Best Android phone

[Hardcore]

I would have loved the Galaxy Nexus, but the lack of micro sd support and outdated gpu are deal breakers.

 

[Oyeve]

I would have loved the Galaxy Nexus, but the lack of micro sd support and outdated gpu are deal breakers.

No msd? Wow, that really sucks.

 

[Rhezuss]

How about the Galaxy Ace?
Look cool for 0 bucks hhahaha

EDIT: http://www.samsung.com/galaxyace/ace_techspec.html

 

[AstroManLuca]

How about the Galaxy Ace?
Look cool for 0 bucks hhahaha

EDIT: http://www.samsung.com/galaxyace/ace_techspec.html

It has good specs for a 2010 phone. Not so much a 2012 phone. And a 3.5" screen? Yuck, if you want a tiny screen get an iPhone.

 

[Red Storm]

Now that I've had a chance to actually use one, I do think the Galaxy Nexus is the best phone out there, and I will be getting the Verizon model (hopefully next week!).

 

[Rhezuss]

It has good specs for a 2010 phone. Not so much a 2012 phone. And a 3.5" screen? Yuck, if you want a tiny screen get an iPhone.

Well, i'm not really looking for the most advanced phone. In fact except for some little apps/games, some music, calendar, phone and alarm I won't really use the other stuff.

So screen size is not really a problem since i'm still using an extremely old Blackberry 7130e lol...so anything 2010 and up i'll be extremely satisfied.

CPU speed and bugfree everything is what i'm looking for the most.

 

[Rhezuss]

Now that I've had a chance to actually use one, I do think the Galaxy Nexus is the best phone out there, and I will be getting the Verizon model (hopefully next week!).

Well the Nexus is really nice but Telus forces me to have a $50/month package to get this cheap. I don't want to pay 500 bucks for a phone I won't use to it's maximum capacity.

 

[Red Storm]

Well the Nexus is really nice but Telus forces me to have a $50/month package to get this cheap. I don't want to pay 500 bucks for a phone I won't use to it's maximum capacity.

Wait, so depending on which (Android) smartphone you have, you get charged differently for data? That doesn't make any sense, they all have the same capability data wise (or I'm not understanding what you said).

 

[AstroManLuca]

I really don't know how smartphone plans work in Canada, so this may be totally off. In the US at least, the cost of a smartphone plan is so much higher (over the life of the phone) than the cost of the phone itself (if purchased on contract) that the best option is always to just get the absolute best phone available. Saving $50 or $100 on the up-front cost of the phone is a bad idea because that's chump change compared to the cost of the plan.

But maybe things are different in Canada.

 

[s44]

Man, Telus has a crappy selection of devices. They have the Hercules, but that's it and you need the $50/m plan for that. To be honest, if you don't want to up the plan I'd get an unlocked phone like the Focus -- the on-plan selections are terrible, and the lock-in (3 year contract!) is too big for a mediocre device.

They're getting the Nexus in January, though I'm sure this will require the higher plan. How are you surviving on anything cheaper, though? A real smartphone will need at least 500mb of data allowance.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Don't get a smartphone till you are willing to pay for data.

 

[Rhezuss]

Too much choice for someone who doesn't know $hit about smartphones hahahah!

And yeah, Telus has an awful selection...

 

[Rhezuss]

1 question remaining:

Get the Galaxy S II X now or wait till January and get the Nexus?

...The galaxy S II X look quite nice and for my use it'll be solidly overpowered...

 

[Rhezuss]

Anyone tried the HTC Amaze 4G? Looks like it got nice specs from what I saw on HTC website. SGS2 still wins in the screen department with it's SAMOLED screen but CPU and RAM are equivalent.

Both have Gingerbread too.

Damn it's hard to decide, maybe the best will be to try them at the shop.

 

[zinfamous]

How does the Amaze have an equivalent CPU to SGS2? or does your SGS2 version not have Exynos?

 

[Rhezuss]

How does the Amaze have an equivalent CPU to SGS2? or does your SGS2 version not have Exynos?

I didn't do any extensive research apart from reading the phones specs and both seem to have 1.2GHz Dual-cores.

Maybe one is better than the other though...

The SGS2 is still my #1 choice.

 

[zinfamous]

looks like Amaze =1.5 ghz Scorpion.

This is the latest Snapdragon SoC? I don't really know much about these SoC manufacturers, honestly, but I seem to remember reading some hopeful good things about scorpion. I have no idea if any user experiences and benchmarks are available yet. All I know is that Samsung's Exynos in the SGSII has been the darling for Android for the last 6 months or so. It's probably getting a little long in the tooth, though.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

looks like Amaze =1.5 ghz Scorpion.

This is the latest Snapdragon SoC? I don't really know much about these SoC manufacturers, honestly, but I seem to remember reading some hopeful good things about scorpion. I have no idea if any user experiences and benchmarks are available yet. All I know is that Samsung's Exynos in the SGSII has been the darling for Android for the last 6 months or so. It's probably getting a little long in the tooth, though.

Actually despite it's age Exynos is still in a league of it's own when it comes to Android SoCs. Tegra 3 is really the only thing coming out in the relatively near future that is faster.

 

[Rhezuss]

Weel I just saw the Galaxy S II X from Telus:
- Android 2.3.5 with TouchWIZ 4 overlay
- 4.52” 480×800 pixel Super AMOLED Plus display
- 1.5Ghz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8660 SoC w/ Adreno 220 GPU
- 1GB RAM / 16GB Internal Storage (2GB for apps)
- 8MP back camera / 2MP front camera
- 1080p video capture with anti-shake
- 42Mbps/11.52Mbps Dual-channel HSPA+ speeds
- WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, DLNA, WiFi-Direct, dual microUSB/HDMI out MHL port
- Stereo FM radio, native DivX playback
- 1850mAh battery
- 131mm / 67mm / 9.4mm
- 135g
- 850/1700(AWS)/1900/2100 HSPA+ & Quad-band EDGE, Technology 3GPP Release 8 (HD Calling)

Not bad at all! Looks like the way to go?

 

[zinfamous]

ah, that one does have the non-Exynos SoC. TMobile over here carries that, and it's a damn fine phone. benchmarks are faster, I think, for browsermark and such. It actually seems to match the Exynos SGSII in all categories except for graphics.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

well Telus runs 850mhz right? You could technically bring in the international SGS2 if you're not happy with the non Exynos SOC. I'm fine with anything 4" or bigger, so the smaller screen versus teh giant SGS2 X is fine for me....

 

[Rhezuss]

I'm a new and proud owner of a Galaxy S II X!!!!
Damn there's lots of stuff going on that hige screen lol!

 

[Inspector Jihad]

i'm trying to decide b/w the amaze and the galaxy 2 myself when switch to t-mobile in a couple of weeks...any one find any good deals online for either of those phones? it might just come down to price.

 

[kyrax12]

i'm trying to decide b/w the amaze and the galaxy 2 myself when switch to t-mobile in a couple of weeks...any one find any good deals online for either of those phones? it might just come down to price.

Just out of curiousity what made u switch to T-Mobile?

 

[kyrax12]

I'm a new and proud owner of a Galaxy S II X!!!!
Damn there's lots of stuff going on that hige screen lol!

Mind explaining what is the difference between the gs II and gs II X?