iphone 4 ehhehheheehheeeehe

Grayman !cPS3sUXjaM   10/07/10(Sat)13:03

I think EVO 4G is currently the most pro, Galaxy S beats it in some ways but I don't think it does overall. If you mean the HTC Incredible it's like EVO but a bit worse iirc, droid 2 won't be out for ages. Droid x is apparently pretty good though so just check reviews for all of them and see which has the most features in your favour. Also just go into shops and ask to play with them, they don't mind

Spozm   10/07/10(Sat)15:24

Droid 2 coming in august probably, some other motorola Android phone coming in december with a 2GHz processor which will blow everything else out of the water, rumored some 1.5GHz android phone coming a few months before the 2GHz is announced...

I'm getting a Droid X next week tho, shit looks awesome.

>>5264
Is this just a bad time to buy a cell phone or something or is the tech always advancing at this rate?

You say that you're buying an X as well so I guess that's a good sign. I just don't want to buy this phone and then find out a week later that I should have either bought something else or waited another month to pick up a better phone. This will be my first smartphone so I don't want to get stuck with something mediocre

Grayman !cPS3sUXjaM   10/07/11(Sun)05:45

>>5265
>Is this just a bad time to buy a cell phone or something or is the tech always advancing at this rate?

tbh with phones its racing ahead ridiculously fast. If the Droid 2 is really coming out in august as >>5264 says you might as well wait, but you're not gonna be disappointed by the X

Spozm   10/07/11(Sun)08:56

>>5269
Droid 2 isn't gonna be technologically superior to X, it is just a different design. Droid 2 is gonna be nearly identical to the first droid with the slideout keyboard (the keys are a lot better for typing now tho) which will make it fatter, and smaller screen, as opposed to Droid X going with full touch for the much larger screen and slimmer design.

>>5265
IF you have the patience I would suggest waiting for the 2GHz one in december. I mean, realistically, 1GHz is gonna be fast as fuck and nothing is going to need 2GHz to run efficiently any time in the near future, but when a 2GHz android phone hits the market people are gonna start developing processor intensive apps meant for it, and within a few months after that you'll (we'll) end up with a bunch of apps that don't run well on droid X because of the slower processor.

Technology (in general) is basically always advancing this fast, but right now the smartphone market is on fire as Google and other competitors see their chance to finally bring down Apple's chokehold. And if you do wait til december, who's to say there won't be a 3GHz phone on the horizon at that point? One thing about the X is that right now Verizon still has unlimited data plans, and that will be changing very shortly, it was supposed to have changed already but they held off on changing their plans so that people would buy Droid X with unlimited plans instead of iPhones with no such option anymore. So if you get an X right away, you can still get an unlimited data plan before they stop offering them.

Wow that was a lot of text but I've been researching a lot because my old iphone 3g is a piece of shit and broken (it rings and vibrates randomly, sometimes for a half hour) and because the subject interests me!

OH MY GOD I NEED A 2GHZ PHONE TO SEND TEXTS TO FRIENDS I DONT HAVE GUUUUUUHHHH

>>5270
OP here. Replying to your wall of text with my own.

If it were up to me, I would have no problem waiting another 6 months or so for the 2GHz phones. I keep hearing about this mysterious, possibly non-existent Droid Pro that should be out in December or January and how it's going to be the phone to end all phones. Unfortunately, the phone I have now is 4 years old and is falling apart after many years of great service. Some of the crucial buttons work only when they feel like it and the phone will randomly turn itself off despite being on a full battery. Like it or not, now is the time to upgrade.

As you can probably tell by the fact that I haven't upgraded in 4 years, I don't really keep up with cell phones and cell phone news. I'm more than ready to take the plunge into the smartphone world, but all I have to go by in making a decision are reviews and the random names thrown out by fanboys/trolls. "DROID X SUCKS. GET THE GALAXY S. MOTO MAKES SHIT PHONES. GO WITH HTC". I've read more cell phone reviews in the past week than I care to admit, and frankly it's just giving me a headache. The X seems like a great choice, but I don't want to buy it, find out that I should have gone with something else instead, and be stuck with a mediocre phone for two years.

Spozm   10/07/11(Sun)14:37

>>5272
X is gonna be great, my only issues with it are issues that will probably never concern you (the bootloader is locked and thus far devs have been unable to crack it for the past 7 months, as it is the same loader from the moto milestone) and even with em I'm buying it.
And >>5271
They're hardly even phones any more, current smartphones are effectively handheld computers. Once they hit the 2GHz mark, corporations are likely to move towards giving out smartphones to their employees instead of company laptops. You hardly buy a $200 phone and pay their ripoff data fees to send text messages (text message rates are a total racket too I mean fuck a text message is such a minuscule amount of data traffic on their network compared to a voice call but that's a different subject)

Grayman !cPS3sUXjaM   10/07/11(Sun)14:59

Just go to a phone shop, ask to try them and see what you like, that's what I did. No point indefinitely waiting for new tech either

>>5274
Well, the X and Verizon's version of the Galaxy S aren't out yet, so you can't really go in to the store and try them out.

I got lucky when I was in there shopping a few days ago because I met a salesman who was a bro and let me play around with his own, personal one for a few minutes. Naturally, I didn't get to explore everything on it, but it did seem like a pretty nice phone. Just wondering if there's anything better out there before I commit to this.

Spozm   10/07/12(Mon)22:30

TWO
DAYS

Spozm   10/07/13(Tue)23:23

ONE
DAY

>>5336
I can't wait. I'm gonna be heading there tomorrow morning about an hour before the store opens to make sure I get one.

I hope the camera on it is decent enough. I've been reading some more reviews and from the sound of it, the camera isn't all that great.

Grayman !cPS3sUXjaM   10/07/15(Thu)05:04

>>5350
I still find it amusing how my N95 from 3 years ago still has a much better camera than nearly every other phone on the market. But then I got a compact the size of a credit card so I don't really care about phone cameras any more

Spozm   10/07/15(Thu)22:54

droid x is fucking cool
that is all there is to say on the matter

Spozm   10/07/15(Thu)22:54

>>5378
but motorola and their gayass widgets can go suck a dick, shitting up the glorious android OS with their bullshit

Fucking 2.2, when are you coming out?

stuck with att dont want iphone is the htc aria anything special

Grayman !cPS3sUXjaM   10/07/16(Fri)04:59

>>5379
you can just install vanilla android pretty easily afaik

WAKI MIKO!1RAYMOObes   10/07/16(Fri)07:11

>>5385
http://gizmodo.com/5587801/motorola-is-willing-to-break-the-phone-they-just-sold-you

Grayman !cPS3sUXjaM   10/07/16(Fri)09:36

>>5386
EVO 4G is still king of phones then

Grayman !cPS3sUXjaM   10/07/16(Fri)09:36

>>5387
(unless you want a phys kb)

Spozm   10/07/16(Fri)10:20

eFuse most likely does not brick the phone, the only problem is that the bootloader is locked and a workaround has not yet been found.

WAKI MIKO!1RAYMOObes   10/07/17(Sat)04:50

update on the efuse story

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/motorola-responds-to-droid-x-bootloader-controversy-says-efuse/

i find myself needing a new phone, and it must have a physical keyboard. walmart currently has the droid for 50 bucks plus a 74$$ a month plan, can anyone reccomend something cheaper but as/more powerful.

Grayman !cPS3sUXjaM   10/07/18(Sun)05:07

>>5412
If you want more of a portable pc, nokia n900

other than that I still don't think there's many good keyboarded phones

Here's a stupid question.

On the Droid X, I'm trying to use the social networking app with my Facebook account, but every time I sync it, it dumps all of my Facebook contacts into my phone. Is there anyway to stop that? I, like most people, have a ton of friends on Facebook that I don't talk to on a regular basis and thus, dont' need in my phone.

Spozm   10/07/20(Tue)01:01

>>5431
Ditch all the motorola crap like the social networking app (and all the bloatware widgets slowing your shit down). Download Facebook for Android.

Zugzwang   10/07/27(Tue)11:15

Here's a question; Android 2.2 has this cool portable hotspot feature, which I noticed the Droid X had despite running 2.1. It seems this is not a feature of android though and you have to pay separately (at least on Verizon) for data. so whats gonna happen to this when theres a 2.2 update for the Droid X?

Marty Chang   10/07/28(Wed)04:57

>>5650
Verizon disables the tethering feature in Froyo for their phones? They have control over the OS they ship, don't forget. You could just root your phone and install Froyo yourself.

Zugzwang   10/07/29(Thu)21:11

>>5656
Probably something I'd end up doing anyway

yea sprint charges 30/mo for tethering but as soon as froyo comes out for evo im rooting it and getting that shit for free

Spozm   10/08/01(Sun)20:28

>>5650
>>5656
>>5694
You can root your phone and get it for free, right now. I have already done so on my Droid X, on 2.1. Root your phone and download Wireless Tether from the android market.

>>5756
I was gonna wait until tues when HTC puts out their 2.2 ROM

bomblol!KPLOVE2Ymk   10/08/02(Mon)19:59

is us cellular ever gonna have an android phone

I sell these shits to dumb fucks all day.
Biggest complaint I've seen hands on and from customers is the touch screen is utter shit with responsiveness, and it will lag if it isn't a super basic HTML page.
If you're rolling with verizon, depending on the state, you should go kill yourself and get fucking boost mobile or something equally as shitty. There's a reason tracfone is ditching verizon's towers and moving to GSM.

>>5773
What? If anything, the Droid X screen is too responsive, as it's pretty easy to accidentally launch an app when trying to scroll down.