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[Weekend Poll & Discussion] Are You Satisfied With Your Phone's Battery Life?

David Ruddock

This seems like an obvious question, but we're curious regardless: are you happy with your phone's battery life?

Battery life on Android seems to go through a never-ending topsy-turvy ride between "almost good enough" and "outright terrible" depending on the phone, the software, and the underlying version of the OS. There are so many phones running so much different software at many screen resolutions with many chipsets and battery sizes, and those variables are a constant source of debate and issue among Android enthusiasts.

I'm daily driving my Nexus 6 on the M Preview 2, and battery life is... not great.

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[Weekend Poll] When's The Last Time You Bought A Paid App Or Game On The Play Store?

David Ruddock

This weekend's poll is about your money - and how you spend it. Specifically, on the Play Store. Now, when I ask if you've bought an app or game on the Play Store, I mean an app or game, not music, movies, books, or TV shows - nor any kind of subscription. For the purpose of this poll, purchases of "unlock" IAPs (in-app purchases) that unlock a full, ad-free, or "pro" version of an app or game will count. This is because these kinds of IAPs are simply substitutes for a paid license, and we don't want to exclude demo or trial-ware, since the end result of a purchase is the same thing (a fully-featured / unlocked app or game).

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[Weekend Poll] Battery Life Versus Thinness, FIGHT!

David Ruddock

Almost four years ago, we ran a poll on the subject of battery life versus thinness. Four years ago, Android's battery life was even worse than it is now, batteries were smaller, and LTE radios could be a death sentence on newer handsets. Today... battery life still isn't that good on most phones, but it's not as bad as it once was, and all the while the phones are getting thinner and lighter and sleeker.

There are phones with massive batteries out there (Huawei Ascend Mate 2/7, DROID MAXX, etc.), but batteries have generally only sought to keep pace with screen size over the years instead of actually growing enough to appreciably extend the amount of time we spend off the charger.

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[Weekend Poll] What Brand Is Your Current Smartphone?

David Ruddock

I can't believe we've never run this poll, but apparently we haven't, and it's such a simple one: what brand is your current smartphone?

Note: for the purpose of this poll, Nexus phones should be voted as their actual OEM (there is no 'Google' option). I'm not including any non-Android OEMs, so for any of you Nokia or Apple users, vote "other." Because, you know, this is an Android blog. I realize I am also excluding a variety of smaller or regional device makers (Micromax, Alcatel, Pantech, NEC, Spice, Karbonn, Meizu, Geeksphone - to name a very few) but we're trying to go with slightly more global brands in this poll.

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[Weekend Poll] Will Your Next Car Purchase Be Influenced By Android Auto?

David Ruddock

Last week, we saw Hyundai announce that it would be the first auto manufacturer to provide Android Wear support for its cars, in the form of remote actions that can be initiated on your smartwatch. Pretty cool stuff. But Android Auto is probably even cooler - navigation, music controls, voice dictation, and other functions will soon be made possible in vehicles by your smartphone, instead of some ancient infotainment system from hell.

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Lots of manufacturers are on board with it (including Hyundai), including the massive VW Group, Fiat-Chrysler, Ford, Renault-Nissan, GM, and Honda. (Notice a lack of BMW and Mercedes? They're Apple CarPlay only for now, sadly).

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[Weekend Poll] Do You Own A Smartwatch?

David Ruddock

This weekend's poll is another throwback, but this one's just a couple months out of its one-year anniversary, having been asked back in October of 2013. This year's poll options will be a little different, as the number of new crowdfunded smartwatches seems to be slowing a bit (especially in terms of media coverage), and smartwatches themselves are much more widely available than they were a year ago.

Last year, we saw just over 20% of you answer that you owned a smartwatch. A little over 5% said they had backed a smartwatch crowdfunding campaign or had a smartwatch on pre-order, but the lion's share of votes went to "no," at 71% of the total.

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[Weekend Poll] Have You Ever Purchased A Play Store Gift Card?

David Ruddock

Gift cards for digital storefronts have been around some time, but Google first unveiled them for the Play Store back in 2012, just a little over two years ago. Since then, they've been rolled out to a fair number of countries across the world, and we're curious: have you ever actually bought one?

I, myself, have not. In the US, there's less need for them because credit and debit cards are very common, but in other locales, this may not be the case. Additionally, underage persons looking to buy content on the Play Store may have no option besides gift cards, and that demographic probably is a very important one in the overall gift card economy.

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[Not Weekend Poll] The Nexus Trio: Which Of Them Are You Buying?

David Ruddock

Alright, we had a triple-Nexus drop this morning (or afternoon/evening depending on your geographic location), and undoubtedly some of you are planning on buying some of these Nexus things. I know I am absolutely buying a Nexus 6. I am not sure I'll love it, but it does have most of the things I want in a phone. A Nexus 9, or Nexus Player? Not so much, for me.

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But this is about you: which of the new Nexuses are you planning on buying? One? Two? All three? Just vote!

Will you buy a Nexus 6?

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Weekend Poll: Galaxy S5, G3, One M8, Or Xperia Z2?

David Ruddock

As we near the end of spring, so too nears the end of the mainstream release cycle for four of the biggest Android OEMs on the planet. Samsung, LG, HTC, and Sony all have competitive flagship devices on the market now, and none of them clearly edges out the others in a holistic sense. They're all very good smartphones in an extremely competitive product category.

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Not pictured: Xperia Z2, because I don't have one to picture.

Some might think the Z2 or G3 too large, while others may find HTC and Samsung's software layers too invasive. HTC and Sony's devices lack removable batteries.

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[Weekend Poll] Cyanogen Inc's New Logo: Hot Or Not?

David Ruddock

This weekend's poll's an easy one - Cyanogen Inc's got a new logo, and you'll see it just below.

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It's a decidedly more industrial, formal look than their old logo, which features the now-basically-defunct mascot Cid. It also doesn't exactly look like a software company's logo to me - more like a biohazard waste disposal consortium. It just doesn't seem like a good fit. Then again, it's just a logo, and it's a pretty opinion-based discussion, so, let's get subjective - vote in the poll below and let us know what you think of the new branding.

CyanogenMod Inc's new logo - hot or not?

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