We have two Verizon HTC Thunderbolts - new in Feb 2011.

$174/month, unlimited everything.....voice, text, data...'

Have never had it freeze; rebooted on its own once but I think that was an update.

Worst problem is battery life.....very short, even with larger battery.  One day will go all day, next day need to charge twice in one day - low usage.....go figure. 

Did you know verizon has a box that will serve as your phone?  $20/mo unlimited calls in/out......it received via cell signal and you plug your phone into it.....and US Cellular has a small "deck of cards, only half as thick" Samsung "hot spot"....$25 for up to 2 gig of data/month

I learned the above after bad storm left sis-in-law without phone or internet for 4 days......guess what she has now!!?


At 02:12 PM 6/22/2012, James Dugger wrote:

I have been with Verizion ever since our other carrirer was buoght by them in the mid nineties.  I have had a Driod and currently have a Droid X.  I can't really compare the difference between carriers in dropped calls but we get are share of dropped calls as well.  My wife and son have the iphone 4s and love it.  My wife had an older Droid and it used to drop calls more than here iphone.  Having used both (my wife's iphone and my Droid X) my comparison would be as follows:

Screen Freeze
Droid - this happens quite often on both the older and newer Droids (though not as much on the X)
iphone - rarely freezes.

Keyboard key selection
Droid - They both struggle (especially in the portrait keyboard) to pick the correct letter/number.
iphone - Even with fat fingers it is uncanny to me how the portrait keyboard can still seem to pick the right letter/number

Text completion
Droid - Okay
iphone - Great slightly faster

Animatromics (screen responsiveness)
Droid - slight hesitancy at times
iphone - smooth and quick

I have no experience with HTC however my brother has the Samsung Nexus II through Version and says that it runs circles around his old Droid, and is much closer to the iphone with respect to hardware responsiveness and features.

Since the versions of OS Android is somewhat splintered across different devices, there are a couple of other points to consider if an android phone is your preferred choice:
Google owns Android and Motorola ( Droid ), but Nexus is a Google sponsored partnership program for application and hardware development for the official release version of Android by Google.  Currently Samsung is the Nexus partner. 

This may have changed and I may be wrong, but it is my understanding that anything Android with the Nexus name is part of this partnership with Google.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

Android brutally fc's inactive apparently to free space before that goes.

On Jun 22, 2012 9:59 AM, "Eric Cope" <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:

Thats interesting to hear about not rebooting? Maybe the tide is changing. Someone I carpool with is also constantly having to close apps because the phone is "out of memory". Does anyone else experience this?

I think the iPhone forces stale apps out of memory automatically (I never get an out of memory notice). Can anyone comment on that?

Eric

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

I forgot.

On a rooted phone there is an app that will backup your root so you can switch root on and off easily so you can do some root only tasks and then unroot for day to day.

Its called voodoo ota rootkeeper

On Jun 22, 2012 8:46 AM, "keith smith" <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

This is very OT.

I have been with verizon for 8 years.  Voice only.  It has been 4 years since I upgraded our phones.  It is just my wife and I. 

We are thinking of going with smart phones.

A friend suggested HTC phones because of the better quality of speaker and mic.  Voice quality is very important to me. 

As it stands we can get unlimited voice for  $120/mo, 1000 texts for $10/mo and 2G of data for each phone for $20/ea/mo.  Total is about $170/mo + tax and fees. 

I like verizon because they have always provided top of the line service.

I've briefly looked at Straigt-Talk, T-Mobile, and Sprint.  My fear with these providers is quality of the call, availability, and dropped calls.

Any suggestions on which phone to get?  From prior conversations on this list it seems a Droid phone is the way to go.  I don't think I will ever want to take the time to root my phone, however you never know. 

What about phone apps and other things I might not be thinking about?

I appreciate all the feedback you will provide!

Thank you in advance for your help!!

------------------------

Keith Smith

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