So yeah to continue where I left off, thinking of upgrading my phone to a smart-phone. I don't want to change my carrier as verizon is pretty cool for me so far...
What I've looked at is Iphone, thunderbolt, fascinate, droid x
From all of those I'm sort of leaning for the iphone/thunderbolt....
The thunderbolt is pretty cool, its basically a evo4g with few added things, but what worries me is reports of battery being sapped in like 4-5 hrs of usage....
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take the htc desire hd - its just the best freakin smart phone on the market, iphone has better screen resolution but u really cannot see the differences. the touchscreen with andoird as operating system is way faster than the iphone and with htc widgets and stuff its way better to work with.
the size is one thing that most peps are scared of, but i woould say its perfect. it fits in nearly every pocket, and for email writing the screen is just big enough (could be a bit bigger
battery is also ok, a little bit too small for an smartphone but i can go with it almost 2 and 1/2 days. and htc is going to bring new ones out soon.
so htc desire hd >>> all for me
The HTC desire is awesome, and the HD version is just better.
When is the iphone 5 supposed/rumoured to be released?
Seconding the Thunderbolt's shitty battery... a friend got one the other day, hasn't stopped complaining about it since.
However, I'm waiting for one of these
http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/08/verizon-w ... hots-leak/
Played with the GSM version in Taiwan a few weeks ago... pretty nice, though my only hesitation is whether I should wait for a dual-core phone
re iPhone 5, heard its not gonna be announced in June but rather September vOv
My Desire HD's battery seems to be dropping quite quickly. I'm wondering whether it just needs a couple of charges to get to full capacity, or whether it's just :welp:.
Originally Posted by Doomed Predator
The iPhone 5 is RUMORED to not be coming out this summer at WWDC, apple hinted as much in their invite to the conference but no one really knows. Likewise the invitation hinted at iOS5 not coming until later this year as well. I have talked on the phone today for like 5 minutes, sent a couple of texts, checked my mail and rss feeds. In 12 hours I've gone from 100% battery to 96% on my iPhone 4.
The iOS app list.
***** GAMES *****
ABOVE
ANGRY BIRDS
BEJEWELED
ELISS
CRITTER CRUNCH
CUT THE ROPE
CANABALT
CHAOS RINGS
DROP7
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DEEP GREEN
FRUIT NINJA
EDGE
ESPGALUDA II
KOMETEN
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PEGGLE
PIX'N LOVE RUSH
ROLANDO
SOLIPSKIER
STAR DEFENCE
STRATEGERY
SHIBUYA
SUPER QUICK HOOK
SPACE INVADERS INFINITY GENE
SPIDER: SECRET OF BRYCE MANOR
SWORCERY
THE INCIDENT
TOPPLE 2
TILT TO LIVE
TINY WINGS
PLANTS VS ZOMBIES
PERFECT CELL
ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK
INFINITY BLADE
FOX VS DUCK
FLIGHT CONTROL
FIELD RUNNERS
FRENZIC
ZENBOUND
OSMOS
ONE-DOT ENEMIES
WORDFU
WURDLE
WORLD OF GOO
***** MUSIC *****
PANDORA RADIO
RDIO
SPOTIFY
***** VIDEO *****
AIR VIDEO
NETFLIX
IMOVIE
***** PHOTOGRAPHY *****
EVERYDAY
CAMERA+
HIPSTAMATIC
PHOTOGENE
CAMERABAG
FLICKR
POSTAGE
THE GUARDIAN EYEWITNESS
MILL COLOUR
PHOTO FX
PRO HDR
***** SOCIAL NETWORKING *****
SKYPE
***** NEWS *****
REEDER
NPR
***** PAINTING *****
BRUSHES
LAYERS
***** REFERENCE *****
IMDB
WOLFRAMALPHA
TIKI+
COCKTAILS+
ARTICLES
BARISTA
RATIO
THE ELEMENTS
SOLAR SYSTEM
THE PHOTO COOKBOOK
***** PRODUCTIVITY *****
BENTO
EPICWIN
ELEMENTS
EVERNOTE
DROPBOX
DIALVETICA
FILEMAKER
CALVETICA
INSTAPAPER
SIMPLENOTE
OMNIFOCUS
NOTESY
THINGS
KEYNOTE REMOTE
TEXTEXPANDER
***** FINANCE *****
MONEYBOOK
***** BUSINESS *****
SCANNER PRO
***** UTILITIES *****
EGO
FIND MY IPHONE
ROWMOTE
SCREENS
1PASSWORD
PCALC
BATTLE.NET MOBILE AUTHENTICATOR
CANNED SMS
CALCBOT
PASTEBOT
CONVERTBOT
CONSUME
DELIVERY STATUS TOUCH
FAVORITES - SPEED DIAL
GLYPHBOARD ( http://mrgan.com/gb/ )
SATURATION
WEIGHTBOT
WORD LENS
EVERY TIME ZONE ( http://everytimezone.com )
***** HEALTHCARE AND FITNESS *****
RUNKEEPER PRO
KINETIC - ACTIVITY TRACKING
SECONDS - INTERVAL TIMER
Yeah for the bold part. It's what i've looked into quite a bit and reports are varying...Some get 3-4hrs others get 4-6 and others get the 7+hrs. But from majority of reports it's in the 3-6hr range for the battery. Which seems ridiculous for the phone. Not to mention I find it disturbing that they are selling a battery with 2x the power for extra $50 but included a under-powered one for TB from start.Seconding the Thunderbolt's shitty battery... a friend got one the other day, hasn't stopped complaining about it since.
However, I'm waiting for one of these
http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/08/verizon-w ... hots-leak/
Played with the GSM version in Taiwan a few weeks ago... pretty nice, though my only hesitation is whether I should wait for a dual-core phone
re iPhone 5, heard its not gonna be announced in June but rather September vOv
I am really liking the specs of the TB as it's like Evo4g, but the battery is scary. So I might wait and see how the Bionic is in a 1-2 months time.... I wonder if that would work...
@Sophia, how heavy do you use your phone and how long does the battery last you?
48 hour battery on the iPhone... Just sayin.
GF's about to sell her HD desire, it's the third one she's had on RMA (dropped calls, shitty battery and a bunch of other bugs) - I honestly don't get what you all see in that piece of junk... Oh well.
I have a DHD and I agree with the slightly under capacity battery (it gets better after a number of charges but still not great). Sunlight readability is woeful due to having a bog standard LCD screen but thats not an issue often enough to complain.
Sigh this whole smart-phone thing is starting to piss me off
Galaxy S II, Bionic, and bunch of others are coming to verizon in may so not long of wait, in the mean time I might get a something to mess around with and return it within 30 days of their policy if I don't like it....
I'm in the same boat :[Sigh this whole smart-phone thing is starting to piss me off
Galaxy S II, Bionic, and bunch of others are coming to verizon in may so not long of wait, in the mean time I might get a something to mess around with and return it within 30 days of their policy if I don't like it....
Fuck verizon tbh, they always take forever to get new phones out... but I can't leave them because they're the only telecom that gets signal near my house...
Know quite a few people with the DHD, myself included who haven't had any major issues with them bar the battery life being crap.
But then my expectations were always low going from an old Nokia 3330 (two weeks battery life!) to a fucking huge phone that doubles as a game machine/video player/camera etc.
It dosent get any better. My friend has a Desire HD and it needs charging at least 2 times every day.
Personally I have the Desire Z. Less power, yes, but battery lasts a couple of days and it has a keyboard for me to use with my fat fingers.
The "old" classic Desire seems to be the best tbh, if it only looked better than it does.
Anyway, I'm perfectly content with mine for ages now, although at some point I should update from CM 6.1.1 to a Gingerbread build. Then again I've still not heard if they've managed to make it suck less battery than 6.1.1, which is a point where the older ROM seems to excel.
Spoiler:
this is all about usage and signal strength and has very little to do with the phone itself
the Z and HD have almost exactly the same hardware and battery, the differences cant amount up to more than an hour or 2 i reckon
if you're having real problems with battery life try forcing it to 2g mode only and see what happens
also theoretically the Z should have best battery life out of the desire family
45nm underclocked processor will draw less power and the battery is only marginally smaller
Flash 10.2 is a good reason to not go iPhone.
Using the Google Nexus S myself, charging it every 3 days or so.
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Right, my phone contract will be up for renewal pretty soon, but I have no idea which phone to get. Paying €32/month or so atm (including internet) and that's pretty much the upper limit on what I want to spend on it per month, nor do I want to pay massively up front for a phone (a tenner or so is fine, but nothing retarded).
Two phones have sort of caught my eye, but idunnolol, LG Optimus 2x and the Galaxy S. wat do?
Desire HD is out of my price range at €45/month.
LOL SIGNATURES.
new job means I can finally get my first smartphone in the coming month or so. I want an android phone of some kind, is there a few top contenders that I should pick from? So far see Galaxy S, Nexus S, HTC Desire (HD?), maybe others. I'm on AT&T atm, may consider switching if it means a better deal or the best choice of phones.
edit: also I haven't heard much of anything about windows 7 mobile, is it just as shitty as previous versions? being able to openly put pirated music/movies/books on the thing and have them all work is the most important thing for me, along with using it like a usb flash drive and internets browser.
edit edit: just seen the Atrix 4G and it looks awesome, dual core with biometric scanner to unlock yes please.
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