I'm on the lookout for a new phone, and just wondering which of these two to get.
One s pros: build quality, size, development?
RAZR HD: battery life, micro sd
Thanks
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Can't say much about the HTC other than I hate Sense. Motos Blur is as close to pure AOSP as you are going to get on a non nexus phone. I can say that my RAZR MAXX HD is by far the best phone that I have ever owned. The battery life alone accounts for most of my pleasure as well as the build quality. The combination of kevlar , metal and gorilla glass make it a no need for a case phone. Development is finally heating up so fully functional AOSP is just around the corner.
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Can't say much about the HTC other than I hate Sense. Motos Blur is as close to pure AOSP as you are going to get on a non nexus phone. I can say that my RAZR MAXX HD is by far the best phone that I have ever owned. The battery life alone accounts for most of my pleasure as well as the build quality. The combination of kevlar , metal and gorilla glass make it a no need for a case phone. Development is finally heating up so fully functional AOSP is just around the corner.
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I've seen you on the nexus 10 forum
And yea from what I know, RAZR HD has one of the best battery lives on a smartphone. I rather like sense 5 tho, looks really pretty
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That's me. The last HTC phone that I owned was the OG Evo4g. Sense was so overly bloated that the phone could barely operate for 4 hours with it. I did not use close to a quarter of the crap that it had preloaded. I would hope that they have worked on trimming that beast down over the years.
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That's me. The last HTC phone that I owned was the OG Evo4g. Sense was so overly bloated that the phone could barely operate for 4 hours with it. I did not use close to a quarter of the crap that it had preloaded. I would hope that they have worked on trimming that beast down over the years.
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Well I guess bloatware is one of the reasons we root in the first place. My friends have both the RAZR HD and the one s, and there is no difference on speed as far I can tell. Sense has come a long way. The RAZR got jellybean a few months ago right?
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Check this out http://versusio.com/en/htc-one-s-vs-motorola-droid-razr-maxx-hd
Looks like the One S has a better camera and speakers. The RAZR MAXX HD has a bigger and better screen with higher resolution. The battery is double the size of One S. Internal memory and SD support are also a plus for the RAZR MAXX HD.
Guess it all comes down to what you want your phone to do.
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Check this out http://versusio.com/en/htc-one-s-vs-motorola-droid-razr-maxx-hd
Looks like the One S has a better camera and speakers. The RAZR MAXX HD has a bigger and better screen with higher resolution. The battery is double the size of One S. Internal memory and SD support are also a plus for the RAZR MAXX HD.
Guess it all comes down to what you want your phone to do.
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I guess so. I have Ord, Rom updating disorder, so development is pretty important. Of course, the sd card helps a lot. How is development so far, stable cm?
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It's come a long way. Some amazing devs have just recently unlocked the bootloader without the support of Motorola. Now Hash and Byte are working on a custom kernel for AOSP. It appears that the kernel is nearly complete. There are some 4.2 ROMs floating around but they are suffering from lacking a completed kernel. Once that kernel drops, I'd imagine the devs will have us on official support from the likes of Cm, AOKP and etc...
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I've had a One S and now the Razr HD. The HD all the way I'd say. No sd slot is a deal breaker and only 16gigs of storage. Depends where you live but the HD has far better signal reception. The reason why I got rid of the one S. Other than that most of of what has already been said applies.
HD!
go for the razr hd, you wont regret.
almost stock interface, great battery. period.
I agree: go for the Razr HD. If benchmarks are important to you, take a look at this:
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I agree: go for the Razr HD. If benchmarks are important to you, take a look at this:
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Sweet! That looks awesome! Crazy memory score by he way.
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Sweet! That looks awesome! Crazy memory score by he way.
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Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by these results. I consider the RAZR HD & RAZR HD MAXX to be underrated phones.
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Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by these results. I consider the RAZR HD & RAZR HD MAXX to be underrated phones.
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Agreed. Plus, it's Google-owned, baby!
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Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by these results. I consider the RAZR HD & RAZR HD MAXX to be underrated phones.
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Says the guy with an HD haha touché, sir.
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So I though of upgrading my nexus one. The possible candidats are a htc one s or a motorola razr maxx. If you had to choose wich one would you take? I don't like that big screens, so 4.3 inches seems to be a sweat spot for me. Could you recomend me other phones?
Thx
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Razr Maxx has the best battery life out of all smartphones in the market so if you are looking for a phone that has great battery life, the razr maxx is the phone to get. Other good phones are the GNexus and the SGS3 which have full support of Ics and JB.
The best hardware right now is the galaxy s iii. The best software support is on the galaxy nexus.
I wouldn't get something as locked down as the Motorola unless you're okay with only ever getting one android update, and getting it super late. And I think the gsiii does everything the HTC does and then some.
My choice is (and probably always will be) the nexus because I have more control over it than any other device, but the gsiii is a good choice now as well.
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So I though of upgrading my nexus one. The possible candidats are a htc one s or a motorola razr maxx. If you had to choose wich one would you take? I don't like that big screens, so 4.3 inches seems to be a sweat spot for me. Could you recomend me other phones?
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At that screen size I'd take the Galaxy s2 or Sony Xperia S or One S in that order
The maxx is good but lack of support kills it. Battery life is the only reason to get it.
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galaxy s2 will be the best choice for the range of the screen size & samsung is still continuing to update the software on s2
yea S2 is very nice now and the price is low
a galaxy nexus.
I would buy galaxy nexus.
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Razr Maxx has the best battery life out of all smartphones in the market so if you are looking for a phone that has great battery life, the razr maxx is the phone to get. Other good phones are the GNexus and the SGS3 which have full support of Ics and JB.
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The best hardware right now is the galaxy s iii. The best software support is on the galaxy nexus.
I wouldn't get something as locked down as the Motorola unless you're okay with only ever getting one android update, and getting it super late. And I think the gsiii does everything the HTC does and then some.
My choice is (and probably always will be) the nexus because I have more control over it than any other device, but the gsiii is a good choice now as well.
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a galaxy nexus.
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I would buy galaxy nexus.
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Did all four of you guys seriously just ignore the fact that he wants a phone with a 4.3 inch screen? Those would be too big for him.
I would have to agree with SII, great development and Samsung supports Cyanogenmod, what more could you ask for? Still has great specs too.
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i would go witht the SGS3...probably only because thats what I have and it is a really good phone, best one I have had
I would realy like that extra battery life on the maxx and it just got the ics update. But are phones with bigger screens like 4.8" in dimensions a lot bigger than that with 4.3"?
Thx to you all
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There's too many of these threads all over the place on here now.
None of us can give you a definite answer of what phone to get because ultimately, it's your choice and none of us can change that. And if a you're after is suggestions, why not just think of a few yourself and float round the specific sections for those phones so you can read peoples responses to the phone.
I'll end up making a dedicated thread for this kinda thing if I see too many more of these
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I would realy like that extra battery life on the maxx and it just got the ics update. But are phones with bigger screens like 4.8" in dimensions a lot bigger than that with 4.3"?
Thx to you all
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It starts getting difficult at 5+ and becomes a matter of taste there. Otherwise 4.8 has proven manageable with phones like sensation and galaxy s3.
Consider that the maxx is not HD and is aged technology, even at launch there were complaints on moto holding out,if you also don't mind this carry on.
Consider you can always get an extended battery for something like the s3 or optimus 4x without a great increase in bulk as they're thin.
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It starts getting difficult at 5+ and becomes a matter of taste there. Otherwise 4.8 has proven manageable with phones like sensation and galaxy s3.
Consider that the maxx is not HD and is aged technology, even at launch there were complaints on moto holding out,if you also don't mind this carry on.
Consider you can always get an extended battery for something like the s3 or optimus 4x without a great increase in bulk as they're thin.
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I dind't though of extendet batteries. I just saw the lg optumos 4x and fell in love hehehe thank you too all I'm just going to close the tread.
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How abt....
Legendary Htc HD2 4.3" screen :good:
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I dind't though of extendet batteries. I just saw the lg optumos 4x and fell in love hehehe thank you too all I'm just going to close the tread.
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Enjoy.
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I suggest you try the 4.65in. screen of the GNex, you won't notice a huge difference.
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Hi all !
Does anyone know why there still is no section for the RAZR HD ?
It's already been realized. At least here, in France.
Does it share common hardware with another phone ?
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Stas
I think xda is US based, do you probably won't see a dedicated forum for the Razr HD until it is released here.
It uses the Snapdragon S4 processor, so it is similar in that respect to many phones.
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Mr.Mischief said:
I think xda is US based, do you probably won't see a dedicated forum for the Razr HD until it is released here.
It uses the Snapdragon S4 processor, so it is similar in that respect to many phones.
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Thank you, I'll be waiting til the end of the month then !
Cheers
I'm patiently waiting too. Been out in Australia for a week or so now. Besides being a bit heavy I'm loving it.
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I'm patiently waiting too. Been out in Australia for a week or so now. Besides being a bit heavy I'm loving it.
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How's battery life? The old Razr has a 1780mah battery, while the new Razr HD you have has a 2530mah.
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i bought it here in Canada just today...
Fantastic battery life on LTE, i will know more tomorrow on a full day of use.
the build quality is incredible. I have had mainly Nexus devices with the odd HTC One X...nothing touches this in terms of build quality and overall solid feel.
ICS...its ICS. Having used JB on the GNexus the last several months its hard to take a step down to jittery old ICS. Like you wouldnt know it if you hadnt played with JB, but ICS lags!
The screen, out of the box, is great and doesnt require a lot of colour tweaks.
Aside from that, love it.
Hopefully this will get a root (its officially supported by Moto in its bootloader unlock program) and i can get CM10 or something on this ASAP
Any questions? I will try to answer them as best i can.
It might come thus Thursday 18th to Verizon
I'm keeping my fingers crossed
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It is out for Verizon, I'm gonna try and pick one up today.....
At least !! Yeeha !
Got mine as soon as the store opened.. lol
Slick phone...really solid... could deff use some tweaking....but outta the box I'm super happy
Anyone know about the built in video call its supposed to have
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I am not looking for a new phone.Could you give me any suggestion?
Demon520 said:
I am not looking for a new phone.Could you give me any suggestion?
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You say you aren't looking for a new phone. What suggestion are you looking for?
Demon520 said:
I am not looking for a new phone.Could you give me any suggestion?
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Buy an old one...
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I Learnt A lot Guys Thanks
Atrix hd is very similar
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I currently have the galaxy s3 and I'm looking to see which is better, I'd like to see some opinions before I choose! :good:
I can't see a reason to leave the SGSIII for any phone right now... except maybe the next nexus but who knows that's a different story.
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I can't see a reason to leave the SGSIII for any phone right now... except maybe the next nexus but who knows that's a different story.
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i agree.....the only real difference between the s3 and maxx hd will be slightly longer battery life and a 1080p screen when we only have 720p....and they're supposed to get an upgrade to jelly bean first as opposed to whenever the hell we're getting it lol
I'd take our unlockable bootloader any day though
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I'd take our unlockable bootloader any day though
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true, i forgot they don't have an exploit like we do to blow the bootloader open, but they do have the motofail exploit to root, so they're halfway there lmao.....at least you can immediately debloat it if you decide to get the maxx hd
I wouldnt take a moto device if it was a gift. Even when a carrier (vzw)demands a locked bootloader, sammy leaves exploits for devs to do thier thing.
gs3 has 2gb of ram also. i thought the razr hd was 720p?
Just checked specs and RAZR HD is 720p like are phone so it has less ram but larger battery.
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gs3 has 2gb of ram also. i thought the razr hd was 720p?
Just checked specs and RAZR HD is 720p like are phone so it has less ram but larger battery.
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This is true!
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bL33d said:
gs3 has 2gb of ram also. i thought the razr hd was 720p?
Just checked specs and RAZR HD is 720p like are phone so it has less ram but larger battery.
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The maxx hd must be the one with 1080p then
Beamed via NFC through the local store to the internet from my SGS3.
digitalsynner85 said:
The maxx hd must be the one with 1080p then
Beamed via NFC through the local store to the internet from my SGS3.
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Maxx HD is 1280x720 4.7 super amoled HD
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/...t&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=5993
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There is no 1080p smartphone yet.
rather s iii I like having a menu button
So i guess it's pretty much personal preference...I just get bored real easy
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There is no 1080p smartphone yet.
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The HTC Inc X will be 1080p
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i agree.....the only real difference between the s3 and maxx hd will be slightly longer battery life and a 1080p screen when we only have 720p....and they're supposed to get an upgrade to jelly bean first as opposed to whenever the hell we're getting it lol
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No phone in the US has 1080p screen yet, HTC announced the first device to have 1080p resolution display this week, the HTC J Butterfly. Available initially in Japan, should be the HTC 5" coming to VZW sometime in the near future.
Back to the question, The Droid RAZR and GS3 are very, very similar.
If you want a phone with more options out of the box, better looking and design... well, you should go with the GS3. The RAZR will most likely receive updated faster than Samsung. There's isn't much of a skin on the new Moto's phones so if you want an almost true Android experience, updates sooner... in this case the RAZR is your option.
I personally don't think updates should the reason to purchase a phone, with the dev communities we have now a days, I'm sure there will always be good qualities ROMs out there.
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There is no 1080p smartphone yet.
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LG Optimus G?
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awmobjects said:
The HTC Inc X will be 1080p
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LG Optimus G?
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thats 768 x 1280
I'm currently in the market for a new phone and these three are the top contenders. But which one to get is the questions I've seen the stats and reviews. But I'm still stuck. Also I don't really want to wait for an S4 OR X PHONE... Soo uh help me maybe lol thanks
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htc droid dna
life ! It's what you make out of it !
Why would you mention a iPhone? Do you really want that locked down price of junk? My onion is to go Samsung there not locked down' great touchwiz interface' ready to root' always has the most advanced technology
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Why would you mention a iPhone? Do you really want that locked down price of junk? My onion is to go Samsung there not locked down' great touchwiz interface' ready to root' always has the most advanced technology
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The iPhone has great resale value and the Samsung is soon to be our dated while HTC dna doesn't have external storage which I would like
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Do I dare say Samsung galaxy note 2
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kalanyon said:
Do I dare say Samsung galaxy note 2
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I don't think I want something so big lol it just to much I guess 5" is the max for now I guess
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I guess What is most important to you. The DNA will have a more premium feel and a better screen. The MAXX will have much better battery life but IMO don't get motorola yet those lying gtards don't update what they say they will.
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I'm currently in the market for a new phone and these three are the top contenders. But which one to get is the questions I've seen the stats and reviews. But I'm still stuck. Also I don't really want to wait for an S4 OR X PHONE... Soo uh help me maybe lol thanks
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Had an S3... then picked up the DNA... For me... the DNA was a bit faster.... smoother...
and I love the DNA's screen!
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I guess What is most important to you. The DNA will have a more premium feel and a better screen. The MAXX will have much better battery life but IMO don't get motorola yet those lying gtards don't update what they say they will.
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Yeah what's really important is storage I guess the s3 and maxx both have external storage and the dna and Iphone doesn't and the dna isn't sixteen gigs straight out the box
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Bump... What's xda's choice what would you guys pick need some ideas
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Phone to pick
I will wait till Galaxy S4 launch....
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I will wait till Galaxy S4 launch....
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Isn't that going to launch in April or something.. I'm so impatient lol but that would seem like the logical solution
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Well, you say that the SGS3 will soon be outdated but in all honesty do you really care about the newer hardware? The only real changes which will be made soon are 1080p screens and better processors. You will never see the difference between 1080p and 720p screens unless you're specifically comparing them side by side to see purely the sharpness of the screen, and I have yet to find an app that I regularly use that even the SGS2 can't handle with ease, so I doubt you'll find one for the SGS3. It takes heavy games in its stride too, since many devs optimise their apps for the SGS3's chipset (in a similar way that you see Tegra3 optimised games).
Having said this, the SGS3 also has a lot that other phones don't:
-There are various storage options and more importantly expandable storage
-Being so popular means that it has a huge variety of accessories (almost iPhone-like in that respect)
-It has a removable battery which means that you can fit an extended battery if you wish
-It has a menu button so you don't get the three dots softkey like you do on HTCs
-TouchWiz (whilst ugly) has some amazing features
-It still has one of the best smartphone cameras currently available
-The development community is huge
-It has a variety of colour options
Samsung galaxy s3.
I think I'm leaning towards the s3 or sucking it up and waiting for the s4 the storage for the dna is a huge deal breaker
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I wonder if the new droids are worthy enough to upgrade. ? Currently owned RAZR Maxx HD.
emischief.
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Well, the 2x RAM helps. You lose the on screen keys . Then active notifications and touch free control are pretty nice.
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I left the s4 and couldn't be happier. This phone will probably not get the recognition that it deserves because of the X but it should be considered the best at the moment. I don't believe anyone will be able to top this because they are all fighting over who has the biggest cpu and not who can actually match the iPhone. This phone does match it. You have to own it to know what I mean.
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eMischief said:
I wonder if the new droids are worthy enough to upgrade. ? Currently owned RAZR Maxx HD.
emischief.
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Aye, active notifications + touchless controls and performance make this phone a star.
Well worth the upgrade. I jumped from my Rezound to the Mini and I don't have a bad thing to say about it. My battery life is insane (spent a whole day Trying to kill it and only managed to drop it to 43%), super quick, good feel, and clean interface. I pretty much love this phone. Since the Mini is essentially the same thing as the Maxx and Ultra I'd say all three likely rock.
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