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Coffee_Kaioken:
What I did like about Samsung phones/tablets is the AllShare functionality, provided you also happen to have a Samsung SmartTV. I tried the Galaxy Tab 3 (8.0), but barely used it aside from the occasional torrenting.
My problem with the Samsung Galaxy S4 - when I used to have that - along with the Tab 3 was the wi-fi reliability. It would connect, then drop, then re-connect, then drop. That and after about 5 minutes of use, apps would lag. I've heard from other Android users that this is mostly due to Samsung's TouchWiz overlay, and that Nexus might be a better way to go.
Method of Madness:
I pretty much never use wifi on my Galaxy S3, but I'm lucky enough to live in an area with decent mobile data and a grandfathered unlimited data plan :parrot:
lepetitfromage:
Ok, so after this thread has been alive for a year and a half, I finally have a reason to use it! I'm jumping on the smartphone bandwagon finally and have a few options. I'm hoping that some of you might have experience using one or more of the phones I'm looking at and can recommend something for me because I'm clueless and I don't think we have a general "phone" thread so this is as close as I can get without making a thread specifically asking for help buying a phone.
I've narrowed it down to 4. I'm currently looking at the following Droids: Ultra, Razr M and Mini. I'm also looking at the iPhone 4s because it's the only iPhone that Verizon is offering for free and I don't make enough money to be paying $200 for a cellphone. (edited to add- the 4s is 3G while the Droids are 4G. Does this REALLY make a big difference? I'm only getting a 1GB data plan so I won't be using it that much)
I did the fancy comparison chart thing on the website and came to a few different conclusions- the Ultra and Mini have some serious battery life and 16gb of storage. Those are both pluses. The Razr M has removable memory which I definitely enjoy. I like the prospect of being able to move my stuff if/when I get a new phone but I don't think it's a high priority. The iPhone is tempting simply because I could pop any music into it that I want right from iTunes (and because everyone I know with an iPhone loves it to pieces. it's almost scary).
I'm leaning towards the Ultra, but seriously? Every Droid Verizon has to offer is friggin' HUGE. The Ultra is an inch longer and a half inch wider than the iPhone. I don't know if I could deal with that big of a change. My current phone feels huge (the dreaded enV Touch) and it's smaller than anything I'm looking at now. I'm thinking about going to a store to check out how a few of them handle but wanted some feedback from someone who might have used one (or more) for a while.
Really, I just want something that isn't going to crap out and piss me off. My current phone randomly turns itself off (or on), drops calls, fizzles its display and is generally a big ol' pain in my ass. Husband blames all of that on the fact that I keep it in my purse and it gets jostled around. I think my phone is just a douche. (It turns itself off when it's sitting on my desk, untouched). But, perhaps durability should be a factor as well......
Please help!
Method of Madness:
I have the Galaxy S3, which probably isn't that pricey since it's a year and a half old. I'd recommend it.
snalin:
I'm pretty happy with my Galaxy S4. If the Mini you're talking about is the S4 mini, and it's not too different from the S4, it's a solid phone.
Have you looked into used phones? I've been getting (completely useless to me as a foreigner) ads for Ting.com, which claim to offer lower rates than other providers. They've got a calculator that shows how much cheaper they are than everyone else, but everybody does. Why they might be interesting is that while they don't do $0 phones, they've got a market for used ones, so you could get an older smartphone model for under $100, which might give you a bigger selection to chose from. You also avoid the big caveat of $0 phones, which is that they usually come with much more expensive plans than the phones you pay for.
Even if you're stuck on Verizon, you might be able to buy a used phone and move the plan over, which means that you can change to a cheaper plan sooner. A used S3 could be a great money saver, and you still have a decent phone.
On the features - while removable storage is a plus, you generally only use it whenever you change phones. If you're mainly going to use that storage for stuff you're going to have copies of on your computer (music and pictures you take with the phone), storage that you can't remove isn't going to be a problem.
4G vs. 3G is kinda weird, since there's no real standard on what you can call 4G and 3G. From what I can see online, Verizon 4G is faster than Verizon 3G, but how that compares to the IPhone 3G isn't really clear. What is clear is that Verizon might throttle your 3G speed if you're a "heavy" user (over 2GB in a month), while that doesn't happen with 4G (see here. If you're not going to be watching videos or streaming music to your phone, it's probably not going to make any difference to you whatsoever.
Moving music from ITunes to an IPhone is pretty easy, but it's going to be pretty easy to move the music to any droid phone. If you're just using ITunes to play mp3s, you're just going to have to copy the music files to your phone. If you've bought music through ITunes store that's one some kind of bullshit closed format (FairPlay), there's free programs out there that can convert those files to mp3 - that's going to take some hours of work, but I'd say it'd be worth it.
Battery life is probably what's going to be the biggest thing in your day-to-day life, and I consider that the most important point of everything you listed above. It's probably what should be the biggest influence on your purchasing plan.
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