8.1 is a pretty good stability update over 8.0. battery life is much improved on my XL, at least on dp2.
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Honor 7X seems like a nice redesign bump from the 6X. Might edge out the Moto G5 Plus for me right now until we get the Moto G6 Plus.
Unfortunately I can not wait until January to buy a new phone. So OP5T it is. But this looks very tempting.
v10 is basically just missing the dual speakers, but otherwise it seems to get all the best parts of mate 10 and pro for cheaper.
I keep hearing huawei stuff ain't great on tmobile though.
I keep hearing huawei stuff ain't great on tmobile though.
Smartphone world moves fast.
Check back in a month or two and new devices will already be out.
What's your budget just so we can get a ballpark?
I'll save what I need to up to $600, but if I can get away with significantly less that would be great. Like, if $300-$400 will work for what I need, I'd want to stay in that range. No interest in getting the best if I don't need the best.
Basically, my question is, how much do I need to spend to have a gaming-capable phone? I don't want to spend more than that.
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300 400 should be more than sufficient to get very good phone.
Rule of thumb is you buy one year old flagship phone. You will get them cheap. 5t or s8 next year.
Maybe it's cause I'm in the US, but modem announcements are sooo boring when you only have like 10 gigs a month of data to work with.
Plus it's not as if my current device is slow.
Being excited about a modem sounds like the weirdest thing to me but I'm on wifi 99% of the time, so what do I know.
I need some solid S9 leaks to hold me over. I know it's going to look like the S8 with a better positioned fingerprint sensor but I want then leaks anyway.
I need some solid S9 leaks to hold me over. I know it's going to look like the S8 with a better positioned fingerprint sensor but I want then leaks anyway.
Yeah, I'm highly mobile and always using data from my unlimited data plan.
Depends on plan. Unlimited tmobile is 50gb a month which is nice.
https://m.gsmarena.com/huawei_mate_9_and_mate_9_pro_oreo_update-news-28610.php
Mate 9 oreo update is now.
Mate 9 oreo update is now.
I just hope we have gotten to a point where it can run HDR video without stuttering on YouTube lol
Implying there is a cellular carrier anywhere on Earth where you can actually enjoy anything resembling the theoretical speeds.
What video are those? I have LG g6 and I think this has HDR screen.
Search HDR video on YouTube. You should see a HDR playback option where the resolution options are.
I thought you could in Samsung's home country of South Korea, but I could be wrong?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/1...erence-phone-hands-peek-next-smartphone-kind/
Seems like the main take away is that expect better battery life when gaming and video playback.
Else is usual better lte radio. Camera etc.
Not sure what hdr video recording is lol.
Seems like the main take away is that expect better battery life when gaming and video playback.
Else is usual better lte radio. Camera etc.
Not sure what hdr video recording is lol.
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Mobile service speeds there are fantastic but not mind blowingly good. Coverage is unparalleled, though.
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I used my 7+ and 6P there. Didn't always get clean YouTube 1440P streaming.
I'm in the same boat. Assume it's just the rolling update lottery, as usual.
I thought they changed a while back so that if you manually Check for Updates they push it to you right away, but it seems that they've disabled that again.
I don't have 8.1 yet. Normally I get the updated right away since the Pixel 1, but this rollout is strange. Google even announced you would get updates immediately if you press the button, but you don't with this update. Even beta people didn't get their release ota yet.
In 1080p HDR? Every phone I've used stutters during actual 1080p HDR playback. What device are you using?
https://www.xda-developers.com/exclusive-huawei-p11-has-iphone-x-style-notch/
Huawei p11 might be going notch
Huawei p11 might be going notch
S8
Edit: took a closer look, you are correct, definitely noticed some stutter on 1080p hdr. I wonder if it's the YouTube app, a demo video I have saved on the phone itself does not stutter.
new op5t update fixed the stutters I had, so good time. Man... maybe I won't return this op5t :thinking:
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So, got my Pixel XL 2 yesterday. My totally rose tinted review so far: it's pretty fucking great. ;)
Coming to this from a 6P is night and day with regards to screen and battery (though the 6P's battery has been self destructing daily at around 35%). I've been liking the feel of the 2XL in hand, and the UI just FLIES.
I was pretty impressed with the transfer tool. It moved over apps and data without totally overhauling the initial aesthetic of the phone out of the box, and if I wasn't a long time android guy and was someone new to the ecosystem that new tool would be a great thing for guidance. The screen -- yeah it tints blueish, doesn't seem too bad to me frankly. I really don't notice it when I use the phone on the natural color setting (or any of them tbh), I've used OLEDs so much that I'm totally used to blue tints of some kind. Nobody I've shown the thing to so far has even seen it until I point it out.
Again still getting stuff set up and installed (curse you, google authenticator not syncing data to new devices), but so far so good. Again, rose-tinted impressions of a first half day.
Coming to this from a 6P is night and day with regards to screen and battery (though the 6P's battery has been self destructing daily at around 35%). I've been liking the feel of the 2XL in hand, and the UI just FLIES.
I was pretty impressed with the transfer tool. It moved over apps and data without totally overhauling the initial aesthetic of the phone out of the box, and if I wasn't a long time android guy and was someone new to the ecosystem that new tool would be a great thing for guidance. The screen -- yeah it tints blueish, doesn't seem too bad to me frankly. I really don't notice it when I use the phone on the natural color setting (or any of them tbh), I've used OLEDs so much that I'm totally used to blue tints of some kind. Nobody I've shown the thing to so far has even seen it until I point it out.
Again still getting stuff set up and installed (curse you, google authenticator not syncing data to new devices), but so far so good. Again, rose-tinted impressions of a first half day.
Whelp even if it does come out to the US (lol fat chance) it won't be on my radar.
In general you get at least one major Android release update. Mate 8 isn't officially getting Oreo (yet?). Mate 7 had 3 OS versions (Kitkat -> Marshmallow -> Nougat).
