Buying a Note, what to do about iMessage?

[Walter Bell]

While I agree that apple does things right most of the time, they let others use the latest and greatest tech until the kinks are worked out. All manufactures know that the current LTE chips suck. If all of them were to work the same way as apple, we wouldn't have LTE available to us at all.

Look at it this way, the iPhone 4S gets amazing battery on some pretty old technology. 3G has been around long enough that it has been refined and improved to allow great battery life. It wasn't always that way though, hence the reason the OG iPhone didn't have 3G.

This same concept applies to the current available LTE radios. They suck battery life. As does every new technology. However, Once the idea is created and produced and is able to successfully run 99.99999999% of the time, we can then proceed to improve different components.

You options for today are to buy either the best of yesterday's technology or be the guinea pigs of the future technology.

 

[Walter Bell]

Not hard at all....

Wow impressive! Being that I live in a non LTE area, the best I get is pseudo 4G.

To the OP:

Maybe google voice can help with this for you? I know it's accessible across a few platforms. Not sure how it actually works though.

 

[Wicked1]

Agreed. After 5 years of OS updates, all I can do to personalize my phone is move a 5x4 grid of icons, add some folders (9 icons in each), and change the wallpaper. Made the switch to the GS2 just last week.

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Android doesn't need to change anything except core features because the OS allows you to change the icons to anything you want with a custom launcher.

True, but the OS is flaky sometimes, so I am not sure doing all these fancy theme things will help either OS. I had Android, first 1.6, then 2.1, then 2.3 I did not like it and I did not like the phones, so went back to iOS and everything just works, no locking up, not having to constantly remove the battery was a big plus.

It will be interesting to see what Google/Motorola does when the finally merge. I think a solid phone on one OS will come to play, but how will that sit with all the Android phone makers? not sure but it would be like Apple selling their iOS to other vendors, it will get the OS on millions of devices, but never as smoothly as it sits on Apple's own hardware.

 

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[BiggAW]

I thought Android would be flaky too, but I was surprised at how smooth and stable my epic 4g touch was when I got it. I've never had a slow-down and it's very responsive.

It depends on the phone and what ROM you're on. Some are stable, some aren't. The best experience is AOSP on a GE phone, but some others may be good as well. That's part of Android's problem though, it's hard to know what's going to work well and what isn't.