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Hey all I'm new to this gig so bare with me.
I currently have a Verizon 16gb iPhone 4, exquisite condition if I may add, with a ZAGG shield and the works. I have been offered the following exchanges/options:
1: A straight-up exchange for an HTC Rezound (with iBeats) that is in 9/10 condition
2: A new Galaxy Nexus for $350 and I'd have to obviously sell my iPhone separately
Your mission, should you choose to except it, is to provide me with opinions as to what you would do. Keep the iPhone, do the straight-up trade, or get the Nexus and sell the phone.
Thanks all!
New phone is a new phone man That's what i'm thinking
hasaki said:
Hey all I'm new to this gig so bare with me.
I currently have a Verizon 16gb iPhone 4, exquisite condition if I may add, with a ZAGG shield and the works. I have been offered the following exchanges/options:
1: A straight-up exchange for an HTC Rezound (with iBeats) that is in 9/10 condition
2: A new Galaxy Nexus for $350 and I'd have to obviously sell my iPhone separately
Your mission, should you choose to except it, is to provide me with opinions as to what you would do. Keep the iPhone, do the straight-up trade, or get the Nexus and sell the phone.
Thanks all!
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use the iPhone for kindling...
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burn the iPhone... Rezound for mind
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I'm pretty new to the android world but from what I've seen the more popular the device the more support it has from the developer community. I say Galaxy nexus or better yet the galaxy S2
hasaki said:
Hey all I'm new to this gig so bare with me.
I currently have a Verizon 16gb iPhone 4, exquisite condition if I may add, with a ZAGG shield and the works. I have been offered the following exchanges/options:
1: A straight-up exchange for an HTC Rezound (with iBeats) that is in 9/10 condition
2: A new Galaxy Nexus for $350 and I'd have to obviously sell my iPhone separately
Your mission, should you choose to except it, is to provide me with opinions as to what you would do. Keep the iPhone, do the straight-up trade, or get the Nexus and sell the phone.
Thanks all!
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Get the Nexus and sell the phone
I'd say that it really depends on how much you've invested into your iphone. If you've bought a considerable number of apps from apple already it may be advantageous to keep your iphone. If you would prefer to change it over to an android (which is what I personally recommend) I would recommend the Nexus just because it is more popular which (as abukh86 pointed out) will give you more support online.
Personally I'd vote Nexus
If he did his homework he should already know there is no choice. galaxy
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If you're looking for development, the Nexus is the the best choice. The Rezound will give you better 4G reception though, and has pretty good development coming along in its own right as well.
Turns out I went with option 3. Bought a new RAZR from a friend for $200. It's not the MAXX, but I might just do the increase in battery through the kit available online.
Also sold my iPhone for $300. So I got a better phone and $100 to boot!
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Hey guys/gals,
I'm literally counting the days til my upgrade, however with phones like the One X and a few others which i can't think of off the top of my head. Rather than asking VS. questions which will be answered by biased views or perhaps answers which don't answer the why i'll ask it like this.
What was the feature that made you buy the phone over the other phones on the market, what is your favourite feature which made the phone a defo puchase?
Thanks to all that answer this for me.
Mainly the processor, big ass screen and clearly the brand Samsung. HTC are good but from past experience I know that what they seem to offer is not always what they actually have to offer. Other phones are just out of the question, like nokia pure view since I would rather buy a camera than buy that phone (though I already have a DSLR so I don't need one). And to be honest I normally pick phones right away and then find everything there is to know about them. I just told myself that now is the time and this is the phone I want to buy.
what is your favourite feature which made the phone a defo puchase?
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- Huge community with lots of ROM's and customizations
- Large AMOLED screen (only had good experiences so far)
- Cool addon features such as Smart Stay
- Perfect USB OTG support
- Large battery
- Samsung-branded. (No issue with their devices so far)
- Powerful 4core SoC
Thanks for the input so far guys, its not a case I'm doubting the s3 but I'll probably get lumbered with a 24month contract and I don't want to miss out on another phone due to blindly buying the s3
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If I had a Galaxy Nexus as your signature suggests I would have skipped the S3, I don't think the incremental benefits merit a 24 month tie in. Or you could upgrade now and when the next gen handsets are released your S3 and GN should raise enough to buy whatever tickles your fancy.
For me it was the SD card slot and removable battery. Also I was concerned about all of the screen scratch talk with the one X.
On AT&T, the One X looks to be the better performer but couldn't get past the issues above.
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diablous said:
Thanks for the input so far guys, its not a case I'm doubting the s3 but I'll probably get lumbered with a 24month contract and I don't want to miss out on another phone due to blindly buying the s3
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Contract ????? £500 PAYG unbranded CPW .
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Because the One X is inexcuseably flawed with the lack of replaceable battery and memory slot and traditionally rubbish battery life, and even though the S3 is also flawed most of it is just software problems that can be bodged up after the fact.
SIII doesn't have any serious competition imho. It is the best phone in the market at the moment hands down. If only my other decisions in life are that easy
diablous said:
Hey guys/gals,
I'm literally counting the days til my upgrade, however with phones like the One X and a few others which i can't think of off the top of my head. Rather than asking VS. questions which will be answered by biased views or perhaps answers which don't answer the why i'll ask it like this.
What was the feature that made you buy the phone over the other phones on the market, what is your favourite feature which made the phone a defo puchase?
Thanks to all that answer this for me.
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I chose this phone because it is the successor of the previous best android device, the Samsung galaxy s 2. Things could only improve with the galaxy s 3.
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Frostfree said:
If I had a Galaxy Nexus as your signature suggests I would have skipped the S3, I don't think the incremental benefits merit a 24 month tie in. Or you could upgrade now and when the next gen handsets are released your S3 and GN should raise enough to buy whatever tickles your fancy.
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I totally agree. Especially the fact that the nexus is about to get jelly bean, it's gonna be a brand new phone. Yes the S3 is the best phone out right now ( in my opinion) but the nexus is also fantastic and I miss that phone sometimes.
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To be honest I believe that there soon won't be a device (including Samsung) that will be let's say 2 or 3 times faster, better, etc. that the SIII. Quad core processors came out now so next year probably they will continue to distribute them. Plus custom roms or the SIII will get better, these guys at xda do a better job than any company out there, they are users that make upgrades for users and know what we exactly need. Software is never an issue it can always be upgraded, modified unlike hardware that is something that is hard to replace in a phone. So when I look for a phone I mainly look at the hardware, for the hidden potential of the phone. And to be honest Samsung SIII is the fastest phone currently on the market and we all know well that it has the most juice in it.
barondebxl said:
I totally agree. Especially the fact that the nexus is about to get jelly bean, it's gonna be a brand new phone. Yes the S3 is the best phone out right now ( in my opinion) but the nexus is also fantastic and I miss that phone sometimes.
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The Nexus always gets the latest OS first but as soon as the Galaxy S's get upgraded you just get stuck with a phone that's always worse than the equivalent Galaxy S, and I'd never buy a phone just to get an OS a few months early because I'd quickly realise the mistake I made.
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I totally agree. Especially the fact that the nexus is about to get jelly bean, it's gonna be a brand new phone. Yes the S3 is the best phone out right now ( in my opinion) but the nexus is also fantastic and I miss that phone sometimes.
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+1. If you have a Nexus already, I agree that it will feel like a new phone with JellyBean on it.
I am still getting the S3 though. I will be new to Android so will have a bit of learning to do, and JellyBean is supposed to be coming to the S3 in Q4, so by then I'll be ready for it and I think it will make the S3 super-super-swishy (from the mere super-swishy it is now).
For me, replaceable batteries & memory cards are a must, so that basically blew many other phones out of the picture. Good camera, USB OTG, MHL-ing to use it as a games console, proper HD screen, good battery - all of these things sold it too me.
No iThings for me. I don't want to get tied into any restrictive iContract with iEULA, not shackled to iTunes, titchy screen, etc etc.
I was happy with my Windows HTC HD2 (before I bricked it). Hoping buying a Samsung flagship model on Android (with the massive user group that's gathering behind it and seemingly fast updates OTA from Sammy) will mean this phone will function well out of the box, and function amazeballs with a few custom tweaks & mods.
Hopefully I will get my UK blue this week :cyclops::victory:
Screen size and speed
Already running Jellybean, but like people have said you can change Software you can't change hardware and one thing i do miss is the S2 camera I had, so the Samera on the S3 is one of my big reasons.
Thanks to everyone who has posted so far.
What competition?
My last phone was an HTC Desire, and since I was displeased with the HTC Sense UI, I just decided that my next phone would be a Samsung. And the S III just happened to be the best phone out there.
hox has too weak battery in my case, so its a no-competition thing actually
next close to perfect phone is still good old i9000
The hype about it - I figured that with all the talk there would be loads of custom roms developed for the phone. I signed up for a two year contract and I wanted a phone that could last two years which this should do well with that processor. Had a Nexus S before and considered buying a Galaxy Nexus, but 16GB internal and no option for external SD just didn't appeal to me.
I'm debating whether or not to sell my S3 (It hasn't even arrived yet but should be here tomorrow) and buying a Nexus 4 from the play store, or just keeping the S3. I like the S3 but dislike stock anything, especially Sense and Touchwiz etc, so the Nexus is better suited to me, also 2gb ram instead of 1gb, and for cheaper. But I don't know, what does everything think, will the S3 have dev support well into the next year or two or should I jump onto the Nexus asap.
if i were you i'd keep the S3. the nexus 4 doesn't have an external sd card slot so its all internal memory which is a big deal breaker for me.
also if launchers are the main thing that you don't like, just download apex/nova launcher. problem solved. better yet install a CM10/Aosp rom and you'll get stock experience with some perks. save lots of money.
Adw launcher just realesed a huge update.
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I love custom roms, so I'll definitely be installing AOSP or AOKP, I'm just wondering if we'll be okay when it comes to 4.2, if it'll be released pretty quick and everything will work?. I'm incredibly torn, which is hilarious because I know they're just phones. Anyway I just really like the look of 4.2 and the new features sound great, ideally I want a Nexus phone but if the S3 will definitely get 4.2 and everything will be good, then there's no worries there.
The thing is, I got my S3 for $460, brand new with warranty. Long story short what happened was, I bought an open box special Atrix 2, it was overheating and crashing, but I fried the motherboard and bricked it by wiring a factory cable completely wrong, had 5 volts of power running to ground, oops, so they agreed to replace it with a new one, which has a value of $319, keep in mind I've only paid $240 so far, they can't get another Atrix2 in stock, they offer $250 store credit. I keep pushing, they give me $319 store credit, purchase the S3 for $220, could have been $210 but I got the pebble blue. Anyway, it was a bit of a nightmare and if I sell the phone straight away I feel it'll all be for nothing lol.
Been going through a lot of smartphones in the past few weeks doing the old "craigslist shuffle" - buy one, toy around with it, realize it's not quite everything I want, list it, sell it, take the proceeds and buy another, repeat ad nauseum and now I'm at it again. Here's my situation:
I currently have a Galaxy Note (I717 AT&T model), unlocked, in use with T-Mobile on that oh-so-awesome $30/month plan, and while I like this phone quite a bit, I have an opportunity to trade it (and all the accessories I have for it: 2 batteries, 2 cases, original box/cable/charger/manuals/etc) for an LG Optimus G + cable/charger + case.
Now, I need to point out that a) I'm well versed in ROMs and flashing having been doing so for nearly a decade now, and b) I made the offer to trade (straight up mine w/accessories for the LGOG as noted) with the intent - mind you, the intent of possibly putting that LGOG -> Nexus 4 hack to work, but I just spent the better part of 2 hours reading that Nexus 4 conversion thread and was saddened to see that even in spite of the hack working if it's done right, there are aspects to doing it that I'm not willing to tend with at this point: no microSD card usefulness, the 8GB storage limitation is not good (I don't keep stuff "in the cloud" unless I have no other alternatives), NFC is still useless with the conversion (and I do tend to use Google Wallet actually, and other reasons I find NFC useful), and potentially other things that, again, I need to have working.
So, considering the LGOG is a quad "beast," even at about 1 year old the fact that it's more powerful overall than the Galaxy Note I have makes it a potential device even in spite of not being able to do that Nexus 4 conversion I was interested in. And yes, I know I could probably find someone willing to dump their Nexus 4 for this Galaxy Note pretty fast but, the actual Nexus 4 has more limitations natively than the LGOG does, pretty obviously.
I suppose what I'm asking at this moment is if anyone else in this situation would consider the LGOG for the Galaxy Note a good trade. I use T-Mobile as noted so, I'll have to carrier unlock the LGOG if I do this, not really a big issue since I can buy an unlock code - I will attempt to get one from AT&T first (have a few friends that are AT&T customers and they can give it a shot for me) so using it with T-Mobile is a no brainer.
I know the bootloader is unlockable, that's a big plus of course, and yes there are custom ROMs applenty nowadays - I tend to prefer pure stock as much as possible with as little bloatware as can be stripped or gutted out. And of course with it being a newer device than the Galaxy Note it's considerably better in terms of battery life as well which is a big thing for me especially since the LGOG has a non-removable battery (it can be removed but it's not like the Galaxy Note of course, and I would be looking at getting a brand new battery for it since it's been in use most of this year according to the current owner).
I don't use the stylus aka S-Pen on the Galaxy Note that much; I do like that it's there as an option but the only time I take it out is usually just to show someone that it's got one and can be used for a variety of purposes.
Seems like the LGOG is better than a Nexus 4 in most respects; it's what the Nexus 4 should have been all along is what I see mentioned quite often, and aside from being able to just load pure Android factory images on it, I can't see why the Nexus 4 itself would be considered better in any respects aside from that one thing (it's a Nexus device).
So, if anyone has read this far I appreciate it, but the basic question remains: is the LGOG worthy of me trading away my Galaxy Note? Would any of you - if you had the Note and didn't make full use of everything it offers (S-Pen, etc) - go for this trade and then make the very best of what the LGOG has to offer?
Thanks for any advice, input, or opinions, they are appreciated.
Just as an update, I went ahead and took a chance on the LGOG and did the trade, got an unlock code from the freemyblackberry.com website in about 8 minutes for $4, can't beat that.
Now to get to some experimentin'...
I bought an LGOG a few months ago while I was looking for something to use on T-Mobile. Got it unlocked in a similar fashion and it works fairly well now. I love the speed thanks to the quad core and 2GB of RAM. The Micro SD slot is great as well. I think the previous owner had done the Nexus 4 conversion to the phone, but I went ahead and undid it so I could use the mSD slot. I've been using Houstonn's Rootbox rom for quite a while and it works well for the most part. My only complaints are that my Wifi MAC address randomizes on every boot (probably due to something not getting fixed properly when going back from the Nexus 4 conversion), the battery life isn't spectacular, and the phone doesn't support T-Mobile's 1700MHz 3G band or their Wifi Calling feature. But other than that, everything is great! Screen is beautiful, camera is good, everything is smooth, phone is sized well for your hand, etc.
I would recommend you give his ParanoidAndroid or Carbon ROM a try here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228880
Paranoid seemed to work very well for me, but for some reason the mic and earpiece on my phone don't work during calls with that ROM.
Edit: The mic and earpiece work now after applying the LTEhybrid33-84.zip modem.
Good luck!
Hello everyone
I just wanted to share that I have been looking for a new phone since March this year and after looking at the latest and greatest around, I am still really happy with my Samsung Galaxy S3 even though I have owned it for a personal record of 20 months.
I've seriously looked at the Sammy 5, LG G3 and the HTC One M8 but none seem to excite me enough to justify buying a new model and with the great ROM development going on here I think that I can still take advantages of the latest developments.
Just wanted to post a positive no gripes thought on here for a change??
What thoughts are others having, assuming that finance is not a major constraint?