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can't seem to decide.. I have a Blackberry Bold right now and both these new phones blow this POS away!!!
Droid Charge easily. Better screen and better battery life.
Droid is Nice buTTT
I currently have both. I have to say up front - I had a Sammy Fascinate and loved it. If I could have done Skype I'd have stayed with it. Buttttt - I couldn't so I went with the first available - the Iphone 4. My family and I travel a lot for leisure via auto and we like to stay in touch face to face.
The iphone was very dependable - does what it says it will do every time. Buttt - it is locked down pretty tight.
Out comes the HTC Bolt and I waited for things to settle in with various ROMs. I jumped in the pool about 3 weeks ago and after considerable tinkering I get about 10-12 hours of battery life.
Out comes the Sammy Charge. Remembering my experience with the Fascinate - I get one. The screen is TERRIFIC!!!! Feels good in the hand, battery life is a little better than the Bolts (probably will get better with rooting, custom ROMs and tinkering) and the GPS works fairly quickly.
Now the bad news:
1. Data connection - data connection - data connection. Not good, erratic drops, slower than the Bolt, not good.
2. No Skype yet.
3. Sammy history. Sammy/Verizon are slow with any major updates and as a consequence developers are slow to develop custom ROMs. This is just a personal observation.
All in all - I am back with the Bolt - after some tinkering now it "just works" all the time. No freezes, lots of Skype and FAST!!!
Hope this helps.
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I currently have both. I have to say up front - I had a Sammy Fascinate and loved it. If I could have done Skype I'd have stayed with it. Buttttt - I couldn't so I went with the first available - the Iphone 4. My family and I travel a lot for leisure via auto and we like to stay in touch face to face.
The iphone was very dependable - does what it says it will do every time. Buttt - it is locked down pretty tight.
Out comes the HTC Bolt and I waited for things to settle in with various ROMs. I jumped in the pool about 3 weeks ago and after considerable tinkering I get about 10-12 hours of battery life.
Out comes the Sammy Charge. Remembering my experience with the Fascinate - I get one. The screen is TERRIFIC!!!! Feels good in the hand, battery life is a little better than the Bolts (probably will get better with rooting, custom ROMs and tinkering) and the GPS works fairly quickly.
Now the bad news:
1. Data connection - data connection - data connection. Not good, erratic drops, slower than the Bolt, not good.
2. No Skype yet.
3. Sammy history. Sammy/Verizon are slow with any major updates and as a consequence developers are slow to develop custom ROMs. This is just a personal observation.
All in all - I am back with the Bolt - after some tinkering now it "just works" all the time. No freezes, lots of Skype and FAST!!!
Hope this helps.
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The erratic data may only be affecting a small number of LTE devices since I read some Thunderbolt users have had similar problems.
Have you tried both Skype apps from the Market?
Remember, Google is promising faster updates for 18 months after a phone releases. That may include the Droid Charge.
Bow chika wah wah
Charge vs Bolt
Like I said, I have both the devices. The Bolt never acted as erratic as the Sammy. When I say erratic I mean complete dropouts not just shifts. A little better when you download, install and use LTE switch program.
About the Skype - nothing to do with Google all about the Skype/Microsoft universe. Remember that the Bolt originally had Skype installed. When it finally came out - no Skype. Still no authorized Skype just the grey area apk.
My take remains, the Bolt is my choice based on these issues and Sammy's history.
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Like I said, I have both the devices. The Bolt never acted as erratic as the Sammy. When I say erratic I mean complete dropouts not just shifts. A little better when you download, install and use LTE switch program.
About the Skype - nothing to do with Google all about the Skype/Microsoft universe. Remember that the Bolt originally had Skype installed. When it finally came out - no Skype. Still no authorized Skype just the grey area apk.
My take remains, the Bolt is my choice based on these issues and Sammy's history.
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my fascinate had skype preinstalled... I had to root to remove the pos app. If Im thinking right, you want the full version of skype?
My vote is for the sammy. I have owned both and having to throw the thunderbolt on the charger 3 times a day got old fast. I also think the samsung feels a lot better in my hand.
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benlane said:
Like I said, I have both the devices. The Bolt never acted as erratic as the Sammy. When I say erratic I mean complete dropouts not just shifts. A little better when you download, install and use LTE switch program.
About the Skype - nothing to do with Google all about the Skype/Microsoft universe. Remember that the Bolt originally had Skype installed. When it finally came out - no Skype. Still no authorized Skype just the grey area apk.
My take remains, the Bolt is my choice based on these issues and Sammy's history.
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Funny, my experience with both devices is exactly the opposite. My Thunderbolt (recently sold) was horrific with data drops, often refusing to hold any data connection whatsoever. 3 days with the Charge and I can already tell data connectivity is much improved.
Agreed. I didn't have the TB, but I had the Fascinate and I would drop data at my house all the time. I've got about a 10pt better db signal with the Charge and haven't had as many drops (if any) now.
Had the Thunderbolt and hated it. That little douchebag of a phone would drop my LTE constantly and make tears appear on my face and try to drown me.
Sure Charge isn't rooted or ROM'd yet but so far it's better in every possible way. The battery life is way better which is huge for me since I need to be in touch with my hookers constantly and can't always be near a charger.
Also the screen kicks golden beans
hahah funny description...
what's the cheapest place to get the Charge from right now? I have a $50 verizon new every two credit to use too.. I don't think Amazon or best buy honors that right?
Best Buy will match the price that you would get at Verizon, so you should still get it for $250
costco has it for 250 as well, which my best buy price matched without even verifying. the main benefit of shopping at costco i believe is a 90 day return policy on the phone, so if the bionic, galaxy 2, or something else comes out in the next 3 months and you want to trade phones you are able to do so.
a verizon store is the last place i'd buy the phone as they charge a $35 restocking fee if you happen to return it, and you only have 14 days to do so
I had the tbolt twice... I bought it day one ... and within 5 days it was returned due to horrible battery life.
in the DC area i have had GREAT lte reception, however in the phoenix area the LTE is horrible. so i think much depends on your location.
I bought the tbolt again when there were a decent amount of roms and plenty of people saying they had better battery life... the only way I could use the phone for more than 4 hours was to turn off all the radios ... that made the phone useless to me...
i now have the charge and it runs with all my apps and my level of use for a full day... i don't have to charge every 2- 3 hours anymore... so i am very happy with the charge even though it is not rooted... (I was too quick with the update).
again even with the charge and my lg lte modem I found the area around scottsdale and tempe to have either no or horrible lte coverage. i think that verizon should work on better coverage in cities before saying they have lte in them...
I too would like to have skype working with video ... it would just make sense but there are other apps that work well such as oovoo.
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I had the tbolt twice... I bought it day one ... and within 5 days it was returned due to horrible battery life.
in the DC area i have had GREAT lte reception, however in the phoenix area the LTE is horrible. so i think much depends on your location.
I bought the tbolt again when there were a decent amount of roms and plenty of people saying they had better battery life... the only way I could use the phone for more than 4 hours was to turn off all the radios ... that made the phone useless to me...
i now have the charge and it runs with all my apps and my level of use for a full day... i don't have to charge every 2- 3 hours anymore... so i am very happy with the charge even though it is not rooted... (I was too quick with the update).
again even with the charge and my lg lte modem I found the area around scottsdale and tempe to have either no or horrible lte coverage. i think that verizon should work on better coverage in cities before saying they have lte in them...
I too would like to have skype working with video ... it would just make sense but there are other apps that work well such as oovoo.
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I'd have to agree on the spotty coverage in Tempe/Scottsdale/Mesa. Sitting in my office right now in Tempe I have no LTE coverage. If I walk outside it will pick it up; this is usually the case no matter where I go (in the cities listed). I have not tested it in any other city.
thanks for the Costco note.. I am going to buy from them for $250 and they give you an accessory pack for free.. plus the 90 day swap window which is very nice to have!
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costco has it for 250 as well, which my best buy price matched without even verifying. the main benefit of shopping at costco i believe is a 90 day return policy on the phone, so if the bionic, galaxy 2, or something else comes out in the next 3 months and you want to trade phones you are able to do so.
a verizon store is the last place i'd buy the phone as they charge a $35 restocking fee if you happen to return it, and you only have 14 days to do so
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aliensquale said:
can't seem to decide.. I have a Blackberry Bold right now and both these new phones blow this POS away!!!
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I would recommend testing both if you can. I got the thunderbolt on release and love it. I got the Charge on release and love it as well, but prefer sense over touchwiz. Thats just my personal preference. Id keep the Thunderbolt over the Charge if I had to choose, but I dont.
I dont see how some that complain about their LTE dropping when they had their Tunderbolt do not take into consideration the national LTE outage....their wasnt a second LTE phone at the time to compare whether their LTE dropping was due to the phone or the service...yet they blame the phone. For all you know, your data dropping at that particular time could have been service related, not phone related. You had nothing to compare it to. So far, my Thunderbolt consistently has better LTE speeds, while my Charge had better 3G speeds. Both drop LTE and revert back to 3g in the same area at the same time. Only speeds differ. Im in a 4G area FWIW.
Both are great phones and just like any phone, it depends on your needs. I would advise you to play with both, and if you dont mind the re-stocking fee buy one and return it for the other if your not happy. In my experience, if youre crafty you can get out of the restocking fee and talk your sales rep into allowing you to buy one phone and return it if youre not happy.
I need the voice/data to work at the same time. But I still want this beast cuz of tthe beautiful screen
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Your posting in the Samsung Charge forum, of course people are going to say the Charge. I promised I would never buy another Samsung product after the upgrade problems I've had with my fascinate and am going to stick with that. My wife has the Thunderbolt and that is going to be my next phone. Battery doesn't seem to be as bad and I already have the options to apply an undervolted kernel to save battery life. My wife's nephew has the phone also and he doesn't have issues with the battery. YMMV, IMHO, TIFWIW....
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how much battery life savings can you get with the undervolted kernal? if you do the undervolted kernal.. doesn't that slow down the processor in the phone thus make the overall use of the phone slower?
Hello everyone,
I'm here today to see if i can get any recommendation on a new phone as i will be upgrading my Samsung Epic 4G around June.
As of right now I have been looking into Galaxy II phones as I have gotten really fond of Samsung phones over iPhones.
I would like a keyboard but i can go without(if the phone supports swype though).
If possible a phone with a longer life as my phone dies very fast(only reason I'm leaning to a 4GS).
It has flexibility as in modding.
Overall i would like a fast phone and please no HTC phones.
sander3 said:
Hello everyone,
I'm here today to see if i can get any recommendation on a new phone as i will be upgrading my Samsung Epic 4G around June.
As of right now I have been looking into Galaxy II phones as I have gotten really fond of Samsung phones over iPhones.
I would like a keyboard but i can go without(if the phone supports swype though).
If possible a phone with a longer life as my phone dies very fast(only reason I'm leaning to a 4GS).
It has flexibility as in modding.
Overall i would like a fast phone and please no HTC phones.
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Check out the Asus Padfone. LTE model should come out close to when you can upgrade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBTc3gn7jBE
I suggest you look at the cpu that comes with the phone, normally all your battery life goes there.
http://www.grandmax.net/2012/02/samsung-exynos-4412-quad-core-vs-nvidia.html
(Standby time vs Usage time)
And keep in mind that iphone standby battery drain is relatively same regardless on how many apps is installed.
Not for the case for android, thus you might prefer a cpu that can switch to low power mode when on standby, else you would need to rely on expanded battery.
Droid Razr Max. You will freaking love it. Battery life is amazing and if you use smart actions app that comes with the phone you will be amazed by the battery life.
Hello, we used to have the iPhone 3gs phones but now skyrockets, once u root them and run the custom rooms u find here they are fast have great battery life lots of storage and can do everything!
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hey guys.
I'm currently in the market for a new cell phone. i had the galaxy nexus for a month last year and i LOVED it but the battery life was just god awful imo. im currently use an iphone 4s (jailbroken) and i have no interest in the iphone 5. i LOVE my Nexus 7 and miss being have to have the same ICS/Jellybean UI for my phone. but im worried about battery life.
is the GS3 battery life any better than the galaxy nexus?
personally i would rather own the galaxy nexus being that its a nexus phone and and its stock rom is pure AOSP but being that i can flash AOSP roms on the GS3, i though why not, if it has a better battery life then heck yeah. plus the gs3 i can use a microsd card (even though 32gb's on the galaxy nexus and more than enough but still)
lmk how you battery life is guys. what would you guys recommend? 99 bucks for a galaxy nexus for 2 year renew contract or just get it unlocked on ebay for probably around the same price as a 32 gb gs3 on contract
I have never owned a Nexus. But those that have are saying the battery life on the S3 is better. I am impressed with my battery life, stock, rooted, unlocked, clean kernel. Also the hardware specs aren't even close. S3 all the way! The dev support is awesome with lots of ROMS to choose from as well. It is great now, but will only get better.
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i routinely net 20+ hrs battery with 4hrs screen on...so yea battery life is legit on the s3.
I have the Verizon Galaxy S3 while my brother has the AT&T Galaxy Nexus.
Last weekend while tailgating for a football game he was complaining about battery life. We had both pulled our phones off the chargers about the same time and had been tailgating in the same spot for a few hours with similar use - texting a couple of phone calls, checking twitter, etc. (I had probably used mine a little bit more). He was at 80% while my phone was at 92%.
Now, this could be a GSM vs. CDMA thing, or other factors could be in play, but take that example for what it's worth.
I've used the Galaxy Nexus extensively and I just recently got a GS3; while I agree that the battery life on the GS3 is longer-lasting I also have to say that it is less manageable at this point. The GN has a ton of different kernel/ROM combinations and I can almost guarantee you can find one that will give you the same (if not better) battery life of the GS3; meanwhile, the GS3 has a larger battery out of the box (2100mAh vs 1850mAh) and is getting a larger amount of support more and more, I wouldn't be surprised if one day soon the GS3 has just as many options as the GN.
So, GN STOCK vs GS3 STOCK = GS3 Winner! I also have to put an extra tidbit in here, the GS3 takes sooooo much longer to charge than the GN, I'm talking an hour and a half longer almost, BUT it charges the battery to a full charge every time. The GN has problems doing that with the stock setup for whatever reason.
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I've used the Galaxy Nexus extensively and I just recently got a GS3; while I agree that the battery life on the GS3 is longer-lasting I also have to say that it is less manageable at this point. The GN has a ton of different kernel/ROM combinations and I can almost guarantee you can find one that will give you the same (if not better) battery life of the GS3; meanwhile, the GS3 has a larger battery out of the box (2100mAh vs 1850mAh) and is getting a larger amount of support more and more, I wouldn't be surprised if one day soon the GS3 has just as many options as the GN.
So, GN STOCK vs GS3 STOCK = GS3 Winner! I also have to put an extra tidbit in here, the GS3 takes sooooo much longer to charge than the GN, I'm talking an hour and a half longer almost, BUT it charges the battery to a full charge every time. The GN has problems doing that with the stock setup for whatever reason.
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..i never herd of any gnex owner netting 20+hrs with 4 hrs screen on as many gs3 owners have. post some screen shots of your gnex doing the same and ill believe you!
Yep. what ^ he said. Gnex while it's got pretty ROMs and lots of developer support, it's still junk. forget about using speaker phone for taking on the phone, SQ is horrid even with good headphones, Bluetooth sound is so garbage.
I had the Gnex for about 11 months before buying GS3. I've had the GS3 for about 4 months now and I have to say, i get little more than 2x battery life compared to Gnex on comparable usage. Both on verizon LTE. I use speaker phone on regular basis for my conference calls. I leave Bluetooth on, GPS on, don't use power saving feature, receive about 100 emails per day with push,
No ROM or kernel will help you with ****ty hardware. Gnex talk time was 90min for me before hitting red zone, with GS3 i got 5 hours talk time plus 3 hours screen time before going yellow.
Right now there's no other phone that will beat GS3 other than Razr Maxx, don't know about iPoon5
I got 4 hours of screen on time out of my extended (2100) and 3 hours out of my stock battery all the time on Jelly Bean + Lean Kernel. Ya'll being ignorant, honestly.
The galaxy s3 gets good battery... definitely better than nexus. I would wait a bit for the next generation nexus device or galaxy s4
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Had vz nexus since the release and no matter how much I customized it, the max screen on time I could get was 3 hrs. Got vz s3 few days ago and getting about 5 hrs on it . Running aokp on both phones.
OK, so I've been changing phones A LOT lately. Too much. In April 2015, I replaced my two year old S4 with a Moto X14, which had so many issues I bought a Note 5 in August. After getting subpar battery life and seeing the water-resistance of ths S7, I decided to sell my Note 5 and get the S7 in March. It has now been 4 months, and I am feeling like replacing this phone again. Why? Somehow my Exynos version cant seem to get me more than 4h of SOT over an 8h day, which is just BAD. Factory resets dont fix it either. Am I crazy for changing phones this much?
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OK, so I've been changing phones A LOT lately. Too much. In April 2015, I replaced my two year old S4 with a Moto X14, which had so many issues I bought a Note 5 in August. After getting subpar battery life and seeing the water-resistance of ths S7, I decided to sell my Note 5 and get the S7 in March. It has now been 4 months, and I am feeling like replacing this phone again. Why? Somehow my Exynos version cant seem to get me more than 4h of SOT over an 8h day, which is just BAD. Factory resets dont fix it either. Am I crazy for changing phones this much?
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"Do I have a problem ?" This really looks like something you should ask the doctor:laughno offence)
You're not crazy(I know guys who change phones on a more regular basis) although I would suggest doing some research before buying something ,just think what you need most like camera or battery and then buy your preferred phone and stick with it until you need some upgrade .
I spent most of my time with WiFi so what I needed was a 4000 mah battery and I bought it and have been using it.
You'll be losing too much money if it goes on like this.
There's device recommendation thread in xda which could help you for choosing .as for your current phone ,since it can't get you through the day replace it if you use it as a daily driver.
I'm looking to upgrade from an LG G6, and the op6 looks like what I want in a phone (minus no sd card support). I just have some questions.
1. Does this phone have any major performance/software issues or flaws I should aware of?
2. Does it fully support T-mobile bands, along with wifi texting and calling?
3. Is the battery life decent? I get at least 4 to maybe 6 hrs SOT with the G6, so as long as it similar or better that would be great.
And also a inquiry that wouldn't effect my decision with purchasing this phone, does it have any sort of video-out aside from chromecast?
Thanks for any answers!
neofire4 said:
I'm looking to upgrade from an LG G6, and the op6 looks like what I want in a phone (minus no sd card support). I just have some questions.
1. Does this phone have any major performance/software issues or flaws I should aware of?
2. Does it fully support T-mobile bands, along with wifi texting and calling?
3. Is the battery life decent? I get at least 4 to maybe 6 hrs SOT with the G6, so as long as it similar or better that would be great.
And also a inquiry that wouldn't effect my decision with purchasing this phone, does it have any sort of video-out aside from chromecast?
Thanks for any answers!
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Great phone! I think it's better than stock in most aspects. I run it on T-Mobile with no problems and have great battery life. Never recharge during the day, but it has the ability to charge faster than most phones. Cast is built into settings.
T mobile WiFi calling and texting works 100% plus it used all bands including babe 71 fully. Software is the best Android experience imo and better optimized then stock Android on pixel (smoother and less hiccups) I get 9-11 hours screen on time and lose .3%-.8% battery when idle.
It doesn't have a few things like no ip rating, no wireless charging or step speakers but for what you get for the price, I could not care less. With dash charging anyone complaining about the lack of wireless charging is just wanting to complain about something.
But if looking for at the 6, I'd probably go with the 6T with bigger battery and smaller notch. It's really the same phone just a couple minor differences I mentioned