No more RIM jobs in Japan

[Yokohammer]

Done.

I am now scratching my head over a brand new Galaxy SIII Alpha.

In a couple of days I should be able to make phone calls!

[GomiGirl]

Actually using a phone for calls is over-rated.

I can go weeks without speaking on the phone but it is always in use.

[cstaylor]

Done.

I am now scratching my head over a brand new Galaxy SIII Alpha.

In a couple of days I should be able to make phone calls!

Install the Voice Actions like I said earlier...

[Yokohammer]

Done.

I am now scratching my head over a brand new Galaxy SIII Alpha.

In a couple of days I should be able to make phone calls!

Install the Voice Actions like I said earlier...

It's OK ... I'm not quite as device illiterate as I frequently appear to be. Wire-wrapped my first computer using a Motorola 6800 CPU back in the late 70's ya know. From lights and switches to vector graphics on a scope to raster graphics ... thems were the days when you could pop the hood and get yer hands dirty! I tell ya!

Uh, yeah, but I am fucking screen-protector film illiterate. Has anyone ever managed to get one of those evil things on without getting even one tiny speck of dust under it, causing an unsightly bubble that won't go away? The silicone back cover thingy I bought for it is nice, but I'm afraid it'll have to live with a bare unprotected screen.

[cstaylor]

I'm afraid it'll have to live with a bare unprotected screen.

I wouldn't worry. Gorilla glass is pretty resilient.

[Coligny]

Done.

I am now scratching my head over a brand new Galaxy SIII Alpha.

In a couple of days I should be able to make phone calls!

Install the Voice Actions like I said earlier...

It's OK ... I'm not quite as device illiterate as I frequently appear to be. Wire-wrapped my first computer using a Motorola 6800 CPU back in the late 70's ya know. From lights and switches to vector graphics on a scope to raster graphics ... thems were the days when you could pop the hood and get yer hands dirty! I tell ya!

Uh, yeah, but I am fucking screen-protector film illiterate. Has anyone ever managed to get one of those evil things on without getting even one tiny speck of dust under it, causing an unsightly bubble that won't go away? The silicone back cover thingy I bought for it is nice, but I'm afraid it'll have to live with a bare unprotected screen.

Dood, use the automotive vinyl guys method.
1 drop of dish soap in 1 spray bottle of water .

Completely wet the adhesive side of the protection film. clean your screen with a dishsoapy wet finger, apply squeeze out the water with a soft credit card sized piece of plastic, have few dozens of paper towel sheets ready to suck the water. did it on all iphone and ipads here. perfect results. if you screw up something remove, re-wet and cleanupany dust then retry. once it's ok let it dry for half a day, then it's stuck good for years... if there is cut out for the home switch for example, be careful not to soak too much and wipe water asap, but remember, with the surface tension of the water, there is not much risk of any getting inside unless the device is totally dipped in liquids...

[Yokohammer]

And just to prove what a whiz I am, here's my first post from my S3.

[Yokohammer]

Dood, use the automotive vinyl guys method.
1 drop of dish soap in 1 spray bottle of water .

Completely wet the adhesive side of the protection film. clean your screen with a dishsoapy wet finger, apply squeeze out the water with a soft credit card sized piece of plastic, have few dozens of paper towel sheets ready to suck the water. did it on all iphone and ipads here. perfect results. if you screw up something remove, re-wet and cleanupany dust then retry. once it's ok let it dry for half a day, then it's stuck good for years... if there is cut out for the home switch for example, be careful not to soak too much and wipe water asap, but remember, with the surface tension of the water, there is not much risk of any getting inside unless the device is totally dipped in liquids...

Oh yeah ... right. I've done that on models.

Didn't know it'd work on a screen protector.

[omae mona]

Dood, use the automotive vinyl guys method.
1 drop of dish soap in 1 spray bottle of water .

Completely wet the adhesive side of the protection film. clean your screen with a dishsoapy wet finger, apply squeeze out the water with a soft credit card sized piece of plastic, have few dozens of paper towel sheets ready to suck the water. did it on all iphone and ipads here. perfect results. if you screw up something remove, re-wet and cleanupany dust then retry. once it's ok let it dry for half a day, then it's stuck good for years... if there is cut out for the home switch for example, be careful not to soak too much and wipe water asap, but remember, with the surface tension of the water, there is not much risk of any getting inside unless the device is totally dipped in liquids...

Oh yeah ... right. I've done that on models.

I tried it on a model too, but after I screwed up, she did not give me a chance to remove, re-wet, and retry.

[Coligny]

ya should practice on mah sister first...

[edit] i'm pretty sure to have written 'yer sister' here, since we are not on japan today's forums cesspool, can the mods be kind enough to stop this shit ?

[FG Lurker]

Has anyone ever managed to get one of those evil things on without getting even one tiny speck of dust under it, causing an unsightly bubble that won't go away? The silicone back cover thingy I bought for it is nice, but I'm afraid it'll have to live with a bare unprotected screen.

I've been using my iPhone 4S for nearly a year now with no case or screen protector. There's one small scratch on the back now but no others I can find. I do keep it in a pocket on its own though, not mixed with keys, coins, or anything else.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Just to back up what everyone is saying, gorilla glass (supposedly) won't scratch and a screen guard won't protect your screen from the kind of impact that actually breaks the glass so it's not necessary. Of course if you keep a diamond cutter in your pocket with your phone you might prove everyone wrong. A case will protect the rest of the phone from scratches and dings.

[Coligny]

Just to back up what everyone is saying, gorilla glass (supposedly) won't scratch and a screen guard won't protect your screen from the kind of impact that actually breaks the glass so it's not necessary. Of course if you keep a diamond cutter in your pocket with your phone you might prove everyone wrong. A case will protect the rest of the phone from scratches and dings.

Platic film protector are great to protect against pressure scratch from hard foreign object on hard flat surface... up to one milimeters you can have paper clip edge, pins, old stapples...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Just to back up what everyone is saying, gorilla glass (supposedly) won't scratch and a screen guard won't protect your screen from the kind of impact that actually breaks the glass so it's not necessary. Of course if you keep a diamond cutter in your pocket with your phone you might prove everyone wrong. A case will protect the rest of the phone from scratches and dings.

Platic film protector are great to protect against pressure scratch from hard foreign object on hard flat surface... up to one milimeters you can have paper clip edge, pins, old stapples...

The point is that the kind of scratches you're talking about aren't supposed to be possible with gorilla glass.

[cstaylor]

Just to back up what everyone is saying, gorilla glass (supposedly) won't scratch and a screen guard won't protect your screen from the kind of impact that actually breaks the glass so it's not necessary. Of course if you keep a diamond cutter in your pocket with your phone you might prove everyone wrong. A case will protect the rest of the phone from scratches and dings.

Platic film protector are great to protect against pressure scratch from hard foreign object on hard flat surface... up to one milimeters you can have paper clip edge, pins, old stapples...

The point is that the kind of scratches you're talking about aren't supposed to be possible with gorilla glass.

Don't go and confuse Gaspard with the facts.

[Coligny]

Don't go and confuse Gaspard with the facts.

would it be possible to yank this doosh from the admin list so i can put it on ignore ?
not reason that he can boast at this luxury while being exempt from the same treatment...

I'm pretty sure the workload on FG is not heavy enough to need stalkers and sociopath to fill in...

[FG Lurker]

The point is that the kind of scratches you're talking about aren't supposed to be possible with gorilla glass.

Don't go and confuse Gaspard with the facts.

What the marketers say and what is reality is often two different things.

I have a very fine L shaped scratch on the back of my phone from a rough metal edge that it was touched against. While a paper clip or staple probably wouldn't scratch it it is certainly not unscratchable.

Very hard glass also has a tendency to explode if it gets any sort of scratch, nick, or other imperfection. Now that my phone has a small scratch it's probably a lot more likely to shatter if it gets dropped.

[Coligny]

Tsss... don't let physics get in the way of asshatery...

you should see the slaughter resulting from a friction between an old nearly dull endmill and the back of my iphone (was using a bubble level app in the workshop)... and since scratching glass is the #1 method to cut it cleanly to length quickly without diamond cutting disk... not wonder that once even bigmonkey glass is scratched it get a lot more fragile...

[cstaylor]

I have a very fine L shaped scratch on the back of my phone from a rough metal edge that it was touched against. While a paper clip or staple probably wouldn't scratch it it is certainly not unscratchable.

Would a cheap plastic film cover have prevented that?

[Coligny]

most of the time, at least a bit, that also why when you buy plexiglass (or other plastics) sheets they come covered with film protection on both sides, won't save you from a meteor strike, but really good at limiting minor scratches...
and in the case of my miling bit scratch, would totally have cushioned the contact. where a dull endmill is able to scratch glass, it need to be sharp to go through soft elastic plastics. Ever used anti break-in films on glass ? the glass shatter while the film keep it mostly together...

rahh the joy of physics and material plasticity... much more fun and subtle than marketdroid babblespeech...

[FG Lurker]

I have a very fine L shaped scratch on the back of my phone from a rough metal edge that it was touched against. While a paper clip or staple probably wouldn't scratch it it is certainly not unscratchable.

Would a cheap plastic film cover have prevented that?

Yes, definitely.

I choose not to use a case or screen protector because I have AppleCare+ and I really like the feel of the bare phone. It's a reasonable risk IMO.

[Yokohammer]

I have always had insurance on my Docomo phones, and currently on the Galaxy SIII, that I can use up to twice a year to completely replace a damaged, dunked, or lost phone. I've never needed to use it, but it's there just in case.

[cstaylor]

I have always had insurance on my Docomo phones, and currently on the Galaxy SIII, that I can use up to twice a year to completely replace a damaged, dunked, or lost phone. I've never needed to use it, but it's there just in case.

I had to use that once with my Japanese F-series phone. Dropped it face down, cracked the screen. I think the replacement cost was 5000 yen, so that was a great deal considering the price of a new phone.

[Yokohammer]

I had to use that once with my Japanese F-series phone. Dropped it face down, cracked the screen. I think the replacement cost was 5000 yen, so that was a great deal considering the price of a new phone.

Yes that's the one, I thinketh. You just pay 5k for a brand new phone.
And since the Galaxy SIII is close to 80,000 yeneroonies, it's definitely worth it.

[FG Lurker]

Yes that's the one, I thinketh. You just pay 5k for a brand new phone.
And since the Galaxy SIII is close to 80,000 yeneroonies, it's definitely worth it.

Pretty good deal for sure. How much does the insurance cost?

[Yokohammer]

Yes that's the one, I thinketh. You just pay 5k for a brand new phone.
And since the Galaxy SIII is close to 80,000 yeneroonies, it's definitely worth it.

Pretty good deal for sure. How much does the insurance cost?

Digging into the depths of my frequently flakey memory, I come up with the thought that it's a one-time payment of 3,500 yen. Not a huge outlay for the benefit.

[cstaylor]

Yes that's the one, I thinketh. You just pay 5k for a brand new phone.
And since the Galaxy SIII is close to 80,000 yeneroonies, it's definitely worth it.

Pretty good deal for sure. How much does the insurance cost?

Digging into the depths of my frequently flakey memory, I come up with the thought that it's a one-time payment of 3,500 yen. Not a huge outlay for the benefit.

When you buy the phone, they ask you if you want the insurance. I've purchased four phones from Docomo since I've been here, and they've asked every time.

[Yokohammer]

The last two phones I've bought (the Blackberry 9900 and now the galaxy SIII), they've told me the insurance carries over, so I haven't had to pay up each time. I don't know why that is, but I'm not complaining. I doubt that it's my looks or charm.

[Yokohammer]

Quick update to the Galaxy S3 story:

I'm really liking the phone, but the battery life is not exactly spectacular. I know that's to be expected with large-screen smartphone like this, but it does make me a little uneasy for the following reason: In the 10 days or so immediately following 3.11 when communication was pretty much blacked out (as in, no electricity), my old BlackBerry allowed me to communicate via Facebook and occasionally mail. That was the only thing that worked, and the battery in that prehistoric device lasted for several days on a full charge. Now with the Galaxy I have to charge pretty much every day. I might be able to squeeze a couple of days out of it if I reduced usage to a bare minimum and kept it turned off when I wasn't using it. Of course I now have a generator that I keep in running condition for that very reason, so I'm prepared, but the advantages of long battery life are not to be sneezed at in an emergency.

Other than that ... damn, what a cool device.

[yanpa]

That's one reason why I'm hanging on to an old-fashioned clamshell feature phone...