million times better than the version Apple tried to do themselves.
Diageo Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 Does anyone use the default mail? Everyone just used the gmail app. If you have 17 emails with different companies then that's a very specific problem and you can't expect the default to cater to you. But that's not even a problem because there are other apps you can use.
Ike Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 17 email apps or account? Did you turn off syncing on all of them, otherwise it must drain your battery real fast. Using a Nexus 4 the messaging app loads instantly, your issue must be due to the number of apps installed.
Sheikah Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 400 apps and 17 email accounts for work. Are you an international assassin? :p
Diageo Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 It could be that the messages app that comes with your phone specifically is bad. Because phone manufacturers make their own apps to bloat up the phone this can happen. Try out different ones and see if the speed improves. Or get some sort of stock rom.
drahkon Posted October 26, 2013 Posted October 26, 2013 Can anybody recommend me a nice tablet? As a student I could really use one :p This and is also at quite a reasonable price. Anybody know if it's any good?
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