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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #40 on: October 02, 2013, 08:45:20 AM »
Quote from: Analixus on October 02, 2013, 12:47:38 AM
Hifiman makes stuff in Vietnam?
From my information, at least earphones are made at Sunrise. And I have some hints, indicating that iso's are possibly made there also. But I can't give 100% guarantee. And shh. :P
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Quote from: Drakkard on October 01, 2013, 11:43:02 PM
Damn, that Sony article is depressing. Did not through it is that bad. I can call Sony my favorite brand of all, so uh.. :(
And if Samsung is not doing so well now, I do not know which company is? They basically caught up with Apple, and I think they still have some advantage left.
They're doing incredibly well. Apple and Samsung make money selling phones. Almost no one else does. HTC had to give up their remaining stake in Beats to help keep the lights on. Hopefully that will get that pointless crap off of their phones. The one thing that would get me to still look at the One Max despite the SD 600 is if they do another Google Edition. THAT would be a big deal, and it's something Samsung obviously can't match with the Note 3. Sense is as bad as TouchWiz, and I have absolutely no use for Blinkfeed or any of that other bullshit.
That make more sense yea.
Did not like HTC myself, and never considered a phone from them. Never remember anything interesting from them, every model I saw was just another general android phone in cheap plastic.
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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #41 on: October 02, 2013, 02:58:10 PM »
Quote from: DigitalFreak on October 02, 2013, 04:05:32 AM
Excuse my ignorance but what 1 TB player? Could you post a link to that 1 TB player because that's news to me.

I think he means this. Basically what Olive has been doing for a decade or so. It's fine, but this category is already well served with various network streamers and players from Pioneer and Marantz and the like. A "me too!" product is hardly ground breaking.

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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #42 on: October 02, 2013, 03:18:25 PM »
Quote from: Drakkard on October 02, 2013, 08:45:20 AM
That make more sense yea.
Did not like HTC myself, and never considered a phone from them. Never remember anything interesting from them, every model I saw was just another general android phone in cheap plastic.

That's actually the one area where HTC is differentiating themselves. Samsung makes everything out of plastic, and LG looks at everything Samsung does and says "copy it and make it worse!" The Xperias are basically just rectangles with no real design at all, their only selling point is you can take pictures of your fish from inside the tank with them. The only company on the Android side doing industrial design comparable to Apple right now is HTC. The problems are: 1. their obsession with their custom software crap, and 2. their obsession with minimalism. Android phones used to have 4 buttons, then everybody got rid of the search button and went to 3. Fine. Then Google (stupidly) deprecated the Menu key, and replaced it with a multitasking button. So everybody except Samsung got rid of the menu key.

The only company that makes any money selling Android phones is Samsung, all of their phones still have menu keys, and all of their phones work with all Android apps without the incredibly irritating on screen menu key that wastes 10% of your screen real estate for NO REASON. No one else seems to have noticed this. HTC decided that 3 buttons was still too many, and went to 2 - back and home, with an HTC logo in the middle that happens to be an unactivated capacitive touch button. Whaaa?? Whose genius idea was that? The smart thing to do would be to give users the option to make it either menu or multitasking. That would take about two seconds of work in software. Instead they did the dumb thing and just left it turned off, so in order to make the One usable, you have to root it and load a custom ROM with the HTC button turned on, and then choose what you want it to do. HTC is making great hardware, but the people in charge of the rest of it are all total idiots.

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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #43 on: October 02, 2013, 03:36:56 PM »
I like the design of HTC One (I have tiny hands), but reviewers have stated issues with the build quality. I.e. the power button at the top permanently depresses into the body after about a month. Guess they haven't improved since their WinMo days. :(
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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #44 on: October 02, 2013, 03:43:04 PM »
Quote from: Kirosia on October 02, 2013, 03:36:56 PM
I like the design of HTC One (I have tiny hands), but reviewers have stated issues with the build quality. I.e. the power button at the top permanently depresses into the body after about a month. Guess they haven't improved since their WinMo days. :(

That doesn't shock me, the previous One X was pretty notorious for build problems.
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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #45 on: October 02, 2013, 03:56:31 PM »
I don't have a problem with the rationale behind getting rid of the menu key. That button was always context-dependent anyway -- on some screens the button worked, and on other screens the menu button did nothing at all. Just make developers cook in a soft menu button into their interface when it actually is applicable. That forces developers to be thoughtful with their interface and menus, and makes things more user-friendly with a visual cue that there is a menu to access (rather than moving to different screens and pressing menu hoping one of them is the menu you want).

The 10% of screen real estate being wasted is just the legacy apps that haven't updated to the new UI yet.
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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #46 on: October 02, 2013, 04:08:48 PM »
Quote from: DaveBSC on October 02, 2013, 03:18:25 PM
That's actually the one area where HTC is differentiating themselves. Samsung makes everything out of plastic, and LG looks at everything Samsung does and says "copy it and make it worse!" The Xperias are basically just rectangles with no real design at all, their only selling point is you can take pictures of your fish from inside the tank with them. The only company on the Android side doing industrial design comparable to Apple right now is HTC. The problems are: 1. their obsession with their custom software crap, and 2. their obsession with minimalism. Android phones used to have 4 buttons, then everybody got rid of the search button and went to 3. Fine. Then Google (stupidly) deprecated the Menu key, and replaced it with a multitasking button. So everybody except Samsung got rid of the menu key.

The only company that makes any money selling Android phones is Samsung, all of their phones still have menu keys, and all of their phones work with all Android apps without the incredibly irritating on screen menu key that wastes 10% of your screen real estate for NO REASON. No one else seems to have noticed this. HTC decided that 3 buttons was still too many, and went to 2 - back and home, with an HTC logo in the middle that happens to be an unactivated capacitive touch button. Whaaa?? Whose genius idea was that? The smart thing to do would be to give users the option to make it either menu or multitasking. That would take about two seconds of work in software. Instead they did the dumb thing and just left it turned off, so in order to make the One usable, you have to root it and load a custom ROM with the HTC button turned on, and then choose what you want it to do. HTC is making great hardware, but the people in charge of the rest of it are all total idiots.

I've examined over 20 HTC Ones and no two are identical. Of the lot, only one had perfect fit and finish. It reminds me of the iPhone 3G days with bezels ever so slightly off in one way or another. The device looks great, the front facing speakers are powerful enough to share your content with others, but HTC has a long way to go in terms of manufacturing tolerances.

And big ups to Quest for knowing what's up with the on screen buttons  :)p7. It's one of those things that is slightly annoying when you are dealing with apps that aren't optimized for it, yet, but will be great once the whole developer ecosystem adapts.
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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #47 on: October 02, 2013, 06:25:19 PM »
Quote from: Questhate on October 02, 2013, 03:56:31 PM
I don't have a problem with the rationale behind getting rid of the menu key. That button was always context-dependent anyway -- on some screens the button worked, and on other screens the menu button did nothing at all. Just make developers cook in a soft menu button into their interface when it actually is applicable. That forces developers to be thoughtful with their interface and menus, and makes things more user-friendly with a visual cue that there is a menu to access (rather than moving to different screens and pressing menu hoping one of them is the menu you want).

The 10% of screen real estate being wasted is just the legacy apps that haven't updated to the new UI yet.

Oh I understand the rationale, I just don't like it. By far the biggest rub I have with menu button-less phones is when using Dolphin Browser, which is my preferred browser on Android. I have it set to 100% full screen, and pressing the menu button brings up the URL bar and control buttons. That can't be replicated without a dedicated menu key, so what you get with Dolphin in FS mode is a giant black bar with the menu button on it that's always there, which misses the entire point of full screen. On my GF's Droid DNA I have to use Chrome because using Dolphin like that is enraging.
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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #48 on: October 02, 2013, 09:13:57 PM »
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Re: Check Out My Rant Concerning Audiophile DAP's
« Reply #49 on: October 03, 2013, 06:52:32 AM »
I hate Samsung's pentile displays, AMOLED or not. I know it does not bother most people (most can't tell a difference), especially as resolutions continue to increase, but I can always see a clear difference.

Quote from: zerodeefex on October 02, 2013, 04:08:48 PM
I've examined over 20 HTC Ones and no two are identical. Of the lot, only one had perfect fit and finish. It reminds me of the iPhone 3G days with bezels ever so slightly off in one way or another. The device looks great, the front facing speakers are powerful enough to share your content with others, but HTC has a long way to go in terms of manufacturing tolerances.

FWIW, my HTC One from T-Mobile is flawless. I had the HTC Inspire 4G before that, and it was extremely solid and near flawless as well. I've known friends with the HTC Incredible (original), and those were also solid and near flawless...they just happened to treat their phones like crap over time.

And, for once, I actually don't hate Sense 5 enough to remove it. Granted, I've yet to find a good custom ROM that has T-Mobile's Wi-Fi calling, a feature I need. I would probably change otherwise.
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