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[Laura Knotek]

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Been reading up on the Nokia9 "Spider-thingy" hands-on...
looks like the camera is gonna be a killer, and the price is not that bad as I thought it would be.

It does look really nice, but I'm not sure if it will be compatible with Verizon. I can't switch carriers, since no carriers are good enough for me to make phone calls in my house. I used to have AT&T, but switched last summer when I couldn't use my phone as a phone at home.

 

[libra89]

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Sony's X1 is semi interesting. Of course they had to wet the bed with a 64gb model.

Would I buy one? Nope. Would I want to demo one? Yes! I honestly haven't seem them do anything this interesting design wise since the Z Ultra.

I'll have to look at this X1 again, I kind of ignored it since I got distracted by the foldable phones.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Sony's X1 is semi interesting. Of course they had to wet the bed with a 64gb model.

Would I buy one? Nope. Would I want to demo one? Yes! I honestly haven't seem them do anything this interesting design wise since the Z Ultra.

Looking at the reviews of the X1 currently out seems like they went all out and finally used their other technologies to put out a phone that will compete with others. The main thing will be, does anyone care?

One review said the fingerprint sensor was a mistake while another said it was brilliant. Guess it comes down to personal choice. But does it matter? I think the side is a good placement personally. It's not on the power button unfortunately.

I'll wait on actual use reviews before thinking further. I was all set to discount Sony and then they brought this breast out.

If what is shown to be true then Sony have not only caught up they've also bypassed their competitors in some ways.

It's interesting, as you say. Will be interesting to see what real world reviews say.

 

[raycpl]

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It does look really nice, but I'm not sure if it will be compatible with Verizon. I can't switch carriers, since no carriers are good enough for me to make phone calls in my house. I used to have AT&T, but switched last summer when I couldn't use my phone as a phone at home.

Every phone I'd gotten was purchased outright, rather than from carriers. On the other hand, every phone sold in any shop here will work on all the carriers.

Local carrier don't really give much choices on makes/models. The most recent Nokia offered was the 6.1, and before that it go way back to the 920!!!

 

[worldspy99]

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It does look really nice, but I'm not sure if it will be compatible with Verizon. I can't switch carriers, since no carriers are good enough for me to make phone calls in my house. I used to have AT&T, but switched last summer when I couldn't use my phone as a phone at home.

WiFi calling work well for me at work where TMO signal is bad.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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WiFi calling work well for me at work where TMO signal is bad.

Here in France due to poor signal, like where my house is, you can get a device to hook up to your home internet to receive 3G and calls on your mobile phone. It's not fantastic but it's better than nothing.

This is provided by the internet provider and you need to have your mobile phone though them as well. So it's sort of ok.

It's also administered by you so you control who uses it.

 

[worldspy99]

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Here in France due to poor signal, like where my house is, you can get a device to hook up to your home internet to receive 3G and calls on your mobile phone. It's not fantastic but it's better than nothing.

It's also administered by you so you control who uses it.

I had a TMO cell spot for a couple of years and then all phones pretty much started supporting WiFi calling so returned it back.

 

[libra89]

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(I'm kinda just writing some musings...)

Hearing about the importance of a true connection in a relationship in a video is interesting. The wheels are turning in my head, since I have experienced this before. It would be easier to be aromantic is what comes to mind in one part of my mind, but I'm not made that way so welp. The struggle can be real in general but particularly for me and not for the reason you might think. I am one who isn't impressed at first observation like people seem to be (not one upping myself, I'm just saying that this seems to be common), I need to observe and then see from there.

 

[fatclue_98]

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I was all set to discount Sony and then they brought this breast out.

Are we talking Dolly Parton or Gwen Stefani?

 

[worldspy99]

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View from the hotel room.
Snow falling during lunch time today.

 

[fatclue_98]

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I'll have to look at this X1 again, I kind of ignored it since I got distracted by the foldable phones.

Isn't it a bit tall for your tastes?

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Are we talking Dolly Parton or Gwen Stefani?

Gwen Stefani has more cleavage than our tio has positive views on women/immigrants...

 

[libra89]

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Isn't it a bit tall for your tastes?

You're right, from what I have seen, it is really tall. I have only seen a headline about it at the most before that post. I happened to miss the buzz.
The only phone in my sight is the S10e.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Looking at the reviews of the X1 currently out seems like they went all out and finally used their other technologies to put out a phone that will compete with others. The main thing will be, does anyone care?

One review said the fingerprint sensor was a mistake while another said it was brilliant. Guess it comes down to personal choice. But does it matter? I think the side is a good placement personally. It's not on the power button unfortunately.

I'll wait on actual use reviews before thinking further. I was all set to discount Sony and then they brought this breast out.

If what is shown to be true then Sony have not only caught up they've also bypassed their competitors in some ways.

It's interesting, as you say. Will be interesting to see what real world reviews say.

The good thing with old B&H is that I was able to live demo the XZ2 and XZ3. That means I'll the X 1 (not to be confused with the X1, one of my favorite phones ever. Shout out to the X panels in the days of HTC Manila and SPB Mobile shell - Mr. Clue knows what I'm talking about here) in person.

Truth be told, I really liked the XZ2. It just lacked the 3.5mm, but it made sense to me. I love the in hand feel of the XZ3, even though I'm not as excited as I was with the XZ2 (it's a more refined XZ2 but I needed a little bit more to want to go out and buy it) . Would I own a XZ3? Yes (at the right price - forest green, red as the colors). I'd even test drive a potbelly XZ2 Premium as that's a sneaky good chunky *** phone.

Side mounted fingerprint scanners are fine. Owned a Robin and even though it was slow to unlock, it worked just fine. I'd take that over the under display one, which makes me pause about owning a N 9 (not to be confused with the N9 - shout out to Mr. Clue again clapping when I mention the word "Meego"). It's not that taller from what I'm seeing than a V40 or a Note 9.

Sony did some decent stuff last year, really. As always, their pricing was asinine.

Let's see the reviews first. If you do like it, let's see if Sony continues the madness and launches the X 2 (not to be confused with the highly functional but largely underwhelming X2) at IFA in the fall. #Sonypricecuts ...

 

[worldspy99]

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You're right, from what I have seen, it is really tall. I have only seen a headline about it at the most before that post. I happened to miss the buzz.
The only phone in my sight is the S10e.

You will like the S10e.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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You're right, from what I have seen, it is really tall. I have only seen a headline about it at the most before that post. I happened to miss the buzz.
The only phone in my sight is the S10e.

Good luck there. While there are things I would actively try if I had the old 99 flair, I'll quietly wait until the Nokia 9 reviews are out first.

 

[worldspy99]

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Good luck there. While there are things I would actively try if I had the old 99 flair, I'll quietly wait until the Nokia 9 reviews are out first.

Even my glory days are pretty much over. I do like the S10e. A very nice device.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Even my glory days are pretty much over. I do like the S10e. A very nice device.

It seems like yesterday when I was watching you win Verizon employee of the month for like three months in a row with all those Lumia 822s you used to move through this site...

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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I miss the old days. Rooting and ROMing. Hacking and flashing. Flashing so many ROMs in a day on your daily driver you hope there were no emergencies as you'd miss important calls between reboots.

On the windows side, we used to do all sorts of ports. Loved the 6.1 days. Energy ROM was my jam. Running X Panels on a HTC Touch HD or Manila on a Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Adding and deleting Manila panels. Custom fonts and colors out the wazzu. Or watch devs work on the best XDA phone ever, the HTC HD2. That thing ran, among others - Windows mobile 6.5, WP 7, Android 2.3+ Gingerbread, Meego, Linux, Windows 95. Hell I want waiting for someone to load iOS 3 on this thing - I stand corrected, someone did some serious iOS like port on it too! If you didn't know about .cab files, you weren't no enthusiast.

I remember flashing ROMs during the Honeycomb and ICS and Jellybean days. I'd flash the Xperia ROMs on a Galaxy Nexus when I missed Sony or flash a HTC ROM when I missed Sense. Man, what a pain in the *** it was, but what an interesting time. 99 caught the tail end of it with his Nexus 5 usage, but it was something.

Oh, and Mr. Clue knows about the WebOS days too. Dual booting HP TouchPads and building 3rd party package apps and system tweaks for the Palm Pre and Pixi...

....and don't get me started on navigating the cluster**** that was Blackberry app world. Or remembering when soft core porn apps in the form of lingerie models or women wearing pasties were available in the Apple app store before they grew a "moral conscience?" Oh, don't get me started on snowpawn, jailbreaking and Cydia for iOS...

And I snuck some Symbian in there too.

Yup, I did all that.

#platformagnostic ...

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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The real reason why I liked the old days was the hardware advances meant something for enthusiasts. I remember when AD2P was a huge deal. When a 1GHZ processor in a phone was a big deal. When 4.3" screens were massive. When internal storage crept over 1GB. It was really exciting to see where things were going and eing on the bleeding edge.

Now... It's a straight up business with it being a popularity contest.