WatchOk, I'm off contract on my phone... So I could switch and pick up the new iphone, or go with the samsung...
I use my ipad frequently, but I don't use itunes I use amazon for buying music... it plays fine on the ipad, and I didn't want to be stuck with their music format...
I've had mytouch 4g for over 2 years, mytouch 3g before that...
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I teach in two different classrooms: one with all imacs, one with all windows machines. The imacs are two years older than the windows machines, take a guess which room:
1. has the least problems with the computers...
2. has machines that boot quickly up and are ready to work, rather than waiting minute after minute for bloated system software
3. has the least system problems...
I was never an apple fan, I've never had an Iphone. In fact I waited to see if any of the google pads would rival the ipad; they didn't and I bought my first Icomputer gadget, the ipad2... I gave it to my cousin and bought the ipad retina when it came out, I use the thing hours a day. the Ipad is what got me thinking to get an iphone, it just works. period...
No real complaints about my google phone... except when I look at a spinning circle of death minute after minute cause it can't get a map location... except when it starts slowing down and lagging on commands because I need to do another hard reset...
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robertoaribas,
It just works is not true. Have you never had any problems with your iPad?
I have an iPad and had problems with it with software updates and digital content transfers. The iPad and the iPhone are intuitive. I don't think that iTunes or Macs are.
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never had a single problem with my ipad... My cousin however had some trouble with the one I gave him, he fell with it and smashed it all to hell in afganistan. I can't really fault apple for not making it shrek proof!
the imac commands are slightly different, but not enough to bother me. My other cousin has the galaxy s3, maybe I'll swap phones with her for a day and see if I like it...
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So wait, I buy a phone then I "root it", install a custom ROM, and I'm good to go?
"This new car is great! Just change out all the tires, rip the floor mats out, slap this new air filter in, and it's perfect. You can do that all once you get it home. Oh, you don't want to do that? Or cannot? Ok. Sorry. Our car isn't for you. Go get something that is trendy and more, umm, beneath me ... I mean ... 'your skill level'."
I find those arguments a tiny bit elitist and not all the reflective in why something is better. ;)
Happy with my phone and happy others like theirs too. For me, I do enough software troubleshooting at work, that the last thing I need is technology invading my personal life. Make the technology completely transparent to me. It should work effortlessly and just let me live my life. That, in core principal, is Apple.
Plus, the the iPhone 4, my god, it's so solid and classic looking. (I keep mine wrapped up in a wallet all day) ... but still. Drool. The iPhone 5 I'm sure will grow on me too.
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For the ultimate comfort in telecommunication , I still turn to my trusty Stromberg Carlson. It is the Cadillac Eldorado of telephony.
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Yes, basically. An option you don't really have on iphone at all (well, older IOS versions can still be jail broken). You're just stuck with a crappy little phone :(
Android is not for everyone. If you're happy with an iphone then hey, I know tons of people that use and are happy with them. I just personally don't like them and I prefer to tinker with my devices.
Oh, BTW, Steve says you're holding the phone wrong. :)
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Rotary for the win! Classic.
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Tinker away Batman.
I'll keep my work at work and the most I'll change or mod my car out with are the options that I select, and maybe some fuzzy dice.
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Right On!
I'm with ya man....
them apple fanboyz ain't quite rite in the head..;y'now..
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awwwwwww...lets have a pity party...
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yeah, I really want to bother rooting my phone and doing other crap to it! I want to: make calls, pair it with my car and handsfree bluetooth, play pandora, play my music on it, send texts (and I like my swiftkey predictive texting... does apple have anything like that) use my hiit exersize timer, play chess, words with friends, angy birds, read the internet, take photos and videos, upload them to facebook or youtube etc... just normal user crap!
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Either way, the chick in those black & white photos is hot.
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Ah, haha a line right from the video!
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my home theather stereo system when paired to pandora via airplay is the best way to listen to music free ever.
many recievers have built in airplay or you can add it on for $99 or so.
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Roberto, no concern over giving up the type pad (or keyboard) or whatever the term is for these HTC mytouch 4g? I had the 3g before as well,,,,,I just can't imagine having to type out text by tapping the tiny screen, but then again, not every has to fumble with their phone using big fat fingers like me!
I've gotten my tmobil bill down to 64$ per month with unlimited everything (they knock you down from 4g to 3g once you've used up your monthly allottment,,,2MB) how much does the iphone service provider charge?
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S3 Please :):) !! Drool
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Lumia 920. Having the latest and hippest app experience is ephemeral. The photographs I take with the device are not.
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http://blog.gsmarena.com/apple-and-nokia-fans-strike-back-at-samsung/
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If you want a phone that's easy to use, is likely used by most people you know, and has software for just about anything you can think of, get the iPhone.
If you want a large screen and enjoy tinkering for extra benefits like tethering and free software, get a Galaxy or one of the many other Android phones. You can still root the iPhone but it's much easier with an Android phone.
There's no right or wrong answer here. The Mac insults are funny, but only because they're ignorant.
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Please enlighten us. Have you managed an enterprise IT infrastructure? No?
I see.
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If Apple made condoms, they would be incompatible with your penis, would leak like crazy, would do nothing to protect you from viruses because Apple doesn't think any viruses are targeting your penis, would feel very awkward, and cost more than the hooker. But it would be very shinny and have a frivolous glowing apple logo on it.
Oh, and it would take ten years for Apple to make their condoms multithreaded, long after every other OS has long supported threads.
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The logo would also be oriented so that it appears upside-down to the condom wearer, but right side-up to anyone viewing the condom in use.
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lol Nokia. They made no effort for a DECADE in the USA, Nokia who?
Not to even mention the misleading mess they created with advertising.
Will they even be in business much longer?
On another noter Android broke past Apple activations recently.
500 Million
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Google-Android-Activation-half-billion-Sales,17556.html
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Someone finally collected rent in Phoenix.
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And it would be awesome!
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I'm buying all the planned obsolescence electronics that I can afford knowing that this will help our screwed economy.
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Considering many large companies use a high quantity of Macs in their infrastructure (Google, Viacom, IBM), and considering that the % of Macs in infrastructure is only increasing, they must do something right. It's likely they will easily integrate with all the iPhones that are quickly replacing the Blackberry corporate phones. But hey, you're the expert who doesn't want to evolve! You must know it all!
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I said it because we heard basically the same thing not only from my director and VP but also our CIO.
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Oh snap!
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I got an iPhone for the first time less than a year ago after owning various other brands for years. I'll even state that I hated the idea of having an iPhone. But after having one myself, I gotta' say that the iPhone is just.... nice. Its not necessarily the gadgets and features, but how well all of those things are assembled, thought out, and laid out. The iPhone in my opinion does the best job of integrating all of those features in a way thats simply easier to use. The UI is also superior to anything I've used previously. As someone else mentioned- it just works.
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Roberto, got new one? If so, what is it?
Just remembered this thread exists, want to know what's going on.
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Except for the fritzy button...oh, and all the things you get dinged for that used to be free with the Blackberry.
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I visited a Verizon "premium store" today to inquire about the iPhone 5. I was curious about the dual band capability, because it contains a Qualcomm CDMA/GSM chip that could theoretically work with either, but I learned that in practice it cannot do both.
They said the Verizon iPhone comes locked to Verizon with a SIM card for LTE. After 90 days, customers can request to have the phone unlocked, remove the LTE SIM card and put in a GSM SIM card for travel. But, it is not a dual band phone, because it can only work with one or the other.
Other phones that cost less do offer dual band capability, but not the iPhone.
This summarizes my frustration with the iPhone and the fact that Samsung chose to copy the iPhone rather than innovating something better. The iPhone looks impressive, because it's pretty and well integrated. The Samsung looks nice too, because it looks like a bigger iPhone. But the problem is what isn't there. Steve Jobs chose to over-simplify the iPhone, and then, incredibly, Samsung chose to copy in order to chase the same customers rather than innovate by putting in all the features Apple had left out. As impressive as these phones look, they are extremely limited compared to what is already possible: dual band, infrared, USB, SDHC.
You have a "choice" between a very thin phone with a pretty and simplified look, or another very thin phone with a pretty and simplified look. Both are locked to the manufacturer's primary customers, i.e. the phone companies, and advertised to the public on the basis of being dumbed down. On the surface you can choose the white one or the black one, but aside from color they are designed to be as nearly indistinguishable as possible, and to ignore the potential of what they should be able to do.
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lostand confused says
Nope - I've got you beat. I don't own a cell phone. The only phone that I have doesn't work if I go past the neighbor's house.
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Ok, so I actually delayed all this time... Since T-mobile changed their billing and no longer reduce price the phone at the end of your 2 year contract...
my bill for my 3 lines dropped by $120 a month...but now I have to pay full price for phones.
So.... what do you guys think?
Samsung s4 or HTC one? or wait for next Iphone :-)
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I got the one and played with it all night.
Pros. Simply fast. Wifi or network. Network is just as fast. Turn on in about 8 seconds nothing lags. 4 sets of email, lots of them loads instantly. Everything loads fast and there are lots with blinkfeed and android features.
Beats is great. Listened to psy gentleman on both the pad and one. the one is More booming with the beats than normal. Love the beats of that damn song and it will hit every club in the world. Psy is amazing.
Camera Zoe is a great feature and addictive. Its going to be fun putting together something new with zoe. Don't know about ultra pixel.
Love the customization. I commingle work with personal so like to tweak widgets, calendar, apps the way I want it. One widget for work Calender and yet another for personal. You can opt out of blinkfeed home which is ok but definitely not home page.
It really feels perfect to hold. Really, cant be beat from a build quality, weight, thickness. I don't do cases. It makes Samsung look like silly toys and awful. iPhone is too small, cute like the vw beetle.
I use iPad for home and android for phone. Android has really improved a lot in every way, subtle and not so subtle. and all in all much better and useful than apple iOS. I can't believe google is giving away android for free. apple is great for my 5 year old kid and 60 yo mom but android is the now and the future. Hope the next big update key lime pie will be an update for htc. Android works less well on the pad. For pad, it's just playing video, apps and surfing the web which iOS does great.
Keyboard is not that good. Same mini USB so no need to buy new car charger or cable.
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robertoaribas says
I would suggest comparing the infrared capabilities, and the reviews I've seen report that HTC One may have the advantage there:
Smartphones start getting Infrared - at long last
Subjectively, I do think Samsung tried deliberately to copy the iPhone, and thus delayed smartphone innovation for years because R&D went for either the iPhone (oversimplified IMO) or attempts to copy the iPhone. The iPhone still doesn't have IR, based on the Apple view that "less is more" (which it isn't). So, I'm leaning towards HTC, or possibly waiting until summer to see what the next iPhone offers.
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that htc one is a nice looking phone... I'm still sitting here with my mytouch 46 from nearly 3 years ago... I guess I'll go in and see them both side by side and then decide. girlfriend keeps saying get the new iphone when it comes out...
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I'd take the iPhone 5. Best hardware and software IMO. Best support. Best apps. Best resale. I like the iPhone form factor better also, the S3 is way too big. If you like to fiddle and tweak, iOS can be "rooted" (aka jailbroken) just like Android. If you don't, iOS is very maintenance free. Also iPhones get OS updates for years so are much more future proof than Android phones.