05-02-2024, 07:47 AM | #1951 |
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Ugh, so Pinecone Research. They very infrequently send out a survey, less than once a month at times. Each survey was 300 points and I could instantly redeem it for a $3.00 PayPal payment.
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05-02-2024, 08:32 AM | #1952 |
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My phone thinking I need assistance with correctly using it's/its. Especially when it's wrong 98% of the time when "correcting" its to it's.
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05-02-2024, 08:52 AM | #1953 |
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Siri in the car.
Me: "Siri, call X" the numbers are in my contacts, with 2 different labels Siri: "would you like to cal xxx xxx xxxx or yyy yyy yyyy?" How about a little help siri and use the labels when asking. |
05-04-2024, 01:31 AM | #1954 |
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User interfaces with small buttons.
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05-04-2024, 12:51 PM | #1955 |
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I strongly agree. I've got a smartphone with a screen that's about 2.75 inches by 6.25 inches, yet the on-screen keyboard only takes up about the bottom quarter of that space. Although it does have an option to make the keyboard larger (so it takes about a third of the screen) it is not large enough.
That's why I went back to typing on the 12-key phone pad like the one on my flip phone. While it seems slower to type on, it's actually faster because with the small keys I was often tapping the wrong keys (as an example: I want to type a "C" and I end up typing "X", "V", "D" or the space bar) that I have to go back and correct. With the 12-key pad when I want to type a "C" I actually get a "C". The only issue I have with it is that for some reason they put "S" (a very common letter) on the 7 key so I have to tap it four times to get an "S". They should have put it on the "8" key as the first letter. |
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Portable devices being made too light and thin so they are not all that good to hold.
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05-04-2024, 02:44 PM | #1957 |
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05-04-2024, 02:55 PM | #1958 |
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I think Samsung removed the headphone jacks from their phones in order to make them skinnier. (Or possibly to push sales for Bluetooth headphones.)
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According to this article, "the company simply wants to save space for other parts." Last edited by Comfy.n; 05-05-2024 at 07:22 PM. |
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Bluetooth has an inevitable audio delay in many cases
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05-04-2024, 09:09 PM | #1962 |
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As for USB-C earphones... that's another vent and rant, for reasons I don't care to argue ATM...
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05-05-2024, 01:30 AM | #1963 |
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An audio delay shouldn't be an issue if you listening to music. It's only an issue if you are watching video or playing video games since the audio must stay in sync with the video.
What I would like to see is a set of Bluetooth headphones that contains a buffer memory. That way the audio is sent to the buffer, and you listen to the audio from the buffer. If there's an interruption in the Bluetooth signal the buffer gives the player time to recover before there is an interruption in the music. Related example: When they were introducing Minidisc they showed just how skip proof the player was by, when the music was playing, pulling out the Minidisc, holding it up and then putting it back in the player with no interruption of the music. |
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