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ezestand for Mytouch

I was looking for a simple dock that could let me set my phone on my bedside table to act as an alarm and charge, and I came across this guy that might do the trick...
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Have any of you tried it? It looks like it could be great, but I also have a feeling that the usb port on the phone will be blocked by the support portion of the stand. In the websites FAQ, they mention that another phone (the HTC droid incredible) could not be supported without shifting it off to the side, due to the location of the usb port. I have no experience with that phone, but I get the impression that the mytouch 4g would have the same issue. Does anybody here have experience with the incredible, and could you compare its usb port location to that of the mytouch?

beelbeel said:
I was looking for a simple dock that could let me set my phone on my bedside table to act as an alarm and charge, and I came across this guy that might do the trick...
-- I can't post links, apparently, but a google search for "ezestand" will bring it up --
Have any of you tried it? It looks like it could be great, but I also have a feeling that the usb port on the phone will be blocked by the support portion of the stand. In the websites FAQ, they mention that another phone (the HTC droid incredible) could not be supported without shifting it off to the side, due to the location of the usb port. I have no experience with that phone, but I get the impression that the mytouch 4g would have the same issue. Does anybody here have experience with the incredible, and could you compare its usb port location to that of the mytouch?
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Why not pay a little extra and get the official MT4G stand at a T-Mo store?

CBConsultation said:
Why not pay a little extra and get the official MT4G stand at a T-Mo store?
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I would consider it, but it's roughly four times the price. It's a nice looking stand, but I don't think it's features justify it's price.

CBConsultation said:
Why not pay a little extra and get the official MT4G stand at a T-Mo store?
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Lol i dont think $35 is just a "little extra"

beelbeel said:
I would consider it, but it's roughly four times the price. It's a nice looking stand, but I don't think it's features justify it's price.
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I do agree with you there. It is pricey.
The ezestand is universal so it should fit a wide variety of phones. For roughly $13 I would say give it a try and report back here with a review and your thoughts.

I have a really strong feeling that it won't work, but that is not going to stop us from getting the info. There is a member of the t-mobile forums who bit the bullet and bought one. Their "shipping department" (probably the same one person that runs every other department) is closed until January second, so they are not going to get the dock for a while. If I find anything out from that member, I will post it here too.

Great. Will keep a look out for it.

You could place the phone in the dock with the USB port facing up (buttons to the left).

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You could place the phone in the dock with the USB port facing up (buttons to the left).
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Unfortunately, the display would then be upside down.

Oh? I didn't try the desk dock app but the clock app will rotate all four ways.
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chrisjs81 said:
Oh? I didn't try the desk dock app but the clock app will rotate all four ways.
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I had not noticed that. The clock app does indeed seem to rotate when you put it into its simpler modes (that only show the time), but it does not rotate in the normal position. That is not really a big deal, though, so this is definitely a possible solution. Thanks!

Ingenious Car Mount

Hey everyone,
I'm not sure how many of you are aware of this product but I just found it on sale at Canadian Tire here in Canada and I'm very impressed. It's just so convenient.. I can't believe I haven't seen this before. I am amazed by it, honestly.
http://www.tetrax.com/us
Look at the XWAY and FIXWAY primarily. I purchased the XWAY at Canadian Tire for $30 (regular $50). A little expensive compared to what I am used to, but I am very happy with it so far.
The reasons I like this solution:
Works with any type of device
Sturdy and secure. Even holds me 5" GPS (though I prefer to use Google Navigation )
Allows for the keyboard to be open on most (if not all) qwerty phones
Allows for portrait and landscape rotation
Is not visible when device is on the mount
Is very small and unobtrusive when device is not on the mount
There are no clips or snaps to fiddle with, just slide off the device
You can use this with 4 devices out-of-the-box as it comes with 4 different sized magnetic pads for your devices
This does not introduce a magnetic field to yoru device (the magnet is broken into 4 and arranged intelligently)
The negative things I've discovered about this solution:
You need a magnetic pad on each device you want to use
The XWAY can be accidentally pulled off the vent if you yank the device straight off of mount instead of sliding it off
Depending on your car vents, the angle that the device is pointed might not be ideal
I will post pix tomorrow if anyone is interested! The site has quite a few to look at until then.

Here's some pix!
I don't have photos of it in the car quite yet. I'll try to get some tomorrow morning.
Today I found the FIXWAY at BestBuy and decided that I might like that better since it can be positioned in a better spot in my car. My cars vents are not ideal since the steering wheel covers part of the screen when mounted there. However, even so, the XWAY has been by far the best car mount I've ever seen or used. The FIXWAY should be even better (for my particular car).
I also discovered that the FIXWAY doesn't actually get fixed to the car itself as I thought, but instead it uses a square magnet which you fix to your car. It actually comes with 2 of these in case you want to use this in 2 cars. Like the metal button that you stick to the phone, the square metal that goes on the car has 3M adhesive on the back. It's super strong, works great.
Anyway here's some photos of both the XWAY and FIXWAY I took in my living room.

Very interesting. But, in my feeling, the lack is that we can't orientate the phone ...

I guess it depends how your car's dashboard is angled. Mine faces me just fine and the videos I've seen it seems like most work out fine
And for rotation, you can rotate it any which way before or after your phone is mounted.

I have had the xway for about 2 months now and I love it. If you are attaching it to the vents their is really no reason to have to angle the phone. I agree that if you have some weird vent configuration it may be an issue.

check this - Toyota Avensis
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9979403&postcount=74

hudy said:
check this - Toyota Avensis
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9979403&postcount=74
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Wow I guess I didn't so the best job at reading through that thread! I even posted a link from there to here on page 11. Good pix though! Thanks

Here are some pix of the FIXWAY in the car without the phone on it (all I had to take the pix was the phone). One of these days I'll remember to bring out the camera..
Oh, and good news... It seems that you can actually angle/tilt the phone with the FIXWAY. It must be the shape of the magnet or something, and the fact that the 'X' is rubber, I am able to tilt it and it holds in place. Not a lot, but enough that I was able to cut down on some glare on the drive home

That's pretty cool, And I actually lik the blob on the back of the phone

Seconded Mac, but I would have to take my soft shell off...........................

Did your DZ battery door come stock with the wording "With Google" on it ?

Smartenup said:
Seconded Mac, but I would have to take my soft shell off...........................
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It should stick to any shell/case just fine I would think?

For some years I use some velcro (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro). The soft side on my phone, lighter. The hard side on the dash.
Costs almost nothing. Works very well, except in the summer when it is very hot (than the glue gets sticky)

AZ2ENVY said:
Did your DZ battery door come stock with the wording "With Google" on it ?
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mine did
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FINALLY took some photos.
I am still very much in love with this thing. My whole family has'em now, which is awesome because whenever I drive any of their cars I'm set

Is it weird that it reminds me of a tie fighter?

Thanks for the recommendation and all the pictures. Difficult to find a mount that doesn't interfere with the camera and/or volume buttons.

We can't charge and use kickstand at the same time.

So much for being able to watch things for extended periods of time. Why did they have to put the charger on the side with the kick stand out? Is this just to get us to buy the dock? And this is it for the threads I will start, I just thought that this was a horrible idea.
mods can you nuke this, there is already a discussion in another thread.

Maybe it's just my phone, but I can set the kickstand out the use the phone with the charger up.

mycomputerisjunk said:
Maybe it's just my phone, but I can set the kickstand out the use the phone with the charger up.
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Mine doesn't stay up like that. If I as much as blow on the phone when it's sitting like that, the kickstand folds up.
The charging port on the side is kind of silly. It's really annoying when typing on the phone while it's plugged in. When holding it in portrait mode, at least.

My kickstand isn't quite strong enough to support the weight of the phone in that position, especially with the power cord in... I guess if I drape the cord over something it kind of holds it up.
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Hummmm. I may have to try that when I get back.

I saw the same issue regarding where the charge port was placed. My kick stand isn't strong enough either lol. Maybe we can wedge something there to keep it up.

I'm surprised yours isn't strong enough. Mine seems to be working pretty well. It collapsed the first time, but it does work. I just wish they would have thought this one through before placing the micro USB there. Or flipped the kickstand. My buddy has an evo and he uses his kickstand a bunch. IMO, one of the most innovative designs to come out of the mobile phone industry.

1454 said:
So much for being able to watch things for extended periods of time. Why did they have to put the charger on the side with the kick stand out? Is this just to get us to buy the dock? And this is it for the threads I will start, I just thought that this was a horrible idea.
mods can you nuke this, there is already a discussion in another thread.
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Put the kickstand out and and seat the phone STANDING UP like u would hold it in your hand to make a call, the cord will be on the bottom left side of the phone and it stands up that's what i've been doing. Hope that helps !

Yeah, but doing that makes it hard to watch in fullscreen. I would rather not do that unless I had no other choice. I think the upside down idea will work pretty well. It worked good a minute ago.

my kickstand doesn't support the phone the opposite way...it folds up before i fully let go of the phone.

Yeah that's weird because by kickstand holds my phone in portrait while charging just fine. The charging cable actually helps give it even more sturdiness because the cable kinda lays on the table acting like a brace to keep it from falling over that way.

Pretty strange design decision indeed. I encountered this at work today, trying to use the kickstand with the charger and I was like, umm, noope.
*shrug*

I bet they did it on purpose to coerce you to buy the desk dock. Lmao. And yes its annoying.
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JonKyu said:
I bet they did it on purpose to coerce you to buy the desk dock. Lmao. And yes its annoying.
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if you buy the dock wtf is the point of the kickstand
this design is so dumb

would something like a right angle mini usb plug work? I can't post links, but a quick google turned up a bunch of GPS power adapters...

wow thats so dumb

You do realize that the phone can stand vertically as well as horizontally, correct. The placement of the charger was by design.

jlevy73 said:
You do realize that the phone can stand vertically as well as horizontally, correct. The placement of the charger was by design.
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I think you missed the point, the poster clearly was referencing wanting to watch media and such in landscape taking advantage of the full screen. This wouldn't work up-right, it has to be on its side.

DNak206 said:
I think you missed the point, the poster clearly was referencing wanting to watch media and such in landscape taking advantage of the full screen. This wouldn't work up-right, it has to be on its side.
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I guess I did miss that. You make a good point.

mycomputerisjunk said:
Maybe it's just my phone, but I can set the kickstand out the use the phone with the charger up.
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Yeah, that worked for me yesterday, but it's not particularly stable (like for using as a nightstand clock)...bump the desk/table and it falls over.
DNak206 said:
I think you missed the point, the poster clearly was referencing wanting to watch media and such in landscape taking advantage of the full screen. This wouldn't work up-right, it has to be on its side.
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Exactly, I'm surprised so many responses didn't pick up on that. Can't watch a movie properly in the current configuration unless you add some sort of block to the left side of the phone (while on landscape mode).
I'm not sure if this is the stupidest power plug location I've seen on a phone, but it's definitely in the top 3 (the Galaxy S phones with the plug on top are pretty stupid too, but at least they don't interfere with a kickstand designed to watch movies with).
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I guess I did miss that. You make a good point.
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Hey jlevy73...another Nexus S user switching away already? The Nexs S is such a sweet device, especially with CM7 on it, but it may still end up being the 2nd shortest lived phone in my ever increasing collection (the iPhone 4 getting all of a 2 week's usage before going into the backup phone pile).
The 4G/LTE of the TB along with the much better voice quality and coverage of VZW (compared to TMobile) were too tempting not to test drive the phone. I'm not sure it's a keeper for me, I'm much too much addicted to the SAMOLED displays, even though the TB has a very nice TFT one, it's not as satisfying. I'll probably keep both, and cancel my AT&T accounts. I only need 2 active phones, not 4, LOL.

Any good car dock for road driving recording for SGS4G?

Any good car dock for road driving recording for SGS4G? I am using DailyRoads Voyager and to switch to Autoguard Blackbox.
I like to be able to jump into the car and snap my phone on the charging dock and press a button for it to record my driving. Being able to use a voice dialer is also great.
Samsung makes a OEM (good quality) one (ECS-M979BEGSTA) and even it is labelled as for Galaxy S 4G, it doesn't have an opening cut for the rear camera. I bought one and tried to cut the opening myself and almost broken the sliding mechanism. It does have excellent quality for my phone (when the case is removed) and it has a slider that you push into the phone for charging. It is also very stable when mounted. Problems I had was the arm was so long and huge and the swivel ball doesn't give much rotating angle. Finding a spot on my 2007 prius to mount so that 1, it faces the road straight, 2, it doesn't block my view for road condition, 3, the suction cup base doesn't show up on the video screen, 4, my wipers don't show on the video screen, 5, it doesn't stick to my nose or forehead, 6, it doesn't interfere the sunvisor and 7, it mounts on the windshield, not on the dash using the 3M adhesive base... is quite impossible.
Any of you using SGS4G for road driving recording? What car dock do you use?

Why are you trying to record your driving
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You should check out these apps:
anoymonos said:
Why are you trying to record your driving
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You should check out these apps:
DailyRoads Voyager
AutoGuard Blackbox

I checked them out but what are you trying to accomplish with these apps
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anoymonos said:
I checked them out but what are you trying to accomplish with these apps
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By default if you are in a accident and hit the person from behind it is your fault. However with more people using driving cams and smart phones to record driving people are able to prove they werent necessarily at fault.
Its also good to catch road rage so you can prove the other person was the one that instigated it. There are tons of uses for driving cameras.

You can also work for Google Maps as a 2nd income...LOL
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What features/design would you want your dream android phone to have

I'm going to build an android phone and I want to know what features are you most interested in. This includes thickness, screen size, battery life over thinness of phone, softkeys vs capacitive buttons, etc. Anything you want your dream android phone to have/be.
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The Android Attorney said:
I'm going to build an android phone and I want to know what features are you most interested in. This includes thickness, screen size, battery life over thinness of phone, softkeys vs capacitive buttons, etc. Anything you want your dream android phone to have/be.
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Hahaha lol are you for real?
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BlackGURU said:
Hahaha lol are you for real?
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Yes. I'm teaming up with some engineers at my college and we're going to see what we can do
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Fully voice controlled
Water proof
A personal voice controlled assistant
Thats too much for now
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Fully voice controlled
Water proof
A personal voice controlled assistant...
Thats too much
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Bring it on. Say anything you want it to have.
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DON'T make it water proof. Instead give it a proper heat dissipation system. It seems that so many breakthroughs happen in colleges, maybe your technology will be used (with royalty) by Samsung or Apple.
Make sure it has a mostly metal (aluminum works best) backplate. Then, this will act as a heatsink, which will dissipate heat faster than a plastic back.
The bezel/midframe should be injected TPU. TPU is durable, RF transparent, grippy and shock absorbing. It should protect the screen via a 1mm lip. Also, should the phone drop, the TPU should absorb the impact, not the chassis or screen.
Don't take ergonomics into consideration. It should be the shape of an iPhone. Just a (much bigger)box. You don't even need rounded corners. This doesn't have to look pretty, it has to be functional.
Put the buttons to the sides. It is way easier to press a power or volume button if it is to the side.
Dont use capacitive buttons. Use a Nav bar like the Nexus and X and G2. Those are highly customizable and can be remapped according to preference unlike capacitive buttons.
Use a 720p display. Those are much cheaper.
Lol I'll add more if I think of anything. I'm just listing the mistakes of current MFG's.
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Question:
Where are you going to get an SoC?
It would be cool if you could get an S800, but I'm pretty sure you can't just pick them up like potatoes.
Are you going to build your own microchip? And modem/radio? For data and WiFi and Bluetooth and NFC?
Same with the camera. Where are you going to find a single module?
I guess you could theoretically cannibalize a device that has the parts you want, but... I dunno.
EDIT: Lol I just realized. You could get an OEM main board from a website and cannibalize that. Or even use it as is?

sauprankul said:
DON'T make it water proof. Instead give it a proper heat dissipation system. It seems that so many breakthroughs happen in colleges, maybe your technology will be used (with royalty) by Samsung or Apple.
Make sure it has a mostly metal (aluminum works best) backplate. Then, this will act as a heatsink, which will dissipate heat faster than a plastic back.
The bezel/midframe should be injected TPU. TPU is durable, RF transparent, grippy and shock absorbing. It should protect the screen via a 1mm lip. Also, should the phone drop, the TPU should absorb the impact, not the chassis or screen.
Don't take ergonomics into consideration. It should be the shape of an iPhone. Just a (much bigger)box. You don't even need rounded corners. This doesn't have to look pretty, it has to be functional.
Put the buttons to the sides. It is way easier to press a power or volume button if it is to the side.
Dont use capacitive buttons. Use a Nav bar like the Nexus and X and G2. Those are highly customizable and can be remapped according to preference unlike capacitive buttons.
Use a 720p display. Those are much cheaper.
Lol I'll add more if I think of anything. I'm just listing the mistakes of current MFG's.
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Question:
Where are you going to get an SoC?
It would be cool if you could get an S800, but I'm pretty sure you can't just pick them up like potatoes.
Are you going to build your own microchip? And modem/radio? For data and WiFi and Bluetooth and NFC?
Same with the camera. Where are you going to find a single module?
I guess you could theoretically cannibalize a device that has the parts you want, but... I dunno.
EDIT: Lol I just realized. You could get an OEM main board from a website and cannibalize that. Or even use it as is?
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Thank you very much for your suggestions. We were planning on using an aluminum casing to keep it cool and prevent overheating but we plan on somehow implementing waterproof capabilities also. In the future we do plan on making our own chips but for now we're focusing on design and battery. We using donated android phones that we can take apart and build around it. Thank you specifically for the drop/impact consideration. Slipped our minds. For the screen I just thought about having it cave in so if it does fall flat on the screen in hopefully a flat surface it wouldn't cause cracks to form on the screen.
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Honestly?
The ability for it to order pizza for me.
I just want to say: "I want a Pepperoni pizza from Domino's" and it would do the rest for me.
Oh a more serious note however, an AM/FM receiver as well as transmitter would be aweosme.

The Android Attorney said:
Thank you very much for your suggestions. We were planning on using an aluminum casing to keep it cool and prevent overheating but we plan on somehow implementing waterproof capabilities also. In the future we do plan on making our own chips but for now we're focusing on design and battery. We using donated android phones that we can take apart and build around it. Thank you specifically for the drop/impact consideration. Slipped our minds. For the screen I just thought about having it cave in so if it does fall flat on the screen in hopefully a flat surface it wouldn't cause cracks to form on the screen.
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If you use a concave screen, you will lose precious space, something you can't afford to do with a homemade smartphone. You could try using silicon anode batteries, which will leave you a TON more space, but those dont last too many cycles and are still in the testing phase. Instead of not letting water get in, maybe you could spray the internals with a water replellant? That would make the circuitry hydrophobic and would still allow you to make the phone's case porous.
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Oh a more serious note however, an AM/FM receiver as well as transmitter would be aweosme.
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First off: receiving AM requires a Ferrite bar of some sort, something that can't be fitted into a smartphone.
Second:Transmitter? I think that would take up a lot of space and power.
But the OP said to bring it on, so...
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Oh and if you end up using an Aluminum case, remember, you need to somehow make it RF transparent. You can't just make it like an iTouch because then you wouldn't get any cell signal.
I recommend using a polycarbonate chassis/frame to mount everything on, with an AL backplate glued or screwed onto the back and TPU injected into the sides via a sort of exoskeletal mold.
Then, just glue the glass onto the edges over the LCD/digitizer.

List of features I want in my next phone
~ pico-projector
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/07/team-develops-mems-pico-projector-screen-technology-smartphones
And fast object tracking for the cammera
http://m.phys.org/news/2013-06-ultra-high-camera-ball-tracker-japan.html
~ full size USB port
~ water resistant
~ slide out or fold out keyboard
~~ if fold out then two screens please
~~ if slide out then I understand sacking the water resistance
~ shock resistant
~ induction charging capable
~ dule-booted out of the box with Linux and Android
~ dockable
~ long battery life
I've been doing research down the lines of new powering methods (batteries and charging) and work publicly on dule-boot methods so feel free to hit me up on that and I'm willing to help out however I can.
Edited 08122013- to add link. Note; the same tech for "painting" the image with a fast moving mirror is now being used for a new kind of "stedy-cam" ... Link to that to that now added ... I imagine that it might be possible to have the cammera and lasers co-habitate and use the same mirror. This would alow for an auto corect on the image being projected to run and ensure a good viewing experiance.
One more feture for the entertaiment side of things; Bluetooth out to another android, I'm working on an adaptive soround sound that works off GPS and pipeing out sound bassed off location... curently in the resurch side of R&D'ing that with my dule-boot setup.
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I want my android phones and tablets to be attachable to each other to form one bigger screen and surround sound!

i've always preferred practicality and functionality over aesthetics.
some of the things that i would like are:
1. dedicated camera shutter button.
2. dual boot out of the box.
3. hardware enclosure for the camera lens.
4. full size USB port.
5. i dont mind if the phone is a bit thick, but do provide a decent battery.
6. xenon flash for Gods sake.
7. A spectacular 2.1 speaker system, (my old chinese mobile had this, an actual woofer in a phone)
8. a screen not bigger than 4.7".

So my friends and i were talking about how the SGS4 has the barometer and all of those weather sensors and we were thinking that it was no use. What do yu guys think? Is this important to you? I mean you could really just go online and check. Also just wanted to say thank you for your input on this project. We really want to make an android phone that has all the features that you always wanted no matter how big or small.
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An atsc ota tv tuner would be awesome. Watch ota tv with no data charges.
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The Android Attorney said:
So my friends and i were talking about how the SGS4 has the barometer and all of those weather sensors and we were thinking that it was no use. What do yu guys think? Is this important to you? I mean you could really just go online and check. Also just wanted to say thank you for your input on this project. We really want to make an android phone that has all the features that you always wanted no matter how big or small.
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A barometer and temperature sensor seems useless to me as well. You can get this info from weather services. If you're inside, knowing the exact indoor temperature is not necessary for most situations.
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Larger battery over thinness. All that should ever be cared about is performance and features.
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kankanmeli said:
i've always preferred practicality and functionality over aesthetics.
some of the things that i would like are:
1. dedicated camera shutter button.
2. dual boot out of the box.
3. hardware enclosure for the camera lens.
4. full size USB port.
5. i dont mind if the phone is a bit thick, but do provide a decent battery.
6. xenon flash for Gods sake.
7. A spectacular 2.1 speaker system, (my old chinese mobile had this, an actual woofer in a phone)
8. a screen not bigger than 4.7".
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2 5 6 7 I fully support.
1 could be replaced with a conveniently placed power or volume down button.
I don't understand 3. Does that mean the camera module and lens are independent of the rest of the phone?
4, it would probably be better to make a micro USB to full USB adapter. It would add a lot more space for a big battery.
8 would be nice! Unfortunately, unless OP is a magician, he won't be able to reach that. It's something to work toward, but I think it might be too hard for the first run.
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An atsc ota tv tuner would be awesome. Watch ota tv with no data charges.
A barometer and temperature sensor seems useless to me as well. You can get this info from weather services. If you're inside, knowing the exact indoor temperature is not necessary for most situations.
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As with the full USB port, it would probably be easier to add an OTG OTA TV tuner adapter.
I agree with the uselessness of the thermometer and barometer.
Add those to the list of crappy gimmicks that nobody cares about or uses.

I skimmed through most of what everyone has posted so far and I didn't see anyone else suggesting this yet, but if its been suggested I apologize.
Solar power charging capabilities.
For example fabricate a small solar panel that can fit behind the battery cover so that when you're driving/ working outside you can be using your device and it also can be charging without having to be connected to a power source. I Dont even know if that's possible but it would be cool.
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ryankgrant said:
I skimmed through most of what everyone has posted so far and I didn't see anyone else suggesting this yet, but if its been suggested I apologize.
Solar power charging capabilities.
For example fabricate a small solar panel that can fit behind the battery cover so that when you're driving/ working outside you can be using your device and it also can be charging without having to be connected to a power source. I Dont even know if that's possible but it would be cool.
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I second that.
If ya take a look at some of the ramblelings over here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1936855
(3 Cell battery mod)... that I've been having with another user you'll find some useful links on solar tech that's flexible, simi-transparent, and thin. There be other things such as graphien(sp?) super capacitors that are strong, conduct heat and electricity well, so well that in the future we may have devices that have a 5 to 10 minuet re-charge with tens of hours for discharge... I kinda keep an ear to the ground and an eye on the sky...
Edited to add some links
Next link points to a person that's video logging their steps to make graphene at home
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://...3EkkkQ&usg=AFQjCNFDlqglra1Lrj4-Xo5yzIZD8uSQvg
Next link points to one of many flexible solar options available. I think this would be nice on some kind of pull out that allows the user to expand the surface area on demand.
http://store.sundancesolar.com/powulflexthi.html
Next link points to transparent solar, which could be used for part of the device's screen
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...at-will-allow-your-smartphone-to-power-itself
Next link wraps it back up with graphene doing it all? Quite possibly... and if so then really all one would need is the correct build methods and resins to make a very hard to break, long lasting charge, persistently charging, and almost what ever shape wanted
http://dailyfusion.net/2013/05/tran...ode-makes-flexible-solar-cells-possible-9390/
There be more out there but using those as a start point will get anyone caught up on some of the sweet things happening down those lines.
Now on to another, so far, un-mentioned feature that would be amazing to have tossed in...
http://makezine.com/2013/08/14/ambient-backscatter/
This one is of a coolness factor I'll not try to describe, just check it and dream a reality into existence with me
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Debian Kit/QEMU Linux Install guide for all android devices that I'm writing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240397
Now have working Installers for ARM Java 7 JDK + Maptools + jMonkey

Anymore requests? We plan on starting building a prototype soon.
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