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I want to upgrade my XDA Orbit (Artemis) to the XDA Orbit 2 (Polaris / Cruise).
However when comparing the two PDAs i see that theres not much difference... I already have TouchFlo on my Artemis, got navigation software, memory is not a problem, etc.
The only things that are new is the hard flush screen, the 3MP camera, 3G and...er...thats all i can think of!
So anyways my main question is, those people who have upgraded from the artemis to the polaris, is it worth paying £150 (or $300) for those few extra features? Is there anything I should know that makes the polaris significantly better than the artemis?
Thanks...
100% faster CPU.
More memory is always better for performance and it has 100% more memory too.
Also, given that all the cool apps are included in ROM in means even more memory is free to boost performance.
& you can sell it on eBay for approx. £350 if you arn't impressed.
Yh on eBay they are selling for huge amounts of money... £350
I recently bought a 22 inch monitor for my computer. I spent £140.00 on it but now I think its time I sold that along with my XDA Orbit and bought a XDA Orbit II.
They don't look as nice with the silver front. Why didn't O2 keep it black ;( Lol
The speed is a bonus aswell, I don't know why they used a 200Mhz processor for the orbit 1? Thats just really stupid in my opinion, just makes the PDA...well slower lol especially when it was the latest PDA of its time and the previous ones had like 400Mhz processors. It makes it stand out, but not in a good way.
Anyway I will try to sell my orbit to friends and not on eBay because on eBay they go for really cheap now!
As for the monitor I'll try get that sold....man I really regret buying it in the first place now, i bought it weeks before the orbit 2 was released - the money i was saving TO BUY the orbit 2! I just got impatient lol...
Does anyone know where I can get an orbit 2 for £300 ? or can anyone predict when they will dramatically fall in value on eBay (and start selling for like...£280-£320)
Thanks!
(P.S. - "& you can sell it on eBay for approx. £350 if you arn't impressed." -- I doubt i wouldnt be impressed with a PDA like that lol
My single reason for the upgrade from P3300 to Polaris was iGo 8 Try to run this one on a 200 Mhz CPU with 64 MB RAM. It's unusable. On the Polaris it rocks
Last but not least: The Polaris IS much faster even than Meschle's fastest ROMS for the P3300 And that with stock ROM. I can't imagine how much bigger the difference will get when Meschle gets a Polaris
Well the 3G sold it for me! But the faster processor and extra memory were plusses too.
Yh his ROMS are fast and if the factory Polaris ones are fast... pheeww.... thats gonna be lightning LOL
Just took a look at eBay - If I were to sell my Artemis i'd get about £135-£145 UK Pounds (one UK Pound is two American Dollars).
A massive decrease from when I last bought it. They have just plumetted in value... should I try to sell my Artemis A.S.A.P. and get what I can from it and not have a PDA for 2-3 months (to wait for the value of the Polaris to decrease) and then buy the Polaris?
I can try get about £180 for it from friends - some are not aware of the massive price decrease LOL.
Ok just gave my XDA Orbit 1 (HTC Artemis) to my friends dad who is going to try it out for a few days. If he likes it, he will pay £180 for it!
Wish me luck! Hope that it doesn't break or somehow mess up and that hes pleased with it and wants to buy it! I regulary see my friend and his dad and if he buys it and then something goes wrong hes going to come to me with the questions!
Yas
I just got an 8GB Adata Micro SDHC card from Newegg for $49.95, and want everyone to know it performs quite well with both my Treo 750 and my ATT Tilt. This, in my opinion, is a great deal.
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cheaper on ebay i bought on for 35.00 with a 3.00 shipping e-bay....what a place to find good deals.......cheak out fatfingers .com and type in a word and it will find all the miss spelled words on ebay and thats where you could find somthing for nothing because all the miss spelled words just sit flowting inthe data system with no where to land because it cant find a match to go into to sell so other buyers dont know that is out there unles you search on fatfingers .com try it you might get lucky and find a great deal....
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cheaper on ebay i bought on for 35.00 with a 3.00 shipping e-bay....what a place to find good deals.......cheak out fatfingers .com and type in a word and it will find all the miss spelled words on ebay and thats where you could find somthing for nothing because all the miss spelled words just sit flowting inthe data system with no where to land because it cant find a match to go into to sell so other buyers dont know that is out there unles you search on fatfingers .com try it you might get lucky and find a great deal....
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Is there a site that searches the XDA-dev. forums for posts from people who don't know how to use periods?
no need to be rude, hes just giving us some tips
at least he spelled everything right, punctuation is something most are care free about
dma1965 said:
I just got an 8GB Adata Micro SDHC card from Newegg for $49.95, and want everyone to know it performs quite well with both my Treo 750 and my ATT Tilt. This, in my opinion, is a great deal.
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I ordered a transcend 8GB class 6 from an amazon vendor. $33 which includes shipping. in case anybody is interested.
noisehr said:
I ordered a transcend 8GB class 6 from an amazon vendor. $33 which includes shipping. in case anybody is interested.
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Is it *micro* SDKC or regular SDHC? Could you post a link?
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Is it *micro* SDKC or regular SDHC? Could you post a link?
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oops, my mistake, it is not micro. I must've forgotten that while I was doing my searches. I cancelled that.. but now I am looking on ebay.. $10+$5(shipping) for 8gb class 4's on there. seems too cheap.. no? I just searched for "microsd 8gb", min. of a few dollars to get past the readers and sorted by price+shipping.
Adata is supposed to be one of the best
I bought the Adata card because several reviews I have read have given it very high marks. I know, from experience, not all memory cards are created equal. The card I got is quite fast in my Treo 750 (using it with an adapter). I was also able to copy the entire 3+ gig Tomeraider Wikipedia to it (using my computer) in just over 3 minutes. That is excellent performance, in my opinion.
I'm in the market for an S3...looking to pick one up used since I'm still under contract (and don't want to lose unlimited data anyways). With the S4 coming out in the next month or two, do you think the used price of the S3 will significantly drop (say by $50 or more from it's current going rate)?
Maybe, values drop once a new model actually comes out.
You'd think for the first 2 weeks. But probably level out
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Right, but if its something like $20 then I'm not going to worry about it. Was hoping maybe someone who buys/sells a lot of phones would have an idea.
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I'm in the market for an S3...looking to pick one up used since I'm still under contract (and don't want to lose unlimited data anyways). With the S4 coming out in the next month or two, do you think the used price of the S3 will significantly drop ($50+)?
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If you're talking ebay no. The HTC Thunderbolt goes for more than that. Even the original Droid..... Ohh you mean a 50 dollar price drop.... not 50 total.. I'm dumb. I'd say maybe by August or October it should be that much less on average, but it's really an up and down market on ebay assuming that's what you're referring to.
If you check eBay at the right times you will find really good deals right now (not this exact moment). I saw a good condition white one sell the other day for 270. You gotta know when to find them. Like for instance some days everyone wants blue pebble other days everyone wants white. Look for clear photos and don't just get the first one thou find
Your best bet will be craigslist. And yes the price will drop if you are vigilant enough to catch it when it does
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Like for instance some days everyone wants blue pebble other days everyone wants white. Look for clear photos and don't just get the first one thou find
May sell you my beautiful white one with spare battery/charging station. Getting BlackBerry Z10 tomorrow so will most likely sell my S3 or Nexus 32GB
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Were I looking for an S3 when the price drops following the release of the S4, I would be looking for another 32 gig version.
Yea, the S3 lets you use the physical microsd card as it should be used - expandable, optional storage - without the headache of losing app structure.
Just because you can just swap cards out at a whim doesn't mean you'll want to open it up to the environment all the time. There is definitely a certain amount of data I want always there, and 16 isn't enough. 32 isn't enough.
I'll be getting a 64 gig S4 for sure, I've only had 32 gig S3's and still wouldn't get a 16 instead of a 32.
Up to you OP, but i'd use the internal memory size as the first qualifying point, and then look more closely at what was left.
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Your best bet will be craigslist. And yes the price will drop if you are vigilant enough to catch it when it does
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+100 to this. Just snagged a 32GB Dev Edition off CL for $280 lol.
I am sure that the price will drop the once the S4 comes out, that is the nature of technology. Question is whether it would be worth the wait? If you have to wait 2-3 months to save 50 bucks? Get it now and start enjoying it!
It will stick from 200to 300 on eBay . may find it cheaper on CL.
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You guys gotta check out Swappa. It's a site for buying/selling phones and tabs only. They have verification processes and take great strides ensure honesty and accuracy.
I've never bought from them, but I know a guy who buys exclusively from Swappa. Loves it.
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Blue6IX said:
Were I looking for an S3 when the price drops following the release of the S4, I would be looking for another 32 gig version.
Yea, the S3 lets you use the physical microsd card as it should be used - expandable, optional storage - without the headache of losing app structure.
Just because you can just swap cards out at a whim doesn't mean you'll want to open it up to the environment all the time. There is definitely a certain amount of data I want always there, and 16 isn't enough. 32 isn't enough.
I'll be getting a 64 gig S4 for sure, I've only had 32 gig S3's and still wouldn't get a 16 instead of a 32.
Up to you OP, but i'd use the internal memory size as the first qualifying point, and then look more closely at what was left.
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I have a 16GB Razr Maxx right now and a 64GB microsd and never had any worries about space. The microsd fits all my music, pics and vids with plenty to spare, and I have 7 out of the 8GB usable internal storage free (the other 8 is used for system and apps). So I'm not too worried about internal storage size.
There hasn't been much available on CL in my area, and I'd personally rather pay the little bit extra on swappa or ebay and get some protection behind my purchase. I actually just picked one up on swappa since Verizon hasn't mention a thing about their S3 and I don't want to wait another month or two.
I just traded an original Droid RAZR + $60 a few days ago for a GS3. Still complete w/ box & accessories and in great shape. Granted, the RAZR was also complete and had a fancy case. I have seen plenty of these GS3's for $300 on craigslist(mostly the ATT / T-Mob versions). Although GS2's are maintaining a steady $200 so I doubt the 3 will drop much more anytime soon.
Hell, I sold an HTC HD2 a few months ago for $250 and that phone's like 3 years old now(then again, it does have a bit of a cult following)
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detonation said:
I have a 16GB Razr Maxx right now and a 64GB microsd
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son of a ... !!
Damn specs said it takes up to a 32GB micro sd.
Nice to know at least. My Rezound has a 64GB micro sd in it also even though the specs said it can't go higher then 32GB
Makes you wonder about the spec accuracy on any given phone... õ_Ô
my guestamate would be around $250 once the GS4 comes out.
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my guestamate would be around $250 once the GS4 comes out.
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Really... You couldn't use a better word than guesstimate?
CraigList for the win! I get all my phones off of there. Once the S4 comes out people will be selling their S3's within a week. Prime time to get a good deal.:good:
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Hope this helps someone. Much faster than the Evo if you plan to use a card reader or just want to swap it out for another device.
is it THAT much better than the EVO? i just got one, but i read the phones can't really read over 48mbps anyway so it doesn't matter.
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is it THAT much better than the EVO? i just got one, but i read the phones can't really read over 48mbps anyway so it doesn't matter.
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if you plan to keep it in your note 4 then it won't make a difference. It only makes a difference if you plan to plug it into a USB 3.0 card reader or use the card for another device like a GoPro in the future
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is it THAT much better than the EVO? i just got one, but i read the phones can't really read over 48mbps anyway so it doesn't matter.
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I own both and have to say the difference is not noticeable . The write and read speeds seem to peak at what the max is with the evo. Good price though if you are in the market but I wouldnt waste the money if you already own the evo 64gb
it's actually 30$ http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-64GB-..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0G3XAWD827KB40WBKFXZ
That's the larger SD card. Won't fit..
I got the Pro to future proof a bit. Maybe the next 2 gens of Androids will be able to make use of the speeds.
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It's a hardware limitation. The software can go as far as the hardware can provide. If there was a way to toggle the software to make use of higher speeds, it would produce enough heat to bake the phone and in worst case, result in internal damage to the PCB (Something Samsung doesn't want you to know; they only repair phones, not replace them, lol). I still feel that I should purchased the Developers Edition of the Note 4 (Verizon Model) to be used on AT&T, but still currently backordered on Samsung's site.
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I got the Pro to future proof a bit. Maybe the next 2 gens of Androids will be able to make use of the speeds.
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Yeah, as soon as I bought a GoPro, I instantly regretted having slow cards. At $35 this a no brainer. The Evo can probably handle 1080p at 60 fps but not at 120. And considering you will be pulling the sd out of the GoPro and putting it in your phone all the time, your phone card will be used in the GoPro all the time. This is probably the best deal ever on a micro sd.
Using Wifi File Transfer Pro, with a Wireless AC Router, I routinely get 65mb write speeds while copying a rom from my desktop to the extSdcard, MB-MG64DA/AM
The phone information says the M8 comes in 16 and 32GB, but I've never heard about a 16GB variant. Does it exist?
I don't recall what I saw the storage was on Verizon's site. I was still with US Cellular then, and I was seriously considering switching in May on vacation — I was gonna get the LG G2. Best Buy had it for $0.01 with a 2-year contract. Checked out the phone, wasn't feeling it, so I backed down. But I kept looking online after I got back, and the M8 won me over. (My first HTC, too.) All the specs checked out, and I would swear up and down they didn't say what the internal storage was. I assumed 16GB.
So when I go to actually switch, they don't have any One M8's, or any HTC for that matter, out. I told the guy, I'm with US Cellular and I want to switch, I want an HTC One M8. So he goes in the back, and comes out with my new phone. I saw the "32GB" right away but didn't ask. Sure enough, it was the advertised $199.99 with contract. This was in June. The phone wasn't on sale per se, but it had the $100 mail-in rebate.
So I come up here to learn how to root it, and I see it's listed as a 16GB phone with a 32GB option. That's always bugged me, but I never thought to ask until now. So... is XDA wrong, or is there in fact a 16GB model you can get?
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The phone information says the M8 comes in 16 and 32GB, but I've never heard about a 16GB variant. Does it exist?
I don't recall what I saw the storage was on Verizon's site. I was still with US Cellular then, and I was seriously considering switching in May on vacation — I was gonna get the LG G2. Best Buy had it for $0.01 with a 2-year contract. Checked out the phone, wasn't feeling it, so I backed down. But I kept looking online after I got back, and the M8 won me over. (My first HTC, too.) All the specs checked out, and I would swear up and down they didn't say what the internal storage was. I assumed 16GB.
So when I go to actually switch, they don't have any One M8's, or any HTC for that matter, out. I told the guy, I'm with US Cellular and I want to switch, I want an HTC One M8. So he goes in the back, and comes out with my new phone. I saw the "32GB" right away but didn't ask. Sure enough, it was the advertised $199.99 with contract. This was in June. The phone wasn't on sale per se, but it had the $100 mail-in rebate.
So I come up here to learn how to root it, and I see it's listed as a 16GB phone with a 32GB option. That's always bugged me, but I never thought to ask until now. So... is XDA wrong, or is there in fact a 16GB model you can get?
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Most models are 16 gig. Some carriers like Verizon only sell the 32 gig variant though.
Okay. So XDA is incorrect, since this is the Verizon area, to declare the phone as 16GB (quick facts) and mention the 32GB variant, but the 16GB option exists outside of Verizon.
Personally I think no phone should be sold with less than 32GB at this point. It might cost them a buck or two more but it makes a huge difference.
I just noticed also that the description indicates it's got a 2.5 GHz processor. It doesn't. The Verizon variant is clocked at 2.3GHz. As for memory, I don't know how people scrape by with only 16 gig. I'm not sure how people get by with 32 gig, honestly. I've got 96 gig installed in mine and it's over half full.
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I just noticed also that the description indicates it's got a 2.5 GHz processor. It doesn't. The Verizon variant is clocked at 2.3GHz. As for memory, I don't know how people scrape by with only 16 gig. I'm not sure how people get by with 32 gig, honestly. I've got 96 gig installed in mine and it's over half full.
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This is true too and due to the fact we have an lte based phone.
A quick Google search shows the 16gb version http://www.amazon.com/HTC-One-Unlocked-International-Version/dp/B00J7RQDDK
Specs http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_one_(m8)-6074.php