Engadget
https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/24/essential-phone-ph-1-review/
Buisness Insider
REVIEW: The Essential Phone is a superb smartphone - Business Insider
Wired
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/essential-phone-review
USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...w-essential-phone-live-up-its-name/576278001/
The verge
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/18/16165040/essential-phone-review-android-andy-rubin
Yahoo
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/essential-phone-beautiful-alternative-apples-iphone-194922227.html
MIT tech
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/...-699-phone-thats-beautiful-but-not-essential/
PC MAG
https://www.pcmag.com/review/355633/essential-phone-ph-1
Android and me
http://androidandme.com/2017/08/reviews/essential-phone-review/
Video reviews
Engadget Youtube review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Y_awjnIIs
PC MAG
https://youtu.be/7eyTBwdAgqo
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Updated
Mostly positive, though the general consensus seems to be that the camera is terrible. Le sigh...
https://youtu.be/fo7gxAx0pL4
At least there is no ram management issues.
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For all of you current Android users, besides xda, what sites do you go to to read up on Android? Where do you get your news, reviews, & all of that stuff?
I go to pocketnow & engadget but I've noticed there are quite a few sites out there that are dedicated to just Android. I'd like to know some of the more popular ones so I can maybe add it to my list of frequented sites.
Thanks
I really don't call engadget a reliable site they do things with android phones that a normal person wouldn't do. Like play music while recording a video in 1080p and says the sound is horrible. Usually phonedog, smartphone envy sometimes and tech buffalo. Usually have good reviews of the phone.
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Android Central is good. Check it out
I check Phandroid because they're local to me, Droid-Life because they'll sometimes do an article on an app that's cool, Pocketnow, Engadget and sometimes Android Centeral or Android Police depending on who the source is for articles I care about. Also, T-Mo News when I want to see what's up with the Sensation
The usual engadget, cnet, phone arena, ars technica. Androidcentral is my favorite dedicated android site. Androidguys and androidandme seem to have dropped when it comes to quality the past few months.
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IntoMobile, AndroidPolice, DroidLife, Engadget, This is my next, Pocketnow, Pocketlint.
engadget, phandroid, android and me, planet android..... a have quite a few in my google reader.
The bad thing when you subscribe multiple websites is, you can be reading the same news 10 times a day.....
Wrong section
I also check out phandroid. Great place to ask questions and get some feedback.
My favorite place for specs and reviews is gsmarena.com but they are not without their occasional errors. Still, my fav place.
Coolsmartphone techradar and pocketnow
Today I received an email announcement from PhotoVine. I could finally go download the app. I see a link for the iPhone app. Surely there is also one for the Android as PHOTOVINE IS OWNED BY GOOGLE. It must have been omitted by mistake. Checking the Android Market, I see no "PhotoVine." More digging on the net reveals that there is indeed NO app ready yet for the Android.
Talk about DIS! Google fragments the damn Android platform then doesn't have the decency to treat us as equal users with iPhone. If it takes more work to fully support Android, that's not my problem. The only message I hear is DIS for us Android users. They should at least delay the iPhone app release until they can support both at the same time.
If Google wants to treat us this way, hello iPhone 5.
Bye...
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oh well, see ya..
what's photovine anyway?
Cool story bro
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Thanks for seeing me off so quickly. My contract has at least another year to go.
Photovine is an social photo service with an App made by a Google company that is not available for Android.
dynamicpda said:
Thanks for seeing me off so quickly. My contract has at least another year to go.
Photovine is an social photo service with an App made by a Google company that is not available for Android.
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doesnt the pool party do the same?
Do they have a mobile website you can use instead of an app?
Have to agree with the original poster here. Photovine must be an acquisition - not only did they release only to iOS but they have a fairly active twitter feed hyping the product - this should have been released to Android at the same time or at least shortly thereafter. Discussions should be on Google+ not twitter - not saying it has to be exclusive but to have no connection to loyal android/ Google users is wrong.
Since Larry Page came back as CEO I have been impressed that Google once again seems to be releasing and innovating at near warp speed again - sorry but so far Photovine has been old Google all the way. Not dumping my HTC Evo or Motorola Xoom (errr Google Xoom?) - but I'm disappointed - now get back to work Googlers and get the android version done!
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They're trying to tap into the fitness-fad that Apple is pushing into, that Samsung is spearheading. Because they think that's where the money is to be made which is why they're pushing for Android Wear to stay competitive. I think it's a waste of time. On the other hand, the new tools provided for their cloud services and online debugging sounds neat! I hope Google will continue to push software performance before features such that we can work toward improving battery life above all else.
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They're trying to tap into the fitness-fad that Apple is pushing into, that Samsung is spearheading. Because they think that's where the money is to be made which is why they're pushing for Android Wear to stay competitive. I think it's a waste of time. On the other hand, the new tools provided for their cloud services and online debugging sounds neat! I hope Google will continue to push software performance before features such that we can work toward improving battery life above all else.
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I kinda felt the same. However, their Material Design concept I like and I hope they continue to push that directive.
The idea of being able to design in layers to unify the visual experience across platforms sounds nice. I hope they put out the proper SDKs soon so we can test this out.
EDIT: According to PhoneArena: the beta SDKs will come out tomorrow. Nice!
My reaction was pretty meh
Didn't really think they lived upto the expectation. 90% was all vapourware. Auto, TV are niche segments. Some fitness related API's which again looks vapourware like that [email protected] thingy..
I don't see any massive changes in Android atleast in UI or features. Yea, some 64-bit and ART and stuffs. Didn't find the material UI any good either. It was ok, but nothing groundbreaking as of now.
Let's see how it works when things are polished. As of now, I don't feel any great excitement.
Google I/O is more developer oriented not much consumer information development stuff is pretty cool, though just not as "exciting" as a shiny new nexus or android silver announcement.
Also what is up with all the protestors... so annoying. Apparently google is making killer robots, I just hope I can ADB into them.
I cannot watch it due to being limited with my data right at the moment. Just wondering, has a new android version been released?
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Apparently google is making killer robots, I just hope I can ADB into them.
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That would be so awesome hahaha
abumy said:
I cannot watch it due to being limited with my data right at the moment. Just wondering, has a new android version been released?
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All of what they spoke about pretty much concerned the new platform "L" which is released on the "cardboards" each person at I/O received (I believe it is the Nexus 9) which is running the new platform I believe.
IAmTheOneTheyCallNeo said:
That would be so awesome hahaha
All of what they spoke about pretty much concerned the new platform "L" which is released on the "cardboards" each person at I/O received (I believe it is the Nexus 9) which is running the new platform I believe.
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The cardboard was a vr headset.
http://www.androidauthority.com/google-cardboard-vr-headset-397800/
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Google I/O
I really liked the Material Design concept and Default ART.Also Google is partnering with Indian mobile players for $100 Google mobile devices
I prefer ios 8 for new functions on messege app
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Hello all,
I scored a brand new Zuli https://zuli.io Presence Pack for $10. The Android app is severely lacking, and it looks like the company has lost interest. They're frequently asked questions page lists this:
Does Zuli offer an API or SDK?
Zuli Support04/05/2016
We unfortunately*do not offer an API or SDK at the moment, but it's certainly something we would love to share in the near future. If you would like to be added to our API/SDK mailing list for updates, please reach out to us at*[email protected]
I have reached out to them but have yet to hear back. Are we out of luck without the API/SDK?
Thanks.
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