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Despite all of our warnings, Chris still went out and bought a Samsung Galaxy S5. How does he like it? Let’s just say if you’ve got a HTC One M8 to trade he is interested. Listen to him rant about how much he hates it, and listen to us say “we told you so!” We also talk about some of the weirdest phone names to ever exist, Google’s awesome new camera app, Wins and Fails of the Week, and our App Picks.
Big News
- Chris and the Samsung Galaxy S5 (Review)
- Our favorite weird phone names
Quick Hits
- Frontback for Android
- Golden LG G3 with crazy resolution
- Samsung making Android Wear watch
- Windows Phone 8.1 available for dev preview
- Leaked Amazon phone with 3D, will be announced by June
- Yahoo wants to be default search for iOS
- Apple adding built-in Shazam song identification for iOS 8
- Project Ara $100K developer challenge
- Google Glass goes on sale for a day and nobody bought it
Wins and Fails of the Week
- Kevin: 3rd party manufacturers upgrading old hardware to CarPlay, aftermarket units incoming / Galaxy S5 fingerprint already “hacked”
- Joe: Cortana rocks / Facebook removed Most Recent from Android app
- Chris: Google Camera / Glass XE16 update
App Picks
- Kevin: Milk Music
- Joe: QuizUp
- Chris: Google Camera
Follow Us
- Joe Fedewa (@tallshmo)
- Chris Chavez (@gamercore)
- Kevin Krause (@youdontknowkev)
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I’m surprised that I’m not hearing similar experiences with the slow GS5 on the Android forums. Lots of people having specific technical issues, but not the laginess. Now I have to see if work is gonna have the HTC.
Yeah, I thought the combination of KitKat + Snapdragon 801 would eliminate any and all lag introduced in TouchWiz. Boy, was I wrong. It’s funny how, no matter how many specs you throw on a phone, its software still has the power to cripple it.
Now, I’m just debating if I should return my Galaxy S5 for the M8, or simply wait until the G3/Z2 hit T-Mobile. Hmmmm…
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