There's definitely a difference between the potential for serious personal tinkering and needing to set it up out of the box.
I know it's just a phone but when you take into account the number of things you can do with any given device, it's easy to see why rooting is so popular on Android (and jail breaking for iOS).
At this point though, flagship phones like the S3 and One X are all set to go out of the box.
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Apple's chargers suck balls. My charger which is a year old looks like it has been chewed up by a dog. It has never left the wall charger it's been in since the day I got the phone.
My iPod had the same problem I would have thought they would have fixed the crappy quality by now. Maybe they should discipline the children making them.
Well the next actual release will probably have more actual improvements instead of just doing light updates, but they don't want to release a Nexus phone with an update that is already out.
So they probably fixed a few small issues and made some tweaks just to call it 4.2 and will release it with the new Nexus phone so they can say it has the latest update. Considering the supposed fragmentation issue that Android OS seem to have, selling a phone and saying you have the absolute latest update could be a major selling point.
Well the next actual release will probably have more actual improvements instead of just doing light updates, but they don't want to release a Nexus phone with an update that is already out.
So they probably fixed a few small issues and made some tweaks just to call it 4.2 and will release it with the new Nexus phone so they can say it has the latest update. Considering the supposed fragmentation issue that Android OS seem to have, selling a phone and saying you have the absolute latest update could be a major selling point.
Not to mention constant future updates minus the odd firmware differences. Looks like Google Now might be a big focus of the next release.
I'm just hoping for the possibility of having devices sold through Google in Canada and multiple other Nexus phones. Mostly an HTC brand. The One X is just gorgeous.
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I'm actually not familiar with Google Now as I don't have JB on my phone, but going by what Bobblehead said about how it can predict your habits, it sounds pretty amazing.
I'm waiting for my carrier to get the S3, otherwise I will buy a Nexus phone too.
You can set it to search different things (like your Gmail) and also notify you about certain events or whatever. I think it uses the GPS to know when to Notify you.
I was waiting in security at the airport playing around on my phone, and without any actions from me, Google Now notified me that my flight was delayed.
My guess is in searching my Gmail, it saw the confirmation email from the airline of what flight I had booked, and the GPS saw that I was at the airport, so it searched whatever website it uses for flight info tracking, saw there was a delay and notified me.
Little bit creepy, or awesome.
Also, it takes time for it to learn your habits and patterns. There is very little "wow" factor the first time you activate it.
Didn't Google buy a company that does airline tracking?
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google plans to buy travel technology company ITA Software in a $700 million deal that would provide the Internet search leader with more comprehensive information about airline flights.
Perhaps OT but I was quite impressed doing a tracking search for UPS. I highlighted the tracking number and right clicked to search in Google and it asked if I wanted to track my UPS package. Perhaps simple but I was pretty impressed. (And yes I got ####ed by UPS and paid a $45 brokerage fee. ####ers)
