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[MSFTisMIA]

The Aurora borealis is a lovely wallpaper.

Thanks. It is on my list to see it in person.

 

[raycpl]

Thanks. It is on my list to see it in person.

I had seen it once... uni days in Ottawa, ONT (waaaaaaaaay back in '82). An exceeding rare occurance for Northern Lights to be seen that far down south....

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Monday...I see you're here in full force. I'm tired as hell and don't have time to heal with you, really.

 

[N_LaRUE]

I had seen it once... uni days in Ottawa, ONT (waaaaaaaaay back in '82). An exceeding rare occurance for Northern Lights to be seen that far down south....

When we went to the Arctic Circle we were hoping to see it but it snowed the entire time.

You need about a week or more.

 

[Laura Knotek]

Thanks. It is on my list to see it in person.

I'd love to see it too.

 

[fatclue_98]

Thanks. It is on my list to see it in person.

Definitely bucket list materal.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Definitely bucket list materal.

It's been top five on the list ever since I first laid eyes on a clip of it as a child. My pilot friend took a picture of it on a flight sometime last year and send it to me as my most recent visual. I should have ragged him about how sketchy the shot came out on his phone, but I plumb forgot.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

In my case the browsers I use are Chrome, Firefox and Brave. I gave up on Opera when it was purchased by a Chinese company. Edge has always been too buggy. I've been impressed with Brave, both on desktop and on mobile.

Everything feels Chinese these days, SMH.

The new Edge seems OK. I was going to Firefox, but went back to Opera on nostalgia. Maybe I'll try Brave out.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

So, I'm looking at the V60 render and it has me wondering...

...how much are they going to charge for it? Did LG cop out and went with a tear drop notch or mid punch-hole camera like the Note 10?

I'm setting myself up for disappointment already. Maybe this will make the V50 more appealing. Lol.


https://www.phonearena.com/news/lg-v60-5G-verizon-t-mobile-att-sprint-release_id121948

 

[MSFTisMIA]

So, I'm looking at the V60 render and it has me wondering...

...how much are they going to charge for it? Did LG cop out and went with a tear drop notch or mid punch-hole camera like the Note 10?

I'm setting myself up for disappointment already. Maybe this will make the V50 more appealing. Lol.


https://www.phonearena.com/news/lg-v60-5G-verizon-t-mobile-att-sprint-release_id121948

I think I'm one of the few people who thought LG was on to something with the air gestures of the G8. No, not the full air gestures as I didn't trust them to figure that out the right way (neither do I trust Google either to do so). I thought they had a shot with the more secure biometrics with better face and hand recognition. There's a difference between trying to be different and half-assing an idea...

 

[MSFTisMIA]

So it's official - the TCL/RIM hardware partnership has died. Kinda sad but not surprising really. The two revived darlings of "Nokia" and "BlackBerry" on the handset side had hit a wall...One died and the other, well, let's just see what happens.

 

[Laura Knotek]

So, I'm looking at the V60 render and it has me wondering...

...how much are they going to charge for it? Did LG cop out and went with a tear drop notch or mid punch-hole camera like the Note 10?

I'm setting myself up for disappointment already. Maybe this will make the V50 more appealing. Lol.


https://www.phonearena.com/news/lg-v60-5G-verizon-t-mobile-att-sprint-release_id121948

I hope it actually gets released sooner rather than later. By the time LG gets around to releasing a device, most of the other OEMs already have something available whenever I'm in the market for something new.

I wonder how good the battery life is on this device and on the V50 in areas where 5G is nonexistent.

 

[Laura Knotek]

So it's official - the TCL/RIM hardware partnership has died. Kinda sad but not surprising really. The two revived darlings of "Nokia" and "BlackBerry" on the handset side had hit a wall...One died and the other, well, let's just see what happens.

Sadly the only surprise to me is that they actually announced it. I thought they would've simply let it fade away.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

So, I'm looking at the V60 render and it has me wondering...

...how much are they going to charge for it? Did LG cop out and went with a tear drop notch or mid punch-hole camera like the Note 10?

I'm setting myself up for disappointment already. Maybe this will make the V50 more appealing. Lol.


https://www.phonearena.com/news/lg-v60-5G-verizon-t-mobile-att-sprint-release_id121948

I find it very interesting, if they do this, that the V60 will not be offered in Korea. I can understand the logic of focusing on the US and UK for the V60, I just don't know...as an LG owner, the recent V series phones have been solid. Are they targeting niche consumers or trying to move as many units as possible to stop the bleeding? If it's the latter, the V series ain't it. They need to put some work into the Stylo series and freshen that up. Outside of that line, LG's mid range game has been as bad as their software update policy.

 

[libra89]

So it's official - the TCL/RIM hardware partnership has died. Kinda sad but not surprising really. The two revived darlings of "Nokia" and "BlackBerry" on the handset side had hit a wall...One died and the other, well, let's just see what happens.

I'm saddened by it because they did the KeyOne. To me, this means that there's only 2 kinds of phones now: foldable and the regular slab.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Sadly the only surprise to me is that they actually announced it. I thought they would've simply let it fade away.

They had to, as there were still folks asking about a Key 3. I'd love to have seen a Key 3 with the SD 765 chip in. That I would have used for a business or primary communication phone for sure. Especially with the AMOLED screen and a switch to remove the buttons on the bottom of the screen for virtual ones. I thought they had a nice mix of stuff for a niche group of people.

I hope that they continue to develop their BlackBerry apps for Android...those are still quite useful, at least to me.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

I hope it actually gets released sooner rather than later. By the time LG gets around to releasing a device, most of the other OEMs already have something available whenever I'm in the market for something new.

I wonder how good the battery life is on this device and on the V50 in areas where 5G is nonexistent.

That would be interesting to know as well. I think the battery life for LG phones always comes down to how well they tune their screens, which hasn't been that great. My V40 does OK, but it's not a now unit and I run it on 1080P. The G7 used to struggle even though I ran that also on 1080P as that screen was brilliant to look at and brilliantly power hungry with the tuning. The V35, again not new, got me slightly better battery life than the V40 does, and I ran that at 1080P.

I realize for me, I don't need 2K or 4K resolution.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

I'm saddened by it because they did the KeyOne. To me, this means that there's only 2 kinds of phones now: foldable and the regular slab.

They brought back physical keyboard for the old folks like me and the older baby boomers. It was always niche, but it would still work depending on how well the hardware meshed with the software. I still think it was a smart move to kill it off if they weren't going to really renew it.

 

[Laura Knotek]

They had to, as there were still folks asking about a Key 3. I'd love to have seen a Key 3 with the SD 765 chip in. That I would have used for a business or primary communication phone for sure. Especially with the AMOLED screen and a switch to remove the buttons on the bottom of the screen for virtual ones. I thought they had a nice mix of stuff for a niche group of people.

I hope that they continue to develop their BlackBerry apps for Android...those are still quite useful, at least to me.

Outside of Crackberry I don't think anyone knew what a Key2 was, much less was clamouring for a Key3. I've never seen any BlackBerry device since the Classic in real life.

 

[Laura Knotek]

They brought back physical keyboard for the old folks like me and the older baby boomers. It was always niche, but it would still work depending on how well the hardware meshed with the software. I still think it was a smart move to kill it off if they weren't going to really renew it.

That's the problem. By the time they introduced the first Key device, many of the old timers like me were using touchscreen devices for enough time that moving to PKB seemed like a step back, rather than forward.