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You can also do this - cell tower location based WiFi enabling/disabling (and a lot of other stuff) - with the free Llama app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...


Did you read the linked product page? It specifically boasts sleep tracking and 24-hour heart rate tracking.


I actually missed it the first two times I read it. So yeah, I want one now. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

I guess this means I won't be switching back to Android for a while now, just to see how my WP8 and this work together.


They might well release a 64GB version later. They released a 32GB version of the N7 2012 some months after initial release and removed the 8GB version.


There is currently no released version of Android that uses ART out of the box. It's available behind the development options in KitKat and as default in the L developer preview, but that's it. The "optimizing applications" screen comes after system upgrades also with Dalvik.


Sony Smartwatch 3 has NFC (and GPS). Too bad it's rather ugly. AFAIK, it only currently uses NFC for pairing to a phone, but the hardware is there and Android Wear will hopefully soon include complete support for it, like they recently did with watch GPS support.


Unfortunately it is only a passive tag for pairing. You can't to do anything else with it, so it cannot read other tags itself.


Spotify is available in most of Europe and South America too. In fact US got it pretty late.


Not necessarily. Remember the huge problem with 2013 Nexus 7 having wifi and bluetooth on at same time? Many bluetooth keyboards and some other accessories just wouldn't work at all with wifi enabled. It was broken for the longest time. Looks like it still is not working properly for some users:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/ORce7P9...


I have a ~90" projector screen with a bit over 3 meters of viewing distance and I could definitely use larger resolution than 1080p. Also, many people have 120"+ screens (but my living room conditions don't currently allow for that).

I don't really know why everyone assumes that a large screen must be a TV. Projectors are really inexpensive compared to large televisions and allow for a LOT larger image sizes. Brightness and lamp life problems are also largely a thing of the past. I have a three and half year old ~900€ full HD projector (Benq W1000+) and would not even consider going back to a (relatively) tiny and expensive TV.


I feel obligated to add that you really want a dark room for projector, and either opaque curtain or blinds. Viewing movies on projector is not that nice when the living room walls are bright and/or a lot of light comes into room from outside.


Doom (or Doom 2 which had basically the same engine with just bugfixes and support for Doom 2 entities) didn't actually need an FPU. Even 386DX's or 486SX's had no FPU so no games from the pre-1995 era really depended on it.

I remember Falcon 3.0 and perhaps some other simulation games having support for FPU for those few who had one however...


Were they actually generally ever coupled in Europe in the first place? In Finland they weren't.


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