I Know a bunch of people have brought these, or are thinking of buying them, so heres a video review to show you the quality and fit etc. !
Hope it helps you decide whether its worth getting one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Q9LAxKXxM
Great review stickyasglue.
Recently purchased the red, blue, & white covers. At this price you are not going to get the same quality control as you would with an original, but great if you want to preserve your original for re-sale.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RED-Plastic-B..._MobilePhonesCasesPouches&hash=item20b4b4fdf6
Thanks for nice review
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Great review stickasglue.
Recently purchased the red, blue, & white covers. At this price you are not going to get the same quality control as you would with an original, but great if you want to preserve your original for re-sale.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RED-Plastic-B..._MobilePhonesCasesPouches&hash=item20b4b4fdf6
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could you post a link for the white one please?
josb0513 said:
could you post a link for the white one please?
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Here you go :-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WHITE-Plastic...466568703&po=&ps=63&clkid=4565245394075267030
I'd love to see a replacement that uses a decent material, to get away from that cheap plasticy feel on the phone. Does anyone know of one?
AAwwww.. this guys said he doesn't ship to Asia. I wonder why.. can't he just state the charges accordingly?
I gotta find alternate sources
Well being in Scotland only two colour choices available (Midnight Black & Orchid Grey) and although the black does look sleek, the Orchid Grey has a very nice appeal so that was my choice.....
Order placed as soon as i could & looks like a nice 20th of April shipping..
Looking forward to checking out the S8+ although being a smartphone junkie I'll flip & sell to buy the Note 8.....
What was your choice & did you rush to pre order?
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Ordered the Midnight Black, my last 3 phones were Gold so I wanted a change. Hopefully I'll also receive it on the 20th, Three said the 29th when I ordered over the phone, but have it listed as a "get it early" incentive on their website. I'm in SW England btw and also only had a choice of Black or Grey. I wanted black anyway so no bother. Excited to try it out!
Haha I'm just like you, can't help but swap phones when something new and shiny arrives. I'll probably sell next year and get a Oneplus then upgrade again and so on...
The Note is too similar to the S range for me to trade for. Other than the S Pen of course. I had three phones last year and I'm currently using the Xiaomi Mi5S Plus. Shouldn't have bothered with this one, just wanted to try it out.
Ordered myself a black one and my wife a silver one through Best buy. Said I will be able to pickup in store on the 21st. Can't wait to try it out
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Ordered the Midnight Black, my last 3 phones were Gold so I wanted a change. Hopefully I'll also receive it on the 20th, Three said the 29th when I ordered over the phone, but have it listed as a "get it early" incentive on their website. I'm in SW England btw and also only had a choice of Black or Grey. I wanted black anyway so no bother. Excited to try it out!
Haha I'm just like you, can't help but swap phones when something new and shiny arrives. I'll probably sell next year and get a Oneplus then upgrade again and so on...
The Note is too similar to the S range for me to trade for. Other than the S Pen of course. I had three phones last year and I'm currently using the Xiaomi Mi5S Plus. Shouldn't have bothered with this one, just wanted to try it out.
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The Black is Sublime & gave careful consideration, but being OCD with keeping my phone clean it would be in overdrive with smudgey fingerprints (always a clear case i know). Very much hope you enjoy your Black version (I'm sure you will) & you should as you pre ordered early get it on the date states on their web site.....
Being a Sky customer i opted for them as it keeps everything all in one bill....And they also have the 8 day early policy....[emoji2]
Hahaha in 3 years I've had about 30 phones it's craaaazy, i just get to tempted and then that irrational part of my brain wins every time lol.....
No it's not a huge gulf of a step up with the S7 Edge & S8+ but i also had the S7 Edge (Sold to buy the 3T) which I'm using now. Missed certain great features of the S7 so next progressive step was to buy the S8+ (there is some logic there)....
Hope you all enjoy your new S8's or S8+'s.....[emoji2]
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Are they showing the s8/s8+ in Samsung store?
They should be (not where i am) Northern Scotland as we only have Tesco's with a very small mobile section......
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I order the grey.
I always get black phones and was very mad about the note 7 crap since i had a black s7 edge and then back note 7, Then had to go back to the edge and tmobile stop selling the black ones so end up with blue. While i like blue it just isnt as smooth as the black.
But with the s8 being black on front and color on the back i didnt mind switching it so much.
Also the black look a bit funny to me. Kinda to plain i guess.
So yea with with grey and i didnt rush to preorder took my time and made sure it was worth the money i was spending.
I am trying to decide between black and grey (our only choices). The black does look a bit plain, and the grey in pictures looks a bit too pink and more like a girl colour, but I have heard a couple of people say it isn't like that in real life it's just the pictures. So I'm not sure. Also not sure which one will show fingerprints the black or the grey, probably black I guess as it will be more shiny. I will probably not be able to get to a shop to look at it before I pre-order tomorrow will will have to make a choice before then.
Ok I went for the black, I prefer how the black back blends in perfectly with the black on the front and sizes vs the other colours.....only to have carphonewarehouse then send an email 2 hours later saying they had cancelled my order....with no explanation at all. Rang them up and they still couldn't tell me why they had cancelled it.
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I am trying to decide between black and grey (our only choices). The black does look a bit plain, and the grey in pictures looks a bit too pink and more like a girl colour, but I have heard a couple of people say it isn't like that in real life it's just the pictures. So I'm not sure. Also not sure which one will show fingerprints the black or the grey, probably black I guess as it will be more shiny. I will probably not be able to get to a shop to look at it before I pre-order tomorrow will will have to make a choice before then.
Ok I went for the black, I prefer how the black back blends in perfectly with the black on the front and sizes vs the other colours.....only to have carphonewarehouse then send an email 2 hours later saying they had cancelled my order....with no explanation at all. Rang them up and they still couldn't tell me why they had cancelled it.
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Hmmmm sounds odd but always 02 or EE but be quick.....[emoji12]
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Hmmmm sounds odd but always 02 or EE but be quick.....[emoji12]
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Well CPW are a joke. After that first attempt, I ordered it again....this time 2 hours later I get an email saying it had been cancelled again, due to an "information mismatch". I know for a fact the details were all correct and were the same as the previous attempt. I then rang them up to find out wtf was going on, starting at sales who couldn't tell me the exact issue so they passed me on to the web team, who couldnt tell me anything because the order had been cancelled, so they passed me on to customer services....who cut me off. I tried one final time, and in the most hillarious email of all, got a reply an hour later saying it had failed and was cancelled once again "due to you failing the credit check criteria required by the network you selected." Credit check?!?! network??? I had not selected a network, all 3 times I had ordered the handset only, sim free, my order confirmations even confirm that. There was no credit check to be done! And if they HAD done a credit check, it would have come back as pretty much perfect anyway! Unbelievable. I then went and ordered it from John Lewis instead and it went through straight away, same 20th Apr delivery date, I just won't get the free £99 speaker. Frankly after this crap, CPW can keep the speaker! I would have considered ordering from EE (I am with EE) or from o2, but I don't quite trust that it would be unlocked from them, I guess it would be but John Lewis is doing the same delivery date anyway (and they had damn well better deliver it on that day since I will be waiting in for it from work!).
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Well CPW are a joke. After that first attempt, I ordered it again....this time 2 hours later I get an email saying it had been cancelled again, due to an "information mismatch". I know for a fact the details were all correct and were the same as the previous attempt. I then rang them up to find out wtf was going on, starting at sales who couldn't tell me the exact issue so they passed me on to the web team, who couldnt tell me anything because the order had been cancelled, so they passed me on to customer services....who cut me off. I tried one final time, and in the most hillarious email of all, got a reply an hour later saying it had failed and was cancelled once again "due to you failing the credit check criteria required by the network you selected." Credit check?!?! network??? I had not selected a network, all 3 times I had ordered the handset only, sim free, my order confirmations even confirm that. There was no credit check to be done! And if they HAD done a credit check, it would have come back as pretty much perfect anyway! Unbelievable. I then went and ordered it from John Lewis instead and it went through straight away, same 20th Apr delivery date, I just won't get the free £99 speaker. Frankly after this crap, CPW can keep the speaker!
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Yes I've heard mixed reports from CPW and similar circumstances to yourself, people getting declined credit check when they have a great credit rating. Also customer service is well below acceptable standards.
Personally i have had no desire to use them (Sky mobile just launched and it wraps everything up in a nice one off bill) i have sky broadband, phone, Sky Q and now Mobile (all went as it should).
Glad you got it sorted in the end and you live & lean to stay clear of CPW....[emoji12]
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I just went and saw the phone at Best Buy, because you just can't trust pictures to accurately portray the color these days. The orchid gray was more like gray with a hint of plum, very muted color, pretty much just a darker gray indoors. The black was far less shiny than the Note 7's black, so less of a fingerprint magnet, but still showed fingerprints more than the other colors. Coral blue and maple gold are not available here, so it looks like arctic silver is the color for me. I liked that color on the Note 7, but since the color wrapped around to the front it was far too blinding for me to use. Not a problem on the S8+.
Well I still haven't ordered yet, still not 100% convinced I can't just wait until the Note 8 comes out.
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I just went and saw the phone at Best Buy, because you just can't trust pictures to accurately portray the color these days. The orchid gray was more like gray with a hint of plum, very muted color, pretty much just a darker gray indoors. The black was far less shiny than the Note 7's black, so less of a fingerprint magnet, but still showed fingerprints more than the other colors. Coral blue and maple gold are not available here, so it looks like arctic silver is the color for me. I liked that color on the Note 7, but since the color wrapped around to the front it was far too blinding for me to use. Not a problem on the S8+.
Well I still haven't ordered yet, still not 100% convinced I can't just wait until the Note 8 comes out.
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I much prefer the Note range but the S8+ is a beautiful device with enough to convince me to buy. That said i am a tech enthusiast & quite enjoy testing out as many devices as my wallet will allow. What i usually do is flip each device to buy the next (yes it means putting some added money in) but it works for me, plus someone else gets the enjoyment of whatever device sold..
So I'll be using the S8+ until the Note 8 and no doubt sell to acquire.....(it's how a roll.....[emoji12] ) my own upgrade programme.
Looking forward to getting a hands on look at the S8+ with what is a great design & will be a great device.
My honest thoughts are that Samsung perhaps should have went Duel Camera for the plus, along with 6gb Ram (just to separate from the regular S8)...
The fingerprint reader placement is perhaps Samsung being deliberately obtuse....[emoji12] thus forcing you to adopt their other two bits of tech (facial recognition, iris scanner).. this is not a deterrent obviously, but i really don't like it even before hands on,....
Overall I think Samsung should have placed just a bit more thought into certain elements and i think this will have a bit of a negative effect, but they have Excelled again in design, and UI is nice, Screen, come on the Camera was great in the S7 & Edge (So not a huge impact on me here), see how bixby performs and the overall feel.....
The Note 8 will be purchased though as i believe the force touch tech will be ready and fingerprint reader will be underneath the display.....[emoji3]
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I much prefer the Note range but the S8+ is a beautiful device with enough to convince me to buy. <snip>
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I'm with you there, the stylus isn't a deal breaker for me, but it's one of my top wanted features. There used to be more that differentiated the S and the Note series, I was more on the Note side back then.
As soon as I got the S8+ in my hands I went from 50 to 90% convinced that I needed to dump my V20. It just feels like future tech, while the V20 feels like something from 3 years ago. S8+ feels amazing and the display looks like nothing else out there.
I generally try to sell my old devices, but if I'm unable to find a decent price I have no problems holding on to it. It's always fun to go back to my old phones and see what Android was like back then. My GS1 still runs like a champ on an XDA dev's rom, forget the rom name, but it turned that phone from nearly unusable to quite competent for it's day.
Dual camera would have been nice, I'd definitely like to see what Samsung could do with that. The V20 has dual, but it takes pretty terrible pictures. My Note 7 took amazing pictures, so I'm pretty excited to play with the S8+ camera more.
I actually like the fingerprint sensor being on the bottom, like the V20. For the way I use the phone it's much more convenient for me, I'm just going to have to train my finger to not touch the camera. Most of the time I don't need to use it anyway since my watch unlocks the phone while it's close.
bishmaster5000 said:
I just went and saw the phone at Best Buy, because you just can't trust pictures to accurately portray the color these days. The orchid gray was more like gray with a hint of plum, very muted color, pretty much just a darker gray indoors. The black was far less shiny than the Note 7's black, so less of a fingerprint magnet, but still showed fingerprints more than the other colors. Coral blue and maple gold are not available here, so it looks like arctic silver is the color for me. I liked that color on the Note 7, but since the color wrapped around to the front it was far too blinding for me to use. Not a problem on the S8+.
Well I still haven't ordered yet, still not 100% convinced I can't just wait until the Note 8 comes out.
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Where are you located that the silver is available?
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force70 said:
Where are you located that the silver is available?
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USA.
I've owned the Note 2/3/4 and this was the first phone I've been remotely excited about. I thought about waiting to see what the Note 8 had in store for us, but I don't use the stylus much (maybe once a week or less). I've held onto the Note 4 for so long because of the replaceable battery, with all the new models going to sealed backs, I figured I might as well get used to it. If I don't like the S8+ or just can't live without the Note 8, I'll give my son the S8+.
Ordered the arctic silver version.
note 8 will be wider. Only thing I'm hesitant about (even tho ordered!) is the width and the battery.
Highspeed123 said:
Ordered the Midnight Black, my last 3 phones were Gold so I wanted a change. Hopefully I'll also receive it on the 20th, Three said the 29th when I ordered over the phone, but have it listed as a "get it early" incentive on their website. I'm in SW England btw and also only had a choice of Black or Grey. I wanted black anyway so no bother. Excited to try it out!
Haha I'm just like you, can't help but swap phones when something new and shiny arrives. I'll probably sell next year and get a Oneplus then upgrade again and so on...
The Note is too similar to the S range for me to trade for. Other than the S Pen of course. I had three phones last year and I'm currently using the Xiaomi Mi5S Plus. Shouldn't have bothered with this one, just wanted to try it out.
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Exact same thing with me, I had a Gold S6 before, the black option looks amazing so I pre-ordered the phone in black. Shipping starts on the 20th and I was one of the first ever to pre-order it, meaning I will probably be one of the first to get it too :fingers-crossed:
Ever since the first leaks of the black variant I wanted to get mine in black, the color looks so amazingly slick and clean, an uniform piece of screen and amazing design
The note 8 will have curves the same as the note 7 did...which was wider than the s7.
Hello everyone,
I''m new here but have been reading up at this site for quite a while.
From tomorrow onwards both these devices will be available for exactly same price in India.
Reasons I'm inclining towards U11 are :-
1. Had a below average experience with G6.
2. Never ever used a HTC device.
3. Really dont care for on the screen navigation keys. ( So dont really wanna wait for U11+ or any other 18:9 design. )
NOW my question to you is if some one could just tell me that U11 has a decent to good battery life. That would make me confident in my decision.
Please set aside your love/hatred for HTC/LG and help a newbie out.
Thanks
Xebeck said:
Hello everyone,
I''m new here but have been reading up at this site for quite a while.
From tomorrow onwards both these devices will be available for exactly same price in India.
Reasons I'm inclining towards U11 are :-
1. Had a below average experience with G6.
2. Never ever used a HTC device.
3. Really dont care for on the screen navigation keys. ( So dont really wanna wait for U11+ or any other 18:9 design. )
NOW my question to you is if some one could just tell me that U11 has a decent to good battery life. That would make me confident in my decision.
Please set aside your love/hatred for HTC/LG and help a newbie out.
Thanks
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Regardless of what I say, it really sounds like you made up your mind before coming here. Regardless, check out the Battery Life Thread that is running in the discussions section. You may be surprised.
Long explanation short...we are all happy with our devices. The biggest gripe would be from those who are still waiting on Oreo. That's about it.
Edit: Battery Life Thread link below. I felt generous.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/u11/how-to/battery-life-thread-t3619428
Thank you.
And you're right.
My decision is done.
AarSyl said:
Regardless of what I say, it really sounds like you made up your mind before coming here. Regardless, check out the Battery Life Thread that is running in the discussions section. You may be surprised.
Long explanation short...we are all happy with our devices. The biggest gripe would be from those who are still waiting on Oreo. That's about it.
Edit: Battery Life Thread link below. I felt generous.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/u11/how-to/battery-life-thread-t3619428
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I'm gonna order a U11 for myself tonight after office.
Just one more help...
Out of Blue, Silver and Red, which one looks best out in real life. As pics on screen don't do justice.
Thanks.
Black one is out of stock.
Xebeck said:
I'm gonna order a U11 for myself tonight after office.
Just one more help...
Out of Blue, Silver and Red, which one looks best out in real life. As pics on screen don't do justice.
Thanks.
Black one is out of stock.
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Get solar red one. I have it. Its freaking awesome ...
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Xebeck said:
I'm gonna order a U11 for myself tonight after office.
Just one more help...
Out of Blue, Silver and Red, which one looks best out in real life. As pics on screen don't do justice.
Thanks.
Black one is out of stock.
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Blue and Solar Red for me
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Get solar red one. I have it. Its freaking awesome ...
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mlodykaras said:
Blue and Solar Red for me
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Thanks...
I also wanna go crazy with Solar Red...
But fear it might look a little girly after my initial ' love phase with new phone ' wears off...
???
I also hesitated between solar red and amazing silver and in the end picked up amazing silver. Solar red is cool but i worried that after some time it might bored me as it is very catchy. Amazing silver looks really cool and keeps "neutrality" in the same time.
Hope that you get what i mean
there is no solar red for the u11+ in fact the phone has a sort of "fake" release as its virtually impossible to buy it in many places even main EMEA markets in which it was announced
ryjek5X said:
I also hesitated between solar red and amazing silver and in the end picked up amazing silver. Solar red is cool but i worried that after some time it might bored me as it is very catchy. Amazing silver looks really cool and keeps "neutrality" in the same time.
Hope that you get what i mean
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Fark Fark faaaarrk...
Silver went out of stock on Flipkart...
Now it's Blu or red for me
And I got what you meant ?
I think
amit_sen said:
Get solar red one. I have it. Its freaking awesome ...
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Hi...
I heard that the red version has a gap along the edges at the back... Where the back glass does not merge properly with the metal and dust settles there...
Is that common in all solar red ones or some defective units.
What about your phone?
Thanks
AarSyl said:
Regardless of what I say, it really sounds like you made up your mind before coming here. Regardless, check out the Battery Life Thread that is running in the discussions section. You may be surprised.
Long explanation short...we are all happy with our devices. The biggest gripe would be from those who are still waiting on Oreo. That's about it.
Edit: Battery Life Thread link below. I felt generous.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/u11/how-to/battery-life-thread-t3619428
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amit_sen said:
Get solar red one. I have it. Its freaking awesome ...
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mlodykaras said:
Blue and Solar Red for me
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ryjek5X said:
I also hesitated between solar red and amazing silver and in the end picked up amazing silver. Solar red is cool but i worried that after some time it might bored me as it is very catchy. Amazing silver looks really cool and keeps "neutrality" in the same time.
Hope that you get what i mean
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hamdir said:
there is no solar red for the u11+ in fact the phone has a sort of "fake" release as its virtually impossible to buy it in many places even main EMEA markets in which it was announced
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One final question ( it's taken this long as all three colors other than red had been out of stock for my PIN code, now they're available)...
How are the security updates by HTC?
Do they leave you waiting all the time.
Heard they've given just one security update since June.
Thanks
There were 3 since June.
Hurrahhh.... Ordered it right now for Rs 45000 on Flipkart sale.
Saphire Blue color.
Any good tempered glass screen protector for it in India?
Cheers
Hello, I just purchased a brand new S7 2 days ago.
Awesome phone, although i have 3 concerns:
1. A hardly observable pink tint towards the bottom of the screen.
2. The phone heats quite a lot when i charge it using fast charge.
2. I compared the phone's display with a S7 edge's display(1 year old phone) and a S6 EDGE(2 years old phone) from a two co-workers and i found they are slightly different in terms of white colour --- Mine has a tone of very pure white, Their phones have a tone of a yellowish white.
My questions are:
-are these 3 facts mentioned above real motives to return the phone?
-are they small defects which are gonna degenerate over time?
-which one has the proper display? mine or their?
Thanks!
Lawr3nce said:
Hello, I just purchased a brand new S7 2 days ago.
Awesome phone, although i have 3 concerns:
1. A hardly observable pink tint towards the bottom of the screen.
2. The phone heats quite a lot when i charge it using fast charge.
2. I compared the phone's display with a S7 edge's display(1 year old phone) and a S6 EDGE(2 years old phone) from a two co-workers and i found they are slightly different in terms of white colour --- Mine has a tone of very pure white, Their phones have a tone of a yellowish white.
My questions are:
-are these 3 facts mentioned above real motives to return the phone?
-are they small defects which are gonna degenerate over time?
-which one has the proper display? mine or their?
Thanks!
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1. Hardly observable = ignore it?
2. Well obviously
3. You want your white screen to look more yellow?
- Huh? Why you asking us if you should return your phone, your choice
- No
- All are proper, none are identical
Get control of your OCD
*Detection* said:
1. Hardly observable = ignore it?
2. Well obviously
3. You want your white screen to look more yellow?
- Huh? Why you asking us if you should return your phone, your choice
- No
- All are proper, none are identical
Get control of your OCD
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Thanks for the reply
But i just wanna know if i bought a faulty unit and if this pink tint will degenerate(in time) into something worse?
Lawr3nce said:
Thanks for the reply
But i just wanna know if i bought a faulty unit and if this pink tint will degenerate(in time) into something worse?
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I already answered that question
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I already answered that question
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Ok. Thanks again.
I returned the phone and got my money back. I don't wanna pay hard worked money and not get perfection
After all, you get it for performance(ok here)and good looking(not the case here)
Lawr3nce said:
Ok. Thanks again.
I returned the phone and got my money back. I don't wanna pay hard worked money and not get perfection
After all, you get it for performance(ok here)and good looking(not the case here)
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There was nothing wrong with it, as I stated
If you're looking for perfection you're never going to find it