Why I'll probably never buy a Nexus phone ever again

Reason: Because I'm fairly sure Google will never ever *ever* put the home button back now that they've put soft home button into the OS core. The ergonomics of this is related to the position of the front facing camera and thus, super dumb IMHO.

Photo by AnandTech

The Good Bits

Apart from the software and lack of home button this phone was one of the best phones I've ever owned in terms of hardware: beautiful camera and 3D image stitching software, the way it felt in your hand (except lack of home button), stunning cameras with bright LEDs, glorious screen, 768p videos (checkout The Triptonites preview of our first single not all shot on this, some was iPod Touch 4G and/or S3 Mini I forget), 2 GB RAM and of course the main thing I was after - the Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait CPU!!

The Fucked If I Know How I Feel About It Bits

It had the smoothest surface not just of any phone ever but of anything I've ever touched ever!! It was totally amazing! Everyone who ever held it was struck by this especially once I started demonstrating it. Like I could put it on my leather couch with a rounded top in such a way - slightly off a perfect flat balance - that I knew it would fall off from sliding due to gravity about 2 minutes later. I should have made a video before it got all smashed up to prove this. In fact I notice this guy already has made a video.

Sounds like I can root the phone blind (with no screen - its cracked): http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1r2zha/how_i_managed_to_use_my_android_device_with_a

Shout outs to my mate at Google for scoring me a Cardboard - thanks Matt!

Google Cardboard

I say I don't know how I feel because I accidentally smashed the entire screen one morning on my concrete floor. Hmmmmm.....

The Bad Bits

• No Home Button
  • Essential for ergonomics
  • Helps to orient the phone/tablet without vision using tactile feedback
  • Would have been nice especially since once my volume buttons stopped working I could not answer the phone, nor get to home screen during calls
  • Can't wake on flat surface if you only have one finger unlike device with home button
    • Ok So I'm not mono-fingered but you get the idea!
• No "Restart" in power menu like S3 Mini
  • Needs it the amount of times I rebooted!!
  • Yes I've since rooted the phone you get the idea
  • I recently learnt I can reboot without root using adb - cool would have been nice to know 3 months ago!
• Volume Up/Downs stopped working one day after a software upgrade
  • I thought this was due to me smashing the phone around
  • Until I saw these 2,660 pages with the make/model and bug in title of page!
  • That's totally un-acceptable due to the next points:
• Unable to disable speakerphone during call due to "Power button ends call" setting + no volume butts working anymore + screen locks
  • Only option is to hang up or muffle the call under a pillow (Seriously!? Fuck you telephone! This was the 2nd worst thing!)
• Often unable to answer call due to phantom touch screen blindness
  • Usually the phantom isn't an issue - just use power on/off
  • Can't do that when its ringing tho can you?
  • This is seriously the worst thing about the phone
  • If you can call it that anymore
  • Skype would probably be more reliable for answering due to this
• Finally I smashed the screen making the touchscreen part not work anymore
  • That's when I wrote this post since I doubt I'll be using it again 🙂
• Some other small points:
  • I found Snapchat was able to reboot the phone - handy!!! Just start snapchat when I need to reboot good feature!! 🙂
  • Shit mic sound for high dB SPL gigs as always (Apple and Sony have best phone mics)

Nexus 4 Sliding Off A Completely Flat Surface

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Dear Google, please let me pay to remove ads on Youtube

I'd like to be able to load up by Youtube account with some prepay credit, and then allow this to bleed out to Google at the eCPM rate for the video and my demographic in question.

So if I watch videos that don't earn much for Google from CPC click throughs I could watch for a long time before my credit expires, versus high quality content that may have higher value ads and earnings using up more of my credit faster.

Perhaps the rate could be a discount on the actual eCPM to play fair. Another idea could be to provide a link under the clip which shows which ads were suppressed and how much you just paid to suppress them.

Saves having to install an ad blocker on every machine I use, and when I'm logged in, I can enjoy watching Youtube like I can with Spotify Premium - no ads.

I'd call it PPP payment - pay per peace. They'll probably call it Youtube Premium like Spotify did. Actually I just checked and Youtube does have a bunch of "premium channels". Note quite my idea tho.

"Pay to go ad free on youtube"

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John Key is a Tosser re: Nelson Mandela

I like this article by the Dom Post: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9493269/Kiwi-Mandela-delegation-without-tour-protesters

"Right-wing politicians know that they have to be nice about Mandela and praise him as a hero. But it’s awkward to be reminded that Minto was actually getting beaten up because he was protesting to try and get Mandela released and to get our country to break ties with apartheid South Africa, a regime that right-wing governments here and around the world enthusiastically supported. If Key takes John Minto to Mandela’s funeral it means swallowing the gigantic rat that Minto – who they regard as the epitome of left-wing idiocy – was completely right, and the National Party was completely wrong. So no trip for Minto." - Dominion Post

"It is deeply regrettable that the Government has not been able to grasp the opportunity and send a delegation to South Africa in which all New Zealanders could feel represented." - Dominion Post

In other news:

john key is a tosser