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[Buoysel]

Storage will only get cheaper the longer you wait.

I wonder what the next storage medium will be.

 

[Legendary Silke]

Feels a bit crazy... you know, I could live without a flagship smartphone or one whole terabyte of solid-state storage, and I won't mind things a bit, seeing as the Lumia 525 and Seagate Laptop SSHD are perfectly good (and going back to a feature phone or a bog-standard HDD are just painful), but...

Sometimes I just want to have fast everything.
Sometimes I also want to have a phone that does everything.

Can't have it all, huh?

 

[Tsutarja]

If we're talking technology wishlists, my top item is a new desktop. One that I can have built and with more than 4GB of RAM. :P

 

[Mark Kamill]

My one goal is to eventually have the cash for a flagship, especially subsidized. I want to be able to have a useless 2 year contract, to buy an 800 euro phone for 200. Ah who am I kidding, Z3 compact in 2015 would be fine at 300.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

If I can finagle the debt people owe me I'd have a nice desktop right about now (the funk's so rubber!). Minimum $850 budget, and with compensation I'd likely have over $1K.

Instead I have a cheap Lenovo work of art in the realm of consumer electronics, an old back-when-Vista-was-the-latest-and-greatest desktop tower with (wow) 1GB of RAM and an Athlon X2 which pathetically outperforms this laptop, as does every oter processor in history made after 1999. And I get to use this toy with a flat-screen monitor 40 inches wide (I believe that yours says Etch-A-Sketch on the side!) while my screen collects dust. Our household sure has its priorities straight.

 

[Legendary Silke]

Hmm...

Huh. Fast startup stopped being broken on my laptop.

Hey, at least I can finally stop thinking about it and just buy a flagship smartphone.

 

[Lusus]

All i really want atm is to buy a new graphic card, mainly for Minecraft when i'm bored. I have 400 GB unused space on my Local Drives which is WAY too much and i think my computer runs decently enough to not need any other upgrades. I always wanted to know how having 2 monitors fells like though.

I also finally fixed the "Attempting to boot from USB" problem my PC had while starting up with my USB inserted. It was way simpler than i thought it would be(i just had to change the booting settings).

 

[Frequency]

I also finally fixed the "Attempting to boot from USB" problem my PC had while starting up with my USB inserted. It was way simpler than i thought it would be(i just had to change the booting settings).

Wish you would have posted about that sooner. I would have been helped you lol. Glad you fixed it though!

I guess my wishlist is for a new desktop. I'm tired of making do with Toasters than can emulate at best. Although there's this new phone I wanna try out...but sadly it's almost impossible to get. So I'll just shoot for the desktop.

 

[Tsutarja]

Although there's this new phone I wanna try out...but sadly it's almost impossible to get. So I'll just shoot for the desktop.

Which phone were ya lookin to get, just out of curiosity? :P

 

[Frequency]

Which phone were ya lookin to get, just out of curiosity? :P

The OnePlus One.

I saw a page for it while I was googling some stuff, and it caught my interest. When I tell you the specs and the price range are actually absurd? Calling themselves a Flagship Killer is almost not arguable in this case.

Specs:
https://oneplus.net/one#specifications

And for $299? ($349 if you go 64GB internal Storage I think?)

Someone was either high or really loves us, but I want it now.

 

[Mark Kamill]

They actually love us(kinda).They have some stupid back asswards ideas about distrobution(invite only is sadly only what they can do with a price like that for specs like that), and their recent sexist campaign is beyond stupid, but eh. They made it clear from the start, they wanted to to kill the flagships by releasing a low profit margin phone with killer specs. If they were only able to do mass production, it would have been perfect. I've been looking at one myself, but the 16 gig version from an unofficial vendor is 500 euros, and the only option. :/

 

[Mark Kamill]

They actually love us(kinda).They have some stupid back asswards ideas about distrobution(invite only is sadly only what they can do with a price like that for specs like that), and their recent sexist campaign is beyond stupid, but eh. They made it clear from the start, they wanted to to kill the flagships by releasing a low profit margin phone with killer specs. If they were only able to do mass production, it would have been perfect. I've been looking at one myself, but the 16 gig version from an unofficial vendor is 500 euros, and the only option. :/

 

[Tsutarja]

The OnePlus One.

I saw a page for it while I was googling some stuff, and it caught my interest. When I tell you the specs and the price range are actually absurd? Calling themselves a Flagship Killer is almost not arguable in this case.

Specs:
https://oneplus.net/one#specifications

And for $299? ($349 if you go 64GB internal Storage I think?)

Someone was either high or really loves us, but I want it now.

The thing that caught my eye is that the phone comes with CyanogenMod installed by default. o_O

 

[Frequency]

The thing that caught my eye is that the phone comes with CyanogenMod installed by default.

Yeah, that's another thing that got me. Any phone that comes with CyanogenMod is immediately worth looking at in my eyes.

They actually love us(kinda).They have some stupid back asswards ideas about distrobution(invite only is sadly only what they can do with a price like that for specs like that), and their recent sexist campaign is beyond stupid, but eh. They made it clear from the start, they wanted to to kill the flagships by releasing a low profit margin phone with killer specs. If they were only able to do mass production, it would have been perfect. I've been looking at one myself, but the 16 gig version from an unofficial vendor is 500 euros, and the only option. :/

It's mostly because people keep begging for this phone lol. Not that I blame them since the phone is amazing in retrospect. I hope to cop one of these before it becomes an arm and a leg, but only time will tell. If I do get it in time I'll be sure to review it here and let you know how it is in person compared to on paper. But when the paper is made out of fine silk, who cares right?

Kinda wish that campaign didn't happen but...eh.

 

[Tsutarja]

I wonder what their policy on rooting is then :P at least in the USA, it's now "legal" for a consumer to unlock their phone if they choose to do so.

 

[Frequency]

I wonder what their policy on rooting is then :P at least in the USA, it's now "legal" for a consumer to unlock their phone if they choose to do so.

The technical process of rooting or unlocking the bootloader does not void the warranty of the OnePlus One. However, we strongly suggest for you to only root or unlock the bootloader of the OnePlus One if you are confident that you understand the risks involved. By accessing resources regularly unavailable to software, the process may damage your hardware during or after the procedure, which is not covered under warranty. In warranty handling, we will need to verify that any faulty behavior is unrelated to rooting/unlocking first.

Seems here that they're a bit more lenient than they are in the states, least as far as warranties. Some companies allow it but void the warranty, these guys still give you the warranty as long as you aren't doing AWOL stuff with your phone.

 

[Mark Kamill]

Japan needs to stop getting the crazy ass goods. I mean look at this!
https://www.gsmarena.com/sharp_aquos_crystal_and_crystal_x_go_live_in_japan-news-9387.php
5.5 inch screen, and almost no bezel. Ignore the color(put it in black) and you got one of the best freaking phones in the world. I WANT ONE.

 

[Tsutarja]

Japan needs to stop getting the crazy ass goods. I mean look at this!
https://www.gsmarena.com/sharp_aquos_crystal_and_crystal_x_go_live_in_japan-news-9387.php
5.5 inch screen, and almost no bezel. Ignore the color(put it in black) and you got one of the best freaking phones in the world. I WANT ONE.

It's Japan. What do you expect, considering that they're pretty much the heart of the world's technology? :P

 

[Frequency]

Japan needs to stop getting the crazy ass goods. I mean look at this!
https://www.gsmarena.com/sharp_aquos_crystal_and_crystal_x_go_live_in_japan-news-9387.php
5.5 inch screen, and almost no bezel. Ignore the color(put it in black) and you got one of the best freaking phones in the world. I WANT ONE.

That Crystal X isn't too bad. Pretty good processor and 2GB of ram is nothing to scoff at. I'd like to get my hands on one.

Kinda spoiled after seeing that Oneplus One though....

 

[Tsutarja]

2GB on a phone does seem rather fast..and this is coming from the person whose phone only has 512 MB of RAM. :P