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LG Unveils V20 Android Nougat Phone With 3.5mm Jack, Audiophile Smarts
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It's a nice phone and I credit LG with their display and camera upgrades, but like most LG phones, their laggy and stutter.
Being the Note 7 is delayed with the recall, LG has the opportunity to make some stride with the iPhone 7 debuting shortly.
Being the Note 7 is delayed with the recall, LG has the opportunity to make some stride with the iPhone 7 debuting shortly.
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Yes because Android is so unstable and full of malware and viruses right? It's obvious you have never used an Android before.You'll find that stability and performance are far more important than being able to customise the odd icon. That's one of the many reasons why iOS devices are practically ubiquitous in businesses now. They're even being used in medicine and military.
It's an irony you talk about iOS lacking features, when a lot of people who use iOS devices in their livelihood are infinitely more productive than Apple haters could ever hope to be with their Android devices.
Apple hater? No, I love iOS for basic everyday use, but try importing and editing a video or audio recording that was taken from another source. Better yet, try transfering those files between different workstations. You can't. Not on iOS anyway.
Yes, stability is important but that doesn't mean Apple should keep other features away from us.
Yeah every phone lags at some point that's not a big problem to discuss here
Spoken like a true fan boy . I've been on the Nexus 6P since December and there's not a single aspect where it isn't as smooth as iOS. You don't see the sluggishness in iOS because it's hidden behind smoke and mirrors, ie , animations.
I would be interested in test driving this Phone, especially with Android 7.0. I think LG is a contender most don't consider.
I didn't mention anything about instability, malware, or viruses. That was you.
I just pointed out the fact that if reliability is paramount in your job, people use iOS. I'm not sure you can disagree with that, as the proof is in the pudding. It's odd how people say Android does more, yet people who actually do more tend to use iOS. Probably because they don't care about dicking around with custom ROMs and installing moving backgrounds. They just want stuff to work.
Just as an example I've personally witnessed; Logic Remote is infinitely smoother and more reliable on iOS than TouchDAW is on Android.
I don't see anybody calling this an iPhone knock off. LG actually have good phones, but their marketing is not as big as Samsung, the real copycat.
Having said that, have you used an Android before? For installing apps, the SD card thing is bullsh!t. Even Google stopped putting SD cards on their Nexus phones from way back when. Heck, even with adaptable storage on Marshmallow (if your OEM enables it), it's still BS. It's worse with phones that have a lot of preinstalled apps that cannot be removed nor moved. Adding to that most Android OEMs are converting their dual SIM phones into hybrid slots (you have to pick second SIM or SD card, not both), it's getting more and more pointless.
Screen PPI is the new megapixel. It only reduce performance and waste battery life, without adding value other than bragging rights on paper. Heck, I'm using Vivo V3 with only 720p screen, and I don't feel it being less sharp than quadHD screens.
As for headphone jack, when Motorola ditched it as well, it's only a matter of time.
Regardless of features, if I'm paying for a flagship phone, I will opt for iPhone, mainly for its worldwide warranty and support. No point in paying $$$ for an Android flagship when the support is no different than a local/budget phone OEM (thus I opt for Vivo instead of Sony/Samsung).
Keyword: Nexus.
Majority of people don't have Nexus.
And Android uses the same tactic as well, animations, to smooth out app transitions.
So before talking about fanboys, just do a self reflection first.
PS: I'm using Vivo V3 as my daily driver. It's cheap, fairly smooth (definitely smoother than even a Sony), has fingerprint sensor, albeit still on lollipop. For the price, I'm not complaining.
You're one of those people that brag about the cubic centimeters of your engine block while trying to drive on trapezoidal tires made of cement. A smart person would look at every aspect before determining which HW (and in this case SW) affects the total performance of a given device.
Nexus 6P vs iPhone 6S Plus Full Comparison!
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Clunky, old fashioned OS. Poor or poorer integration with Google apps (Google Now and Now-on-Tap, for example, are either not available or not very usable on iOS, since on Android they're baked into the OS).If you're going to pay as much for an Android phone as you would for an iPhone, why not just get an iPhone?
If the iPhone was the very same price as the Nexus 5X, I'd get the latter, even if it doesn't look very nice.
Plus, it's unlikely that the V20 will actually sell at that price, except perhaps for a short while. It will get discounted and as such it might actually be good value. For example, I got a Huawei P9 very soon after launch, and while the nominal price was CHF599 back then, I actually paid CHF464 for it, so it was very good value.
Whoever does LG's marketing plan should be fired!! The night Before iPhone launch, really? You give your self literally no time to steal iPhone customers because everyone will just wait the 12 HOURS to see the iPhone, and then on top of it you make your company looks more childish and caddy then Samsung in the process. From a buissness standpoint it's just flat out a dumb move
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Hahaha, I see you've never used android. Just wait a while, it takes some time to lag. Unlike iOS. You don't know what you don't know.
Clunky? The iPhone 6s is the fastest phone on the market until the 7 which is being released today, explain the "clunky".
And do you expect that people will take you seriously when you say that Android is better because it integrates better with Google services?
Well, the iOS is better because you have iCloud Drive, iTunes, iMessage iCloud Backups, Photostream, etc. built in.
Clunky, due to OS <-> app and app <-> app interaction. Basically iOS has been from the very beginning built around the idea that you click on an icon, start an app, do stuff, click the home button, rinse and repeat. Apps are very self-contained and generally don't interact much with the OS or other apps. The lack of file system access seriously compounds this problem.
In contrast, Android is much more open and fluid. Apps register themselves as handlers for files or services, and you can open anything and share anything into anything, as long as the capability is present. This is just not so on iOS.
Consider a simple problem: find a particular photo, share it with a particular person on WhatsApp. On Android, the steps to do so are exactly as the problem is enunciated. Open, say, Google Photos, select photo, click share, select WhatsApp, select person, done. You want to email a file to someone, again, it's natural. Open Inbox or Gmail, compose or reply, attach file.
On iOS, usually it's some round-about way of doing this. Sometimes it's possible to do something in the natural way, sometimes it's required to do it in an inverse way, like open WhatsApp, select the person, go to select a photo, you're screwed if it's not in the Camera Roll, etc. Sending email attachments might work from the email program if the attachment is in a particular place (like iCloud), or it might only work from the program responsible with opening the file (such as Pages).
Or consider recognising a song with Shazam. Since it has a widget on Android, this requires one tap. On iOS, you have to start the app first.
Basically, pretty much everything you might want to do on your $1000 phone, I do on my $460 phone easier and faster, i.e. in a more logical way, with fewer taps and gestures. And whatever the iPhone does that my phone doesn't do (like "live photos") is a small selection of gimmicks that I personally have no interest in, and are usually achievable by installing apps.
I have no expectations whatsoever, but if I were to compare Google services to their Apple equivalents, generally the Google ones are much, much better, cost less (or are free, as is the case with Photos, which gives unlimited free storage), and, essentially, they are multi-platform, as opposed to being locked into an expensive and awkward ecosystem created by a particular vendor.
[doublepost=1473249092][/doublepost]And people who drive BMW's are more successful.You'll find that stability and performance are far more important than being able to customise the odd icon. That's one of the many reasons why iOS devices are practically ubiquitous in businesses now. They're even being used in medicine and military.
It's an irony you talk about iOS lacking features, when a lot of people who use iOS devices in their livelihood are infinitely more productive than Apple haters could ever hope to be with their Android devices.
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I've used both Android and iOS recently and I have to say. Apple services integrate better with iOS whereas Google services do integrate better with Android device; but that's a given.
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Just recently read this article, might make you rethink a few things. iOS has changed a lot throughout the years. The reliability isn't the same anymore.
http://fortune.com/2016/08/25/apple-ios-failure-rate/
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If you're going to pay as much for an Android phone as you would for an iPhone, why not just get an iPhone?
Regardless, looks like a nice phone. Certainly will appeal more to a niche market. It's always good to have the option there if you want it.
That's right, good to have choices, or everyone would be driving around in BMW'S.
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Got to love how Android rolls. Just a few days ago people here said that Android is doomed over the Note 7 recall. Less than a week later another powerhouse pops up. And we still have 2 Google phones being announced at the beginning of October.
One Android phone recall does not impact Android. That being said if Apple had the same thing happen to the iPhone it would have disastrous results to it's ecosystem. So when I get my 32GB iPhone 7 Plus (my 64GB iPhone SE is my daily driver) it better be flawless.
One Android phone recall does not impact Android. That being said if Apple had the same thing happen to the iPhone it would have disastrous results to it's ecosystem. So when I get my 32GB iPhone 7 Plus (my 64GB iPhone SE is my daily driver) it better be flawless.
Because without an SD card slot and an audio jack, that's all a mobile device is good for
It's funny how they couldn't even synchronize, to put it one way, the picture in the phone that was supposedly being taken with what was happening in the background. Notice how the guy has his left arm a lot more down in the phone screen.