roboguy12
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@Haloruler64 @MichaelLe1 I have to respectfully disagree. In my opinion, plastic always feels cheap to me, even outside the realm of smartphones. You can take a Macbook for example and compare it to an otherwise superior (spec-wise, I'm not talking about OS preferences) PC, but the Macbook automatically looks more sleek and of higher quality because it's not made out of plastic. Granted this is just one opinion, but I'd like to see a shift towards more solid-feeling metal phones because plastic seems to lower the perceived quality almost immediately. But of course, this is just my opinion and you're entitled to your own as well (not trying to start a battle here).
@MichaelLe1 The build quality and design of HTC phones (apart from the lack of onscreen buttons) is unparalleled in the industry. I don't see how Samsung justifies making their low-quality plastic phones when clearly it's possible to be so much better.
Falcon was a great app, but seeing as how I don't use it anymore I just freed up my token. Hopefully others will follow suit.
If they pushed this down to ~$500 or so I could see it selling really well. The touch screen component doesn't make a whole lot of sense for ChromeOS and I don't really see the purpose of having it unless it could act like a Yoga-esque computer and fold backward and double as a tablet. For people looking to buy a computer though (and not a tablet, so we'll ignore the fact that you can get a killer tablet for less than $500) I see no reason why anyone would spend $1300 on this when the 13-inch (same size as this) Macbook Pro is roughly the same amount, and also a full-featured computer. Google should be playing up the market of a cheap alternative for a computer that targets the average user, and a $1300 price point will most certainly not meet that.
I find myself using the multitasking key just as much (if not more than) my home button, and it really bothers me that OEMs have yet to make their devices with onscreen buttons. It's been the Android norm since ICS, yet we still have HTC and Samsung making horrid capacitive buttons that don't react to screen rotation, offer problems with legacy menu buttons, and keep Android looking like stone-age Gingerbread devices.
@JQuest81 That's not trollish at all. How can they be expected to make a phone when they can barely make an app? That's an extremely logical concern.
Geez, why are people still buying/holding onto their Gingerbread phones? They're YEARS old at this point! I can't imagine they still even function well, ignoring the fact that they're so outdated and probably filled with OEM crap like the original Sense or <shudders> MotoBlur.
What about those physical cards we were teased with a while back?
I mean, it fits in with Apple's mantra of "just keep everything the same, only slightly bigger"
I think the removal of iPod Touches would ultimately be a horrible decision. You're not going to buy your 12 year old son a brand new iPhone, you're going to buy him an iPod Touch, and for many I feel like the Touch is like a gateway to an iPhone.
Still a lack of software buttons, and now they're in the wrong order. When will HTC pay attention to Android design standards? Honestly, what's the point of messing with the order most Android users already know? This is reminiscent of Gingerbread-era phones where every OEM had to put their buttons in a different order to "stand out" or whatever, yet all it did was create a disjointed feeling between devices. The direction forward is uniformity over things like this, and HTC is moving backwards. (Especially since they're still hardware buttons anyway)
@wilfreb While that may be true, it's wordings like this that start flame wars.
I'm not about to start a flame war here and I'm not calling the author a "fanboy" or anything like that, but he really should try out Jelly Bean. It addresses every single one of his issues with iOS. This comment will undoubtedly spawn a fury of "stfu fandroid" or other various immature hate comments, but from a completely bipartisan standpoint, I think the author would like Android. It's come a long way, and issues/upgrades with Android are more likely to come than with iOS at this point.
STILL no software buttons, Samsung? I am disappoint.
A Galaxy S III without those god-awful physical buttons? It seems Samsung is finally getting on board with current Android designs! Looks good, if real.
That's what I don't understand about Windows 8 (on a PC). It's a computer, so it has no use having a Wikipedia "app" or a Facebook "app" when it has this wonderful app called the Internet.
Google absolutely needs to redesign maps, especially the Navigation part. There are so many better ways it can be done, and it actually amazes me that they haven't already.
Directing people down a street that can cause traffic buildups is a mere inconvenience, not dangerously misleading. This isn't even close to a comparable issue.
@QDOG8 If not, it's certainly very obvious here how little Motorola skins Android, and that's a huge plus when compared to the hideous show TouchWiz makes for itself. What's with the bright green Samsung? Are you forgetting this isn't Gingerbread anymore?
It's about damn time a major third-party updates their Android app before their iOS version. If only more companies would follow suit.