Android phones, apps and tablets

Cool, I'd be very interested to hear how you get on with it come December.

See you on Wednesday

Just enabled 4G on my Nexus 4, hope it will work.

As I understand it, it won't in the UK. You can only enable it to use the band 4 frequency; providers in the UK use 3, 7 and 20.

That means I need a new handset to experience 4G?

Or a holiday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks

Pretty much.

Just enabled 4G on my Nexus 4, hope it will work.

I looked into that when I got my N4, wrong band... Boo...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c

looks interesting concept...

well, it would do if link worked. Phonebloks promo vid on YouTube, or https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/2931-phonebloks

Its a great idea, and its been explored in various different concepts (including ones that look a lot more consumer oriented than that), but so far no one seems to have been able to make it either electronically or commercially viable .

I do think at this point, both phone manufactures and networks aren't interested in ideas like this though; the whole industry is too heavily built around the idea of consumers changing their phones around every two years and would have to be restructured for an idea like this to work for them.

It would be interesting to see someone from a more independent standpoint try and develop an idea like this and bring it to market, but they'd need a hell of a lot of money for development and to stand a chance of commercial viability. Also I can't help but think that something like this would be much much more technologically challenging than the concept images let on, especially seeing as the components of a modern smartphone aren't exactly separated into neat little blocks, and I dare say it would be a major engineering challenge to allow you to pull out, change or upgrade any component on a whim...

Nexus 5 shows up at FCC

http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5231eae869bedd7356966703-800-/bt-worqcqaarh0d.jpg-large.jpeg

and beside a Nexus 4

http://images.designntrend.com/data/images/full/13556/screen-shot-2013-09-04-at-4-08-28-pm-png.png?w=610

But is it tho'? Was looking at that last night, suggestion was it was the new flagship LG phone...

If it is nexus 5 then I am excited. Will be all over that.

Anyone interested in buying a galaxy nexus with accessories?

But is it tho'? Was looking at that last night, suggestion was it was the new flagship LG phone...

That guy with one is clipped from a Google video and it says Nexus on the back.

where's my wireless charger for nexus 4?

Nexus 4 was a tweaked LG Optimus G, 5 is being touted as tweaked LG G2?

No glass back!

I'm considering ditching my iphone (when it stops working) and getting a Fairphone (http://www.fairphone.com/). Has anyone on here pre-ordered one?

Yes, I have. Quite excited! It looks like a great idea and the dual sim is especially useful for me.

I can't go to the event next week but would be very interested to hear about it. I think they'll have prototypes there.

It's not the prettiest thing, but looks aren't everything.

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/95cc5eadcf0cd460ae347f6f8/images/prototypes_11Sept.jpeg

Tunein Radio App
http://tunein.com/

Ive been using it for the last couple of years and its easily the best internet radio app for android.

But the since the last release the Alarm feature is no longer activating when my phone is in sleep mode and so not waking me up either - ironic huh!

I've tried clearing the data, uninstalling / reinstalling, restarting the phone just before setting the alarm before bed.

Nothing works.. ive not upgraded my OS recently either.
Any ideas?

My HTC Sensation is on it's last legs and Nexus 4 16gb for £199 is still a fuck of a lot of phone for the money.

I'm on GiffGaff and with unlimited and or/ PAYG 4G data plans non-existant is there anything really making the 5 a must have over the 4?

No glass back?

It'll be faster. Not £300 faster thiough.

What's the res. on the 4? The 5 has been spotted in testing as "1794 x 1080 resolution display (the missing 126 pixels is for the navigation bar)"

http://phandroid.com/2013/09/17/nexus-5-makes-appearance-on-gfxbench-benchmark-shows-snapdragon-800-1080p-resolution-display/

My HTC Sensation is on it's last legs and Nexus 4 16gb for £199 is still a fuck of a lot of phone for the money.

I'm on GiffGaff and with unlimited and or/ PAYG 4G data plans non-existant is there anything really making the 5 a must have over the 4?

Ditto.
My Sensation is hanging on by a thread.
Contract is up at the start of October and I'm not sure what to do.

Root it, put cyanogen on it. Sorted for another 12 months.

Anyone know if it's possible to stream from Google music direct to your average AV receiver? I know they'll play music that's actually on the device, but am less sure about stuff in the cloud/access all areas. If not, would a Chromecast connected directly to the receiver do the job?

Re. Chromecast, I can't figure out whether that offers direct access to Goggle music or you still need a phone/tablet to do the streaming. Anyone got the foggiest?