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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #140 on: June 25, 2015, 04:41:53 AM »
    What country are you in and what carrier do you prefer? This helps me determine availability as well as radio support/performance.
US, stuck with Verizon
    What price range are you considering/how price sensitive are you?
Open to most
    How many years do you go between upgrades?
2, could do more
    If in the US, are you willing to pick up a subsidized phone attached to a 2 year contract?
Yes
    How durable does your device need to be? Are drops a regular occurrence? Do you have kids or pets?
Very, I drop shit all the time
    How important is customizability?
Very
    How important is ease of use? How comfortable are you with new technology/interfaces?
Sure
    What are you using currently?
Galaxy S4, first smart phone. Reasonably satisfied.
    Do you have a lot of music and/or other digital content associated with one platform or another? Are you married to one platform or another for any particular reason?
Don't music on my 'phone
    How long do you spend away from outlets during the day? How important is multi day battery life?
Very important, S4 requires nightly charging which I don't like
    Do you have size considerations? Are you comfortable with a large phone, or is one handed use important?
Comfortable with large 'phone. Prefer to text with landscape mode
    Do you need the fastest, baddest ass device?\
No
    How often do you take pics and in what conditions? Are you an avid smartphone snapper and value good IQ? Do you want to mess with settings or have your pictures just come out great?
S4 was good with camera, I'd like similar abilities
    Any other specific use cases you want to be considered? Do you attend a lot of concerts and need to get a good audio recording? Do you film adventures with your smartphone?
No

Ravi help plz. If you say S6 is apple-fied I want reasonable alternative
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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #141 on: June 25, 2015, 04:51:44 AM »
Quote from: Chris F on June 17, 2015, 04:10:08 PM
IMO these "bang for buck" spec phones like saygus and 1+1 seem great until, after using one, you realize that a significant portion of making a good phone (or any consumer electronics device) comes from the hardware/software integration.

In other words throwing a bunch of chips in a box and getting it to work is relatively easy compared to getting it to work well.


Um, my one plus one works pretty well. No giant issues. I wonder if you actually have used one of those phones that led you to your conclusion.

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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #142 on: June 25, 2015, 05:14:56 PM »
Oneplus one is good in the value segment but i wouldn't recommend it to most regular users. I've futzed with the unit I have on and off for a while and when you fall off the happy path it's a pain in the arse to diagnose.

OJ: I'd take the iphone 6 plus or Note 4 in your spot. If camera wasn't as important, the Droid Turbo would be a no brainer (2 day battery life, pretty decent experience).

I like the Z3, but haven't used the Z3V much (the z2/z3 hybrid Verizon has).
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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #143 on: June 25, 2015, 05:24:11 PM »
Quote from: OJneg on June 25, 2015, 04:41:53 AM
    What country are you in and what carrier do you prefer? This helps me determine availability as well as radio support/performance.
US, stuck with Verizon
 

That's too bad, it sounds like the GS6 Active would be a good option. Tough, much larger battery than the standard GS6, same excellent camera. It's an ATT exclusive though.

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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #144 on: June 27, 2015, 03:08:23 AM »
Is the larger size of the Note 4 more likely to break?
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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #145 on: June 27, 2015, 03:36:44 AM »
Ok, just went to Verizon store. Note 4 is pretty bomb
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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #146 on: June 27, 2015, 03:41:58 AM »
Get the Sony. Wiztouch or whatever sucks. Don't believe the press. All that shit is written by Samsung shills. I was forced by work to get a Samsung S5. It's a POS compared to the Sony Z3. Samsung is for losers. Even the girl at the T-mobile store told me Samsung is for losers. You will never get laid with a Samsung phone. The dude behind the counter had a Sony and said Samsung is for losers.
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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #147 on: June 27, 2015, 03:50:10 AM »
the Sony variant for Verizon is one full generation back currently. Since the next step (Z4 Japan, Z3+ outside of Japan) is about to launch exclusively on Verizon this summer as the Z4v, I'd wait for that.

The Note 4 is okay. You can install Nexus Launcher on anything to at least get rid of the shitty launchers that come with most phones. Other than that, there is still more bullshit on the Note 4 there than Sony tends to put on their phones. Verizon is a crapshoot, though. Who knows what the heck they'll mandate on the device?


All things being equal in mechanical design, a larger screen device will transfer more energy to the screen during a drop, especially on a corner making it more likely to crack if the glass isn't significantly thicker or reinforced. There's a delicate balance you have to strike when you're creating large devices with thin bezels and sufficiently thin glass to keep weight down.
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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #148 on: June 27, 2015, 04:34:03 AM »
Quote from: purr1n on June 27, 2015, 03:41:58 AM
Get the Sony. Wiztouch or whatever sucks. Don't believe the press. All that shit is written by Samsung shills. I was forced by work to get a Samsung S5. It's a POS compared to the Sony Z3. Samsung is for losers. Even the girl at the T-mobile store told me Samsung is for losers. You will never get laid with a Samsung phone. The dude behind the counter had a Sony and said Samsung is for losers.

Lol. The main reason I've stuck with Samsung is their OLED screens. If you like OLED, and I do, theirs are the best in the biz, that, and I hate on screen buttons, and Samsung is one of the VERY few hold outs still using physical home buttons and capacitive touch for task switching and back. Those are the upsides. The downsides are Touchwiz and that they block LTE bands by region because they don't want people importing phones, so you have to buy the T-mobile version if you actually want access to the boot loader AND LTE. With that you can load a custom rom and actually get rid of TouchWiz rather than just papering over it with the stock Android theme and Google launcher, but if you're on VZW, you can forget about any of that. Their phones are totally locked down, so re-skinning and replacement launchers are all that can be done.

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Re: The all purpose smartphone advice thread - regular folks welcome
« Reply #149 on: June 27, 2015, 04:50:38 AM »
Bricked my Note II a while ago so I'm getting a Note Edge next week.

Stoked.
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