Come back and say that again when your battery goes flat and it is impossible to get to a charger Also my lumia 710 battery degraded to only an 8 hour battery life by easter (considering I got it in august that isn't good), batteries do not have a warranty on them even in the HTC One and the iPhone. If your happy replacing your phone just for a battery issue, fine, but I personally prefered the go on amazon and order new battery option. I've already got a second battery for my phone (Xperia M), but it lasts 2 days as it is. - - - Updated - - - Personally I hate samsungs plastic. I have nothing against plastic phones at all considering all of my phones have been plastic. But to me the plastic on an S4 doesnt feel any higher grade than the plastic of my ZTE Blade (and thats a gen1 too) which was about £100 when new off contract. Premium device feeling as cheap (materials wise) as a bargain basement type device. Their tablets do feel alright in the hands, just their phones feeling like crap. My lumia and Xperia both have a sort of soft matte finish to them which feels much nicer to the touch and honestly I find makes them feel like the higher end device while not even costing half as much. Neither device was high end, both cost me under £200. But without knowing their spec or anything, the only thing that would mark the S3 or S4 as being higher end devices would be their physical size, lets face it, there aren't any cheap phones with screens that large really. I have a mate with the UK model S4 which uses a qualcomm quad core at 1.9ghz, benchmarks higher than the enoxys variant sold in some countries (which contrary to popular belief isn't really running as a full blown octacore processor, its ARM's BIGlittle so is 2 separate quad cores, one optimised for performance and the other power consumption, it switches between the 2 as it runs). We tried the Epic Citadel app as a laugh. Turns out in benchmarking mode with the graphics set to highest, my phone beat his, his would average about 30-40fps while mine sat 40-60 (so slightly more erratic). A qualcomm snapdragon S4+ dual core at 1.0ghz with adreno 305 graphics beat a snapdragon 600 quad core at 1.9ghz with adreno 320 graphics. Sounds so wrong, until you consider the screen resolutions 480x854 (weird res because the sony has software buttons so they slightly lengthened the screen to accommodate them without changing the usable area) vs 1080x1920. Citadel runs fullscreen on both. About half a million pixels vs just over 2 million pixels. Xperia doesnt have to render even nearly as many pixels
I currently have one iPhone 3gs, two iPhone 4s's, one iPhone 5, one iPhone 5c, and the iPhone 5s is coming, OH and I have an iPad 3 retina display... Go Apple! Nexus 7(that I love)! And iphone 5s has come...
This is mine, a P920 LG (Optimus 3D). Simply perfect for me. Bought it new almost 2 years ago with Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) then an official update came along to ICS, and it still handles everything i throw at it (games, camera apps) with ease. It still doesnt have any issues (freezing, restarting, etc..), what is simply a miracle due to the planned lifecycle of todays technology (sadly). But the best thing ever about this phone by far is the display, and its protective glass. The display is fully 3D without any glasses, what is awesome (though not very useful most of the times), and most importantly its got Gorilla glass protection, what proved to be amazing a few times when i accidentaly dropped the phone (2 times face first on concrete from about 1,5m), but the screen has NO scratches (not even microscratches), its completely intact, though when the glass ends and the plastic begins at the edge of the phone there starts the scratch parade Anyway, i never thought any phone can be as tough as an old Nokia from the late 90's, and i was wrong
Re: What?s your phone? Black Samsung Galaxy S4 I still have my old black S2 (Epic variant). It lasted me over the two year contract and I still use it (I've had to replace the battery 2x though). For a flagship phone, it was extremely rare here in the states. I'm the only person I knew who got it when it first came out (2011). The original HTC EVO was easily the most popular Android smartphone at the time. The S2 is probably the toughest Galaxy smartphone to date. I can't say the same about the S4- I broke my first one by falling off of a moving ATV in September. - - - Updated - - - The S4 is a bit faster, the screen is bigger (but the body is the same size), there's a boatload of new sensors (for gestures), and the UI is better optimized for the bigger screen just to name a few changes. If the price difference is too great, the S3 will do, but the S4 is better, hands down.
I've got a Nokia Lumia 920. I can describe it perfectly by telling you this: "Windows Phone is like a strait jacket, what it does, it does well, but what it doesn't do, don't even dream about it". The phone is rock solid, I've had no real issues with crashing or anything, everything works like a dream on the outside ... ... But then again, the battery life is quite much pure itself. It feels like if I just glanced it a bit roughly, it would drain it's battery. Also, the OS has so many flaws and missing features I won't be on this boat much longer. I don't mean it is bad, but for a person, who has had a Nokia N900 (open Linux phone), it's like chinese water torture when you know the OS doesn't support something and you'd need it right now. Like bluetooth keyboards. I can live without a file manager, though it makes the phone useless in many ways, but bluetooth keyboard support for a mobile OS should be a no-brainer, especially when it claims "it is the best for work and fun, since it has Office!". Like you were selling cars, which didn't have a steering wheel and told people to steer it using a loose wrench! I could go on and on about this, but I guess my opinion about WP8 came through. For a person, who calls, sends sms, does facebook, listens to music, browses the web and doesn't need bluetooth, decent battery life or any freedom to do anything outside the before mentioned criteria, WP8 is quite fast and easy to use. There's the advantage of being the Alcatraz of mobile OSs, it's the safest OS currently out there. Also, the camera on 920 is stunningly good and audio comes through crystal clear in videos (I've put it next to a loud subwoofer, no crackle there either). I admit, Android as an OS does have it's own flaws (I've heard of viruses etc.), but then again, it gives you the freedom to actually have some real functionality, which could help you during the day. Also, there's also a whole bunch of accessories, that enable features like physical QWERTY-keyboards, extended battery life, real multitasking and much more.
I currently have a $30 eBay Samsung Alias 2. It's not bad but I don't really use it. I haven't touched it for a few weeks now.. I'm hoping to get a smartphone. Right now I just use my Nexus 7 but it's Wifi only and it doesn't exactly fit in my pocket.. Maybe a Nexus 4 or 5?
Oh and also, be carefull with ur nexus 7......my bro dropped his after having it for 3days a the screen completely shattered from the height of the........sofa.I also have a samsung galaxy s3 mini and it's awesome.
My nexus 7 did the exact same thing, sofa to soft rug, screen destroyed after 9 days of ownership. My dads friend had one too, he was sitting with it held portrait at the table, let go of it so it fell barely an inch before rotating to land on its back, shattered screen. I have come to the conclusion that its a terrible quality screen.
Galaxy S3. I enjoyed it at first then realised after around 6 months how much better and smoother iOS was. I'll still have it until September 2014, but I'll be upgrading to the then-newest iPhone once my contract is up.
My first N7 I had for just under a year. I dropped it with a case on. I didn't even notice the hairline crack going onto the screen for a few hours and when I did I took the case off and the corner that was underneath the case was absolutely shattered and some of the glass fell out. A little while after that the digitizer stopped working. I sold it and put that money towards a new N7. Then a week after that the new one came out. A few days ago I didn't have the case on and I went somewhere and dropped it on the pavement. Luckily the only damage was a dent in the bezel. Screen is still perfect.
All the non-Tegra Splashtop apps do not support on screen controls. I used to use the Splashtop Tegra app on a Asus Transformer TF300T and it was a dream... shot up over 30fps most of the time-- and practically no input lag! Controls were really easy to customize, too. But Splashtop Tegra is dead, as no one cares for Tegra 3 anymore. I actually used to use it on an AT&T S2 ( most similar to the international one). There was a module for Chainfire 3D that made games think you had a Tegra! So great while it lasted. Back on topic: I don't touch the phone at all when I play DRIVE (or any PC game) on my phone. I have a microUSB to USB adapter that I plug my wireless PC kb and mouse into. Android has no problem sending all the keyboard and mouse input as if they were plugged straight into the PC. All I use they kb/mouse for is clicking on small menus, such as the parts selection menu. For actually controlling the game, as I said before, I have a PS3 controller paired with the PC-- not the phone. The PS3 controller emulates an X360 one with Motioninjoy. As my room is directly above my den where the PC is, Bluetooth range is not a limiting factor for me. If you have a PC and need more Bluetooth range, there are two options. You can solder a longer antenna onto the adapter's existing one. Be sure to use very very thin guage wire. OR you can do it the the rigged way, which I default to. Find 6" ish diameter metal bowl and tape the adapter suspended in the center. Aim it like you would a satellite dish. I did a speed test with the same setup using a USB WIFI adapter. At 25 feet from our weak router, no dish gets you 11Mb/s dl. Adding a small bowl gets you about 36Mb/s. - - - Updated - - - The S2 just plain worked. If it ever froze, it was only for 5 seconds. My S4 cries when I feed it CS Portable on High settings. I know it is obviously because of rendering resolution, but my original AT&T SGH-I777 could handle all high settings and pull 45 FPS all day. Modern Combat 3 was getting up in it's limits, though. But considering all of that, I was still extremely impressed. I agree 100% to the durability aspect of your comment. The S4 flexes so much that it breaks itself, while the S2 flexed a bit and made awful sounds but always came out unscathed. The Gorilla glass was perfect...until one day when the phone vibrated off the table my chopsaw was on and fell face first into a bucket of wood screws. Had 10 small dings in the screen, but that was it. The phone was just less dainty than the S4, and I will never feel as comfortable using the S4 outdoors as the S2. If i could recommend a cheap android starter phone, TO THIS DAY the S2 would top my list. My fiends and I all got different phones: HTC Evo's, LG Optimus 2x's, an HTC Rezound, but I was the only one of all of them (like you said) to go out in mid 2011 and get that thing. I'll never regret it. Hell, at one time, I had the third highest score on all of Quadrant from overclocking. 1.6 GHz got me there, but it crashed after the test. And let's not forget that developer community! I had AOKP and SHOstock dual booting for about a year. I gradually got to use all the features of the Note 1, S3, and Note 2 without ever touching those devices. S2 Is the way to go.
I've got a Thl W200. It's the best phone I've ever had, was upgrading from an iPhone 4. Costed me $170 all together. (imported from here)
I have the special rare white HTC Evo 3d 3D Friends xD (imported from here) (imported from here) - - - Updated - - - *How Much smoother and better IOS was THEN TOUCHWIZ, Which is what your phone runs on, It's a skin on top of Android which is just a lag mess, Samsung cant make a decent skin, In that case IOS isn't cute either, I mean LOL It looks super FRUITY, I wish I would walk around with some fruit cake looking phone"Sarcasm" Enjoy swiping through the same boring apps all day IOS doesnt look right for guys (last time I checked guys are not into cute colorful pink,Purple rainbow colors)...
That's exactly why I didn't update to 7. I'm still on 6.something with an Iphone 5. One time this girl (attractive I might add) handed me her phone to take a picture of her and her friend downtown, and I looked like an idiot cause I didn't know how to work the thing. But when she asked me if I knew how to work it, I saw it was an iphone, and I was just like,"oh, yeah", and I didn't, and she had to show me how.And that is how ios 7 ruined my life.
I can't help but think iOS 7 has a certain camp feel to it. Don't like touchwiz on Samsung either. Wasn't a huge fan of sony's skin on my phone but I've gotten used to it and its not as terrible as iOS or touchwiz. I know I can change it, but I'm used to it now, might swap anyway. The ui was one of my favourite things on my old windows phone.
