Essential Official Android Thread

[Tha Snowman]

i dont know what phone he has but i almost ALWAYS have to open google wallet before i make a transaction. this despite google saying that you dont even have to turn to phone on before you swipe. shyts a hassle. i have a nexus 4 too. im going to try it again in a second when i step out for a coffee, see if i can do it with the phone asleep as advertised

You cannot do it with the phone asleep, as the nfc chip is turned off with the screen. I seem to remember the newer CM builds having an option to keep it on when I last had a nexus.

 

[Ukbrotha]

Google edition S4 and HTC One now on sale on the play store. wish I could afford one.

 

[Rohiggidy]

New 'Google Play Edition' phones show off subtle changes to Android OS

New 'Google Play Edition' phones show off subtle changes to Android OS | Computerworld Blogs

 

[Rohiggidy]

A slightly tweaked app drawer design

The app drawer on both Google Play Edition devices has been scaled down; it now has four icons in each row instead of five, as is the case on the Nexus 4. This makes for a less dense and more spaced-out appearance.

A new live wallpaper

The default wallpaper on both the Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play Edition is something called Sun Beam. It's basically a red- and orange-tinted version of the Phase Beam live wallpaper that's been a part of Android for a while now.

A different boot animation

This last one's likely something made explicitly for these Google Play Edition devices, but it's new and interesting nonetheless: a different boot animation.

It makes sense, since these aren't actually Nexus devices and thus wouldn't use the Nexus boot animation -- but also aren't traditional Samsung and HTC devices and wouldn't use those companies' animations, either.

Here's what both phones show at startup instead (this video also demonstrates the aforementioned new live wallpaper and app drawer design)

A new Camera app interface

In place of the circular series of options that appears when you touch your finger to an open area in the current stock Android Camera app, the new Google Play Edition devices utilize an updated semicircle design -- a curved line that appears above your finger with five options.

The options, in order, are toggling HDR mode, adjusting the exposure, accessing more options, adjusting the flash mode, and switching between the front and rear camera.

When you move your finger over "More Options," a new semicircle appears slightly higher up on the screen with five new choices: toggling whether location data is stored with images, activating a countdown timer, adjusting the image size, adjusting the white balance, and selecting a scene mode. Most subsequent options appear in similar semicircle UIs instead of more traditional pop-up menus; the exception, curiously, is "Picture Size," which still uses a pop-up menu (and kind of sticks out like a sore thumb as a result).

 

[Rohiggidy]

 

[NatiboyB]

are these the developer models? oh the google editions. Can't you just install cymod 10.1 and get damn near real time vanilla?

 

[Czerka]

aanyone got the samsung s4 active?

 

[Rohiggidy]

natiboy at it again. Why dont you just install a custom rom response

This is an experiment and what would buying a developer edition do to fix android broken system

This is for people who dont want to flash roms every night or use a skinned phone

The people have another choice

 

[NatiboyB]

natiboy at it again. Why dont you just install a custom rom response

This is an experiment and what would buying a developer edition do to fix android broken system

This is for people who dont want to flash roms every night or use a skinned phone

The people have another choice

the price will be 550-700 I'm under the assumption only tech nerds are paying that.

 

[Czerka]

the price will be 550-700 I'm under the assumption only tech nerds are paying that.

shyts gonna flop

they better not kill the nexus line, nobodys gonna pay 700 just for stock

 

[Rohiggidy]

Tech nerds makes up the internet. You think people have time like you to flash and update roms nightly

This is another choice/option.....you know android=choices and ios= no choice....Keep your gs4 and run CM10

 

[Rohiggidy]

shyts gonna flop

they better not kill the nexus line, nobodys gonna pay 700 just for stock

see thats the issue with you fools everything is about numbers. Before the iphone did you know how many phones blackberry or palm or those dummy phones sold??? Now its all about flop or smash. This is not hip hop music calm your ass down. Google dont care about numbers if so the nexus line would of been dead at nexus one. The galaxy nexus was released at 750$. It was released on verizon at $299. How quickly people forget. Google plasy store subsizided the galaxy nexus. The android lead clearly said the nexus line wont die

 

[Rohiggidy]

 

[Panther]

I want that Htc One Google Edition

That pricetag tho

 

[Family Lives Matter]

talk to me a month after purchase

N4 was my first android I went from an iphone 5 to that

The One is:

Faster
better camera
more responsive
better build quality
better sound (both front facing speakers & through headphones)
battery is much better
plus has little features like the remote (which I probably wont use anyway)


Unless it starts crashing after every call

HTC One>>>>>>>