Smartphones

brekk_sl said:

Joe did you pay an early termination fee? I got my S2 the day it was released by Sprint and won't finish my two year contract until September.

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Same here, I wasn't eligible until October, but I was adding a line to my family plan(for my mother who has no cell phone at all), so *yoink* new S4 for me, and my S2 becomes the hand-me-down. Also as of right now on Sprint, the HTC One was $199 and the S4 is $249 when adding a line/renewing a contract. $100 less than that if you are bringing a number over from another carrier.

Deathwing_sl said:

I think phones without a removable battery still have ways to force a reboot if the phone locks up.

Yep:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc...d-battery.html

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Good to know. I asked the guy in the Sprint store what they do if an HTC One is locked up and you need to force a reboot, and he had no clue, so I was a little wary of the possibility of not having that option.

they bumped the verizon gs4 ship date to 5/23 (10 days from today). what is the current status of root / roms on the other versions?

BrutulTM_sl said:

Anyone else have trouble with the charging plug on their Galaxy Nexus? I'm actually on my second one now and both of them started getting nearly impossible to keep the charging cable plugged in to after 6-8 months. I thought maybe it was the cheap Monoprice cables I used on the first phone but this time I have used only cables that came with the phone and half the time I wake up to a dead phone and I can't drive with the thing plugged in for more than 10 minutes before the plug vibrates out. It's annoying the hell out of me.

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I've had mine since like 3 months after it came out, if the cable is at the wrong angle it will plug and unplug a bunch in a row and not really charge. I mostly find it to be an issue in my car when the cable is plugged in at an odd angle though. I don't believe it has ever been an issue just sitting on my nightstand. Though it is slowly getting worse, so maybe I'm just not as far along as you are.

My old HTC Desire is dying. What should I replace it with - Samsung S4 or iPhone 5?

S4 no contest.

S4 or HTC one both blow away the iPhone 5. My brother-in-law has an iPhone 5, we were comparing it to my new S4 yesterday, and it just makes the IPhone 5 look old and dated. Looks like a phone from like 2-3 years ago honestly when sitting next to my S4 or even my wifes S3, just doesn't even look like it's the same generation of electronics.

Anyone going to get the Linus 928 on Verizon? Pretty much improved 920 and verizons flagship phone

Fair enough - ordered a black S4. Thanks guys, solid

BrutulTM_sl said:

There have been some rumors that IOS 7 will be a "big" update, whatever that means. I wonder if IOS will be getting widgets finally. I think at the very least it will look different and hopefully have better notifications.

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Doesn't matter if they don't increase screen size.

Battery life seems solid on the S4 so far.


That's all with the screen at about 50% brightness, which is PLENTY as bright as the screen on this thing is crazy bright. 50% brightness on the S4 feels about the same as 100% brightness on my old S2. Most of that screen usage time was playing games, which I'm sure has to tax the processor/battery a bit more than just general web browsing or checking emails. Also included about an hour of voice talk time. All of that is with pretty much every bell and whistle turned on. 8 hours on 4G, the rest on wifi, all the weird crap like multi-window, S Beam, NFC, Air view, Air Gesture, Smart Stay, and Smart scroll turned on the whole time.

edit - goddamn screen captures are huge, spoilered them

BrutulTM_sl said:

Anyone else have trouble with the charging plug on their Galaxy Nexus? I'm actually on my second one now and both of them started getting nearly impossible to keep the charging cable plugged in to after 6-8 months. I thought maybe it was the cheap Monoprice cables I used on the first phone but this time I have used only cables that came with the phone and half the time I wake up to a dead phone and I can't drive with the thing plugged in for more than 10 minutes before the plug vibrates out. It's annoying the hell out of me.

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My wife and I both have the Verizon official car chargers and her Nexus won't charge on mine unless she holds it in place. It's definitely looser than it used to be for my phone as well, though fortunately it charges without issue. Her charger holds a lot more firmly in both our phones.

June release, 649$

The mark up on these smartphones is fucking insane.

I'd love a AOSP S4, but not for $650+tax+shipping. I think I'll stick with my N4.