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[jonbx5]

info on icons?

 

[bamez]

 

I sent my G2 in for that screen problem 1 week ago, they still say they haven't received it, i'm a little worried.  

No tracking number from who you shipped it with?

I gotta check my trash can 

The piss lines problem? How much they charge you

I wonder how much they charge to change the screen

I really need to fix it.. Cause if I break this phone I'm currently using I'm sol

On the phone before i sent it, they said it should be covered with manufacturers warranty, but they did mention no physical damage is covered, so i hope they dont screw me over and say it was caused by physical damage, i mean the piss ring was a perfect circle of discoloration on my screen.  Phone was flawless, didnt drop it once.  

 

[Thierry Henry]

I sent my G2 in for that screen problem 1 week ago, they still say they haven't received it, i'm a little worried.  

man I should have sent my N4 to the LG headquarters and let them fix my screen. I probably would have a phone by now. It's been 3 weeks already and my cracked screen still has not been fixed. The local repair shop I took it to get it fixed says that the new screen has not come in yet blah blah blah......

bros..3 ******* weeks without a phone and to make matters worse, I have no backup phone :x

 

[ihatemyshoes]

 

how you get those email notification #  ?

 

[93tilinfinity]

How are you guys liking this Kit-Kat update for the HTC One??

I know it's only an incremental update but I was kinda anticipating a little more.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

How Google Used Motorola To Smack Down Samsung -- Twice
 

VS

 

Samsung is giant. It employs 427,000 staff, has an annual turnover in excess of $270bn and assets of $600bn spread across over 80 business units. And Google GOOG -0.29% just floored it twice using Motorola as a baseball bat.

Why?

On the surface having 81 per cent of Android marketshare would seem to make Google and Samsung best buddies. Samsung has been the driving force behind Android’s meteoric growth and put Google mobile devices in pole position.

The problem is Samsung wanted too much credit. It wasn’t enough for Samsung to make the most popular Android phones and tablets, it had to hide Android – and consequently Google’s role in its achievement. 

It did this using ‘TouchWiz’, the company’s proprietary skin which painted over all aspects of Android leaving it unrecognisable. To the casual consumer they were buying ‘a Samsung’, Google’s role was largely unrecognised.

Then things got worse. Samsung began degrading Android performance by switching out vast parts of the software – phone dialler, calendar, email client, contacts, notification center, music and video player, voice control and much more – for its own apps. Reviews were largely negative with TouchWiz and its bloatware slowing down Android, wasting storage space and the replacement apps were seen as inferior or, worse still, needless gimmicks. 

Samsung then exploited this further. It put TouchWiz on its smart TVs, another market it dominates, and began building its own Android rival – Tizen – which, thanks to its TouchWiz interface, looks identical to the casual observer. The long term strategy was clear: switch over to Tizen and take the majority of the handset market with it. Google had to act. 

The ‘how’ was Motorola. On 15 August 2011 Google announced it had bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn in cash. With it Google acquired more than 20,000 mobile patents and publicly declared the purchase of the phone maker would not in any way compromise relationships with its handset partners… honestly, really, pinky swear.

Of course Google didn’t expect handset partners to fully believe this and platitudes issued from them in reaction to the deal confirmed it. Should Google use Motorola to ramp up its own major handset business the market would be theirs. The phones would have stock Android and no-one, not even Samsung, could afford to subsidise their cost as Google can leveraging its mammoth advertising revenue.

The bait was set: obliteration by Google stock Android handsets unless manufacturers stopped messing with Android. Google quietly showed it could walk the walk as well as it ramped up Nexus production and introduced the well-received Motorola X and Motorola G which stripped away almost all customisation from stock Android.

Samsung bit. On 27 January 2014 Google and Samsung signed a wide-ranging global patent deal which will last a decade. Buried within it was an agreement that Samsung would tone down TouchWiz, refocus on core Android apps over its own customisations and cancel more radical customisations such as its ‘Magazine UX’ interface. Two days later Google announced the sale of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo showing both agreements had been working in parallel.

The consequences

The smack down for Samsung is twofold.

Firstly, despite its size and dominance of the Android market, Samsung has been brought back into line. No longer will Samsung run roughshod over Android’s design, kick out its apps in favour of Samsung alternatives and hide Google’s hard work underneath. Indications of a low key Galaxy S5 launch suggest it will stand by its word.

Secondly, the jump off point for Samsung from Android to Tizen is no longer straightforward. With Android shining through more strongly in future Samsung handsets it won’t be a seamless switch from one to the other. If Samsung wants Tizen to succeed it will now have to be earned rather than snuck in under the radar.

All of which should be good news for Android users who will find it easier to move between handset makers when they upgrade while a stock Android experience (particularly with Android 4.4 KitKat’s optimisations) will make for faster, more responsive budget devices. Whether it gives smaller handset makers a greater chance to compete with the all-conquering Samsung, however, remains to be seen.

And what of Google’s supposed $10bn loss? It’s a misreported myth calculated by subtracting Motorola’s $2.91bn sale price from its $12.5bn purchase. What it misses are the $3.2bn Motorola had in cash, $2.4bn saved in deferred tax assets and two separate Motorola unit sales totalling $2.5bn in 2013. Factor in Lenovo’s purchase against roughly $2bn of Motorola losses during Google’s ownership and Google has still only paid $3bn for what it retained: $5.5bn worth of Motorola patents and the company’s cutting edge research lab.

Well played Google. Well played.

 

[milestailsprowe]

Good cause TouchWiz is trash

 

[toru okada]

 

 

how you get those email notification #  ?

zanilla icons, notifications are from nova launcher pro

 

[wrightone86]

Apex and Nova launcher have unread counts for emails, texts, hangouts, missed calls, etc.

Those icons are nice though

 

[lazy]

Looks like the m8 will be announced on 3/25. That gives the One a full year of life before its successor is launched. Hope HTC gets its production right this year.

 

[JayDean03]

info on icons?

Zanilla

Nappyfone.com to download em

 

[wrightone86]

LG new novel new way to unlock your smartphone

Instead of using a PIN number or drawing a pattern on the screen to unlock a phone, LG G Pro 2 buyers will be able to use a completely different screen unlock mechanism called Knock Code. After establishing certain “knock” sequences, users will be able to unlock their devices and lock them back after they’re done using the handsets. A couple of videos show how Knock Code works, a software feature that will be able to recognize over 86,000 knock combinations.

As one of the videos shows, the screen can be unlocked with the right knock code, which can be entered anywhere on the screen. Furthermore, a different lock code can be setup to turn the screen off. The Knock Code feature further builds on the Knock On feature first introduced by LG last year when the company unveiled the G2 flagship. With Knock On, knocking on the display would be enough to wake the phone.

The G Pro 2 has been officially announced a few days ahead of MWC 2014, although the handset will be on display at the Spanish event next week, at which point the company may unveil launch plans for international markets – the G Pro 2 will be launched in South Korea on February 21, according to ZDNet Korea.

While it’s not clear whether Knock Code will arrive to other high-end LG devices, the feature is prominently featured in an MWC 2014 video teaser posted by the company – the videos demoing the Knock Code feature, including the teaser, follow below.

 

[carver]

They're doing too much with that knock knock

Seems silly

 

[Nawzlew]

The knock thing is cool.

I mean I already use double tap to wake.

 

[carver]

Double tap knock knock is fine. But knock passwords? Dew dew.. just IMO some might find it cool I guess.. Are people really gonna wanna knock their phones 5 times to wake it in a star pattern.. If you mess up first time 10 knocks

 

[lobotomybeats]

I'm using tap tap pull

 

[ii flash ii]

According to HTC's twitter the new One will be released on March 25

 

[carver]

If they're releasing it then, when will they announce and show us it.

 

[bamez]

schweet, LG just received my G2 today.  Dunno how long it'll take to fix / replace my phone.  Now i don't have to go through my trash for that tracking number. 

 

[you go boy]

got kitkat for my htc one and barely notice anything different on this update

 

[bamez]

got kitkat for my htc one and barely notice anything different on this update

is that out for all carriers?  My girl has it on AT&T.  Imma tell her to update

 

[you go boy]

im not sure but i got it for verizon today

 

[nickle dime bay]

Y'all trippin complaining about that little logo the One will be copped in black, Boomsound is still enough for me to buy it.

 

[carver]

Y'all trippin complaining about that little logo the One will be copped in black, Boomsound is still enough for me to buy it.

It would bother me so much.. That little of thing is such a deal breaker :x I would question why I own it everyday if I did

Right now it's fine since it's has the capacitive to the left and right. But to have it there for no damb reason makes no sense to me.

 

[jonbx5]

Zanilla

Nappyfone.com to download em

Thanks man, im still rocking the kaws clock theme you made finally time to switch it up.

btw where do you get your minimalistic wallpapers at?