Time for a mobile phone upgrade
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@pmoncho said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
/sigh
I've decided to give IPhones a try, he coming Weeks (probably next pay day) I'll be going to get that - I want to see what the hype is about with those devices. Everyone Rants and raves about them , so Guess it's time to see.
you're jumping the gun... you should wait until the announcement of the next iphone in a few weeks... then the older models will be discounted.
there's a new one coming out?
my step-daughter has her Iphone 8 and she loves it. I have played around on it only a few times but cannot stand it. The one thing I absolutely enjoy about it is the keyboard. I have 80% less typo's than any other phone I have been on (mostly Galaxy S's).
The iphone 8 seemed slower when moving around than my Galaxy S6. That I don't understand..
Interesting. This is exactly how I felt about Android devices. Granted I haven't had once since the Google Nexus 6P or a Galaxy S5 (man what a piece of shit!!!). The Nexus was fine for my day to day use.. I don't feel that the iPhone 6 or 7 I have been using more recently was better or worse than the Nexus.... That said, I had to borrow an iPhone 6 a few months ago while my iphone 7 was being repaired.. and DAMN - it's super slow compared to the iphone 7.
Also - phones get bogged down by having tons of shit installed... so you mentioned it was your daughter's device... how many apps were installed? how many were running when you were using it?
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Interesting. This is exactly how I felt about Android devices. Granted I haven't had once since the Google Nexus 6P or a Galaxy S5 (man what a piece of shit!!!).
This is exactly my experience, too. I've had iPhones since the 3GS and I wanted to try an android phone, so I got the Galaxy S5 when it first came out. Broke the screen TWICE in a matter of 2 months (it was super fragile, I wasn't being any more rough on it than any of my previous phones...). I absolutely hated the interface, it was super jumpy just sliding the home screen left to right. 6 months in I switched back to my old iPhone.
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@bnrstnr said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Interesting. This is exactly how I felt about Android devices. Granted I haven't had once since the Google Nexus 6P or a Galaxy S5 (man what a piece of shit!!!).
This is exactly my experience, too. I've had iPhones since the 3GS and I wanted to try an android phone, so I got the Galaxy S5. Broke the screen TWICE in a matter of 2 months (it was super fragile, I wasn't being any more rough on it than any of my previous phones...). I absolutely hated the interface, it was super jumpy just sliding the home screen left to right. 6 months in I switched back to my old iPhone.
I've been told that starting at the S6 the Samsungs became usable. Samsung is the only type of Smart Phone my wife has ever had... I think she has an S8 now. She NEVER complains about, so they must have gotten better.
Though i agree - that shit interface that Samsung slaps on their phones ---- damn it man... just leave stock android interface!
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@pmoncho said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
/sigh
I've decided to give IPhones a try, he coming Weeks (probably next pay day) I'll be going to get that - I want to see what the hype is about with those devices. Everyone Rants and raves about them , so Guess it's time to see.
you're jumping the gun... you should wait until the announcement of the next iphone in a few weeks... then the older models will be discounted.
there's a new one coming out?
my step-daughter has her Iphone 8 and she loves it. I have played around on it only a few times but cannot stand it. The one thing I absolutely enjoy about it is the keyboard. I have 80% less typo's than any other phone I have been on (mostly Galaxy S's).
The iphone 8 seemed slower when moving around than my Galaxy S6. That I don't understand..
Interesting. This is exactly how I felt about Android devices. Granted I haven't had once since the Google Nexus 6P or a Galaxy S5 (man what a piece of shit!!!). The Nexus was fine for my day to day use.. I don't feel that the iPhone 6 or 7 I have been using more recently was better or worse than the Nexus.... That said, I had to borrow an iPhone 6 a few months ago while my iphone 7 was being repaired.. and DAMN - it's super slow compared to the iphone 7.
Also - phones get bogged down by having tons of shit installed... so you mentioned it was your daughter's device... how many apps were installed? how many were running when you were using it?
Couple friends had the S5 and yes, it was a definite piece of shit. I went from S3 to S6 and looking to go the S9 but they are now making the phones longer and that is pissing me off. I normally put my phone in my front pocket so the larger phones are becoming and issue.
It was about two days after we bought Iphone that is seemed slow. Only downloaded a couple apps and my S6 has roughly 30 with about 5 running. It could have just been timing.
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@pmoncho said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
/sigh
I've decided to give IPhones a try, he coming Weeks (probably next pay day) I'll be going to get that - I want to see what the hype is about with those devices. Everyone Rants and raves about them , so Guess it's time to see.
you're jumping the gun... you should wait until the announcement of the next iphone in a few weeks... then the older models will be discounted.
there's a new one coming out?
my step-daughter has her Iphone 8 and she loves it. I have played around on it only a few times but cannot stand it. The one thing I absolutely enjoy about it is the keyboard. I have 80% less typo's than any other phone I have been on (mostly Galaxy S's).
The iphone 8 seemed slower when moving around than my Galaxy S6. That I don't understand..
Interesting. This is exactly how I felt about Android devices. Granted I haven't had once since the Google Nexus 6P or a Galaxy S5 (man what a piece of shit!!!). The Nexus was fine for my day to day use.. I don't feel that the iPhone 6 or 7 I have been using more recently was better or worse than the Nexus.... That said, I had to borrow an iPhone 6 a few months ago while my iphone 7 was being repaired.. and DAMN - it's super slow compared to the iphone 7.
Also - phones get bogged down by having tons of shit installed... so you mentioned it was your daughter's device... how many apps were installed? how many were running when you were using it?
Man, I loved my GS5, although I think our version here in Canada had a better CPU and processing stack than the US market one (G900W here). Mind you I was running Cyanomod and then LineageOS so none of that touchwiz garbage
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@notverypunny said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Man, I loved my GS5, although I think our version here in Canada had a better CPU and processing stack than the US market one (G900W here). Mind you I was running Cyanomod and then LineageOS so none of that touchwiz garbage
LOL - then you really didn't have a S5 - you had a Frankenstein.
I swapped out ROMs back in that day and age as well, usually with good results. Now days - I really don't care.
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
damn it man... just leave stock android interface!
So much this!
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@notverypunny said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Man, I loved my GS5, although I think our version here in Canada had a better CPU and processing stack than the US market one (G900W here). Mind you I was running Cyanomod and then LineageOS so none of that touchwiz garbage
LOL - then you really didn't have a S5 - you had a Frankenstein.
I swapped out ROMs back in that day and age as well, usually with good results. Now days - I really don't care.
The only reason to swap a ROM out now aside from just because you can... is to squeeze a bit of improved performance out of a phone that's a year or two old. It's usually met with mixed results... but there's not much it can do about a bad battery.
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@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@notverypunny said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Man, I loved my GS5, although I think our version here in Canada had a better CPU and processing stack than the US market one (G900W here). Mind you I was running Cyanomod and then LineageOS so none of that touchwiz garbage
LOL - then you really didn't have a S5 - you had a Frankenstein.
I swapped out ROMs back in that day and age as well, usually with good results. Now days - I really don't care.
The only reason to swap a ROM out now aside from just because you can... is to squeeze a bit of improved performance out of a phone that's a year or two old. It's usually met with mixed results... but there's not much it can do about a bad battery.
I was really wondering why so many ROM mods seemed to have died off. I frankly lost interest. Modding my phone along with the risk of bricking it just fizzed out for me.
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I was really wondering why so many ROM mods seemed to have died off. I frankly lost interest. Modding my phone along with the risk of bricking it just fizzed out for me
I think that the real question was... why was it ever popular
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I was really wondering why so many ROM mods seemed to have died off. I frankly lost interest. Modding my phone along with the risk of bricking it just fizzed out for me
I think that the real question was... why was it ever popular
It's all about tinkering, which is something I never enjoyed. I just want a working phone.That's just it - the phones back then didn't work, at least not well. So it took tinkering to make them work well/better than the crap they were shipping. So I'm guessing that's the answer.
Since the GS6, the phones have been better, less issues, so less need to ROM them.
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Yeah, I haven't seen too many newer devices supported with 3rd party ROMs.
The only reason I flashed our devices 3rd party was to get something closer to "stock" android and to keep getting security updates after the manufacturer discontinued support.
My GS5 was still getting security updates and running a Pie based ROM via Lineage until gravity + parking lot gravel = dead screen.
The SO's ZenFone2 isn't getting updates from anyone anymore, but Lineage gave about 2 years more updates than stock Asus... trying to convince her that a Pixel3 would be a good idea.
My Nexus 7 (2012) wifi got an AOSP build just in May.... not useful for much except low end videos for the kids in the car, or as an alarm clock
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I just want a working phone.
That’s why I stick with iPhone. Everything I do simply works.
Google is not serious about making clean android devices. And I’ve not seen a vendor yet that both updates and has a clean android setup.
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I tried a Samsung a couple years ago after being a long time iPhone user. The battery life was horrible and the "volume warning" whenever you had anything plugged into the headphone jack drove me nuts. I took it back within the 15 day return window and went back to the iPhone. I too feel that it does everything I have ever needed it to do.
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@brandon220 said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I tried a Samsung a couple years ago after being a long time iPhone user. The battery life was horrible and the "volume warning" whenever you had anything plugged into the headphone jack drove me nuts. I took it back within the 15 day return window and went back to the iPhone. I too feel that it does everything I have ever needed it to do.
Yeah, the volume warning is insane. It has no purpose and just makes the phone hard to use while driving.... which should be illegal. The Samsung is good enough that I can tell Android has improved to the point that I want to use it, but is bad enough to never buy from them again.
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@JaredBusch said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Google is not serious about making clean android devices. And I’ve not seen a vendor yet that both updates and has a clean android setup.
I keep hearing that OnePlus is the place for that.
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@JaredBusch said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I just want a working phone.
That’s why I stick with iPhone. Everything I do simply works.
Google is not serious about making clean android devices. And I’ve not seen a vendor yet that both updates and has a clean android setup.
Even Google phones? sure they aren't pure Android, but pretty damned close.
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@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
