Cell phones survey
-
I am now in the market to replace my cell phone, since my iPhone has the dreaded touch disease.
I'm not locked into Apple, so I am open to options. I hated my last Samsung phone, but I've been looking at the Google Pixel. I'm looking for some discussion here on what everyone uses. I'm sure it will be a mixed bag for sure...
-
@fuznutz04 said in Cell phones survey:
I am now in the market to replace my cell phone, since my iPhone has the dreaded touch disease.
I'm not locked into Apple, so I am open to options. I hated my last Samsung phone, but I've been looking at the Google Pixel. I'm looking for some discussion here on what everyone uses. I'm sure it will be a mixed bag for sure...
This will be a very mixed bag. @scottalanmiller will say iphone is the only choice, I personally prefer my edge by far and it has better reviews last time I checked. Google Pixel has good reviews as well. I doubt you'll get a straight answer.
-
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has a very good reviews... but I'll stick with iPhone just because I already used to its interface + Apple Watch. I think it's more of what you will be doing with it. Big screen = Youtube/Netflex.
-
@quixoticjeremy Yeah, the touch thing has been getting worse, to the point of actually doing things by itself. Like if I have the screen turned on, then it randomly pressing things on the screen. It's become a real POS.
-
I really like my Windows 10 phone (Lumia 950xl). I'm going to attempt to hold out until the "Surface Phone", but if not that one, then I'm thinking of either iPhone 8 or Galaxy Note 8 (not out yet?)
-
@fuznutz04 Wow, yeah my old iphone 4 did that and I dealt with it for far too long. I swapped over and I likely will stay with my edge for quite some time.
-
@tim_g I had a Windows phone once. It was OK, but I probably wouldn't go back.
-
@fuznutz04 said in Cell phones survey:
@tim_g I had a Windows phone once. It was OK, but I probably wouldn't go back.
I did too, it was awful.
-
@scottalanmiller said in Cell phones survey:
@fuznutz04 said in Cell phones survey:
@tim_g I had a Windows phone once. It was OK, but I probably wouldn't go back.
I did too, it was awful.
I never did, thankful that I didn't.
-
I'm still on a Samsung Galaxy S5. The thing just will not die, gotta be 3 years old now. I've wipe and reload it a couple of times to bring it back to life and still getting good battery life off the original battery. However, I've been itching to upgrade it to a Google Pixel as well, and switch from AT&T to Google Fi with the Pixel.
-
I've also experience that touch interface issue when I had my iPhone 5c.
I would still add iPhone to your list of possible new phones. -
@magicmarker said in Cell phones survey:
I'm still on a Samsung Galaxy S5. The thing just will not die, gotta be 3 years old now. I've wipe and reload it a couple of times to bring it back to life and still getting good battery life off the original battery. However, I've been itching to upgrade it to a Google Pixel as well, and switch from AT&T to Google Fi with the Pixel.
How did I not hear about Google FI yet? Anyone here use it?
-
@black3dynamite said in Cell phones survey:
I've also experience that touch interface issue when I had my iPhone 5c.
I would still add iPhone to your list of possible new phones.Yeah, it is still in the running for sure. I like the iPhone 7. I'm trying to told out until the next models comes out (Pixel, iphone 7s, and iphone 8, others)
-
I love my Galaxy Note 4, until it died on me. I was forced to upgrade (for free) to the Note 5. That burned. Phone is sealed, so I can't add an SD card or change out the battery. Really felt that Samsung took a step back on that one.
I'm starting to itch for an upgrade as well, but either considering the Google Pixel (I'm still paranoid about Google) or going back to iPhone. Wife would go back to iPhone kicking and screaming as she had problems with hers but loves her Note 4, still has it by the way.
-
@stess said in Cell phones survey:
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has a very good reviews... but I'll stick with iPhone just because I already used to its interface + Apple Watch. I think it's more of what you will be doing with it. Big screen = Youtube/Netflex.
LOL, not for me. I rarely watch videos on my phone. Kills the battery to fast.
-
@scottalanmiller said in Cell phones survey:
@fuznutz04 said in Cell phones survey:
@tim_g I had a Windows phone once. It was OK, but I probably wouldn't go back.
I did too, it was awful.
When did you have one? What OS? version?
-
Think it also depends on what your going to use it for.
If its a mobile office then you might need a top range one. If its just call, text odd email and light browsing then a £60 phone might do, e.g. I had (until the little one broke her phone) I had a Doogee X5 pro from eBay and it did what I needed it to and smoothly.
-
@dashrender said in Cell phones survey:
@scottalanmiller said in Cell phones survey:
@fuznutz04 said in Cell phones survey:
@tim_g I had a Windows phone once. It was OK, but I probably wouldn't go back.
I did too, it was awful.
When did you have one? What OS? version?
Irrelevant as the issues were the malware ecosystem that Microsoft built. That it was technically inferior was not the problem. That MS made it just bad, period, is the issue and no amount of old or version or fixes will correct that. Once you can't trust the vendor, you can't trust it.
My phone is for its functionality, if I wanted a malware platform I don't need to pay MS for it.
-
@nerdydad said in Cell phones survey:
back to iPhone. Wife would go back to iPhone kicking and screaming as she had problems with hers but loves her Note 4,
In the past two years I've used
Samsung S4 - horrible - needed to be rebooted all the time, laggy, etc
Lumia 520 - laggy but otherwise very usable, had the few apps I wanted (outlook email, Starbucks, and normal built in apps)
Lumia 640 - less laggy than 520, very usable, same apps as 520
Google Nexus 6P - Great in the beginning, but after 6 months or so it was noticeably slower. I probably had 20 apps or so on it, outside the factory apps. Decent battery life, 24+ hours with good amount of use. Though when taking a lot of picture, lots of FB/picture uploads/chatting - probably around 6 hours until dead.
iPhone 6s - close to the same size as the 520, so a lot smaller than the rest. Lag is rare, but definitely no were near zero. Pretty much any app out there you want, great battery life. I can get nearly 2 days with low to moderate use. Heavy internet/uploading/photo taking, close to 6 hours until dead. This phone came to me 6+ months used with a cracked screen (haven't replaced the screen and still works 99+% of the time).I've definitely had the least amount of issues with the iPhone compared to the rest. As much as I detest normal Apple users (not IT Apple users), smug bastards, I do have to admit after using this phone - yeah it's pretty damned awesome.
Both the iPhone and the Nexus 6P suffered from not being able to change certain aspects like ring tones to my personal choices versus just the built in ones (though I haven't tried that hard with the iPhone, so maybe it can now too), but my old Android phones and Windows phones all allowed me to use any wav/MP3 file as a ring/notification sound. sucks to be stuck with the crap default options.
-
I've moved two people off of iPhones to Google Pixel over the past two months. The first person would never go back to an iPhone after two months of usage. They really like it and it plugs into the Google ecosystem they had been using previously (which they hadn't been using to the full extent on iOS).
