The Android Cell Phone Thread

[TruMoo]

omg gaiyz, i fucked up. I pre-ordered the Iphone 5 64gb today.

[hellogoodbye]

the black one is fuckin sexy though, can't blame you

[Jokez]

[destructodisk]

galaxy s3 here and it's the dopest phone on the block:

Rooted/Unlocked running AOKP4, CM10 Nightly Kernel, Lucid Theme, MNML White Icons

[evisu 2000]

need a new phoooneeeeee why doesn't anyone make a 4" anymore

Edited October 4, 2012 by mass

[kelleydenham]

I'm getting ready to upgrade my phone. I'm either gonna get the Motorola Atrix HD or the HTC One X (AT&T LTE). Leaning towards the One X because I'm used to HTC Sense and the camera is fuckin' off da charts for a cell camera. The Atrix looks supppperrrr sexy though.

[Oscur]

dont upgrade yet, 5 nexus devices should be out by the end of the year. wait for quad-core mang

[kelleydenham]

Dammit oscur. My phone isn't broke but its startin' to slow up and restart itself randomly. Its a HTC Aria so its very dated.

[mike lowrey]

having constant problems with the HTC One S.... waiting for a new nexus or something to drop

[red]

having constant problems with the HTC One S.... waiting for a new nexus or something to drop

Whats wrong with it? Been looking to pick one up.

[mike lowrey]

well, firstly, apparently I have some "sunday" version and the finish scrapes of insanely easily. I had it in my jeans pocket without anything else for two weeks, and every corner had chips coming off. my friend has the same black one, and after several months his still looks like new.

otherwise, just issues with data connectivity, keeps losing it, especially with the latest os update after which it seemingly jumps between 3g and HSDPA, the icon in the status bar blinks back and forth, and the data connection is poor, can't connect to e-mail or facebook but browser works.. restarting fixes it for a while, but then the same thing again. will have to factory reset again but its getting a bit annoying.

that said, my friend doesn't have any of these problems, so maybe mine is just fucked up. I got it second hand so there isn't much to do about it.

[evisu 2000]

you running stock or are those consistent across all roms?

[Bryan_Funfetti]

fwiw, I've had zero issues with mine. US t-mobile version. Actually quite happy with it, everything is super fast running nova launcher pro

[mike lowrey]

you running stock or are those consistent across all roms?

stock

first issue was losing data/3g altogether, sometimes needed several restarts before it started working. factory reset helped for a while, but soon I got it again. went over APN settings several times, in the end picking up a new sim card seemed to have helped for a while. but now after the latest update I got this new issue with 3g/hsdpa fluctuation, which seems to come and go. I'll have to try a factory reset...

[Oscur]

try rooting and flashing new radios

[red]

three bills unlocked.

[Jokez]

nexus 4 price is insane. $309 for 8gb and $359 for 16 gb here in canada. i bought my galaxy nexus back in may used for $375 lol.

[mike lowrey]

whats the word on LG phones? have never owned or even held one, but the N4 looks intruiging

the wireless charger looks cool too:

[Jokez]

general consensus is LG makes good hardware, but the software sucks.

the Optimus G, their latest phone, got great reviews though. this is from engadget:

"The Optimus G is a phenomenal piece of hardware that combines refined design, superb build quality and specs to die for. Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro provides gobs of performance without sacrificing battery life. While LG's 4.7-inch True HD IPS PLUS panel is beautiful, it still ranks behind HTC's gorgeous Super LCD 2 display on the One X. Despite that pesky continuous autofocus, both 13 and 8-megapixel cameras are capable of capturing top-notch photos and usable videos. Where the Optimus G falls short is in the software department -- LG's UI 3.0 skin is mediocre and Ice Cream Sandwich is somewhat disappointing on such a great handset. Apparently, there's an Optimus G-based Nexus phone running Jelly Bean in the works -- problem solved, then."

http://www.engadget....exus-aspiratio/

Edited October 31, 2012 by Jokez

[red]

I wouldn't worry either way since it's a Nexus. The design is as much Google's as it is LGs, and the Nexus has always been a solid product.

Edited October 31, 2012 by red

[Jokez]

Initial Impressions Of The Nexus 4 - Raising The Bar For Design, Materials, And Build Quality Edited November 2, 2012 by Jokez

[mike lowrey]

[gfunkdocta]

shit batt life, no LTE is holding me back

[mike lowrey]

the battery life on some 3rd party sites was 15h (talk, 3G), isn't that pretty good..? not sure if thats correct though, but thats all I could find

[evisu 2000]

engadget are whatever. but it's also hard to tell with review units... i find it hard to believe the optimus g gets 8hrs of screen time while the nexus is only getting 5

[gfunkdocta]

^beat me to it

http://www.engadget....nexus-4-review/

sounds like 4.2 is causing it. hopefully they tweak and optimize it before the official release.

Edited November 2, 2012 by gfunkdocta

[xcrunchx]

..,..

Edited November 3, 2012 by xcrunchx

[gfunkdocta]

actually i'm good with hspa+

still shitty batt life doe

http://www.anandtech...exus-4-review/2

[NatseOklim]

Been messing about with NFC. Unfortunately due to some weird bug, I can't get it to work with tasker, but I now have stickers by my bed that dim my screen, silence all notifications, turn my lock screen off, and each set alarms for different times. I've also got a sticker on my business card case that directs to my website, and a sticker for work that turns on a bunch of alarms I need.

[red]

actually i'm good with hspa+

still shitty batt life doe

http://www.anandtech...exus-4-review/2

Some recent sites are reporting 15 hrs after heavy use which is pretty good. The early findings were probably because of pre-release firmware.

In any case, I just happened to go on Google play at the right time and bought one before they sold out. On a whim I put it on ebay to see what it sold for, and got $600 BIN within a few hours. Today was a good day.