As many of you may already have heard, the new Google Maps update integrates the blue triangle navigation app into Google maps. These seems fine, until you realize whatever navigation they are using is not the same as before. It isn't birds eye view anymore. It's come crap apple like not turn by turn thing. No longer any options for avoiding highways and tollway, no more customization, and I can't find the so called multi route thing they supposedly added. Google navigation was practically flawless, why did they kill it off? Somebody please tell me
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I've been using Scout for months now. You can choose different routes and the map rotates when you make turns.
Ditto for me, Scout is pretty nice
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Thanks you for your suggestions, but it's irrelevant to my actual question. Just want more inside info on why Google destroyed the best app they have ever made
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Thanks you for your suggestions, but it's irrelevant to my actual question. Just want more inside info on why Google destroyed the best app they have ever made
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Yeah, but I don't think anyone actually knows why. To get people to use Scout? lol
It's freaking weird... All tech websites talk about is how wonderful the new updates are. What updates? The navigation app has DECREASED functionality, how come nobody is reporting on this?
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My guess is that they are preparing to release a paid navigation app that has all of the bells and whistles of the previous version. There is no other plausible reason for this.
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My guess is that they are preparing to release a paid navigation app that has all of the bells and whistles of the previous version. There is no other plausible reason for this.
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My mohter is technologically challenged and she is very upset about this. You know how long it took her to learn Google Nav? LONG! Both her and my stepdad where like "where is the blue triangle thingie" and I was like what do you mean, and oh surprise it was gone. They are the ones who brought to my attention as I have not been using GPS lately.
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As many of you may already have heard, the new Google Maps update integrates the blue triangle navigation app into Google maps. These seems fine, until you realize whatever navigation they are using is not the same as before. It isn't birds eye view anymore. It's come crap apple like not turn by turn thing. No longer any options for avoiding highways and tollway, no more customization, and I can't find the so called multi route thing they supposedly added. Google navigation was practically flawless, why did they kill it off? Somebody please tell me
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Scout is a good one, I prefer Waze over Google nav anyways.. Waze is a social navigation which gives you updated information on traffic conditions by monitoring other users. And you get turn by turn, along with warnings about traffic hazards (including police and speed traps)
Is there for me. .. went into maps typed address clicked the car on next page triangle was there.
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My mohter is technologically challenged and she is very upset about this. You know how long it took her to learn Google Nav? LONG! Both her and my stepdad where like "where is the blue triangle thingie" and I was like what do you mean, and oh surprise it was gone. They are the ones who brought to my attention as I have not been using GPS lately.
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A lot of the functionality is still there, including the bird's eye view...it's just hidden 4 or 5 steps deep. The big problem is that it's not at all intuitive like the separate Navigation app was. So tech challenged folks can easily get sidetracked by something as simple as getting it to start navigating. It's kind of like when Microsoft decided to start updating MS Office. They tried so hard to make it more "MAC" like that none of the controls made any sense, not just in the naming of the tool or the icons, but also where they were located. Office 2003 to Office 2007 was just stupid. This is what Google did with their navigation app, trying to make it more iphone like.
So what's next? How about a separate paid app that makes navigation simple to use? That could be the direction that they are going. Either that, or they just hired the wrong designers.... probably ex Apple employees
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It's freaking weird... All tech websites talk about is how wonderful the new updates are. What updates? The navigation app has DECREASED functionality, how come nobody is reporting on this?
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Sprint did it so they can charge new customers more data fees.
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Sprint did it so they can charge new customers more data fees.
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This navigation thing happened to all carriers. You really think Sprint really had any say in it? I enjoy vilifying Sprint as much as the next guy, but in this case I think it was all Google.
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One of the sense features I've read about is the "instant map" and the uninterrupted navigation when a call comes in. I haven't been able to see this work yet. Can anyone who's figured it out please let me know. Thanks
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if your talking about the premium nav then you would have pay for the service but i dont think its worth it
I remembered seeing this when I first got this phone, I did notice Google maps seemed to be entirely preloaded and uninterrupted by calls. As soon as I rooted and messed with roms and such, I seemed to have lost that. Not sure if it was my imagination or what because it was so long ago.
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I referring to HTC navigation
Looks like it was only for certain phones.
http://m.engadget.com/default/artic...ise-zero-wait-na/&category=classic&postPage=1
Hey does anyone else get spam popping up on there Note. How do you stop them they are annoying. It say's I've one an ipad yea right.
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it's called airpush. one of your apps is the culprit. download AirPush Detector (link below) to tell you what app is doing it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...DEsImNvbS5icm9zbWlrZS5haXJwdXNoZGV0ZWN0b3IiXQ..
I had it a while ago, it was coming from a live wallpaper i downloaded. I noticed it in the "running services" menu. I just uninstalled it, now it's gone!
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Thanks Chief Geek
Wow that really works fast I appreciate the help found 2 culprits truck puzzles of all things uninstalled bye bye.
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It really infuriates me that today's phones are becoming the target of malware / spyware as bad as PC's. Before long we will be seeing fake anti virus alerts and everything else now common on desktops & laptops. If I were able to develop software, the last thing I would do is put crap like that in my software for a few cents revenue. /ENDRANT
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Thanks Chief Geek
Wow that really works fast I appreciate the help found 2 culprits truck puzzles of all things uninstalled bye bye.
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It really infuriates me that today's phones are becoming the target of malware / spyware as bad as PC's. Before long we will be seeing fake anti virus alerts and everything else now common on desktops & laptops. If I were able to develop software, the last thing I would do is put crap like that in my software for a few cents revenue. /ENDRANT
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Technically, if anything, it's akin to adware. But technically it's legit. I am all for in app ads, but to spam me with crap when I'm not even using the app is too much. Adding to that, there are even more ads in the game. I recommend that before uninstalling that you rate the app 1 star and leave a short review stating this app uses airpush to put garbage in your notification bar.
Thanks for that idea, I'm going to start doing that, I rate apps occasionally.
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Technically, if anything, it's akin to adware. But technically it's legit. I am all for in app ads, but to spam me with crap when I'm not even using the app is too much. Adding to that, there are even more ads in the game. I recommend that before uninstalling that you rate the app 1 star and leave a short review stating this app uses airpush to put garbage in your notification bar.
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Thanks, had this popping up with a green plus sign in my status bar. Removing "Android System Tools" the ads have seemed to stop.
I had this problem and asked here as well.
I found out it happens when I run in combo; Adfree and then run "Bloat Freezer Free"
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it's called airpush. one of your apps is the culprit. download AirPush Detector (link below) to tell you what app is doing it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...DEsImNvbS5icm9zbWlrZS5haXJwdXNoZGV0ZWN0b3IiXQ..
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Thanks for the tip!! I'll definitely be giving that a try
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I had this problem and asked here as well.
I found out it happens when I run in combo; Adfree and then run "Bloat Freezer Free"
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If you are talking about the original Bloat Freezer by Trey Holland, then you are being duped, FYI.
Bloat Freezer has data forwarding to ad sites built into its framework. That's why it was yanked from Google Market. There is an imitator app with the same name now on Play, but look at the comments and you'll see that Trey is still pushing his apps.
Here is an XDA thread where I show this to be true, backed by other users.
Here is androidunderground article attesting the same thing
Edit: And I just now saw that you specified "Bloat Freezer Free" which is indeed the offending app. Get rid of it ASAP and find another way to freeze. Titanium Backup does it (although not as well, last I checked. That is what makes it so irritating. The app was well engineered and didn't need the underhanded theft to justify its existence).
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Hey does anyone else get spam popping up on there Note. How do you stop them they are annoying. It say's I've one an ipad yea right.
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Its coming from the samsung apps. I had it on mine so i reset the phone and didnt do the initial instal on certain apps for 3 weeks and had no issues. I just recently installed them and now i get the plus sign and star pop up. It is very annoying. Had it on the infuse too
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Its coming from the samsung apps. I had it on mine so i reset the phone and didnt do the initial instal on certain apps for 3 weeks and had no issues. I just recently installed them and now i get the plus sign and star pop up. It is very annoying. Had it on the infuse too
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Its not samsung apps lol
those are just to set up your email/on line accounts
the ones with the star and "youve just won.." are apps from the market
or if you downloaded a "paid app" for free it could of been modified to push air ads
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Its not samsung apps lol
those are just to set up your email/on line accounts
the ones with the star and "youve just won.." are apps from the market
or if you downloaded a "paid app" for free it could of been modified to push air ads
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Yeah not really dude. Xda is the only app i have from the market since i reset my device. Complete stock no root. Only started once i installed/updated samsung apps.
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Yeah not really dude. Xda is the only app i have from the market since i reset my device. Complete stock no root. Only started once i installed/updated samsung apps.
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You really think samsung is gonna release phones with air push ads???
c'mon use logic
the notification icons you are getting is to set up samsung acounts and online services with them..... dont call them ads people actually use those services
you could turn them off if youd like
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You really think samsung is gonna release phones with air push ads???
c'mon use logic
the notification icons you are getting is to set up samsung acounts and online services with them..... dont call them ads people actually use those services
you could turn them off if youd like
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Ok so all the ads i see pop up are samsung. Ha. You have no idea what u are talking about. The very first day i got the phone all stock apps were installed and i got the ads that night. When i uninstalled samsung apps and featured app it stopped and i havent gotten any. A few weeks later i installed them and what do u know....i got the ads. Little green plus sign and orange and red star. I know my phone and how to use it so idk where u get off saying i dont know what im talking about.
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And they werent samsung services. One was become an iphone tester. But hey if u say its a samsung service then i must be a complete idiot. Guess i gotta get me a samsung iphone. Hmmm?
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Then to help the rest of the community out, why not run Addons Detector and let us know which Samsung app is giving the airpush ads? Seems nobody else has mentioned it that I know of except you. That would also settle the argument. A screenshot would say it all.
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Then to help the rest of the community out, why not run Addons Detector and let us know which Samsung app is giving the airpush ads? Seems nobody else has mentioned it that I know of except you. That would also settle the argument. A screenshot would say it all.
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How am i supposed to do that. I have the airpush detector but it has no apps in it. Doesnt register anything. Had one the other day but say what the source was. Was getting them 4 to 5 times a week when the samsung and featured app was installed. Took it off and havent had anything. You dont have to believe me and u sure as hell dont need to run your mouth thinking you know everything. I was voicing my experiance.
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I've been challenging and being challenged to Wrestle Jump literally everyday and starting to use my phone for that more than anything else. It just works so well on this screen and the game play is so simple that literally anyone and try it and dominate.
This kinda lead me to wonder what other people are going to as their main app that they use everyday. Maybe not so much addicted to, but just your one app that you go to for entertainment each day.
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I've been challenging and being challenged to Wrestle Jump literally everyday and starting to use my phone for that more than anything else. It just works so well on this screen and the game play is so simple that literally anyone and try it and dominate.
This kinda lead me to wonder what other people are going to as their main app that they use everyday. Maybe not so much addicted to, but just your one app that you go to for entertainment each day.
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I use SiriusXM on my phone every day. The on demand service is pretty darn good. I am totally addicted to it and would be very pissed off if I didn't have it. :highfive:
My addition is SanGuoSha (HD). this is based on Chinese story "Three Kingdoms" and it has the capability of playing both online or offline. It has great AI strategy when you play with the phone and the graphics etc are top notch!
Being in NYC, you don't have cell coverage quite often, in this self-claimed best city of the world. Especially in the subways, yet we still call other countries or cities (Shang Hai) emerging market, when infrastructure like cell signal and data there is literally everywhere. Anyways, when no signal, SanGuoSha is very fun game to have.
sorry for the cynical comments, that is uncalled for.
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My addition is SanGuoSha (HD). this is based on Chinese story "Three Kingdoms" and it has the capability of playing both online or offline. It has great AI strategy when you play with the phone and the graphics etc are top notch!
Being in NYC, you don't have cell coverage quite often, in this self-claimed best city of the world. Especially in the subways, yet we still call other countries or cities (Shang Hai) emerging market, when infrastructure like cell signal and data there is literally everywhere. Anyways, when no signal, SanGuoSha is very fun game to have.
sorry for the cynical comments, that is uncalled for.
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Ha! Didn't think about it like that. But you're totally right.
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I use SiriusXM on my phone every day. The on demand service is pretty darn good. I am totally addicted to it and would be very pissed off if I didn't have it. :highfive:
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I use that as well and really enjoy it. Also I use Google Music with All Access all the time.
For me it's finding Xposed mods and Google All Access music. I loveeeeeeee all access. O and also battery stats plus, been trying to figure out why my battery life seems to suck.
When ive got nothing to do for a while, I play DroidRider. Kind of like LineRider that I used to play back in the day. With the SPen, it makes things so much easier.
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For me it's finding Xposed mods and Google All Access music. I loveeeeeeee all access. O and also battery stats plus, been trying to figure out why my battery life seems to suck.
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Got any cool mods you can link
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Xda
Nimble quest, check it out in the play store.. I find it incredibly addicting
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The new Google play music and knife that guy
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The new Google play music and knife that guy
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Google play music/Pandora and Ubersocial for twitter
I use stumbleupon all the time. Great time waster. Basically, you tell it what kind of sites you like, and it will give you random pages based on that. I also use reddit is fun, hill climber, and zen pinball.
Three apps that I use multiple times every single day are Pocketcast, Feedly, and Reddit News.
Pulse & the verge app & tapatalk
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Two members in here added to my addiction. Nimble quest and digitally imported are my recent addictions haha
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That's really it. I'm kind of a one pump chump on apps. I download tons and only end up using them once or twice, get bored, delete, rinse and repeat.
The only game I find myself often playing, and always have installed is Zen Pinball with about 12 purchased tables for variety. However, I definitely suggest Spirit XHD, superb with the S-Pen, and Super Hexagon. The latter is extremely difficult but very addicting and super simple to play.
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My addition is SanGuoSha (HD). this is based on Chinese story "Three Kingdoms" and it has the capability of playing both online or offline. It has great AI strategy when you play with the phone and the graphics etc are top notch!
Being in NYC, you don't have cell coverage quite often, in this self-claimed best city of the world. Especially in the subways, yet we still call other countries or cities (Shang Hai) emerging market, when infrastructure like cell signal and data there is literally everywhere. Anyways, when no signal, SanGuoSha is very fun game to have.
sorry for the cynical comments, that is uncalled for.
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Sanguosha is not listed in the play store. Does it go by a different name?
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One thing I have noticed is that my phone seems to be spying on my activities.
My phone knows where I work and when I work and get off. It tells me my commute time and etc. One time it told me when/where my girlfriend works when I was taking her on the regular. I checked National games for the sake of metro and its the phone has started to give me MLB game times and scores. I had a time when my phone gave me an alert to attend a cookout from my car insurance company. It had emailed me this weeks in advanced. I also get advertisements for games I have looked at that pop up.
Is the Android/Google taking it too far by monitoring your activities?
It's called Google Now. Good news? It's working as it's supposed to. Disable it if you're paranoid.
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I hope this was meant as a joke... If not. Sad sad sad.
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I don't really get what the problem is. It isn't like it's harming you, if anything, it is making your life easier.
Google goes through tons of security and they've even said that the only thing that sees the information is their algorithms. I mean, when's the last time you've heard about Google being hacked?
But like WolfePack said, you can always disable it.
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aside from google now if you're getting pop up advertisements for games, or notifications that advertise things, it's because you have a ****ty adware app that you need to block or uninstall.
Google now is awesome
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One thing I have noticed is that my phone seems to be spying on my activities.
My phone knows where I work and when I work and get off. It tells me my commute time and etc. One time it told me when/where my girlfriend works when I was taking her on the regular. I checked National games for the sake of metro and its the phone has started to give me MLB game times and scores. I had a time when my phone gave me an alert to attend a cookout from my car insurance company. It had emailed me this weeks in advanced. I also get advertisements for games I have looked at that pop up.
Is the Android/Google taking it too far by monitoring your activities?
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That's Google Now. You can disable it as had been said. Search your phone or the internet for more info.
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It has nothing to do with Google, it's NSA got a hold of your phone.... lol
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Funny stuff. Reminds me of the time I bought frozen waffles.. had a craving... they had chocolate chips in em! I mean, like how the heck did they know I liked chocolate chips? Must be Obama flying drones over my house again. Crap... I can hear them in my phone.... sssshh...they are listening.
Lol
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Welcome to the age of data mining. You can turn off location services under settings. Also turn off report usage or anything worded like that in the apps you use.
Google to find out more about managing location services.
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I hope this was meant as a joke... If not. Sad sad sad.
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Kinda funny to see this thread especially now the Prism program has been leaked
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I just got one of these in the mail. Does anyone else have one?
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this is after I put nova launcher and some other apps on it too and customized them.
it wont show the status bar properly now tho :s but its a compromise until someone makes better firmware for it as the current firmware/launcher are buggy and not good.
LOL. I thought you were joking when you said you were getting one. Maybe you can bug Omate for a "spare" case.
Better yet have Bell & Ross make you a custom watch face and strap.
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LOL. I thought you were joking when you said you were getting one. Maybe you can bug Omate for a "spare" case.
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no i have it on my wrist right now. i'm not impressed tho in that the software is crap it has some bad bugs that being said tho if it didnt have the bugs it would be pretty cool (the truesmart I've pre-ordered will be better tho)
I think that the bugs are coursed by them trying to mix elements from the app drawer and the home screens together. it has no homescreens or widgets but has folders were you can put 3 yes only 3 apps per folder how useless. and sometimes apps show multiple icons per app installed worst i've gotten is 3 for one app install and only uninstalling it will remove it. also after you've filled so meny pages of apps it starts not showing some of them so you have to do a device search to find/open them. and if i try install say nova or next 3d instead of the usless default launcher they would be fine but. the notification bar totaly vanishes and stops working. so until someone makes better firmware for it or maybe the omate firmware will work on it ? it has omate firmware on it now and the model number also says omate. i'd just be worried about breaking it by doing that and couldn't anyway unless someone makes a root hack for this? so atm its not as good as it could be.
Did you buy it directly from China? As far as I know, PEARL isn't shipping the AW-414.GO yet.
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Did you buy it directly from China? As far as I know, PEARL isn't shipping the AW-414.GO yet.
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there will if you buy more then one,
works out too £190 per watch
Do they ship in India
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Do they ship in India
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At the moment only Europe, my mate bought 3 so there sent it through DHL,
you can email or call them but I don't think there will send just the one,
best wait till November as more online sites will be selling them,
http://www.merimobiles.com/omate-truesmart-smartwatch_p/meri8080.htm
plus price will be cheaper once more online stores have them
You could always buy it directly from China. Just look around at Alibaba.com.
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LOL. I thought you were joking when you said you were getting one. Maybe you can bug Omate for a "spare" case.
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the photo above is what i did to it until someone makes better firmware that isnt buggy.
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Did you buy it directly from China? As far as I know, PEARL isn't shipping the AW-414.GO yet.
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I got it from someone in uk on ebay as i also thought they didn't sell them yet.
thats mine with non default launcher and some customised apps and custom icons.
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there will if you buy more then one,
works out too £190 per watch
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I'm doubting you can buy this one from china as its not a generic watch device its omates prototype.
I'm going to be making a review/over view? video of this device sometime soon
so I'm wondering if anyone who commented in this thread would like to know or see anything specific about it?
Show us some play store downloads and apps commonly used, maybe demonstrate different launchers, Google maps, GPS features.
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I'm going to be making a review/over view? video of this device sometime soon
so I'm wondering if anyone who commented in this thread would like to know or see anything specific about it?
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I would like to see how it works as a smartwatch All these discussions about various android watches got us far away from the original concept of smartwatch, to be a remote display for your smartphone where you get your notifications upon which you decide if you want to take out your smartphone to proceed That's how it works with MetaWatch and Pebble, a simple notification smartwatch. As much as I'm looking forward to Omate and other android smartwatches, these crossed the threshold of smartphone on your wrist which is an overkill for a lot of people. So, I would really like to see how this AW-414.Go will be able to deliver notifications about incoming calls, text messages, Gmail, and POP/IMAP/Exchange emails.
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Show us some play store downloads and apps commonly used, maybe demonstrate different launchers, Google maps, GPS features.
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What apps would you like to see more then others?
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I would like to see how it works as a smartwatch All these discussions about various android watches got us far away from the original concept of smartwatch, to be a remote display for your smartphone where you get your notifications upon which you decide if you want to take out your smartphone to proceed That's how it works with MetaWatch and Pebble, a simple notification smartwatch. As much as I'm looking forward to Omate and other android smartwatches, these crossed the threshold of smartphone on your wrist which is an overkill for a lot of people. So, I would really like to see how this AW-414.Go will be able to deliver notifications about incoming calls, text messages, Gmail, and POP/IMAP/Exchange emails.
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I am not sure if you can use it like the pebble it errored when I tried bluetooth it to my phone with the app that seems to be the one that does that and It didnt come with any instructions/manual.
I will try again tho also is their anything else you would like to see?
I disagree in the sense that having a full android os means you can do a lot more with it and customise it however you want plus you dont have to use its built in phone/3g if you dont want to. I mostly use mine at home on wifi. The battery life is a joke on 3g and exstremely bad if you actualy actively use it with 3g/phone enabled and not just with those on in standby mode. But thats to be exspected due to the size of the batterys in these kinda devices.
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NachTSS said:
I am not sure if you can use it like the pebble it errored when I tried bluetooth it to my phone with the app that seems to be the one that does that and It didnt come with any instructions/manual.
I will try again tho also is their anything else you would like to see?
I disagree in the sense that having a full android os means you can do a lot more with it and customise it however you want plus you dont have to use its built in phone/3g if you dont want to. I mostly use mine at home on wifi. The battery life is a joke on 3g and exstremely bad if you actualy actively use it with 3g/phone enabled and not just with those on in standby mode. But thats to be exspected due to the size of the batterys in these kinda devices.
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How bad is battery life on 3g? Because if it truly is that bad it kind of makes it pointless even using as a standalone, if it won't even make it through the day. And if it won't work as a companion,well...
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markyboy81 said:
How bad is battery life on 3g? Because if it truly is that bad it kind of makes it pointless even using as a standalone, if it won't even make it through the day. And if it won't work as a companion,well...
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I went out for 3-4 hours and hardly touched the watch and it pretty much ran out of charge. I am going to fully charge it and time it tho to make sure as part of my review im doing soon but w/e I use wifi/3g I end up charging it at least 3 times a day x.x
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NachTSS said:
I went out for 3-4 hours and hardly touched the watch and it pretty much ran out of charge. I am going to fully charge it and time it tho to make sure as part of my review im doing soon but w/e I use wifi/3g I end up charging it at least 3 times a day x.x
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I'm not surprised. I assume all your radios were on? Now imagine if you would have to make a call? Or run an app requiring wifi?
vectron said:
I'm not surprised. I assume all your radios were on? Now imagine if you would have to make a call? Or run an app requiring wifi?
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That was with 3g and 2g only
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