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Nexus S as compared to Galaxy SII :S

Hi guys,
Galaxy SII blew away my senses with its performance. It is too slick. Do Benchmark softwares like quadrant have any significance ? Mine Nexus S shows a very high score but its not even half slick as SII Which ROMs should I try, if I am looking for a slick Rom. Or the hardware difference is of a significant matter here ?

suhas_sm said:
Hi guys,
Galaxy SII blew away my senses with its performance. It is too slick. Do Benchmark softwares like quadrant have any significance ? Mine Nexus S shows a very high score but its not even half slick as SII Which ROMs should I try, if I am looking for a slick Rom. Or the hardware difference is of a significant matter here ?
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Go AOSP(CM7/MIUI) and then use a kernel that will allow you to over-clock the crap out of your NS. You might still not reach desired performance compare to a stock or even over-clocked S2.
You're trying to compare dual core to single core here, not to mention double the amount of RAM.

Ive used my mates SII, its a great phone to be sure, but honestly in everyday usage terms theres almost nothing between them. Theres some factors i prefer about the SII, but none of them are really enough to make me wish i had one over my NS.
That may change with the arrival of the Nexus prime. However, ultimately everything becomes obsolete, thats why i purchased the NS, hopefully to avoid some of that. However, i do think that Google really should have made the NS a dual core device, even if it delayed it slightly.

Rotellian said:
Ive used my mates SII, its a great phone to be sure, but honestly in everyday usage terms theres almost nothing between them. Theres some factors i prefer about the SII, but none of them are really enough to make me wish i had one over my NS.
That may change with the arrival of the Nexus prime. However, ultimately everything becomes obsolete, thats why i purchased the NS, hopefully to avoid some of that. However, i do think that Google really should have made the NS a dual core device, even if it delayed it slightly.
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Google made a very good choice when they put the best single core processor available in the Nexus S.
There are barely any dual core socs that beat the samsung chip here.
And no, Tegra 2 does not beat it.
Both cores aren't even being used properly.
The Galaxy S II is barely any better than the Nexus S.
The Nexus Prime will probably rape both though.
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The Nexus S is a phone, whereas the Galaxy S II is a mini-tablet.

today i'm returning nexus s for galaxy s plus, is it a good deal?

If you like less power for more money.
shad0wboss said:
today i'm returning nexus s for galaxy s plus, is it a good deal?
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dario3040 said:
Google made a very good choice when they put the best single core processor available in the Nexus S.
There are barely any dual core socs that beat the samsung chip here.
And no, Tegra 2 does not beat it.
Both cores aren't even being used properly.
The Galaxy S II is barely any better than the Nexus S.
The Nexus Prime will probably rape both though.
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This. Dual core is a waste in 2011. My ns4g is faster and more responsive than my friends dual core devices.(plus I have almost 300mb available ram)
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SComp23 said:
The Nexus S is a phone, whereas the Galaxy S II is a mini-tablet.
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I agree. 4" is the sweet spot especially considering screen sizeower consumption. I've had 3"-4.3" displays and the ns4g has spoiled me.
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Guys,
I am "only" talking in terms of performance and I have noticed a huge difference.
As far I think it is the dual core that is making this kind of difference.
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to be honest yes. there is a big difference. not only in speed but in 3d, video rendering+formts, in browsing... they are both due to the software (hardware acceleration tweaks touchwizz added) and the hardware too. never base yourself on forums for these things. ppl generally tend to defend their devices. lol and i do it too at times. just take a look in the nexus one forum, you'll find a couple of threads over there saying that from nexus 1 to nexus s was no upgrade at all.
the thing is ..you cant compare these 2 devices. the nexus s is already a nearly 10 month old device and the sII is still the creme de la creme!

I had a SGSII prior to getting my I9020A Nexus S (on ATT in the US).
In short, the SGSII's screen was shiny and bright, but the low resolution on such a large screen looked bad, IMO. Plus the phone was too flat and slippery and adding a case made it huge. In the end, I could not deal with Touchwiz and radio issues with data speed/dropping. I returned it and have a renewed love for my Nexus S.

deeren said:
to be honest yes. there is a big difference. not only in speed but in 3d, video rendering+formts, in browsing...
you cant compare these 2 devices. the nexus s is already a nearly 10 month old device and the sII is still the creme de la creme!
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I found video capability to be class apart ! Just blew my senses away
And agree, even I am using it since 10 months and it is old now. But still not that old. Anyways, Android is moving towards right direction and finally perfect hardware maturity has been attained to give a superb user experience, in fact at par with iOS. Before every pounces on me , I have always been an android fan but always considered iOS to be a superior OS.
ericshmerick said:
I had a SGSII prior to getting my I9020A Nexus S (on ATT in the US).
In short, the SGSII's screen was shiny and bright, but the low resolution on such a large screen looked bad, IMO. Plus the phone was too flat and slippery and adding a case made it huge. In the end, I could not deal with Touchwiz and radio issues with data speed/dropping. I returned it and have a renewed love for my Nexus S.
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ericshmerick said:
I had a SGSII prior to getting my I9020A Nexus S (on ATT in the US).
In short, the SGSII's screen was shiny and bright, but the low resolution on such a large screen looked bad, IMO. Plus the phone was too flat and slippery and adding a case made it huge. In the end, I could not deal with Touchwiz and radio issues with data speed/dropping. I returned it and have a renewed love for my Nexus S.
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Agreed.
The rez is too low for that sized screen.
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Anyone switching to the galaxy nexus?

I was thinking about switching to a galaxy nexus today because I can technically get it for free if I give up my S2, but I am not sure if it is a good move or not.
With the S2 having full cyanogen and miui support, the only 2 roms I really use, the only thing it seems like I would gain with the nexus is a bigger screen.
Is anyone going to switch to the nexus? If so, why are you switching? I don't want to switch and then regret it. I only have until the 21st to be able to get the galaxy nexus for free so I am going to have to make a decision without being able to see the phone in person.

I'm considering it but the cost is off putting because I'll have to buy off contract. I like the idea of a pure Google phone and the bigger screen would be nice
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My contract was up 3 weeks ago, so i thought about waiting for the nexus, or getting the gs2, the no sd card was the decider for me, that and an sure the gs community will bee bigger then the nexus community, though granted both will be big enough
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Most of the enhancements are because of ICS, which we will get in a couple months anyway. The bigger screen isn't much different because the size includes the part of the screen that will display the buttons. If you measured to the end of our buttons, we'd have almost the same screen size (the resolution is great but its also pentile). The camera is a toss up (Nexus shoots faster, we have 3 more megapixels). NFC doesn't matter yet for me in the US (I have never seen a place to pay for anything with NFC, not even one time).
Bottom line, If I had the choice, I'd rather have the Nexus. It will get the fastest software updates and its great hardware. But its not worth spending a lot of money on coming from the GSII which will be 95 percent as good once we get ICS.

Both are similar in my opinion...galaxy wins on extra sd support,camera and will get ics finally..also is more pocket friendly..nexus is taller...
Nexus has a better screen.....
I will wait for galaxy s3

If it had Super Amoled PLUS, I would.

Im getting it but I wouldn't switch. The Hardware acceleration probably be better on the S2 due to better GPU + Lower screen resolution. Also the downside of not having micro sd slot.
I've ordered it at Amazon but is due for 2nd Decemeber (sucks!) but probably be returning it after some fun use with it (14 days policy).

Apparently Galaxy Nexus is not getting Flash also, together with many other issues like no sd-card, worst camera, no Touchwiz and other stuff, nasty pentile screen with higher battery drain, huge uncomfortable size.
I took my decision for SII when I could get Nexus Prime, as far as I know many are completely ignoring Nexus and will hopefully wait for the next gen SIII.

I would have if I was able to transfer my 64GB MicroSDXC card to it.

No offence to the OP but there has already been several threads relating to this please use search function.

pacc said:
Apparently Galaxy Nexus is not getting Flash also, together with many other issues like no sd-card, worst camera, no Touchwiz and other stuff, nasty pentile screen with higher battery drain, huge uncomfortable size.
I took my decision for SII when I could get Nexus Prime, as far as I know many are completely ignoring Nexus and will hopefully wait for the next gen SIII.
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Where is this no flash business?

I just got SGSII. I used Infuse 4G which has 4.5" screen, and I think SGSII screen size is perfect. As others mentioned, only benefit with Galaxy Nexus is ICS. But I think I can wait couple of month for ICS update on my SGSII. I'm pretty happy with mine.

Waiting in Canada patiently
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Only thing it seems to have over the gs2 is ics.. And now we know we'll be getting that too I see no reason to replace this awesome toy
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rasinell said:
Only thing it seems to have over the gs2 is ics.. And now we know we'll be getting that too I see no reason to replace this awesome toy
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What about screen, ics, camera?
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I'm getting my Galaxy Nexus Next week! can't wait for it to arrive! i will keep my S2 though.

my galaxy nexus will arrive tomorrow as i could just not help myself but im not selling my sg2 just yet until i have had a good play

ChongoDroid said:
What about screen, ics, camera?
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Ok so I missed out screen res. Camera is more than good enough for me on gs2. And as I said we're getting ics officially and the will be plenty of vanilla ports around. Not saying the nexus is bad, just not enough for me to swap is all
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i wouldn't switch..not a sniff. the nexus is totally hideous...gs2 is the sweetspot.
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Nope, not switching. If you remove ICS your left with a pretty standard Android device.

Skyrocket the best phone?

I am seriously in love with my white skyrocket! I've had the Galaxy Nexus, Droid Razr, GS2, and thunderbolt in the last 4 months and hands down the skyrocket is the best phone in the market.
Anybody disagree or agree?
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I totally agree! I love my white skyrocket only thing that kills me is the lack of new roms for the skyrocket. There alot of quality rooms ATM but i cone from the evo 4g where roms were popping out every hour it seemed like it. I know the momentum is building so can't wait for the new roms coming out soon. Great phone!
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I disagree the T989 is the best phone. Lol but I get where your coming from the Sgs2 line is definitely worth it and better than most phones out. I'm coming from the Galaxy Nexus as well. The memory was the main deal breaker for me but I may get it back later. Not too sure right now.
But I have 16 on board and 32 on top.
The roms are coming along.
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charlieb620 said:
I disagree the T989 is the best phone. Lol but I get where your coming from the Sgs2 line is definitely worth it and better than most phones out. I'm coming from the Galaxy Nexus as well. The memory was the main deal breaker for me but I may get it back later. Not too sure right now.
But I have 16 on board and 32 on top.
The roms are coming along.
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Lol same phone with the exception of your lack of lte. Lol haha

silver03wrx said:
Lol same phone with the exception of your lack of lte. Lol haha
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True can't argue with that.
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evocalante said:
I totally agree! I love my white skyrocket only thing that kills me is the lack of new roms for the skyrocket. There alot of quality rooms ATM but i cone from the evo 4g where roms were popping out every hour it seemed like it. I know the momentum is building so can't wait for the new roms coming out soon. Great phone!
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Its the collective. Johnsondr80 , and mortem is doing grafix. Theres already a rom out from them. Called red sonja. Check it out in development
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check it out here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1368742

Agree! I came from a Nexus S and a GS2 and I have an iPhone 4S. The SR definitely is best to me.

Skyrocket is tha best phone I owned thus far.. lovin LTE speeds
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If you don't have the screen issues then yes this would probably be the best phone.

it is the best except for the throttling issue

ssfirme said:
it is the best except for the throttling issue
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Thats our crappy carriers fault!! Damn you AT&T!!!
This phones a beast, I love it.
When I look at an iphone4, I see a childs toy. The colors look so bland and the screen looks so small lol. This phone has spoiled me!

It is the best phone for the money if you want LTE. The best phone I've ever owned for a few weeks was the SGH-i777 but it didn't have LTE. The only drawback.
Skyrocket is $150. Added to the AT&T family plan, it only costs ~$32.50 a month for standard plan and 2 gigs of data.
Since no one in my family has Verizon, Verizon plans cost me $90 a month, plus an additional ~$15 of Verizon mystery tax. I would say Verizon LTE is better though, but it is unbearably expensive. And I don't even like the Galaxy Nexus anyway. No microSDHC slot, very limited video codec support. I don't really care about the camera so much. But I watch a lot of video on this thing. Galaxy Nexus is not the best device for hassle-free watch anything you can download from the web device.

It probably depends on your priorities. But, at the moment, if I had to get a phone all over again, I'd probably still choose the SR.
The only thing this thing seems to be missing is an HD screen. But, I suspect (aka, guessing) b/c of the lower res, it gets better battery life.. which is more important to me.
If data wasn't an issue, I'd slightly prefer the i777 for the size (and it seemed slightly more consistent in the month I had it).

I love my Skyrocket, but I don't think there is a "best phone." One has to choose their phone based on what they want. I for one wanted a huge beautiful screen and ridiculously fast speeds, so I am happy with my choice.

megalonebula said:
I am seriously in love with my white skyrocket! I've had the Galaxy Nexus, Droid Razr, GS2, and thunderbolt in the last 4 months and hands down the skyrocket is the best phone in the market.
Anybody disagree or agree?
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I noticed you said you had a RAZR. Any feedback on why you didn't like the phone? I'm currently trying to decide between an i727 and a RAZR, and the RAZR is $100 less than the i727 right now. Plus the RAZR seems more durable and "shouldn't" need a case to add bulk to it.

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I noticed you said you had a RAZR. Any feedback on why you didn't like the phone? I'm currently trying to decide between an i727 and a RAZR, and the RAZR is $100 less than the i727 right now. Plus the RAZR seems more durable and "shouldn't" need a case to add bulk to it.
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Have played with a friends RAZR extensively...its a great device, but not one I would buy. Main reasons - the device feels really wide because of the bezels and the screen suffers from a sickly green tinge when not viewed from straight on. The display is also pentile which made text appear more jagged on the SR's samoled plus. With that said, build quality is awesome and love the splash proof coating. Somehow, beer always ends up getting spilled on my phone...

Love the phone but hate the battery life. Barely any use and phone is nearly dead before my work day is over. Charging is bad, very slow. When using GPS ona car adapter, phone dies while on the charger. Again, charge rate is slower than use.
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vpkb said:
Love the phone but hate the battery life. Barely any use and phone is nearly dead before my work day is over. Charging is bad, very slow. When using GPS ona car adapter, phone dies while on the charger. Again, charge rate is slower than use.
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Mine lasts longer than any other smart phone I've had. You must have a faulty battery

Yeah you must have a flawed battery. Or device. My battery life is great

Same
yeah same, i love my skyrocket more than anything

Traded a Nexus for a charge...

So I'm betting I'll get a lot of hate for this, but I ended out trading my galaxy nexus for a Droid charge. Honestly I needed money so I traded someone for a charge plus $200, I thought it was a good deal.
To be honest, after using the charge for about a week I almost like it better than the nexus. I had the nexus since release and in my opinion the charger's screen looks better. ICS didn't wow me like everyone else, not yet at least.
Regardless, I'm not as disappointed as I thought I would be. Running tweaked 2.1 is excellent too. I still have an upgrade available so I'm thinking ill go with HTC again once they release something with a big screen.
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No hate over here.
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Nexus is way overrated imo.
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I HATE YOU!!
Juuuuuust keeeding

cnoevl21 said:
Nexus is way overrated imo.
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The hardware is. The screen wasn't anything to brag about (Rezound's is nicer and released around the same time). The cpu was definitely a step backwards compared to the Exynos in the SGSII, as well as the gpu. Crap radios that are worse than the charge (I'm not sure if this has gotten better). But what makes the Gnex amazing is two things: pure ICS goodness and a HUGE dev commutity - larger than any other phone on Verizon has had since probably the OGDroid. To me this is enough to outweigh the relatively weak hardware.
P.S. The rezound is pretty much the opposite with good/decent hardware but crappy software (I hate all skins be it Sense, TouchWiz, Motoblur, etc.) and much smaller dev community. If that phone would get a fully functioning AOSP rom (AOKP or CM9), it would be better than the Gnex IMO. The only drawback would be the tiny battery.

After using it with ICS for a while I didn't find anything that was overly impressive about it. In fact the software keys at times were more of a pain.
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bond32 said:
After using it with ICS for a while I didn't find anything that was overly impressive about it. In fact the software keys at times were more of a pain.
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But the software keys would be a hardware issue since they're only there because hardware keys were omitted. Don't get me wrong, I love Tweaked on my Charge (dwitherell is a scholar and a gentleman), but I will take AOSP any day over a skin-based rom. The biggest draw (for me at least) about ICS, other than the ui, is hardware acceleration.
I have at least managed to mimic (somewhat lol) the ICS ui with my TweakedICS theme but it's still not the same. I am content enough though.

I had the charge and I didn't like it. but with $200 extra not a bad deal. overall both of you had a good deal

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The hardware is. The screen wasn't anything to brag about (Rezound's is nicer and released around the same time). The cpu was definitely a step backwards compared to the Exynos in the SGSII, as well as the gpu. Crap radios that are worse than the charge (I'm not sure if this has gotten better). But what makes the Gnex amazing is two things: pure ICS goodness and a HUGE dev commutity - larger than any other phone on Verizon has had since probably the OGDroid. To me this is enough to outweigh the relatively weak hardware.
P.S. The rezound is pretty much the opposite with good/decent hardware but crappy software (I hate all skins be it Sense, TouchWiz, Motoblur, etc.) and much smaller dev community. If that phone would get a fully functioning AOSP rom (AOKP or CM9), it would be better than the Gnex IMO. The only drawback would be the tiny battery.
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I have the Rez, and I must say, the development is surprisingly good. No AOSP, but we do have some nice ICS leaks that work quite well. I'm running S-Off with the latest RUU and with CleanROM developer edition. It is very fast, clean, and it is fully functional. Radio reception is good and I get amazing battery life on the extended. Just sayin'...
My Charge is running Tweaked with PBJ, and it is great. I feel pretty lucky that I have, IMO, the two best phones on Verizon.
I bet the Incredible 4G is going be a nice phone, though. I honestly think that the GS3 will be somewhat overrated like the Galaxy Nexus, I just can't jive with pentile.

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I have the Rez, and I must say, the development is surprisingly good. No AOSP, but we do have some nice ICS leaks that work quite well. I'm running S-Off with the latest RUU and with CleanROM developer edition. It is very fast, clean, and it is fully functional. Radio reception is good and I get amazing battery life on the extended. Just sayin'...
My Charge is running Tweaked with PBJ, and it is great. I feel pretty lucky that I have, IMO, the two best phones on Verizon.
I bet the Incredible 4G is going be a nice phone, though. I honestly think that the GS3 will be somewhat overrated like the Galaxy Nexus, I just can't jive with pentile.
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Sense ICS =/= AOSP ICS. Also, the dev community is still miniscule compared to the Gnex though. I mean come on saying you have amazing battery life with the extended battery is cheating. It's like saying you get amazing mileage on your car but converted your trunk and backseat into an extended gas tank, lol. Almost any phone can get amazing battery life on an extended battery . The Rezound is fast though and has the best screen on Verizon with great radios. That's why I feel the hardware is better than the Gnex but on the software and dev side I still think the Gnex is much better. To each his own though, and as long as you love your device that is ultimately all that matters. I'm still trying to pick up either device on the cheap but I might just wait to use my upgrade in early June.
To me the Incredible 4G is a disappointment spec-wise. I feel like it's a gimped One series phone. Also the screen is too small for my taste. I was really hoping the Incredible 4G was going to be a OneX equivalent a la Evo 4G LTE .

DroidBlaze said:
Sense ICS =/= AOSP ICS. Also, the dev community is still miniscule compared to the Gnex though. I mean come on saying you have amazing battery life with the extended battery is cheating. It's like saying you get amazing mileage on your car but converted your trunk and backseat into an extended gas tank, lol. Almost any phone can get amazing battery life on an extended battery . The Rezound is fast though and has the best screen on Verizon with great radios. That's why I feel the hardware is better than the Gnex but on the software and dev side I still think the Gnex is much better. To each his own though, and as long as you love your device that is ultimately all that matters. I'm still trying to pick up either device on the cheap but I might just wait to use my upgrade in early June.
To me the Incredible 4G is a disappointment spec-wise. I feel like it's a gimped One series phone. Also the screen is too small for my taste. I was really hoping the Incredible 4G was going to be a OneX equivalent a la Evo 4G LTE .
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I can see what you're saying, however, CleanROM is de-sensed, and is just very clean all-round. There are plenty of tweaks to make it nicer. I run a custom launcher (keep going back to ADW). But yeah, I get great battery life on the extended, lol. I haven't tried the stock battery, so I can't really comment on that. I agree the Incredible 4G is kindof a pansy phone. The HTC One X is where its at. Good thing I didn't have the money at the time, because AmazonWireless was selling the AT&T HTC One X a couple weeks ago for $530 off contract. Yeah the 16GB internal only storage sucks, but I have other devices with tons of storage.
The screen on the HOX is the best of any phone (of course the same as the new EVO.) In fact, I'd go so far to say the HTC One X (S4 Krait AT&T version being the nicest) is the best phone, period. The lingering question is development. I don't think the AT&T version has an unlocked bootloader yet. AT&T apparently strong-armed HTC into removing the htcdev unlock method.

Also feel like I get an extra hour of screen on time with the charge.
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hope nexus goes down to under 100....
man, i should update to nexus when vzw had that 40 dollar deal like week ago...sigh..

DroidBlaze said:
To me the Incredible 4G is a disappointment spec-wise. I feel like it's a gimped One series phone. Also the screen is too small for my taste. I was really hoping the Incredible 4G was going to be a OneX equivalent a la Evo 4G LTE .
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After thumbing through the specs I was disappointed as well. Would have been great if the screen size would have have been made competitive with other maker's top tier phones.

bwheelies said:
After thumbing through the specs I was disappointed as well. Would have been great if the screen size would have have been made competitive with other maker's top tier phones.
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The whole point of the incredible was to be not gigantic the whole time.
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new charge...need ROM recommendation
Just bought a free Droid Charge from Amazon for my wife ($.01). Can anyone tell me a great ROM that is fairly currently supported for the Charge? I just want to quickly throw a nice ROM on here for her before I hand it over to her and never touch it again.

deitiphobia said:
Just bought a free Droid Charge from Amazon for my wife ($.01). Can anyone tell me a great ROM that is fairly currently supported for the Charge? I just want to quickly throw a nice ROM on here for her before I hand it over to her and never touch it again.
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Tweaked. Great rom, and it comes with tweaktools that you can use to theme, tweak, and upgrade right from the phone through a simple menu interface.
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shrike1978 said:
Tweaked. Great rom, and it comes with tweaktools that you can use to theme, tweak, and upgrade right from the phone through a simple menu interface.
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True dat.
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Seeking Advice: Upgrade from s3 to Nexus 4?

Hi I am new to forums all together but I love reading here and have done some for quite a few years now. Finally decided to join. Hopefully I wont be seen as a nuisance. So I wanted to ask I have an s3 and am thinking of plunking down the cash for a nexus 4. Never actually held one yet.
Nexus 4
Pros for me: always wanted one (wanted note 2 but att past return)
Love googles stock ROMs (running aokp on s3)
Truer whites and higher pixel density (am i gonna notice, i think so)
Love the build. Gorgeous! Especially back
On screen buttons
Faster processor
More one hand friendly (i have pretty big hands though so not much a pro)
No logos
Pros s3: like smart features (one regret of using 4.2 aokp jellybean)
Little more durable
Better front facing and rear
Kind a like amoled except blueish whites
Better speaker
More dev support
Deeper blacks
Battery
Cons: nexus: no lte ( doesn't bother me)
Glass back
Camera
Battery ( hoping mophie make pack for it)
Non removable ( don't intend it to last that long)
No SD ( not much issue with me. Have good signal everywhere) (at&t) mostly use songza and Pandora anyway
Cons s3: I think performance. But maybe i wouldn't notice it
Slower updates (premium does look nice)
Hardware buttons
Pen tile display (maybe again wouldn't notice)
Bluish whites
GPU (maybe more than enough, unsure)
Build quality (opinion) plastic feels not premium for what i payed
Volume rocker build
So that's what i gathered. Can anyone who has both help me out. Real experience with both is appreciated. I can see how it is and how it isn't worth it. ( i really want to see if s4 is gonna be worth the wait.) PS i work for authorized at&t dealer location. Hope posted this to correct place also. First post ever. So hope u guys will give me a little slack ( not a lot (in not special here, but a little thanks. Hope others find this useful as well. As i researched the heck out of this!
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Not sure about more dev support on the S3, remember the Nexus 4 will be the first phone with a KLP OTA and ROMs, and it will take a little while to port to the SS.
Honestly I don't see the S3 to the Nexus 4 as an "upgrade" you don't really notice the krait for S4 Pro upgrade because the dual-core krait with 2gb RAM is so fast already, I don't see the quad core really helping that much, e.g. the S3 does not lag, it's like someone who uses Word and IE upgrading from an Ivy Bridge i5 to an i7...
The other con I can think of upgrading is the HDMI out is really weird for the Nexus 4, you can't just use a $8 MHL adapter... I watch movies all the time from my Galaxy Nexus to my HDTV so it would be an issue for me.
The on-screen buttons I agree with, I love being able to mod my soft keys and stuff, but you can do all of that with the S3 too with AOKP and custom ROMs, just don't even use the hard-buttons if you don' want.
All in all I prefer the Nexus 4 for the customizations, IPS display, and KLP updating, and probably a better working Ubuntu Mobile port faster.
Hope that helps, ultimately you could probably do a straight trade for the phone on a reputable online trading site or even craigslist or something, so why not try it out?

You can fix the blue whites on your amoled screen with a modified kernel.
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djexacto said:
You can fix the blue whites on your amoled screen with a modified kernel.
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very true, I had completely forgotten about any discoloration on my amoled Galaxy Nexus because I've had custom kernels with color fixes the whole time I've owned the phone.

I don't consider it as an upgrade either.
I have SGS3 and my sister has N4. For day-to-day usage, I really don't notice difference in performance.
I just can't live without wifi tethering over LTE on my SGS3.

in my opinion a change from s3 to nexus 4 is a downgrade

tommy924 said:
in my opinion a change from s3 to nexus 4 is a downgrade
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Sounds like a fanboy's opinion
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AndroidAddiction said:
Sounds like a fanboy's opinion
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Maybe.. but so great phone without a card slot is just fail..
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