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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by chisleu on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:15AM (#16271877)
Yep. Back when they were much more simple (like gingerbread?) I felt they hit the usability peak. My Pixel 2XL has a lot more features. It's certainly faster and better in almost every way, but it has so many trivial user experience bugs that it blows my mind that QA isn't fired.
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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by BaronVonSteuben on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:19AM (#16271900)
If you could still use your gingerbread phone, you might be amazed how far it's come. I found an old Galaxy phone with 2.3 on it, and it was incredible how differently I remembered it. It was slow and clunky, and ugly by today's standard.
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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by mrep on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:36AM (#16272419)
Has the responsiveness improved? It has been a while since I tried out android (htc one and galaxy s4) but I think the biggest thing that drove me back to iphone is UI.
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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by Maert on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:11AM (#16273236)
Do yourself a favour and try out Note 8 in a store.
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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by rxhernandez on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:01AM (#16272096)
I would be amazed if I thought differently. I still adore my htc dream.
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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:21AM (#16272355)
yeah I'm pretty sure an iphone 4 isn't doing that great either.
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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by hocuspocus on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:09AM (#16272307)
Android's QA has always been terrible. As a Nexus user, I guess being a beta tester was part of the deal, but there's no way I'm spending $900 on a Pixel 2XL to replace my Nexus 6P. Nothing justifies the premium price really.
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