Perfection
The Great Head.
Galaxy S3, unlimited sprint data
What type of cell phone/plan do you have (if any)?
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Narz
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I never heard of either of those & now I will refuse to learn about them since I already dropped a bundle on mine.
Still happy though, Galaxy Note 4's screen is huge! I could've gotten a cheaper Samsung for around $400 IIRC but it was much smaller.
The iPhones just seemed like total crap in comparison to Samsung & the guy told me you can't put stuff on & off their hard drives without using stupid Apple software.
Loppan Torkel
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A 3 year old Iphone 4s - ca $30 per month, free calls, sms, internet - capped at 10GB, I think. After that it goes slower. No commitment after the first two years, $40/month then and the phone included.
Still works perfectly for me. Easy to use. I only use a few apps in total. Siri is terrible at interpreting my English pronunciation for Swedish names and sites. The phone seems to get slower after updates too.
Still works perfectly for me. Easy to use. I only use a few apps in total. Siri is terrible at interpreting my English pronunciation for Swedish names and sites. The phone seems to get slower after updates too.
Hygro
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I'm so confused, I don't remember having this phone at all. I'm pretty sure I went from an Alias 1 to an Alias 2 during this time....
I still use an Alias 2. That's a flip phone that uses e-ink, nothing smart about it.
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
When I get a telephone call I become angry.
I don't want to talk to people. Not here, not now.
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
I have a Nokia Lumia 635 - it's great so far. Only had it for 6 months tho.
I now pay 10euros a month and have unlimited minutes everywhere in the country, unlimited SMS, and 500MB internet. (i only use around 50MB a month).
I now pay 10euros a month and have unlimited minutes everywhere in the country, unlimited SMS, and 500MB internet. (i only use around 50MB a month).
Yes, that seems to be mostly why Samsung has any sales.
Screen size is a not a large part of overall costs, it's mostly a function of market pressure. Apple's average selling price for ipads is significantly less than for phones. In any case, Galaxy Note 4 is 5.7", OnePlus One is 5.5" for $300, Huawei Ascend Mate 2 is 6.1" for $300, Nokia Lumia 1520 is 6.0" for $460, MS Lumia 640 XL is 5.7" for $280, etc. (Or getting creative, $150 4.5" Moto E + $300 8" Nvidia Shield tablet is $450 total.)
That simply isn't true. Hell, for the past three years the iPhone operates as a completely standalone computer, there's no feature you even need a PC for.
Mise
isle of lucy
Yeah, it actually baffles me that these reasonably priced phones aren't totally dominating the market, when you consider the cost
erformance ratio vs more expensive phones.I've gone:
Jun 09 - Jul 11 HTC Hero
Jul 11 - Nov 12 Motorola Atrix
Nov 12 - Mar 14 Nexus 4
Mar 14 - Present Nexus 5
I said when Google released their Nexus devices for half the price of a flagship phone, but with similar specs and performance, that I'd never buy anything other than a Nexus. Unfortunately, the Nexus 6 doesn't follow quite the same philosophy, and is not priced anywhere near as no-brainery as the Nexus 4 and 5.
My next phone will likely be a Motorola of the "no frills" variety. I haven't spent more than £300 on a phone ever, and I'm not going to start now. That being said, if they sort out the terrible battery drain bugs on Android 5.0 for the Nexus 5, I won't need a new phone for quite some time.
Narz
keeping it real
Hmm, maybe the salesguy was just an idiot or really trying to sell me the Samsung (though that doesn't make much sense since the Samsung & apple prices were compariable).
I remember how irritating iPods were compared to other Mp3 players since you could never copy music files off of them (well there were secret ways but it was annoying).
The S Pen is pretty cool on the new Note 4. Mostly a frivolous toy but I actually have gotten used to using it semi-regularly--it's nice to just quickly take it out and write something down--and it's so much cooler on the new one compared to my Note 2. My kid also loves it.
Expensive, but T-Mobile's cheap plan convinced me. I also have gotten used to very big phones, and the Note 4 is surprisingly thin, which is nice. I played around with the Nexus 6 (too big, and the forced encryption slowdown weirdness scared me off) and the new iPhone. Neither of them have the big phone thing right yet. Samsung still has the "oh my god that is a stupidly enormous huge phone what is wrong with you" market down, for me.
Expensive, but T-Mobile's cheap plan convinced me. I also have gotten used to very big phones, and the Note 4 is surprisingly thin, which is nice. I played around with the Nexus 6 (too big, and the forced encryption slowdown weirdness scared me off) and the new iPhone. Neither of them have the big phone thing right yet. Samsung still has the "oh my god that is a stupidly enormous huge phone what is wrong with you" market down, for me.
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Jewel Runner
Now I have an LG G3, which is a definite improvement.
sophie
Break My Heart
iphone 5s on a tmobile plan i share with my sister and mother
the service can be occasionally unreliable depending on what part of my town im in, but thats because im so far into the south bay. the bay is probably the best-covered or one of the 3 or 4 best-covered regions in the us, so the increased cost of switching to att or verizon isnt sufficiently offset by the better data coverage for me. plus tmobile lets me wifi-call anybody on a tmobile plan for free. which is dope.
the service can be occasionally unreliable depending on what part of my town im in, but thats because im so far into the south bay. the bay is probably the best-covered or one of the 3 or 4 best-covered regions in the us, so the increased cost of switching to att or verizon isnt sufficiently offset by the better data coverage for me. plus tmobile lets me wifi-call anybody on a tmobile plan for free. which is dope.
Is it your own phone? How would they tell?
It's not like there's a particular usage-pattern difference between using a web browser on a phone or tethering an ipad to the phone and using the browser on the ipad.
LamaGT
Emperor
Actually it's possible to remove that "feature", you don't even need root. They use some kind of Android bug to figure out you're tethering, and by fixing it they'll always be in the dark.
Anyway, I have a 1000 min and sms + 2 gb LTE for 10€/month. I just wish I could exchange those minutes and sms for more gigabytes, I've never used even 100 of those.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
I too would like to know more.
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I switched to a smartphone in the few years since this thread was started. Nokia 808; on a $22.50/month plan with 1000 minutes/texts/some units of data. Fantastic camera, xenon flash, offline maps, Spotify, better battery life than my dumbphone (4-8 days), good audio quality. Pretty much exactly what I wanted in a phone, and it's replaced my camera, too.
Sure, there's not 800,000 applications for it. But I don't have much use for 799,975 of them, and the ones I do need are available. Opera Mobile's a little old now, too, but I only use data a couple times a month.
Sure, there's not 800,000 applications for it. But I don't have much use for 799,975 of them, and the ones I do need are available. Opera Mobile's a little old now, too, but I only use data a couple times a month.
