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Getting a New Phone... Help Decide!

jdoggivjc said:
That's what I'm doing with my Incredible. Helps that my brother-in-law and I were able to swap out my cracked screen with a new $15 screen I found on Amazon. Saved the phone. Too bad the phone gets buggier and buggier with each system update. You would think doing a full system restore just to get the OTA update to work right would prevent the bug issues, but apparently not. That being said, this phone is the first phone in years I haven't outright hated by this point of my ownership. In fact, I still think this phone is awesome, even for its age.
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I really liked my Incredible a lot, that was the only problem with it - my phone would basically crash after each update. That was part of my decision to go with an iPhone, stability - but the interface really just isn't as good as that of the Droid.
 
In the same situation as the OP, going to be a virgin with the smart phone. When will the I phone 5 come out and how much do you think it will cost?
 
I've really never heard anything bad about the galaxy series from Samsung as well. I've had the galaxy S and now have the galaxy s aviator and love them both. My girlfriend also has the s2 and likes it. she's gonna upgrade to the s3 when it arrives also.
 
Angie said:
Yeah, but if he gets an iPhone, they're made of glass - I've had multiple friends shatter their screens by dropping it. My Otterbox is cumbersome, but it's saved my phone several times.
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I've heard of many people doing this, but I've dropped my iphone many times and it's never happened. It's dinged, dented, and scratched (like any phone would be after 2+ years without a case), and I've dropped it pretty far and on some hard surfaces, and it's never cracked/shattered. I agree that it's a dumb design, but it seems like they only break when you drop them hard enough to break almost any phone.

If the OP holds out for the iphone 5, they'll probably have a different design altogether.
 
alarson said:
Galaxy s 3 for sure. Fast phone, good features and I bet will be one of the first non nexus devices with jellybean. Plus there will be a large dev community for it with it being such a wide release.
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Did you know that your avatar is the PipBoy from the Fallout game series? How did you get him colored in cardinal and gold?
 
DistrictCyclone said:
I've heard of many people doing this, but I've dropped my iphone many times and it's never happened. It's dinged, dented, and scratched (like any phone would be after 2+ years without a case), and I've dropped it pretty far and on some hard surfaces, and it's never cracked/shattered. I agree that it's a dumb design, but it seems like they only break when you drop them hard enough to break almost any phone.

If the OP holds out for the iphone 5, they'll probably have a different design altogether.
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I've had to use my stupid insurance four times now on different phones, so I take no chances. :smile:
 
SWCy13 said:
I've really never heard anything bad about the galaxy series from Samsung as well.
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I'm also needing a phone upgrade, and considering the S3 and Evo 4G LTE (have a Verizon iPhone 4 for work and am not impressed). Below is a link to the Sprint forums where new Galaxy S3 users are having issues regarding signal strength (i.e. dropped calls, phone going into roaming) where other Sprint phones don't have trouble. Not scientific of course, but somewhat concerning about the number of different users all experiencing the same thing.

Sprint Community: Samsung Galaxy S3

I've been an HTC guy for the last few years, so am leaning that way.
 
Since you had to ask I'd say iPhone.

I've had the S3 for a month now and it's the best phone I've ever had. And I go through 3 or 4 a year. Finally an Android with a real camera; same Sony as the 4S.
 
Grow a pair and make your own decision. Or go to the store and try them out.
 
Personally i never want anything from apple after all the patent trolling theyve been doing lately, taking advantage of our broken patent system. Suing over things like a patent on searching multiple systems at once (something obvious that should be un-patentable) or basically thinking they have the right to the form of a rectangular flat screen phone..and getting judges with no tech knowledge to issue injunctions like they just did against the galaxy nexus. Awful, awful company.
 
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jbhtexas said:
SWCy13 said:
I've really never heard anything bad about the galaxy series from Samsung as well.
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I'm also needing a phone upgrade, and considering the S3 and Evo 4G LTE (have a Verizon iPhone 4 for work and am not impressed). Below is a link to the Sprint forums where new Galaxy S3 users are having issues regarding signal strength (i.e. dropped calls, phone going into roaming) where other Sprint phones don't have trouble. Not scientific of course, but somewhat concerning about the number of different users all experiencing the same thing. Sprint Community: Samsung Galaxy S3I've been an HTC guy for the last few years, so am leaning that way.
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I have the Verizon SG3 and have not seen any worse signal than my thunderbolt. Only been playing with it for 24 hours or so but the signal strength has been hovering around -80db just like the thunderbolt.
 
alarson said:
Personally i never want anything from apple after all the patent trolling theyve been doing lately, taking advantage of our broken patent system. Suing over things like a patent on searching multiple systems at once (something obvious that should be un-patentable) or basically thinking they have the right to the form of a rectangular flat screen phone..and getting judges with no tech knowledge to issue injunctions like they just did against the galaxy nexus. Awful, awful company.
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You obviously never invented something and had it copied. Google and Samsuck are the companies you should be condemning. I also suggest that you take some time to learn what a patent troll is and how injunctions work..
 
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MaccloNe said:
You obviously never invented something and had it copied. Google and Samsuck are the companiesnies you should be condemning. I also suggest that you take some time to learn what a patent troll is and how injunctions work..
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Riiiight.

Its funny how the mantra used to be 'apple doesnt invent new things, they just do them right'... and now apple and its fanboys seem to think that apple invented everything. Suing google\android over search? Really? I think it is you that needs to get a clue.
 
alarson said:
Riiiight.

Its funny how the mantra used to be 'apple doesnt invent new things, they just do them right'... and now apple and its fanboys seem to think that apple invented everything. Suing google\android over search? Really? I think it is you that needs to get a clue.
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"If you can't innovate, litigate"
 
alarson said:
Riiiight.

Its funny how the mantra used to be 'apple doesnt invent new things, they just do them right'... and now apple and its fanboys seem to think that apple invented everything. Suing google\android over search? Really? I think it is you that needs to get a clue.
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So, you believe that Google and Samsung came up with the form factors, layouts and features 100% independent of Apple? Even though Scmidt was on Apple's BOD? And did Apple impose the injunction or did the judge? Why is google developing a work around if they are innocent?

No need to respond as I will be off adding up the boatload of money I made From my Apple stock.:twitcy:
 
Let's get back on topic lol....

Anyway, I feel as though I could break the Samsung GS3 by looking at it. I don't know if I trust the enormous amounts of plastic on the back. The HTC and iPhone however don't have removable batteries.

And I am looking for now and I will not wait for the iPhone5...
 
jbhtexas said:
I'm also needing a phone upgrade, and considering the S3 and Evo 4G LTE (have a Verizon iPhone 4 for work and am not impressed). Below is a link to the Sprint forums where new Galaxy S3 users are having issues regarding signal strength (i.e. dropped calls, phone going into roaming) where other Sprint phones don't have trouble. Not scientific of course, but somewhat concerning about the number of different users all experiencing the same thing.

Sprint Community: Samsung Galaxy S3

I've been an HTC guy for the last few years, so am leaning that way.
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This is a really tough thing to nail down, especially with the typical message board stuff people post. You can't compare bars to bars to determine if one phone has better reception than the other. The bars are just a gui representation of the signal strength, and there is no hard and fast standard for them. My galaxy nexus has a range of 1-4 bars, while my galaxy s displays 1-6. And even if the two phones use the same number of bars in the graphic, the threshold at which they change can vary, as it isn't a set number given to the manufacturer. So 4/6 on an HTC phone could be shown as 3/6 on an LG even if the signal is exactly to the same.

To do a true compare you need to get into the menu, or possibly even a service menu depending on the phone, and compare the actual signal strength. If people were saying they got -91 dBm on phone A and -85 dBm on phone B, that would actually be helpful. But nobody ever actually does that.

That said, if one phone is constantly roaming in a location where the other is not, that is a little more telling. Hopefully if there is anything to this it can be addressed in a software fix, because I am leaning Galaxy III myself.
 
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