Go fondle the Note and use the stylus (if you have cursive, I don't have enough good things to say about the handwriting keyboards--just, why aren't there more alternatives in English??). It wasn't as big as I was expecting to hold, but the screen looks huge because it's taking every damned millimetre it can get. Also because it is. But I could manage it easily like my current Nexus--maybe they aren't that different in profile.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
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§ ita § - Oct 15, 2013 6:18:26 am PDT #23116 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Oct 15, 2013 12:06:48 pm PDT #23117 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, Apple people, is there a way to permanently turn off iPhone apps?My mother is complaining that her phone battery runs down even when she doesn't use the phone.
le nubian - Oct 15, 2013 12:13:25 pm PDT #23118 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse,
couple of things: she may have location services turned off for certain apps. Google's app is NOTORIOUS. When I turned off location services for that app, I actually had battery life. Before, that fucker was running down my battery from 100% to 20% in like 90 minutes.
She may just need to go to Settings and Location Services and turn them off for particular apps.
Gris - Oct 15, 2013 3:26:15 pm PDT #23119 of 25496
Hey. New board.
I really like PocketCasts on Android.
Jesse - Oct 15, 2013 4:31:20 pm PDT #23120 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
She may just need to go to Settings and Location Services and turn them off for particular apps.
Cool, I'll try that. Thanks!
Jessica - Oct 16, 2013 8:21:10 am PDT #23121 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ok, the Note 3 is a big HELL YES from me. I'm not a huge fan of the faux-leather back, but that SCREEN! And at least the plastic fake leather is more comfortable to hold than Apple's sharp metal/glass corners. (Which I've hated ever since I upgraded to the iPhone 4. The 3/3gs was so much more comfortable to hold.)
§ ita § - Oct 16, 2013 9:09:50 am PDT #23122 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Woot! Hopefully I can settle for vicarious Note 3 thrills and just love my perfectly fine Nexus longer.
aurelia - Oct 16, 2013 11:04:59 am PDT #23123 of 25496
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I've been tasked with finding this cable [link] with black and white conductors instead of black & red. Any ideas on how to conduct that search? Usually cable descriptions only include the jacket color, not the conductors. Audio peeps?
Jessica - Oct 16, 2013 5:55:45 pm PDT #23124 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Plants vs Zombies 2 isn't out for Android yet?? They need to fix that by my birthday or I will go into severe withdrawal. Per the interwebs, it's available in Australia but not the US. FIX IT, POPCAP.
All the other apps I use regularly seem to have either exact Android counterparts or good options for replacements.
Hopefully I won't decide after a week that it's too big to hold comfortably in one hand on the subway. (But the GS4 and HTC One are both very nice phones too, if so.)
§ ita § - Oct 16, 2013 6:06:33 pm PDT #23125 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Learnt about the Note today--the Samsung keyboard has a setting that crowds all the keys to one side to make it theoretically more easy to type one-handed.
How does that work, Note-users?