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My $20 mistake... (trying Android)

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My wife has my Galaxy S II now and whilst I didn't experience any performance issues with it, I'm surprised how my lower PPI Titan looks better with its Super LCD 0when I use the GSII.

I wasn't entirely sold on SAMOLED+ when I first used it and much prefer screens on the iPhone 4/4s, Galaxy Nexus and Titan.
 
wordoflife said:
This isn't anything new IMO. My friend recently got the Galaxy Nexus and it's just as cruddy as his Droid X. Slow, laggy, same "feel". Yeah it looks nicer when you aren't touching it and are just looking at the home screen or pics of it online, but when you get to actually using it ... SSDD
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Highly suspect statement there. I went from iPhone to galaxy nexus and its not laggy. Unless you thought iPhone was already laggy.

But anyhow there will be some who keep thinking somehow the iPhone is magically smooth. Truth is apple will gladly update your phone till it barely works. Like what happened with the 3g which became extremely annoying and facilitated my switch to the 4.
 
cotak said:
Highly suspect statement there. I went from iPhone to galaxy nexus and its not laggy. Unless you thought iPhone was already laggy.

But anyhow there will be some who keep thinking somehow the iPhone is magically smooth. Truth is apple will gladly update your phone till it barely works. Like what happened with the 3g which became extremely annoying and facilitated my switch to the 4.
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My work colleague next to me has the Nexus and it is laggy. Not all the time but it does lag.
 
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thekev said:
Did we really require another troll thread on this topic? My only issue with Apple's sandbox is that they can remove developers or deny an app for any reason they wish. There isn't much neutrality there.
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That's a good thing. There is so much BS in the marketplace. Prob more bad apps then good, legit ones. I don't think twice about downloading anything in the app store. Not true fro marketplace. Anytime my wife wants an app, I have to sit down and really check it out to be sure it's not going to brick the phone after downloading. I'll take apple monitoring the app store and devs any day.
 
Did this about 9 months ago with a Galaxy S (Captivate), I found the same conclusions as the OP compared to my iPhone 4 pretty much. Sold it for like a 10$ loss on ebay.
 
I got my HTC Aria for free through Best Buy about a year and a half ago. It's a good phone, I've been mostly happy with it, but there are enough negative things about it that make me want to switch back to iOS (my previous iOS device was an ipod touch from two years ago).

1) I have spent money on iOS apps - not a lot, but I'm broke, so enough.
2) Quality of free apps in the app store sucks compared to iOS - the best solitaire game I can find for free doesn't have an undo button for the game I play the most. Other apps I enjoy using aren't available for the android.
3) Camera pictures are taken by pressing the optical joystick. Doing that jiggles the phone, of course, which ruins 99% of my pictures. No flash is also a major bummer
4) Not all apps can be run off the SD card. My stupid little Aria has only 512 megs of internal memory. I joined Weight Watchers in November, downloaded the app, only to find out it is required to run on internal memory, and takes up over 100 megs of space. Even with deleting everything I could I didn't have enough room to run my app
5) Random crashing of apps with weird error messages. Now, I've been a Linux sysadmin for years. Back in the days before Debian/Ubuntu hit mainstream popularity. I'm no stranger to odd error messages, but none of my google searches found any illuminating fixes for my problem. It finally fixed itself, but it was annoying to have my phone reboot itself at random times.
6) Stupid capactive buttons. Hopefully HTC has fixed this, but I'm forever swiping one of the buttons with the side of my thumb and zipping back to the home screen
7) Lack of OS support. I'm running Froyo on my phone because the officially supported updates stopped after that. I should probably consider myself lucky that I even got Froyo to begin with! I'm not interested in custom roms, so I never tried to find out if I could run newer OSes on it or not.
8) The messaging app sucks. I can't search for contacts by name, it pulls up some of my facebook contacts - which aren't even in my contact list - but not the one I wanted to text.
9) AT&T won't let me sideload apps without a third party sideloader hack, which means getting the nicer free apps from the amazon store is more work than I'm willing to do.

Other than that it's been a good phone. It normally just works, the speed is OK, I like the HTC Sense UI. I like the photo widgets that let me have pictures of my cats on my home screens, and the agenda widget. I like the scrolling background. I like the call quality and the speaker quality. Points 1-9 are dealbreakers though.

I would hesitate before trying Android again. I won't say I'll never try it again though, because every time I say never I end up doing exactly that. (/me looks at her netbook running Ubuntu - I swore I'd never use a non-windows OS on my computers...)
 
Freedom of choice ! I recently switched to the dark side with the new Samsung Galaxy Note, and am liking it very much so far, but I am always looking for the next best thing.

If Iphone5 surprises us with a larger screen, I'll give it a look as well.

New gadgets are always fun. I loved my iphone4, but I guess I just wanted a bigger screen because my eyes are not what they used to be!

I can criticize both my Iphone4 and my new Note, but for me the bigger screen trumped the super smoothness of IOS.

I'm sure Apple will keep the great stuff coming!
 
Lindenhurst said:
Freedom of choice ! I recently switched to the dark side with the new Samsung Galaxy Note, and am liking it very much so far, but I am always looking for the next best thing.

If Iphone5 surprises us with a larger screen, I'll give it a look as well.

New gadgets are always fun. I loved my iphone4, but I guess I just wanted a bigger screen because my eyes are not what they used to be!

I can criticize both my Iphone4 and my new Note, but for me the bigger screen trumped the super smoothness of IOS.

I'm sure Apple will keep the great stuff coming!
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Has the size of the Note been an issue for you?
 
I have to wonder if there's a difference between the international and American editions of the phone because I get no such lag on my galaxy s2..it's the smoothest phone I've ever owned by far. 😕
 
matttye said:
I have to wonder if there's a difference between the international and American editions of the phone because I get no such lag on my galaxy s2..it's the smoothest phone I've ever owned by far. 😕
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Every American version of the phone is slightly different. It's carrier BS.

EDIT: Thumbing down an absolutely true statement makes me LOL...
 
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I have used alot of the Android phones and they do get better with age. But it will never have the smooth experience of iOS thats a fact. It will never scroll as smooth, navigate as fluid, or have the elegant design. (Not even the Galaxy Nexus which I have used)

Android is not about attention to detail they are about a broad experience. Now on the same note. iOS will never be as open or as free as Android. The brass tacks are what are you looking for in a phone.
 
ap3604 said:
I figured for $320 for an unsubsized phone that just came out in Sept/Oct that I had a cushion to sell it back easily on craigslist for no loss (ended up losing $20). Still a good deal though for an unsubsized phone less than 6 months old imo.
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Thread could have ended right here. The GS2 isn't less than 6 months old, it's been almost a year since its release, and the tech is well over a year old. The 480x800 on a 4.3" screen is the reason I dismissed it immediately upon it's US release.

Like someone else mentioned, if you wanted a better experience, should have went with the Skyrocket. The screen would still not be impressive...but the phone and data speeds are much better.
 
ap3604 said:
I thought I was missing something in my smartphone arsenal. Android seemingly had all of the benefits and none of the drawbacks.
- 4.3 inch screen
- SuperAMOLED plus display
- Google maps navigation
- Android openness
- Replaceable battery
- etc

So I go on craigslist and buy a Galaxy S II for $320 thinking maybe I would switch since I couldn't see any drawback to Android atm. Turns out I was wrong.
- The screen is not my thing, it's ok but pixelated
- SuperAMOLED plus is harder to read outside
- Google maps navigation was nice but eventually I need an app w/ on board maps that doesn't use data (in case I'm in a rural area)
- I actually don't have a problem w/ apples sandbox. I have an app for everything I need
- Battery life was worse and took FOREVER to charge. Sometimes I wake up and forget to charge my iPhone and can plug it in on the way to work and charge it up from 20% -> 70% in an hour and be good. W/ the galaxy s II if you plug it in for an hour it would go from 20% -> 32%
- Being OCD I hated the fact that Android uses a bunch of random sized icons, I like how everything is uniform and clean on the iPhone
- The Galaxy S II lagged, not terribly and probably the fastest android I've ever had (w/ dual core exnyos processor) but still it had occasional hiccups you def don't see on the iPhone.

I'm selling this Galaxy S II as we speak and am happy it only costed me $20 to learn my lesson... Stick w/ the iPhone 😉
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This description contains some obvious lies. 20% to 32% in one hour means that it takes 8 hours to charge SGSII. That's a lie.

"occasional hiccups you def don't see on the iPhone" another obvious lie. If anything SGSII is faster than iPhone 4S on most operations (like application loading).

"I actually don't have a problem w/ apples sandbox." also a lie even if you don't realize that. There was a reason why you wanted to try Android, right?
 
Buildbright said:
I have used alot of the Android phones and they do get better with age. But it will never have the smooth experience of iOS thats a fact. It will never scroll as smooth, navigate as fluid, or have the elegant design. (Not even the Galaxy Nexus which I have used)

Android is not about attention to detail they are about a broad experience. Now on the same note. iOS will never be as open or as free as Android. The brass tacks are what are you looking for in a phone.
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That's a lot of absolutes. It's sort of like the Romans thinks Hannibal will never be able to cross the mountains.

Being absolutely unwilling to consider change and outside possibilities is a dangerous mind set. People's beloved apple would certainly end up bankrupt if they think like that.
 
lilo777 said:
This description contains some obvious lies. 20% to 32% in one hour means that it takes 8 hours to charge SGSII. That's a lie.

"occasional hiccups you def don't see on the iPhone" another obvious lie. If anything SGSII is faster than iPhone 4S on most operations (like application loading).

"I actually don't have a problem w/ apples sandbox." also a lie even if you don't realize that. There was a reason why you wanted to try Android, right?
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Please try harder next time... this was a truly pathetic attempt to try and get me in an argument 🙄
 
ap3604 said:
I don't need to, your the one bringing this mess into the thread. Btw even worse 2nd attempt than the 1st 🙄
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Well, let's analyze some of the things he said...

20% to 32% in one hour means that it takes 8 hours to charge SGSII.

I can get on board with saying you either exaggerated, or you had a faulty phone. It does not take the average SGS2 a full day to charge. It's as simple as that.

"occasional hiccups you def don't see on the iPhone"

I do see occasional hiccups on the iPhone as well, namely when I am typing fast in Safari (like responding to this thread). I have seen this in every iPhone I have ever had. Granted, it is much nicer on the 4S than any previous phone.

"I actually don't have a problem w/ apples sandbox." also a lie even if you don't realize that. There was a reason why you wanted to try Android, right?

I have no rebuttal for this one. I would say this was the only statement made purely to get a rise out of you.

JMO 🙂
 
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