Poll of the Day > got a new phone

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going from an iphone 6 to an 8

WOW what a difference. i can use apps without them hanging now. i can compose a whole tweet without it printing a few characters behind what i'm typing. i'm typing this RIGHT NOW!

wow
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Can you make phone calls in HD
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Wow

Much phone very wow
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Mead posted...

Can you make phone calls in HD

pfft, child's play

it's all about them 4K apps
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touch ID is almost a little too fast now. i just barely rest my thumb and it unlocks instantly
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I went from an iPhone 5s to Galaxy S8 a couple weeks ago. Whole different experience.

fettster777 posted...

I went from an iPhone 5s to Galaxy S8 a couple weeks ago. Whole different experience.

no kidding, that's like 4 generations difference

my mom upgraded too and she had a 5C, i literally don't know how she used it for so long, it's a nightmare
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A few months ago I downgraded from a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge to a Samsung A3 2017.
I immediately noticed that it was slower and the touch screen not being as precise or sensitive.

I was such a clutz to drop my old S7(the screen cracked) and this is my punishment.
My new phone is much cheaper though so it won't be that bad if this one breaks so I have that going for me which is nice.
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Did you get AppleCare+
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Lol, apple so gud they lag hard.
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SmokeMassTree posted...

memba when you said you wouldn't post here anymore, came back, said it again, and then came back

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Lol, apple so gud they lag hard.

every phone gets slow over time stop acting like apple is the only company that manufactures obsolescence
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JunkoEnoshima posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Lol, apple so gud they lag hard.

every phone gets slow over time stop acting like apple is the only company that manufactures obsolescence

My Z1 doesn't lag behind, and that's 6 generations back.
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i guarantee if you compared it to a current flagship there'd be a massive difference
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JunkoEnoshima posted...

i guarantee if you compared it to a current flagship there'd be a massive difference

In processing power, yes. Day to day performance, not so much. It's very smooth, most notably because it doesn't have firmware that's intentionally designed to work worse on it than the next generation.

Your phone gets loaded with bloatware and forced to a crawl on purpose, mine is made to run as the phone it is as long as it lives, not as long as it's the flagship.
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......you can load a stock rom on any android phone dude. who uses the one that comes with the phone? i've used androids you know. there's virtually extremely little difference these days

and sry but there's really no way to guarantee a phone's longevity, eventually apps will get too far ahead and the hardware can't keep up. your hardware is four years old. and from some googling it appears the last android version it supported is 6.0. that's two versions old. your apps will break down eventually, if not on the software level then because the hardware just can't handle it anymore. that's called................... manufactured obsolescence, which every phone does.

don't get me wrong, the Z1 was a very solid phone for its time and i'm sure it still runs acceptably now, but you're making a loyalty claim where there really isn't one. apple catches all the flak for things that are standard manufacturing process

also idk what you mean by bloatware. i dont load apps that i dont use
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Lol my Nexus 6p is only a couple of years old and it's so fucking slow after all the Android updates compared to earlier versions. New updates. But most android phones don't continue to get new os support for that long, a Z1 went from jelly bean to lollipop. I went from marshmallow to Oreo in 2 years and it's quite noticeable and negatively impacts performance.
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by comparison the iPhone 6 is three years old. thats an extremely acceptable lifespan for a phone considering youd most likely be up for an upgrade after having it that long

businesses arent your friends and their only goal is to get your money. phone manufacturers need to guarantee a way to get your money again once your phone dies or you have an upgrade
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businesses are too my friend
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that's what they want you to think
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JunkoEnoshima posted...

by comparison the iPhone 6 is three years old. thats an extremely acceptable lifespan for a phone considering youd most likely be up for an upgrade after having it that long

businesses arent your friends and their only goal is to get your money. phone manufacturers need to guarantee a way to get your money again once your phone dies or you have an upgrade

i hate to agree, but fuck, that's spot on, ok?
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i might be crazy but i'm not stupid
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JunkoEnoshima posted...

by comparison the iPhone 6 is three years old. thats an extremely acceptable lifespan for a phone considering youd most likely be up for an upgrade after having it that long

businesses arent your friends and their only goal is to get your money. phone manufacturers need to guarantee a way to get your money again once your phone dies or you have an upgrade

Yep. My abysmal battery life was perfectly timed for that 2 year mark to get me to consider an upgrade. You'll notice most phones get under 80 percent battery capacity max after 500 charges which is under 2 years if you charge one time a day.

Beyond that the actual operating systems will be built for newer sets of hardware and not to keep older models in the fastest working order.

Companies want you replacing your phone on the regular. 3 years is longer than most go.
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oh gosh yeah i was barely getting a day of use out of the thing and i'm not what i would consider a power user

after a day of work yesterday on the new one i was at around 55%. i bet i could easily get 2 days out of it
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My phone is sometimes near battery saver by the end of work and I keep Bluetooth and GPS off to conserve battery. Push notifications disabled for most things. Only really use it at lunch. It's crap.

It now shuts itself off at 40 percent battery if I open up snapchat or Pokemon go.
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One thing I find kills peoples phones are "phone cleaner/battery saver" apps
As they do more damage then help. So of them are just there to spy on you and put ads on your phone.

I have seen peoples phones glitching like crazy, and once an phone clean app was uninstalled the phone started to work.
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i do not use any such app
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JunkoEnoshima posted...

......you can load a stock rom on any android phone dude. who uses the one that comes with the phone? i've used androids you know. there's virtually extremely little difference these days

and sry but there's really no way to guarantee a phone's longevity, eventually apps will get too far ahead and the hardware can't keep up. your hardware is four years old. and from some googling it appears the last android version it supported is 6.0. that's two versions old. your apps will break down eventually, if not on the software level then because the hardware just can't handle it anymore. that's called................... manufactured obsolescence, which every phone does.

don't get me wrong, the Z1 was a very solid phone for its time and i'm sure it still runs acceptably now, but you're making a loyalty claim where there really isn't one. apple catches all the flak for things that are standard manufacturing process

also idk what you mean by bloatware. i dont load apps that i dont use

You can load anything you like on Android phones but I haven't and you have to load iOS on Apple phones whether you want to or not. Both stock, mine runs and yours doesn't.

Sure, one day it'll not be able to keep up, but that hasn't happened 6 generations after losing flagship status. It doesn't have an operating system that stops running the hardware properly so long after it's not what they're working on. Manufactured obsolescence is building things with the intent of having a set lifespan and my phone still works fine long after typical recycle time. If my phone had manufactured obsolescence then the hardware would be failing and it would no longer be reasonable to use the phone anymore, like was the case with yours.

I'm loyal to Sony because Sony generally hasn't let me down, it's consistently quality while Apple has controversy with literally every release. People are equally loyal to Samsung and such because it doesn't do what Apple does.

iOS CXVII is designed to re-engineer its content to run at best quality on flagship and remove optimisation for prior iterations, this is what I mean as bloat. It gives functions that don't work on older kit and changes things that do work to work less.
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mine runs just fine though
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JunkoEnoshima posted...

mine runs just fine though

JunkoEnoshima posted...

i can use apps without them hanging now. i can compose a whole tweet without it printing a few characters behind what i'm typing.

You know this shows how your old phone, which was newer than my old one, wasn't "just fine".
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yeah but im not using that one anymore. i now have a sick-ass cutting edge phone that i paid almost nothing up front for, so i still came out ahead of u
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

JunkoEnoshima posted...

mine runs just fine though

JunkoEnoshima posted...

i can use apps without them hanging now. i can compose a whole tweet without it printing a few characters behind what i'm typing.

You know this shows how your old phone, which was newer than my old one, wasn't "just fine".

your phone isn't running anything near the most current OS version (updates for the Z1 stopped ages ago and it received very few updates from release). her phone was.

it's largely the OS changes that really shit up phones over time
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