Smart Phone Help

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Daseal

If you're looking for an android smartphone, I'd recommend waiting if possible. Very rarely is it a good idea to wait for "new stuff" because there's always something new and better around the corner. (that's the story on how my desktop took about a year longer to build than first anticipated!) Within the next few months there will be some really great phones coming out.

When it comes down to it, you have to figure out what features are important to you and focus on those. Display? Camera? Service? Battery life? QWERTY vs Touch keyboard, etc. Once those are established it's easier to point you in the right direction.

Problem with waiting is:
IF you are a Geek then the next one is ALWAYS around the corner (Android 5.0 is going to rock your world)

If you are NOT a geek then the upgrades in the next cycle aren't going to mean as much as having a good phone now.

As is most 4g phones now and some 3g are going to go to ice cream sandwich by end of year.

Its the difference between always buying a new off the lot car or one that is a year old. The new may be great but the 1 year old will take you to the store also.


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[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Problem with waiting is:
IF you are a Geek then the next one is ALWAYS around the corner (Android 5.0 is going to rock your world)

If you are NOT a geek then the upgrades in the next cycle aren't going to mean as much as having a good phone now.

As is most 4g phones now and some 3g are going to go to ice cream sandwich by end of year.

Its the difference between always buying a new off the lot car or one that is a year old. The new may be great but the 1 year old will take you to the store also.


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Exactly. I like to think of myself as somewhat of a geek, but one who looks more at operating systems that are stable and have been out long enough to research plenty of info on it. A gearhead has to have the latest and greatest and usually has the bank account to do it. If I spend a couple hundred bucks on a smartphone, I want one that I know already has an established reputation, not to mention the most bang for my buck as far as features. Needless to say, whatever phone I do get will not be traded in in a few months. I'll use this phone no less than the two year contract, even if I decided in the end that I didn't like it. I kept my Blackberry for the whole two years, and downgraded at the end of my contract. I figured now, with my job, it's becoming more and more important to have internet access on the go. So hence, the smartphone shopping.

[Daseal]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Problem with waiting is:
IF you are a Geek then the next one is ALWAYS around the corner (Android 5.0 is going to rock your world)

If you are NOT a geek then the upgrades in the next cycle aren't going to mean as much as having a good phone now.

As is most 4g phones now and some 3g are going to go to ice cream sandwich by end of year.

Its the difference between always buying a new off the lot car or one that is a year old. The new may be great but the 1 year old will take you to the store also.


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Software and hardware are two different beasts. Typically, I avoid many of the first gen OSes and let them get a bit stable. That said, any reasonable device can handle an updated OS. If you root/etc ROMS like CM that are built from the ground up will give you those new OSes.

The phones I'm talking about are hardware based. None of the individual technologies are that much different. They're bringing together a lot of components. Quick processors, quite a bit more RAM, beautiful displays -- but most importantly, they're improving battery life and unlocking bootloaders (well, not unlocking, but making it trivial).

Typically I say buy something established, but these are known technologies so they've hit their bumps, but they're coming together in a single device.

If battery life is the most important to you, I'd suggest staying away from 4G. It's a drain. I have a 4G phone and toggle it off a majority of the time.

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by Daseal

Software and hardware are two different beasts. Typically, I avoid many of the first gen OSes and let them get a bit stable. That said, any reasonable device can handle an updated OS. If you root/etc ROMS like CM that are built from the ground up will give you those new OSes.

The phones I'm talking about are hardware based. None of the individual technologies are that much different. They're bringing together a lot of components. Quick processors, quite a bit more RAM, beautiful displays -- but most importantly, they're improving battery life and unlocking bootloaders (well, not unlocking, but making it trivial).

Typically I say buy something established, but these are known technologies so they've hit their bumps, but they're coming together in a single device.

If battery life is the most important to you, I'd suggest staying away from 4G. It's a drain. I have a 4G phone and toggle it off a majority of the time.

Which seems to point me back to the Droid Razr Maxx. Out of several reviews I've read on this phone and some of the others, the DRM seems to have outstanding battery life even with the 4G. But aside from that, I love the idea of being able to hook the thing up to my TV, stream stuff to the computer, basically have all the tablet features I'd need all rolled up in a smartphone. The BIGGEST thing I haven't heard yet is the how the clarity of the phone conversations are. When I had my Blackberry Curve, I could barely hear people at times, and at times, people couldn't hear me at all. I am hoping that was just a fluke problem with the Blackberry and not smartphone wide.