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Just went from iphone 3GS, to a Galaxy SII, just couldn't see a point to getting an iPhone 4, and the 4S didn't wow me either.
 
My wife has an iphone 4. I did have a Motorola Atrix(android) and sold it to get a Samsung Focus(windows phone 7) and I must say I am really loving this windows phone. Very impressed!

I'm not eligible for an upgrade until early 2013 so i'll be sticking with this for awhile.
 
Current: Samsung Galaxy S 4G, running Bionix Black Ice.

Next: Some Android phone running Ice Cream Sandwich, since I don't see me updating anytime soon. I love this phone.
 
Just returned my Bionic (too buggy for my tastes, I like my $300 phones to work out of the box)

Using my old original VZW droid for now

They just ordered me an iPhone 4s at the office, if I like that then I'll might just stay put until an LTE iPhone 5/6 comes along if not then I'll probably get a Galaxy Nexus Prime orwhateverthefuckitscalled.

WP7.5 has lots of potential, I might get one after they come out on a kick-ass, quad-core, 4.5", full HD phone
 
It's gonna take quite a while for you to see quad core Windows Phone 7 devices, they're still on single core SoCs... The OS is very well optimized tho, iOS-like, 3rd party apps is another story. I do hope MS adds additional resolutions before too long tho, have you seen the 4.5" or whatever it is Titan? Stuff starts to look funny at the same res on a screen that size.

Even on Android certain elements look funny on the 4.5" SGS2 variants imo, but that's probably in part because I've gotten used to qHD at 4.3".

Personally I'm kinda skeptical of the button-less Prime or whatever they end up calling it. In practice it sounds great, but I can't think of too many scenarios (outside of video watching) where I wouldn't want the home/back buttons readily available. I mean even when gaming, I wanna be able to quickly jump out by pressing home and not depend on in-game menus.

So if you leave a bar at the bottom semi permanently to display those buttons it kinda defeats the purpose of integrating them to begin with imo... It's not like tablets where you have extra space to the right that you can take advantage of contextually. I hope there's some kinda gesture area or a home/back button somewhere on the side on that thing.

The 720p screens are gonna be awesome regardless. Outside of the screen tho I fear the next Nexus and ICS might actually prove to be a bit underwhelming to the media/masses (much like the 4S, which personally I found to be great other than screen size remaining constant), I don't think Google's going for the massive UI overhaul that some wish they'd go for, and internally it's not gonna be a big departure from current phones.

We won't have 28nm SoCs with integrated LTE radios on Android until next year, that's gonna be the time to buy a 4G phone, and I say that having happily owned two already.
 
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The 720p screens are gonna be awesome regardless. Outside of the screen tho I fear the next Nexus and ICS might actually prove to be a bit underwhelming to the media/masses (much like the 4S, which personally I found to be great other than screen size remaining constant), I don't think Google's going for the massive UI overhaul that some wish they'd go for, and internally it's not gonna be a big departure from current phones.
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I've been using honeycomb for a while, and I never had problems with not having hardware buttons for back, home, tabs (or whatever button that's called), and menu. The only hard buttons I want are power, volume up, volume down, and camera (where the volume keys are used for digital zooming).
 
It's not a problem on a tablet because it's a completely different usage scenario... First off, you have more relative screen space to waste. Second, you can cram more buttons and/or notifications into a single UI bar, even in portrait. On a smaller phone screen you're more than likely still gonna have a top notification bar for messages, clock, status indicators, etc; relegating the bottom one exclusively for the buttons. Finally, on a tablet you're far less likely to quickly need to switch from one task to another at a moment's notice.

If they're gonna allow apps to hide the navigation button bar at the bottom, how do you quickly exit a game or video in order to answer a text or write a quick email, etc? And if they're not gonna allow that, then what's the point? Just to allow apps to occasionally switch the buttons displayed depending on context? I guess that trades one set of problems (different manufacturers standardizing on different button order) for another set entirely (apps shuffling it instead). I guess I just don't see the point...

It's either gonna be a 1280x700 screen with 20 pixels dedicated to buttons or a phone that occasionally gives you no quick way to exit to the home screen. If it's the former it's no big deal, but not a big improvement either unless ditching the discrete buttons greatly simplified the overall internal build (which hadn't occurred to me before, I admit).

Btw, even on Honeycomb it's not a perfectly thought out interface, that center space in between the navigation buttons and the clock/notifications to the right goes largely unused 99% of the time. So much so that Samsung built their own pseudo dock into the empty space with their UI mods. On phones you get the opposite scenario I just mentioned, where you need two semi-permanent strips for the same info.

Honeycomb tablets are also 16:10 for the most part (at least at 10") whereas phones have been trending towards 16:9 for whatever reason, and are most often used in portrait whereas tablets are used pretty interchangeably. I read in portrait mode mostly on mine but I turn it to landscape for video obviously. Anyone else find it irritating that the app market is landscape only btw?
 
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hi
i'd like to get a smartphone too, but dont really know anything about them (gingerbread, ice cream, wp7 etc???)

i'd probably like the galaxy note screen alot, but why would people take nexus one or something else instead?
do they all allow remote desktop connection etc..?
 
Current : Samsung Omnia 7. Love it, Love it, with the exception of blue-tooth not working correctly with wifi on (does Samsung even test their phones)

Next: Nokia WP or the next semi-good WP to go onto Spring (really want unlimited data again)

If the Nokia WP supports t-mobile bands I will probably just get that and get the new t-mobile prepaid plan for $30.
 
Current: OG Droid still going mostly strong on CM7.1.

Next: Galaxy Nexus as soon as Verizon lets me get my grubby hands on one.
 
havermeyer said:
Current: OG Droid still going mostly strong on CM7.1.

Next: Galaxy Nexus as soon as Verizon lets me get my grubby hands on one.
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sure, log on into the cloud with your eye iris pattern, lool

"Among the Galaxy Nexus’s new feature are face recognition, allowing users to unlock their phones simply by looking at the phone’s front camera"
 
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