Smartphone Reccomendation

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[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
How about audio quality with all of the smart phones? I know, I know, nobody actually uses their phones to talk anymore. Well, I do. I am up for a new phone right now too, and my current phone, LG VX11000, has sucky audio for calls. I can’t hear shit if there is any ambient noise whatsoever. I want a phone that is pretty decent with apps and internet and battery life, etc, but that has sound good enough for me to have a conversation while walking down the street.

DB[/quote]

First, I think Verizon has the best network for call quality in the US.

Second, I would say the iPhone and Nokia have the best call quality, from experience. But, because of the iPhone 4’s retarded antenna design, I wouldn’t recommend it. Perhaps the next one.

My HTC is alright, nothing to write home about. I would say, wait for the upcoming iPhone, Nokia N9 or Nokia Windows Phone and choose between those.

I’ll be selling my HTC when the new Nokia WP is out.[/quote]

Thanks. Everyone always says “wait for the next one”, whatever technology is being talked about. At some point, you have to buy something, right?

DB[/quote]

I agree, but when you’re reaching the end of a life cycle of products, it’s better to wait a few months and then buy the newer device.

Have a look at the N9 for example:

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^RSGZ is a walking contradiction … dude knows his shit but prefers a windows phone… he’s like a Scotch Korean

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[quote]Ronan wrote:
Getting either the Droid charge by Samsung or the Droid incredible. I like the smallness of the 2 but was wondering what you guys expierences have been with either one?[/quote]

I got the charge. I like it, a lot.

Gonna need the extended battery though, which I prefer actually. Without the bulky back it just doesn’t fit in my hands. With the extra bulk from the extended battery I can hold the damn thing without feeling like I’m going to crush it.

Free GPS = driod > iPhone

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[quote]polo77j wrote:
^RSGZ is a walking contradiction … dude knows his shit but prefers a windows phone… he’s like a Scotch Korean[/quote]

LOL, what’s wrong with the WP? It’s so different from anything I’ve used before, and I like that.

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:
This is why I think ‘tomb-stoning’ apps, like the iPhone and Windows Phone do, is the way to go for multitasking. You don’t need to worry about managing apps or whatever, draining your battery. If you want that power, then fine - but the average user shouldn’t need to worry about what processes are running as you would on a desktop computer.

You can also get an app (I think) that manages these tasks for you (If you can’t, well then here’s an idea).

Example: you set times and locations within the app, so when you’re at home it disables GPS, 4G and Bluetooth and when you’re on the road it disables WiFi, or only enables these features at certain times - so essentially a set and forget app.

Windows Phone has a battery saver feature coming in the Fall update, which automatically turns off certain services (such as push notifications, WiFi, etc) and can give you up to 2 hours extra battery life. Pretty clever feature.[/quote]

Can you explain what “tombstoning” is? I’m unfamiliar with the term and couldn’t find an explanation anywhere

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[quote]Billmelater138 wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:
This is why I think ‘tomb-stoning’ apps, like the iPhone and Windows Phone do, is the way to go for multitasking. You don’t need to worry about managing apps or whatever, draining your battery. If you want that power, then fine - but the average user shouldn’t need to worry about what processes are running as you would on a desktop computer.

You can also get an app (I think) that manages these tasks for you (If you can’t, well then here’s an idea).

Example: you set times and locations within the app, so when you’re at home it disables GPS, 4G and Bluetooth and when you’re on the road it disables WiFi, or only enables these features at certain times - so essentially a set and forget app.

Windows Phone has a battery saver feature coming in the Fall update, which automatically turns off certain services (such as push notifications, WiFi, etc) and can give you up to 2 hours extra battery life. Pretty clever feature.[/quote]

Can you explain what “tombstoning” is? I’m unfamiliar with the term and couldn’t find an explanation anywhere[/quote]

It’s essentially pausing the app, almost like when you put your computer into sleep mode, it just resumes faster than that. This means it isn’t using up resources in the background (at least not the same as it would be with ‘true’ multitasking. One of the reasons the iPhone has a better battery life.

But, the background app will still do notifications (as with mail and such).

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Had a Palm Pre, loved the phone but it get breaking, speaker issuses and the like. After the warranty gave me my fourth Palm I was tired of all the issues and decided to change. I got the EVO and I love it! Maybe should have waited for the EVO 3d? IDK. The whole 3d phase is a little annoying right about now anyway. The only problem I have with my evo is the battery life like everyone else is saying.

My brother has an Iphone 4 and I do prefer Android to Iphone. And I got a sick Otter box to protect it.

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]polo77j wrote:
^RSGZ is a walking contradiction … dude knows his shit but prefers a windows phone… he’s like a Scotch Korean[/quote]

LOL, what’s wrong with the WP? It’s so different from anything I’ve used before, and I like that.[/quote]

I’m just busting your balls man …

Although … my fiance had a windows phone (older version) that didn’t sync up any of her email accts/schedules/social networking/documents … She wanted to use it for professional reasons (Nurse Practitioner) but couldn’t get the fuckin’ thing to work…

It was horrendous listening to her complain about it after I told her that Windows was releasing a newer/better version for phones in like a month (this is a while ago) but she went ahead and bought it anyways.

Then when she was due for an upgrade she wanted to get the IPhone, not only that with the 32 gig of memory. I asked her what does she think she’s going to possibly need that much memory for. She’s like for work. I said “any of the documents you might upload onto your phone is going to be maybe 20 kb, plus any app you put on your phone will only take up maybe 10 mb max … and that’s a big app” She went with the Droid Thunderbolt instead lol

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Stay away from the iPhones. Their DRM can get very pesky, and you can’t run flash. I have the iPhone 4, and ever since I handled an android phone in the store, I have smartphone jealousy. That being said, wait for the iPhone 5 and see if they come up with something awesome. Around the time that I got the 4, only apple had a phone with the front camera for video chat.
Apple has its way of sweeping you over with awesomely innovative products/features, but the annoyances start showing up a few months after owning it.

It lacks some pretty simple features - like storing a pdf for reading laterm, or the ability to use the space as a flash drive even though you spent big bucks on it. And don’t get me started on the flash.

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[quote]Fat Bastard. wrote:
Stay away from the iPhones. Their DRM can get very pesky, and you can’t run flash. I have the iPhone 4, and ever since I handled an android phone in the store, I have smartphone jealousy. That being said, wait for the iPhone 5 and see if they come up with something awesome. Around the time that I got the 4, only apple had a phone with the front camera for video chat.
Apple has its way of sweeping you over with awesomely innovative products/features, but the annoyances start showing up a few months after owning it.

It lacks some pretty simple features - like storing a pdf for reading laterm, or the ability to use the space as a flash drive even though you spent big bucks on it. And don’t get me started on the flash. [/quote]
Rumor is the eyephone 5 will just have small changes one of them being a notifaction window like the androids.

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[quote]kevinm1 wrote:

[quote]Fat Bastard. wrote:
Stay away from the iPhones. Their DRM can get very pesky, and you can’t run flash. I have the iPhone 4, and ever since I handled an android phone in the store, I have smartphone jealousy. That being said, wait for the iPhone 5 and see if they come up with something awesome. Around the time that I got the 4, only apple had a phone with the front camera for video chat.
Apple has its way of sweeping you over with awesomely innovative products/features, but the annoyances start showing up a few months after owning it.

It lacks some pretty simple features - like storing a pdf for reading laterm, or the ability to use the space as a flash drive even though you spent big bucks on it. And don’t get me started on the flash. [/quote]
Rumor is the eyephone 5 will just have small changes one of them being a notifaction window like the androids. [/quote]

Then forget the apple product. Another problem is small software glitches - sometimes when I get a call and try tom slide the bar to answer it, the bar does not move no matter what I do. I have to miss the call and call back. If you ask ATT or the mighty “geniuses”, they will tell you to restore your phone to factory condition, and the problem will come back in a while. Rinse and repeat, and add all your apps and passwords manually. Backing up and restoring will not help.

I like the Futurama reference, it is very appropriate :slight_smile: (eyephone)

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[quote]Fat Bastard. wrote:
Stay away from the iPhones. Their DRM can get very pesky, and you can’t run flash. I have the iPhone 4, and ever since I handled an android phone in the store, I have smartphone jealousy. That being said, wait for the iPhone 5 and see if they come up with something awesome. Around the time that I got the 4, only apple had a phone with the front camera for video chat.
Apple has its way of sweeping you over with awesomely innovative products/features, but the annoyances start showing up a few months after owning it.

It lacks some pretty simple features - like storing a pdf for reading laterm, or the ability to use the space as a flash drive even though you spent big bucks on it. And don’t get me started on the flash. [/quote]

This is exactly how I felt after owning the iPhone 3G. Really great to start off with, and then it just got progressively worse. Hell, every update made the phone slower and slower to the point of being unusable - seriously, it would take up to 20 seconds to read a text message.

Android is nice and techy with mountains of features, but it’s unpolished. It looks unfinished and the UI looks poorly designed, right down to the icons.

Meego I could get into (the OS that’s running on the Nokia N9 I posted), but right now Windows Phone 7 makes the most sense to me. I hope Nokia does a big push with it.

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[quote]polo77j wrote:
I’m just busting your balls man …

Although … my fiance had a windows phone (older version) that didn’t sync up any of her email accts/schedules/social networking/documents … She wanted to use it for professional reasons (Nurse Practitioner) but couldn’t get the fuckin’ thing to work…

It was horrendous listening to her complain about it after I told her that Windows was releasing a newer/better version for phones in like a month (this is a while ago) but she went ahead and bought it anyways.

Then when she was due for an upgrade she wanted to get the IPhone, not only that with the 32 gig of memory. I asked her what does she think she’s going to possibly need that much memory for. She’s like for work. I said “any of the documents you might upload onto your phone is going to be maybe 20 kb, plus any app you put on your phone will only take up maybe 10 mb max … and that’s a big app” She went with the Droid Thunderbolt instead lol[/quote]

I bet she loves it though? It’s like an intuitive Windows Mobile on steroids.

Did she actually use the new Windows Phone 7? (they should really change the name, something like ZunePhone would work IMO) It’s a night and day difference between windows mobile and this.

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[quote]Fat Bastard. wrote:
Stay away from the iPhones. Their DRM can get very pesky, and you can’t run flash. I have the iPhone 4, and ever since I handled an android phone in the store, I have smartphone jealousy. That being said, wait for the iPhone 5 and see if they come up with something awesome. Around the time that I got the 4, only apple had a phone with the front camera for video chat.
Apple has its way of sweeping you over with awesomely innovative products/features, but the annoyances start showing up a few months after owning it.

It lacks some pretty simple features - like storing a pdf for reading laterm, or the ability to use the space as a flash drive even though you spent big bucks on it. And don’t get me started on the flash. [/quote]

Reasons I went droid rather than iPhone:

Free apps
Free .mp3’s (That I can turn into ringtones, free)
Free GPS system. This bitch tells me to take the next legal U turn like any other GPS system, and it updates on it’s own.
Front & back Side Camera
Did I mention all the apps are free? lol

I like the iPhone. I’ve played with a few… I feel it’s “nicer” and more intuitive than the droid, but I had to go with the one that has all the free shit.

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Also, my phone is 4G… iPhone is 3G and I hear iPhone 5 will not be 4G either…

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[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]JSMaxwell wrote:
Hello,

-I’m kind of tech savy and am totally able to follow instructions to root a phone and flash a new ROM if that is the way to go

[/quote]

Okay can you explain this more please, or anybody else. I have the HTC EVO for sprint.[/quote]

Please do your research before attempting to root your EVO or any other smartphone. I’ve had to try to resurrect too many bricked phones due to people underestimating the rooting process. That’s not to say that rooting is hard, just something that takes a lil more tech savvy than microwaving a hot pocket.

I have a rooted EVO and it can last at least 12 hours on a single charge with “medium” usage running Cyanogenmod 7, display on 30% and a 1800 mAh battery. Using a custom kernal could provide even more battery life.

/nerd mode

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]polo77j wrote:
I’m just busting your balls man …

Although … my fiance had a windows phone (older version) that didn’t sync up any of her email accts/schedules/social networking/documents … She wanted to use it for professional reasons (Nurse Practitioner) but couldn’t get the fuckin’ thing to work…

It was horrendous listening to her complain about it after I told her that Windows was releasing a newer/better version for phones in like a month (this is a while ago) but she went ahead and bought it anyways.

Then when she was due for an upgrade she wanted to get the IPhone, not only that with the 32 gig of memory. I asked her what does she think she’s going to possibly need that much memory for. She’s like for work. I said “any of the documents you might upload onto your phone is going to be maybe 20 kb, plus any app you put on your phone will only take up maybe 10 mb max … and that’s a big app” She went with the Droid Thunderbolt instead lol[/quote]

I bet she loves it though? It’s like an intuitive Windows Mobile on steroids.

Did she actually use the new Windows Phone 7? (they should really change the name, something like ZunePhone would work IMO) It’s a night and day difference between windows mobile and this.[/quote]

No she didn’t even pick up the windows 7 (I told her she might like it since they improved a lot of what was wrong with her old one but she had a bad taste from the old one…).

Yea she likes the Thunderbolt a lot … shit I play around with a lot, especially when she first got it … but after playing with it a while I’m not that impressed … I heart my Droid X

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[quote]Soulja874 wrote:

[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]JSMaxwell wrote:
Hello,

-I’m kind of tech savy and am totally able to follow instructions to root a phone and flash a new ROM if that is the way to go

[/quote]

Okay can you explain this more please, or anybody else. I have the HTC EVO for sprint.[/quote]

Please do your research before attempting to root your EVO or any other smartphone. I’ve had to try to resurrect too many bricked phones due to people underestimating the rooting process. That’s not to say that rooting is hard, just something that takes a lil more tech savvy than microwaving a hot pocket.

I have a rooted EVO and it can last at least 12 hours on a single charge with “medium” usage running Cyanogenmod 7, display on 30% and a 1800 mAh battery. Using a custom kernal could provide even more battery life.

/nerd mode [/quote]

Thanks after reading I had decided to say “fuck it” and just stay with the current plan I use. Charger in car, office, down stairs of house, upstairs of house. Pretty much takes care of all problems. :slight_smile:

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I had an iphone 3g and an iphone4… currently im rocking the samsung infuse… after having the infuse for 1.5 months i’ll never go back to iphone… i grew up with windows so the droid os is a lot more intutive. The app store has a lot more and better free apps and it took 8 minutes to make it a hotspot for my ipad so i didnt have to pay att and was a lot easier then when i did the iphone 4…

also, one kicker agains iphone, mine got washed, and i cant get the contacts off of it since iphones dont store that information on your sim card and to get it off itunes i have to restore my old phone info over my girlfriends iphone, write them down, then manually put them into my droid, was a pain and made me hate apple even more…

I was hoping to wait for the dual-core phones coming soon, but was forced to look and im sticking with ATT as they work a lot better in birmingham than verizon… if i was on verizon though i would love to have a thunderbolt…

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[quote]Ratchet wrote:
also, one kicker agains iphone, mine got washed, and i cant get the contacts off of it since iphones dont store that information on your sim card and to get it off itunes i have to restore my old phone info over my girlfriends iphone, write them down, then manually put them into my droid, was a pain and made me hate apple even more…
[/quote]

Windows Phone (not sure about Android) syncs all your contacts into the cloud… never lose another contact again - even if you lose the phone.

Once Apple catches up, it will be touted as a new revolutionary feature and everyone will think they invented it. Wait and see.