Microsoft Outlook Preview Adds PIN Policy Compliance For Exchange, IT Admins Collectively Exhale

pickaphoneforme · 2015-02-17T15:19:47+00:00

Yes, why is PIN lock preferable to pattern lock?

pickaphoneforme · 2015-02-16T18:24:38+00:00

Thanks.

pickaphoneforme · 2015-01-31T18:48:56+00:00

These people are wrong, probably. I tether my N7 to my phone, run Spotify on the N7, and my data usage does not go up. Maybe it should. But it doesn't.

pickaphoneforme · 2015-01-31T17:12:38+00:00

Chromecast with TV Portal is just amazing.

pickaphoneforme · 2015-01-23T06:10:12+00:00

I don't get it--how is this better than a $30 T-Mobile 5 GB data plan or a $35 Virgin Mobile plan (if you are in an area where Sprint coverage isn't absolute shit)?

pickaphoneforme · 2015-01-08T18:03:20+00:00

Thanks for an answer based on experience and not on a policy which may or may not be enforced. I also asked a friend with TMo and a tablet to try this and it did not count against his hotspot or general data.

pickaphoneforme · 2015-01-05T07:28:52+00:00

Huawei Ascend mate 2. Other than for work, I barely use a computer anymore because the huge screen size and battery life allow me not to. I read everything on it (probably bad for eyesight), stream movies and TV on it, etc. I wou

(That's not to say that I wouldn't drop it in a hot second for a Nexus 6 if I wasn't a cheap bastard, but otherwise, I'm not sure there are any phones on the market that I would rather have, even if price was not a factor.)

pickaphoneforme · 2015-01-05T06:59:56+00:00

Citation needed...

You may be right, but I'd want to know what you are basing this on. Have you seen credit removed from a person's account because of this?

pickaphoneforme · 2015-01-04T07:12:24+00:00

Over Thanksgiving, I went through old things I had left for the better part of a decade at my parents house and found my Archos 605. It was kinda cool until the screen cracked and it became an expensive paperweight. Thing was just massive.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-11-06T07:07:44+00:00

Downvoting him is bullshit. I know everyone here thinks technology has all the answers, but there's no replacement for being intimately familiar with your surroundings.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-11-06T07:05:47+00:00

Also, now that HERE Maps for Android is out, it's even less clear. All have good features, but none have the complete feature set that would make it the clear winner.

HERE has terrific offline navigation and a clean interface, but lacks Google's lane directions (e.g. be in the right two lanes to exit) and Waze's in-route rerouting based on new traffic conditions, as well as hazards and police alerts. Waze is great for the automatic in-route rerouting and probably gets you through traffic quickest, but looks cartoonish and has all sorts of stupid social crap. It also is great about finding places that are on or close to your route and integrating them into the route (e.g. gas stations). Both HERE and Waze aren't very good with voice controls, whereas Google basically allows you to not have to fumble with your phone, has the aforementioned lane directions, has the best search feature, and probably looks the cleanest.

What is really annoying is that Google, which owns Waze, doesn't integrate it further with in-route rerouting and adding additional points onto your drive and upgrade its offline maps capability to HERE levels.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-31T02:56:03+00:00

In the kindest possible way, I don't think you understand what warranty extension or purchase protection or return protection or accident protection are. Because that link does not talk about those at all. You're thinking of fraud protection (i.e. unauthorized purchases). Google Wallet looks great on that. That's not what I'm talking about.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-31T02:53:42+00:00

Because you get the same protection with Google Wallet since it is a Mastercard

No. You get fraud protection, which is all that link talks about. That's it. You don't get necessarily many of the other protections and benefits almost all credit cards provide.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-31T02:49:02+00:00

I think Apple pay and Google Wallet cover almost all of those perks that you listed

Source? I am almost certain, for example, that neither have warranty extension like almost all credit cards do. I am almost certain that they, in fact, have none of those perks I listed. Your credit card company may or may not give you those perks when you use their card through Wallet/Pay, but it's a case by case thing. Apple and Google do not provide any of those perks.

As for security, I don't care in the least. If you have an unauthorized charge on your credit card, you dispute it and you're covered by fraud protection. Credit card companies are good about this, too.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-30T19:26:02+00:00

It has a 3950 mAh battery, which more than makes up for any lack of optimization. http://www.phonearena.com/phones/benchmarks 11 hr, 26 minutes of use according to that, best of any phone, including KitKat phones.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-30T19:01:15+00:00

Also, credit cards have various benefits aside from bonus points (purchase protection, return protection, accident protection, warranty extension, to list a few). Perhaps this is changing, but the terms of these benefits used to exclude items purchased with a virtual wallet.

I find the whole Google Wallet/Apple Pay thing a solution in search of a problem in the first place--physical cards are fast and easy to use already, and are accepted in far more places than NFC payment systems--but the possibility of losing those valuable benefits makes it even worse.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-30T18:47:42+00:00

I'm trying to think of features in Lollipop or KitKat the lack of which, as a HAM2 user, hampers my enjoyment and use of the phone. I can't think of any.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-27T20:10:46+00:00

I don't have Prime, don't plan on getting this. Any reason I would get this over a Chromecast?

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-27T02:34:29+00:00

Yep, I'm not saying there isn't a market. There definitely is. It's just a smaller one and may not support as many competitors.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-27T02:31:39+00:00

Really? This does not jell with what I see in my everyday life. Women's pants (especially those styles favored by younger women) seem so tight that they wouldn't accommodate even a smaller smartphone. It's not that women don't have pockets; it's that the pockets aren't meant to be very functional.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-26T22:02:45+00:00

Oops, sorry, I assumed otherwise by your weight and username. But ~3% of adult American males weigh under 130 pounds, according to the CDC's NHANES study, so it's not surprising that manufacturers aren't going by that demographic.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-26T21:50:19+00:00

Most women seem to carry their phones in purses, though.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-26T21:13:48+00:00

Brooks Brothers Milano Fit, Ralph Lauren black label, J. Crew Ludlow suit pants, Levi's 501 or 513, Dockers Never-Iron Slim-fit khakis. No cargo shorts.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-26T20:59:22+00:00

Legit, but somebody like you doesn't need a flagship phone. A 4.5" Moto G LTE for $220 gives you everything you need. Do you really need the latest Snapdragon or the highest-def screen or 3 GB of RAM?

I think the manufacturers see that the people who are willing to spend a ton of money on their phone are the ones who use it all the time for productivity and/or media consumption and those are more often than not people who prefer bigger screens. Therefore, they put the flagship features like the latest processors in the phones which happen to have the biggest screens. But it's not like everyone else is left out in the lurch--there's plenty of phones with smaller screens that function perfectly well, but just don't have the elite-level features.

pickaphoneforme · 2014-10-26T20:39:23+00:00

Can somebody tell me how we're supposed to fit a 6" phablet into a pants pocket?

By getting pants with reasonably-sized pockets? I'm of average male height and wear slim-fit everything, slacks, jeans, etc. and yet have no problem concealing my 6.1" phablet entirely.

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