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Jan. 13th, 2012
Interesting Links for 13-01-2012
Jan. 13th, 2012 11:00 am- George Lucas says Hollywood won't support black films
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- A brief history of facials (the NSFW kind)
- What would happen if they made it possible to pay to skip ads?
- Israel puts Godwin's Law on the books.
- What You Need to Know About ICANN's New Generic Top Level Domains
- 50 Awesome My Little Pony Mods for Geeks
- Men's Versus Women's Poses (both posed by the same woman, guess which looks better)
- UK Law will not permit sale of second hand MP3s
Phone advice please!
Jan. 13th, 2012 01:03 pmIn 18 days my contract runs out, at which point I'd really like a new phone. I've been happy with my last one up to a point, but it's now slow and low in storage space* compared to any of the latest crop of phones.
So, my requirements are:
1) Must be able to install apps without going through an app store
2) Screen size of at least 3.7"
3) Oodles of storage
4) Not full of manufacturer/phone company crapware.**
All of which needs to be possible without voiding my warranty.*** I have no interest in hacking my phone about just to get the basics working.
At the moment, it looks like the combination of (1) and (4) is pointing me towards the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Which frankly looks pretty darned awesome.
The downside of this is that my current phone company doesn't support it, so I'd either have to buy one outright or switch providers. Buying one outright seems doable, but the question then is who is the best provider for SIM-only. I use about 300 minutes and 150 texts per month, but I do intermittently go over the 500MB cap on my data, so 1GB would probably future-proof me nicely there.
So - my question is this, is there a better phone that conforms to my requirements, and who is currently the best phone company for this situation?
*This is my major gripe with it - I've never been able to install all of the apps I wanted to, because the HTC Desire only allocates 150MB for storage.
**I find it frustrating that there aren't any other phones out there that offer the pure Google OS without other stuff stuck on top.
***Admittedly, if the Galaxy S II was �200 pounds cheaper then I'd take the risk. But I'm not *#!*ing up �400-worth of phone if I can possibly avoid it.
So, my requirements are:
1) Must be able to install apps without going through an app store
2) Screen size of at least 3.7"
3) Oodles of storage
4) Not full of manufacturer/phone company crapware.**
All of which needs to be possible without voiding my warranty.*** I have no interest in hacking my phone about just to get the basics working.
At the moment, it looks like the combination of (1) and (4) is pointing me towards the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Which frankly looks pretty darned awesome.
The downside of this is that my current phone company doesn't support it, so I'd either have to buy one outright or switch providers. Buying one outright seems doable, but the question then is who is the best provider for SIM-only. I use about 300 minutes and 150 texts per month, but I do intermittently go over the 500MB cap on my data, so 1GB would probably future-proof me nicely there.
So - my question is this, is there a better phone that conforms to my requirements, and who is currently the best phone company for this situation?
*This is my major gripe with it - I've never been able to install all of the apps I wanted to, because the HTC Desire only allocates 150MB for storage.
**I find it frustrating that there aren't any other phones out there that offer the pure Google OS without other stuff stuck on top.
***Admittedly, if the Galaxy S II was �200 pounds cheaper then I'd take the risk. But I'm not *#!*ing up �400-worth of phone if I can possibly avoid it.
Picture Dump
Jan. 13th, 2012 10:34 pm
I saw this on FB on my phone and meant to go back and find it. Thanks to the awesomess of
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supergee I didn't have to!This is how to go shopping:
Part of me thinks this ought to be from a 1970s Hungarian animated version of 2001:
And this is just pretty:
Those last three courtest of
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