Android Thread

[kenny]

Pretty interesting concept for dealing with front facing cameras taking up space where the screen can go... get rid of the cameras altogether!

Wonder if this will catch on.

[shakalaka]

Check out Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. It's got a slider front facing camera and looks sick. I am anxiously waiting for its release so that I can somehow get my hands on it. lol

[01RedDX]

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[civic_stylez]

Currently using Pixel 3 XL and Huawei P20 Pro but Im loving the new specs on the Huawei Mate 20 Pro... I thought it would be really tough to top the P20 Pro but apparently it does.

https://www.stuff.tv/features/huawei...pro-which-best

[kenny]

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Check out Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. It's got a slider front facing camera and looks sick. I am anxiously waiting for its release so that I can somehow get my hands on it. lol

Yeah I've seen that one as well, but I like the Nubia X implementation since it has no moving parts.

[D'z Nutz]

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Check out Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. It's got a slider front facing camera and looks sick. I am anxiously waiting for its release so that I can somehow get my hands on it. lol

You're a sucker for gimmicks aren't you?

A lot of those devices in the past with sliding interfaces die prematurely because parts wear down from constant movement and friction. I remember this happening to my old PDA's, phones with sliding keyboards, and automatic flipping car stereo headunits when the circuit ribbons wore out. Unless they've come up with some sort of alternative technology, I don't buy into this feature. But I guess since you don't hold onto anything for any length of time you probably won't have it long enough to worry about it.

[ExtraSlow]

You've read his car threads right?

Looking into it, may get the wife the galaxy A8 around new years. Will check the economics between buying from Amazon for $450 vs getting from Telus.

[shakalaka]

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You're a sucker for gimmicks aren't you?

A lot of those devices in the past with sliding interfaces die prematurely because parts wear down from constant movement and friction. I remember this happening to my old PDA's, phones with sliding keyboards, and automatic flipping car stereo headunits when the circuit ribbons wore out. Unless they've come up with some sort of alternative technology, I don't buy into this feature. But I guess since you don't hold onto anything for any length of time you probably won't have it long enough to worry about it.

lol. I like things that are different I guess.

But the sliding mechanism in the Mi Mix is actually magnetic. So there isn't any machinery that can necessarily go bad I guess. There is an Oppo and Vivo phone that have sliding mechanism for pop out camera but they are motorized and I would certainly have real concerns about this. But this one seems like those good old Nokia 8800 slider phone days. I loved those phone and still have a silver one sitting around somewhere but of course of not much use anymore.

[Xtrema]

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You're a sucker for gimmicks aren't you?

A lot of those devices in the past with sliding interfaces die prematurely because parts wear down from constant movement and friction. I remember this happening to my old PDA's, phones with sliding keyboards, and automatic flipping car stereo headunits when the circuit ribbons wore out. Unless they've come up with some sort of alternative technology, I don't buy into this feature. But I guess since you don't hold onto anything for any length of time you probably won't have it long enough to worry about it.

Think of it as BB Priv but instead of sliding screen up for keyboard, you slide screen down for front camera/censors.

It probably will add thickness with such mechanism.

[D'z Nutz]

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But the sliding mechanism in the Mi Mix is actually magnetic. So there isn't any machinery that can necessarily go bad I guess.

The magnets are for the sliding, not the part for the two halves of the phone to electronically communicate with each other and that's what always wore out in those older devices.

[Xtrema]

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The magnets are for the sliding, not the part for the two halves of the phone to electronically communicate with each other and that's what always wore out in those older devices.

According to Xiaomi, it's good for 300,000 slides.

The fact that my Priv is still working fine after it's been used for 2 years and decommed for 1 year, so I'm sure it'll be fine but may have less probability of surviving a drop.

[bjstare]

The idea of buying a device like this with moving parts in it these days is crazy to me.

[Xtrema]

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The idea of buying a device like this with moving parts in it these days is crazy to me.

Samsung supposed to have under screen sensors coming. May be good enough to give us all screen phone without notches or moving parts in 2019/20.

[spike98]

Under screen sensors are already here. It's the camera that forces a notch.

[schocker]

Sounds like the 6T underscreen sensor is pretty slow though. Sounds like the start of finger print readers on phones themselves. Will take a few iterations to get back to the speeds we are used to now.

[ZenOps]

Phablet just did a pre-mature shutoff at -5 Celsius after two years of heavy use. The first winter it was fine to -15 Celsius, although the indicator would quickly drop to 35%, it would work fine.

Lithium batteries still have a way to go in cold weather.

[JordanEG6]

Just bought the OnePlus 6T and currently using the Nexus 6P, I had a question regarding phone settings/contacts/wallpaper/WiFi infor etc. - Would I be able to transfer all the settings from my 6P to the 6T? Or do I have to go through the hassle of setting it up manually?

If this question was answered already, I apologize, but I didn't go through the whole thread.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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Just bought the OnePlus 6T and currently using the Nexus 6P, I had a question regarding phone settings/contacts/wallpaper/WiFi infor etc. - Would I be able to transfer all the settings from my 6P to the 6T? Or do I have to go through the hassle of setting it up manually?

If this question was answered already, I apologize, but I didn't go through the whole thread.

Anything google-related will come over. Some things will need to be setup manually. I moved from a 6P to a 5, and it was hit or miss which came over. But the process is much better than it used to be.

[JRSC00LUDE]

Ok, I need to grab one this week so is it:

- S9/+
- Pixel 3/+
- Huawei Mate 20
- LG G7

Our business account is on Bell

[brucebanner]

I have the one plus 6 and have had it for a couple months now. Happy with the phone, camera isn't amazing. That would be about my only knock on it. The money I saved buying it new off of someone on kijiji, I can deal with that.