Yeah, looks it.

Maybe one or two good games worth a try but most are just nonsense that won't sell otherwise

Are you looking to buy one? What's your budget? I suppose the current equivalent would be the Pixel 7A, or the 6A if you're looking to spend less.

Samsung don't really have an equivalent budget top of the line phone, all of the S models are pretty expensive. Maybe an S21?

Pixels are excellent phones. Love my 7

Got some invite to Google play store on pc, so you can play any app games on a big screen. Hmm.

ZMM wrote:

Anyone know why my Z flip 3 piece of shit has stopped connecting to a Bluetooth device, when it was working fine a few weeks ago? I have two of these soundbars and now it won't connect to either of them. The soundbar is a Panasonic SC-SB1.

You try to “forget” the device on the phone and then re-setup the sound bars? That’s usually what I do when sth mysteriously stops connecting.

Does it not connect to any Bluetooth device, or just the Panasonic soundbars?

Has anyone tried out Android emulation on Windows 11 ?  Apparantly that's going to be native to it.


I'm facing the possibility of having to manage an Android estate (not phones - bloody tablets) as well as Windows and I really want to avoid that.

I've had a call with our Microsoft account manager and he claims it will do the business; but then he always makes claims about what MS can do and it doesn't always work out that way.

Dropped my Pixel 6 from a height and it made a goddawful clatter. I gave it a cursory glance, screen came on so I thought phew. But now I see that the screen doesn't respond to touch anymore, and has started showing weird colours at the side. Reset does nothing. Sound like it could be repaired with a new screen or is it for the bin? Damn thing isn't even a year old.

The whole screen on my pixel 7 is now coming away from the rest of the casing, like I can lift the panel up from the top and see the guts of the phone inside. No idea how this happened but two cracks also appeared on the back q couple of weeks back. Hopefully I can get a replacement through EE, but not impressed with build quality or design of the 7 overall.

Sounds like a reasonably common issue and folks say battery swelling and don't use it, which isn't super viable atm as I'm away from home and need it for logistics. I have a pixel 5 I can use when I get home tomorrow but this has proper annoyed me.

Welp, Samsung S24 base delivered today and a very quick transfer process and everything's good to go. It really is a piece of piss these days. I remember the old early iPhone days of syncing/updating through iTunes *shudder*, although today there is a slight pang of "is this it?" but I suppose that's what we get when everything is so incremental and painless now. Yeah, it's a slab with a camera and a nice screen. Haven't found a use for the new AI stuff yet, I'm thinking the live translate will help at work (if allowed).

Still, enjoying everything being that bit zippier and shinier for now. Free watch is claimed, just need to wipe and recycle the old phone and Three will give me a hefty bonus on top, nice.

I'm interested in a folding phone, but that's about it.

Diluted Dante wrote:

I'm interested in a folding phone, but that's about it.

Folding phones are class, I've been on a Z-Flip 4 the last 18 months or so and the convenience is brilliant. Plus it never seems to stop being a novelty for other folk who see it, always have to explain what it is and demonstrate to various 'oohs' and 'aah's'. Though I've got a pal who one-upped me with the new folding ones (with a vertical crease rather than a horizontal one) and I'm now just hankering after that.

A guy in my work has a vertical flip phone and keeps it in a velcro belt pouch, you know, in case shit pops off