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a. MI3 from OLX. b. wait a day or two - has he lost/damaged his phone? moto G2 is practically here! the crappy phones will painyou for a couple of years. why not have patience for a day or two? | |
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Afterall which company will make available their user interface for other phones, who does this? Did we hear Samsung, HTC etc make their TouchWiz, Sense UI available in the open market, that too at free of cost? There is a bad smell coming out of this brand. I know people will question that Google also knows everything about us and invades pour privacy and our personal data. But one thing is for sure, it doesn't do without accepting permission request. I myself checked the other normal ROMs and few of the familiar connections were being established in them, nothing was suspicious. Now I would stay away from this 'Chinese weapon' thrown in our country and will play extra careful when it comes about buying Chinese mobile devices. Even if its not a spyware weapon and only anonymous information is at compromise, why the hell I should make my data available to China which is not any less dangerous than our west side neighbor for our country? Unfortunately govt is sleeping and not paying any attention on scrutinizing foreign items entering in our country. And about being patient, there are people who get impatient when they decide to buy something new and my relative was too hard to convince to even wait till today. So we have got grace period of only today and he will become out of control by the evening. So need to finalize something before evening ![]() Last edited by tbppjpr : 5th September 2014 at 09:41. | |
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Hope for the best ! | |
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![]() I disagree with your assessment but I do recognize your fear. Now there are two things. a. You can buy a crappier phone out of your fear. b. You can buy the MI3 and put another ROM on it if you have the time/energy. Look at HTC desire 816. Nice phone it is. very premium for the price. | |
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| ![]() Finally launched and Moto X is just has got few mind blowing upgrades like optical zoom that too without putting any bulky protruded lenses on the slim body. Though the phone will be launched later this month. Anyways, our current hunt stops at Moto G which will be priced at 12,999/- for 16GB as per this live blog : http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news...i-india-587110 Quote:
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EDIT : Just searched and found 816 to be priced at 23,290 at Flikart. It doesn't even have Gorilla Glass. Well now again I may be on gunpoint that the Gorilla Glass isn't that important but then thats just me. I know for the matter from personal experience that how important the Gorilla Glass is, especially when screen size become bigger in a handheld device. Last edited by tbppjpr : 5th September 2014 at 13:01. | ||||
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news...s-12999-587154 Moto G (updated) has been officially launched at 12999/- for the 16gb variant !! Updates include a bigger 5" display, 8mp camera and an external SD card slot. Sales start at midnight tonight on flipkart. Super pricing ! Last edited by fiat_tarun : 5th September 2014 at 13:03. |
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Any idea what the launch day offers would be with the MotoG2 ? | |
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On a price basis, ideal if one can wait is redmi1s which has lot of hardware similar to desire 816 - would be ideal to put a CM types ROM on it and watch it fly. I feel MIUI is bloaty. Its not laggy like Samsung TouchWiz but I only see 100-150 MB free on my S3 though the phone remains quite snappy. my defy got rooted/ROMed on third day. S3 (second one) got it similarly. Didn't regret it ever. | |
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| ![]() Moto's case is much better than Xiaomi. Buyers atleast can book the phone in case of stock is over so no need to apply any gambling kind of trick etc. |
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I expect it may not be as maddening as the MI3 or Redmi. They apparently have some 70000 units for sale. So it should be open for more than the 3 seconds of Xiaomi flash sales. Unsuccessful MI3/Redmi purchasers may compete. In isolation its a VFM deal. I use a Moto G and am very happy with it. This after 3 years of Galaxy S1. | |
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Or do you think you can do baseband and other DSP builds and sanitize the code without source code access ? FYI Lenovo was the first company to install back-doors on the laptops and now Xiomi. http://www.geek.com/chips/spy-agenci...dware-1563801/ Call me conspiracy theorists but I do see a possibility that it may be part of future PRISM like project from aspiring next super power. It is logical that they will try to spread out first in immediate neighbourhood and largest potential rival. Since US controls the server assets prism was mostly server based China is controlling device manufacturing so it is logical that they will spread out the wings using device endpoints to have a robust system 5 - 10 years from now. | ||
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With Andoid, creation of a Femtocell is free. Exampls of a project that used this approach (and OpenBTS on Android) to connect GSM phones to CDMA. http://www.tombom.co.uk/blog/?p=144 | |
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