Hard coatings on Blu-ray disks are very strong. I don't see why a manufacturer couldn't use a similar coating on plastic screens.
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Hard coatings on Blu-ray disks are very strong. I don't see why a manufacturer couldn't use a similar coating on plastic screens.
yeah i have tried to scratch Final Fantasy XIII on PS3 using srewdriver and it failed. Cant scratch at all.
The coating also flexible enough. I can bend the disc and its all still ok (the coating and the disc).
nice to see the expression on my friend face when im doing that lol.
The coating also flexible enough. I can bend the disc and its all still ok (the coating and the disc).
nice to see the expression on my friend face when im doing that lol.
Mintmaster
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A plastic front that doesn't crack does you no good if the LCD behind it cracks twice as easily without gorilla glass.
OLED substrates need shatter protection too at the moment, but hopefully the flexible substrates that Samsung is working on will pan out soon.
I don't see what's wrong with having a swappable battery if you're that prone to forgetting to charge once a day or not being able to. I'd rather have an extra battery at home and in the office to use in an emergency than carry that bulk everywhere I go. Frankly, I'd probably forget to charge with a bigger battery just as often anyway.
All well and good, providing you have a broadband connection. I've been to many a place where I barely get a basic phone signal, let alone a 3G signal. Not to mention the limited amount of data some people have on their contracts.
Wifi connections aren't exactly freely available in places outside of urban areas, either.
My current phone has 48GB of storage in total (16GB internal + 32GB SD card) and I've got around 10GB of free space on there. Mostly MP3 and videos (plus various nandroid backups if I'm messing around with custom ROMs). Do I need all of these files at any given time? Nope. But it certainly makes life easier not having to worry about what you do and do not have available to you.
Lack of microSD expansion is a deal breaker for me.
(Sorry, I seem to think I have this discussion every few months on this forum. :smile
I do admit it's kinda hard to remember that people have limited amount of data or that coverage drops under 3G even though we don't have full 3G coverage in Finland either - but still, 1 album takes on decent MP3 quality around 100MB of space or under, you can have quite notable music library without sacrificing too much space.
if you using not-too-good earphone/headphone, space also can be saved by encoding musics to AAC or OGG. They are good for low bitrate (under 160Kbps).
@mariner. I don't see why the LCD screen is twice as likely to crack. Citation please.
I've got the feeling glass is good and plastic bad for the same reason as metal good plastic bad. I
E its purely cause it feels cheap even though technically metal is the inferior material for a phone. The weird thing is ppl get this inferior metal casing and then proceed to cover it up with a protector anyway
Weight well at the moment most days my phone is close to running out. Hours of browsing on bus/boat/bed GPS etc is a killer. Old love to wake up in the middle of the night and recharge the other battery but its not practical. Better just a single batt that I can recharge fully and have a couple if days usage. Eg tonight I'm not even sure if the place I'm going to has power. It saiz not 24hr a day.
I've got the feeling glass is good and plastic bad for the same reason as metal good plastic bad. I
E its purely cause it feels cheap even though technically metal is the inferior material for a phone. The weird thing is ppl get this inferior metal casing and then proceed to cover it up with a protector anyway
Weight well at the moment most days my phone is close to running out. Hours of browsing on bus/boat/bed GPS etc is a killer. Old love to wake up in the middle of the night and recharge the other battery but its not practical. Better just a single batt that I can recharge fully and have a couple if days usage. Eg tonight I'm not even sure if the place I'm going to has power. It saiz not 24hr a day.
The reason to like glass instead of plastic is not because of scratch or some other technical reason. It simply looks and feels better. Same thing with metal instead of plastic. It feels more solid. If I'm going to buy a device that will be in front of my face more than anything else, it better look and feel good. Even if it's slightly more fragile (not that I believe it is, but just for the sake of argument.)
are there many types of gorrola glass? The gorrilas i have ever met are not solid. They bend.
Oh my... matching this discussion, Samsung just announced:
Galaxy Mega 5.8
Galaxy Mega 6.3
I guess this finally fills all gaps between Tablets and Phones.
Didn't Notes already do that? Apparently the Megas are the exact same as Note models would be but without Stylus
How many microphones does the phones have?
Rurouni
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Most modern phones have 2 mics. In voice call mode, the other mic is used for noise cancellation.
yups, it have 2 mics.
its already confirmed by sony themselves that Video record is stereo on GB but mono on ICS.
its also a real stereo, left/right. Not just fake stereo with left+right that sound the same.
its already confirmed by sony themselves that Video record is stereo on GB but mono on ICS.
its also a real stereo, left/right. Not just fake stereo with left+right that sound the same.
Mintmaster
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LCDs have two very thin glass substrates around the liquid crystal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal_display
That's why broken LCDs always look like shattered glass, even when they have plastic protectors. The Gorilla Glass on smartphones is far stronger than the sustrates, and protects it the same way that you can use another layer of glass to protect GG.
Corning is actually also a major manufacturer of LCD substrates:
http://www.electroiq.com/articles/s...-corning-renew-lcd-substrates-agreements.html
Most Android phones had microSD slots. All galaxy so far and i remember most HTC had it too by the past.
- Why buy the 32go model if you can buy the 16gb model + a 32/64Gb microSD. or even the 16Gb if only 8+32gb is enough for you.
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