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Which of these copy android phones is the best?

Getting a little tired of looking poor .... I guess it's time to retire the old iPhone 4 for the bedroom.but I do not want to get the new iPhone 4S.So I want to try android phones,and wait for iPhone 5.
Anyway, these seem more I can squeeze,Which of these copy android phones is the best?
I went to Best Buy and Target. Can not really tell you a bit of difference between each copy iphone. When the sales guy at Best Buy started telling me that plasma leakage and only last 6 months, I knew it was time to go (Best Buy has always had long 'oh yes, 2/3s of our products are junk, buy this instead of tactical sales approach ... weird, but whatever)

What?
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They are all terrible. I'm looking at the specs right now and my LG Optimus beats them all. One is even priced at 200 and you can get a brand new real LG Optimus One for $130. You won't get the full android experience with these crap china phones.

you get what you paid for.
if you want a proper android phone, get ready yo dpend $700
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Carden12 I am just going to do my best NOT to be biased nor make myself sound like some salesman or anything. First things first though. As far as what these phones are that are listed here is any ones guess.
What I am saying here is that it might be hard to track down exactly what kind of phone any of these phones you have listed in that link are. Like are any of them made by HTC,Samsung or Sony etc is any ones guess. You also have to realize that it might be hard at that point to actually do anything with the phone.If you do not know what make model what kind of processor they have in them ect.
What I am saying here is you might have problems actually setting a phone like that up.
As far as the guy telling you if you want a good Android phone you would have to pay seven hundred for it I can assure you that is not true at all. It all depends if you want to own the phone outright or if you want to do something like with what I did. I took a promotional offer and I was able to get a seven hundred dollar phone for nothing to use on my carriers plan they were promoting at the time.
If I were you though I would honestly search on google look at reviews on phones ect I just really have been skeptical of buying things from china that have not already been shipped here from a viable company like HTC Samsung Sony ect.
I just do not really know what to tell you other than this as that is honestly with what I did and to not be biased I will not tell you anything about my findings but you waiting for an I Phone honestly search good and hard that is all.

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Carden12 I am just going to do my best NOT to be biased nor make myself sound like some salesman or anything. First things first though. As far as what these phones are that are listed here is any ones guess.
What I am saying here is that it might be hard to track down exactly what kind of phone any of these phones you have listed in that link are. Like are any of them made by HTC,Samsung or Sony etc is any ones guess. You also have to realize that it might be hard at that point to actually do anything with the phone.If you do not know what make model what kind of processor they have in them ect.
What I am saying here is you might have problems actually setting a phone like that up.
As far as the guy telling you if you want a good Android phone you would have to pay seven hundred for it I can assure you that is not true at all. It all depends if you want to own the phone outright or if you want to do something like with what I did. I took a promotional offer and I was able to get a seven hundred dollar phone for nothing to use on my carriers plan they were promoting at the time.
If I were you though I would honestly search on google look at reviews on phones ect I just really have been skeptical of buying things from china that have not already been shipped here from a viable company like HTC Samsung Sony ect.
I just do not really know what to tell you other than this as that is honestly with what I did and to not be biased I will not tell you anything about my findings but you waiting for an I Phone honestly search good and hard that is all.
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It is really useful.thanks very much~

Feeshie said:
They are all terrible. I'm looking at the specs right now and my LG Optimus beats them all. One is even priced at 200 and you can get a brand new real LG Optimus One for $130. You won't get the full android experience with these crap china phones.
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oh c'mon maybe not really terrible. But for what they offer the price is too high... I agree about the LG Optimus One thing... If you want to buy a smartphone without paying too much buy an Optimus One or a Galaxy 3

Playbook worth $50?

Hey guys,
My friend will sell me his playbook for ~$50.
Is there any sense in me buying it? I already have the touchpad (CM7).
Also, for those of you who have it: how do you like it?

Get it and sell it for a profit, you could probably sell it on Craigslist or Ebay for at least $100-ish.
Since you already have a TP, that'd be my course of action.

Yes. As far as I know you can plug it to your TV and watch movies. The interface is similar to webOS which I love.

asb123 said:
Hey guys,
My friend will sell me his playbook for ~
Is there any sense in me buying it? I already have the touchpad (CM7).
Also, for those of you who have it: how do you like it?
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I got a PlayBook for free through the Android developer 'port' promotion, and I really like the device. It feels great to hold, is a nice size, and has a good screen! I'd buy one for that price. The only thing that lets it down is the apps, there aren't anywhere near as many as on iOS and Android (though there are some), but as a web browser alone it's worth it in my opinion.

For $50 definitely!
I've got one, I'm not really one for playing games etc on it but for work related things its really handy and great for email if you own a blackberry to sync with it.

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I got a PlayBook for free through the Android developer 'port' promotion, and I really like the device. It feels great to hold, is a nice size, and has a good screen! I'd buy one for that price. The only thing that lets it down is the apps, there aren't anywhere near as many as on iOS and Android (though there are some), but as a web browser alone it's worth it in my opinion.
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Same here. Well worth it for fifty though, if you get it and you like gaming you get black pegasus and also asphalt 6 for free, both great fun (in asphalt the tablet becomes your steering wheel).
You can put android apps on if they are repackaged, I forget the sites exact name (think it was mybarapps.com) but there is a site where thousands of popular android apps have been packaged to run on playbook.
Also playbook will be getting the new os bb10 which should make it even better but spec wise its got a dual core cpu and the same ram as the new ipad so its quick and very responsive.
Downside is not lots of apps (good games though inc. Deadspace) but can sideload any android app if you have the apk to repackage which helps, and its been poorly advertised so its not selling well.
But if you don't like it the guys at crackberry should have android ported to it soon so you could install that on it when its available (though to be fair playbook os2 is really good already anyway).
Edit: the site is www.playbookbars.com
Dave
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Thanks for the replies. I think I will pick it up
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My work gave me one to use and it honestly sits on my computer desk at home and is never charged or used. My wife tried to use it one time to read kindle books but it doesn't have a kindle app and it failed to open the books in the kindle cloud reader.
I honestly can't say much that's good about this device other than the size and the multitasking. But the apps in the market are limited and the device itself doesn't do much.
I spend most my time on my Xoom instead. I guess for 50 bucks it would be worth it. I paid nothing for mine and would have rather gotten 50 bucks from work lol.

For 50 bucks...
For 50$ I would buy any tablet, especially when I love the concept of a tablet but haven't bought one yet

Same here... for 50 bucks I'd definitely take it! Decide what to do with it later.

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[Q] Best phone for someone coming from the Nokia N9?

Hey everyone-
I recently purchased a Nokia N9 off of Ebay on a, in retrospect, misguided whim. I love the UI of the phone and how seamlessly the device allows me to switch from one app to another. However, despite my love for the phone, I still find myself missing Android and its ecosystem (I owned a Samsung Vibrant for a few years prior to this phone). Even though the N9 does the few core things I normally do on a daily basis really well, it's still missing of the basic apps I used to rely on for daily use; i.e. Tumblr, Instagram, Ebay, and Amason. So I decided to sell the N9 on Ebay but now I'm pondering which phone I should buy next. I probably want to stick with Android, but I'm not sure which device to go with. I'm leaning towards either the HTC One X or the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, however, I'm certainly open to other suggestions. I'm certain I don't wanna go with Galaxy S III because I hate the Touchwiz skin. If anyone out there has any suggestions for me I'm more than willing to hear them. Thanks.
-Sincerely, bobofosho123
P.S. I know for a fact that I'm not looking for anything with a contract, and I know I'll buy it without one since I'm on a grandfathered T-mobile plan.

Nexus all the way bud. Always up to date and great community support!
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iPhone 5s smoke any Android device!!! We are ....

The new iPhone 5s smokes any android device withe regards to hardware:
http://gizmodo.com/iphone-a7-chip-b...source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Not to mention they have no fragmentation and they all get updates at the same time, I admit guys we LOST, man up and admit Adroid will always be a copycat of iOS. Betcha in coming months samsung will have fingerprint censor copying the 5s.

I wonder, would there come a day when fanboys all gave up?
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rjan22, your mommy is calling you.

Honestly who cares. Pretty much all the phones released in the last 2 years were quick in regular use, what more do you want.
iOS? No thanks.

I'll buy iphone only when it uses android os or better and reasonable price.
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Lol...today most phones are rectangular. Does that mean all companies except google copied the original design developed by motorola and infringing it? Nope. It is by design, which gives comfort. Could you think of a square shaped phone or a round shaped phone? And for fingerprint scanner, Samsung is already working on it for the past 6months. There were some frameworks on leaked firmwares of s4,note2 etc which seemed like fingerprint scanner frameworks. Only thing is, apple pushed it self first to implement it. And oh...the io7! Dont you think the control center is copy of android just because it was first introduced in android! And the multitasking window
There is nothing like "this company copies that company!". There might be any patent issues between companies but in what way does it affect us-the end users? After we are lucky to have vast choices of os,form factor, hw, brands to choose from
P.S: And a friendly advice for you would be to close the thread before people starts bashing(probably?) you because its an android forum, most people here would be android fanboys.

You must be looking for Giant Flame Throwing Trolls because you just laid the biggest trap of them all
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Well, this may be my last android phone.

I admit, I haven't had the big android flagship phones.. But I've used them plenty, done my research, etc, and while I am impressed and excited for the future updates to come, I must say the iPhone 5s has intrigued me. Build quality is good, I like the OS, even though not open source, it's so smooth and apps work fine with its processor and other insides. Androids ROMs and hacks interest me greatly. Which is why I'll be buying a new nexus 7 soon. But I do want an iPhone. Guess after I have one I'll see which OS I truly like. Guess the reason for me making this thread is I want to be persuaded to stay.. If there's good enough reason to. Don't get me wrong, I love android, but I really like iphones as well. I'm very conflicted at the moment.
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Nobody is going to persuade you. What you buy should be completely your choice. If you want to try the iPhone, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't get one. iPhones are by no means bad phones.

No need to persuade, do what u want. Waiting for Nexus 5 myself. IPhone doesn't intrigue me, what do you find intriguing about it?
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To be honest, I don't get the point of this thread.. :| . If it is your last android phone, then it is ! Big deal. Why create a thread about this ?

Nobody cares, i guess. No one really give's a ---- about your problem. But dude, come to think of it, why don't you just ask yourself what made you love android vs iphone vice versa, then write it down in a list then compare and decide. Done! Problem solved!
No need for threads like this.

iPhone threads usually don't fair very well here:laugh::silly:
Thread closed for protect the innocent:angel: