I have the Android (I guess Gingerbread, but I have no way of knowing other than it being the 2.3.4 model) Incredible. It's been a good phone, despite the battery life.
What smartphone do you use?
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BlackBerry Bold. It's the IQ 100 of smartphones relative to what's available now.
Ditto
I was satsified with my old blackberry Tour, but for work, I have an "improved" Blackberry Bold, and even compared to my 1+ year old Evo Shift the thing seems so backwards and ancient. My wife has the Galaxy S and that makes it seem even moreso!
RAMA
HTC Incredible - I'll probably trade up for a RAZR later in the year.
No interest in Apple.
No interest in Apple.
I have 0 star trek apps.
Okay, what was the point of that?
Anyway, I'm using a Samsung Intercept, which is a piece of crap. Runs Froyo, so it's way out of date but certainly not capable of running anything more recent. I'll be up for a new phone in January. I'll get a better Android if I can afford it; otherwise, I may skip the smartphone thing.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but as much as I like the idea of Android, its execution leaves a lot to be desired. My previous phone was a Palm Centro. That phone was fast, would run for a week on a single charge, never crashed, and didn't have any absurd restrictions on where I could still applications. Downsides? Well, hardly anyone makes software for it now, because it's a dead platform. If it had GPS capabilities with navigation I'd probably still be using it. But that phone could run Doom, Quake, video game emulators, all kinds of stuff--and be damn quick about it, too. My Android phone? While a lot more powerful in raw terms, it's less capable as far as real-life performance goes. It freezes randomly, the interface is sluggish, battery life is pathetic, and despite having only a handful of apps installed, I'm almost out of space on the internal memory. (I believe that last one has been resolved in a later version? Someone can correct me.)
When I'm up for a new phone, I will evaluate the options very carefully, and I may not go for a smartphone. I just want something that can check my email, send texts and IMs, handle some light web browsing, and do GPS navigation. I don't need it to be a music player (I have one), I don't need it to play games (I have a DS for that), and I don't need to run my whole life from it.
If anyone bothered to make a low-powered Android phone that could do these things while not being a total piece of shit, I'd happily buy it.
don't know about the phone you're talking about there, but i'm running the Samsung Note in Ice Cream Sandwich... and memory is not something i'm even close to running out of lol
With the base ICS Running, Go Launcher, about 6 widgets for stats and information (weather, that sort of stuff), a FB widget and an FTP widget... i will push to maybe 50% of the internal ram... probably less...
As for internal space... um, about 15gb on the internal drive, about 64gb on the external... ICS is now perfectly happy to run apps from either drive, so if you run out of memory somehow on the standard 16gb internal, you can just use your microSD and run apps from there without any slowdown...
If you're looking for a medium powered phone for a decent price, then i'd recommend the original Galaxy S... i had it for about a year before upgrading to the S2, it was fast, ran honeycomb like a bitch, plenty of memory (8 or 16gb internal depending on choice of phone) and a 1ghz processor to back it up... never had a single problem with it... the hardware was limited to only running 32gb microSD cards, but unless you're like me and use it for multimedia and work on the go, 32gb should be plenty...
Can pick up a Galaxy S for about £150 nowdays in stores, probably less second hand if you shopped around
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With the base ICS Running, Go Launcher, about 6 widgets for stats and information (weather, that sort of stuff), a FB widget and an FTP widget... i will push to maybe 50% of the internal ram... probably less...
As for internal space... um, about 15gb on the internal drive, about 64gb on the external... ICS is now perfectly happy to run apps from either drive, so if you run out of memory somehow on the standard 16gb internal, you can just use your microSD and run apps from there without any slowdown...
If you're looking for a medium powered phone for a decent price, then i'd recommend the original Galaxy S... i had it for about a year before upgrading to the S2, it was fast, ran honeycomb like a bitch, plenty of memory (8 or 16gb internal depending on choice of phone) and a 1ghz processor to back it up... never had a single problem with it... the hardware was limited to only running 32gb microSD cards, but unless you're like me and use it for multimedia and work on the go, 32gb should be plenty...
Can pick up a Galaxy S for about £150 nowdays in stores, probably less second hand if you shopped around
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I meant internal space, not RAM. RAM has never been an issue. Sounds like they solved the internal storage problem by throwing tons more space at it. 
My phone has a whopping 183MB of internal storage, so you're a couple orders of magnitude beyond me!
Galaxy S sounds like a good idea for me. Just need to find a Sprint one...
My phone has a whopping 183MB of internal storage, so you're a couple orders of magnitude beyond me!Galaxy S sounds like a good idea for me. Just need to find a Sprint one...
Overrated anyway, most of my Evo Shift's specs were better than the Iphone 4, it had 4G, replaceable battery, expandable memory...even had a slightly bigger screen.
RAMA
Just a regular cell phone user here. Smart Phones strike me as the type of device that you don't see the point of having until you have one, and then once you have it you can't imagine life without it. Of course, that means I don't see the point in spending a lot of money on something that I don't even know that I need yet. Even though I know I would love one.
I'll get hooked on them eventually, but I see no reason to force it. I'll probably end up with an Android.
I'll get hooked on them eventually, but I see no reason to force it. I'll probably end up with an Android.
I've got the HTC Incredible S running Android 2.3.5. Absolutely love the phone and can't wait for the upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich in the next couple of months.
Blackberry Bold 9000 this week running BB OS5, but in the next two weeks we're re-signing our contract and I think everyone in the company will upgrade to iPhones (likely just iPhone 4, not the 4S as we can buy more handsets with just the 4). Should be interesting. Never used iOS before. Been a Blackberry user for the last 3 years.
I got my iphone 4s just a few months ago. I was deciding between the Droid Razr Maxx and the 4s and the Verizon store didn't have the Maxx in any of its stores. I'm an impulse buyer and I bought the Apple. But I think I over bought, because I got the 64gig version and I could have done well with the 16gig version. My reason for the 4s was the available software.
This.
I'm quite happy with my N8 (although to be honest I'm even happier with my comparatively elderly N79). Nokia phones seem to be able to take more "abuse" (for lack of a better term) than other mobile brands I've tried and that's every bit as important to me as a heap of bells and whistles. I wasn't overly impressed with the Android phone I (briefly) used and I won't buy any Apple product as a matter of principle. So I'm hoping Nokia doesn't keel over any time soon.
I often hear people say something similar to your statement of "I won't buy Apple product due to principle. I have no problem with the statement but often wonder what the person actually means, could you clarify? Just wondering, not looking to get into an argument. Just would like the info.
