Phones

[doodab]

What's important to you? Cheap as you can or most powerful but largely useless phone out?

Primary uses are internet browsing, email, SMS, reading PDFs and apps like google drive, skydrive, one note, ebay, wikipedia, IMDB and so on. The phone part only has to be serviceable, I hardly ever use it. I get a 300 minutes a month and they would probably last me a year. SD card is handy for music and docco and enables it to double as a USB stick. I have a 32GB card in there at the moment. The latest screens are all HD which I guess is handy for porn when working away. Camera I'm not massively bothered about, I have two canon DSLRs and a fairly decent camcorder amongst others, although I do use the phone one for capturing funny things I see when out and about (shop names, comedy signs and graffiti and so on) and posting them on facebook.

I'd be most impressed with something I could actually write on like an actual pad rather than feeling like I'm painting the ceiling with a roller.

[barrydidit]

I think the removable SD card is a thing of the past - One X doesn't have it, don't think the iPhone has either. You can probably just connect the usb and use it as an external drive, but you wouldn't be able to swap the card between phones or use in a camera or anything.

If that's important you might have to look elsewhere.

[barrydidit]

It's only obsolete if you want a new one, functionality wise they will last a lot longer as long as you don't want the latest gizmos just because you want them. Still very usable and will be for some time to come I think.

Yeah...... but the battery was knacked, the screen was scratched, the memory was a bit flaky. And also, if it's on a contract then the handset cost is part of the monthly payment - so why wouldn't you have a shiney new one when you're already paying for it? My monthly cost is less that the previous contract.

It's a fair point though, if I was payg i'd probably have just got a new battery from ebay and not thought twice about it.

[BolshieBastard]

Nexus 4. Got mine (non contract, just popped my current sim in and away you go!) on Thursday.

[gingerjedi]

Nexus 4. Got mine (non contract, just popped my current sim in and away you go!) on Thursday.

I missed out on launch and they've been unavailable on the google store ever since, where did you get it? I am aware you can buy them from other sources but I didn't want to pay more than the google price.

In the end I bought an Xperia P for £150 (hotukdeals) and went with GiffGaff, it's perfectly adequate for me as I also have a Nexus 7.

I am starting to wonder why I bothered as my Desire was just as good.

[BolshieBastard]

I missed out on launch and they've been unavailable on the google store ever since, where did you get it? I am aware you can buy them from other sources but I didn't want to pay more than the google price.

In the end I bought an Xperia P for £150 (hotukdeals) and went with GiffGaff, it's perfectly adequate for me as I also have a Nexus 7.

I am starting to wonder why I bothered as my Desire was just as good.

Aha! You had to keep checking the google store. They made another batch available just before christmas so ordered the 16gig version.

TBH, I was on the verge of cancelling and getting either the Acer Liquid Gallant Duo (which is strangely going up in price!) and the Acer Mobile Cloud (which is going down equally as fast!) but the 4 turned up just in the nick of time.

Got the wife a Nexus 7 for Christmas. Nice sized tablet for her but a tad too small for me. Prefer my Acer iconia A510. Would probably get the Nexus 10 if going for a new tablet now.

[gingerjedi]

Re: Phones

I find the nexus 7 ideal for chucking in a bag, I take it to work every day which I probably wouldn't do with a bigger tab.

6 out of the 7 people I work with have bought a N7 since I got it at launch, that includes 2 iPad owning apple zealots!

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

[Scrag Meister]

Ask Netraider, he will happily give you an hour long lecture on the joys of converting to droid from iphone.

He has the Samsung Note 2

FTFY

I'm looking at the Note 2 next time around.

[Netraider]

Ask Netraider, he will happily give you an hour long lecture on the joys of converting to droid from iphone.

I think he has the Samsung S3

Samsung Note 2 - It keeps getting very sticky.

[Ketchup]

I would go for the Nexus 4 myself