Recent content by maxcypond

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    News iPhone 11 Owners Angry Over Easily Scratched Screens

    This seems like an easy hardness test for a testing laboratory. In fact this seems like and easy test to see what a random selection of smart phone models demonstrate. Anything less than a Moh 8 should not be on a smart phone. Which means the only things near you that should scratch the...
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    How Google’s Pixel 3 Could Finally Beat Samsung and Apple

    My next phone will be a sub-$500 phone. If Google is in 'that price sphere' I will be happy to compare and buy from them. Yet, if they seem invested in fighting with the big names with increasingly expensive phones - I just can't say I'm interested in another expensive phone . Google is...
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    Galaxy Note 9 Launching Early After Slow S9 Sales (Report)

    I think the cost of 2017 and now 2018 phones is turning people off. People went into 2017 wanting new phones and what was delivered was pretty good but pricey. I think the discomfort of the those prices is only settling in now. I really hope at Apple and Samsung learn the right lessons -...
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    New iPad Hands-on: Chromebooks Can't Do This

    Does dissecting a frog teach kids anything? iPad or Chromebook...that is secondary too what is actually relevant science and what isn't. Couldn't we just "visually" necropsy human cadavers to teach anatomy? I suppose a frog, worm or bivalve would be interesting in comparison but only after...
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    Apple's Foldable iPhone Just Got a Lot More Real

    I think if normal high-end smartphones are in the $1,100 range that these foldable one swill be $1,500+. Honestly, I think getting so many people to buy $900 phones was only going to work once or twice. I think the sub-$500 phone will come roaring back in 2019. I think Apple, LG and Samsung...