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You know I turned off ALL the system location services. Not sure what that will do to things but yeah. Currently my battery is at 58%. From 10% an hour to 2% an hour when you do nothing.

Now that I've gotten over the shininess and am just using my phone as normal, it's going pretty strong. A little worse than iOS 6, but not drastically so. I always charge my phone overnight regardless, and on iOS I would plug it in when going to sleep around 40%, now I usually hit 20%.

iOS beats all in user experience rating

The Pfeifferians rated each operating system on four criteria:

Cognitive load: the sum of elements with which users must familiarize themselves to use the operating system spontaneously and intuitively
Efficiency: how efficiently key features and services are integrated for ease of operation
Customization: how many options an operating system provides to allow a user to tailor it to their personal tastes
User-experience friction: Pfeiffer describes this as "the bad stuff, the aspects of a device that can annoy you in a niggling way, or, in extreme cases, drive you crazy"

They used Samsung as a model of Android, and marked it down because it had too many apps and widgets.

But the real loser in WinPho.

Meh...

StarBound wrote:You know I turned off ALL the system location services. Not sure what that will do to things but yeah. Currently my battery is at 58%. From 10% an hour to 2% an hour when you do nothing.

That's bad, I get 0.8%/h idle usage out of my Sony Xperia S.

I'd pay if someone makes an iOS classic interface. I really don't like the new look. Its too white, too bright, too bland.

But it looks perfect for the iphone 5 cheap.

StarBound wrote:I'd pay if someone makes an iOS classic interface. I really don't like the new look. Its too white, too bright, too bland.

But it looks perfect for the iphone 5 cheap.

Speaking of which, the 5C is not doing so well. Source.

My battery drain is at an all time low. See what happens when you turn everything off?

Apple just patented a cylindrical glass building.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/02 ... ail_store/

So yesterday I put my iPhone 5 to the drop test. It passed Round 1 admirably, but failed Round 2 miserably: shattered screen and dead LCD. This was around 9AM.

So my insurance guy says that he needs an assessment. I take it to iStore in the Glen, where I am told that they will need to send it to their repair centre in Jet Park (Core Group). I ask if I can take it there myself. I can, and so I do.

I arrive at Core, show them the device, and ask for an assessment. The guy explains that they will be quoting on a new device because they can't fix these things. That's fine with me, given that this is an insurance claim. So I fill out my details and the device's details (iPhone 5 16GB Black).

Now, bearing in mind that this thing retails for around R9k, I was more than a little surprised when the assessment and quote came back (yes, for a new device) at R3,363.27. And, no, that's not a mistake. I paid, got my new device yesterday, and have submitted the claim to my insurance for a refund.

There are many places that can replace screens. Seems this is the thinking that permeates life - don't repair - replace.

Insanity.

Stuart wrote:Now, bearing in mind that this thing retails for around R9k, I was more than a little surprised when the assessment and quote came back (yes, for a new device) at R3,363.27.

Old stock being given away to make way for the S and C?

GreyWolf wrote:

Stuart wrote:Now, bearing in mind that this thing retails for around R9k, I was more than a little surprised when the assessment and quote came back (yes, for a new device) at R3,363.27.

Old stock being given away to make way for the S and C?

Potentially. Just had a phone call from my insurer to tell me that the refund has been processed into my banking account.

Nice

Congrats.

I saw iTunes and App store vouchers at PnP yesterday. No more CC, StarBound!

Also, SA App store has games now. Woot!

D3PART3D wrote:Also, SA App store has games now. Woot!

Too funny.

It is.

I'm playing Horn and The Dark Meadows, and they feel like AAA games.

My current thing to do while waiting in line at the checkout counters is Candy Crush. Very addictive.

GreyWolf wrote:My current thing to do while waiting in line at the checkout counters is Candy Crush. Very addictive.

Ja. And then you get one of those levels. 42 moves and one jelly. For three weeks straight. Mathematical probability se voet!

Apple has won back a number of patents that had lost earlier,including one for multi touch technology on a computing device.

I had grown tired of all this BS and decided to do some "research". Type in "touch screen history" into Google search and 3rd link gave me this: mutli-touch technology used on computing devices invented as far back as 1984.

So well done to the USPTO, well done indeed. Maybe they are using Bing or something...

GreyWolf wrote:So well done to the USPTO, well done indeed. Maybe they are using Bing or something...

Hey, don't diss the Bing.

Didn't you know:

bing.com wrote:people preferred Bing web search results nearly 2:1 over Google in blind comparison tests.

bing.com wrote:people preferred Bing web search results nearly 2:1 over Google in blind comparison tests.

Well of-course BLIND people preferred it over Google. They couldn't see the results!

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