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They're both good devices and will treat you fine. The iPhone will probably outlast the Samsung in terms of support, which sounds like it might be important to you.
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Santheb posted:So I think my HTC One M7 finally ate it yesterday. It died and won't even begin to charge, no matter what outlet and charger I use. It's been a good phone but I think its time is up. If you can handle the size I'd recommend the Note 5 and the + over the smaller Samsung and iPhone variants. Other than that can't really go wrong with either choice.
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Okay guys, thank you. I appreciate the input. I'm gonna go fool around with them a little bit and see if I have a preference for one or the other.
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There are lots of cool new phones coming out recently and I was trying to save up to get a Moto X Pure Edition with all the trimmings (bigggest hard drive, protection plan, etc) but I'm not so sure about my decision now. The OnePlus 2 looks interesting, the Droid Turbo 2 seems nice as well, but I was hoping to try Ting and the turbo is verizon only, also it has bloatware. There are so many phones coming out right now in the ~<$600 price range that I'm totally at a loss for what to go with. I'm really not a fan of anything I can't uninstall on the phone, small hard drive and/or no expandable storage, and I'd like a good camera, but other than that I have no strong opinions. I really don't know poo poo about android phones, besides the fact that my Gen1 Moto G was great when I got it, great enough to buy another one to replace my first when I broke the screen, but is no longer cutting the mustard in any regard. Lavender Philtrum fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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TheReverend posted:I have a nexus 5. I have a "real" phone number and a google voice number. Run google apps on this domain. (Bonus: @yourbusiness.com e-mail address for you.) Open a second Google Voice account for this new business. Forward to your phone.
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photomikey posted:Register a domain for your new business venture. You can only forward one google voice number to a phone number at a time. That's the dilemma.
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Lavender Philtrum posted:There are lots of cool new phones coming out recently and I was trying to save up to get a Moto X Pure Edition with all the trimmings (bigggest hard drive, protection plan, etc) but I'm not so sure about my decision now. Get a Moto X, Nexus 5X or 6P.
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Country/Provider: USA/ATT (though I'll totally switch if needed) Current contract status: NA. Still rocking a prepaid dumbphone from a million years ago Budget (phone/plan): ~400 or so, I guess. I'll double take at the price later Features I know I want: I want something that's basically an iPod that make can calls and text and poo poo. Something with lots of storage and audio (call) quality is probably my #1 thing. Not a Phablet as i have tiny baby hands. I'd like to keep my old number, if possible. like to avoid a restrictive contract, if possible I'm not sure if I want to go iPhone and keep everything simple-ish with my tunes or go to Android. The new Nexus' with Project Fi seem cool and interesting. I guess if I go Apple, I want the 6S? Not sure how the different carriers differentiate themselves.I live near Philly if it matters.
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DOOP posted:Country/Provider: USA/ATT (though I'll totally switch if needed) Price of entry for an iPhone with a usable amount of storage is $750, so you need to either double your budget or look at other options. Is the "lots of storage' for music, or photos, or what? If you just want a basic smartphone that can hold all your music and don't need high performance / giant screen, you really might get by just fine with a 16GB 2015 Moto G for $220 and a 64GB microSD card for $20.
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Note that according to spec sheets, the Moto G 2015 only supports up to 32GB microSD cards.
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I have Cricket and am tired of using the garbage phone I got at the time (HTC Desire 510). What's the best general Android phone I can get unlocked for around $150? I'm not that picky, don't care if it's used or whatever, I just want something that's less of a pain to use and that'll last me for a bit (because I can't afford to get another one for a while) Should I wait for Black Friday, do phones go on sale then or like - do people sell their old ones then? I dunno, don't buy cell phones that often!
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Twerk from Home posted:Price of entry for an iPhone with a usable amount of storage is $750, so you need to either double your budget or look at other options. Is the "lots of storage' for music, or photos, or what? If you just want a basic smartphone that can hold all your music and don't need high performance / giant screen, you really might get by just fine with a 16GB 2015 Moto G for $220 and a 64GB microSD card for $20. Yeah a basic smartphone for music is what I want. I have a ~ 2011 iTouch that I love and would still use but carrying two devices is a drag and the battery is on the fritz. Will the Moto G eventually upgrade to Marshmallow?
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DOOP posted:Yeah a basic smartphone for music is what I want. I have a ~ 2011 iTouch that I love and would still use but carrying two devices is a drag and the battery is on the fritz. Maybe. Motorola used to have a stellar reputation for updates, but recently has been more hit or miss. That being said, from what you described the Moto G fits you perfectly. So I would second that recommendation. Plan wise, I can definitely testify that ATT is fine for Philly coverage wise. You are probably currently paying $40-50 if you are on postpaid ATT with a dumb phone. Cricket is owned by ATT and uses ATT towers, you can get that as low as $35 a month with autopay for call, text and 2.5GB of data (and you can keep your number). The main downside is prepaid LTE 4G speeds on ATT is capped at 7-8mb vs postpaid which is 10-30, but for your usage it would seem like a huge upgrade either way. Postpaid ATT would start at $50 for call, text and 2GB, but all that gets you is slightly faster internet.
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Hat Thoughts posted:I have Cricket and am tired of using the garbage phone I got at the time (HTC Desire 510). It's a "lower end" phone, but my girlfriend is using a new moto E as a backup phone after her Droid Turbo got destroyed in a flood and she REALLY likes it. Plus I think she got it for like $40 new? Worth considering at the very least!
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pun pundit posted:Note that according to spec sheets, the Moto G 2015 only supports up to 32GB microSD cards. Also note that this is due to some licensing garbage and people have put larger microSD cards in them without issue.
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Good to know. I've had one on order for over a month now and the only retailer to offer the 16GB version in Norway keeps pushing back the delivery date. I'll just get a nexus 5x instead.
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My wife's iPhone 6 went down the toilet and is now "beyond economical repair" so we're on the look for a replacement. We got the value of the iPhone back from the insurer (£539) so can spend up to that but she's happy to look at alternatives and save some money. Her only real requirements are good size storage and a good camera, she loves my Note 4 but it's too big for her. Any suggestions?
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Oct 30, 2015 23:58
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Santheb posted:So I think my HTC One M7 finally ate it yesterday. It died and won't even begin to charge, no matter what outlet and charger I use. It's been a good phone but I think its time is up.
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My nexus 5 is nearly dead and heald together with tape. I'd much rather stay with android but have the fallback of my dad's old iphone5. I'd like to spend up to £300 on a new phone but the problem is that everything I look at is so loving big. Nexus 5 is the limit of size I'd like but I can't find anything smaller. Any suggestions?
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Howdy phone thread, I've still running a Galaxy Nexus from about 3-4 years ago and finally decided that having a phone that dies every 5 hours is inconvenient enough to warrant a new one. I figure pretty much anything on the market now is probably slightly better than the Nexus, but would be interested in hearing which are considered the top phones right now. I'm in the US, and would ideally like to get either something good ~$200, or can shoot up to $400 for something really spiffy. For plans, I've been on Sprint for quite awhile now, but am think their rental plans are all awful and they haven't really done much to encourage me to stick with them. I really, really dislike the concept of renting a phone. Getting unlimited data is probably the most important thing for me, but getting a plan that's ~$60/mo but could tolerate something more expensive. Thanks!
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Oct 31, 2015 21:00
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Only Sprint and T-Mobile offer unlimited data that I'm aware of. $60 isn't going to get you there. It looks like it's either $70 on Sprint or $80 on T-Mobile, though both have plans with limited LTE data, and unlimited throttled data. Might be worth re-evaluating your data usage and seeing if you can get away with less (T-Mobile doesn't count music streaming against your cap, so that might lower your usage a lot). I guess if you want some specific ideas: T-Mobile plan with whatever amount of data, and either a 16 GB Moto G ($220), a Moto X (starting at $400), or Nexus 5P (starting at $380). Might be worth waiting until Black Friday/Cyber Monday for the Motorolas, since they've had some decent deals in the past.
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Country/Provider: USA/AT&T Current contract status: Month-to-month (not under contract) Budget (phone/plan): Open (currently paying $120/mo) Features I know I want: I'd like to stay in the iPhone family; probably need to stay with AT&T based on local service/availability (Mississippi)?? I'm paying $119/mo with AT&T for this: -FamilyTalk Nation 550 with Rollover: $50 -3GB data: $30 -200 texts: $5 -add'l line with 200 MB/200 texts: $30 Total after taxes, employer discount, etc.: $119 The above plan meets our needs, but I'm looking to either save money or upgrade devices, or both. We have a pair of iPhone 4S phones that are showing their age, but are still chugging along. I'm not dying to upgrade, but I'd do so if it makes sense. Am I leaving money on the table by not upgrading when I'm eligible?
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Easychair Bootson posted:Country/Provider: USA/AT&T Yeah, assuming said person will never go over that 200mb plan, you won't beat that price. Prepaid could, but I wouldn't do cricket in Mississippi where you might need roaming. Upgrade phones on two year contract, the iPhone 6 starts at $140, 6S starts at $240. Edit: If the coverage is there Verizon is: $60 for call/text/6GB of data. Or $45 for 3. Data is shared. $20 a line. $22 each for an iPhone 6 (not 6S). Maybe you get a work discount as well? $144 (6Gb) or $129 (3GB) before taxes and possible discount, don't pay $140 up front for phones. Your plan is hard to beat, but that's an option. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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I think my HTC One M7 is going to eat it soon and I've been debating these phones: Huawei Honor 7 LG G4 HTC One A9 (probably not available soon as I'm in Malaysia) I'm still trying to figure out which is the best value for money that doesn't have stupid manufacturer faults, which the A9 I predict will have since HTC is not having the best economic outlook now. I would prefer not to touch the iPhones, Samsungs and the *mis.
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Of those, I'd go for the LG.
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Thanks, I may go for that.
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Country: Belgium Carrier: Mobile Vikings (with sim-unlocked phones, so no phone+carrier plan for me) budget: max €300-400, but if I can get what I want for less, that's ok, too (only for the phone, phone plan is pay-as-you-go). I'm looking to buy a new phone after my HTC Desire Z has finally (after many years) given up. I'd like an Android Phone that supports at least 5.0, 5.1 or 6.0 (if that's possible within my budget). I've gone to the stores to try out sizes, and I decided on max a 5" screen (5.5 is just too big), but between 4 and 5 is good as well. I'd like to be able to open all websites (my Desire Z had some problems with sites which aren't optimised for older phones) and do so at reasonable speed. Gaming/special apps are not necessary. A good camera would be nice, but a mediocre one isn't a dealbreaker. I just want a really, really fast smartphone that does what I want, gives me fast internet, opens the menu, ... instantaneously (and without a 30-60 sec delay, as my old phone had) and that won't become a slow brick within 2-4 years. Does this mean I need one of the higher-end phones?
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Generally, if you want someone to last for as long as possible, it means spending as much as you can now, so yeah. For a specific recommendation, a Nexus 5X is probably your best bet and might even be within your price range (I have no idea what it costs over there).
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Endless Mike posted:Generally, if you want someone to last for as long as possible, it means spending as much as you can now, so yeah. For a specific recommendation, a Nexus 5X is probably your best bet and might even be within your price range (I have no idea what it costs over there). It looks awesome, but it is about €470, so not within my budget. One of my tech-savvie friends recommended the OnePlus 2. Is that a good phone (if I can get an invite)? Pennfalath fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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Pennfalath posted:It looks awesome, but it is about €470, so not within my budget. One of my tech-savvie friends recommended the OnePlus 2. Is that a good phone (if I can get an invite)? It's got some major problems, and isn't really comparable to the flagships from established manufacturers on overall quality. Camera is a little subpar too. I'm shocked by Nexus 5X pricing, here the 5X is $380 base and the Oneplus 2 only model available is $389.
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Twerk from Home posted:It's got some major problems, and isn't really comparable to the flagships from established manufacturers on overall quality. Camera is a little subpar too. I'm shocked by Nexus 5X pricing, here the 5X is $380 base and the Oneplus 2 only model available is $389. Yeah, it's weird, the OnePLus 2 seems to be cheaper over here...
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I'm looking to get a new Android smartphone to replace my nearly-dead Nexus 5. I don't need anything fancy, but one with a really solid battery to use when listening to music would be ideal. Anybody got any suggestions for something around the price-range of the Nexus 5? e: I live in NZ if that helps at all Captain_Person fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Hello, experts. I'm in the U.S., and I've been using an LG Optimus V that I got for $50 on Black Friday 2011, on Virgin Mobile. I pay $37.85 a month for what used to be 300 minutes per month with unlimited text and data, and within the last year, they upgraded me to unlimited minutes too. I've had my same Hotmail account since 1997, but when Microsoft recently changed Hotmail to Outlook, my old Hotmail app stopped working, so last night, I tried to uninstall and reinstall it. That didn't work -- it forced me to upgrade to the new Outlook app, and unfortunately that isn't compatible with my old phone. So now I don't have my main e-mail on my phone anymore, and I lost most of my contacts too. And now something happened where I can't even add new contacts through Gmail (which I never use) or my work e-mail, and I can't make outgoing calls anymore either. I get an error message saying "The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly" every time I try. I was really hoping to wait for Black Friday sales to upgrade -- I realize I got my money's worth and then some after three years and eleven months. But considering I can no longer check my Hotmail account, make calls, or even access my contacts, I need to get something sooner rather than later. I'd like to stay with Virgin Mobile since the price is right, and I would like to keep my phone number too. I don't need anything too fancy -- maybe move up from 3G to 4G. But I mostly use my phone for checking multiple e-mail accounts and the Awful app to entertain myself out in public. The Optimus doesn't have a lot of storage space, so I had to uninstall Facebook and most other apps a few years back. Oh, and I'd really love to keep this in the $100 range. Am I being unrealistic here?
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I'm sure you can get something that will work relatively okay (and certainly better than what you're dealing with now) in that price range. I wouldn't say any of the options on Virgin are *good* though. Looking at their site, I'd recommend stretching your budget a bit and getting a $150 Moto G. If I were to really recommend something, it would be to stretch your budget even more, get a 16 GB Moto G and move to a GSM provider just to get away from being on a Sprint MVNO, but if you're happy with your service, that's not really for me to tell you to do.
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Endless Mike posted:I'm sure you can get something that will work relatively okay (and certainly better than what you're dealing with now) in that price range. I wouldn't say any of the options on Virgin are *good* though. Looking at their site, I'd recommend stretching your budget a bit and getting a $150 Moto G. Thank you! By GSM provider, you mean a mainstream carrier? Because just this morning, my friend strongly recommended the Motorola G and a switch to T-Mobile. I wonder if that would raise my monthly bill significantly.
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T-Mobile, AT&T, and their various MVNOs are GSM providers. Cricket's cheapest plan is $35 if you set up autopay and has unlimited minutes and text, 2.5 GB of high-speed data, and unlimited throttled data, which is probably better than what you're actually getting on Virgin from looking at their current plans (though I suppose it's possible you're on an older one that has true unlimited data...not that it actually matters with a 3G phone).
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Thank you! By GSM provider, you mean a mainstream carrier? Because just this morning, my friend strongly recommended the Motorola G and a switch to T-Mobile. I wonder if that would raise my monthly bill significantly. There's also the T-mobile "nerd plan" @ 30/mo, 100 minutes of talk, unlimited texting, 5GB high speed data for $30/mo.
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I currently have a Galaxy s4. The screen is sgatywred, and the cameras don't work anymore. Plan: Sprint Framily Plan: $75/month for unlimited data. Budget: I'd like to bring the monthly cost down to about 50 dollars total. I have about 600 bucks saved up, and would like to possibly buy a phone outright and go with a budget carrier, like Cricket? I have my eye on the Nexus 6P.
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Xile77 posted:I currently have a Galaxy s4. The screen is sgatywred, and the cameras don't work anymore. Cricket, Google Fi, or T-mobile would all get you there. Cricket is probably the best all-around option, but Fi could be much cheaper if your data usage is light.
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