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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 24, 2016 9:55:22 GMT
Did the deed that most of us do from time to time, Phone Upgrade.
Old Phone was a MotoG 4G, with a 4.5" 720 screen. new one is a Moto G4 with 5.5" 1080 screen, running 6.1 and upgrade to 7 coming. Its slightly bigger than ideal for me but is a mere 9.8mm thick, and weighs 155g and feels sturdy.
I am a real Moto convert. The old one was fantastic and never given me a moments agro, and they always come with more or less stock android, with no bloat or fancy wrappers or app launchers.
And it was cheap. Cost to upgrade was basically buttons, on an already cheap tariff.
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Post by Humph on Sept 24, 2016 10:14:56 GMT
I left my mobile phone at home ( by mistake ) one day a couple of weeks ago. I was out all day and needed to travel several hundred miles on a round trip including a couple of meetings.
At first it was really quite irrationally disturbing. Then, after a while it became something of a pleasure, despite the knowledge that loads of stuff would be awaiting my attention on my return and that our modern world barely accepts anyone being out of reach for more than a very short period of time.
I stopped at a services, connected to wifi on the ipad and sent a message to my office to explain the situation and then gleefully carried on my day without the wretched thing.
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 24, 2016 10:19:53 GMT
I left my mobile phone at home ( by mistake ) one day a couple of weeks ago. I was out all day and needed to travel several hundred miles on a round trip including a couple of meetings. At first it was really quite irrationally disturbing. Then, after a while it became something of a pleasure, despite the knowledge that loads of stuff would be awaiting my attention on my return and that our modern world barely accepts anyone being out of reach for more than a very short period of time. I stopped at a services, connected to wifi on the ipad and sent a message to my office to explain the situation and then gleefully carried on my day without the wretched thing. Many is the day I used to log onto to a conference call, give my name at the prompt, join the call, say hello and then log out. (The system used to beep to say someone had dropped off, but never named and shamed them) Magically your name used to appear in the published minutes of the meeting, but never any actions. |
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Post by WDB on Sept 24, 2016 10:45:09 GMT
Conference calls are the devil's work. Because there's no extra work and no (visible) cost to inviting additional participants, the tendency is just to invite everyone with even the slightest involvement, most of whom then just spend the hour (it's always a full hour) reading emails or fiddling with Twitface, so that when they are asked for a contribution they have to pretend they lost the question in some unexpected background noise. Most of the person-hours spent on them are wasted.
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Post by sooty on Sept 24, 2016 11:01:35 GMT
On a similar note of being out of contact, but email not phone. Someone at work mentioned that they'd sent me an email, i said that I've not got an account. Everyone has one he replied. Anyway turned out he was right, i didn't realise that for the first two years of working there.
Never missed anything important though, despite not reading a single work email in two years.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 11:58:31 GMT
Many is the day I used to log onto to a conference call, give my name at the prompt, join the call, say hello and then log out. (The system used to beep to say someone had dropped off, but never named and shamed them) Magically your name used to appear in the published minutes of the meeting, but never any actions. Webex is a bit smarter than that these days, as soon as you drop off you disappear from the participants list and in the attendees report it shows how long you were in the call for. Android 7 is more stable than 6 (Nexus hardware) though some apps don't like sitting side by side with others. I updated to 7 a month or two back, the only downside is the Xposed Framework is not yet available though that will not concern you if you're running straight out of the box. |
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Post by Humph on Sept 24, 2016 12:03:09 GMT
C'mon Otto, you can't just be a wee baldy grey guy either !😉
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 12:14:00 GMT
'fraid so. While you're out swanning around in the daylight in your überwagon I occasionally see daylight when they open the door to throw another bucket of s**t in my direction. Poor old me :-(
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Post by Humph on Sept 24, 2016 12:25:03 GMT
Well, you could just have something representing all that as your avatar. 😕
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 24, 2016 12:26:09 GMT
'fraid so. While you're out swanning around in the daylight in your überwagon I occasionally see daylight when they open the door to throw another bucket of s**t in my direction. Poor old me :-( With looks like that, I'd keep you locked behind doors lest you scare customers and clients. |
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 24, 2016 12:27:43 GMT
On a similar note of being out of contact, but email not phone. Someone at work mentioned that they'd sent me an email, i said that I've not got an account. Everyone has one he replied. Anyway turned out he was right, i didn't realise that for the first two years of working there. Never missed anything important though, despite not reading a single work email in two years. Friend of ours was horrified when he came back from three weeks vacation to find 14 emails in his inbox for action. He works in local government. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 12:29:31 GMT
I'm still on Android 6. Is there any advantage or benefit to 7 that you've noticed?
As for the phone itself, I have a Galaxy S6 but I am right off Samsung. Their approach to Android updates, particularly in South America, in tedious and irritating. I used to use HTC in Europe. The problem is that whilst *all* phones are bloody expensive here, HTC are an insane price. And shipping through customs is pointless, it'll either get impounded, held up or simply disappear.
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Post by bromptonaut on Sept 24, 2016 12:49:57 GMT
I've got what I think is same model as Zero's old one. Still on Android 5.something. Does everything I want with, provided unecessary stuff is turned off, decent battery life. Good touch screen, streets ahead of my Hudl pad, and excellent resolution. Camera good enough for snapshots but not as good as the excellent one in my old Sony Ericsson choc-bloc.
No rush to upgrade Android as current version does all I need and, like this weeks changes to Win10, it'll no doubt doubt need me to re-learn stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 13:04:03 GMT
I'm still on Android 6. Is there any advantage or benefit to 7 that you've noticed? As for the phone itself, I have a Galaxy S6 but I am right off Samsung. Their approach to Android updates, particularly in South America, in tedious and irritating. I used to use HTC in Europe. The problem is that whilst *all* phones are bloody expensive here, HTC are an insane price. And shipping through customs is pointless, it'll either get impounded, held up or simply disappear. I was an HTC fan but later phones went all plasticky and the power buttons started causing issues whereby I'd set the phone up to respond to the volume buttons. A well known issue for newer HTC phones. Only difference I have noticed between 6 & 7 is the dual apps on the single screen which may be of limited value for a 5.n" screen, much better on a tablet I expect. The multi-user accounts function is still there. The big plus for me with 7 over 6 is my phone would previously reset itself requiring the PIN unlock code be entered at the least convenient time. I have not seen this with 7. |
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Post by Humph on Sept 24, 2016 13:07:33 GMT
Quite surprised that there are all these people here who don't have iPhones.
Thought everyone had one by now.
Sniff.🙄
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