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Vaclav_sl said:
Curious what the dimensions are if anyone has a refresh - I know the M8 is considered "big" but never have thought even close to uncomfortably so - and I imagine the OnePlusOne is at most the same size.
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152.9 x 75.9 x 8.9 mm (6.02 x 2.99 x 0.35 in)
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It's an interesting phone and I'm glad to hear that they released an official AOSP option for it, but I'm going to wait for some official news on the next Nexus before I think about trying to buy one.
 
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Wow, yea, an edge bigger than M8 even. 146.4 x 70.6 x 9.4 mm (5.76 x 2.78 x 0.37 in)
 
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Quick update on a partial day of battery usage on the OPO.

8:15 off charger (I was moving media files during lunch and it charged back full again) Still at 67% battery with 1:45 screen-on time and even playing some XCom and Order & Chaos Duels, which tend to be pretty battery heavy.

Edit - Left the phone off the charger last night just for giggles -http://i.imgur.com/72byrP3.jpg
 
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joeboo_sl said:
Still have a grandfathered Verizon phone with unlimited data?

Prepare for throttling if you use a lot of data

Verizon Unlimited Data Throttling Coming Soon to 4G LTE | BGR
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There's a loophole for Unlimited too. You can still get it but you have to buy it off Best Buy's website and use your old sim in your new phone and you still keep the UDP.

Verizon - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

I'm currently considering it. M8's are $129 right now on Best Buy and I elminated some excess shit on my Verizon account to lower my bill to $72. For the little more I'd be paying UDP trumps Ting...
 
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If you're ever feeling sad or just need a good laugh, check out the CrackBerry forums.

Now that Amazon has partnered with Blackberry I believe the next logical step is to get Samsung on board. Consumers are sick and tired of the monopoly Google has over the Android OS (Google play services) and want a viable alternative, and I believe that alternative could very well be Amazon's forked version of Android. With the market share Samsung has in the android device market if it were to dump the google play store for the Amazon app store I believe the major app devs would follow. Samsung is chaffing at the demands Google places on all the manufacturers that run google play services and is developing Tizen as a response to this not to mention there is the class action lawsuit that Google is facing from consumers.

This is how I envision the partnership would work between all three players. Samsung dumps google play services and the google play store to use Amazon's app store, as well as release native BB10 editions of their phones and tablets, lastly combine that with the Amazon store to sell directly to consumers and you have a good recipe for success.
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I bought a BB five years ago on my previous contract as my first smartphone (my old HTC running Windows Mobile doesn't count). In my mind I thought "well it must be good if people call them crackberries!". I quickly realized that "crackberry" doesn't mean their phone is addictive as crack, but rather the OS may have been designed by a crackhead.

I can't believe people still buy those things. My friend has one from work and I always make fun of him by pressing his non-touchscreen and saying "I think you're phone's broken. The touchscreen isn't working."
 
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Barraco Bisi_sl said:
I bought a BB five years ago on my previous contract as my first smartphone (my old HTC running Windows Mobile doesn't count). In my mind I thought "well it must be good if people call them crackberries!". I quickly realized that "crackberry" doesn't mean their phone is addictive as crack, but rather the OS may have been designed by a crackhead.

I can't believe people still buy those things. My friend has one from work and I always make fun of him by pressing his non-touchscreen and saying "I think you're phone's broken. The touchscreen isn't working."
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I have a BB for work and it has a touchscreen along with the physical keyboard. It still sucks though.
 
Mageling

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So... only 2.5 hours of screen-on time, but this is pretty silly.

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Vaclav

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That seems about normal for low screen on time - see earlier Vvoid quoting like 4 days with low screen on time.
 
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Also depends on signal strength, weak signals can have a huge impact on battery life. That still looks pretty damn good for light usage.
 
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For recent phones? Had like 20 h with an hour screen on here yesterday, had used 15%.
 
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The thing with android is you can be on Wifi for almost the entire day (24 hours) and lose about 10-15% assuming you fresh boot, don't have a bunch of bloat etc. Then you can run the screen like normal and get stats like that still.

In general I get about an hour of screen actually using the phone on the web and such for each 10% while on Wifi.

When on LTE it drops to 20% for each hour.

From there its a total cluster fuck because you can really screw with numbers by altering screen brightness and just keeping the phone in standby. So long as you don't have any wake locks the device will go into deep sleep and will hardly take any battery.
 
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Interesting Ked - I'd say about the same in "screen on" time that involves gaming (non-gaming about double that though) - but LTE doesn't give me a substantial hit at all. If I'm sitting there browsing or doing anything without anything intense video wise I expect to get 10% an hour at worst, 5% an hour at best. LTE bumps it to maybe 13%/7%. (Sprint Triband LTE technically though FWIW)
 
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I'm on AT&T here. Generally when I'm out my wifi is off so its full LTE. I know a lot of people on Sprint tend to use Wifi calling so they leave theirs on and it will tend to hop on and off WiFi. Not sure if you do that or not.

Its pretty solid though about 5 hours of LTE with heavy use. Not gaming since the radio isn't really doing much while gaming but real radio use like youtube, netflix, heavy web browsing etc.. Gaming can be a big drain as well or not so much depending on game and what your doing. Sometimes its not much more than watching a stored movie and other times it will heat up the back of the phone so much its hot to touch.

We all use our devices so differently and slight differences in usage make a big difference in battery life. Without setting up really specific parameters its hard to compare.

I'm also on an "Old" device now. Using a Note 2 the newer phones have much better standby times and the stock kernels are really good at jewing down power usage.
 
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On Sprint? Alot of people shouldn't be using WiFi calling because they just started supporting it in the past couple months... T-Mobile was the one that heavily supported WiFi Calling for a while now.

And yea, talking an M8 here, so brand spanking new.
 
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So I got my first tablet last week and my old rugby 2 flip phone's contract is up tomorrow.
After 15 years of At&t I am thinking about ditching them and going to Tmobile( who has better service in my area according to most and is a fuck ton cheaper ).
My Tablet is Wifi only which is fine at home, but out on jobs, I need a smart phone that does wifi hot spots. I know Tmobile includes hot spots with the everything package but do almost all smart phones have that ability, or is it limited to just a few?
 
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