WC 1M Post Challenge - You Ready?!

[Chuck Finley69]

Hope all in the coronavirus hotspots are faring as well as can be. Here, South Florida is getting it worse than my gulf coast locale.

 

[fatclue_98]

This doesn't bother me. The gf would have preferred I cut it last week. That was the plan but my barber was not in town.

Hair is so overrated. It's easy coming from a bald guy but as I tell people, why cultivate on my head what grows wildly on my......

 

[fatclue_98]

Do I have preferences? Sure. I would swap out the V40 for the V50, making that the daily driver on the convenience front. I'd swap out the G7+ for a Pixel 4/3. I'd like my HTC 10 back.

Otherwise, it's not sufficient preferences to go out there and do the process to get those changes done.

A local vendor has a V40 at a very attractive price so I ask - is the battery life really as bad as reviews indicate? Everything else seems pretty solid from what I've read.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Well, week two of home quarantine/work from home should be interesting. I'll officially brave the supermarket tomorrow to see what that experience is now like. There isn't much I need personally, so if much of my list is empty, I'll return home.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Hair is so overrated. It's easy coming from a bald guy but as I tell people, why cultivate on my head what grows wildly on my......

Last time you worried about hair, our dear uncle got "bone spurs" and couldn't get "selected" for 'Nam.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

A local vendor has a V40 at a very attractive price so I ask - is the battery life really as bad as reviews indicate? Everything else seems pretty solid from what I've read.

Um, for a power user like you...yup. It does support quick charge if you've got the plugs lying around. It's not Xiaomi level recharge, but still pretty quick. The issue isn't the battery size as much is the 845 on Pie 9.0 ain't all that great power wise. It ran a bit better on 8.1, so the hope is 10 does the trick. Have the same issue on the V35 so it is what it is.

Still a damn fine device. If your aim is helping me get a V50, I'd happily let you rent to own mine. .

Jokes aside, coming from the V30 you gain more and versatile cameras, the boom box feature (which is in pinch is quite good).
You do lose swapping modes while actively recording a video.

Honestly, if you prefer them big, I'd tell you don't bother with the V40. Wait a few months and grab the V60 on a promo. You'll get a more substantial bump up from the V30, at the cost of dealing with an in screen FS, quad HD display, telephoto lens and the boom box feature. T-mobile starts you $800 no dual screen or $900 dual screen included.

 

[fatclue_98]

Um, for a power user like you...yup. It does support quick charge if you've got the plugs lying around. It's not Xiaomi level recharge, but still pretty quick. The issue isn't the battery size as much is the 845 on Pie 9.0 ain't all that great power wise. It ran a bit better on 8.1, so the hope is 10 does the trick. Have the same issue on the V35 so it is what it is.

Still a damn fine device. If your aim is helping me get a V50, I'd happily let you rent to own mine. .

Jokes aside, coming from the V30 you gain more and versatile cameras, the boom box feature (which is in pinch is quite good).
You do lose swapping modes while actively recording a video.

Honestly, if you prefer them big, I'd tell you don't bother with the V40. Wait a few months and grab the V60 on a promo. You'll get a more substantial bump up from the V30, at the cost of dealing with an in screen FS, quad HD display, telephoto lens and the boom box feature. T-mobile starts you $800 no dual screen or $900 dual screen included.

Hmm, the V60 looks to be a good proposition but I'd like to see how the in-screen FPS bodes. LG appears to have finally gotten around to putting a proper battery in their phones but.....

My 16:9 bucket list includes the Note FE due to USB-C, Pie and a forward-facing FPS. I don't care to spend upwards of 3 bones like some sellers want so we'll have to see.

What advantages does the V50 have over the 40 in terms of stability, bluetooth and T-Mobile connectivity? I don't shoot videos and I could care less about streaming Netflix. I have a big screen LG webOS at home for that.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Hmm, the V60 looks to be a good proposition but I'd like to see how the in-screen FPS bodes. LG appears to have finally gotten around to putting a proper battery in their phones but.....

My 16:9 bucket list includes the Note FE due to USB-C, Pie and a forward-facing FPS. I don't care to spend upwards of 3 bones like some sellers want so we'll have to see.

What advantages does the V50 have over the 40 in terms of stability, bluetooth and T-Mobile connectivity? I don't shoot videos and I could care less about streaming Netflix. I have a big screen LG webOS at home for that.

Not much in all of those things that are important to you, really. It's likely better but not as better of a jump from a V30. From what I remember, the sprint V50 works a bit better on T-mobile than the Verizon one does, I don't think you're getting T-mobile 5G with either...there was never a V50 for T-mobile it was only seen outside of Europe, Korea, VZW and Sprint.

So the biggest thing now is ultrasonic FPS (used by Samsung) vs optical (used by everyone else). Ultrasonic is a bit slower but slightly more secure while optical is a bit faster and comparatively slightly less secure. Think LG is using the slower optical which ain't the most helpful. It's a lot more reliable than Samsung as slow as it is.

A V30 to V50 jump is better, a V30 to V60 is a true upgrade, and a V30 to V40 is iterative.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Hmm, the V60 looks to be a good proposition but I'd like to see how the in-screen FPS bodes. LG appears to have finally gotten around to putting a proper battery in their phones but.....

My 16:9 bucket list includes the Note FE due to USB-C, Pie and a forward-facing FPS. I don't care to spend upwards of 3 bones like some sellers want so we'll have to see.

What advantages does the V50 have over the 40 in terms of stability, bluetooth and T-Mobile connectivity? I don't shoot videos and I could care less about streaming Netflix. I have a big screen LG webOS at home for that.

Good luck with the Note FE. Those prices are nuts. If you're going to go old school, I might suggest one of the earlier 18:9 phones: Honor View 10. If you tolerated the V30 it's screen is in that style. Big battery (3750mah), Kirin 970 still decent, headphone jack, and Huawei has always had solid radios. It ain't glass - old school aluminum and a front FPS. If you can stomach EMUI, it should be on Android 10 now too. LCD panel, both water resistance though. And has micro SD and IR blaster.

Not saying this is you, just a thought though.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Having had my first extended usage of the Flex 14", I still am happy with it as a personal device. The more I use it, the more I think about doing the Surface + iPad/iPhone combo for business. I liked the Alcantara model, but that brushed aluminum paint job is my jam. The Mi 9 has done a solid job this week and is good enough to get started.

Just more to plan out.

 

[libra89]

Well, week two of home quarantine/work from home should be interesting. I'll officially brave the supermarket tomorrow to see what that experience is now like. There isn't much I need personally, so if much of my list is empty, I'll return home.

I wish you good luck.

 

[libra89]

Hair is so overrated. It's easy coming from a bald guy but as I tell people, why cultivate on my head what grows wildly on my......

That's easy to say for someone who already has someone. And by someone, I don't mean a warm body but someone you're actually attracted to and you want to be with.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

I wish you good luck.

We all will need it.

 

[libra89]

I feel for you. I want to get my hair done, but we aren't in a lock down like y'all are. It's hard to schedule anything without knowing my work situation.

So this is resolved, I get to go back in and do work starting Monday. Thankfully (for me).

 

[MSFTisMIA]

That's easy to say for someone who already has someone. And by someone, I don't mean a warm body but someone you're actually attracted to and you want to be with.

And if I didn't know better, this sounds like something the jilted would say at the first given opportunity...

 

[libra89]

We all will need it.

True. We have everything we need, aside from locating Lysol spray.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

True. We have everything we need, aside from locating Lysol spray.

At the going rate, it might be easier to find common sense and good leadership before finding that.

 

[libra89]

And if I didn't know better, this sounds like something the jilted would say at the first given opportunity...

Lol.

I have many thoughts on this, but dang it's rough having to be isolated and be single. Even so, I refuse to be with someone just because I wanted to be in a relationship. I have seen this play out too many times and it always ends badly. I did that once, and while I learned from it, the experience wasn't worth having at all. It was bad.

 

[libra89]

at the going rate, it might be easier to find common sense and good leadership before finding that.

lol

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Lol.

I have many thoughts on this, but dang it's rough having to be isolated and be single. Even so, I refuse to be with someone just because I wanted to be in a relationship. I have seen this play out too many times and it always ends badly. I did that once, and while I learned from it, the experience wasn't worth having at all. It was bad.

No one claims it's easy. What I may say is the more one works on oneself, the increased the likelihood of drawing a better pool of people to pick through and then find that. While even that guaranteed, it's a bit better than "swipe, left, swipe right."