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iPhone X shipments also halved mainly because Face ID doesn't work https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-25/inside-apple-s-struggle-to-get-the-iphone-x-to-market-on-time and them deciding not to use a fingerprint reader on the back of the phone. iPhone 8 shipments are also said to be halved.

Exclusive: Apple to settle for half its planned iPhone X shipments this year- Nikkei Asian Review

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Jasper Janssen: “Production problems” is something completely different from “doesn’t work”.

Jasper Janssen: When the subtitle of the article says that, you could possibly think that. But it doesn’t.

Nicolas Charbonnier: +Jasper Janssen when the sub-title of the article says "The company let suppliers reduce accuracy of the phone’s Face ID system to speed up production" I think it pretty much means that the already failing Face ID demo of their keynote is not something they're able to even get done they had to reduce the accuracy of the technology further to even be able to manufacture it. This just increases the argument against this Face ID as the main way to authenticate into the phone. Something users do perhaps in average 50-100 times every day. It's going to be a very painful, frustrating not user friendly experience.

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Essentially, +Andy Rubin, that is a good idea! cut the price by $100 more, make it available worldwide. Add headphone jack in next batch, remove the nudge at the top and place the selfie cam at bottom bezel in next batch. (tell customers they can simply flip the phone to selfie) Also in a firmware update, add a PC Mode like Dex, Like Huawei PC Mode. That is how you can sell 10 Million + of these and actually overall make a profit. Release a super thin sub-$200 E Ink case that can cover the whole back side of the phone (even cover the back camera and the back fingerprint reader), to turn it into a 2-week battery life sunlight readable smartphone. The E Ink back case could somehow add another fingerprint reader perhaps on the side.

The Essential Phone now costs $499, $200 less than the original price

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Alejandro Mery: a bezel is a perfectly payable price for front speakers and a camara looking at your face instead of nasal holes

Nicolas Charbonnier: +Mike Trieu flipping the phone when you need to selfie is a piece of cake. It's a totally acceptable price to pay for having a bezel less phone. How often do most people even need the selfie mode anyway? Even if you take 10 selfies a day, if you need lots of selfies you simply keep the phone flipped with the bezel at the top all the time. But for most other people, they'll keep the bezel less feature at the top and the selfie cam can be in a full width bezel at the bottom. Having an Android UI that can flip 180 degrees is a piece of cake that Android has had for more than a decade. I'm not suggesting they re-invent anything.

Nicolas Charbonnier: If any nudge, it should be an outward camera nudge bump. No need for phones to be perfectly rectangular, a small selfie bump (not inward covering the display, but evt outward creating a slight small bump on the bottom of the phone) at the bottom of the fully bezel less phone I think would be ok. Phones aren't supposed to be designed to stand flat on a table, who cares if there is a slightly awkward selfie bump somewhere at the bottom of the phone. I am sure newest selfie camera miniaturization technology can make that bump size minimal if even noticeable unless specifically pointed out. Essential can thus probably squeeze in a basic ultra compact selfie camera somehow on the edge of a seemingly bezel less phone. Otherwise only acceptable small bezel is one at the bottom that fills the whole width of the display. Like Xiaomi Mix 2 but even more compact, why don’t you try. Selfie maniacs can flip the phone to selfie if they want the selfie cam to be at the top. Don’t condemn all users to have an ugly nudge at the top, it ruins the beautiful bezel less display.

The ugly top nudge, lack of back side fingerprint reader, $1000 price and likely unavailable quantities of the display (anywhere near quantities to match iPhone 7 sales of last year), are what will condemn the iPhone X and this year’s iPhone sales to be a failure. Essential, Pixel2/XL and Mate10 should grab this opportunity, price their phones at $399 to kill off Apple from the market, this year.

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Jacinda Adern, 37-year old New Zealand Labour Prime Minister. Comon, now show the world how it's done. also you can watch this interview upon her becoming Labour leader 2 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqQRzKcEPac

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No Agenda ►Science is IN

Global Warming is bad. 75% of the insects are dead. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

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Nicolas Charbonnier: +Harvey Smith it's an insect study, not a global warming study. You don't ask insect scientists about stuff they don't know about. All they say is that all the insects are dying. When 97% of scientists agree on Human affecting Climate Change, it's 97% of climate scientists, (climate scientists are the ones who have peer reviewed papers in climate science related journals) not of scientists in general, they don't poll all the conspiracy theory podcasters to ask them what they think. +MartinJJ NoAgenda Global Warming, Climate Change, who cares what it's called, the earth's climate is getting fucked up because of the pollution caused by humans, CO2 emission and all the other crap humans do to this planet, with US people being the worst by far in terms of the damage that you do compared to your population size.

Nicolas Charbonnier: +Harvey Smith ask John C Dvorak to step outside and try to breathe. His whole backjard is on fire. There are plenty enough studies showing global warming, climate change affects weather events dramatically all over the world in an accelerating rate over the past decades, you think it's good that all the insects are dying. You think it's good that thousands of species are going exctinct. You think it's good that half of the world can't grow food anymore due extreme drought. You can't care less that sources for drinking water are drying up. That the strongest hurricanes ever recorded are destroying parts of the USA and neighboring countries just in the past month. That giant uncontrollable wildfires keep lighting up the east coast of the USA. Those are only your problems, open a bit the international sections of your news sources you'll see the millions of people dying and being affected by it getting worse and worse every year. Sure it's not only the burning of oil and coal into the athmosphere, it's also the use of pesticides, it's also the cutting of all the trees the massive deforestations without any effort spent at planting new trees, it's also the uncontrolled mass migrations of people into mega cities, it's also the unregulated toxic pollution that giant corporations are pouring into rivers and into the sea, the unregulated massive fishing in the seas etc etc etc. All of it contributes to the crap humans are doing to the planet.

Nicolas Charbonnier: +David Wollmann sure science is bullshit. Good point No Agenda. And the degree of global warming causing scientifically proven more hurricanes and more wildfires, also let's not even go there. It's easier to just say on that podcast that all these studies are bullshit, since there were hurricanes and wildfires in the past, and since species went extinct in the past it's a proof that global warming has no impact, concocted by the dying of insects mafia, air carefully edited clips that always validate your same initial point of view without ever having any guest to provide any counter argument as an alternative voice. Anyways No Agenda is great and I listen to all the shows, their Global Warming stance is bullshit though.

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Google's ARM SoC (placed on Pixel2/XL PCB as a secondary chipset working in parallel with the Snapdragon 835 chipset?) is called Pixel Visual Core which Google will enable as a developer option in its preview of Android Oreo 8.1, before updating the Android Camera API to allow access to HDR+ for third-party camera devs. They call this an Octa-core Image Processing Unit (IPU) with a ninth core the ARM Cortex-A53 core that runs, Google says it can handle HDR+ duties, resulting in HDR+ performance that is “5x faster and uses less than 1/10th the energy”. While to be used to speed up HDR+ for a start, it may be used for other real-time offline machine learning features in the future.

Google's first mobile chip is an image processor hidden in the Pixel 2

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Linux for Galaxy. Run full Linux on Android app with Samsung Dex. I've been suggesting and talking about this feature for Android for years, since we saw Ubuntu for Android, since what Moto did with Atrix, what kind of Linux are Samsung phones able to run on the DisplayPort to HDMI perhaps also wireless display output?

Samsung’s DeX Getting Linux: Dreams of Chrome OS on a Phone Dreams

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Nicolas Charbonnier: Wow this is awesome. I've been anticipating this for years, since before the Motorola Atrix, since the Archos devices from over a decade ago. Ubuntu on Android. Running Chrome OS when docked and perhaps also wirelessly to your Chromecast or other wireless display, will be awesome. The 10nm Snapdragon 835 may be twice as powerful as the OP1 in the ARM Powered Samsung Chromebook Plus currently available and which I happily use as my main computing device since its release. Also consider this, when this turns out successful, you might see Microsoft get interest to add Windows 10 as an app that would work on Galaxy and Mate10. The ultimate Windows Continuum has to run on Android phones, this may perhaps also be it. If they can somehow find a way to merge some stuff. Since they're about to release some awesome Windows 10 on Snapdragon 835 devices, how hard for a $500 Billion company like Microsoft to get their flavor of Windows 10 on ARM to work on this type of "multi-booting" Android?

Another nice thing Samsung, Huawei, Google need to do, hopefully soon, is to release some awesome $199-$299 Lapdocks for all these
Android continuum devices, with a nice little grab stand thing as you might have to grip your phone in your car, to hoid your phone firmly on the left side of the display on your Lapdock. And where the displays, keyboards, mousepads and USB/Ethernet/SD/PD ports are all just perfect for full productivity. And also some super affordable Type-C docks that make it all great when docked as a desktop.

Boom, your smartphone is about to be your laptop and your desktop.

There is no other way to use all the amazing 10nm performance of these current smartphones, and only try to imagine the upcoming next generation ARM processors also. Performance is improving by a lot each year whatever some people say about the status of Moore's law. On just a Smartphone's 6@ display you'll have a hard time designing a multi-tasking UI that lets you use all this performance, but once you output the UI to a larger lapdock or dekstopdock display, then you can really start to multi-task, run a bunch of stuff in different windows, browse the web properly.

While I still think $800 is overpriced for a Smartphone. If they start bundling your high quality laptop and desktop with it, even if just docks that need the phone to be powered, then things start becoming very interesting.

And consumers will get more reasons to upgrade their phone each year, so they can upgrade the CPU, GPU, RAM, AI, video engines, etc. So really, the Smartphone industry needs to promote this for their own sake.

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iPhone 8 sales a disaster. I predicted it. Next up iPhone X will also be a disaster because:
1. Apple won't be able to manufacture enough
2. Customers who will buy iPhone X will be frustrated by the display nudge and by the lack of fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone. To the point that customers will not recommend it to their friends and returns might even be high as customers will not be overly happy to have paid $1000 for that.

The iPhone 8 isn't looking so great

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Brexit must be cancelled. Says the OECD.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41652416
Corbyn, get on it.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/oecd-charts-how-brexit-has-damaged-the-british-economy-2017-10/

Brexit reversal would boost UK, says OECD

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LG's Plastic OLED isn't as super as Samsung's Super AMOLED... probably because Samsung has a bunch of years head-start, Samsung started to ship their AMOLED in 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N85

Pixel 2 XL: What's up with that screen? - CNET

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Great job Huawei with your PC Mode! I hear the Phoenix OS team may have collaborated with Huawei to make it work. Is it HDMI over USB Type-C alt-mode? (as I filmed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JybuuDNuDRY0) Is that cable used one that directly takes the USB Type-C to HDMI? Did Huawei/Hisilicon include HDMI or DisplayPort on the Kirin 970 SoC for use with their USB Type-C alt mode? And can Type-C docks be used to output display and add USB Host ports and other things like SD card reader and power delivery at the same time? I just wish the Huawei Mate 10 had the fingerprint reader on the back like every other Mate since Mate 7 (why put it at the bottom?? Isn't there plenty enough space to keep the fingerprint reader on the back?) and I wish Huawei would price it at €499 or below, and not at €699. Comon Huawei, don't you want to sell more than 10 million pieces of it? Wasn't there supposed to be a Mate 10 Lite with exactly the same specs just perhaps the €499 retail price and with a 1080p LCD instead of the 2K RGBW LCD display? I think it's good there is a headphone jack on the Huawei Mate 10 but it's disappointing that there is no headphone jack on the Huawei Mate 10 Pro. Is it really impossible for them to make Mate 10 Pro waterproof with the headphone jack still there? And how about releasing a €299-€499 Huawei Matebook X style Lapdock that runs off the Mate 10 and thus does not come with any Intel CPU etc and to sell it at below €499 preferably closer to €299 for the most excellent keyboard, mousepad and display Lapdock. With some sort of smartphone grip stand same as used in cars to carry the phone right next to the laptop display when holding all with one hand. And does PC Mode work over Chromecast and Miracast/WiFi-display if you want to do it wirelessly? It should, right? Google and Huawei and Samsung should have some kind of fund of €10 Million to help third party app developers so they can spend the engineering required to optimize a whole bunch of important apps to look best in full productivity mode. And that NPU AI Processor, I wish it was promoted and somehow supported by the dual camera system to do Project Tango like real-time smooth and precise 3D depth augmented reality support? I really wish there would be support for an indoor Google Maps where users collaborate to add augmented information and recognition of everything in every store everywhere to use that AI capability to help users augment the world. Is that dual camera setup and the AI processor enough to enable full real-time 3D capturing like in Project Tango?

Yanis Anteur: Hey Charbax, so do you believe that the next Mobile revolution will be Superphones with PC mode inside?

Yanis Anteur: Then if you come to CES 2018, we'll show you the final Mirabook running DeX and EMUI desktop ;)

Nicolas Charbonnier: +Yanis Anteur yes I've been saying that for 13 years now since I outputted the UI to a TV off my Archos PMA400 in 2004. There's not way to use the performance of these new super fast ARM processors, than to output their UI to a much larger display for productivity.

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