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The flagship reviews and some techinical difficulties kept the Friday Debate Podcast from releasing on time – but to be fair, we recorded this on Friday so it still makes sense! Jokes aside, we have Lanh filling in for Andrew this week as we talk about the age-old battle between specifications and user experience. With phones like the Moto E coming along with all of these high profile releases from Samsung and HTC, we talk about whether the general usage experience really needs high end specifications. We also ponder how raw specs drive perception of a phone. And finally, we touch upon the Uh Oh program that was just recently announced by HTC in which users can get a brand new phone when their current One M9 fails or gets damaged.
It’s a pretty packed episode, so make sure you tune into this episode #9 of the FDP!
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I have been using the galaxy S series since the s2 and never cared for removable battery or sd card.
Will miss the waterproof in the s5 though, it just gave you peace of mind.
Im not too bothered about the non-removeable battery on the s6/edge or sd card. although i do have all the pics and vids that i take at the moment on my note 3 on the sd card, i just copy eveything onto my laptop and external hard drive. like others have said, i carry my usb cable with me, i can charge my phone in the car or carry my battery pack… the thin phone does look appealing but a slightly bigger battery wouldnt hurt, even if the chip is better at power consumption… i dont mind the extra weight to the phone… but when it comes to a phone, for me, i like the top spec… i love the look of the s6 edge but i love my note 3 at the moment and looking forward to seeing the note 5…
bought the zopo 998, do yourself a favour, do not touch that piece of garbage!
People hating on non-removable battery, you have to understand that these companies don't make phones for you. They make phones that will make the most profit. This means cutting out things that 99% of people don't care about. I live in Silicon Valley, and I know literally 0 people that own spare batteries for their phones.
For a removable battery to actually be useful, you have to be a person that falls under all the following:
1. Uses their phone for several hours a day
2. Doesn't have regular access to a charger during the day
3. Doesn't want to bring around a portable charger to charge on the go
I guarantee you this is a small minority of smartphone users. So manufacturers are not going to keep spending money on making something that hurts their bottom line.
If you're in that small minority, there are alternatives, but you're just going to have to live with the fact that OEMs don't care much about your very specific needs.
Have a look please
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hook.aa.up.ff
ok samsung makes ssd's. In the galaxy series since it was made samsung has always put the slowest nand flash they could. The s5 has 25 mb/s read, the s6 has over 200 mb/s so thats a bigger jump from a hdd to an ssd. Samsung is the first company to increase the performance of the storage which is very important. Get a laptop if you need over 128 gb of storage. Also you dont listen to that much music, unless you dont take your headphones out, and listen to it for a couple years straight. it takes 177days 3 hours to listen to only 16 gb of music so shut up and get google play music or stopify because their is not that many songs that are good.
You should do podcasts on soundcloudnor other places that let you listern to when your phone is locked
internal storage does die, my nexus 7 (2013) died 54 weeks after I purchased it. I know it's the hdd because when I go into the recovery menu the hdd doesn't mount :-S. Dunno if the hdd itself is corrupted or no longer soldered onto the mobo due to heat.ÂÂÂ
I really like the podcast, I have to say. I think the debates are informative and easy to listen to while not being boring at all. I hope you keep up the good work
i did have a Galaxy Nexus, too! And I also did have a spare battery for that phone. man, that standby battery drain was just insane!!ÂÂÂ
How to break a micro SD card? I've never broken mine and I don't know what would break it 😛
I have a Galaxy S5 and i think 32GB of storage is enough. Now a day we have cloud storage which in my case i upload my music,pics,video, ect on the cloud (Google Music, Google Drive) and it doesn't take no space on my phone. I change my phone every year and my 16GB +8GB SD storage is not even half way on capacity on 11 month regular usage. If the New storage capacity on the GS6 is 2x faster as Samsung claim then is a welcome ðŸ˜ÅÂ
By the way i totally agree with Joe Hindy specs is everything.
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@Joseph Hindy u r going to pay more then $300 for a 128 gig S6. It's going to be atleast $500 for 128 gig. The 32 gig will prob start @ $300 subsidized I'm sure. Love you alls podcasts ! U guys should do it like pocketnow though where we can actually see u guys !
Hey I love your videos and trust all your information so can you do a review on the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime please
Very nice pod cast, everything was pretty good till the end….
Yes, some day there would be no 32bit phones ÂÂÂ
I would just like to point out that there's just no reason for having 64bit architecture with less than 4gb of memory… doesn't make it any faster or stable…
64bit is just a selling point for "geeks" that don't know what is its actual purpose…
I'm sorry for the buzz-kill, but until we actually need (and have) more than 4gb of ram in our devices… 64bit will keep being just a selling point towards "geeks". If you buy a phone with 64 bit capability, but 3gb of ram or less, is not future proof when it comes to 64bit… if doesn't have more than 4gb ram, than there's just no difference…..
Not only Windows still supports a whole interface in 32 bit, but a lot of programs are still running in 32bit (such as chrome, spotify, steam, avast, intel ME, loads of java apps… they all still run in 32bit…) 64bit only supports more memory (when need it). If the device or program doesn't need more memory, than most likely it will be programmed in 32bit
Finally, don't expect this 32bit obsolescence to happen any time soon… the fist 64bit capable processor to hit consumer market was more than 10 years ago… and yet we are in this picture…  as long as we have apps or programs that need less than 4gb of memory, there will always be 32bit architecture.ÂÂÂ
I'm glad you guys use a mostly black background it saves battery life on my OLED display phone.ÂÂÂ
if you want best specs? android flagship phones there
but you want best user exp? iphone is there!!! no fanboy here…
 i used both android and ios (ipad mini 1st gen and old galaxy pocket and buy soon a new phone and that is sony m4 aqua of asus zenfone 2)
Specs make the experience possible. Lack of experience can easily ruin great specs. But a great experience isn't possible with really poor specs. However, some companies like apple, like to use beefier under the hood engineering to create the appearance of lesser specs.
I still can't figure out why companies can't put a freaking big battery on their phones. They are still competing for the sexiest and thinnest one which sucks. I have mophie on my iphone 5 ever since i bought it 2 years ago. I don't mind the extra thickness as long as it makes me happy throughout the day (power user here)