Some news:

This is what happens when lawmakers jump the gun......

Law firm says that Florida might have accidentally banned all smartphones in recent bill
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Law-firm-sa...nt-bill_id45071


THIS might really be good for all of us:

Nikon hints it could make a smartphone
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Nikon-hints...rtphone_id45067

ah, another very long explanation about ROMs, kernels etc on XDA

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40833496

Maybe LYN should add a "Trans" gender label

So did you get the Note 2 already?


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Anyway, some news:


SanDisk releases world's fastest 64GB microSDXC card
http://www.androidcentral.com/sandisk-rele...-microsdxc-card


SanDisk has a new product in their popular line of microSD cards, the SanDisk Extreme microSDHC and microSDXC UHS-I cards. Designed for users who need fast storage for their smart phone, tablet or camera, the new microSD cards offer read and write speeds that are perfect for taking multi-shot high resolution pictures, as well as full HD high framerate video.

In SanDisk's testing, the 64GB model reached read speeds of 80MB/second, and write speeds of 50MB/second.

I'm sure you've been reading uncle benny's posts in the Mega thread. He makes sense, and if you don't play heavy games, Mega could be good for the screen SIZE, and a good price around 1300-1400.

But, Note 2 is now only 1600 or less, and having equivalent or better performance, with the S-Pen if you are into productivity and note taking.

Note 3 should be expected at least 2199 for starters of whatever variants that it will have.

Obsolete hardware is still every bit as functional as the new shiny..... I mean a Core 2 Duo is still as usable as a Core i3/i5 Ivy Bridge or Haswell unless you the need to play 100FPS for the latest games. My last PC lasted me 6 years before I did the upgrade.

Purely as a phone, there is no functional difference between a Nokia 3310 and the Note1/2/3

This post has been edited by joytest: Jul 9 2013, 10:20 PM

So, 8 Note 3 version numbers spotted?

http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-not...numbers-240970/

The variants are:

SM-N900
SM-N900V
SM-N900T
SM-N900A
SM-N900AI
SM-N900P
SM-N900R4
SM-N900S


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from couple of comments:


Lil bit • 3 hours ago
Hope there is a big display version as well, and waterproof, to punish the Togari. Sony need some serious punishment for omitting the led flash, there was no reason to be that stupid. It has given me a growing distaste for all Sony products, wishing all the best for note 3, may you crush the Togari and teach Sony a lesson about the obvious.

Gilles LeBlanc Lil bit • an hour ago
I totally agree, Z Ultra's lack of flashlight, haptic home buttons to maximize screen size aswell as no proper split screen multitasking along with battery to screen size ratio is no red hereing. I started out wanting to buy it but my hate for it grows. Things are shifting back to HTC T6 and Note.

Jusephe • an hour ago
So 5,99 inches is NOTE 3.... That means that 5,7 is NOTE 3 mini ??

Interesting article, although I do not agree with all the points

Editorial: Apple, Google and the failure of Android's open
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/06/...failure-of-open

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Extremely long article, but apart from the first couple of paragraphs, it seems the author is just taking too much of a stab at the definition of open = poor/fail and that Android users are cheapskates....

The article link I provided speculated that 4 out of the 8 refer to US Carrier variants, so that will mean 4 models for International versions.

Similar to the current situation, where we don't care about US Carrier variants, and they don't care about our models.

Isn't saying "baa baa" easier than pronouncing TouchWiz?

You know, I don't know if you've watched the PC vs Mac ads that were popular a few years ago. There were many comments that the guy playing a Mac just had an overly smug expression that was begging for his face to be bashed in.

I guess this whole wrong attitude of snob appeal is in the DNA of the company, the products, AND the userbase........

Futete crapple.

This post has been edited by joytest: Jul 9 2013, 11:45 PM

Well congrats. Add yourself via the form in post 4. As I said in the last post to you please read posts 3,4 and 5 first.

There's a list in post 8 forsafe to remove apps.


I found out you don't need tibu to freeze. From the app mamager,simply hitting Disable is a freeze. The app will disappear from the app drawer,but still visible at the bottom of yr app manager list. If u also have tibu, it will show as frozen. Same effect.

See my reply in post 395

If he suffers from PEBKAC please don't let him do it. Better do it yourself. Posts 6,7,8.

I think u were asking in s2 or s3 or s4 thread. One of the regulars there answered u. Aisey check post 1 for directory bro.

Reading and comprehension takes 30min to 4 hours or more. 10 mins to pray for your actions to be correct. 3 minsto root.

You won't hardbrick unless the sds bug gets invoked in which case u have to send to sc. You will probably get a bootloop if you did anything wrong. Just rewipe and reflash. But please don't jump into flashing without reading and understanding. Saves you anguish.

Still don't understand half of what you are trying to say.

Don't think in Chinese and translate directly. It doesn't work that way. This time it's better.

The answer is a bit more complex than what mudkip posted. I'm on the road but will give a longer response later but in the meantime enjoy yr device.

You're joining coz she haz cake?