OT Verizon Smart Phones

[James Dugger]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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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