The galaxy S2 has Android 5.0 via roms, that doesn't make it the best phone on earth (regardless of how much i think it is).
isn't that a nokia device? if so i'm more interested in how he got it to break in the first place, nokias are indestructible (/s)
lol Yup, it's a nokia. It once fell pretty hard on its corner which caused the glass to break. Although I've occasionally dropped it after that, no more cracks have appeared. It's kinda weird if you ask me.
I've been using an HTC One M8 for the past 7 months. I ended up getting a replacement device because the volume up button stopped working for almost no reason and the power button would malfunction and prevent me from selecting things in the boot menu. Other than that it's a very well-built phone and I'm really glad that I switched to it from an iPhone 5s. View attachment DSC_0454.jpg Now I've got Cyanogenmod running on it and it's so much nicer than HTC Sense.
I use a Meizu MX3, a chinese high-end thing, It's pretty good and it's fast. I emulate all my n64 games on it :| One of these: 4 downsides: - non-removable battery. - no google play by default. - can't use all 8 cores at once. - odd screen resolution (1800x1080).
ARMs big.LITTLE by any chance? Effectively 2 quad cores on one piece of silicon, 1 being a high performance one, the other being a low power consumption one. Phone switches back and forth as processor load varies.
Well yeah, however the new Exynos chips being used in the MX4 allow all 8 cores to be used at once (4x 2.2ghz, 4x 1.7ghz) I should of waited. xD
Even new exynos is big.LITTLE sadly. Mediatek are only company with a true octacore arm chip right now.
It is 2 processors on 1 chip, but the new ones can use both processors at the same time. Some reading
Or smash it against the floor several times, or just hit it with a hammer. They aren't that tough, really. In fact, destroying, as in damaging beyond working order, an old Nokia is much easier than destroying a modern smartphone. A smartphone's build quality is vastly superior to that of an old phone, but the materials used are much more fragile. If you drop a smartphone several times, the screen will crack, it will have dents and scratches and could eventually even bend, but it's hard to damage it to the point it won't work anymore (unless you're attempting to deliberately do so). An old mobile phone, on the other hand, might look just fine, but it's much more likely to die after a few drops. It's also very easy to crack it open without any visible damage to the plastic. The reason for this is simple: The plastic used in older phones is very springy, and in case of an impact it will deform but will go back to its original shape. Many modern smartphones are made of metal, which is flexible, and much more likely to retain its shape after an impact. Old phone screens don't crack because many of them used a plastic cover instead of glass. So, older phones are harder to visually damage but easier to destroy.
I'm planning to buy one, is it good? Although from specs and using other Lumia models I'm sure it is...
Get a Lumia 635, it's the same phone but with 1GB of ram instead of 512MB of the 630. Build quality is standard Nokia, it survived getting dropped when running a few times, only the back case seperates. Battery lasts for 2 days, camera is very good for being 5MP and it runs everything fluidly, but when you talk on it I reccomend that you keep it atleast 1cm away from your ear because it doesn't have a proximity sensor.
I'd get a 635, but the 630 had a price cut recently and it's £40 cheaper. I'd rather keep the money for a GTX 970.
