It's time for a mobile phone upgrade

Discussion in 'New Roundtable' started by islstl, May 12, 2014.

  1. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    if you arent impressed with iosx or android, then a terrible windows phone may be for you. all windows phones suck because well, of windows. similar to computers using windows. the phones can actually be nice phones, in spite of the worst operating system ever. windows. what im saying is, windows does nothing better than anyone else so its never the answer.
     
  2. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    I have to 100 % agree with you. I had one of the first windows based smartphones a few years back and needless to say it was pretty much garbage in terms of screen response. I'm sure they have gotten better, but any of the cool games you love playing on iPhone or Android won't be available on Windows.
     
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    MLUTiger Secular Humanist

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    Just make sure you ask because when I walked in a store two months ago that was not the case.
     
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    MLUTiger Secular Humanist

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  5. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    "You can also get a Galaxy S5 for $100 if you trade in any smartphone and sign a two-year contract with either Sprint or AT&T"

    I notice they left out the word "working", so can you bring in a dead smartphone?

    I might be tempted to go with the S5 in that case.

    CNET gives the S5 a very robust 4.5 star review, a rarity for them in terms of cell phone reviews.
     
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  7. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    can't justify the price jump from $29 to $119 for double the storage

    unless you're desperately in need of it and have no choice

    @shane, btw the uhs-1 (ultra high speed) is a new technology and is backward compatible so that any device that allows for a 32 gb card will still work, with the added benefit that a device which takes advantage of uhs will see an improvement in write speed, allegedly
     
  8. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    i think they have one for 75 or so. but be careful to check as some brands dont always cooperate well. my 64 is fine but ill upgrade for the hell of it eventually. with the new screen, ive been adding quite a few movies to watch when killing time.
     
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    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    the water resistant thing was the main selling point for me. ive ruined a few iphones and samsungs from getting them wet. i submerged this one for the hell of it and it held up.
     
  10. locoguano

    locoguano Founding Member

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    I get that one that costs $50. Better than the free ones.
     

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