smartphone recommendations

[trickblue]

Either way, you'll overpay for and use like 1/15 of the features on your phone.

You're probably right about that for some, but I pretty much run my entire life on mine...

 

[Dallas]

Wow... the Droid Brigade says iPhone users are uppity, pretentious know-it-alls, then in one fell swoop you prove the opposite...

Congrats Dallas...

But I do know it all. What am I now?

 

[dez_for_prez]

Tomorrow I am buying my first smart phone. I am deciding on the Android Pro or the iphone. I have done some research and asked people I know.

Which one do you prefer and why?

Currently i have the iphone 3gs. Got it 2 years ago and never had a problem with it. I find the greatest app that i have is simply the safari browser. I usually just use that do find whatever I'm looking for.

Regardless of the phone you get i would suggest a touch screen. Nothing is more annoying then scrolling down a page or listening to someone play on there phone, click click click click (My wife when we are laying in bed)

 

[kmp77]

But I do know it all. What am I now?

j/k...sorta...

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

You're probably right about that for some, but I pretty much run my entire life on mine...

I hear ya. I run my business off of mine now.

Cant wait for this to come to Verizon.

5.8"

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I've never known someone to stop using an iPhone once they started. Countless the other way around. There's a reason they outsell all other phones ten fold. They're just the best phones on the market.

I've know several. I now use an Android.

 

[theogt]

I've know several. I now use an Android.

It's really strange how few people there are that make the change from iPhone to something else. Pretty much everyone I know uses smart phones, and they're almost universally iPhone users. It's amazing they've made a product THAT much better than everything else out there.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

iPhone is great but right about now i'm envious of the Droid Razr Maxx. Battery is ridiculous.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

I can only tell you what I know from research and what we should be getting in our phones.


Right now

1. Galaxy Nexus has best Android system in ICS 4.0 but its still got some work to do.

2. The best Droid phone, IMO, is the Droid Razr Maxx. Its still on Gingerbread but the phone is FAST and they jammed a 3,300mah battery in it. That double of most phones.

3. The iPhone is really a phone for people that just want things to work and dont care about 4G/LTE and fastest processor etc. Its just a what you see is what you get and they nailed that.



So, my recommendations RIGHT NOW are iPhone 4S or Droid Razr Maxx.




If you could...


wait this is going to be a real BIG year for phones. Apple will finally release iPhone5 and it should have LTE.

Samsung is coming out with Galaxy Note(on ATT) and Galaxy Journal(Verizon) that wil be a big phone but it is considered a hybrid. 5.3" BIG.

Agreed. 4G and it'll outlast the iPhone.


http://androidcommunity.com/droid-r...3-day-business-trip-with-no-charger-20120217/

Battery test for Maxx - it lasted 2 days, 15 hours and 30 minutes with full use on one charge. It was down at 5% at the end of that experiment. I am usually down to around 30% by 1pm on my iPhone.

 

[Wimbo]

It's really strange how few people there are that make the change from iPhone to something else. Pretty much everyone I know uses smart phones, and they're almost universally iPhone users. It's amazing they've made a product THAT much better than everything else out there.

that's because it really isn't THAT much better. I realize you are trolling for a fight & I am not going to take the bait. Apple released the iphone, which leapfrogged everything else in the industry by a mile. Fast forward 4 or so years, and now there are several companies that have as good or better products. Apple has managed to develop a blindly faithful following unlike anything I've seen (except maybe Coca-Cola). That doesn't mean it's better.
BTW, according to Neilson, Apple has 28% of the smartphone market while Android is 40%. LINK

 

[theogt]

Yes, this is what the iPhone did to the phone market.

2006 vs. 2012. Talk about Apple getting a "blindly faithful following." That following was the entire phone market.

 

[theogt]

that's because it really isn't THAT much better. I realize you are trolling for a fight & I am not going to take the bait. Apple released the iphone, which leapfrogged everything else in the industry by a mile. Fast forward 4 or so years, and now there are several companies that have as good or better products. Apple has managed to develop a blindly faithful following unlike anything I've seen (except maybe Coca-Cola). That doesn't mean it's better.
BTW, according to Neilson, Apple has 28% of the smartphone market while Android is 40%. LINK

Android doesn't make phones.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Android doesn't make phones.

No, Android makes phones better.

 

[theogt]

No, Android makes phones better.

A significant improvement over bag phones, to be sure. Not much else.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

that's because it really isn't THAT much better. I realize you are trolling for a fight & I am not going to take the bait. Apple released the iphone, which leapfrogged everything else in the industry by a mile. Fast forward 4 or so years, and now there are several companies that have as good or better products. Apple has managed to develop a blindly faithful following unlike anything I've seen (except maybe Coca-Cola). That doesn't mean it's better.
BTW, according to Neilson, Apple has 28% of the smartphone market while Android is 40%. LINK

Apple has had a pretty smart long-term approach to marketing for the better part of a decade, if not longer. They give/drastically slash the price for their computer systems to grade schools. Kids grow up using Apples at school. They get indoctrinated early in life to the product being in front of them. Go to college, same thing. They damn near give the things away to students.

 

[theogt]

Apple has had a pretty smart long-term approach to marketing for the better part of a decade, if not longer. They give/drastically slash the price for their computer systems to grade schools. Kids grow up using Apples at school. They get indoctrinated early in life to the product being in front of them. Go to college, same thing. They damn near give the things away to students.

What? Who the heck grew up using Apples at school? Or college? Where do people sign up for free Apple computers?

You're on crack.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

What? Who the heck grew up using Apples at school? Or college? Where do people sign up for free Apple computers?

You're on crack.

No, UTMSI was given Apples to replace their PC's while I was there in the summer of 2000.

I was telling this to a guy at work just the other day and he grew up in Ohio using Apples from the day he hit middle school. So get your own school district with the right demographics. Same with colleges. Biology department at TSU was full of the pieces of crap until they recontracted with another PC provider and the Apples were thrown out of the door, probably to the business department. In 2010 the overpriced pieces of crap were back here and there. The kids love them. Professors seem to know better and run PC's.

It's not any kind of secret.

 

[theogt]

No, UTMSI was given Apples to replace their PC's while I was there in the summer of 2000.

I was telling this to a guy at work just the other day and he grew up in Ohio using Apples from the day he hit middle school. So get your own school district with the right demographics. Same with colleges. Biology department at TSU was full of the pieces of crap until they recontracted with another PC provider and the Apples were thrown out of the door, probably to the business department. In 2010 the overpriced pieces of crap were back here and there. The kids love them. Professors seem to know better and run PC's.

It's not any kind of secret.

I began reading your post thinking you'd back up what you said. I didn't end it that way, though.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I began reading your post thinking you'd back up what you said. I didn't end it that way, though.

The fact you haven't heard that Apple gives discounts to academic institutions and students doesn't preclude the fact that it does indeed happen. The tobacco industry had great success in bringing in adolescents to their product line, why is it such a stretch to think that Apple doesn't use the impressionable years of a person's lifespan to do the same? Oh, that's right. You've never seen it firsthand, therefore it doesn't exist?

I call it pretty damn smart business, even if I only like one or two of their products.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Yes, this is what the iPhone did to the phone market.

2006 vs. 2012. Talk about Apple getting a "blindly faithful following." That following was the entire phone market.

So what you're trying to point out is that a vast majority of phones today look like PDA's from the 2000-2004 era, including the incorporation of the touchscreens sans stylus? Or that Apple copied the sixth from the left, top row for it's design?

It's no wonder the image you linked comes from a website called "Cult" of mac.