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Copycat Android Phone From Gionee Includes 3D Touch Quick Actions, Peek and Pop
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I didn't start using Spotlight or Siri for a while after first discovering them. Now I use them all the time. It will be the same for 3D Touch.
90% of people who post of a forum are making stuff up.
... that's actually semi believable.
Lots of 3D Touch haters 
I love the feature, particularly for editing blocks of text and entering app switcher for multitasking. I could certainly live without it but it's made those things much faster and easier. I hardly use the home button for anything other than unlocking anymore.
I love the feature, particularly for editing blocks of text and entering app switcher for multitasking. I could certainly live without it but it's made those things much faster and easier. I hardly use the home button for anything other than unlocking anymore.
Wow! A Mediatek MT6755. So, like just about every other smart phone in the world, it has an ARM Cortex processor.
How is the Pencil influenced by Samsung? Apple has stylus patents going back to 2008.
They definitely got the camera bit. It's strange, because the Gionee is quite a bit thicker than the iPhone 6/6s so you'd think they would be able to do away with the protrusion.
They also have antenna bands, but around the edges and sides instead of the back. It actually looks like the rumours of how the bands will be on the iPhone 7. Much cleaner than the 6/6s.
I fail to see the point of such a feature without it being built into the OS as any APIs will be custom to the manufacturer. Apple is already having trouble getting developers to build functionality for 3D touch into apps and its easy peasy on iOS! No developer is going to waste time writing custom code for this little known manufacturer.
Lots of 3D Touch haters
I love the feature, particularly for editing blocks of text and entering app switcher for multitasking. I could certainly live without it but it's made those things much faster and easier. I hardly use the home button for anything other than unlocking anymore.
i know this is really getting off the topic of the article... but if you use 3d touch in the place of the home button for navigating, does that mean you only move between apps via the multitasking screen? what happens when you want to launch an app that isn't already open? do you enter multitasking, scroll to the home screen card and then tap on it? is that really superior to just... clicking a button?
its weird because i rarely even use multitasking at all. ignoring the awful weird acceleration and layout in ios9, it is an ever changing list of recently used apps, there is no muscle memory to particular apps, and one you haven't used super recently would literally be a hunt through dozens of cards, vs a set place on a home screen.
Launching a new app does require me to use the home button. I guess I wasn't trying to imply I never use the home button (even though that is actually what I said, so I apologize). I do switch between the most frequently used apps, mail, FB, messages, safari using app switcher exclusively though, particularly when I am already in an app to begin with since it's faster.
I guess it depends on usage patterns. If you are constantly hopping between apps this method wouldn't help at all. DUring the workday, however, I am not really using that many apps, so when I have some time to sit down and browse, answer some emails/texts, etc. it works perfectly.
Makes sense. Different usage patterns benefit from different tools. In that regards it's always good that we have options.
I did contemplate after my post and realized there are many ways to get to apps, from Siri to spotlight.
Siri is my biggest gripe. I can;t get "hey siri" to activae more than half the time despite setting it up 3-4 times. Adding to that, I have activated it on my wife's phone accidentally despite it having never been set up with my voice on that device. Coupled with some searches that don't present me with information any better than a manual google search and Siri has become the feature that I never use, though I would really love to.
I also use spotlight from time to time when I am looking for an obscure app that sees maybe weekly or monthly use as it is much faster than looking in folders.
I use Siri 90% for timers and alarms, it's far from the full digital assistant, but like so many tools, it has a useful niche so I'm happy with it. Also my parents HEAVILY use dictation for text, so the voice recognition tech in general has its merits.
I think I use spotlight as a quick calculator on the phone and that's about it. It must be the form factor, because Alfred (and quicksilver before it) on the desktop is like my favourite thing!
Don't get me started on proactive though. Maybe it helps someone... But my usage patterns defy any algorithm.
Looks like a copy of a samsung copy.
Is it not insidious how little imagination goes into designing good looking tech, I don't get it, surely the design team just wants to stand out and make something beautiful and not copy everything else but they end up blending into the background with these lookalikes, they all must want to slit their wrists when they leave work.
Is it not insidious how little imagination goes into designing good looking tech, I don't get it, surely the design team just wants to stand out and make something beautiful and not copy everything else but they end up blending into the background with these lookalikes, they all must want to slit their wrists when they leave work.
Well they did one thing better than apple. There are no ugly antenna bands on it.
Well, HTC designed some uniquely beautiful devices and it didn't help them much.
For better or worse... and often it's for the worse.. mass consumers tend to follow trends set by much higher profile companies like Apple.
So yeah, the poor designers have to follow such trends or they risk the very company they work for. Not to mention that it's likely their bosses have ordered them to do so.
I actually use dictation a lot for texts as well, which is why I am baffled at how it falls short in so many other ways (for my experiences). I often forget about dictation being part of the same tech since it's not actually "talking to siri", or at least not in the way I use it. I tend to tap the mic on the keyboard and go from there. I'd say 1/4 of my texts are sent in that format. It's especially nice because it supports Hungarian, which I do not believe Siri itself supports.
I feel it's worth mentioning that I don't have an eastern european accent either, so I don't think my siri woes have anything to do with that. Born and raised in California, so if anything, my accent is as western as they come lol.
Perhaps you were unaware of it, but the smartphone market was growing just fine before Apple came in. Heck, its growth was the reason why Apple wanted a piece of the pie.
Smartphone sales growth barely moved when Apple came in, but it took off like a rocket when Android phones hit the market.
While Nokia, RIM and Motorola were top dogs in 2006, Samsung smartphones were well known. I personally owned an Verizon Samsung i730 at the time, which had 3G, WiFi and a CPU that could be overclocked to 720MHz, with a GPU to match. I used to Slingbox video from home to it at work, and I wrote smooth 3D graphics animation routines for it in Microsoft Direct 3D.
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I suppose it depends on how loosely you define smartphone. And of course it would take off like a rocket when the market is saturated with cheap knock offs. Good work. Nice graph btw.
That's a strange debate path to take, considering that the first iPhone itself was lacking in areas that smartphone users were used to by then, such as 3G, MMS, video camera, and often GPS.
Most importantly, it came stock without the ability to create or load/remove third party native apps. That alone caused the first Apple device to not be considered a smartphone, but more of a feature phone with a limited set of apps.
Smartphone owners of the time were used to finding apps online, or even in an onboard store app. We had Google search, Google maps, YouTube, Shazaam, Slingplayer, browsers like Opera or Picsel with its flick scrolling, double-tap zoom and miniature screen bookmarks.