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I just got mine yesterday. Its awesome.
Got mine.. love it but it feels like a freaking tablet compared to the Eris
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My 4 reason for getting a Rezound over the Nexus.
1. Better screen
2. Better camera
3. Build Quality (Nexus feels like a toy compared to the Rezound to me)
4. I actually like Sense.
I got my SGN on the 15th. It is soooo much better than the Eris. Of course it is also 2 years newer.
I really love ICS, it is quite a step up from Gingerbread. After using it the manufacturers are going to have to step up their game to compete. I see no reason to use an after market launcher with ICS.
Droid 3. I had a Bionic first, but had many problems with data with it. It's a common problem with all of the LTE phones at the moment, so I decided to get the best 3G phone that I could get (plus I wanted a world phone), so it was between the D3, the DInc2, and the iPhone 4S.
Love my new Galaxy Nexus!
Too many superlatives to list...now I've got an HTC, two Motorolas, and a Samsung device .
What will I get next year, LOL?
Cheers!
I moved to a fascinate bit had problems now I have a incredible 2 .my wife just became an i-tard so I am playing around with her x2.
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Got my Galaxy Nexus on launch day, Dec 15th, 3 days before my birthday.
Love, love, love it. Couldn't be happier. Little quirks here and there that could use fixing and a few things I miss from custom ROMs/launchers, but overall absolutely the best phone I have ever had.
Still keeping my Eris around as a music player/alarm clock though. Can't part with it!
Thinking about getting it, but I'm on the fence based on the various reviews.
By the time my thinking is done the next great phone will be announced and then what?
I went with the Galaxy Nexus. Huge step up for me from the Eris. I like how some of the above posters felt the need to justify their purchase over the Galaxy. Thats fine. Fact is they are all pretty great phones when your stepping up from something like an Eris. I loved my Eris but that hardware was seriously tired.
ICS was the main reason why I splurged. I hated to spend the money but ...Ice Cream Sandwich. Thats all I got to say about that.
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Thinking about getting it, but I'm on the fence based on the various reviews.
By the time my thinking is done the next great phone will be announced and then what?
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Then you pick up the Gnex for cheap and be happy with nice specd phone. Now a days its too hard keeping up with phones.
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Exactly. Trying to keep up with these new phones is like trying to keep up with video games or computers. As soon as you buy the top model, within a month there's a new hotness. I figure by the time my upgrade is available at the end of March there will be another 5-6 new Verizon phones, and so maybe the Nexus, Razr or Rezound upgrade prices will have dropped more by then.
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Exactly. Trying to keep up with these new phones is like trying to keep up with video games or computers. As soon as you buy the top model, within a month there's a new hotness. I figure by the time my upgrade is available at the end of March there will be another 5-6 new Verizon phones, and so maybe the Nexus, Razr or Rezound upgrade prices will have dropped more by then.
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Right. That said, though, there will not be another Nexus device until the next version of Android (whatever "J" will be.) Here's hoping that Verizon continues to sell them in the future.
I upgraded to Rezound, love this phone!
Well I've been on my thunderbolt and I must say I love this phone to death!<3 but the thing is... my original two year contract is up when I got the OG Droid. My question is
Is it worth purchasing the galaxy nexus?
Stick with nexus so you won't loss support for your smartphone as we saw from SE & Samsung for old phones
you can see youtube comparison
but If I were you I will wait s3
I am sure it will be the best phone ever made
at the end its up to you
I'm also eligible for an upgrade, but have held off on the GN. It should be a great device going forward, but it didn't seem that compelling to me yet to use my upgrade on it. I'm really interested in the Droid 4 (keyboard envy here), but I'm not sure.
After messing with the Rezound I am IMPRESSED to say the least.
My upgrade comes in March and the Rezound sounds perfect for what I want. I could careless about beats audio but everything else is top notch. When I messed with the Nexus it didn't nearly impress me as the Rezound did.
Galaxy Nexus. Tons of developer backing, awesome hardware, awesome build over all and ROMs galore at the moment. Can't put mine down
Galaxy Nexus. Better display and a lot of activity going on in that forum. Also newest updates from google.
Everything about the galexy nexus is better. But the new HTC resound is better than all of them ( with the exception of no AMOLED display). The MOTO Droid 4 is a good choice if you like the Droid 3 keyboard (I hate the Droid 3 keyboard, the Droid 2 one is much better) and or MOTO blur (MOTO blur is my lease favorite version of android). If it were up to me I would get the rezound becuase it has HTC sense 3.5. And there as a lot of develpment for that phone.
I have a Droid incredible 2. I would pay the 650 for the rezound but it will be outdated in a few months sooo.....
I will save my money until my next upgrade (2014)
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Google Android phone with Google support for at least 3 or more years > any other android phone.
In the long run, fresh software updates from the OEM will trump anything else (even better hardware).
Most of the Nexus Kernels havent done much to improve the kernel Google has put out for the Nexus so far just as an FYI.
Also, you won't see this for any non-nexus phone:
http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
You just flash them in fastboot and you have instant updates from Google.
Neither... Id wait a few more months before you make a decision. Galaxy nexus will not be the only phone with Ics in a few months. Give about a month or two before the thunderbolt has data working on the ics ports and an even beastlier phone will be out and you wont be mad about jumping the gun. Happened to me twice I learned my lesson. I'm gonna be a very patient verizon customer and wait for the Samsung galaxy journal or the htc edge to drop (if it comes to verizon). In the meantime, ill enjoy my grandfathered unlimited 4g while it lasts.
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What about the Razr Maxx?
Luke
Owned the TB and now the GNexus. Seriously like night and day this phone has everything a rooter would want. Google updates for a couple years, very devoted hacking community, dual core. This phone is the only phone on Verizon worth getting a 2 year contract with.
I just want to pitch in as a T-Bolt owner for 9 months. I am strongly considering a Galaxy Nexus (if not, a close second would be the Droid 4). My reason has been the vanilla-android appeal (as a former Nexus One owner, I can attest to really disliking Sense UI after a while), and the hardware (save for the camera, but I don't use it much anyway).
Any thoughts on ppl transitioning from T-Bolt to GN?
Considering the Thunderbolt is a outdated device and the Galaxy Nexus is pretty much the newest device out.. You can't really compare them..It's obvious I'd get the Nexus..and at this point I'd buy a Nexus S
http://androidcommunity.com/motorola-droid-fighter-spotted-looks-awfully-familiar-20120319/
Droid Fighter possibly due out in April? Anyone frustrated with Motorola about making a 720P 4.6" HD Razr Max w/ ICS so soon?
I feel like you never get to enjoy your Moto phone for long. And how can there be dev and community support when the same manufacturer and carrier keep coming out with upgraded versions every ten minutes. I have to admit sometimes I envy Apples once a year roadmap.
I used the razr for a while and follow threads on most high end phones. Full disclosure though, I am now rocking the nexus and I know that the SGS3 will come around soon, but at least I know there won't be another nexus around the corner. It sucks when you "love" a phone just to have it trumped (and if you are like me you buy the new one), and now you love that phone....for a little while anyway.
Dakota0206 said:
http://androidcommunity.com/motorola-droid-fighter-spotted-looks-awfully-familiar-20120319/
Droid Fighter possibly due out in April? Anyone frustrated with Motorola about making a 720P 4.6" HD Razr Max w/ ICS so soon?
I feel like you never get to enjoy your Moto phone for long. And how can there be dev and community support when the same manufacturer and carrier keep coming out with upgraded versions every ten minutes. I have to admit sometimes I envy Apples once a year roadmap.
I used the razr for a while and follow threads on most high end phones. Full disclosure though, I am now rocking the nexus and I know that the SGS3 will come around soon, but at least I know there won't be another nexus around the corner. It sucks when you "love" a phone just to have it trumped (and if you are like me you buy the new one), and now you love that phone....for a little while anyway.
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It's no different from Samsung.
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It's no different from Samsung.
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Ya they all do to some degree. But the X2 was beat by the bionic, that was beat by the razr, all in like 8 months on the same carrier. This year you already have the Maxx, which could be beat by April.
I'm just wondering if anyone feels a little jaded. I know I would.
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Yeah I just got my Maxx but I bought from amazon wireless and they have the 30 day return policy. If the Fighter comes out on the April 12 I should be able to exchange. I want a better screen with same battery. Who wouldn't?
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Ya they all do to some degree. But the X2 was beat by the bionic, that was beat by the razr, all in like 8 months on the same carrier. This year you already have the Maxx, which could be beat by April.
I'm just wondering if anyone feels a little jaded. I know I would.
Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Galaxy Nexus.
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I don't because that is going to be the case unless you're Apple or RIM. We all know RIM is going to go the way of Nokia so that just leaves Apple as a yearly producer. I am happy with my device and those that can afford a new one every six months will be happy too. My maxx in many ways is better than my laptop so I can't really complain.
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I'm ok with it. The MAXX's specs are great, the screen is great, battery is awesome. Only thing missing is the unlocked bootloader, no need or want to upgrade to fighter.
Hi everyone I'm curious to find out peoples history regarding smartphones and the reasons they may have chosen their next one...
1. Droid 1. Awesome phone great battery life awesome hackability...constant reboots and random hardware issues. Went through three of these with various hardware issues and eventually graduated to...
2. HTC Thunderbolt. Released before LTE efficiency and battery tech could catch up with each other. Fast as hell when configured properly and could still probably be a decent phone if oc'ed and running jelly bean. Eventually gave up on bloaty sense and the choked out development scene brought to us by either verizon or htc. (Probably the former).
3. Iphone 4...I know I know don't want to start a flame war. Gave up kickass 4g a nice big yet underwhelming screen and all of googles love to switch to the big evil apple...Like Adam and eve after the first bite I couldn't get enough. Top notch screen, brilliant responsiveness, great app ecosystem and ultimately good customisation if jailbroken. But it was all surface fluff... I missed my 4g and was worried about losing grandfathered unlimited data oj my next 4g phone so I jumped ship. I still think apple makes great products and there is something to be said about a closed ecosystem.
4. Rezound. Love this phone and now that chad has opened the floodgates to the amazing opportunities granted by aosp/cm/jb/miui////// I just can't wait to see what happens next. Thanks rezound community for sticking around and fostering good spirits through the bullsh** that is the verizon update process. I know we should just buy a phone for what it is at release and be happy, but all of us here see the true potential of our very powerful devices without bloated and antiquated gb sense. It's good to support it ourselves if the companies that sell it won't.
Yeesh I got a little lost and tangential or whatever but this is what I've been wondering about since I started flashing roms and hacking my devices. Now with chad bringing us what's really rilly ril I'm excited to hear about others journeys through the minefield of smartphone devices. Also excited I got a nexus 7 coming soon!
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OK, I'll play
1. Moto Q9C- wanted a phone that had a hardware keyboard and internet. It was either this or a BB, which had a higher data plan at the time (45 vs 30/ month)
2. TP2- got an upgrade after a year and got my first touchscreen device. Man that thing was a brick. Great phone to dev on, even made my own ROMs.
3. HD2- jumped to t-mobile due to issues with sprint. This phone was and is still a beast.
4. HD7- had to try the new windows phone. Would probably still be on it if t-mobile reception existed. Got out of 4 lines of t-mobile due to bad reception issues.
5. Thunderbolt- came down to 4g lte and android (which I wasn't a huge fan of) or the Trophy which had the windows phone I liked, but small screen and no lte. Think I made the right choice. Love windows phone, but verizon doesn't.
6. Rezound- opened a 5th line to get the rezound on penny sale through amazon. Great phone, no complaints. Don't care about aosp, don't think you should b!tch about something that didn't come stock on the phone. Still has great specs almost a year later.
7. who knows. When windows phone 8 comes out, if verizon gets one with good specs and lte, I might jump back. You definitely use your phone more on WP, than on Android where you spend half the day flashing and customizing.
I'll join in.
1. BlackBerry storm. Ugh
2. OG Droid. The phone that got me hooked on android.
3. Droid X. Great build quality and good development despite the locked bootloader.
4. Droid charge... Only droid I've seen that ran like my blackberry.
5. The rezound. Added a line and for it for a penny from Amazon. Promptly sold the charge and added a dumb phone to the second line.
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Well for me, I have a very short smartphone history so here it goes:
1. LG Ally - Didn't really get to pick the phone. After one of my sh*tty "feature" phones from vzw broke I looked around the house and found my moms old LG ally and used it for about 5 months. Loved that thing and hacked the sh*t out of it, loading up Roms like nobody's business. That's when I really fell in love with android.
2. HTC Rezound - when my upgrade came in December I picked the rezzy because it had kick ass specs and thought that it would get ICS shortly after release (which of course was NOT the case and this is the reason why many people got stuck with this phone). Overall I love it, and now thanks to chad who hung around through all the bs with the rezzy, we will shortly have CM9/10 as a daily driver.
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1) BlackBerry storm. what ^ said!!
2) Droid X. Loved it. Quality was fantastic and fun to customize despite the locked bootloader.
3) Droid Charge. Despised that piece of junk. Will never buy another Samsung phone again.
4) Rezound. Got Verizon to switch me to this as a warranty replacement for my Charge.
5) Plan on picking up the new iphone whenever it comes out.
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My first smartphone. Previous one was a Pantech Jest. Prior experience with Android includes Archos 32 (Eclair/Froyo) and HP Touchpad (CM7/CM9). Next I'll probably get the next generation Nexus, or maybe the one after that.
1.) Palm Centro
2.) Droid eris
3.) Samsung fascinate
4.) Droid inc 2
5.) Rezound
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1.First smartphone was the droid eris, used it a couple months and my uncle convinced me to hack it and actually liked the phone, ready to slap jb on it again
2. I had to get put on a different contract n got stuck with a moto citrus, poc phone, hated it
3. Samsung Galaxy S Continuum, replaced my citrus for free after 4 citrus and then went back to my eris after esn cleared
4. Rezound, i called up vzn about my mic going bad on my eris, guy felt bad n upgraded me to rezound been here since temp root, came alooong way n this is the greatest phone ever, s off n everything
5. Acer Iconia A500 running JB
Motorola Devour: Small screen, iffy build quality, underpowered android phone. Picked it up on a whim and started my smart phone journey
Motorola Droid X: Great phone, great build quality, loved having physical buttons. First phone that I rooted and rommed
Motorola Droid X2: This phone had potential (IMHO) but Moto dropped support for it unfortunately. Also suffered the curse of having 512mb RAM... seriously MOTO??? If given another chance I would not purchase this phone again (currently my backup if the Rezound dies)
HTC Rezound: Was looking forward to this phone for months and I love it. Quick, beautiful screen, able to accept a 64gb microsd card, and now s-offed so I can do with it what I want.
Future maybe:
HTC DLX: possible quad core, 5" 1080p screen.... drool
1. LG Voyager...dropped in water..
2. DROID 2 global.....very slow and got very hot....
3. HTC Droid Incredible....returned droid 2...i liked htc sense to much
4. HTC EVO 3D...bought to develop on nice phone....sold it like 2 days ago
5. HTC Rezound....HTC Droid Incredible was slow and old now needed upgrade
6. HTC Thunderbolt....i lost it...somewere my house lol
7. HP Touchpad wanted a tablet
8. Google Galaxy Nexus...needed a daily phone...
9. Nexus 7 .....sold my touchpad for it...
You're going to like that Nexus 7. I had to get a new one because of screen lift on mine, but other than that, it is great. I worked out of town all week, and left the laptop home, just took my rezound, and my nexus 7.
HTC 6700 (got old)
HTC 6800 touch (got old)
HTC Desire (left cellcom)
HTC EVO (gave to wife)
B&N Nook Color (still have)
HTC EVO 3d (got rid of sprint)
Sammy gallexy nexus (sammy radios suck)
HTC Rezound (still have)
Asus prime (junk, asus bought it back)
Asus Nexus 7 (defective, screen lift)
Asus Nexus 7 (still have)
Wife also had
sammy transform (junk)
HTC evo (got rid of sprint)
HTC rezound (still have)
Asus prime (junk asus bought it back)
Asus nexus 7 (still have)
Kid also had
B&N nook color (passed down from me)
Asus Nexus 7 (still have)
Yeah I'm excited to see the possibilities of unlimited 4g tethering on a snappy tablet. I'm glad I got grandfathered in to the cloud future!
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GoBlue13 said:
1) BlackBerry storm. what ^ said!!
2) Droid X. Loved it. Quality was fantastic and fun to customize despite the locked bootloader.
3) Droid Charge. Despised that piece of junk. Will never buy another Samsung phone again.
4) Rezound. Got Verizon to switch me to this as a warranty replacement for my Charge.
5) Plan on picking up the new iphone whenever it comes out.
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you know the new iPhone is the same exact thing, only with a slightly taller screen right?
1. Samsung Omnia i910
2. HTC Incredible
3. HTC Rezound
Alright My turn!
HTC Sensation: frickin amazing phone. Beautiful design, nice qHD (best at the time I got it) screen, HSPA, beautiful design, curved glass, great development (never really got I to development on this one tho ) oh did I mention a beautiful design? It was the perfect phone. However, T-Mobile has the WORST service in my area so I returned it after 2 weeks :'(
HTC Rezound: The sensation got me really in to HTC so I wanted to get an HTC for my phone I was going to keep, I knew verizon had good signal in my area so I wanted to go with them. I saw the Galaxy Nexus at the announcement in November and wanted the Nexus (Epic foreshadowing), and was horribly disappointed with the iPhone announcement a month earlier in October, but when the Rezound was on sale for a penny on amazon, PLUS 4Gb of data, I had to spring. It was a meh phone, lacked development and jelly bean wa just announced, so I found a sucker on Craigslist and traded it for a...
Galaxy Nexus: Awesome phone. Amazing screen, size design. Best phone I ever owned. Better than the sensation even, and I never thought I would say that. With CM9 it's amazing and as soon as cm10 RC1 pops up, I'm flashing that.
iPhone 2G: Never Activated. Bought on eBay just to play around with, keep me content with the mess that was the HTC ReZound. Installed Android 2.3.3 on it and Jailbroke and Unlocked the iOS side of it. It's fun to play with but definitely shows it's age
HTC DROID Incredible: never activated. Bought on Craigslist So i can get I to development a little. What an amazing little thing. I like to use it more than any of my other phones. A little slower than the other things so not a daily driver but it's so fun to tweak, and I can get a week of battery life out of that thing.
iPad 3 16GB VZW 4G: wanted a tablet, android tablets just weren't up to par at the time, so I picked this up. I love it. Hell I'm using it now. The display is really what made me choose it over an android. Preordered it and it arrived on my doorstep on launch day, Mar 14. Running a beta of iOS 6 right now and I have Siri on it.
So that's the history of all my smartphones and tablets
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Tl;dr
Sensation: bad service switched to..
Rezound: not so good phone switched to...
Galaxy nexus: amazing phone will keep for the rest of my contract
Side/Dev phones:
iPhone 2G
HTC DInc
Tablet: iPad 3
1) old school blackberry pearl > decent at its time
2) old blackberry curve > also decent at its time.
3) T-Mobile mytouch 3g (HTC magic 32b) > got this for free from my girlfriends aunt. Rooted it the second day I got it, bricked it and spent 12hrs straight fixing it. Its my main phone currently.
4) Droid Incredible > girlfriends moms. I play around with it and hack on it, awesome phone for its age.
Tablets
1) Archos 80G9 1.0ghz > piece of junk but with an OMAP 4430 soc, it was the best tablet for its price. Cheap build and crappy buggy firmware. That broke, sent to RMA and got a free upgrade to...
2) Archos 80G9 1.5ghz > much faster with the OMAP 4460 and 1gb ram, still crappy firmware and not much development past stock firmware. Awesome dev community though, best community I've seen on XDA. Of course all the awesome ROMs comes out after it broke again. I gave up and bought a...
3) Asus Nexus 7 > awesome tablet! I love it and can't get enough of it!
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Shano56 said:
1) old school blackberry pearl > decent at its time
2) old blackberry curve > also decent at its time.
3) T-Mobile mytouch 3g (HTC magic 32b) > got this for free from my girlfriends aunt. Rooted it the second day I got it, bricked it and spent 12hrs straight fixing it. Its my main phone currently.
4) Droid Incredible > girlfriends moms. I play around with it and hack on it, awesome phone for its age.
Tablets
1) Archos 80G9 1.0ghz > piece of junk but with an OMAP 4430 soc, it was the best tablet for its price. Cheap build and crappy buggy firmware. That broke, sent to RMA and got a free upgrade to...
2) Archos 80G9 1.5ghz > much faster with the OMAP 4460 and 1gb ram, still crappy firmware and not much development past stock firmware. Awesome dev community though, best community I've seen on XDA. Of course all the awesome ROMs comes out after it broke again. I gave up and bought a...
3) Asus Nexus 7 > awesome tablet! I love it and can't get enough of it!
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Awesome avatar dude :good:
1) LG Env3 it was my first smarter than a dumb phone
2) Samsung fascinate by first android device, paid 200 for it off of Craigs list. had to wait a long time for froyo but the developers stayed with it and now its running jelly bean. its my current back up.
3) HTC Rezound my second android device bought it for 200 back in February because i wanted a dual core phone that had a nice screen and the 4G speeds with no data limit. still bone stock because i was going to wait for the ota.
4) HTC Thunderbolt got it for 100 of craigs list because my dads droid x's screen went out and he needed my fassy, it was already running cm7 when i bought it and it was pretty quick for having such a crappy gpu.
Tablet
Samsung galaxy tab 7.0 wifi was very dissapointed that it had a omap 3625 instead of the hummingbird. no devs no roms no gingerbread in U.S so i flashed the UK version of gingerbread and now it works great
Oh, let's see if I can remember all of them...
1) iPhone 2G. My very first smartphone.
2) iPhone 3G. Got it simply because I was eligible for upgrade and I like new things.
3) iPhone 3GS. Same as above.
4) Nexus One, my first android smartphone. I loved the design of this thing. All aluminium phones will always have a soft spot in my heart. It's a fairly refreshing to get away from the plastic-dominated phones every once in awhile. I wish more phones would have less plastic and more metal.
5) iPhone 4. What can I say...I didn't have my Nexus One for long. It wasn't that I didn't truly enjoy my Nexus One. It was just that, after having iPhones three times in a row, I was still a little enamored with it, so I got sucked in to the iPhone 4 when it came out mainly because it was new and shiny. Didn't last long, though.
6) Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S). I only had my iPhone 4 for a month. It only took that long for me to realize that I truly did enjoy Android more. Somewhat unfortunately, I had already sold my Nexus One by the time I had realized this, so I opted for the then recently released Captivate. I started with tweaks and custom ROMs right out of the gate. I remember that the Captivate, for some reason, was formatted using RFS or something, so the biggest tweak around was reformatting to EXT2 or EXT4 for much better I/O performance.
7) HTC EVO 4G. This was what solidified HTC as one of my favorite phone manufacturers. I felt that the Nexus One was a very well designed phone and the EVO drove it home for me. Didn't have a single issue with that phone. I remember getting it because Sprint had just come out with 4G. I use my phone primarily for data services so I thought 4G would be a great move. It turned out that WiMAX sucks and that Sprint, in general, wasn't as good coverage and 3G data speed-wise as I had come to expect with AT&T. Neither of those points were against the phone, though, which I thought was excellent.
8) HTC EVO Shift 4G. After having (what was that, 7?) all touch screen phones I decided to try one with a physical keyboard to see if I liked it. I had the phone for less than a month. The physical keyboard felt terrible to me. I don't think it was the keyboard on the Shift itself that was the problem. I think that I had become too accustomed to touch screen keyboards. I was way slower at typing on the physical keyboard. I returned the phone and went back to my regular EVO.
9) Motorola Atrix 4G. I got this phone primarily because Dual Core was the next big thing and because I wanted to switch back to AT&T from Sprint (see #7 as to why). I had no complaints against the phone itself. It performed very well. There was, for awhile, a bit of a snafu about Motorola's bootloader unlocking policy at the time. The Atrix bootloader was eventually unlocked, but if I remember right it was due to a leak and not an official source.
10) Motorola Bionic. So from Sprint, back to AT&T, and then to my first time with Verizon. The reason here was similar to my EVO: Verizon had just launched 4G LTE in my area and I was excited about the prospect of much higher data speeds. Where as Sprint's 4G was a disappointment for me, Verizon really blew it out of the water. I was satisfied with my Bionic at first, but there were some issues with 4G. It would drop 4G far more often than my coworker's phones (Samsung Charge and HTC Thunderbolt) even though we were in the very same place. There were also issues with data hand off between 4G and 3G and even issues with data dropping out entirely. Many people at the Verizon community forums were reporting the same things. Eventually, I got to the point where I was no longer confident that Motorola would fix these issues in a timely manner.
11) Samsung Galaxy Nexus. I wanted to love this phone, I really did. I switched off my Bionic because of the issues I mentioned. I loved the idea of having a Nexus device. Getting timely and guaranteed updates to the latest Android seemed like a blessing. I loved the size of the screen, the way it looked, the performance...I even liked how it felt despite many people calling Samsung phones "plasticy." It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, though. I switched my Bionic because I felt like my 4G LTE connectivity wasn't as good as it should be. Turns out my Bionic's reception was actually leaps and bounds better than the Galaxy Nexus. I had the Nexus for three weeks and reception was down right horrid. In those three weeks I saw 4G LTE in my notification bar maybe a grand total of 3 or 4 times. It was a drastic and noticeable drop from my Bionic. The phone averaged about 20% time spent without a signal. It was terrible. It was sad because I literally liked everything else about the phone.
12) HTC Rezound. As I said, I kept my Galaxy Nexus for only 3 weeks because of terrible reception. When I switched it out for the Rezound it was like night and day. The Rezound immediately connected to and held on to 4G LTE far more often and for longer. I went from being on 3G a majority of the time with my Nexus to having it the other way around. My Rezound would (and does) pick up 4G most of the time while at work. It only drops down to 3G occasionally. Also, where as my Nexus averaged 20% time spent without a signal, the Rezound was and is 0% in comparison. After getting the Rezound I couldn't believe how terrible the Nexus' radio was in comparison. I'm not sure if Samsung or Google ever managed to fix those problems with software. I just know that I didn't want to hang on to it and hope.
Aaaaaand...that's it! My last and current smartphone is the HTC Rezound. I'll admit, I was and maybe still am (a little) tempted by the Galaxy S3 but...well, the terrible reception on the Galaxy Nexus has still left a bit of a bad impression in my mind as far as Samsung phones go. I think Google should go back to HTC for the Nexus phones
I have always been with Verizon since I was 18 and I am now 26. I won't start with the dumb phones since those don't really count...
1. Motorola Q
2. LG Ally (returned and got Droid X instead.)
3. Droid X (I really loved this phone. I might look online or Craigslist to buy another one to setup on my home theater as a media player )
4. HTC Incredible (bought this on Craigslist. Wanted to try CM7 because Droid X didn't have it at the time.)
5. HTC Thunderbolt (traded the Droid.X and Incredible together to someone for this Thunderbolt)
6. IPhone 4S (my brother messed up his phone and needed a new one but didn't have an upgrade. He offered me $200 for my Thunderbolt and I went ahead and figured I would try out an iPhone 4S. I loved the build quality and the selection of apps, but I just missed Android and preferred all of the customization and roms.
7. HTC Rezound (Traded the 4S and don't regret it one bit.)
If you were to get a new phone right now, what would you get?
I've had this htc evo lte since it's released and im due for an upgrade soon. I had the evo before and i really like how htc's are built, however i rarely run sense and sense seems laggy to me. I went over to the sprint store and checked out some new phones they have. the main things im debating are:
-Active Development
-Good Specs
-price
So with this, i was considering the lg g2, but looked at their developement, and it was verry verry quiet, but their specs are better than the nexus 5. also i wasnt crazy about the rear buttons on the g2.
I saw the samsung mega and htc one max, maybe a little too big for me, if i was in college again, maybe i'd do it, but i work full time now.
I was considering the htc one, but that phone seems old now.
the nexus 5 is cheap enough where i wouldnt want to waste my upgrade on that phone, where i can get a $600-$700 phone with my upgrade.
what do you guys think? if you were to get a new phone right now, what would you get?
I would get a Nexus.
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Yep definitely the N5.
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seems like the nexus 5 is the next one to be!
Is sprint getting the G Flex? If so, I'd get that
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Yea but being an LG I don't think there is going to be much development on it. With the S4 Note 3 Moto X and the N5 on Sprint.
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"the nexus 5 is cheap enough where i wouldnt want to waste my upgrade on that phone, where i can get a $600-$700 phone with my upgrade."
I would get the $500. to $700 phone and pretend you got a better phone than the Nexus 5.
Your friends will think you're than man having the high dollar phone!