Google Android catch-all

LiquidMantis wrote:

RE: Browsers, I tuna'ed Dolphin once Chrome came out.

Ditto.

Switching keyboards doesn't seem to help, at least in Dolphin. Swiftkey is also shifty at detecting a login field. It constantly autocorrects my email addresses.

ccoates wrote:

So sometimes I'm filling out Web forms, forums, online shopping, etc., and then whichever field I'm typing in will refuse ANY further input. With online shopping this means starting over, which blows. With forums I usually have to reload the page in a new tab or restart the browser. It drives me crazy.

Is this just an Android thing? A Dolphin browser thing? I'm using Swiftkey but it's happened to me with other keyboards too, including the default.

Has this happened to anyone else?

I'm not sure if that's a Dolphin thing but I have noticed that the browser is becoming buggier and buggier on my iPhone and Nexus. I'm about to give up on it and use Firefox instead. My biggest problem is that sometimes it just won't open new links even though it registers the click.

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I think this is the kind of thing I'd really like, controller mode for playing games, but tablet form for almost everything else.
Anybody know of similar combos?

I don't think LTE is that big a deal; the Nexus 4 will support HSPA+, and that's really fast. Unless you're doing something absolutely bizarre, I can't see needing more than that for a phone -- the last time I was tethering, I was getting something like 20 megabits. Through the air. It's really fine.

Plus, with the ludicrously low data caps, LTE just means you can blow through your monthly allocation in five minutes instead of ten.

I did just have a bad battery day on my Galaxy Nexus, which surprised me. It's never done that before, but I went in to get it a day or two ago, and it was out of juice, and dead, when I was expecting it to be at like 80%. I'm wondering if maybe something in 4.2.2 doesn't like it.

The big difference between the S3 and the Nexus 4 is probably the screen; the S3 uses Samsung's Pentile OLED, which as you noticed, can do slightly funny things to colors, because it's sharing subpixels in a strange way to make the screen cheaper. AFAIK, the Nexus 4 just has a standard LCD screen, and it's apparently much easier to read in sunlight.

Anyone have an older GSM android phone I could purchase?

I'd like to unlock it and use it when I'm in Europe this summer.

A local on G+ got a Nexus 4 and we don't have HSPA+ around here in the boonies, whereas LTE has pretty decent coverage, surprisingly. So personally, that's a pretty good case for LTE.

Sadly.

Lester_King wrote:

Anyone have an older GSM android phone I could purchase?

I'd like to unlock it and use it when I'm in Europe this summer.

I have an already unlocked HTC Aria ("world phone"!) which is not being used. My wife has successfully used it in Russia and Germany last year, but since then has replaced it with an Xperia U.

My crappy laptop was kind enough to die last week and, as it was really only used for web browsing and light word processing, I decided to replace it with a Nexus 10, as . . . you know, I don't care, I just wanted the damn thing. Any advice on stuff I should get for it? In particular, I'd like a decent folio case of some sort, plus any other neat apps and such. I've got an original-run Kindle Fire I like but I didn't want to be utterly chained to Amazon's ecosystem on this one, so went the Full Google.

I don't have a Nexus 10, but I have a Nexus 7. I bought a cheap case I'm pretty impressed with for it, especially considering the price. This looks to be basically the same thing for the N10.

I assume the N10 does the same magnetic sleep and wake thing as the N7, and this includes it. It also gives a couple of angles of tilt stand, and it doesn't wrap over the top of the screen to attach, but instead uses claws on the corners to hold the tablet.

Around the house, I probably won't use it as much, but if I'm putting it in my bag to fly or something, it's nice without being too bulky.

MannishBoy wrote:

I don't have a Nexus 10, but I have a Nexus 7. I bought a cheap case I'm pretty impressed with for it, especially considering the price. This looks to be basically the same thing for the N10.

Yeah, I have the same case too. It is pretty solid for the price.

Suggestions on bluetooth controllers? I like the fact the Nyko Playpad has the analog sticks in the same orientation as the 360's controller (which I greatly prefer over the PS' configuration), but its reviews are less than stellar. I'd like to toss my emulators on the thing and turn it into a nostalgia station in many ways, but I've never found a touchscreen control scheme for an action game that I can even vaguely stand, so most definitely want a controller for it.

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MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Suggestions on bluetooth controllers? I like the fact the Nyko Playpad has the analog sticks in the same orientation as the 360's controller (which I greatly prefer over the PS' configuration), but its reviews are less than stellar. I'd like to toss my emulators on the thing and turn it into a nostalgia station in many ways, but I've never found a touchscreen control scheme for an action game that I can even vaguely stand, so most definitely want a controller for it.

I use my Wii Classic Controller Pro with my phone for that. Works great.

Andy Rubin steps down as head of Android. Sundar Pichai, who was in charge of Chrome and Apps takes over.

Really, really anticipating the Samsung Galaxy s4 pressed tomorrow. I want a big, sexy screen to replace my iPhone 4.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Really, really anticipating the Samsung Galaxy s4 pressed tomorrow. I want a big, sexy screen to replace my iPhone 4.

Yeah, me too. And from the leaks, it seems to also carry on the swapable battery and microSD Card, which make me want it over the HTC One.

Really needing to upgrade my old HTC EVO 4G. It's getting an issue where when the radio goes active for awhile (GPS, podcast downloads, etc), it will reboot.

Stele wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Suggestions on bluetooth controllers? I like the fact the Nyko Playpad has the analog sticks in the same orientation as the 360's controller (which I greatly prefer over the PS' configuration), but its reviews are less than stellar. I'd like to toss my emulators on the thing and turn it into a nostalgia station in many ways, but I've never found a touchscreen control scheme for an action game that I can even vaguely stand, so most definitely want a controller for it.

I use my Wii Classic Controller Pro with my phone for that. Works great.

Based on very quick googling, to use that thing for Wii, you have to plug it into a Wiimote; does it require the same if you're using it as a generic bluetooth controller? That seems a bit unwieldy, if so.

Yeah the bluetooth bits are in the Wiimote. The CC only plugs into it. For NES emulation I just use the Wiimote alone, but for SNES/Genesis I use the CC.

It works, and it's comfortable. And easy to select the wiimote just like you were selecting a keyboard. Pretty sure I've posted the wiimote app before. Very simple to use.

EDIT: Just noticed on the app page that the app no longer works with 4.2. That's a shame. I'm sure there's another good one out there, but I don't want to hunt it down.

Stele wrote:

Yeah the bluetooth bits are in the Wiimote. The CC only plugs into it. For NES emulation I just use the Wiimote alone, but for SNES/Genesis I use the CC.

It works, and it's comfortable. And easy to select the wiimote just like you were selecting a keyboard. Pretty sure I've posted the wiimote app before. Very simple to use.

EDIT: Just noticed on the app page that the app no longer works with 4.2. That's a shame. I'm sure there's another good one out there, but I don't want to hunt it down.

Meh, don't want that. I want some portability, and it's just one more fiddly bit to worry about. Off to the android sites for some research.

A PS3 dualshock is about the only way you'll get smaller/lighter. Haven't ever looked into it because the CC just worked. But there's surely an option for PS3 pad since the bluetooth is built in.

There's a controller made just for Androids that has a mounting system for phones - called MOGA, I believe - I'd assume it works with tablets as well.

Seems like they've gotten some support from original Android game developers, too.

All this cheesy acting is horrid on the Samsung S4 announcement event stream. Kind of wish I'd stuck to live blogs.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

There's a controller made just for Androids that has a mounting system for phones - called MOGA, I believe - I'd assume it works with tablets as well.

Seems like they've gotten some support from original Android game developers, too.

So, Samsung just announced their own Android controller that is coming this summer. Connects via Bluetooth, has a mount for your phone.

And looks remarkably like a 360 gamepad. But uglier. And with Nintendo sticks.

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My Nexus showed up last night. NEATO AND/OR KEEN.

Is there another way to listen to the This American Life podcast? I bought their app, but it's by far the most crashtastic I've ever seen.

You can download it with Pocket Cast.

dejanzie wrote:

Is there another way to listen to the This American Life podcast? I bought their app, but it's by far the most crashtastic I've ever seen.

I think only the most recent one is available for download.