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A couple months ago word broke that HTC was looking to break into the phablet market and today those claims are resurfacing again from numerous mobile tech sites. Specs include 1080p 5' screen and a quadcore S4 chip along with its own scribe pen. Do you think HTC can make a splash in this market, should it have sense or vanilla android and what specs do you want to see?
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Also I forgot to add that so far reports claim it will be ready sometime between september and october, and may see a release on Verizon but that doesnt mean it might not show up on other carriers.
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It's an HTC phone... It's going to have Sense, haha.
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PsiPhiDan said:
It's an HTC phone... It's going to have Sense, haha.
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So its already better then any Samsung phone with touchwiz
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I do think its time for them to change sense. Maybe make it more transparent so it seems more like stock android.
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I do think its time for them to change sense. Maybe make it more transparent so it seems more like stock android.
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They just changed Sense for the better in Sense 4.0, and soon in Sense 4.1 which will improve on Sense further.
Edit: We also already have a thread about this somewhere with actual news posted.
Is it just me or does anyone else miss sense UI yet
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Not at all
I kind of do. But I understood that going from HTC to Samsung would (IMNSHO) be a downgrade in the user experience.
The screen size & battery life along with CM/AOSP/AOKP is a good decision for myself.
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I had HTC phones exclusively for ever (with Windows), and would love to try them out again, but Samsung phones are pretty cutting edge. Hope they come out with something compelling on AT&T in the future...
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slaydog said:
I had HTC phones exclusively for ever (with Windows), and would love to try them out again, but Samsung phones are pretty cutting edge. Hope they come out with something compelling on AT&T in the future...
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On wm was the only time I liked it cause it help hide that hideous 6.1
Yea, the windows GUI was hideous. I remember running android on my Tilt2 from the SD card. Didn't run great, but it made the decision to just get an Android phone when they went to Windows 7 a no-brainer!
That, and when I saw the Dell Streak with a 5 inch screen, I was in love... :thumbup:
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slaydog said:
Yea, the windows GUI was hideous. I remember running android on my Tilt2 from the SD card. Didn't run great, but it made the decision to just get an Android phone when they went to Windows 7 a no-brainer!
That, and when I saw the Dell Streak with a 5 inch screen, I was in love... :thumbup:
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Me too. And I bricked my streak :/
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I always loved the SENSE UI and yes i do miss it a lot. it would be nice to have Sense UI on our Note but it might become unusable b/c note is kinda laggy right now and with Sense UI Force close or freeze all the time...
I had HTC HD2, HTC SENSATION 4g and Now a friend of mine gave me his htc evo 3d. i use it as a secondary phone i have no service on it but it is connected to wifi to make/receive calls/sms. there are rumors that HTC is making a 5" screen phone for verizon and if that comes out i might switch to Verizon even though i hate them.
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I always loved the SENSE UI and yes i do miss it a lot. it would be nice to have Sense UI on our Note but it might become unusable b/c note is kinda laggy right now and with Sense UI Force close or freeze all the time...
I had HTC HD2, HTC SENSATION 4g and Now a friend of mine gave me his htc evo 3d. i use it as a secondary phone i have no service on it but it is connected to wifi to make/receive calls/sms. there are rumors that HTC is making a 5" screen phone for verizon and if that comes out i might switch to Verizon even though i hate them.
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Yeah I think imma give the one x a try
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God I hated Sense on my Evo 3d. No copy and paste from the dialer to start. Remove sense (install a clean rom) and Caller ID breaks. Plus a whole bunch of other small annoyances that add up to a whole lot of frustration. Maybe the new version is better but I'll never go back to Sense.
Sense ui.....=HTC bloat.....imho
Loved the 4 htc devices I have used, but they sure ran nice on CM....g
I think htc lost their way. I loved sense on wm6.5 on my hd2, especiLly the hacked ROMs that increased the icons. I preferred that GUI to their android GUI (which was based on their wm GUI originally). I have most of myold devices (all the way back to a Psion Orhamiser!) And its clear HTC once had really cool devices. Now they are ME TOO. No real differentiation. Samsung is winning at the moment.
But watch out for ASUS. They will appear from nowhere in the mobile market with outstanding devices (much like they have in the notebook market and now the Microst tablet).
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the only thing I miss from the sense is the camera feature that you could make funny faces while taking the picture. other than that I am totally happy with the samsung version of android. I recently switched to jelly bean and I like it even more.
I've always liked it too but it's true it's become way too bloated after like sense 2.0
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So where is the sense port
So is there a sense port for our Notes or what I love Sense the themes the skins the widgets for those of you that say it lags well that may be true of stock sense but the Devs here on XDA have fixed that on all versions to make it fly My wife has my old HTC Inspire and I still play with it from time to time and it makes me miss sense alot team Black outs ICS sense 3.6 is great and so is Sabsa Prime ICS sense 4.0 so if there is a port for our Notes I would love to get it:victory:
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So is there a sense port for our Notes or what I love Sense the themes the skins the widgets for those of you that say it lags well that may be true of stock sense but the Devs here on XDA have fixed that on all versions to make it fly My wife has my old HTC Inspire and I still play with it from time to time and it makes me miss sense alot team Black outs ICS sense 3.6 is great and so is Sabsa Prime ICS sense 4.0 so if there is a port for our Notes I would love to get it:victory:
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Nope not yet I doubt there will be one since it's so freaking hard to port especially to a Samsung device
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elry567 said:
Is it just me or does anyone else miss sense UI yet
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Its JUST you..
No sense.....and with any luck, we will never see a port for the note....
HTC has a good offering of large screen devices running sense already..IMHO
It's a love/hate thing, and i'm gonna hate sense from now on...g
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Nope not yet I doubt there will be one since it's so freaking hard to port especially to a Samsung device
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What do you mean it's too hard to port to a Samsung device it's already been ported to the SG2 and SG3
I wanna know what everyone is thinking about this update that should be rolling out anytime from now to the end of 2013, any information to share? Do you think LG will clean up their UI with this update? Perhaps they will include the "Hide front touch buttons" feature that appeared on the Korean version? Share what you think/know!
I say late December.
I hope we get it soon but now that I don't have stock android it doesn't mean as much anymore since it will be skinned
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Im honestly a fan of LG's UI it has some very useful features unlike touchwiz haha so to see improvements to it expesially the nav bar hide would be an amazing feature to have only thing is i have the VS980 and we all know how verizon is with updates... *COUGH COUGH note 2 COUGH COUGH* i hope this isnt the case for the LG G2 but i guess time can only tell... also i just saw an article here
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im really hopeing this isnt the case but untill its official i cant believe anything i see on the internet x:
Oh LG how you tease me
so i guess for now all we can do is consume the leaks and hope for the best
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Cyko.Tech67 said:
I wanna know what everyone is thinking about this update that should be rolling out anytime from now to the end of 2013, any information to share? Do you think LG will clean up their UI with this update? Perhaps they will include the "Hide front touch buttons" feature that appeared on the Korean version? Share what you think/know!
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Honestly after seeing KitKat I really was not that impressed. It was over hyped that everyone expected some major overhaul. I can't think of one feature that completely blew my mind.
the LG UI at 4.2.2 has more useful features than KitKat.
Lol ⬆. ... so right
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"ART runtime, opengl es 3, trim support, full screen apps, better nfc" those are enough for me.
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Newer is better right?
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Honestly after seeing KitKat I really was not that impressed. It was over hyped that everyone expected some major overhaul. I can't think of one feature that completely blew my mind.
the LG UI at 4.2.2 has more useful features than KitKat.
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I went from a nexus 4 with paranoid android to a nexus 5 with a stock rom and kept missing the extra features from the PA rom! I'd say there's nothing in KitKat that I can't live without (hence why I now have a g2!)
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I do not expect LG to abandon anything in the UI so this may take longer to update. And as stated Verizon will still red to revise it for some of us and that all add another 2 to 3 months. While I hope I am dead wrong, I wouldn't look for a Verizon update until the spring, unless there are issues with their current phones
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wonder if kitkat is truly less memory utilizing, as well as apps running on it.
was expecting indeed a bigger overhaul of code towards a separation between hardware and the OS on functional level and to bring ios performance lol
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wonder if kitkat is truly less memory utilizing, as well as apps running on it.
was expecting indeed a bigger overhaul of code towards a separation between hardware and the OS on functional level and to bring ios performance lol
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It is amazingly less memory utilizing.
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I doubt it takes that long when Motorola has leaked kitkat version for the motox. Lg has had kitkat for a while it doesn't take that long... I think maybe Jan before Samsung g5 is released.
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After updating my N7 2013 to KitKat, it is a beast now. Everything flies!!!
If this is any indication of what the G2 will run like, I absolutely cant wait.
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After updating my N7 2013 to KitKat, it is a beast now. Everything flies!!!
If this is any indication of what the G2 will run like, I absolutely cant wait.
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What?? The phone already flies what's your problem
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What I'm curious about is how, little features like the dialer with the search integration or even messaging will be affected since the messenger is now proprietary within hangouts (I like using it as sms much better than the stock LG messenger).
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What?? The phone already flies what's your problem
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So you have already ran KIT KAT then, my bad TACO.
For a sec I thought you didn't know what you were talking about...ha
The stock messaging app doesn't have the group MMS option, maybe they will incorporate it in 4.4 as I had it on my HTC One 4.1.2 and the S4.
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Id love it
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Ok I would like to ask a couple of questions: I was looking at the (i'll preference myself and it is my favorite phone) galaxy s3 getting the 4.3 update. And after switching carriers I bought and fixed the optimus l9 gained a love for it and now the g. But I'm disappointed with the community behind these LG devices... why isn't there a g2 or g-pro port yet? And can it be done?
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community on lg Optimus phones has been the least popular and in my opinion they are better than other similar phones so id love to know that too. there are some g2 and pro ports for like... file manager, lg keyboard, and some other apps but they really aren't great for the lgog. the lack of development, roms, mods really could use some more input. I want to upgrade my of to a g2 but I'm hesitant because of the lack of information and interest. what where you looking for ported? I think most of the stuff that can be done is already available.
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community on lg Optimus phones has been the least popular and in my opinion they are better than other similar phones so id love to know that too. there are some g2 and pro ports for like... file manager, lg keyboard, and some other apps but they really aren't great for the lgog. the lack of development, roms, mods really could use some more input. I want to upgrade my of to a g2 but I'm hesitant because of the lack of information and interest. what where you looking for ported? I think most of the stuff that can be done is already available.
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I would like to see from g2 the q slide apps, slide aside
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Ok, I do also like the q slide apps, and have tried to port some apps, launcher and features to cm 10.1 on my gs3, successfully might I add
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dupreeks said:
community on lg Optimus phones has been the least popular and in my opinion they are better than other similar phones so id love to know that too. there are some g2 and pro ports for like... file manager, lg keyboard, and some other apps but they really aren't great for the lgog. the lack of development, roms, mods really could use some more input. I want to upgrade my of to a g2 but I'm hesitant because of the lack of information and interest. what where you looking for ported? I think most of the stuff that can be done is already available.
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Well I want 4.2 or higher. I like then phone as is but the LG UI is a little cartoony and again my previous phones where the gs2 and 3 and the UI chAgnes that were made were creative and refreshing... and I am with you on the community support and the lack there of, after some research turns out Samsung copies LG a lot. Anyway I am like you I may not go for another LG device of there isn't any support
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What's y'all input? Am I making the right decision?
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erapmicks said:
What's y'all input? Am I making the right decision?
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Depends on your usage. I use my G2 because the battery life is better, and the screen is the perfect size for me. I like my MotoX for the stock android + moto added features, and it's the most comfortable phone I've ever used.
Since this is all mostly subjective, can you tell us what don't you like about the G2 that you think you'll get on the MotoX?
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What's y'all input? Am I making the right decision?
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i'm not sure what you expect to hear from the G2 forum; this question is probably better suited for the Moto X General forum than here.
at least give a reason why you want to switch
With the assumption that your G2 is in mint condition...I will buy that for a dollar. There, did I convince you to switch?
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I chose the g2 over the maxx the x and the gs4 for the screen and the camera plus the 3000mAh battery.
UI is awful though. Rooted the next day
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What's y'all input? Am I making the right decision?
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yes switch...because u already thinking about it, if you thinking about it then this phone is not for u
I wouldnt switch. 3000mah is important to me, I can run google experience launche with the "ok google" feature all day long and my battery get down to 15% every night which is awesome. I dont install anything or disable anything to preserve battery life, I like to use my smart phone as a smart phone not as a battery bencher.
LOL why in the hell would u wanna switch ? unless you need money dont do it its a dumb question
This was something I was thinking about as well. IMO, the main reasons to choose the Moto X over the G2 is for its always on voice activation and its active notifications. If those two features outweigh having a better screen, better camera, and overall better hardware, then you should get the Moto X. Official Kit Kat is nice, but you can get that through a custom ROM or just by installing the Google Experience Launcher. I had 4.4 on my Galaxy Nexus and GEL feels the same, except with LG's notification bar and knock knock, and smoother because of the better hardware. Maybe it's because I haven't experienced the always on voice activation and the active notifications, but those two features aren't enough for me to switch.
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LOL why in the hell would u wanna switch ? unless you need money dont do it its a dumb question
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Listen to this guy. He's a genious.
This thread should closed!!
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Howie Dub said:
This was something I was thinking about as well. IMO, the main reasons to choose the Moto X over the G2 is for its always on voice activation and its active notifications. If those two features outweigh having a better screen, better camera, and overall better hardware, then you should get the Moto X. Official Kit Kat is nice, but you can get that through a custom ROM or just by installing the Google Experience Launcher. I had 4.4 on my Galaxy Nexus and GEL feels the same, except with LG's notification bar and knock knock, and smoother because of the better hardware. Maybe it's because I haven't experienced the always on voice activation and the active notifications, but those two features aren't enough for me to switch.
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You know that our processor has the capability of an "always on" voice recognition feature, right? Not saying it is going to be put in there on the kit kat upgrade, but I'm saying that it is a possibility, albeit a small one. If not, I am thinking of starting up a bounty thread to see if one of the amazing devs for this device can get it working. In fact, I am going to get on that right now.
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You'd never get me to but have a look at this. It might help you decide...
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/10/11/top-5-android-smartphones-october-2013/
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This thread should be closed as posting this question in G2 forums comes under Techno Harassment.
G2 has better screen, camera and battery. A lot of great developers working for custom roms and mods. Stick to it.
waleedshiekh said:
This thread should be closed as posting this question in G2 forums comes under Techno Harassment.
G2 has better screen, camera and battery. A lot of great developers working for custom roms and mods. Stick to it.
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Switch! You won't regret it.
Ghstudent said:
You know that our processor has the capability of an "always on" voice recognition feature, right? Not saying it is going to be put in there on the kit kat upgrade, but I'm saying that it is a possibility, albeit a small one. If not, I am thinking of starting up a bounty thread to see if one of the amazing devs for this device can get it working. In fact, I am going to get on that right now.
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I know, Hexagon DSP. Unfortunately it's only available to OEMs right now. Emailed the dev for Open Mic+ and Qualcomm hasn't opened to independent devs just yet. It would be nice if they did include it with Kit Kat, but I'm not holding my breath. The apps are there to give us the same functionality as the Moto X, but the battery drain isn't worth it to me.
I traded my motox for a G2 and never liked back. The motox is really nice and the overall user experience is great but it's tiny. Yes the screen size is the same as the n4 but it's only 6mm bigger than the iPhone 5s. Just keep that in mind and that u will also lose features like the IR Blaster.
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Please close this thread!!!!
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mchlbenner said:
Please close this thread!!!!
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Why?
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Please close this thread!!!!
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Yea u posted that once already. Report if u think it should go but please don't spam a productive thread. This guy has a legitimate question and its not hurting anything. By posting close the thread over and over again nothing constuctive comes from it.
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I had a G2 for 2 months, and just switched to a Moto X Developer Edition. I missed unskinned Android, and the overblown interface on the G2 was just too much. The Moto X seems smoother, and the user experience, with Active Display and Touchless Controls, is far better for my needs.
Hope this helps!
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