Journal #8609
Posted 9 years ago2015-09-27 03:45:38 UTC
If anyone even cares and had been following, I now have one of these.
Comes with Android 4.4.2, it updated to 4.4.4 but hasn't offered me 5.x yet. After fiddling with it for a few hours now, I can say the following:
Comes with Android 4.4.2, it updated to 4.4.4 but hasn't offered me 5.x yet. After fiddling with it for a few hours now, I can say the following:
- My older phone has a 140dpi screen. After two years of use everything was good. The new one has a 330dpi screen. After two hours of use, there was no turning back. Everything looks so bloody fuzzy on the old one.
- I actually liked the 3x4 keyboard on the old one. The new one only has a QWERTY keyboard which I find much slower and error-prone. I'll look into installing a custom keyboard or something.
- It's pretty snazzy but I have one gripe: On the contacts list, the old one has an option labelled "Only show contacts with phone numbers". Which is pretty nice. The Moto G has no such option and it displays every Google contact ever. I do not like that. The list gets a bit long.
- It's pretty nice to have more than one app installed at a time.
- I probably don't need to worry about it freezing or hanging for several minutes every time I try to do anything, including nothing.
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The HSPA+ standard has a nominal data transfer speed of 21mbps. My old phone had a max speed of 7mbps. I used to think I was missing out until I found out my carrier caps 3G at 1mbps anyway. Now it makes sense how my friend in the US can do video calls on Skype through 3G and I can barely get a single page to load.
The LTE standard has a nominal data transfer speed of 150mbps. I thought that was pretty fancy, until I found out my carrier caps 4G at 5mbps. That's right, a quarter of 3G speed in other regions.
I can't come up with a single reason to do this. Isn't it better for everyone to leave data rates uncapped? Transactions finish faster, which causes less network congestion, which in turn results in a better service for everybody. I guess not understanding it is probably the reason I wouldn't be a good businessman.
Glad I only wanted 4G as an extra lane to get around network congestion, otherwise I'd probably be really pissed.
Is it only me that misses a smartphone already? Dayum.
I want Whatsapp!
Also, that's a huge bummer on the Carrier caps
As for the caps, I don't mind, it works for me.
If that was mine, I'd have changed it even if I wasn't into the smart features, if only because it's held together with sticky tape. See, Captain? Mine wasn't so bad.
I'd be sticking with this type of phone but sadly I have already been absorbed into convenient things like group chats in WhatsApp and other equally convenient features. But they're better.
Aw nostalgia! I miss the golden age of flip phone and actual buttons
That thing is nearly a decade old and I've replaced the battery once and taped the back cover down a few times. It's an ugly, battered old trooper that won't give up.
I did get the (almost forced) update to Android 5.1.1 a few hours after getting the update to 4.4.4, after which somehow word prediction got worse.
That's why I kinda hate smartphones. I also prefer actual buttons too (I usually type without looking; which is not possible with smartphones afaik).