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Pre Order One Today

Amazon is throwing out pre-orders:
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-Multi-touch-Display-Wi-Fi/dp/B0051VVOB2/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp

Pre-order complete! Now I have a few weeks to decide if I really want it.
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bwilliams1 said:
Pre-order complete! Now I have a few weeks to decide if I really want it.
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Doing the same thing lol

Ditto. Love to hear some more exact details about the hardware...

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Ditto. Love to hear some more exact details about the hardware...
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The Verge has a pretty good run down of the specs and a comparison with other tablets on the market.
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You know I am almost thinking of preordering this thing. I have wanted a tablet for sometime and I have been looking at the Transformer as my first choice. This however looks like a great device for the price for what I would be using it for. Basically an e-reader, as I already read all my books on Kindle Software on my EVO, watching movies on the go either from HBO Go, Netflix or even Amazon's services and maybe some light web browsing and email.
So the question is, buy it now and have in in November and wait for the wonderful folks here to root the thing so I can run what I want on it OR wait until someone else gets them and puts out a review on it?
hmmmm..what to do what to do...

Do they charge your card if you pre-order? Or does it only charge when it ships out? I'd hate to have $200 something out from my credit card balance for over a month. It wont be out until November (mid).

I could have sworn I've seen Amazon preorders say "You won't be charged until this item ships" but that seems to be lacking for the Fire.
Can anyone that has preordered confirm if they've been charged?

Pre-ordered while in class . Can't wait for this thing to get into my hands. Praying that there won't be a locked bootloader. If not this thing has a shot of running a homebrew Ice Cream Sandwich!
Edit: I'll let you know if I get charged in an hour or two.

I pre-ordered this morning and have not been charged yet, so I'm assuming they will not charge until it ships.

I preordered as soon as it was up.figure worst case i give it as a gift. But im really intrested to see how a 7 inch tablet works out.
Current use ipad2 but been wanting something smaller.

I am getting one for the wife - just her speed I think...
I'll stick with my ASUS EP121 and ExoPC slates for me.

Amazon charges you when the item ships. So if you pre order, you have a couple months to decide what you really want to do.

I just went ahead and preordered one. I just read on AndroidTablet.com that Amazon acknowledged that this device will be easily rooted and that they won't stand in the way of it happening.
I figure I will get it, play around with it while the great folks here figure out the process and then I will decide if I want to keep it or not. For $200 I am not out much and I can give it away as a Christmas gift or return it if I don't like the thing.

DONE! How can you pass it up at that price? And with XDA throwing knives at it..... This is the entry point for E-readers and Tablets....

I ordered a couple for my family. We have the older kindles and it looks like a worthy upgrade.

I ordered one and the new $79 kindle as well. Cannot wait.

I preordered a few days ago. I still have not been charged for it yet.
And I have preordered things from amazon before. They don't charge until the day it ships.

As per usual the U.K has to play the waiting game and will probably be 40% more expensive when it eventually gets here...... Grrrr

Weloop wristband

There is new product from weloop, wristband!
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Suposed specs i decrypted from chinese:
- 1 week battery
- 20 mins charging
- 30atm water resistant
- cost about 40 USD
- full touch screen suporting swiping
- phone anti-loss (safe range)
Seems very nice dont you think?

AIPHEE said:
There is new product from weloop, wristband!
Suposed specs i decrypted from chinese:
- 1 week battery
- 20 mins charging
- 30atm water resistant
- cost about 40 USD
- full touch screen suporting swiping
- phone anti-loss (safe range)
Seems very nice dont you think?
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It's looking very nice. When and where can it be (pre)ordered?

They are having only preorders for china, they should ship them around 15.12., about worldwide shipping, no idea.

AIPHEE said:
There is new product from weloop, wristband!
Suposed specs i decrypted from chinese:
- 1 week battery
- 20 mins charging
- 30atm water resistant
- cost about 40 USD
- full touch screen suporting swiping
- phone anti-loss (safe range)
Seems very nice dont you think?
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Yes it seems very nice. However...
I bought one yesterday. It was a bit glitchy right after i started using it, but it stabilized. No problem connecting to my device or running simultaneous bt connections. Sleep monitor was a bit crappy though. Push sleep when you go to bed and wake when you get up, no rocket science. Battery time is NOWHERE close to a week. Two days tops.
Big drawback is the firmware update available via handheld software. In my case it didnt work. It bricked my smartwatch and I'm now waiting for battery to deplete to see what the watch reboots into. On google play store other users described the same problem.
UPDATE: I've been in contact with dev of the official android app to the luxor. He helped me with brick issue by sharing a dev tool and an instructional vid. He was also quick in responding. The device and it's app has many flaws but hopefully there will be development on it. I have found and reported issues. We will see if they are addressed in app updates.
Pm me if you have a bricked luxor lxpm300 and I'll do my best to help.

Bricked my luxor lxpm300
tihimasmo said:
Yes it seems very nice. However...
I bought one yesterday. It was a bit glitchy right after i started using it, but it stabilized. No problem connecting to my device or running simultaneous bt connections. Sleep monitor was a bit crappy though. Push sleep when you go to bed and wake when you get up, no rocket science. Battery time is NOWHERE close to a week. Two days tops.
Big drawback is the firmware update available via handheld software. In my case it didnt work. It bricked my smartwatch and I'm now waiting for battery to deplete to see what the watch reboots into. On google play store other users described the same problem.
UPDATE: I've been in contact with dev of the official android app to the luxor. He helped me with brick issue by sharing a dev tool and an instructional vid. He was also quick in responding. The device and it's app has many flaws but hopefully there will be development on it. I have found and reported issues. We will see if they are addressed in app updates.
Pm me if you have a bricked luxor lxpm300 and I'll do my best to help.
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Hello!
Unfortunately i upgraded my smartwatch Before i read your Review and now it´s stuck at 0 % I´m new here so i don´t know how to pm, that´s why i´m Writing here. I would be very happy if you could help me to reset my smartwatch

I pm:ed you henke.
Update:
I spoke further to the dev. He said that the developement on the weloop for luxor pretty much is concluded. Since I consider it to be at alpha stage at best I suggest everybody with a luxor wristband should go to the store and get your money back.
I have a tool for unbricking but I dont know a good place to upload. Suggestions?

My Sad Nexus 6 Story... (aka First World Problems)

So I am now going to be without any Nexus 6 at all....
I was lucky enough to purchase a 32GB N6 from Motorola on the 12th of Nov and I received it the 26th of November. I was loving the phone but knew I really wanted a 64GB version.
So, before I received my 32GB one from Motorola, T-mobile released them on the 19th of Nov and I jumped on a 64 GB version, only to be swallowed by the backlog vortex!
So fast forward to this weekend, I had been using my 32GB and loving it but couldn't wait until I got my 64GB, which arrived on the 19th, but since I was out of town, I couldn't get it until Sunday, the 21st.
I set it up, decrypted it and started to use it. So Monday night, I put my 32GB Nexus 6 on Swappa and it sold in a couple of hours, I was super excited as I got what I paid for it and I now had the 64GB phone of my dreams!
I then began to notice the camera had issues and problems....
I was seeing "snow" in the view finder and now I can't get the camera to load at all...
I call T-mobile, hoping they can help, but nope, no luck. I can get a refurbished phone, or I can get a new phone but since it is on back order, I have to wait another 6-8 weeks.
So I am returning my 64GB phone to t-mobile for a refund. My 32 GB Nexus 6 is sold and being shipped today. So I am falling back to my HTC M8. I'll try and buy again I guess, but not until next year some time. Sigh... I went from 2 Nexus 6 phones to 0 in a 12 hour period. :crying: And I guess the $80 in accessories I purchased for my N6 will have to go on a shelf until later.
Enjoy your phones guys! And perhaps, as you read this, you'll send some good thoughts to the phone gods on my behalf!
Happy Holidays!
-Jason

WoW man that sucks, glad I haven't had to go thru that. I wouldn't know what to do in that situation. Just glad I don't. Hopefully you'll find it available in Christmas. Just remember to keep checking every Wednesday. Or if your going thru T-Mobile hopefully they'll get some in,
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LMAO first world problems at it's finest

oh the horror having to fall back to your lowly m8 :/
lol
man phone people really do have 1st world problems.

I would be all over Tmo on that one, back order or not. If they make you wait to get new one i would fully expect them to compensate you for that.
Its not your fault they are back ordered after all
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LOL, I know. The M8 is so old now! The screen is so tiny!
Oh well. I'm laughing about it now but I was a little peeved earlier.
-J

Well, I have a 64GB CW on the way from Motorola. So I wasn't without my phone for too long. Be here the 6th
J

Lol, Im switching from the m8 to n6 too!
I wonder how many others are doing the same thing...:highfive:

LoL! Yes, exactly!

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LoL! Yes, exactly!
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I'd be sad if I had to go back to my G2. I know that feel bro..
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Well,
My sad Nexus 6 story has a happy ending. I received my CW Nexus 64GB this weekend and am loving it.
And we lived happily ever after!
-J

LG G4 UK review

I got the LG G4 trough the insiders campaign in UK
Actually I own a Nexus 5, while in the past I had an S2 and a Note 2.
Nexus 5 is a quite good phone but battery life also with custom kernel is limited to its the battery size. Moreover when I bought my Nexus 5 I was coming from a Note 2, so I started to miss a bigger screen and for sure a better camera that is the weaker point of Nexus 5.
Battery
Let’s start from what everyone take care and want to now when they have to buy a new smartphone: “The battery life”.
So, taking into account that the battery life of a smartphone really depends on the usage pattern of every single user, apps and mobile reception of where we live, after 5 day of usage I can say that with my pattern of usage (see below) I am constantly getting between 4 and 5 hours of SOT.
Pattern of usage: 2 mails in push (one for work where I usually receive many mails by day), mixed use wifi/data, no push notification for facebook, chatting, browising, watching few videos, and reading mostly all the time. Some camera shots when I am with friends. Brightness always in automatic mode.
Camera
There are already too many example and comparisons on youtube. I can only confirm that the camera great one of the best for now. I have a DSLR camera and like to take my time when I have to take a picture of a landscape. So I really appreciated the manual mode and how it is good and simple the interface of the new camera app. Everything can be settled with few taps. Although a smartphone probably will never substitute a DSLR camera, with that toy on G4 you can have fun for sure.
Display
Also here, already many review and comparisons with the S6 amoled. Without judging which is better because I do not own an S6, what I can tell for sure is that it is really good. Colors are never saturated and brightness is fine in the majority of the situations. What I found really improved is the antiglare, the reflection of the sun seems to me pretty good, while a negative impression is that the display seems to be really power hungry as soon as you increase the brightness.
Reception and Calls
Reception is basically the same of my nexus 5 (pretty good) while I found the calls really clear on the LG G4 and better than my nexus 5.
Speakers
Good and really loud… was unexpected!
Missing Features out of the box
Two missing feature out of the box are the wireless charging and the quick charging. While the quick charging is officially supported by the SD808 and we only have to wait for a kernel update to have it enabled, the big disappoint is the wireless charge. Big disappoint because it is not officially supported on the leather cover but only buying a circle cover. After all the advertising on that cover by LG I can not understand why to enable a common feature of any actual flagship we have to change cover (or via an unofficial way, like a sticker to add to the cover).
Overall and final considerations
This phone is satisfying me under the majority of aspect that I want from a phone, like the battery life, the camera, the display and the quality of calls. I think this phone has a huge potential that can be improved with a good custom kernel and a lighter custom rom (even if I have to say that I found the stock rom really fluid and without any lag). With a custom kernel we will probably gain an other hour of SOT.

Me as well ! did you do it with insiders ?

Hogyoku said:
Me as well ! did you do it with insiders ?
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I got an email yesterday to say that I didn't get picked.

I'm in as well, with the insiders too. One disappointment is I thought we would get the phone before launch, it doesn't look that way anymore. I wonder if they will send out a random selection of colours or just the black.

I didn't get in. Looks like I'll have to buy one in Black Leather next week instead [emoji14]

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Me as well ! did you do it with insiders ?
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Yep mee too .. From the mail seems that the device will arrive for the end of this week

I didn't get in, keen to hear what you guys think before ordering one

I'm in too! Devices are arriving tomorrow so we should be one week ahead of launch

I have been selected too for the UK campaign!! Tomorrow UPS is delivering the G4
I think at the end of the program we will be offered to keep the phone for £250, this is the money that they would take in case of loss lol
I'm pretty sure it is going to be the UK/EU model.

I'm just wondering if we will be getting the LTE of the WiFi only model from what I've seen that's the one the testers are getting overseas

And me mine due tomorrow as well
Has anyone figured out whether it will be metal or leather yet
Also I'm quite intrigued by the tone infinum headset that we are getting aswell
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Would be a wounder if it was a Wifi model lol.

Guitarfreak26 said:
Would be a wounder if it was a Wifi model lol.
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I just think it would be strange that the rest of the world gets the wifi model and the people in the UK the full one but then again the other people didn't have to leave a safety bond

That's very true, but I'm sure it said somewhere that rrp 500 that wouldn't be a dummy phone.
But on the other hand, why would the payment only be 250 if you didn't return it when the phone is around 599 gbp and the headphones are 80

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That's very true, but I'm sure it said somewhere that rrp 500 that wouldn't be a dummy phone.
But on the other hand, why would the payment only be 250 if you didn't return it when the phone is around 599 gbp and the headphones are 80
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Hahah well.. I suppose we will find out tomorrow.

I'm gonna be at work until 6pm so I'll be checking here for an update lol

Hey!
Does your G4 have 4G?! The one I got doesn't support it.

Mine too will arrive tomorrow ... it sound strange that the UK model is the only one not wifi, but it is also true that we were probably the only ones we had to provide the bank account to have it .. let's see tomorrow what we will get

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Hey!
Does your G4 have 4G?! The one I got doesn't support it.
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Where's it from? Korea?

Mine is in transit guaranteed by end of tomorrow
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Will update if its WiFi only or not if I get mine first
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Waiting Room

I ordered mine this morning around 5am PT. It showed shipped around 11:50am. Estimated delivery date is 5/9-5/10. I checked the tracking and it hasn't updated yet. I can't wait to try out this budget phone.
Did you order one on the Google Store?

Ordered after launch yesterday and received today!
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Ordered after launch yesterday and received today!
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Nice, how do you like it so far?

Didja root? Did it struggle?

mine will be here tomorrow and will hopefully be rooted a few min after it is in my hands. i already made patched boot images https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=79491032&postcount=2 if anyone wants to try them, if not i will post tomorrow if they worked

I pick up mine at Bestbuy same released day! Plus a got a $100 Bestbuy gift card.....My local store have all of them in stock

Mine should be here today! I can't wait for it. I'm so excited. I haven't had a new phone in ages.

Mine's set to deliver today...

root was successful

pbanj said:
root was successful
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:good:

Got mines today. Any recommendations for a screen protector
And a good case

pbanj said:
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What about GPay? Does it work? Did you try it?

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What about GPay? Does it work? Did you try it?
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i had to mess around with it to get it to work. i was able to add both my cards after i did the steps in the picture below. but i haven't tested it in store yet.
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i had posted the steps in the 3a/xl telegram group earlier today

This is my 3rd Google phone and I was shocked by how Google managed the phone launch this time around. I got the phone just 2 days after ordering it on launch day.
As for the Pixel 3a, I'm loving it so far for its size, weight, easy one-hand use, battery life, lean software, and great camera.
I still like my Samsung S10+ better though.
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This is my 3rd Google phone and I was shocked by how Google managed the phone launch this time around. I got the phone just 2 days after ordering it on launch day.
As for the Pixel 3a, I'm loving it so far for its size, weight, easy one-hand use, battery life, lean software, and great camera.
I still like my Samsung S10+ better though.
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Aha! Someone with both S10+ and Pixel 3a! Do you intend to keep both?
I am still on original Moto X (How do you know your phone is old? When Chrome browser says it will no longer be updated for this OS version. Happened a couple months ago.) I was really looking forward to get S10e but decided to wait to see if there are any problems. I am really glad I did! Problems with LTE connectivity (as in lack of) mostly on Sprint (70 pages long thread on Samsung forum and similar on Sprint), overheating, Bluetooth issues, proximity sensor not working right and keeps phone up in the pocket. Have you experienced any of those on your S10+?
I looked at Pixel 3 and it was not much better (call quality issues, BT issues, flickering display). Decided to wait for Pixel 3a.
I am just really frustrated that I have pay a lot of money and deal with issues. My 5 year old phone doesn't have any except, well, being old.

EE Uk locked down my pixel 3a lol, tossers.

Battery life is pretty good

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Battery life is pretty good
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Can you describe your usage with the phone ?
I'm really impressed by your comment ?

totib38 said:
Can you describe your usage with the phone ?
I'm really impressed by your comment ?
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Sure
Bunch of discord, checking xda, emails, some music using a bt headset. Brightness kind of all over the place depending on the areas lighting, played a few games, some YouTube, some Reddit, some imgur, browsing the play store, browsing fdroid, telegram. I've attached what I consider to be the final s.o.t for the phone as I'm going to plug it in now. I did notice the battery stats are missing a bunch of apps that ran, so not sure what's up with that.

It's Nice
I have a Samsung S9 as my daily phone. Google delivered the Pixel 3a is two business days, which was quick.
I bought the Google fabric case for the phone. But even without the case the 3a is the first phone I've held in a couple of years which felt "secure". Put another way, every time I handle my Samsung S9 without it's case I am scared I'll drop it, because of the extraordinarily slippery glass. The Pixel 3a feels like I won't drop it. I'm not even sure careful people need a case.
One last thing: Some of the reviews say the phone feels cheap because it's plastic and not aluminum and glass, With a case on the 3a phone no one can tell what the case is made of, or if the rear of the phone is fancy glass. I much prefer a robust phone. Because, you know, when it's all said and done, if you shatter your S9 screen, what you have is $1000 of junk.
So I'm liking this Pixel so far... . And bonus points: It has a headphone jack again! YES!!