Huawei phone - really impressed!

[tomscott]

I like having physical music. If you go anywhere without 3/4G or wifi what do you do? How many actually sync to the phone so you always have it with you?

I went traveling for a year or so and it was amazing the amount of people who completely rely on Spotify. Being out in the middle of nowhere in Africa and all these people that joined had 2-3 songs they had synced from Spotify for 12-13hr journeys because they hadn't thought of syncing and it would be available. Thankfully Africa has one of the best cellular systems in the world so it was fairly easy for people to get sims but then most had locked phones so had to try and download when we got to civilisation. Problem was when you go a week or 2 without wifi everyone wants it and 15-16 people connecting at once with all the automatic built in protection on your phone like photo and icloud back ups, email downloads, notifications etc etc nobody could do anything at all and as you would expect most wifi wasn't fast even for one device.

Granted an extreme reason but in the UK there are a huge amounts of black spots. In Cumbria where I'm from if you get out of the towns then you mostly have no signal because of the mountains, probably the same in the peak district and a fair amount of wales and Scotland.

My iPhone is a 128gb (bought this big specifically for the above reason) so I just sync most of my music and have it with me all the time and download anything I want when I hear it. I also use iTunes all the time and use it with devices in the house using airplay. Really easy through the phone or iPad too.

 

[jamie_z4]

most of my spotify playlist is dowloaded to the phone. it seems to hang around for about a week before it makes its mind up weather its staying or not, but out of the 1000 odd songs i've got i'd say at least 900 are accessable with no internet connection at all.

 

[flimper]

Really sick of the poor video on the 6S, the main thing that stops me jumping ship is all my music looks good with itunes and has years worth of play count information. Is there an android alternative that could copy the info I already have?

Why do you think the video is poor? I think its pretty damn good for a phone! Good frame rates footage is nice and sharp.

I like to record the car drives from in-car, but the 6S just can't handle it, the autofocus is all over the place and it comes out horribly blurry. My 4S was fine so I assume it's some software upgrade gone wrong, for me at least

 

[tomscott]

Really sick of the poor video on the 6S, the main thing that stops me jumping ship is all my music looks good with itunes and has years worth of play count information. Is there an android alternative that could copy the info I already have?

Why do you think the video is poor? I think its pretty damn good for a phone! Good frame rates footage is nice and sharp.

I like to record the car drives from in-car, but the 6S just can't handle it, the autofocus is all over the place and it comes out horribly blurry. My 4S was fine so I assume it's some software upgrade gone wrong, for me at least

The 6s has software stabilisation, not optical stabilisation that will be the issue. Best thing to do is buy a really sturdy mount.

 

[flimper]

Why do you think the video is poor? I think its pretty damn good for a phone! Good frame rates footage is nice and sharp.

I like to record the car drives from in-car, but the 6S just can't handle it, the autofocus is all over the place and it comes out horribly blurry. My 4S was fine so I assume it's some software upgrade gone wrong, for me at least

The 6s has software stabilisation, not optical stabilisation that will be the issue. Best thing to do is buy a really sturdy mount.

I've tried it with the 6s+ which has OIS, but the same problem happened :evil:

 

[flimper]

A couple of screenshot examples from the 6S, maybe I'll try another mount but not convinced it's the cause

 

[tomscott]

A couple of screenshot examples from the 6S, maybe I'll try another mount but not convinced it's the cause

Really strange! is this on 60fps or 30fps? Mine doesn't do that :| had mine mounted on the front of our truck in Africa doing the same thing and the footage was fine!

 

[flimper]

1080p60fps, could it be something to do with low light? Been trying to solve this for months now :evil:

 

[pvr]

Loving my new Mac with SSD and the touch bar + unlock via fingerprint. Touch bar changes keys depending on what you do which is great for development, it contains web tabs if you are in a browser and becomes the remote control when watching a film.

I did upgrade a 7 year old Macbook though, so the change was h-u-g-e for me.

 

[un1eash]

Had my P9 lite for about 6 months now and it is a very good phone for the price. Only complaint though is I dropped it about 3 inchs and the screen cracked, ive never broke a screen before so was pretty shocked.
Looking at a P9 now as got my other half one in the black Friday sales (£19.20 pm, 6gb, unlimited mins and txt, plus W1 watch) and its very nice, feels more quality and solid compared to the lite. Theres a P10 coming so should be some good deals to be had.

 

[jamie_z4]

Interesting info unleash

The phone feels decent enough for 150 quid but guess there is always room for improvement

I've found a new keyboard called swift key its made texting and writing on here a doddle

 

[Mactran]

I used to be an apple fan. Went android send never looked back. When ever an android phone is released the current phone remains the same and can be stil used for a good few years. Unlike apple who I'm sure must add to the firmware update something that slows down the previous models to force you to buy the new model.

Big fan of the one plus phones. Really cheap for the amount of tech they cram in.

 

[markplant]

I used to be an apple fan. Went android send never looked back. When ever an android phone is released the current phone remains the same and can be stil used for a good few years. Unlike apple who I'm sure must add to the firmware update something that slows down the previous models to force you to buy the new model.

Big fan of the one plus phones. Really cheap for the amount of tech they cram in.

Thinking of going for a one plus 3T

 

[RickRob]

As a couple Mrs R and I have really fallen hook line and sinker for Apple. We have two iPads, an Apple Mac and Mrs R has the iPhone 7. In the near future my (really crap) company Blackberry will be replaced by an iPhone 6 of some description.

As already said, some of the Apple user experience is great, but the iPhone7 cannot be Apple's proudest moment!

 

[BDswarveP]

Had a Galaxy Note 3 for 3/4 years now, Other than camera advances, its still better than the latest Iphone.

Apple products are made well, but IOS is very limiting, and apple have you in the palm of there hand. I will never buy another apple product as long as i live. Im not going to get right in to a rant, just touch on it.....

 

[Chris_D]

I've been on an iphone 4S with iOS 8.1.2 since about 2011/12 I think and it's still going strong.
I don't like it - it's old, slow and it crashes more than a F1 pay-driver, but as I subscribe to the philosophy that if it aint broke don't fix it, that's why I still use it.
But I'm going to upgrade soon and while I've enjoyed the jailbroken iOS experience, which can make the iphone sing and dance like an android, my next phone will definitely NOT be from Apple!
The reason - it's overpriced at the end of the day when viewed comparatively with similar spec Android phones. the bods at Apple must be sh!tting their pants with shareholders breathing down their necks. They're just falling behind in terms of technology. It's like since Jobs kicked it that the company has run out of ideas.
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