Scotswahey wrote:

I just smashed fuck out my Sony Xperia z3 screen. Dont buy a Sony... terrible phones. Anyway to get it fixed with a genuine Sony screen is 95 quid!! I'm almost tempted to get a cheap phone instead. Is Samsung really the only alternative?

It's certainly an alternative to not being on fire.

Yossarian wrote:

Scotswahey wrote:

I just smashed fuck out my Sony Xperia z3 screen. Dont buy a Sony... terrible phones. Anyway to get it fixed with a genuine Sony screen is 95 quid!! I'm almost tempted to get a cheap phone instead. Is Samsung really the only alternative?

It's certainly an alternative to not being on fire.

Serious question. Now you may laugh... But what are those Blackberrys like these days? They just look cool. But if they're slow as shit then theres not much point.

Without you doing anything to it... of course...

So dropping it loads is not doing anything to it now? Personally, I've found third party screens to last just as long as official ones, maybe it's the solid metal case.

Scotswahey wrote:

What are those Blackberrys like these days?

Discontinued.

I fixed my Z5 screen and other than the fact its no longer waterproof it works fine. I paid £35 for the screen but it did take me about 3hrs to do it and I had to use a heat gun to unstick the glue as a hair dryer wasn't touching it.

I'm no Skerret, but I believe the answer to both of your questions is yes.

Gonna be fine indoors, and will help stop you getting run over outdoors, and seem a cracking pair of cans especially at that price

Just bear in mind the difference between open and closed back, if there is little ambient noise then open are great (and make your ears sweat less) if there is then you will be interrupted by either the 77 bus coming past or the wife watching coronation street

Scares me a little, the ones that you can't turn off, always listening like Kinect, much rather press a button and then I know when I'm being listened to

Google voice stuff on the phone works pretty well, so imagine that the google one is just the version of that, before we all get it on our phones with Android 7 or 8

I think it's basically a bluetooth speaker with google voice

https://madeby.google.com/home/

Pretty much,  the marketing blurb made me think it has a few upgrades, I guess we'd see them in later android iterations is all I was thinking

I've just found out that Cubby (like Dropbox, but not shit) is closing. Anyone got recommendations for a replacement? Needs to be free ('cause I don't store much), let you only sync certain folders, sync folders in different locations, have desktop and mobile clients, web access and public links to files/folders. Restoring deleted files and/or versioning would be good bonuses.

AJ wrote:

So dropping it loads is not doing anything to it now? Personally, I've found third party screens to last just as long as official ones, maybe it's the solid metal case.

No I dropped it loads when I had gorilla glass in it. I didn't drop it once when it had cheap glass and yet it still cracked.

Just to make it worse, the passport isn't really a proper BlackBerry either, but you get the best of both worlds as you can side lad your favorite android apps as well

GooberTheHat wrote:

LesterUnlimited wrote:

Scotswahey wrote:

I just smashed fuck out my Sony Xperia z3 screen. Dont buy a Sony... terrible phones. Anyway to get it fixed with a genuine Sony screen is 95 quid!! I'm almost tempted to get a cheap phone instead. Is Samsung really the only alternative?

Mother fuckers advertised it as waterproof! I'll never buy Sony again.

It is isn't it?

Nah man. I had it under a few inches of water for less than 10 seconds. It was bricked after that. All the ads lead me to believe that you can use it underwater, pictures of people using it underwater to take photos. They even promote a how great their physical camera button is because you can't use a touch screen under water. Apparently they later changed their small print and said you shouldn't ever try to use the phone underwater and if the phone is water damaged they won't honour their warranty. 

Investigated this with Trading Standards and they said my contract was with whoever I brought the phone with and how they promoted the phone, not actually with Sony despite their ads. Turns out the eBay store I brought it from has closed down... It had a few thousand positive reviews too. Sony don't want to know at all, they said yeah sure, read the updated warranty, send your phone and the tech will investigate it. If they think it's my fault I'll have to pay for a new phone or £35 to have my phone sent back.

I don't understand why they never emailed or communicated their change in policy especially since I registered the phone with them since day 1. Fuckers.