Is it just me or is the placement of the speakers odd - If they wanted to provide an experience for watching movies, then with the current placement you will only get sound out of the right side. I really liked the placement of the speakers on the Archos 7 HT - too bad the rest of it was so bad.
I suppose the placement might be for the HDMI dock which orientates the Tab portrait, but if you were using that, then I guess you would be using an external sound source. It is not a big deal - just a oddity of the design.
It is indeed odd, as righthanded I cover the speaker with my hand while playing games in landscape.
Yes. Weird placement.
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I hate it. It's supremely irritating in every respect... Shame that we can't do much to change it
What I find stranger is the microphone location. About an inch from the top left side. Its where my thumb/fingers are when I hold it with one hand, as I do when I get a call.
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Hi to all of you, i am new in this forum.
I bought atrix with a lapdock, great toys
how can i set sound on lapdock speakers ? I can hear only if set sound to the phone speakers, when sound is set on lapdock speakers i can not hear anything.
There is something that i'm doing wrong, or speakers of my lapdock are damaged ?
Thanks in advance
The lapdock don't have built in speakers. But you can hook it to external speakers
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thank you very much for the answer, i thought there were built in speakers.
Umm yes... the lapdock has two speakers.
They are on the back corners.
Stupid placement, but they are there.
You control the volume from within webtop.
The volume control is between the battery indicator and the clock.
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rjohnstone said:
Umm yes... the lapdock has two speakers.
They are on the back corners.
Stupid placement, but they are there.
You control the volume from within webtop.
The volume control is between the battery indicator and the clock.
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I tried from webtop, but I hear only the phone speakers
there are three icons in the drop-down menu:
1. phone speakers - works
2. lapdock speakers (i think) - does not work
3. sound settings (maybe i have to set something here)
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Umm yes... the lapdock has two speakers.
They are on the back corners.
Stupid placement, but they are there.
You control the volume from within webtop.
The volume control is between the battery indicator and the clock.
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I stand corrected. I've had my lapdock for a few weeks now and never notice the speakers or even tried to use them. Always used the phones. I google the speck and went and look again and they are there. Learn something new every day. Atrix Lapdock Specifications:
Display: 11.6” Weight: 2.4lb Construction: Magnesium alloy External ports: 2 USB ports, power Battery: 36Wh 3 cell Battery life: 8 hours (advertised) Keyboard: QWERT (Speakers: Stereo) Apps: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13 supporting HTML5 and Flash; Entertainment Center
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I tried for many times, but lapdock speakers only worked in one condition: media center.
In my opinion the phone speaker is better anyway, which is a bit sad.
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i was planning to get a lapdock and about to ask a very same question. so i'm glad i came up to this thread. this killer features what keeps me holding on the Atrix rather than getting myself a new phone with better sw update support.
How to switch between Phone and Lapdock speakers.
After you dock your phone and the screen shows up, click on the tiny speaker image on the upper right corner, you'll see the volume rocker.
Right below that you'll see a tiny upside down triangle, click on that.
Three buttons will appear in decending order:
* Phone speaker out (the rectangle with the waves),
* Lapdock speaker out (the tiny dot with the waves)
* Settings
You can select between Phone Speaker and Lapdock Speaker by toggling between the two buttons, settings just takes you to the phone audio options. I suggest that you play audio while you do this to determine where you are getting audio as you switch. Lapdock Speaker Out should be selected by default but if it already is and youare still getting audio out from the phone then you may have issues.
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In my opinion the phone speaker is better anyway, which is a bit sad.
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I second this, ironically the phone speakers ARE better.
What is the most annoying thing on your phone? For me (Arc S) it was the choice to put the headphone socket on the side. What on Earth were they thinking? Even with a T shaped headphone connection it means I cannot put the phone in a soft pouch in my pocket. Seems like they want to sell me a stereo bluetooth system with inferior audio instead.
The super small camera button.
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Power button on the top
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Call speaker. Small hole should've been bigger. I can barely hear until I put my ear exactly on the hole.
Power button is annoying on the top for sure but imo the camera button is too small. Oh well at least we have a camera button unlike most newer phones
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Power Button
No Front Cam
Volume Rocker
for me its the cheap silver lining paint that easily peels off ruining the sexy appeal of our arc.
power button on the top...
AW: Most annoyng design decision on your phone
The missing front camera
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Poor quality speakerphone...
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Headphone socket - side
LED notification light - side (there is a app that can use the light from HW buttons for notifications. still...)
Power button.
Front cam for me
soybi
For me its having the notification LED on the side, but have got used to it over time.
As someone else already said, the.cheap silver coating is annoying too. Starting to peel away in places now and make my phone look cheap and tacky
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1.Small Power Button - They could made it Bigger
2.Head Phone Jack Location - Best Place to be on Top Middle
3.Small Camera Shutter - Better than none
4.Notification Light - I wished they used the LEDS on the Hardware Keys Instead putting the led on the side
5.No Front Facing Camera
My arc got cracks too, after a year and 6 months near back button, and not in the proximity sensor, some chrome peeling in hardware buttons.
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What is the most annoying thing on your phone? For me (Arc S) it was the choice to put the headphone socket on the side. What on Earth were they thinking? Even with a T shaped headphone connection it means I cannot put the phone in a soft pouch in my pocket. Seems like they want to sell me a stereo bluetooth system with inferior audio instead.
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3.5 mm Jack and its type (it should be on top, almost no other headsets work)
Led should be on front
Bigger conservation speaker, and remove that "detail"
Doesn't support all headphones, as well of the jack being on the left side. On top or bottom would be better, had to get L-shaped contact on my headphones. to fit in my pockets.
Charger not being upside down, really bugging me. its hard to hold during charging
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The missing front camera
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4.Notification Light - I wished they used the LEDS on the Hardware Keys Instead putting the led on the side
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http://www.xda-developers.com/android/buttonled-turns-your-hardware-buttons-into-a-notification-led/
no front camera
small camera button
but the most annoying thing is definitely the silver paint on the side
I forgot about those other issues. Yeah, annoying. My back button is not very responsive either. Sometimes it takes multiple presses to get it to register.
I find my Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 decidedly more comfortable to use upside-down when in portrait mode, ie with the power cord facing away from me and the headphone jack towards me. Why didn't Samsung's usability designers notice this?
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Honestly I hate that they designed it to be used in portrait mode period, because when you watch netflix or anything that involves sound and landscape mode, having the speakers on just one side sucks, BUT FYI if you use Cyanogen Mod or pretty much any NON-stock based Custom ROM they have the option to add that direction to the screen rotation so you can hold it that way.
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I find my Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 decidedly more comfortable to use upside-down when in portrait mode, ie with the power cord facing away from me and the headphone jack towards me. Why didn't Samsung's usability designers notice this?
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Yes, even I find it more comfortable to use upside down, only problem being, when someone calls, and we have to turn it to use it as small speaker for listening to call is located on the other side.
I like most of you on this forum change phones like shoes. 5 phones in the past 2 years. There has always been something missing though.
Good phone, but no LTE,
Good phone but the screen isn't that sharp
Good phone but the camera is crap
but, but, but
I think the note 3 is the first phone that has no "buts". Big HD screen, overpowered guts, passable camera, plenty of storage. I really can't imagine what they are going to put into the next super phone that is going to get me to reach for my credit card.
They could make it higher res I guess. Or ad a incrementally faster processor. Maybe sharpen up the camera, a bit. I don't know none of those things move me. When I got my note 2, a few months ago it was already pretty much the perfect phone. The only missing puzzle pieces where the screen, and camera. Now the note 3 has fixed that.
What will it take to get you to move to the note 4, or whatever the new hotness is. What else can they cram in there? Or has the super phone cold war finally run it's course? I can't see how you can improve anything much more without getting into diminishing returns.
I think I might have found a keeper
Optical image stabilization and optical zoom
Note 3 has already given me the ultimate tool. The IR blaster. Hehe more wasted moments because you cant find the friggin tv remote heeh
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Flexible screen
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- A Kickstand
- Front facing speakers
- All capacitive buttons (Though I imagine this would boil down to personal preference)
- Better speaker (louder & more bass)
- Region unlocked
First one is a deal breaker for me so I haven't had to decide whether the region lock is a deal breaker or not.
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For me, stereo front speakers like the HTC One and of course optical stabilisation.
A bit overpriced
Bigger screen. 6 inches would have been perfection.
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Kawaisa said:
Optical image stabilization and optical zoom
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THIS, though optical zoom could be a challenge unless you want a fat phone like the galaxy s4 zoom
Albaholic said:
- A Kickstand
- Front facing speakers
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kickstand can be fixed with a good case (and there are many)
Front facing speakers would be good on a normal sized phone but i dont think this thing can afford to be any longer lol
I'd like to have better speakers like the HTC one, and be able to switch to 5 vertical rows of icons on home screens. Done, otherwise I'm good. Still getting it as soon as Verizon releases it. Best phone for me in a long time.
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FM Radio.
Decent sound, bigger speaker(s)
An unlocked bootloader would make it pretty much perfect... And maybe god mode!:laugh:
IOS 7.....Kidding
The speaker could be punchier but I'm spoilt by the HTC One.
Wireless Charging out the box.
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FM Radio.
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I'll never understand people like you.
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Barff1984 said:
I'll never understand people like you.
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Why?
What is wrong with wanting an FM Radio?
Here in the UK FM Radio should be mandatory on all phones - We have a great selection of stations to choose from.
RGB display and higher PPI, smart move for samsung to go minimum 32gb internal with the ammount of apps on playstore and growing size of apks and extra data that comes with them.
Sent from my note 2 ya bish!
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kickstand can be fixed with a good case (and there are many)
Front facing speakers would be good on a normal sized phone but i dont think this thing can afford to be any longer lol
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Got any suggestions for a case with a kickstand? I know of the Seidio Active and that's about it.I was also contemplating getting a Spigen GLAS.tR SLIM which might cause a problem with the fit of a non Spigen case.
I think front facing speakers would have been doable if the samsung branding and physical home button (and a capacitive button was used instead) were left out
So
FM radio
Optical stabilization
Bigger zoom
Stereo speakers
Flexible Screen
Kickstand
All of those would be nice. Question is would any of those things justify another $300-600 from you though?
Just curious. I have had this phone for about two weeks. I love it. One thing that's kinda odd is the speakers on the bottom. So when I'm holding it in landscape mode playing a game it disrupts the sound and it's muffled and quite. Anyone else feel the same way? Not a big deal. Just a minor inconvenience.
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Yes it's very easy to block the speaker while playing in landscape, design flaw I suppose but can be avoided by adjusting one's grip on the phone. Still happens every now and then when I'm not careful.
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Yea it is a known issue. Maybe you can remove the back cover and drill holes to the back aligned with the bottom holes.
Then maybe sound can escape from the back.
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Yea I usually overcome this by putting my phone face down. Definitely a design oversight.
Most phones have had speakers on the bottom or on the back that result in muffling when holding it.
Owning a Nexus 7 2013, I really miss the stereo sound from it. It is really the only thing I wish my G2 did differently, although I don't know how they'd incorporate a "top" speaker without making it look ugly.
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Most phones have had speakers on the bottom or on the back that result in muffling when holding it.
Owning a Nexus 7 2013, I really miss the stereo sound from it. It is really the only thing I wish my G2 did differently, although I don't know how they'd incorporate a "top" speaker without making it look ugly.
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Initially, I considered two speakers on the bottom of G2 as "stereo", but later I found that this is actually a single speaker with "stereo" design