Smartphones and Tablets

2»

Comments

  • Splat Charger Specialist
    I kinda wanna get a new tablet, but I don't know what to get... I want it to be compact and not too expensive, any recommendations?
  • I rarely take mine out of the case because it's a keyboard case and I usually use the keyboard.
  • I rarely take mine out of the case because it's a keyboard case and I usually use the keyboard.

    How much are keyboard cases?
  • I think they're like $100 normally, I bought mine along with the tablet as a combo discount thing.
  • kill living beings
    recently my (samsung galaxy three) phone has this thing where the battery drains very quickly, and more worryingly, with the battery anywhere at 70% or below, if i use the phone at all heavily the screen will flicker and the phone turn off. if i then turn it on again without charging it or waiting several minutes it will show near-zero battery (but it works normally if i wait or turn it on while charging). it's pretty irritating. anyone heard of something like this?
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

    Question for whoever feels like answering: Do you use your tablet in a case?


    I tend to keep mine in its case when I'm taking it somewhere, but around the house I often take it out and use it bare...
    yeah, though to do the wireless charging I have to take it out so I sometimes use it out of my case when I'm just at home
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

    recently my (samsung galaxy three) phone has this thing where the battery drains very quickly, and more worryingly, with the battery anywhere at 70% or below, if i use the phone at all heavily the screen will flicker and the phone turn off. if i then turn it on again without charging it or waiting several minutes it will show near-zero battery (but it works normally if i wait or turn it on while charging). it's pretty irritating. anyone heard of something like this?

    i had a similar weird battery thing with my samsung galaxy ess three and the problem was that the battery was literally bulging out of the phone and i had to get a new one.  it was like eight dollars on amazon though
  • Oh yeah, one of my S3 batteries expanded to twice its size inside the phone. That was a sketchy replacement battery, though, not the original one.

    The main S3 battery problem I had was just that it drained really fast, and had a habit of dying despite claiming to have 30% or so left.
  • kill living beings
    mine isn't bulged... well, if it's only ten bucks i might as well, though. this started after my mom got new batteries too.

    as for case, i always keep my phone in its case. i'm pretty butterfingered and drop it a fair amount.
  • I had a bulging battery issue with an old flipphone that i had for several years
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    You know, as much as I hate it when manufacturers use proprietary connectors and sockets instead of standard ones...I will give Apple credit in that a USB cable that can be plugged into the phone either direction is a really neat idea.
  • kill living beings
    apparently my phone's mainboard's power switch is fucked up somehow, so it just turns on and off at intervals too short for the device to be usable

    the solution i found online is to hit it. fuck computers
  • We can do anything if we do it together.

    You know, as much as I hate it when manufacturers use proprietary connectors and sockets instead of standard ones...I will give Apple credit in that a USB cable that can be plugged into the phone either direction is a really neat idea.

    That's much better than when Apple was still trying to push FireWire.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    You know, as much as I hate it when manufacturers use proprietary connectors and sockets instead of standard ones...I will give Apple credit in that a USB cable that can be plugged into the phone either direction is a really neat idea.

    That's much better than when Apple was still trying to push FireWire.
    Haha, I remember that. Adding Windows compatibility to iPods seemed to be the death knell for FireWire, since it meant they had to add USB support anyways. (Who's ever heard of a PC with FireWire ports?)
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I used to have one
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I figured someone was gonna say that

    I know they're not unheard of, but they were never common to the point where you could safely assume a PC user has FireWire available
  • In all my years of iDevice ownership I can't remember having ever used FireWire to sync them, even as a Mac owner

    my iMac has a port but I've never touched it and my MacBook doesn't have one at all (the port I never use on there is the Thunderbolt one).
  • wait actually never mind it has both
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I have an old camcorder which I used to use to transfer VHS footage to computer, and it used a FireWire cable
  • > FireWire

    I remember someone mentioning this to me like it was the coolest thing ever.

    So much for that.

    Then again I have a similar experience with people mentioning HDMI like it's the best thing ever.
  • it kinda is tho?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    The difference is that HDMI has actually seen widespread adoption to an extent that FireWire never really did.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I installed the Android N emoji font on my phone, because hey, if I have root, why not use it?

    Comparison image, from Emojipedia:
    image
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    oh hey, the blobs are back.  I thought they got rid of the blobs
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    They have morphed into pudding.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    the bendy ones are more expressive imo
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    The ancient XPC I'm typing this on has a FireWire port, and I have it hooked to a DV box I'm not using at the moment because I haven't had any tapes to capture.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Tachyon said:

    the bendy ones are more expressive imo

    yeah, they are

    but mostly i wanted it because the people actually look like humans again:

    image
  • that's Massively Fucked Up, why would you ever want anything to look like a human
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    that's Massively Fucked Up, why would you ever want anything to look like a human

    let me guess, you want them to look like cats
  • blobs are fine too
  • I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    I really hate that emojis aren't standardized across all platforms. 

    Whatever if you choose to use alternate emojis, but the base ones should be standard so everyone sees the same thing. Some emojis look cool on some platforms and completely dumb or express different emotions on others. 
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.

    I really hate that emojis aren't standardized across all platforms. 


    Whatever if you choose to use alternate emojis, but the base ones should be standard so everyone sees the same thing. Some emojis look cool on some platforms and completely dumb or express different emotions on others. 
    image
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

    that's Massively Fucked Up, why would you ever want anything to look like a human

    let me guess, you want them to look like cats
    i use the cat emoji a decent amount
Sign In or Register to comment.