Thunderbolt Replacemet - Thunderbolt General

Hey all,
I have a Thunderbolt that I got the day before they killed unlimited data, and I have had so much trouble with it. Long story short, they have offered me a Razr or a Rezound as a replacemet. I'm much more interested in the Nexus, but they say that Nexus's discount codes are avalible yet.
So I don't really love the idea of waiting for 4 months for ICS on the Razr, not having a replacable battery, and huge bezels. And the Rezound is interesting, and feels a lot faster and smoother than the Razr, but after my experience with the Thunderbolt, not sure I am totally ready to go back. And I guess the most important thing is that the dev community will be much more focused on the Nexus, which coumpounds the ICS wait
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I had a Tbolt longer than all the other phones I had, which by the way makes 15 to date. The Tbolt with CM 7 is an unstoppable force. I have the Galaxy Nexus and its cool, but the Tbolt is still faster ATM and rock solid.
Don't judge a phone by it's stockness, Rzr is moto and moto is locked down. Take it back and get the Nexus.

You said yourself they will not replace your Thunderbolt with the just released Nexus. So either take a replacement or keep the Thunderbolt.
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Why not ask for a new out of the box thunderbolt? Not a refurbished one.

Did you ever get this? I had a Verizon rep say they'd send me a Rezound but then their supervisor turned around and denied it. They said they could only send me a Charge or an LG Revolution since they were in the same class or something.
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I was in the VZW store the other day looking at the galaxy, the guy that helped me said his wife has the galaxy and will be returning it cuz it gets horrible 4g (in salt lake anyway). He had the Rezound and said he loves it. Anyway, where do I get the cm7 ROM? Not trying to steel this thread
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Switch to Nexus S ??!

Hey guys. I'm strongly considering getting rid of my inspire on at&t in favor of the nexus S. I'm looking for fast and reliable in nyc without lte so I'm drawn to this device. I also like cm7 support. Unfortunately, my time with the captivate has left a bad taste in my mouth towards Samsung. Before I make the switch I was wondering if you guys had any advice for me. If the reviews aren't so great I may consider the droid charge as well even though its lte and will likely not have cm support. I've just had enough with at&t. What do you guys think?
Thanks in advance!
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lrs421 said:
Hey guys. I'm strongly considering getting rid of my inspire on at&t in favor of the nexus S. I'm looking for fast and reliable in nyc without lte so I'm drawn to this device. I also like cm7 support. Unfortunately, my time with the captivate has left a bad taste in my mouth towards Samsung. Before I make the switch I was wondering if you guys had any advice for me. If the reviews aren't so great I may consider the droid charge as well even though its lte and will likely not have cm support. I've just had enough with at&t. What do you guys think?
Thanks in advance!
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i don't understand. The Nexus S is already out, so you can buy it for T-Mobile, Sprint or AT&T (unofficially). There's nothing new to review here.
Pick a carrier, then pick a phone. The Nexus S is going to be on all BUT Verizon.
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i don't understand. The Nexus S is already out, so you can buy it for T-Mobile, Sprint or AT&T (unofficially). There's nothing new to review here.
Pick a carrier, then pick a phone. The Nexus S is going to be on all BUT Verizon.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear. I want to move to sprint, and the nexus is the phone I've zero'd in on. Just wanted to know if it was a good choice. My new carrier of choice is Sprint or Verizon.
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I think the Nexus 4G is awesome. If you get it, you don't have to worry about upgrading OS, etc. Nexus One and now Nexus S are absolutely terrific for getting the pure Google experience, which I think is waaay better than anything else.
That's what I was thinking. I like the updates from Google and I love Vanilla. I think it will be the perfect mate to my xoom. This weekend I'm going to make it to a sprint store and take it for a spin...
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I would recommend picking up this device, I picked it up this past weekend and WOW! The first day I was kinda on the fence about it, but after a couple of days with it, my Epic seems like a slug!
The GPS locks on in less than 3 seconds, unlike 3 minutes for the Epic, which is nice.
I'd say go for it!
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yea i definitely would. i went from Atrix to Nexus S on AT&T and it's just NICE having the latest OS.
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yea i definitely would. i went from Atrix to Nexus S on AT&T and it's just NICE having the latest OS.
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I forgot it's available for at&t. I would really like to have 4g now though and who knows when their Damon backhaul is going to be complete.
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I would recommend picking up this device, I picked it up this past weekend and WOW! The first day I was kinda on the fence about it, but after a couple of days with it, my Epic seems like a slug!
The GPS locks on in less than 3 seconds, unlike 3 minutes for the Epic, which is nice.
I'd say go for it!
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I feel your pain with the epic. My captivate was just as bad. The inspire is just as good with GPS locks but again the web speed is terrible. Good to see there are no major issues with the nexus s.
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Its funny but the GPS for the T-mobile nexus S I bought from Bestbuy had horrible GPS lock times that made me not want to spend the money on the At&t version. I even updated it to 2.3.4 and still dint see a difference. I didn't get to root the phone to try out roms but I'm afraid to spend the money and have the GPS not work for me. By putting a custom rom do you guys find the GPS lock time better? I don't know if I should just wait for the Galaxy SII or just get the nexus s since I did love the size of it and overall feel.. decisions decisions... lol
Yes its a good choice to get the Nexus S on Sprint's network. Cheaper plans than Verizon. Plus, Nexus is a pretty sweet phone. Fast and a wonderful screen.
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Go ahead and hour my thanks button in advance, side ghats like among I'm thinking about trading in my datsun for a porche. This phone rocks sprints plans are cheap and unlimited.Its a winning combo
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Of all the phones I've owned (and I've owned A LOT). The Nexus phones are right at the top of the list. I liked the EVO, but pure Google is pure awesome.
Yup my mind is made up. Going to check out this phone over the weekend.
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So who's jumping ship for the Galaxy SII?

Supposedly it's coming out in July for Verizon
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/08/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-said-to-be-verizon-bound-in-july/
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"Update: We just received word from a Verizon spokesperson that the reference to a July release was just a miscommunication and was actually in reference to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. "
Pass ... Not a fan of Samsung build quality
With a dual core 1.2 ghz processor it better have a good battery that comes with it stock. I am not changing phones to just get battery life that is worse then the thunderbolt.
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For me, if it's not HTC, pass!
If it's LTE, I'll use my upgrade on it.
Wish it had lte then I would get
SII seems solid but the Droid 3 may be my Thunderbolt replacement.
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SII seems solid but the Droid 3 may be my Thunderbolt replacement.
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The Droid Bionic supposedly is a 4.5 LTE monster...but blur and locked bootloader...no thanks
If its LTE yes.
I had the fascinate and I will not ever buy ANY samsung product. I even returned a samsung monitor I had back to costco.
I loved my Vibrant, I'd probably go back to Sammy if it was LTE.
It is surely tempting, to say the least.
yeah, had a fascinate. i think i'll pass on this. samsung phones feel cheap and they use too much plastic. just doesnt feel like an expensive device.
ilogik said:
I had the fascinate and I will not ever buy ANY samsung product. I even returned a samsung monitor I had back to costco.
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This. Worst phone I've ever owned, and I've had every android on VZW except for the Ally and Inc.
I'll wait until it launches, see what the developer scene looks like, before I make a decision. I won't be jumping on launch day, but I've been impressed with Samsung's recent actions, fast kernel source releases, donations of phones to developers, etc.
Nope pass
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Fascinate was not that bad, minus Bing and the poor updates of course. Build quality is subjective.
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I plan to be amongst the first to get one. Getting two, one for my wife too.
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If its LTE yes.
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Nope holding onto my Thunderbolt for a while... All i care is that tethering works and I'll wait for a nice quad-core tablet to come out and do all my heavy lifting on that.

Anybody else listing their thunderbolt?

I just listed mine on Craigslist in anticipation of the SGSII coming to VZW.
I'm really really hoping it'll have 4G because I don't want to come back to the tbolt or have to deal with the bionic (unless the bionic is unlockable).
What about you guys? Anybody else selling to get top dollar before the new phones are officially announced?
Edit: http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...according-to-the-vzw-support-twitter-account/ woot, sgs2 will have 4g!
Lol, what if it's delayed I may sell mines eventually as well, I hate Samsung but this phone is a beast.
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Lol, what if it's delayed I may sell mines eventually as well, I hate Samsung but this phone is a beast.
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Yeah, I'm worried about it being delayed too :\
Fortunately, I have an old Incredible laying around that I can use in the meantime. I really hope VZW doesn't drop the ball here and delay it past early September. As far as I can tell, that tweet is VZW's first admission that the sgs2 for VZW even exists.
I'm not a fan of Apple....errr Samsung so I think I'm sticking with the Bolt!!
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Yeah, I'm worried about it being delayed too :\
Fortunately, I have an old Incredible laying around that I can use in the meantime. I really hope VZW doesn't drop the ball here and delay it past early September. As far as I can tell, that tweet is VZW's first admission that the sgs2 for VZW even exists.
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Yeah, I hear ya, atleast we know it's actually real. This phone will be hard to resist but I wouldn't sell my phone just yet, you may be waiting a while. Unless you a spare laying around somewhere.
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After hearing that it will have 4G, I might be tempted to sell my TBolt once it launches. I also am not a fan of samsung phones, but this thing really makes me drool.
i'll probably wait until next march(when my 1st year is up) as ill get my $400 deposit back then.
As a previous owner of the fascinate, I am definitely with you guys on the anti-Samsung bandwagon. The thing that has changed my mind is that Samsung has said that the sgs2 is practically made for Ice Cream Sandwich. That gives me hope that they will be updating it relatively quickly once ICS is released.
Also, the fact that they gave the sgs2 to some of the CM devs makes me think they are more consumer focused than they were the first go 'round.
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As a previous owner of the fascinate, I am definitely with you guys on the anti-Samsung bandwagon. The thing that has changed my mind is that Samsung has said that the sgs2 is practically made for Ice Cream Sandwich. That gives me hope that they will be updating it relatively quickly once ICS is released.
Also, the fact that they gave the sgs2 to some of the CM devs makes me think they are more consumer focused than they were the first go 'round.
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All good points, I forgot they hooked up some devs with phones. I still have nightmares about my Captivate. This phone is in a completely different league though.
To be honest with you I want my next phone to be great out of the box. I never thought I would reach a point that I would be tired of rom flashing, lol. I could slap lpp on top of touchwiz and would be good to go.
Still love my bolt though, we'll see.
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It's also the first and only android phone with a completely open sourced linux kernel (no linked binary blobs for drivers in it).
Selling your phone off for this right now is silly though. Who knows when it'll be out for CDMA/LTE. It could be another 5-6 months at the earliest.
The Galaxy S2 having 4G is still unconfirmed.
http://twitter.com/#!/VZWSupport/status/96264762802970626
That tweet was sent out shortly afterwards.
lrs421 said:
All good points, I forgot they hooked up some devs with phones. I still have nightmares about my Captivate. This phone is in a completely different league though.
To be honest with you I want my next phone to be great out of the box. I never thought I would reach a point that I would be tired of rom flashing, lol. I could slap lpp on top of touchwiz and would be good to go.
Still love my bolt though, we'll see.
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I hear ya on that! I'm kind of glad CM7 for the TBolt isn't on Nightlies and I am enjoying flashing once every few weeks instead of nightly. I will say I enjoy the added capabilities root and CM7 brings though so I couldn't go unrooted that's for sure.
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The Galaxy S2 having 4G is still unconfirmed.
http://twitter.com/#!/VZWSupport/status/96264762802970626
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There goes that, lol.
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I hear ya on that! I'm kind of glad CM7 for the TBolt isn't on Nightlies and I am enjoying flashing once every few weeks instead of nightly. I will say I enjoy the added capabilities root and CM7 brings though so I couldn't go unrooted that's for sure.
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Yeah, I would have to atleast root it, lol.
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Selling your phone off for this right now is silly though. Who knows when it'll be out for CDMA/LTE. It could be another 5-6 months at the earliest.
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+1
No one knows for sure if SGS2 will have LTE, although Samsung would be pretty stupid to not support it. If it does, I will be first in line....but my Tbolt will do just fine until then.
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Yeah, I would have to atleast root it, lol.
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Yes, even if it were great out of the box, I would root it to get rid of all the bloatware you know will be crammed on it!
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this thread made me come up with a plan I am soon going to be trading my thunderbolt for a charge and my dad just got one off verizon as his upgrade if the sgs 2 comes out august 12th then I will give him my charge and make him return his for the sgs 2
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Galaxy S II or Droid Bionic for me please
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By the way, I hope we can easily swap SIM cards between out TBolts and the SGS2 (if it does have LTE) cuz I really do love my TBolt but the SGS2 is a BEAST
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I must be the only one who loves my thunderbolt.
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It's so good to be home.

I took a brief trip to iPhone land back in January when my excellent Inspire got dropped and destroyed. HUGE mistake. Man did I miss android. So anyhow, I'm back y'all.
gunnyman said:
I took a brief trip to iPhone land back in January when my excellent Inspire got dropped and destroyed. HUGE mistake. Man did I miss android. So anyhow, I'm back y'all.
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Welcome back to the community
gunnyman said:
I took a brief trip to iPhone land back in January when my excellent Inspire got dropped and destroyed. HUGE mistake. Man did I miss android. So anyhow, I'm back y'all.
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I hope you sanitized yourself really well before coming in here.
I took a nuclear exposure shower. My skin still hurts.
Welcome back to the promise land
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Lol I could never go back to an iPhone after having an Android for a while.
Can't stand the baby gap screen, isheep mentality, or lack of customization.
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Lol I could never go back to an iPhone after having an Android for a while.
Can't stand the baby gap screen, isheep mentality, or lack of customization.
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I have an iPhone for work. It pains me to have to use it.
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I'd rather have a blackberry, used to have a bold for my work phone and the battery life is ridiculous (like charged it twice a week)
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I'd rather have a blackberry, used to have a bold for my work phone and the battery life is ridiculous (like charged it twice a week)
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I have a torch 9810 but I cannot stand the keyboard. I would rather use an iPhone than a blackberry.
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I've owned every iJunk they put out and finally made the switch. The learning curve is a little steeper but I can't see ever going back -happy android user
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I got my One X today man this thing is nice.
I was an Inspire owner too and I remember you used to rule that forum. I am shocked that you left for iPhone! I moved onto the Galaxy Nexus when it came out and sold off the Inspire. I had an upgrade available now so there is no way I could pass this phone up... I love the phone but do miss the stock feeling of Android 4.0 so now all I really need is Root and CM9!
I remember you from the Inspire forums. I switched to the Note then the Nexus, now I can upgrade and I may get the One X. Good to see people attempting iPhone and regretting it, so I don't have to. The reason I'm maybe thinking of the One X is the camera, I'm going on holiday and don't want to be stuck taking GNex quality shots along the coast of Italy lol.
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I'm pissed I have 1 line I can open or I can early upgrade to iPhone 4s my inspire is nice but I really want this phone so bestbuy will give me 300 for inspire then one x will be at the store on Friday can't wait! So dumb the phone is out on display but the won't have a shipment till freaking Friday djckgdskfvxc how is the GPS on one x? I hate my inspires GPS with a passion!
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Pirateghost said:
I have an iPhone for work. It pains me to have to use it.
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I had an iPhone for work. Work paid the bill. I brought my own so I get a whopping $25 credit for reimbursement lol. It's still worth it.
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Pirateghost said:
I have an iPhone for work. It pains me to have to use it.
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Longtime no see pirate since what the captivate lol
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dincdoes.me said:
I'm pissed I have 1 line I can open or I can early upgrade to iPhone 4s my inspire is nice but I really want this phone so bestbuy will give me 300 for inspire then one x will be at the store on Friday can't wait! So dumb the phone is out on display but the won't have a shipment till freaking Friday djckgdskfvxc how is the GPS on one x? I hate my inspires GPS with a passion!
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GPS is absolutely wonderful
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Just left my international GSII for this bad boy. (The GSII was the best phone ever btw). Freaking loving the screen and the sick build quality. It's so much better than Samsung's crap plastic
I too took a detour through some Sammys (The other phone at home is always iP - a conscious decision that works well ), Great to be back to HTC.
SGS2 was great for that generation, but LTE/batt life sucked and was a bit clunky (I have large hands), so wasted no time in getting my H1X.
dincdoes.me said:
I'm pissed I have 1 line I can open or I can early upgrade to iPhone 4s my inspire is nice but I really want this phone so bestbuy will give me 300 for inspire then one x will be at the store on Friday can't wait! So dumb the phone is out on display but the won't have a shipment till freaking Friday djckgdskfvxc how is the GPS on one x? I hate my inspires GPS with a passion!
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The GPS is why I ditched my Inspire. I do a lot of things that use the GPS (mapping / running / cycling). That GPS would not stay locked and would turn a 5 mile run into a 15 mile run with all of the zig zags it would add to my course. Great for the Ego, but a pain in the A$$ otherwise.
To Answer your question the HOX is lightning fast to lock and stays locked pretty well from what I can tell. I have not used it with a gps app other than google maps yet but I am happy with what i have seen so far.

Galaxy Nexus vs ThunderBolt

I'm debating jumping ship to the galaxy nexus. Anyone else made the jump? Pros vs Cons?
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I have heard that the galaxy nexus has some data issues like the bolt does. I also hear that the battery life isn't very good either.
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I, personally, would say do it. Its the best Nexus device with LTE. I havent had any data issues on CM 10.1, and the device is just all around better. Certainly battery life sucks, but it sucks on all Android devices so you just have to choose your battles.
Basically, I would say go for it. I made the jump and it was awesome.
No comparison. The Gnex is my favorite android device so far (TB, Rezound, Gnex). The radios are a tad bit weak, but you are unlikely to notice a difference unless you live somewhere where you rock one bar regularly.
Only warning though, once you go nexus, there may be no going back. I miss some sense features, but consistent updating and tons of completely stable ROMs make it very worthwhile.
Get it. Get it now!
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The gnex is going to have a Ubuntu mobile os release soon... Its tempting. But the gnex is old as well. It will be like the eris dev wise, Maybe
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The nexus is pretty much guaranteed development support over time because of how easy it is for developing. Personally though, if you have the option pick up a GSIII instead. Having used both, I enjoy the GSIII much more.
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depends on how much you use your cell
I jumped over to the Gnex about mid-nov, (being a grandfathered in unlimited data freak I had to buy used) love it due to the features but even with the extended battery makes me wish I'd of waited and got something later. Don't get me wrong rocking jellybean from the get go for me was worth the trouble, at first. But I have to charge my cell every 2-4 hours even with the extended battery in it if I use my phone as I did with my tbolt. Keep in mind I use mine for work reasons so having to constantly have a wire hanging off the end of it to stay on top of things drives me NUTS where on the tbolt I could go all day long without recharging, with the Rezound battery. I'd just place it on the charger at bedtime and I was good to go. So needless to say, I am an extemely heavy user, always on it. Phone, texting, emails only though, I don't use any apps really other than tapatalk & gmaps off and on. Being in the DC area I am always rocking full 4G bars.
With the Gnex I get about 20mins give or take of on screentime and thats it. So the only CON I can give is that the battery is horrendous but keep in mind I run stock and not a custom rom which is probably my problem, but I am too chicken to attempt changing it as my luck I'd bust it or something, the PROS everything other than the battery is a MUST HAVE in a smartphone. I must say if I can grab me a nice cheap S3 I might have to grab it with the way people seem to really like it, but I've never even seen anyone in my office have one to try it out for myself.
So all in all, it depends on the user and how much you'll use it, weekends I can go all day without a recharge as I only use it once in a while to text or respond to some annoying military contracter that doesn't know how to enter their password in a windows machine.
How the heck does a phone get less battery life than a Thunderbolt? Just learning that alone would make me avoid it... there has to be an Android phone that can at least get you through the day on a single charge (i can do that with my rooted Tbolt using the Rezound battery, but just barely).
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How the heck does a phone get less battery life than a Thunderbolt? Just learning that alone would make me avoid it... there has to be an Android phone that can at least get you through the day on a single charge (i can do that with my rooted Tbolt using the Rezound battery, but just barely).
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My GS3 lasts most, if not all of the day depending on what I'm doing. I usually get between 4-4.5 hours screen on.
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I moved from eris to incredible to tbolt to gnex and must say I LOVE this nexus device. BUT!!!! If I could get an s3 I would totally do it. Battery life on nexus is worse than the tbolt. Nexus is a great device, terrible phone.
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But I have to charge my cell every 2-4 hours even with the extended battery in it if I use my phone as I did with my tbolt.
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I switched to the gnex around the same time, and I thought it was just my phone that had this same issue. I burn through a 2100 mAh battery in less than 5 hours even if it's just sitting idle. I've found some enjoyable ROMs, but this batty life is worse than the Tbolt.
I just posted this.
Make the move. Just bought two, one to replace my t-bolt. I too am a Verizon unlimited grandfather user and read in Money that gnex was Best of Rest pick of 2012 after iPhone. I love the phone. Development is great, battery life is not super, but better than t-bolt. Phone has an extended battery that is only slightly lager than stock; not the pregnant brick that t-bolt calls an extended battery.
The DNA blows all these away, I'd get that and root it. Its the best possible hardware you can get so you would at least be satisfied your two years
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The DNA blows all these away, I'd get that and root it. Its the best possible hardware you can get so you would at least be satisfied your two years
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You couldn't pay me to take another HTC phone, regardless of the hardware.
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The GNex is a more than capable device. I made the switch a month ago and wish I had sooner. My first Roms were aosp, aokp, then I found my personal favorite, JBSourcery. Battery life was poor on most Roms but Sourcery has improved it very much. Once you go Nexus, you'll never go back.
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I swapped over to GNex back when the refurbs were $249, I wasn't happy with the battery life after having the TBolt's extended batter, so picked up this.
I went from a TB to the GNex back in August and I must say I love my Nexus. The screen is amazing and performance is excellent. As others have already pointed out, the battery life is the biggest draw back with the Nexus. I never got very good battery life with my TB (which is why I had 2 spare batteries for it) so I was more or less already used to the poor battery life.
All I can say is if you get the Nexus I'll bet you will wish you would have switched to it sooner. It is simply a great phone.
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The DNA blows all these away, I'd get that and root it. Its the best possible hardware you can get so you would at least be satisfied your two years
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The only flaw I've found with the DNA is that if anything presses on the back too hard, you can end up with a permanent blue dot in the center of your screen. I dunno if the new screens are more prone to dead pixels, but a guy in the rezound forum had his DNA replaced for the blue dot issue and got a screen with dead pixels. (He works at a Verizon store). He ended up going back to his GSIII.
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That's not good to hear about the DNA.
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Dark Jedi said:
That's not good to hear about the DNA.
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I know, I was surprised too. HTC is always so close to getting it perfect.
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