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I have been reading the nexus forums, and I just have to LOL.
I seem to remember a ton of people saying "why buy the rezound when the 'superior' google nexus is right around the corner.
seems like they are having issues with screen banding, the phone is very slick and hard to hold. Many people are having battery life issues. The browser is hard to use, there is a volume issue that automatically turns off the volume. It gets hot while using. etc.
just goes to show that every phone has "issues", and you have to pick your poison.
im SO GLAD to be with you guys and on the rezound and when we get ICS the nexus people will be jumping ship
Thats wht they get. That phone is too big for me anyway. I got the rezound soon after release after waiting for months. Like u said pick your poison. The only issue ive had was for some reason the phone decided not to boot up n i hd to do a factory reset. But its bn ok e er since besides the usual htc incredible glitches which i am used to. The size is borderline too big for me but im loving this phone. Cant wait for ICS upgrade
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Just got my rezound yesterday, and I must say I made the right choice. Build quality is at its finest. Coming from the thunderbolt great improvement. Only thing the nexus galaxy has is ics .
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Anyone know what the timeline for the ICS update is?
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I would have gotten the nexus anyway, but I have a rezound now because I just couldn't justify spending ~$300 for a nexus on contract when I could get the Rezound for free with amazon's deal.
So far I'm happy with the Rezound, although I wish the battery was better. I'm used to my Galaxy S lasting almost 2 days.
You do realize that these issues are related to the gsm device and may not be problems on the cdma/lte version since it's different hardware.
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You do realize that these issues are related to the gsm device and may not be problems on the cdma/lte version since it's different hardware.
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sure, we will see tho ive yet to see a flawless android phone
I may have been dreaming as I was surfing the net half asleep last night right before bed, but anyway...I read that the Nexus Volume bug has been acknowledged by Google/Samsung and it is software related not hardware, an update to fix the problem will be released soon. That's the Good thing about Nexus phones, as soon as their is a problem it gets resolved fast.
Btw the volume bug is only on GSM phones in the UK using 900mhz band or something like that. Wouldn't affect Verizon CDMA version.
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sure, we will see tho ive yet to see a flawless android phone
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HTC evo 4g running aosp.
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I may have been dreaming as I was surfing the net half asleep last night right before bed, but anyway...I read that the Nexus Volume bug has been acknowledged by Google/Samsung and it is software related not hardware, an update to fix the problem will be released soon. That's the Good thing about Nexus phones, as soon as their is a problem it gets resolved fast.
Btw the volume bug is only on GSM phones in the UK using 900mhz band or something like that. Wouldn't affect Verizon CDMA version.
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From what I've read it's a hardware issue corrected by a software fix.
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Serinety said:
sure, we will see tho ive yet to see a flawless android phone
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When have you ever seen a genuinely flawless phone, period?
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When have you ever seen a genuinely flawless phone, period?
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Exactly my point. This is a "ha ha" post to the people who said the rezound was a pointless buy with the nexus coming out.
Basicly saying every aspect of the nexus was better than the rezound. And now it seems as the playing field has been leveled.
I will have no problem returning the rezound for the nexus nothing aganist this device it feels well built and a decent phone. i do not like sense and a little unsure about how the rooting process goes for htc.
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I will have no problem returning the rezound for the nexus nothing aganist this device it feels well built and a decent phone. i do not like sense and a little unsure about how the rooting process goes for htc.
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You do know that the Verizon Nexus is going to be bloated as well right? I wouldn't be surprised if they forced Google to lock the bootloader too. It's pretty easy to root HTC phones once S-Off has been achieved. S-off has been achieved apparently, now we're just waiting for proof.
I am on the fence with what to do. The rezound has surprised me and is better than I thought it would be. Will have to see the nexus first. It will probably have better dev support due to the gsm version. And official ROM updates should be more timely than HTC is.
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I am on the fence with what to do. The rezound has surprised me and is better than I thought it would be. Will have to see the nexus first. It will probably have better dev support due to the gsm version. And official ROM updates should be more timely than HTC is.
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The gsm version likely won't impact the dev work for our version. It never really did for the galaxy s anyway.
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Why would anyone be happy that someone else is having problems with the device they bought? They're ****ing phones. Everyone should try to be a big ol' family.
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Why would anyone be happy that someone else is having problems with the device they bought? They're ****ing phones. Everyone should try to be a big ol' family.
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Seriously. I have a problem with Apple mostly because of the machead fanboys attitudes and now I get an Android phone and see this fanboy **** over different android phones. Seems silly and stupid to me. Everyone has their own needs and preferences. Who ****ing cares? Just worry about your own phone. If we all posted what cars we drive would people act the same way?
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Why would anyone be happy that someone else is having problems with the device they bought? They're ****ing phones. Everyone should try to be a big ol' family.
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Cause we must destory the Nexus trolls.
The Nexus is the iPhail of the Android world, and all of the unwarranted hype surrounding it is proof.
Here is the link. Please let you voice and displeasure be heard!!!!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/enable-multi-view-multi-window-for-north-america/
lol
Lol, nice.
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not to sound like a total douche, but what do you think the petition will accomplish? I mean we already gave them money, most of us are still locked into a contract. Neither Sammy or AT&T have any reason to accommodate us.
Dunno, just my thoughts.
Devs are hard at work on it... and I am sure it will come much, much faster than a silly petition.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41125683&postcount=40
Just trying to have a little fun fellas ...:laugh:
Do I really think Samsung will listen? You never know
However I do have more faith in XDA Devs than Samsung and AT&T for getting this feature turned on for us.
At least has being proactive (even though nothing will come from this) instead of whining about it and opening thread after thread.
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Let him do his thing, you never know.
My boss got a 15k bill written off from a Vegas Hotel, how you may ask? By complaining. Go ahead man do your thing.
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Let him do his thing, you never know.
My boss got a 15k bill written off from a Vegas Hotel, how you may ask? By complaining. Go ahead man do your thing.
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15K?!? I didn't know you can put hookers on your tab
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Kids basketball team tournament.
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At least has being proactive (even though nothing will come from this) instead of whining about it and opening thread after thread.
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Even though nothing will come from this ..................you don't know that pockets
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Well, before the fervor over the JB release, the reason we didn't have multiview was our video hardware limitation.
But I have used ICS apps with floating windows, so at least that's possible.
Thanks - signed the petition. I cant believe they could ding us like this. Our device is not even that old to begin with cmon Samsung dont shortchange your customers.
True Shane if I could tell the future I'd be a far richer man then I am now
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to discourage the op I like the fact that he is trying to help we need more of that round here. But petitions take a long time and the results are mix see blamesamsung. I think that before we have any action at this ptmr3 big or nun will get it done. so yes I don't know
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True Shane if I could tell the future I'd be a far richer man then I am now
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to discourage the op I like the fact that he is trying to help we need more of that round here. But petitions take a long time and the results are mix see blamesamsung. I think that before we have any action at this ptmr3 big or nun will get it done. so yes I don't know
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Totally agree with you .......we saw how petitions work with the whole unlocking our device thing .. I'm sure everyone remembers that
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Gotta Be Mobile article
Still having fun...petition got mentioned in this article...
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/05/08/att-galaxy-note-jelly-bean-problems/
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Kids basketball team tournament.
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This is all besides the point, but this feature was promised to us so we should get what was promised and as far as i know misguiding people or misleading them to believe something is for sure just to make a sale is against the law, anyways that is what happened to me. Hopefully they are forced into this.
In the first place the international device was updated with the enact same thing (Jellybean 4.1.2 Update) only they did in fact receive multiwindow on their device. What is the problem? why is this such a complicated thing for them to do? if they did it for one device they should be able to do it with our American Version device. I think they get Customers hopes up, show them how the multitasking/multiwindow would perform on their device, and most importantly what exactly is multitasking and the benefit of the feature. Then you have numerous customers that are very interested and eager on having this feature, but personally i think they do it on purpose so they can force customers to buy a more expensive device that is mufti-window compatible. Just to get them into another phone that's more expensive and to get as much money out of them as quickly as they can, that's how i see it, why else would they have such a big issue putting it on our device? i'm sure it's not nearly as impossible as they are making it seem.
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This is all besides the point, but this feature was promised to us so we should get what was promised and as far as i know misguiding people or misleading them to believe something is for sure just to make a sale is against the law, anyways that is what happened to me. Hopefully they are forced into this.
In the first place the international device was updated with the enact same thing (Jellybean 4.1.2 Update) only they did in fact receive multiwindow on their device. What is the problem? why is this such a complicated thing for them to do? if they did it for one device they should be able to do it with our American Version device. I think they get Customers hopes up, show them how the multitasking/multiwindow would perform on their device, and most importantly what exactly is multitasking and the benefit of the feature. Then you have numerous customers that are very interested and eager on having this feature, but personally i think they do it on purpose so they can force customers to buy a more expensive device that is mufti-window compatible. Just to get them into another phone that's more expensive and to get as much money out of them as quickly as they can, that's how i see it, why else would they have such a big issue putting it on our device? i'm sure it's not nearly as impossible as they are making it seem.
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Show me where on Samsung's website, their official press release of the update or the product page that says we were to get multi-window.
Just because sites reported it but were wrong does not make it a promise from Samsung. SamMobile is not Samsing and doesn't report on their behalf.
So no false advertising is present. Samsung did not mis-represent nothing. It was 3rd party websites that made the error. So the claim against them would be thrown out on that alone.
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You're refuting a, what appears to be roughly 16 year old girl, with logic. As someone who's paid to teach 16 year old girls, I can tell you, your task is futile.
^^^^ Lmao
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See poll above
Unlikely
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I hate polls you can't see them on Tapatalk. But I think it looks like all we will ever have is root.
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Do you guys know what a self-fulfilling prophecy is? Honestly, I think it will happen, ive learned a lot just so I can try to help solve this too. The more negative people are about it though the less likely people will be to discuss it or be motivated to do it.
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Realistically the only people "qualified" to answer this question would be a developer working on this. Anything a normal user says is pure speculation.
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I don't mind speculation.
If enough of us wish for it to happen than maybe it will (remember Peter Pan?)
There's a way around everything.
Self fulfilling prophecy theory is lame. Not only is it fake but a lazy way to think. The only ones who can figure it out are the ones trying to hack it. The rest of the people can think whatever they want. They have no impact on it happening or not.
With that said I do not believe this will be unlocked. The beauty of design in this thing limits the amount of roads one can take to attack it. Its never been cracked and its been tried for well over a year spanning multiple devices. We only had a *unlock* because of leaked info. That's it. If that didn't happen we would all have nothing.
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I am optimistic but honestly I will likely be on the next device GN3 or something else long before it happens. Yet I still offered up my money to help motivate those who can get it done.
Odds Key Lime Pie for S4 happens?
As a previous Verizon user, I don't see this being unlocked.. Sorry
Not holding my breath. Anyone like to purchase a brand new GS4? I will never buy another phone before doing some homework. Good luck to those trying.
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The real question isn't will it be unlocked (it won't be). It's will a leaked unlocked bootloader become available.
This is basically bad new for anyone wanting a phone with SDcard support and an unlocked boot loader in the future on VZW or AT&T. Samsung is the only SD option now... And it looks like they've got this boot loader thing locked down (no pun intended), at least when it comes up Qualcomm. If the Note 3 uses an s800, I don't see why the boot loader situation would be any different from the S4 and S4 active...
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Vote with your goddamned wallets!
I hate to also be the voice of reason but the sad reality is that this booting processes is sealed up tight and it's all Verizon's doing. I'm here for my room mate who hates his stock S4 with a passion but absolutely loves my CM10.x+OC S4...I just switched from Sprint to T-Mobile, for networks. I considered Verizon and ATT but having had friends with Verizon phones (Motos especially) over the past few years I knew that it was nearly pointless, save for a leaked engineering/unlocked signed bootloader or 1 chance at an exploit on release-day firmware before it was sealed up tight and likely for good.
It's not that I have no hope, there's always a chance and there is always a way...but with each successive breach of such a system the next iteration becomes exponentially more difficult to overcome.
I stuck with Sprint's haggard network for years because I knew they didn't give phone hackers a hard time. I switched to T-Mobile because I did my research and found the same. HTC capitulated on their new locked and encryption signed bootloaders after the EVO3D debacle a few years back.
As for my new Samsung Galaxy S4? I had my phone for 20 minutes before I flashed a custom recovery and had a CM10.1 nightly running with a custom 2.2ghz OC kernel that comes with tons of governors, tons of IO schedulers...on light use with screen turned down low, OC'd to 135mhz/2.1ghz I can get almost 2 days out of my phone and it is smooth as effing silk like no phone I've ever seen...and I've had no wakelock problems.
This phone screams.
Am I bragging? Sure...but not to hurt your feelings. I'm sick of companies acting like THEY own the computer that YOU bought for YOUR pocket. I'm bragging to enrage you.
Vote with your goddamned wallets. I did when HTC wouldn't unload their bootlockers (lol), and Samsung will forever have my business unless they start that crap too (or their phones start to suck)....same goes for T-Mobile. (Protip: stick to the underdogs. You get far better customer service and far more leeway...when you are #1 and #2 you appear to not need to try anymore and treating your customers like idiot children and criminals is somehow acceptable).
This isn't Samsung's doing...ask any Sprint, T-Mobile or international model owners.
Vote with your goddamned wallets.
I wish the best to you my brethren. Good luck and happy hacking.
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Yeah I agree...I'm sorry for starting it
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Yeah I agree...I'm sorry for starting it
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Lol.
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I wouldn't give out hope. The Droid dna took ages but they finally got it. Sometimes it just takes time. Be patient.
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True, but sometimes the trip the way around is so long, almost nobody will care in the end.
If sales aren't high enough to satisfy Samsung, may this Mega be our first and last one??
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It's starting to look that way
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Sadly I would not expect to see another one.It seems to me that a lot of people just laugh it of as a gimmick device.
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Sadly I would not expect to see another one.It seems to me that a lot of people just laugh it of as a gimmick device.
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So, presumably, we would from the Mega to the Note 4 in a year or so??
(I know that this is all speculation and a lot will change in a year)
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If samsung makes it with a little better specs and maybe an anoled screen I cannot see why they shouldn't make a mega 2 as they had good success with this mega..but this mega is awesome already and it can only improve if a mega 2 does happen to come out. ..but only time will tell.
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Sadly I would not expect to see another one.It seems to me that a lot of people just laugh it of as a gimmick device.
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Agreed. Look at the activity on this forum. Doesn't seem to be a lot of us.
This phone will never get the respect it deserves because of the mid-range specs. People will never know until they actually play with one :/
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Agreed. Look at the activity on this forum. Doesn't seem to be a lot of us.
This phone will never get the respect it deserves because of the mid-range specs. People will never know until they actually play with one :/
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Exactly. Probably the first smartphone which disproves how specs on paper can be misleading and not tell the whole story about actual, discernable performance.
My Mega is just as snappy as my former S4.
Sadly, we may or may not ever see another here in the US. However, I'm sure that in a year or so, we will be talking about flexible displays anyway so...
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This phone is a sleeper hit. I think there will be a Mega 2 next year.
I think there would likely be a mega 2. Samsung has to keep producing not only high end but also midrange phones to remain competitive.
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I think there would likely be a mega 2. Samsung has to keep producing not only high end but also midrange phones to remain competitive.
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I hope so, but then we also have to hope that it comes again to AT&T. I'm just afraid that AT&T may not be selling enough of them to warrant a second one in their lineup.
Again, this is just speculative paranoia, but you never know and we know how much is going to change in a year or more.
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Lets remember whilst we know the specs and what they me average joe doesent know the diff between snapdragon this or exynos that. 8t wont sell well compared to the others purely because its too big for the majority of users most people have called it a tablet when they seen it. So anyone walking into the shop and see this next to normal phones they will probably stray away from it. Unlike peeps like us who do believe bigger is better
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i think yes, we will see but not better than what we have already now. Samsung released this mega in rush without big announcement before, it was in exact time when Huawei released their ascend mate. also the development for this device i don't think it will run good since Samsung don't want that.
Samsung releasing some hybrid devices only to exam the market from our pockets and to say we are here then they kill these devices and kill the people who screwed and owned them. exactly as same what happened for Galaxy tab 7.7 which did not repeated and did not get any update or custom roms for more than a year.
Their loss, my gain. Maybe I should buy 2 for when this one dies. Although that doesn't look like any time soon AT ALL. lol
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This phone is a sleeper hit. I think there will be a Mega 2 next year.
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VERY true, up here in BC, Canada, I have only seen one person throughout my university campus with a Mega, everyone else is rocking a stupid iphone (dont understand the sillyness of one), I've seen only a handful of windows phones, and 2 Bberry's
Still saving up my pennies so I can get a Mega, the bad thing is the limited dual-core inside of it. It isn't BAD but a quad-core would make the phone way better. I love large phones.
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VERY true, up here in BC, Canada, I have only seen one person throughout my university campus with a Mega, everyone else is rocking a stupid iphone (dont understand the sillyness of one), I've seen only a handful of windows phones, and 2 Bberry's
Still saving up my pennies so I can get a Mega, the bad thing is the limited dual-core inside of it. It isn't BAD but a quad-core would make the phone way better. I love large phones.
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You'll be surprised how snappy this thing is. Trust me.
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I second that the mega is really fast indeed.
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You'll be surprised how snappy this thing is. Trust me.
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I second that the mega is really fast indeed.
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Hey, if the Sony is bigger, runs android, is unique (i know no one with a sony device), and is quaaaad core, i dont see why not
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_may_be_building_1_million_galaxy_mega_58s-news-5849.php
I hope they make another I would love to see a full 1080p screen this big
I was in an ATT store today. 3 of the 5 sales peeps were rocking Megas.
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Damn app crashed before I could write anything ! Anyway I've had this phone for three years now and the devs went silent for awhile and now there's tons of interest back in it , the Note OG still rocks , I had a note 2 but got a divorce and lost it only had my note and it stil rocks , might get a s3 .
What phone (not new ) would be a worthy replacement for my Note? I haven't had anything but Samsung (in android and windows phones ) just curious ?
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Take time to do your research and buy what suits you the best. Read all the threads to help.