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  1. It's funny you mention that. I used to try different launches back in the day, but finally just gave up because I told myself that my phone should work fine out of the box, and not require me to rebuild the GUI just to make it usable.

    That's one way to look at it I guess, but another is, there's something worthwhile about being able to upgrade your hardware while maintaining the same usage experience and customization across multiple devices (assuming Android based). Most of us pretty much do the same thing with PC's when we upgrade them - why not our phones too?

  2. I've always been a fan of LG devices, but the older UIs really turned me off from using them. I'm hoping this time around LG goes with more of a "stock" look.

     

    I've used Nova for long enough that at this point I never bother with whatever comes native on a phone anyway regardless of the situation - I love the depth of customization it offers.

  3. Did some searching and found a couple of articles with rumored specs/design and a supposed leaked image via TechRadar and GottaBeMobile Droid Life respectively:

     

    http://www.techradar.com/us/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/lg-g5-what-we-want-to-see-1299722

     

    **Update - to be fair, the original sourcing article appears to have come from Droid Life for the image leaks, so here's the link:

     

    http://www.droid-life.com/2016/01/23/this-could-be-the-lg-g5-in-a-dummy-box/

     

    The removable 'battery tray' design seems kind of interesting, although I'm not sure how I like how that may affect the ability to use extended battery cases.

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  4. Ive sold a few. Its decent entry level andriod for 120 or 5 a month. If you dont have high expectations it will be a fine phone for your tracking or someone moving from prepaid or a first phone for a child.

     

    Sent from my SM-N910P using Tapatalk

     

    Rocket, do you have much of a feel for how it stacks up or you'd compare against the S4 Mini?  My wife got the Mini to replace her Photon Q when it finally tanked a little over a year ago, and I'm looking at viable options that would be better for finally getting her daughter a smartphone than simply moving the Mini down to her.  

     

    Also, how would you factor in the possibility of a Moto E (obtained via Prepaid, assuming it can be activated/used on a regular Sprint line?) vs both of those?

  5. I got up at 7:30 am and went to let the dog out on the back deck just long enough to do her thing and run back in, but couldn't initially because there was a foot of snow on the main part and almost a 2 foot drift against the sliding door.  I've now over the course of the day cleared off a section 3 times, and there's another 6-8 inches where I cleared again even then.   Have done some shoveling in the front to and a little between our cars, but all that has several inches that have replaced it too.  And a 3+ foot mound of snow up against our townhouse where the other snow was deposited.

     

    The kid that's still in me is loving experiencing something like this for the first time, speaking as someone who grew up in southern middle TN and the most I'd ever seen prior to starting to make to PA in 2010 was a little over a foot *once* when I was in junior high.  

     

    The adult in me wants to punch Jack Frost square in the mouth right now.  :angry:

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  6. Special thanks from suburban/rural SC area. While it burns that our team lost, I will get some sleep before this interview for work tomorrow.

     

    I was expecting the celebratory equivalent of new years eve in Detroit.

     

    As a fan from the other side, allow me to tip my hat, because if both teams played 10 times, I honestly wouldn't feel confident Bama would win more than 3-4 of them after what I sat through last night.  Watson is unreal, and I'll tell you straight up that until last night, I'd thought the 99 SECCG against Florida in the Swamp in the Dubose years (where, if not for Shaun Alexander, we wouldn't have even been there in the first place much less had a prayer in that game) was the most nerve wracking game I'd watched start to finish - no more.  This one takes the cake.  

     

    I knew Clemson's offense was something to worry about, but the defense showed out as well - one of my buddies made the comment that Dominic Jackson needs to file assault and battery charges on 98 (Kevin Dodd I believe), because he was abused by him most of the game.

  7. Installed this morning after I got to work. Wish they gave detail on the 'bug fixes', but thus far I don't notice anything different really after a day's use.

  8. Finally, once again, as an added incentive to play, particularly for those who are either newer members, or otherwise haven't made it to Premier or Honored Premier status yet:  I will personally donate $50 to the site at the end of the year in the name of the winner.

     

    Congratulations to this year's S4GRU College Football Pick'em winner, by a margin of 26 points overall:  The_Q!  Donation to the site has been made  :tu:

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  9. That's because it maps cumulatively. In my opinion that's one of the weaker points of this app. NYC is showing as weak coverage all over because it was mapped hundreds of times over while the coverage was weak. Now that the coverage is strong, people aren't mapping nearly as much and as a result, the signal is still weak even if you map over it a few times.

     

    Has anyone ever suggested or inquired with them the possibility of moving to a sort of 'moving window of time', say maybe over a year, that the mapping results reflected?  That might have the dual benefit of (a) encouraging people to use the app and map more often and (B) thereby drastically increasing the accuracy as well, particularly as time moves forward and situations change positively or negatively either one.

  10. Ahh, yes. Curtis Mathes. My Uncle Pat worked for them way back in the day. He always had the nicest console TV in Western Putnam County.

     

    Using Tapatalk on Note 8.0

     

    My parents still had, and hung onto for dear life, a 25 inch wood grain console color Zenith until about 6-7 years ago when it finally bit the dust.  

     

    Now (and I kneejerk started to, but can't say 'they' - dad unfortunately passed May of this year) there's a 42 inch plasma flatscreen in its place, and before dad passed he marveled at how incredible the picture was - which was ironic given how resistant he always was to any sort of change from a known entity, but once something happened that he was forced to try something new he almost always loved it.

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  11. While I'm looking forward to the release, I have to be honest that with Disney basically un-canonizing literally all of the EU, my hopes of eventually seeing Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy brought to the big screen are all but totally vaporized, and thus the one thing that would have truly potentially excited me as much if not more than the magic of the original trilogy from when I was younger.  

     

    I can understand wanting to do away with some, maybe even most of the EU, but I had hoped one day before I died someone might translate that trilogy to cinema somehow.  Recasts of the original would have been a given to be sure, but that's the only thing that truly matched the strength and magic of the original trilogy for me.

  12. Anyone use a good email app alternative to Google that support hotmail?

     

    I believe I can get you or anyone who wants it the .apk of the last working Outlook.com (not the Outlook app they have now) prior to the final update that 'discontinued' it, for those that used it and still prefer it....I still use it on my phone and made sure to grab a backup of it with MyBackup Pro.

     

    AquaMail is another good solution, though I still prefer the Outlook.com app over everything else for Outlook/Hotmail webmail acccounts.

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