Even if it had the best camera in the world, I’m not buying a crappy android phone. More susceptible to hackers and application privacy rape.
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iPhone XS Max vs. LG's Newly Announced V40 ThinQ
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I've played with some newer Android phones and as soon as all the background BS and animations are turned off they're just as fluid and fast as iPhones.
Are you certain the phone sorts your photos as you described? Most of my photos were taken with a standalone camera and are sorted similarly in iPhoto on my Mac. If you turn off iCloud, will your phone still sort photos?
As for Google, they don't share their knowledge of you with advertisers. That is a misunderstanding. They would be giving away the store if they did that. Instead, they deliver the advertiser's message to people who are most likely to be interested. The advertiser doesn't know who that is, only that the audience fits a certain profile.
...Says no one who prefers Android phones. I'm sure you meant "remotely compete" instead of "complete remotely"?
Like the Chinese knockoff cars, they try to look the part but don't succeed. Under the hood it's not even a competition.
You don't post many things that I agree with, but I'm with you on this.
Yet you did. Just wait, the iPhone XI will have 5 cameras, too. It took Apple a few years to copy the large size of Android phones, so give them some time to copy the extra cameras, too.
I believe Apple's hardware has always had superior optimization because the chip and OS are designed for each other. However, at the end of the day, I'm more interested in what I am able to accomplish with the phone. From what I've seen, I believe Google's AI assistant is more useful and efficient than Apple's Siri and machine learning.
You sacrifice machine learning and all the wonders it can do. Instead of having a powerful calculator you add the engine for AI, and that open a new road for App developers to explore that in other chips is just not possible. It's probably one of the biggest breakthrough in mobile chips ever.
I was stunned at how fast the Pixel's "built-in" Goggle Assistant answered my queries. It dictated my words as fast as I spoke them, correcting synonyms as it processed the context! It didn't need several seconds to search. By comparison, I have to wait for Siri to prepare before I can speak my query or instruction. And if it's a query, it needs sufficient time to search the web only to announce that it found something... but it doesn't know what. I turned off Siri again when I realized iOS 12 didn't improve matters much.
Is there something out there that can compete locally with an iPhone instead of remotely, esp in the auto-correct department?
Yes, I have iCloud turned off for photos and it still works.
As for Google, maybe you missed the recent news that they have been giving access to gmail users emails to ad partners and developers for years. One developer had HUMANS read THOUSANDS of PRIVATE emails, unknown to the end user, to develop some AI for an app. I think it is you who is misunderstanding Google.
Maybe you missed another story about how Google was caught tracking and storing physical location history for Android users EVEN AFTER the users had specifically turned that option off in their preferences.
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-clarifies-how-it-tracks-you-even-if-location-history-is-turned-off/
I would never, ever, EVER use a Google powered phone. That company has demonstrated time and time and time again that they are untrustworthy and do not value your privacy or even respect the settings you have toggled to do so
You may be right about the potential of machine learning. Nonetheless, I won't wait to see. If the OS and third party apps are able to do useful things with it, I may reconsider an iPhone someday. However, in the present, Google's products have abilities that offer more utility for me.
Wait wait wait, androids have notches now but can still manage to show me the battery percentage?! Haha
MacRumors, you ought to know better than to ask members here what they think of iPhone's competitors, lol.
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Edison's EU agreement was explicit that its service scans emails and looks for information that might be of interest to marketers. It didn't work exclusively with Gmail accounts. It works will all email accounts, including Apple Mail. I know because I used it briefly.
Unless Edison is a Google incubator project, I doubt Google would have volunteered people's email messages for development use. More likely, the article failed to clarify that Edison's users were allowing their Gmail to be read. If I recall correctly, emails were anonymized before they were analyzed. Don't forget, Apple does the same thing within its ecosystem for product development and quality control purposes. Remember how people were concerned that Siri queries were being recorded? They were, but Apple insisted that identifying details were removed.
Google doesn't share people's identities with marketers. They don't sell contact information for direct marketing. Google delivers the marketer's message; you remain anonymous to the marketer unless you interact with the marketer later.
The anger of the Apple lovers here is just hilarious. Seriously, who cares what they copy? Everyone copies everyone. Good grief.
Also I can see the writing on the wall now.
2018: 3 rear cameras? No one needs that! That’s absurd! What a gimmick!
2019: (Same people) The iPhone 11 is the BEST PHONE EVER! Those 3 rear cameras are amazing and produce the best photos I’ve ever seen! Apple rules!
Also I can see the writing on the wall now.
2018: 3 rear cameras? No one needs that! That’s absurd! What a gimmick!
2019: (Same people) The iPhone 11 is the BEST PHONE EVER! Those 3 rear cameras are amazing and produce the best photos I’ve ever seen! Apple rules!
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Gets them page clicks,which is the name of the game, they know their members can’t help themselves
[doublepost=1538614126][/doublepost]Meh....let me know when it can run IOS, otherwise its really a meaningless compare.
LG today debuted its next-generation smartphone, the LG V40 ThinQ, equipped with an all glass body and a display notch for housing camera equipment, much like the iPhone XS and XS Max.
We were able to get one of LG's new V40 ThinQ smartphones ahead of their launch, and we've got the first V40 ThinQ vs. iPhone XS Max comparison that highlights the differences between Apple's flagship device and LG's new flagship device.
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The LG V40 ThinQ features an all glass body with an aluminum frame, while the iPhone XS Max has an all glass body with a stainless steel frame. Apple has done away with the headphone jack, but the V40 still has one, and instead of a Lightning port, it features a USB-C port.
In the hand, the LG V40 ThinQ feels lighter than the iPhone XS Max, but due to the size, it's still a two-handed device.
The V40 measures in at 6.4 inches with a high-quality HDR OLED display that is as sharp and vibrant as the 6.5-inch HDR OLED display of the iPhone XS Max.
Both devices have a front-facing notch, and while the V40's notch is somewhat less obtrusive, it's also housing lesser equipment. The V40 ThinQ features two front-facing cameras, one with 8 megapixels and the second with 5 megapixels. The cameras enable a fast and efficient facial recognition feature for unlocking the device, but as with most Android implementations, it's not using 3D facial mapping and is less secure.
Because of the weaker facial recognition implementation, LG's new device continues to offer a fingerprint sensor at the back.
The back of the LG V40 ThinQ is outfitted with three horizontal cameras, while the iPhone XS Max uses a dual camera system. In the V40, there's a 12-megapixel wide-angle lens, a 12-megapixel telephoto lens, and a 16-megapixel wide-angle lens.
The three cameras enable a range of useful features like Triple Shot for three photos at once from different angles, a Cine Shot for creating a photo with one part of the image in motion, and slow motion and portrait features similar to what you'll find in the iPhone XS Max.
We think the LG V40 is a solid iPhone XS Max competitor with its light weight and its impressive camera equipment, and in a future video, we'll delve further into the triple-lens camera system as rumors have suggested it's something we might see in next year's iPhones.
What do you think of the new LG V40 ThinQ? Does it measure up to the iPhone XS Max? Let us know in the comments.
Article Link: iPhone XS Max vs. LG's Newly Announced V40 ThinQ
And how would you know that without ever trying an Android phone? Just because Apple told you so?
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LG makes the best 4K panels nowadays. Their TVs are much better than Samsung, and they have their own OS that is not based on Android but rather on the Palm's webOS, which when it came out was revolutionary. Palm ran out of money and sold its OS to HP, which tried to use it unsuccessfully in their tablets and then sold it to LG.
LG has both a good OS and good engineering in house. Maybe one day they will bring webOS to their phones. There's nothing wrong with LG.
MacRumors! Your videos are incredibly well done and it's a testament to this community and your work that you are still immensely popular and the de-facto Apple news site for many!
Zalves, how robust is the in-device AI engine compared to Google's server-based AI? I experimented with the AI suggestions in the phone's Photos app. One of the pre-collated topics was "dining". It contained eleven images. Not one image was related to dining. There were pics of a fire rescue ladder I was selling, and various eyeglasses my partner tried on at the optician's. I don't see a way to correct the AI's mistakes manually.
There were pics that were correctly collated by date and location, but that ability has existed for some time. I tried various keywords like "boat" and "car" but the results were littered with irrelevant images, while qualified ones were ignored. Is there a way to accelerate the learning process?
You are a little too biased. For one, Android phones (at least the higher end flagship phones) are not ‘crappy’. Second, I recommend reading this regarding your privacy and Apple and Google. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...er-download-your-privacy-data-year/521786002/
Third, getting hacked by apps. Sure, if you go to certain unsavory apps (like those that promise cheats to games) you can get hacked or have your phone screwed up. But let me remind you that Apple has had lots of issues ranging from getting its developer portal hacked to people being able to send you a text and screw up your phone.
All that said, I wouldn’t trade in my iPhone X for an Android device. I just don’t believe in spreading Apple propaganda.