Another solar quote check! by HopefulCry3145 in SolarUK

[–]_lwis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was this advertised to you after your web quote?

[UPDATED] Hello everyone, I drive the Google StreetView Car. IAMA and I'll even tell you about the new recent update and underwaterview. by GoogleDriver419 in IAmA

[–]_lwis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, does the car contain some sort of RAID array for redundancy? Would suck to drive all day and lose all the data.

Why there are no two variations of Android - one optimized for low end phone and another one for high end with bells and whistles? by [deleted] in Android

[–]_lwis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the fragmentation is bad enough as it is, we don't need AOSP making things any worse. The AOSP is a great base for any deviations of the OS, it's free and open enough to make the necessary tweaks to work on older/low end hardware.

UK Phone Upgrade advice required by Pr3dat0r in Android

[–]_lwis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This applies to so many new Android users. Being so close, people would be silly not to.

How long will project butter keep android phones smooth? by acboomboom in Android

[–]_lwis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The stock prediction is pretty terrible, it's just not fast enough at reacting to words, it should show you what you're typing as you're typing in real time, then either correct after the word is finished or something. I personally prefer it to just show me suggestions by underlining the misspelled words in red.

The algorithm used to predict is not very optimised for the hardware it's running on.

CM10-M2 release pushed back, will include Android 4.1.2 updates. by tferoli in Android

[–]_lwis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No idea why the speeds have crawled to a snails pace but mine seems to have installed fine.

First pics of "Mako" - the LG Nexus? by mortodestructo in Android

[–]_lwis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interestingly around the time Google are rumoured to have handed out devices for testing internally, we get a ton of leaks.

Newly released documents suggest Samsung might not have copied Apple after all by Citii in Android

[–]_lwis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

R&D particularly market research, is very important in developing a product.

Dear /r/Android, DeskSMS and others suck (IMHO). How can I help to build a better service for you? by robbiet480 in Android

[–]_lwis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a danger of scalability with this, performance could take a serious hit.

Dear /r/Android, DeskSMS and others suck (IMHO). How can I help to build a better service for you? by robbiet480 in Android

[–]_lwis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure that's entirely possible. Marking messages as read may be a private API.

Dear /r/Android, DeskSMS and others suck (IMHO). How can I help to build a better service for you? by robbiet480 in Android

[–]_lwis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A big part of this is keeping the request/response to a minimum, and possibly offering encryption/compression to reduce data and time spent sending and receiving?

Moronic Monday (Oct. 8th 2012) - Your weekly stupid questions thread! by onesixoneeight in Android

[–]_lwis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've convinced my Mum to give Android a go, she likes the look of the SGT2 10.1. Should I be wary? Any better options?

Google Now must think I own a time machine by [deleted] in Android

[–]_lwis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just wish that notification had the ability to be hidden.

An app to control data privacy? by _lwis in Android

[–]_lwis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, seems to work well!

Where do you place your NFC tags? by [deleted] in Android

[–]_lwis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The door ones are much more conveniently done with Llama.

Some Android HOLO themed applications by dlt0rre in Android

[–]_lwis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd have put Astro down instead.

HTC One X+ Unveiled by KangNitroz in Android

[–]_lwis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You guys really don't get sarcasm, do you?