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This question is mainly for the former Captivate owners...
I am considering going from the Captivate to the Inspire. I am well aware of the hardware and software differences, so I need not to be schooled there. However, I would like to hear opinions as far as personal experiences go when going from the captivate to the inspire. Also, from a development point of view, the captivate is great because of the high competition and many choices of different custom roms...how promising is the inspire as far as develoment goes? Thanks.
seen your post in the captivate or iphone4 thread earlier, just go get the inspire dude, hands down without doing anything to it is way faster and wya more enjoyable, havent felt like that about a phone since droid x, had captivate 6 months sold on craigslist and got the inspire and not one regret at all. way more polished then cappy for sure. and im pretty sure devolpment is alot bigger then cappys, because inspire is basically desire hd.
I agree. I bought the Captivate back in August. I kept it stock for months and I was disappointed by the was Samsung treated us. Eventually I put Andromeda 1.2 and that made the phone much more enjoyable.
I am much more happy with my Inspire than I ever was with my Captivate. That includes the hard work and great job Team Komin did to make the phone good.
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The captivate was nice but nothing like the Inspire.
I got sick of loading new Roms each week just to have it perform.
About the only Rom that worked for me was the cognition, everything else f k ed something up.
You will not be disappointed, this works right out of the box.
I hope I enjoy my inspire as much as you guys do. I should be getting it mon, or tue. Can't wait to give it a try.
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Just bought the inspire a few days ago, off contract even, after pissing off my upgrade on a captivate last November.
This phone blows the captivate out of the water.
The difference is just...stunning.
Go get this phone.
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Just go for it. You won't regret the change. Running a stock, rooted Inspire. Happy with it as it is right now. Just thankful to not have to flash a new Rom every few days.
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Agreed. Went from Iphone 3gs to HTC Aria, to Iphone 4, to captivate (it's sad when a low/mid phone pulls someone away from iOS to Android) to streak to inspire (all since this time last year. yeah i'm a phone whore). Inspire is by far my fav
Inspire runs circles around Captivate, even in stock form.
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I went from a Samsung Captivate to a Motorola Atrix (for a few days) to the Inspire. Samsung Captivate frustrated me to no end, and the Motorola Atrix build quality was just terrible. The Inspire is a great phone with superb build quality, and it's quite snappy to boot. I say go for it!
No offense to the OP, but I think it is time to start discouraging the over abundance of these " what kind of phone should I get " or " what is your opinion of the Inspire, compared to ..........." Again, no offense to anyone, but there are already a ton of these threads. Let's just search or bump one of those and make a Hugh effort to keep this forum uncluttered
Captivate to Inspire is like going from a Mitsubishi Eclipse to a Porsche. HTC is the most developer friendly phone manufacturer on the Android Platform. This phone has been out less than a month and we already have lots of ROM options out there including CM7.
On paper the Captivate is a great phone and it has some specs that are a little better than the Inspire, but the proof isn't on paper it's in actual phone use.
The Inspire is a solid phone with great hardware and a a thriving developer community. Make the move you won't be sorry.
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No offense to the OP, but I think it is time to start discouraging the over abundance of these " what kind of phone should I get " or " what is your opinion of the Inspire, compared to ..........." Again, no offense to anyone, but there are already a ton of these threads. Let's just search or bump one of those and make a Hugh effort to keep this forum uncluttered
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None taken, however I created this thread for a very specific purpose. I am aware of other posts about "what phone should I get." I did look for a thread specifically for this topic and didn't find one. I wanted to see what other captivate owners had to say about going from the captivate to the inspire because an opinion from somebody coming from an iPhone or something else is not going to help.
Anyways, I finally decided to head down to the ATT store and picked one up. Needless to say I am very impressed with the inspire. The salesmen tried to get me to buy the atrix. He said the inspire was not only selling like hotcakes, but it outselling the atrix and said that the atrix isn't selling as good as they thought it would. I told him the deal breaker for me for the atrix was that it has a smaller screen, motoblur UI which I don't like and its not development friendly.
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None taken, however I created this thread for a very specific purpose. I am aware of other posts about "what phone should I get." I did look for a thread specifically for this topic and didn't find one. I wanted to see what other captivate owners had to say about going from the captivate to the inspire because an opinion from somebody coming from an iPhone or something else is not going to help.
Anyways, I finally decided to head down to the ATT store and picked one up. Needless to say I am very impressed with the inspire. The salesmen tried to get me to buy the atrix. He said the inspire was not only selling like hotcakes, but it outselling the atrix and said that the atrix isn't selling as good as they thought it would. I told him the deal breaker for me for the atrix was that it has a smaller screen, motoblur UI which I don't like and its not development friendly.
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I can tell you this, you will not regret your decision. I can't believe the night and day difference over the Captivate. It is a whole new world.
I loved my Captivate. I love my inspire even more. It's definitely a step up. I'm not one to load roms and such, but I've seen a plethora of custom roms available for it, as well as, heard others speaking of roms.
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I just got mine three days ago. I cant go back to the cappy now. Harder to root but once done easier to flash roms, and battery life sucks but blows the cappy away lol
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I went from a Captivate to an Inspire and have liked it so far minus one major flaw, ROM space. On the Captivate I had loaded TONS of applications, so much so my wife constantly complained that I had too much junk on my phone. But I was testing, playing with new programs and seeing what worked for me. The Inspire has so much less space that when I initially set it up and the market tried to reload all my applications I ran out of space. I had to purge a ton of applications from my list. But since I never used many of these applications it wasn't a major issue.
That being said, I would make this trade every time, this phone is so much nicer and everything just works, including the GPS. I am very happy with the new phone and within a week of getting it I have rooted it, put on a couple tests ROMs, played with them then went back to a rooted stock ROM. So it seems development here is very lively, at least for what I do with my phone which is replace a ROM once in a blue moon. Now I have a captivate to play with as my toy phone and this phone as my work phone. Two phones for only $80 isn't bad (the original Captivate I got in August was essentially free after they rebated me $200 over the months for all the trouble then I upgraded a family line with the Inspire for $80).
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I went from a Captivate to an Inspire and have liked it so far minus one major flaw, ROM space. On the Captivate I had loaded TONS of applications, so much so my wife constantly complained that I had too much junk on my phone. But I was testing, playing with new programs and seeing what worked for me. The Inspire has so much less space that when I initially set it up and the market tried to reload all my applications I ran out of space. I had to purge a ton of applications from my list. But since I never used many of these applications it wasn't a major issue.
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The great thing is that with Froyo from the factory, you can use app2sd with no trouble and have quite a bit more apps than you otherwise could with ROM space.
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The great thing is that with Froyo from the factory, you can use app2sd with no trouble and have quite a bit more apps than you otherwise could with ROM space.
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True for applications which will move. I have a fair number of applications which refuse to relocate.
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Just go for it. You won't regret the change. Running a stock, rooted Inspire. Happy with it as it is right now. Just thankful to not have to flash a new Rom every few days.
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Can you tell me how to root and keep the same rom, i like it but i want root access to get rid of all of att's [email protected]$n bloatware
Hey guys. I know I'm posting this in here so I assume bias answers will come aboutt but I'm switching to att and I cannot decide between the two. What do you think? I know the atrix isn't very rootable or romable but has amazing specs. But the inspire is, and is a beautiful device. What are your opinions? How easy is the inspire to root?
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Depends on if you prefer the allure of a dual core processor over end user customization and superior build quality.
Rooting the Inspire is very easy if you can follow the instructions exactly as they are written.
Have both myself and the atrix is going back. Everyone has their preference for what they want in a phone and I really wanted to like the atrix but I don't see the benefit at this time of dual core when it comes at the expense of customizing. I am somewhat biased toward sense as well even though I don't always use sense roms, it is nice to have the option. The inspire is a great phone and I know I won't get bored given the variety of roms that are, or will be available.
Battery seems to be a topic that comes up but honestly I have been getting great results with the inspire. 13 hours off charger today and dropped to 68%. Light day for me, only an hour of display time and few minutes of calls but everything left to sync every hour. One major thing I have noticed is that even if you do find you need to recharge, the inspire charges quickly, even using computer usb, while the atrix takes a lot longer and is painfully slow if you are not using a regular outlet to charge.
Been covered before, but the inspire really is the better device. MOTO kinda screwed the atrix up with software.
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Been covered before, but the inspire really is the better device. MOTO kinda screwed the atrix up with software.
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100% agree. I returned my Atrix for the Inspire, and I'm glad I did. Inspire has a much more polished and functional user interface.
New root tools now available here should make rooting easy.
As said before it depends on what you want.
Phone with awesome specs or Phone with awesome dev support and a great UI
Both phones are awesome in their own right, but for me its all about having control of my phone and being able to do what I like to it.
In all honesty I'd wait for a dual core phone till HTC makes one. This is my first HTC coming from a blackberry bold. I don't think I'll ever not go with HTC again...
edit: Baaa I sound like a fanboy.....
okay, i appreicate your help guys. i guess now im just trying to figure out when i get the phone, how to root. ive been looking at this for simple s off and root(which is all i want for ROMing and using OC kernels). has anyone had luck with this, and or was it rather easy?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961406
I just used the hack kit to root. Not hard if you just follow the instructions and only takes 45 minutes after you get all the files downloaded.
Just returned my Atrix back to Radioshack and got the Inspire!! Just as everyone said here, if you want something good on paper but with no real use, then the Atrix is for you, but if you want a proven phone with an unlocked bootloader for ROMS etc... then this is the the right choice...
Although I lost my front facing camera, i figured I rarely used it anyways, so no biggie for me. I also didn't like the smaller icons on the Atrix. Even though it has less RAM and i less core, it still performs pretty dang fast..
Quadrant scores with a good amount of apps. without OC or anything stock is still hitting: 1807
Color looks much better too on this screen..... glad I switched to this phone instead. I am sure I will get a better dual or quad core in the next year but until then this will do....
Bye Motorola...except for the Xoom..that looks like a good choice though.
Your asking this in the inspire forms, of course everyone will say the inspire is better. If you asked this in the atrix forums you'd get the opposite response I've had both and returned the inspire. It isn't a bad phone but it has horrid battery life and no internal sd storage. It has great roms and OCs like a monster but OC and bad battery life just compound the problem. I can see why people would choose one or the other, it really just depends on what you're looking for.
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but a guy on Reddit said he was talking with a Motorola Representative and the Rep. told him that the Atrix doesn't use both cores at the same time. One is for the phone and the other is just for the laptop dock. Maybe someone else has more info on this.
Wow, another reason Im happy I stuck to my guns and got this phone.
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so if I use bubbys GUI, that will allow me to sideload apps? Or ill need to put a rom that allows that? Or what is the sideload wonder machine? I'm sorry for all the questions, the htc vision is a lot more simple.
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Used hack kit on my inspire and bubbys on my wifes. not as easy as samsung galaxy s, however not difficult if you follow the directions to the letter lol. my only issue with buys was total user error on my part lol. ended up making 32 gb class 4 gold card instead of the already made 4 gb gold card I had.
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If you just want to sideload, you can use Sideload Wonder Machine. If you want root and custom roms use one of the hack kits.
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I actually have both phones. I love both of them for different reasons.
Atrix - Works well once you change launchers. Fast and smooth. I actually like the smaller icons and all. But I use this phone mostly as a personal backup phone. But it works well and is crystal clear with a strong signal. MUCh MUCH better than my old cappy.
Inspire - My work phone, thank GOD I work from home and can have it plugged in most of the time. When I travel I have to have the Atrix just in case I cant get juice on the road. But, the inspire is awsome, not as fast but "good enough" for me. Love the size and color of it and the sense ui just works for me. I can tell which pocket has what phone based on bulk and weight. Very nice quality phone. Plus, I had a cappy, and we all know what we did almost every day. Loaded custom roms, played and even bricked a few but its so addicting.
If I had to go purchase one today, knowing what I know, Inspire would be my first choice, Again I own both and love both but first choice for the pure fun and joy it would give me the INSPIRE wins hands down.
Got my inspire today. Mixed feelings so far. Have to admit i kind of miss my captivate a little.
I think the inspire screen size is perfect. But i miss the superamoled. I don't know if its just me but my screen has horrible viewing angles and also seems to have too much of a grey color to it.
If samsung brings out the infuse soon i might give it a shot. This being my first htc maybe i should give it more time. Might return it for another one to see how the screen looks.
As far as the atrix goes, they couldn't pay me to use that phone. Played with one a little today, it's more hype than anything imo.
I like the form of the inspire, it feels solid, not iphone4 solid but very close. I hope rooting and everything gets easier.
Someone smarter than Me should start selling goldcards for this phone. Id be 1st in line for one.
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I had both phones - inspire is the best phone I have ever had. It made the atrix look like a toy. iPhone 4 has a better camera, but thats about it.
Inspire all the way. Galaxy S 2 is looking good though, if it ever comes out.
Edit: How can anyone with an Atrix and Inspire say the inspire is slower? The atrix is the definition of a neutered turtle. That thing is clunky and useless.
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I had both phones - inspire is the best phone I have ever had. It made the atrix look like a toy. iPhone 4 has a better camera, but thats about it.
Inspire all the way. Galaxy S 2 is looking good though, if it ever comes out.
Edit: How can anyone with an Atrix and Inspire say the inspire is slower? The atrix is the definition of a neutered turtle. That thing is clunky and useless.
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I'm also a psu fan. I hope that they let Joe stay on the sideline forever. Hell he should be buried there.
Back on topic, my opinion if the atrix is that it is basically a moto iphone that is not as good as the 4 but somewhere inbetween a 3 gs and the iphone 4.
As far as the inspire goes, it needs a better screen in my opinion but maybe i just got a bad one. I'm taking it back today to try another one and if its the same then i may just wait for the infuse to come out.
If you look in the atrix forum it appears that the majority are giving up on it already.
Dg got rid of his and i think but don't quote me in this, he said he doesn't think the locked will ever be broken in to which leads me back to my iphone reference. Same thing, you can root (jailbreak) it but not much else.
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I'm also a psu fan. I hope that they let Joe stay on the sideline forever. Hell he should be buried there.
Back on topic, my opinion if the atrix is that it is basically a moto iphone that is not as good as the 4 but somewhere inbetween a 3 gs and the iphone 4.
As far as the inspire goes, it needs a better screen in my opinion but maybe i just got a bad one. I'm taking it back today to try another one and if its the same then i may just wait for the infuse to come out.
If you look in the atrix forum it appears that the majority are giving up on it already.
Dg got rid of his and i think but don't quote me in this, he said he doesn't think the locked will ever be broken in to which leads me back to my iphone reference. Same thing, you can root (jailbreak) it but not much else.
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Did dg really get rid of his Atrix, did he post about it some where? Only reason I ask is cause I was planning on trying the atrix in my thirty day period bit if he left I'm not even gonna try. He doesn't give up that easy so if he have up looks bad lol
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I currently own an unlocked atrix on att. I'm always on wifi so mobile data speeds are not problem for me. I have an offer from craigslist to trade my phone with a x2. should I go with it? What do you guys say?
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its up to you... i was not impressed by the atrix other than the whole docking capabilities that it had
I can't say to much about the Atrix cuz I've never played with it. The G2x is a great phone with lots of development, roms and kernals. Better yet, bootloader is already unlocked.
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If you are happy with the Atrix I would stay with it for now. Most of the opinions I have seen would say that the G2X is a better phone. I went and played with both phones at the stores and bought the G2X. I don't regret that decision and I really like the G2X overall. I will love it even more when they come out with the official software fix. That said, I would not get a G2X off of craigslist right now. There seem to be some phones that have much more severe issues in regards to reboots and backlight bleed. People that are having trouble exchanging or can't return those phones are most likely turning to craigslist. I would have to really trust someone to take a G2X from them right now without extensive testing. I have been burned too many times buying electronics off of craigslist, I have gotten some good deals too though so YMMV. Maybe I am just being paranoid.
I love my atrix and we are probably having gingerbread update soon (june july as per a dev in our forum). I think I'm gonna stick with this atrix now.
It does look like a superior phone considering better battery, superior screen resolution, fingerprint scanner etc. only thing I miss here is the lack of unlocked boot loader.
I really wish someday I can run cm7 on it as I was able to do on my nexus one and nexus s.
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Atrix seems like a cool phone! I love my g2x.... just new to android so learning to do ROMs and all that.. so I'm not at the peak of the fun mountain yet='/
Originally this year I had a Iphone 3G and going to upgrade to the Atrix, but at that time the BL was locked and didn't want to wait around. So I returned the Atrix and bought a used Aria online. Well last night my Aria broke and now looking at a replacement, I plan on root and installing custom ROMs. I am wanting to know which is probably the best one to go with with custom ROMs?
How do they compare as far as battery life, speed, video, and such?
This has been asked before. This is one of such threads here.
Thanks for the info.
What broke on your aria? I might be interested in buying it for parts
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That other thread is too outdated especially now that Atrix has an unlocked bootloader and real custom roms available now. I too would like to know the difference. I've never seen so many contradictory reviews of two phones lol. I see reviews where people say the pics on the atrix are way better than those on the infuse. I have the droid 3 or whatever it's called camera on my Atrix so it becomes a moot point because the pics coming from that camera build are better than the build on the ATrix.
I just really would like as many opinions as possible to get a good feel for why people who went from the Atrix like the infuse better. Preferably those that went from a rooted/unlocked bootloader Atrix.
1) Our screen still blows away the Atrix
2) The Atrix is still kinda big and clunky
3) The unlock process makes it clear that you've unlocked and is grounds for FULLY voiding your hardware warranty even if the problem is not software-related.
I've had both phones. In my opinion the Infuse is better than the Atrix. I found them to be equally as fast. The display on the Infuse even with "lower" resolution blows the Atrix away. When using the Atrix I found the battery to get so hot it was annoying.
Verizon has a buy back program for people to trade in their old phones. The Atrix in prime shape would fetch about $125. The Infuse brought in about $190.
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I've had both phones. In my opinion the Infuse is better than the Atrix. I found them to be equally as fast. The display on the Infuse even with "lower" resolution blows the Atrix away. When using the Atrix I found the battery to get so hot it was annoying.
Verizon has a buy back program for people to trade in their old phones. The Atrix in prime shape would fetch about $125. The Infuse brought in about $190.
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+1, I don't even think it's close. Infuse is easily the better device, in my opinion. I absolutely love the Infuse, while the Atrix was mediocre, at best. The Atrix looks better on paper obviously, but the Infuse is the better device. I can't imagine anyone (who's used both) saying otherwise.
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The original digitizer was having issues, so I bought a replacement. Well I almost had the new in when I forgot to put the ear piece back in and when pulling the digitizer back off it slipped and I ripped the ribbon clean off. So I installed the old one again, but the lcd is not coming on. Can't figure out what it is.
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Yea, I went ahead and picked the Infuse Thursday night, got it for a good price too $98 from Sams, I've been out of contact for about 6+ months now and have been waiting for a good phone.
I now I need to find the best ROM for it.
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Yea, I went ahead and picked the Infuse Thursday night, got it for a good price too $98 from Sams, I've been out of contact for about 6+ months now and have been waiting for a good phone.
I now I need to find the best ROM for it.
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Let me know if you want to sell the aria. that is what we gave my son...so i expect to need some parts and pieces
I that issue on a digitizer replacement too. i think they just have bad ones out there.
Welcome to the infuse!!!
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I have looked through the threads in this section already and have found nothing up to date about phone upgrades. I've had a DX for some time now and its time to upgrade. I've been happy with it and its a great phone. I love having the ability to install roms and such on it. So my question is what's the best phone to upgrade to on VZW. I would just like a stable phone with the ability to some day install CM9. Preferably one with a dul-core and an unlocked bootloader. But I've lived with a locked bootloader before, I can do it ounce more lol. I just waned your input on what to get.
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Droid razr,galaxy nexus bith nice phones with a bunch of devving going on. Well not so much for the razr. Personally i think the razor is a dud.
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i <3 razor's visual appeal
i've heard people like the bionic also, shrug
Read reviews on the razr having poor reception.
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