Tamagochi
“Phones have become very needy in 2017, like an attention-starved pet”
The Tamagochi of the 21th century.
Thank goodness HTC is still with us, for I haven’t enjoyed using an Android more all year than its flagship U11. This was a surprise. But I used one for three weeks as a primary phone, and this is what I found. From the front the U11 boasts a fairly generic, staid design that doesn’t hint at its two gimmicks. If “this year’s …
One thing I HATE about my One M9 is the power and volume buttons all on one side.
I dont know about the rest of you mere mortals, but when I pick up my phone, I usually grip the phone by the sides. This results in accidental and infuriating button presses where I just want to hold the damn thing. Some people have even managed to turn it off while on a call when I've passed the phone to them! Or reduce the volume to mute. It's just a bad design from an ergonomic perspective.
I would like to see some better ideas in that area. I dont know why they moved the power button to the side, as it was in a good place on top - not easily pressed/mashed by accident and an easy enough place for a finger to go to when unlocking the thing.
Volume rockers have always frustrated me being on the side - only LG had any good ideas there with the rocker at the back of the phone! Wish more manufacturers could do that. Shame the phone wasnt that great.
This is an accepted use of range as a verb, as is say "their ages ranged between 3 and 83" or "the patrol ranged deep behind enemy lines" or ranging as in artillery shells.
Perhaps you should be more irate about your lack of knowledge of the English language. Just because you haven't encountered it before doesn't make it wrong.
The only way you can understand that sentence to mean that you can get that phone subsidised on a contract from O2 and EE is ignoring the word "range" and replacing it with another, like "subsidise".
Yeah, or just "stock". It's an annoying practice of replacing existing words with silly verbised (yeah) nouns. I call it MBAing.
Presumably the heatwave comment refers to the phone overheating. My Samsung S2 tablet shuts itself down in pleasant English summer weather; I assume it would come over all Dali if used in the Middle East.
Does anyone have a recommendation for the best Android device for grown-ups? I don't care about the camera, video or speakers (seriously, who watches TV on a 5-inch screen? What is wrong with you people?). I do care about call quality, email, navigation and battery life. I have an S6 which struggles to last a full day and can't properly share Outlook contacts with the phone and SMS apps. I want a tool, not a toy.