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sdifox

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LG G2, I was gonna wait for the Nexus 5 announcement, but the only thing it will have over the G2 is android 4.4, and it has a smaller battery.

I don't care for android phones that don't have a microsd slot.
 

Red Squirrel

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That's one thing I don't like about my phone (Nexus 4) No SD card slot. Next phone I get I will make sure it has a slot. Though this phone was still a huge upgrade from my blackberry I had before. At least this phone has apps and wifi. LOL
 

mnewsham

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I don't care for android phones that don't have a microsd slot.

Yeah I know a lot of people don't, but I don't have any music or videos at all, my current 8GB iphone 4s is only about 1/2 filled after 2 years...

The G2 is 16GB standard so I think that will be more than enough for me.
 

sdifox

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Yeah I know a lot of people don't, but I don't have any music or videos at all, my current 8GB iphone 4s is only about 1/2 filled after 2 years...

The G2 is 16GB standard so I think that will be more than enough for me.

except android takes a good chunk of that.
 

sdifox

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It still leaves me with more than double what I have with my current phone :p


Also, the G2 is (i believe) the only android phone to support 24bit/192Khz FLAC and WAV files.

err, just because it plays it back doesn't mean it supports it on the hardware level :biggrin:
 

mnewsham

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err, just because it plays it back doesn't mean it supports it on the hardware level :biggrin:

Actually yes it does, the new qualcomm WCD9320 DAC supports up to 24bit/192Khz FLAC files and LG rewrote the ASLA audio stack to natively support it as well.

It wont play the 24bit/192Khz over the speakers, but with headphones it is perfectly capable hardware wise. :colbert:
 

sdifox

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Actually yes it does, the new qualcomm WCD9320 DAC supports up to 24bit/192Khz FLAC files and LG rewrote the ASLA audio stack to natively support it as well.

It wont play the 24bit/192Khz over the speakers, but with headphones it is perfectly capable hardware wise. :colbert:

huh? that doesn't make any sense. But it is good to see there is hardware dac for 24/192 now for phones.
 
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mnewsham

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huh? that doesn't make any sense.

How not? The speakers on the phone wont play the higher bitrate files, it will downsample to the standard 16bit/48Khz that android normally uses. However with headphones plugged in it can play up to 24bit/192Khz because of the upgraded DAC, AMP, and the rewritten audio stack (since android does not natively support sampling that high)

The only thing I don't like is that it can't output 24bit/192Khz over USB, it ONLY supports it through the headphone jack, not sure if it was a decision made by LG, or some sort of hardware limitation, or OS problems... :|
 

sdifox

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How not? The speakers on the phone wont play the higher bitrate files, it will downsample to the standard 16bit/48Khz that android normally uses. However with headphones plugged in it can play up to 24bit/192Khz because of the upgraded DAC, AMP, and the rewritten audio stack (since android does not natively support sampling that high)

The only thing I don't like is that it can't output 24bit/192Khz over USB, it ONLY supports it through the headphone jack, not sure if it was a decision made by LG, or some sort of hardware limitation, or OS problems... :|

oh, you mean the speakers on the phone... gotcha. I mean if you hook up your sound system through the analogue out, I don't see how you cannot play sound to actual speakers :biggrin:

your headphones won't handle 192khz anyway
 

mnewsham

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Almost all phones come bloated. That is why I like more memory. Plus if you are going to listen to lossless flac, them be big files.

I only have 2 albums I plan on having permanently on the phone given the space requirements, but even with an SD card slot I couldn't fit too much just because FLAC files are big as fuck.