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03/13/2013 01:37:13 PM · #26 |
| I am in an adjacent boat Wendy (cracked screen, out of contract, looking around). From what I have read, the Galaxy is the top contender, big, bright, beautiful, but something of a battery pig. The Razr has twice battery life of most phones and a pretty well reviewed phone, so if you run out of charge a fair amount it may be the one for you. For Windows phone the Nokia 920 is pretty sexy with a best in class camera, but the Windows phones lack app support (No Pandora ? Really?) but if you integrate with a windows computer, it is really sweet. |
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03/13/2013 01:46:43 PM · #27 |
As soon as my contract is up, I'm going back to a phone that's talk and text only. I'm sick of paying out the ying yang for a data plan on top of the regular cell plan. The data part of my cell bill totals nearly $850/year. That's a lot of money to check Facebook and email anywhere I like. I do have a lot of apps, but I can get a new iPod touch and put the apps there and it will pay for itself in less than 3 mo.
My iPhone is great and I fully recommend it if you're willing to pay the data plan fees. |
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03/13/2013 02:20:42 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by Spork99:
As soon as my contract is up, I'm going back to a phone that's talk and text only. I'm sick of paying out the ying yang for a data plan on top of the regular cell plan. The data part of my cell bill totals nearly $850/year. That's a lot of money to check Facebook and email anywhere I like. I do have a lot of apps, but I can get a new iPod touch and put the apps there and it will pay for itself in less than 3 mo.
My iPhone is great and I fully recommend it if you're willing to pay the data plan fees. |
can you kill the voice and go VOIP? never tried it but im curious as to how well it works, i don't talk a lot on my phone. |
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03/13/2013 02:27:15 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Spork99:
As soon as my contract is up, I'm going back to a phone that's talk and text only. I'm sick of paying out the ying yang for a data plan on top of the regular cell plan. The data part of my cell bill totals nearly $850/year. That's a lot of money to check Facebook and email anywhere I like. I do have a lot of apps, but I can get a new iPod touch and put the apps there and it will pay for itself in less than 3 mo.
My iPhone is great and I fully recommend it if you're willing to pay the data plan fees. |
Not trying to derail this thread, but I use a flip phone. I do have an iPad with a data plan, though. I choose to pay for that data plan vs a smartphone plan. It's cheaper and I like the larger screen... Just another viewpoint. |
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03/13/2013 03:47:56 PM · #30 |
| I would go Samsung Galaxy 3 or the Note....I have the Galaxy 2 and love it!!! |
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03/13/2013 04:30:37 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
Originally posted by Spork99:
As soon as my contract is up, I'm going back to a phone that's talk and text only. I'm sick of paying out the ying yang for a data plan on top of the regular cell plan. The data part of my cell bill totals nearly $850/year. That's a lot of money to check Facebook and email anywhere I like. I do have a lot of apps, but I can get a new iPod touch and put the apps there and it will pay for itself in less than 3 mo.
My iPhone is great and I fully recommend it if you're willing to pay the data plan fees. |
can you kill the voice and go VOIP? never tried it but im curious as to how well it works, i don't talk a lot on my phone. |
No, the carrier (Verizon) requires all phones to have a talk and text plan. Then a data plan on top of that for smartphones. I know people who run VOIP on their phones to call internationally or roam overseas for less, but I haven't tried it. |
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03/13/2013 04:38:01 PM · #32 |
I'm appreciating all the responses!! Hopefully I'm going out tonight.
decisions... decisions... :) |
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03/13/2013 04:49:58 PM · #33 |
| One other thing to think about when dollars count Wendy- resale value. For whatever reason, traditionally iPhones have held their value more than other smartphones. For example; I bought my iPhone 4 with 32GB for $330 subsidized including tax, used it for 2 years, then sold it for $350 before getting an iPhone 5 with 32GB for again $330. So I actually made $20 off an upgrade. I did a check and had I gone for any other smartphone when I got that iPhone 4 with high resale value I would have had to pay at least $150 to upgrade to an updated smartphone two years later. |
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03/13/2013 05:30:06 PM · #34 |
...but still less than an iPhone, in the same testing.
Can you tell that battery life was my pet peeve about Android phones?
Message edited by author 2013-03-13 17:30:51. |
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03/13/2013 05:45:38 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by Ann:
...but still less than an iPhone, in the same testing.
Can you tell that battery life was my pet peeve about Android phones? |
Pretty much all smart phones are crap for battery life. But then, with the kind of displays and processing power they have that's a given until we get better battery technology.
FWIW, the iPhone 5 only just edged out the Razr Maxx in one category, web browsing. In the other categories, it was worse, and not even close. |
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03/13/2013 06:06:27 PM · #36 |
| One other consideration that is often skipped until you hand over your credit card. Sales tax. If I buy a phone listed at $400 and I get $350 back for signing a new contract, I still pay sales tax in the original price, which comes close to doubling the out the door price. I got my last phone at Costco because they gave the price as $60, so I paid tax on that instead of $400. You have your plan, find your phone, then find out who has the best out the door price between Verizon stores, Best Buy, Fry's, Target, Costco ect. |
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03/13/2013 06:32:18 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by Ann:
...but still less than an iPhone, in the same testing.
Can you tell that battery life was my pet peeve about Android phones? |
Pretty much all smart phones are crap for battery life. But then, with the kind of displays and processing power they have that's a given until we get better battery technology.
FWIW, the iPhone 5 only just edged out the Razr Maxx in one category, web browsing. In the other categories, it was worse, and not even close. |
True. Except that with my last Android phone (a Droid Charge, not the best battery life, but about average back when I bought it), from the day I bought the phone, I struggled every damn day to get to the end of the day with any charge left. With the iPhone, I still have 80% charge left at the end of the day. That Razr is supposed to have pretty awesome battery life, "twice the battery life" of other Android phones, and it's pretty much on par with the iPhone, better at some things, worse at other things. |
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03/13/2013 07:11:27 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by Ann:
...That Razr is supposed to have pretty awesome battery life, "twice the battery life" of other Android phones, and it's pretty much on par with the iPhone, better at some things, worse at other things. |
It's edged out by less than 5% by only the iPhone 5, for web browsing only. For talk time or video playback, it annihilates the iPhone, with well over twice the life. Objectively, the battery life of the Razr Maxx is quite a bit better than the iPhone 5 overall. |
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03/13/2013 07:58:19 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by Ann:
...That Razr is supposed to have pretty awesome battery life, "twice the battery life" of other Android phones, and it's pretty much on par with the iPhone, better at some things, worse at other things. |
It's edged out by less than 5% by only the iPhone 5, for web browsing only. For talk time or video playback, it annihilates the iPhone, with well over twice the life. Objectively, the battery life of the Razr Maxx is quite a bit better than the iPhone 5 overall. |
Um....what am I not seeing? Oh. Aha...Brennan's link was to the battery life for some Galaxy phone. Mea culpa.
I'd still never buy another Android phone. Not until they remove all the bloatware, and the handset manufacturers start doing operating system updates on a regular basis. My 2 years and one week old Samsung is still running Gingerbread. |
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03/13/2013 08:49:25 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by Ann:
I'd still never buy another Android phone. Not until they remove all the bloatware, and the handset manufacturers start doing operating system updates on a regular basis. My 2 years and one week old Samsung is still running Gingerbread. |
nexus? |
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03/14/2013 12:04:35 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
Originally posted by Ann:
I'd still never buy another Android phone. Not until they remove all the bloatware, and the handset manufacturers start doing operating system updates on a regular basis. My 2 years and one week old Samsung is still running Gingerbread. |
nexus? |
I have a Nexus 7. Having a Nexus does indeed solve the update and bloatware problem, but the update that they did around Christmas completely killed performance. It went from being a sweet little 7" tablet that I would recommend, to a total slug that I'm thinking of selling. |
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03/14/2013 12:52:21 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by Ann:
My 2 years and one week old Samsung is still running Gingerbread. |
The hardware may not be capable of running the latest and greatest. Leaving an older android version on the phone may be a good thing. The phone should still do everything it did when you got it 2 years ago. I was pretty happy with the functionality of my Tmobile G2, which ran Android 2.3. I only replaced it due to hardware problems.
iPhones cannot be updated indefinitely either.
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03/14/2013 12:58:35 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Originally posted by Ann:
My 2 years and one week old Samsung is still running Gingerbread. |
The hardware may not be capable of running the latest and greatest. Leaving an older android version on the phone may be a good thing. The phone should still do everything it did when you got it 2 years ago. I was pretty happy with the functionality of my Tmobile G2, which ran Android 2.3. I only replaced it due to hardware problems.
iPhones cannot be updated indefinitely either. |
No they can't. I fear my iPhone 4 will soon no longer be supported. I have noticed that many apps seem to run much better on my kids' iPod Touch that they got last Christmas |
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03/14/2013 01:02:25 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by Spork99:
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Originally posted by Ann:
My 2 years and one week old Samsung is still running Gingerbread. |
The hardware may not be capable of running the latest and greatest. Leaving an older android version on the phone may be a good thing. The phone should still do everything it did when you got it 2 years ago. I was pretty happy with the functionality of my Tmobile G2, which ran Android 2.3. I only replaced it due to hardware problems.
iPhones cannot be updated indefinitely either. |
No they can't. I fear my iPhone 4 will soon no longer be supported. I have noticed that many apps seem to run much better on my kids' iPod Touch that they got last Christmas |
True that, but my Droid Charge was never upgraded. Ever. It was a brand new model when I bought it, and it's one week out of contract now. I bought it with Gingerbread, it still runs gingerbread. A two year old iPhone might be on the verge of being too old to get updates, but it would have at least gotten all the updates during the time it was in contract. |
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03/14/2013 01:03:53 PM · #45 |
| Here's an amusing little gadget... Clever, but I suspect the results are less than stunning. |
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03/14/2013 01:29:27 PM · #46 |
you are wrong, the iphone camera can take pictures of lead and print out gold. |
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