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Re:HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure) by diminish on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @12:25AM (#10046010)
As Android soars to over 80% market share cheaper Chinese and Indian brands are dominating the market similar to OEM PC market. Vivo, ZTE, Alcatel, Coolpad, Lenovo, Huawei are a leader kicking Sony, LG, HTC out the market as they did with BlackBerry, Motorola, Nokia.[1]

Android One will set the bar even lower. Soon a phablet with 5/6" screen, 4GB memory, a quad core CPU and over 16GB storage with Android One may kill all Android Flagships if Google update promise work fine.

Smartphone conversion is topping and market is saturating. Market is reif for a new killer gadget but I don't think it is a watch.

[1] http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2015/08/smartph...

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Re:HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure) by meric on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @12:56AM (#10046074)
I would love a gadget that doesn't require my eyes.

If I get a whatsapp message, why should I have to look at the screen to see what it says?

Looks like this is pretty cool: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RSen.Comma...

But Siri can't do it.

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Re:HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure) by untog on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @01:13AM (#10046131)
I'd prefer my eyes over my ears and voice. Just imagine a train car full of people talking to their phones.
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Re:HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure) by ghshephard on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @02:04AM (#10046292)
Have you ever watched (heard) someone talking with the mic held between their lips/teeth - you can be a couple feet away from them and not hear them over the sound of the train/bus. It's actually pretty awesome.
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Re:HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure) by techsupporter on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @03:05AM (#10046472)
Which is really annoying for the people sitting adjacent or across from them. Add more people speaking into their phones and the noise volume tends to go up.
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Re:HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure) by meric on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @03:42AM (#10046598)
No, I don't think voice is a good choice either. But ears - I wear headphones all day already.
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Re:HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure) by andygates on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @05:15AM (#10046847)
Moto Hint?
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Re:HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure) by pjmlp on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @01:34AM (#10046198)
And just lack the PCs full of firmware crap, but this one is not removable.

Old vendor OS (Symbian, J2ME, ....) also had it, but not on Android scale.

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Re:HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure) by enraged_camel on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @12:57AM (#10046079)
>>Market is reif [sic] for a new killer gadget

Is it? How can you tell?

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