Software (ease of use, features, etc) - ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review

When you hand your phone to granny to take a photo of you, can she get the job done? Rate this thread to express how you deem the ASUS ROG Phone II's camera software. A higher rating indicates that the software is easy to use, fast, uncluttered, and inclusive of advanced features for when you need them.
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poor software,it feels handicapped when trying make combos with the settings

Could you please elaborate further?

Not Sure why that guy has an issue with the phone
omar.abbas said:
Could you please elaborate further?
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I've had the phone for around 4 days now (short time I know). I found if you're using the gaming theme , yes it's hard to understand. though basic functionality of camera and phone are easy enough to understand and use.
If you use the standard google/ asus launcher and theme, its essentially a pixel or stock android, so much easier to use and understand.
So to answer your question: Yes grandma can take a picture for you. as long as you don't have a weird icon layout/ theme and she can use a standard smartphone camera.

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Overall love

Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the Planet Gemini PDA, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the Planet Gemini PDA is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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I think Vesion 2 will be amazing
I was one of the lucky (well long waiting) ones who got their gemini quite early. I have had it a few weeks and can now say it is by far my favourite device. It is actually surprisingly easy to use as a phone. True, you can't see who is calling when the gemini is shut (the trick LEDs don't work yet), but making calls is easy and the gemini is surprisingly comfortable to use.
The keyboard is what makes the gemini. There have been a few reports of keyboard problems, but mine doesn't have any of them. After getting used to it, it is easy to type on, and quick. The two most useful things about it are the hotkeys (eg. press Fn-Del for settings,....) and the planet bar. With both of these, you can get where you want very quickly. The gemini is quick - not as fast as the current top contenders, but I haven't been wanting for more speed. By using the keyboard, you never cover the screen, so filling out forms online is much easier.
I installed termux for a simple environment and it does what I need in terms of ssh, scp and a general SD card maintenance. It can also handle source compilation using gcc (well actually LLVM).
All in all, my laptop hasn't seen the light of day since the gemini arrived. It is my only device now, and I am loving it!
I am waiting to give sailfish a go - the new keyboard savy sailfish 3 could be the perfect OS for the gemini.
My review of the Gemini PDA
I've posted a detailed review of the Gemini PDA at:
hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002328.html

Multitasking/RAM

You're busy and don't have time to wait, which is why you need to stop reading this thread and get back to organizing your Pogs. Rate this thread to express how the Vivo Nex performs when multitasking. A higher rating indicates that the Vivo Nex keeps many apps in memory so that they don't need to reload, and that when moving between apps, transitions are smooth and performance is excellent.
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I use OneNote and have all my notes on this app. OneNote in windows Phone didn't give you a Badge, which drops an omnipresent, transparent Icon on every app screen you open for quick access to a note for when you need to write down a quicky note. Microsoft added this function for One Note on Android phones and must say it is useful and was much needed even before they included it for Android phones.

Overall love

Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the ZTE Nubia X, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the ZTE Nubia X is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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First of all, I would like to tell you that I love that particular phone.
But the true story has some background, why this product will fail.
It's all the same, what we saw in the last 15-20 years back. Asian product, as nice and cool they are failing on the global market.
This particular one has to be included in the books with title "HOW TO NOT MAKE GLOBAL BUINESS"
"Nubia" - brand was new for me. If would be "ZTE - Nubia" would be more trustful, because people already knew "ZTE" as brand.
Anyway, let's focus on the product origin. Asia: All the industries care first about the local market, and then about the global one.
Cars, electronic devices, gaming industry - you can see all the same pattern around. (WoW vs. Lineage/Aion/<insert MMO name here>)
Those products were introduced on the local market, but not on the global one. If you're interested about it, you’ll get something like "it's coming soon in <country>" answer. And then hype dies .. slowly.
Why Stave Jobs was great? Simple - announcing a product and the final words are like "you can have it tomorrow in the store next to you". If that would happend with the this phone, I would go early morning to have it - true story.
Anyway, let's talk about the phone.
Engendering:
I'm literally amazed about the quality and the materials of the product. As I said before, a bit frustrated about the screen edges until I realized that's a preloaded screen protector, front and back.
Proximity sensors are not that accurate in the middle. Also, it seems that the light sensor is on the back, and if you put the phone to lie, the screen setup is on auto dimming, then it's not present.
Software:
It seems that the software is optimized for the Chinese market. All the apps needed on the daily use of a Chinese user would be ok.
Rooted version and GApps is possible but not everything is working on way it should - minor app crashes plus lock screen notification issues. (Fun breaker)
As I said, minor issues, but you'll always find a fly on the cake and blame the software.
Summary:
- If you're normal user - you gonnan love that phone and you'll accept and live with that all glitches if you're China's citizen.
- If you're EU/USA citizen - be a pro in Android root-ing. In other case stay away from Nubia X.
- For ZTE - that's a case study how to not make business on a global scale.
Once again, I love the phone, but I hate how the release and the software was executed.
(be free to quote me)
Your Bro.

Multitasking/RAM

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When i first got this phone, i wasn't familiar with Pie, and i didn't even realize i had a billion things open. So i think the Android One experience really shines in the multi-tasking area. You can even squeeze more speed by disabling all of googles features and services, however it does come to a point where disabling too much can make the OS shudder or just ruin seamless experiences. You will start to experience just a hair of that if you disable google services. However coming from a Windows phone im not sure if this is the norm.
On average right now i only use 3-4GB of memory
I will try to update this post as i go through a work week, to provide a more 'typical' experience.

Software (ease of use, features, etc)

When you hand your phone to granny to take a photo of you, can she get the job done? Rate this thread to express how you deem the Samsung Galaxy A42 5G's camera software. A higher rating indicates that the software is easy to use, fast, uncluttered, and inclusive of advanced features for when you need them.
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There are lot of apps preinstalled on A42. Most of them are useless for me and can be deleted, many can't be deleted or disabled, some can't be used at all (installed, but can't nbe started), so you have dozens of apps you don't want/can't run on your phone. Some apps (like keyboard, password manager, Samsung cloud) are bound to system and always offer you options you declined already. UI translation to my language (czech, small market) is quite bad, many texts are incomprehensible or have different meaning. Software support is bad, phone was delivered with December 20 patches and now, late March 21, no updates at all. Internet browser is very slow, loading of single page takes up to 30 seconds and durinf this time app is unresponsive. Fingerprint recognition is below average, few time a week it stops completely (fingerprint login is stopped by system and can't be used), so often you have to log in with password/PIN. Probably only plus is Android auto preinstalled and working fine.

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