so?

Perhaps you should go and look at a nexus device and how it handles photos before making a fool out of yourself.

it never says its uploading to google+. it just says "turn on auto upload? it will keep your pics safe blah blah" not one word about google+. i hate shills like you who are ready to accept anything google shits onto the device YOU paid for.

it defaults off, thats true. but they use a very sneaky message to get you to enable the auto upload thing as soon as you open the gallery. and you get a fucking notification on EVERY SINGLE PHOTO YOU EVER CLICK! you get 3 notifications actually. one on your phone, other on every single google webpage you visit (including chrome start tab), third as an email in your gmail inbox. and what does the notification say?

it was ready to be shared the moment i took it, bitch! there's this neat android feature called share using which you can share your photos!

why

i live in india, and i don't know anybody who does NOT use whatsapp. literally everyone uses it. every nokia phone (dumb/smart), every android, and even some local branded dumbphones have whatsapp. unlimited texting is not a thing over here. data is much, much cheaper. also, with texts you can't send pics, or audio, or video. and sms is not instant messaging. whatsapp is like fb chat, but on your phone.
also, i been using it for 3-4 years, and they always renew my subscription for free every year. and even if this stops happening in the future, 50 bucks (INR) per year is literally negligible compared to any other cost in your life.

Symbian got updates ALL the time.

moto x already does continuous audio recording and sends it to google. it has a dedicated cpu core just for that. and people are very happy with the functionality :/

you should probably read up on these:
1. ASLR
2. UAC
3. BitLocker
4. Kernel patch protection
5. Better process and service sandboxing

ok so just delete it after watching. its gonna consume the same amount of data anyway. and who knows, maybe after the first watch you might wanna keep it for another watch. also, rewind and forward sucks hard on streaming.

LOL! full screen zoom! such advanced technology! its only been there in windows and linux for ~15 years.

no it doesn't. it breaks everything. at least windows has the decency of letting users switch between the desktop and metro.

forgive me if i don't want a neglected product without any sort of support. and the easily replaceable part is moot, that is a property of linux. if canonical thought they could get away with it, they would have locked that down too.

yeah, one that cares for and upholds the principles ubuntu was built upon.

camera is the sgs4 itself.

Fuck design. SGS5 will whip the collective ass of iphone, htc, xperia, lumia in terms of everything that matters (picture quality, screen quality, display quality, audio quality, connectivity, options, battery life, speed, useful features, power). The lack of design is a statement in itself. It says "Fuck you, you fucking wannabe nerds who really just want 'teh shinys'."

Ironically Samsung phones are the most customizable, with a HUGE amount of options and things to tinker with. Nexus phones on the other hand don't let you unlock the bootloader even (without deleting all your data).

SGS4, lumia 1020, Nokia 808 would like a word.