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Progressive JPEG posted:VIA chipsets not knowing if system instability was because of these or bad caps because someone stole a formula and lol apparently the rumor is that was stolen again https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
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Sagebrush posted:i remember seeing a guy with the original galaxy note on the bus and being aghast at the size. it looked dumb as poo poo, like he was talking on a paperback book. samsung actually cancelled the note line, so at least one of those two companies has realized the error of their ways
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carry on then posted:samsung actually cancelled the note line, so at least one of those two companies has realized the error of their ways was it canceled because of the exploding batteries? like how does your product recover from worldwide YOU CANT HAVE THIS ON AN AIRPLANE
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The Galaxy Note reminded me of the weirdest Thinkpad:  The IBM TransNote. The pad of paper had some kind of digitizer that stored an image of whatever you wrote, and the screen was a touchscreen. I think it cost more than three grand new. (Sent from my Samsung™ Galaxy Note 8)
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Fart Sandwiches posted:was it canceled because of the exploding batteries? like how does your product recover from worldwide YOU CANT HAVE THIS ON AN AIRPLANE they just rolled it into the main phone line. you can buy a model of the s21 that supports their s pen now so why bother making a whole separate line
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Progressive JPEG posted:VIA chipsets and cyrix processors!
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psiox posted:and cyrix processors!
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Sagebrush posted:i remember seeing a guy with the original galaxy note on the bus and being aghast at the size. it looked dumb as poo poo, like he was talking on a paperback book. When I worked at Sarnsung ten years ago and we were working on the S Tab (or as we called it the rear end Tab), we joked about how we should put a boombox picture on the 10" one and carry it on a bus blasting music. What was fun was that the SoC it used for the data plan version naturally also supported voice telephony under the hood, so we had 10" screen phones to call each other with if you changed a firmware build flag. I remember dismissing the 7" phablet as a cruel joke they were playing on the world, when now I genuinely wish for a decent 7" tablet as a bedside device after using my Nexus 7 forever. When the Galaxy S etc were all coming out, I asked my skip manager if they realized that Apple was just going to sue the poo poo out of them because the copying was so on the nose, but was told not to worry because it was the lawyers' problem and the design teams' bed to lay in. Turns out I was right and so was he.
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OG style smartphones just feel tiny now, like a 4" screen is a baby phone for babies with tiny baby hands.
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Some tech director for Google or Motorola or something trying to get people to publicly describe Android and iPhones circa like 2009 as Superphones to differentiate them from smart phones, because they were such a leap again from what smart phones were from ye olde cellphonees of yore
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Apr 14, 2021 21:13
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Being stoked at the transformational use of ssh on my O.G. G1 to connect to a screen session of irssi or to janitor my web site, while in the back seat of a car
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Visual Source Safe, and the use therein at my first job out of college because the tech lead didn't "trust" merging, by my new grad rear end who didn't know any better, because source control was (and still is) considered ancillary to the purposes of computer science.
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was trying to find the pissflaps sarnsung tweet but found this intead https://www.amazon.co.uk/piss-flaps-Samsung-Galaxy-Plastic/dp/B010QQQR2W
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Carthag Tuek posted:hell yeah the only way to play “draw a really detailed obscenity and then write the word below it” was a popular isketch strategy too
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Volmarias posted:I remember dismissing the 7" phablet as a cruel joke they were playing on the world, when now I genuinely wish for a decent 7" tablet as a bedside device after using my Nexus 7 forever. the ~7 inch tablet form factor is really great for flying because it fits perfectly on a kneeboard. you can't see charts squinting at your phone and the 10 inch ipads are too big for a small cockpit imo. in all other situations it's awkward, though. too big to hand-hold and too small for a grandmaputer.
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Volmarias posted:Some tech director for Google or Motorola or something trying to get people to publicly describe Android and iPhones circa like 2009 as Superphones to differentiate them from smart phones, because they were such a leap again from what smart phones were from ye olde cellphonees of yore nvidia tried very hard to make this stick when tegra was first a thing and their pr people would get upset when i mocked them for it at every opportunity when we talked
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was it a verizon commercial with the bit about your wife loving the new tegra cores or something like that the last 10 years feel like a fever dream
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they were known as phablets then right it kinda predated the ‘everyone is on their phone 90% of the day’ cultural shift tho
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Gentle Autist posted:they were known as phablets then right yea
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which bad ipad competitor had the most laffs the playbook, which you couldn’t use without a blackberry linked up the touchpad, which was actually good except for the part about hp and leo the original samsung tab 7, which cost as much as an ipad, and also when they used “units shipped” as a metric showing that it was extremely popular the dell steak for reasons above the hp tablet that ran full windows 7 and had a ctrl alt delete button
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The tab 7 but only because I worked on it, and somehow wasn't anywhere near the worst person writing the firmware for it
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Wild EEPROM posted:which bad ipad competitor had the most laffs the playbook worked fine without a blackberry, though you didn't get messenger without one, i don't think. i got a free one and and used it for media because the speakers were good. this was also, for the time, a plus about the touchpad. i feel like the steak was also thick, but maybe i've been apple poisoned all phones were thicccc at the time
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i also got a free playbook and it was a nice piece of hardware that did absolutely nothing useful. its number one selling point was that it ran !FLASH! and it came out like five months before apple announced that they would never support flash on ios, instantly putting it on death row. i still have it, but it may not work any more because of the bug where if the battery got heavily discharged the charger circuitry would shut down and you could never charge it again.
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Apr 15, 2021 02:10
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yeah tbh i browsed the web pretty well and hilariously actually did flash decently especially considering it was a tablet. but flash was terrible and they clearly spent a bunch of money doing it as the anti apple and it was just such a dumb movt
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well i for one approve
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wasn't the process for becoming a developer for the Bb playbook more involved and invasive than like applying to grad school too
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mediaphage posted:the playbook worked fine without a blackberry, though you didn't get messenger without one, i don't think. i got a free one and and used it for media because the speakers were good. this was also, for the time, a plus about the touchpad. i feel like the steak was also thick, but maybe i've been apple poisoned all phones were thicccc at the time ar the beginning you couldn’t use messenger or email without a blackberry
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oh yeah i forgot about the email since i never hooked up exchange to it and just use web stuff
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At the end, they decided to create an emulation layer so that you could run Android apps on your BB tablet, since no one wanted to write for it. They got developers to work with them by the interesting strategy of "emailing every play store app contact address and begging" which sadly did not appear to work out for them.
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mediaphage posted:oh yeah i forgot about the email since i never hooked up exchange to it and just use web stuff it couldn't hook up to exchange either, still needed a loving BES at that point
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There was absolutely no use case for a tablet that only ran non-existent Blackberry apps and had a significant chance of become permadead if you forgot to plug it in for a weekend, when it cost exactly as much as the equivalently specced iPad or Samsung. If you bought one for $50 after it was shitcanned then sure. "Technically it was a functional electronic device some of the time" yeah ok
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was it the xoom tablet or the blackberry that came with a sim slot saying LTE COMING SOON in it
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:was it the xoom tablet or the blackberry that came with a sim slot saying LTE COMING SOON in it The Xoom. The first and second tablet I owned, and I didn't realize how heavy it was until I tried to pick up someone's tablet of some different brand and almost flipped it off the table because it was so light. I bought both of them as cheap refurbs, the first one had the "LTE COMING SOON" plastic insert in the SIM slot.
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meat sweats posted:There was absolutely no use case for a tablet that only ran non-existent Blackberry apps and had a significant chance of become permadead if you forgot to plug it in for a weekend, when it cost exactly as much as the equivalently specced iPad or Samsung. If you bought one for $50 after it was shitcanned then sure. yeah but that was still the era of people saying "why does anyone need an ipad when these are perfectly fine? steve jobs stealing another idea from bill gates!!!" 
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meat sweats posted:There was absolutely no use case for a tablet that only ran non-existent Blackberry apps and had a significant chance of become permadead if you forgot to plug it in for a weekend, when it cost exactly as much as the equivalently specced iPad or Samsung. If you bought one for $50 after it was shitcanned then sure. you’re really misreading my point here which was that compared to a lot of devices at the time the hardware was great. the software sucked which is why it was a failure. normally non ipads had lovely hardware and lovely software both.
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mediaphage posted:you’re really misreading my point here which was that compared to a lot of devices at the time the hardware was great. the software sucked which is why it was a failure. normally non ipads had lovely hardware and lovely software both. is that not still the case?
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