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*BADUM* *TISS*

@@koraptd6085 nice

You're profile pic matches that to a tea mate 👌

But it's essential to understand why, now we know.

Wondering about, n looking back🤔 at HTC. 😜Lols. 😅😘

Xiaomi has done their best in Asian countries

@@jishnu.j10 I might be wrong, but didn't Xiaomi grow because of great value/price ratio, not because of some special new features they introduced? Correct me if I'm wrong.

@@valeriavagapova I mean, considering phones like the Redmi K20 Pro, I'd believe it

Ever heard of realme

I was lowkey expecting "pun intended" but it didn't happen.

Although the phone essentially failed, the form factor of EP2 was quite interesting. I hope it will reappear somewhere in the future.

@Harshvardhan lol

@Harshvardhan ban gya samjho ab mandir hum ram navmi ko bnayenge

100th like 😁

Jai shree ram 🚩🚩🚩

Probably has to do with him living in Germany

@@samuelschonenberger He's from Poland. You can see it for example at 2:30 by the YT icon

@@protivoush Really? better take a look at this: imgur.com/a/veNS8LI Or his "About" Page on KZfaq: kzfaq.info/love/tZO3K2p8mqFwiKWb9k7fXAabout

temossemi mr international

@@protivoush I swear he said he was Hungarian before but I could be wrong

Essentially everyone saw this coming.

You aren’t wrong

Not entirely, I remember an old Reddit thread surrounding its announcement if I recall correctly in which I seemed to be one of the few who were critical of it. I argued that most people would not care to buy accessories for their phone, the ones specific for their device and that a phone should be good out of the box. I also brought up how its specs were much higher than what most people would need, basically going against their own name. Most were excited that 'the father of Android' was working on/brought out a phone and only focused on that. I've had something similar with the Oculus Rift. Most were too excited about the product to consider that it could be very expensive. They either didn't care or weren't too worried about it and then it was announced to be $600 or so, which was followed by people being upset. These things happen more often than we'd like to admit. The moral of the story is: don't become too excited. It won't hurt to have some scepticism, a healthy amount as people say.

They're like the guy in the tournament that brags about how they're going to win the finals, but get knocked out in the first round.

Not to the people who agreed with the 1B valuation.

From what I understand, they needed to generate revenue to get investment so they can work on 2nd gen. Kinda like how Amazon created AWS so it can fund other stuff it is making. Building a phone is very expensive and a shit ton of R&D goes into it so yeah they needed cash, didn't work so they are pulling the plug.

@@chandrashekard.7543 AWS was sort of an accidental business in terms of its creation so I'm not sure that that is a good example.

@@huzcer Is it though?

@@hiimapop7755 read the history of aws

Unfortunately Dandy , cool design just does not cut the mustard if the reviewers that show the (Product ) phone to the world find fairly important flaws in the device , even if the flaws are small and fixable . People (the average mid , low income earners ) who have some hard earned cash in their hand do not want to risk buying a lemon . If you look at car companys over the years for example , you can see some car companys that have been around for many many decades and have had very changeable fortunes over those years , I will not name names , but certain car companies never really got the memo that if you want to get repeat customers , you must sell product that is fit for sale and give customer satisfaction and not going to need repairs under warranty at first ,second and third service ,etc ,etc . In other words customers have to be fairly happy with the product straight out of the showroom , or out of the box as it relates to phones in this case.. I am with you though mate , i hate seeing companys go out of business , even flawed ones .

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Money well spent. Heh?

How was the explosion? ;)

Note 7? I wish you survived.

Fun fact : I'm still using one... well technically. You see, during the fiasco I returned the Note 7 and went back to my old phone (an Asus). A year later Samsung re-launched the Note 7 as the Note FE, pretty much the same phone but with smaller, non-explosive battery. Me being the stubborn man that I am, got myself one, and I'm still using this one, I'll probably use it until it dies. It's a brilliant phone actually when it doesn't, you know, go down in fiery fireball

@Eragor the Kindhearted wait so the note 7 was failed? Okay

Agreed

Me too, I'll be using mine until it simply can't go on any longer. Best phone I have ever had.

It has titanium

If you want ceramic phones, check out the Mix phones from Xiaomi! Those are made from ceramic and will never scratch! They look very pretty also

He isn't German, he's actually Hungarian and lives in Germany so for him German subtitles were probably the default setting that he forgot to change

@@samuelschonenberger maybe

@@samuelschonenberger he is using KZfaq PL (Poland) 😁

google mugh video comments 'ej bIngDaq ghItlh leghlu' waw' subtitles generate jIH chu'. qaSpu'DI' puS cha'DIch printing polish, german, hungarian je English Hol bIngDaq ghItlh leghlu'-tlhIngan DuDwI' wuq google mugh. lot simpler law' Hoch bel 'e' nID. I activated Google Translate to generate subtitles based on the video and comments text. After a few seconds of printing out Polish, German, Hungarian and English texts - Google Translate decided to stick with Klingon. A lot simpler than trying to please everyone. But I thought Google Translate didn't have Klingon language? www.translator.eu/english/klingon/translation/

@Niccoló Pasquale HAHAHAHA

they do, Essentially

well i guess they are still living ok from selling network infrastructure.

@@hoangd4132 Nokia is (but they're also struggling recently). HMD makes the new Nokia phones and they're not doing so great compared to two years ago.

@@SirFaceFone they are struggling

@@husainazhar6108 Nokia E7 or something needs to get revived.

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What if he intended the pun🤔?

@@kupilachiwala8135 if he intended it well he would put one wierd effect

best looking*

@@shakyxd yeah absolutely right! I don't why the company faded...

agreed! that phone was just beautiful

i agree

looks good from the back but not really from the front

I had one but it fell out of my shallow pocket while walking my dog

My brother had one

@Predator Biden 10/10 phone for me. High quality materials (alumium body, saphire glass) well put together. Reasonably good hardware specs. If they had have put a better camera on it, and a OLED screen, it would have been perfect I think. I loved everything about mine.

@@camerongsx9122 nah I'm buying this BECAUSE it doesn't have a oled screen. I don't want screen burn ins after accidentally leaving it on or playing a game too long.

@@nok4799 bad news. The Essential Phone PH-1 was notoriously bad for screen burn in. Mine was solid, but I had a rattly volume button that they replaced the whole phone under warrenty.

Android is an operating system for many smartphones and calling Android phone is like calling iOS phone. Is it wrong eh? Basically calling phones that run on that software.

well said

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Magic huh

@@ohnoitschris Who are you even responding to with this

I purchased one for my mom for about 250 and she's been happy with it. I can't imagine them making any margin at that price point though. The bill of materials of flagships usually clocks in somewhere between 250 and 350, never mind development, marketing or any other cost of doing business. The product wasn't bad, but it also wasn't good enough to justify a profitable price point.

it was great with all the discounts but with all the work around general consumer couldn't care much

Anirudh Gupta same thing

@@incognitos4342 More like a rooted version of stock android, giving you lots of customisation features.

@@incognitos4342 nah. OnePlus isn't stock Android

But Oxygen OS is leaps and bounds better than stock Android.

@@EdTowel-ww7yh in my opinion, after owning and using the OnePlus 5 for more than 2 years (still using as secondary phone), Pixel experience is smoother, integrated, and better looking too. And yes, before switching I've tried the Oneplus 7 Pro briefly. OxygenOS has some extra features (parallel apps, app lock, scrolling screenshot, off screen gestures, etc), but Pixel.. you have to use it a bit. For example, copy text directly from app switcher, assistant 2.0 and overall assistant integration, alarms with assistant routines (missing on OnePlus, present on Android One devices), now playing with minimal battery impact and many many little things! And if you are in US you have also call screening - a game changer for combating spam calls.

Oxygen OS is one of the best Androids ever. Many people and reviewers praised and preferred this over pixel. In fact, pixel is not stock Android. It's Google's own theme on top of stock android. That being said, Oxygen OS added some tweaks to make the os better.

@@vrlchebolu everything is relative and subjective. Some say Samsung OneUI 2 is the best. One thing for sure with OnePlus and Samsung: duplicate apps if you want the Google ones (phone, calculator, clock, photos, etc). I still prefer pixel experience. It feels more refined and smoother. And again, been using extensively OxygenOS, more than 2 years.

A pixel3a or an upcoming 4a might be worth checking out as an entry point to the Pixel line

@@AnshulGuptaAG actually I'm being offered currently a Pixel 3XL in mint condition with 2 cases and all its accessories for €350. Think it's a good deal, no?

Check out the OnePlus.

Why did you even buy this phone to begin with?

MadMax lmao for reals

It's no iPhone 5.lol.

Stasys Čhepulis What’s the purpose though? You can sometimes make a case for unconventional phones like the Galaxy Fold because it offers more screen, and there was even a case to be made for tall phones like the Sony Xperia 1 - but the Gem looked pointless. That aspect ratio would not compliment anything - not productivity, not media consumption, nothing.

@@hrespin7682 I do have somewhat of a personal stake - i'm developing a mobile game that might look interesting on a long phone. Generally, if developers put in some effort, there are interesting implications for interface design and gameplay (sure, most would just half-ass it tho). Could also be useful *as* interface - imagine using a few of these for some interesting modular interface. Finally, as a fashion statement. I can see some fashionista using an odd long phone just for the sake of it.

I've had what would have been considered an unconventional phone or two. I owned both the first AND second gen Kyocera Slider phones. Had pretty good luck with both of them. Wore the hardware out on the first one, it literally got to the point where it wouldn't make contact about half the time when I opened it. I love those tiny little phones, though. I would have probably given the GEM a try.

Stasys Čhepulis the thing here is that it will be just be like a second coming of the Windows Phone. That one failed because it just got caught in a negative feedback loop of not having any developers wanting to build apps on their platform because no one is using their platform and no one wants to use their platform because it doesn’t have any worthwhile apps. Same thing here.

The camera actually isn't too shabby if you use the Google camera app instead of the one packed in with the phone.

@@thogggg g cam, I have it installed. Still really subpar. I'm still using the phone since 2017 but i will be honest the camera is ass.

@Setzer K It was the first phone with a proper notch while being bezeless (on three sides like the Mi Mix, which did that first but put the camera in the bottom corner) (www.techradar.com/news/cut-it-out-a-brief-history-of-the-smartphone-notch) As you say, it's also on of the few devices being high end while being relatively small, other than the Mi Mix. I had the smaller second gen of it in hand and it was way to big for me. Furthermore, while more and more OEMs release phones with close stock Android, it's still difficult to get a great clean experience. Skins from Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Huawei or Samsung modify the system so tremendously, which kills it for me. If you want to have an iPhone, buy one, don't just copy it (esp. Huawei)! And I'm not even mentioning that from the developer perspective those companies shit on standard Android and change things only for the sake of change, which requires developers to write the exact same code for multiple manufacturers multiple times.

puli vikas OnePlus survives because of a very strict strategy of cost cutting back in the day and a marketing campaign of being wrongfully viral too. BBK also definitely have their backs as well during the time, there’s no way they could undercut much of the competition during that time and still having a hell of a marketing campaign without crazy money from BBK.

Indeed, TechAltar seemed to focus a lot more on this than it needed to be focused on, treating it like definitely true when so far, allegations only exist, and nothing has been done to prove them in the whole time.

@@bdslade especially when its so easy to make an allegation, and many have been found guilty of making false ones.

I agree 100%. He was vile in his statement about the allegations. Sadly people get convicted in the court of public perceptions.

Lmao

He had extramarital affair with employee working under him.

@Setzer K original mix had a big chin, overall was cool looking, but i would pick essential design any day even in 2020 with a smaller notch