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Best Smart Phone out for Verizon?
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allofmywat.avi
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Just cannot understand why people feel this way.
Oh, is it because the phone button is at the bottom of the screen of an Android device?
Maybe the email app is on the bottom of the screen of the device?
Facebook app is hard to find via search in the market?
Maybe the app's have weird colors and the phone icon used isn't the right color?
I am so lost when it comes to Android, just too dam confusing with it looking almost like IOS but with live wallpapers and easier to custom tailor to my needs/desires.
OH THE HUE MANATEE
You turn on your phone more than 7 times a day?
A week?
If so, you are one odd cell phone user and should be in the Genies Book of World Records.
In closing, choosing a phone because it may take more/less pressure from your hand to turn on and off is quite amusing to me. You're a silly fellow
My friend just got the LG G2. Knowing her usage I had recommended the iPhone 5S, but she wanted a bigger screen (quite rare for a girl, and yes we made jokes about bigger is better
Anyway, the G2 is a nice phone but she's not getting the 1 day battery life that was promised, and LG's skin is ok but has way too many options! I can't really say its worse than any other oem skin. She's been a Android user for a while but still gets confused about all the settings.
Doing the tasks normal people do, i.e. no gaming, it was very hard to tell a difference from my S3, which is 2 generations older. Opening/closing/multitasking seems just as fast. It's all about the user experience and screen size/weight/feel, the internals hardly matter nowadays.
Every female I know either has an iphone, or S4/3/note.......and I only know one who has an iphone. So to say females like smaller phones is just personal opinion.
LG Never said "Hey, do whatever da faw* you wanna do and get a full 24 hour battery life" It's truly dependent on what you do, how you do it. Also, a "full day" is categorized by you waking up and going to sleep.....if your friend is doing basic stuff and not getting 10-ish hours (obviously 20-40% of that is stand-by depending) then she has a bad phone.
Also, booo hoooo my phone has so many options!!! What options is your friend really needing to mess with that isn't already pre-set out of the box?
If she doesn't know what shes doing why is she snooping around the settings?
So she uses Android, for a while now.....and still gets confused? Sound's to me shes an iphone user in desiguse~.....wut does dis wifi button does?!!? omgrz wat is screen brightness do?!
I am starting to wonder if there are less and less techies on this site and more and more of just children who complain a lot.
edit: You said the G2 is as fast as your S3? Well, no duh......lets see:
Running same OS? Check
Running same apps? Check
Running same exact everything? Check
Hardware is 1 gen apart? Check
Cool, so you just proved that 1 gen gap of hardware doesn't improve the over all experience one would have with software.
You turn on your phone more than 7 times a day?
A week?
If so, you are one odd cell phone user and should be in the Genies Book of World Records.
In closing, choosing a phone because it may take more/less pressure from your hand to turn on and off is quite amusing to me. You're a silly fellow
... Are you thinking I mean actually turn the phone on from a completely off state? I mean turn the screen on, like you want to browse the web and the screen is off. The g2 is a pain to turn the phone on, or if its easier to understand, turn the screen on. Do you own a g2? Have you tried using it as a phone everyday? Its a pain to use, you want to text someone, the screen is off. Ok I'll just double tap to turn it on, oh it didn't come on let me do it again, still didn't come on? Ok I'll use the power button to turn the screen on, oh wait they are tiny tiny buttons on the back of the phone that are hard to distinguish. That was my experience.
Double tapping to turn off always worked. Double tapping to turn on seemed like pretty much always had to double tap twice (so 4 times tapping the screen) to get it to turn on, sometimes it would come on with one double tap, sometimes it would take 3 double taps.
Knock isn't a gimmick, its Android......
And I have used a G2 within my companies network for testing droid based phones. It reminded me of my first netbook....sure the keyboard is small as a keychain, but after typing for a while you become accustom to it....
You're the one who bought the phone, not me. And only after owning it you find out these issues?
Why make such a blind purchase? Why not go to best buy multiple times to try out the phone? Ask them to take a brand new one out of the box, my Tmobile store did that for me for the HTC 8X and I got to play with it for about an hour.
Just cannot understand why people feel this way.
Oh, is it because the phone button is at the bottom of the screen of an Android device?
Maybe the email app is on the bottom of the screen of the device?
Facebook app is hard to find via search in the market?
Maybe the app's have weird colors and the phone icon used isn't the right color?
I am so lost when it comes to Android, just too dam confusing with it looking almost like IOS but with live wallpapers and easier to custom tailor to my needs/desires.
OH THE HUE MANATEE
There's a couple of easier explanations.
First: it's a grid of icons. Android fans will complain that this isn't customizable enough, but it's extremely easy to understand -- the icon is the app, not just a shortcut to it.
Also, navigation is a bit more obvious in iOS. Every regular app window will tell you what happens when you go back one step. In Android, it's less obvious; will the back key take you to a previous level in the app you were in, to an app you'd recently switched from, or to the home screen? It's clearer to techies like you and I, but that can be disorienting to newcomers.
And if you didn't know, iOS 7 introduced live wallpapers. Right now there's only the stock ones, but still...
You were right with saying "right now there is only the stock ones" Key word on that ones.....as in 2 are available out of the box, unsure if there are any more on the marketplace....but thats neither here nor there.
I have used every format out there, ios, android, wp, and bb.........never once did I get a device and go "omfg im dying here" and start to panic about where things are.
Maybe its the techie in me.....maybe I just have common sense when it comes to smart phones. Maybe I do my due diligence and actually research things before buying and while owning check out forums to see what the low down is.
It's rather bothersome and kinda pisses me off that manufacturers have to make things in a dummy way because the public (IE; masses) fail to, albeit too lazy to research products on how to actually use them.
You think if a techie phone was created for techie guys it would be anything like ios or android or wp or bb? Hell no, it would be much more complex, less bulky, and everything would be opensource, no marketplace fee's etc etc.....
The fact is, your icons are your icons, shortcuts or not they lead to the program in which you'd like to use. The phone icon brings up the phone (dialer, missed calls, voice mails, contact lists etc etc). The email app brings up email.......
People who think one OS is more complex than the other just really should take their time before giving such a brash undeserved opinion.
Also:
30-day LG G2 review PhoneDog.com
How is knock android? As far as I know the g2 is the only phone that has knock on/off, seems to be an lg feature
It was hardly a blind purchase. I played with the phone at the verizon store on 4 different occasion to get a feel for it, but they put those crappy demos that force the phone to stay on so its hard to get a feel for it when its off. You can remove the demo and turn it off but 30 seconds later it will try to reinstall the demo. You are crazy if you think verizon will give you one out of the box to play with, they won't even remove the cord from the demo one because they are affraid of theft... I already asked if they would since you can't really use the buttons with the big security lock. Maybe tmobile is nicer in their stores but I actually want cell service. (and the verizon version is different so you can't say use another carriers version)
I suppose ATT and T mobile want you to buy their products then if Verzion wont open a box for you to mess around with one.
Or at least un-tether a demo unit.....
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Note 3.
Note 3 and even Note 2 for creativity and productivity.
For consumption only any other device will do such as LG G2, Moto X, S4, etc.
Android is more intuitive but if you prefer something restrictive and limited there are the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Only drawback is they're already obsolete with only 1GB DRAM where after system and video memory usage there's little left for apps so they tend to suffer from frequent low memory crashes.
For consumption only any other device will do such as LG G2, Moto X, S4, etc.
Android is more intuitive but if you prefer something restrictive and limited there are the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Only drawback is they're already obsolete with only 1GB DRAM where after system and video memory usage there's little left for apps so they tend to suffer from frequent low memory crashes.
Depending on your area.
However, if you stick with T-mobile DO NOT BUY THE NEXUS 5 FROM TMOBILE
410ish$ for the 16gb....when it can be had for 350 at the google play store....
yeah I ended buying the 32 gb Nexus 5 at google play store for 440. that's with tax and everything
King Icewind
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Free Galaxy S4 at Best Buy.
Arizonian7
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Good decision OP.
Hmm. It is my understanding the Nexus 5 will not work on Verizon.
I disagree with those who flame the G2. My wife upgraded from the Rezound to the G2 last month. I've used it extensively, and that phone is a beast. It's very powerful, has zero lag, the "knock knock" feature works perfectly, and the keyboard is as smooth as the IOS keyboards. Got it for $99 at Best Buy.
I got this yesterday. Personally, LG G2 is big for me and uncomfortable.
King Icewind
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The G2 is only 1.9mm longer, 0.9mm wider, and 1 mm thicker. Pretty much exactly the same.
The G2 is only 1.9mm longer, 0.9mm wider, and 1 mm thicker. Pretty much exactly the same.
Mathematically they are "same" but I disagree. You really have to hold both to realize the differences. Originally, I wanted to get LG G2 as well but that grip didn't feel right for G2...
FYI, I wasn't even considering S4. I wanted to get either G2 or One.
I will agree, the molding of the phone does matter. Taking the Note series for example, the Note 2 didn't feel very well in the hand and made it feel very large (which it was) but the Note 3 felt much more comfortable and not quite as bulky. Very easy to handle, plus the grip and different materials can have a dramatic affect on the phone.
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So you should only buy the phone if you know you are going to always have a good signal?
techguy102
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i would get a iphone 5,or 5s ios is good i have an i phone i reccomend it.
or i would get a galaxy s4.
or i would get a galaxy s4.
He must've switched from VZW to AT&T.
That, or he learned a [H]ard lesson. Lol.
King of Heroes
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Probably too late to the party, but have you considered the Droid Maxx? Its a Moto X with a 3500 mAh battery. Considering how the good the battery life is on the Moto X the Droid Maxx should go for days between charges.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/16/motorola-droid-maxx-review/
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/16/motorola-droid-maxx-review/