How Is Your Old (1 YR +) Smartphone Holding Up?

[CVSiN]

was great until I got to play with an EVO 3D.. now it feels old and slow..
man I want my SG2

 

[Spoooon]

Droid 1 going strong. The gold paint on the camera button is gone, other than that it looks as good as new.

Want to upgrade though, but can hold out for something I really want.

 

[Sheep]

Picked up an Evo on launch day last year and it's still an awesome phone. It was starting to feel old/sluggish a few months ago so I put CM7 on it and bam, new phone.

Heh, me too. As long as there's a huge community of ROM developers and my phone doesn't physically crap out on me, I'll keep my Evo.

 

[Dulanic]

Have had a Epic for a bit under a year and it works great, no issues.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Mine got faster with CM7. Whats up with yours?

CM6 should be just as snappy. CM7 may be snappy too but there are memory issues.

 

[tonygeor]

I sold my Nexus one on ebay...great phone, but was showing its age

 

[Chapbass]

My DroidX is working great. I think its time to try some custom roms, but honestly the speed isn't bad at all, battery life is still solid.

 

[Chapbass]

My launch X is holding up very well in a thin $4 hard case. The old demo of a guy raking his keys against a gorilla glass screen was spot-on--no damage. GB seems to be causing some reboots in my phone, whereas Froyo was very solid. Not sure what to make of that. If Moto stays true to their word and actually unlocks the bootloader, I'll probably play with CM7. Otherwise, it does everything I want with only a little lag if I've got a lot going on at once.

Mine has been doing this just a little too (the rebooting). Not really a big deal to me, but may be worth a custom rom try just to see if it goes away.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

My launch X is holding up very well in a thin $4 hard case. The old demo of a guy raking his keys against a gorilla glass screen was spot-on--no damage. GB seems to be causing some reboots in my phone, whereas Froyo was very solid. Not sure what to make of that. If Moto stays true to their word and actually unlocks the bootloader, I'll probably play with CM7. Otherwise, it does everything I want with only a little lag if I've got a lot going on at once.

You DO realize that CyanogenMod7 is fully available on the Droid X with nothing taken out right.

 

[thescreensavers]

DroidX is 1years old now, I have no urge to upgrade or anything.

Perfect phone, got to wait another year for the Droid4 so I can get a keyboard and 4g

 

[dennilfloss]

My Palm Pre developed a slight looseness in the sliding mechanism after a few weeks. Got a black GRT case that completely solved this problem and protects the phone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLN6n7jlF8s

Otherwise, it's still in mint condition, not a scratch on it after 10 months.

 

[finbarqs]

waiting for either the iphone 5 for sprint, or the next iteration of WP7 on sprint! But still on my sluggish EVO 4G... I rooted it once, when the 30 fps cap was in place, but unrooted when they got rid of the cap. Now I'm just too lazy to root it again, 'cause it literally took me all day to root it... PIA.

 

[WildW]

Original HTC Desire, about 16 months old now and still going strong. I'm not a major app/game user, but the CPU is still plenty for everything I try - given that there are still plenty of slower phones being made that's not too surprising. Battery life doesn't seem to have dropped significantly, which isn't bad considering that it must've had a few hundred charge cycles by now. Physically it's fine, nothing broken, holding up well.

My girlfriend's had a Sony Xperia for about the same length of time, I think it's an X8. Apparently since upgrading from Android 1.6 to 2.1, nothing works properly, the phone freezes all the time, and still no multi-touch. I don't think either of us will be buying one of their phones for a while.

 

[badb0y]

If Sprint gets the iPhone 5 I will switch to them.

 

[DefDC]

Up until March, I was still using a WinMo 6.1 Samsung Omnia. I was due for an upgrade, but I was waiting to see what the summer would bring. A friend gave me a Droid1. That's held me over quite nicely. I was willing to wait out the Bionic or another next gen phone.

While the Droid was in mostly good condition, the screen was chipped and the "Back" button was very flaky. I found a new digitizer on Amazon for $20, and there was a YouTube video showing how to replace it. It looked like a PITA, but not hard. I work in IT, so I'm very comfortable taking apart PCs and laptops, so I was willing to give it a shot.

But, it didn't go well. One wrong bump snapped a connector, and my soldering attempt failed. I bought another Droid1 on Craigslist for cheap. (I already had a ton of batteries and a few docks.) Luckily it's in great shape! I love the D1. I'm going to be crazy once I get my hands on a Bionic or SGS2. However, even though there's only a few weeks to go until the new phones are released (HOPE!) I'm glad to have my D1 as a backup.

I went back to my old Omnia when my D1 broke. As far as audio playback and phone usability goes, it's still great! I love SPB Desktop and PocketPlayer on WM 6.1/6.5. I definitely want to check out SPB Desktop on Android, but I'm not going to bother on the D1.

 

[finbarqs]

wow... my friend just told me he didn't like WP7 because a bunch of people he talked to told me that it was just "difficult to use". maybe I should hold my breath t'il the next iphone! Jobs will get it right! He always does! that's his motto know: I'll get it right THE FIRST TIME!

 

[Geekbabe]

my Droid 2 has started overheating and freezing, I've killed apps and restored to factory defaults more than once and it's getting annoying.

 

[shortylickens]

wow... my friend just told me he didn't like WP7 because a bunch of people he talked to told me that it was just "difficult to use". maybe I should hold my breath t'il the next iphone! Jobs will get it right! He always does! that's his motto know: I'll get it right THE FIRST TIME!

I thought it was ridiculously easy to use. Not very much for power users but its a refreshing change of pace from Android.

 

[RockinZ28]

Had the droid Incredible for 11 months. Still a fine phone but I felt the 3G is what was really making it feel slow. Also the 3.7" screen was starting to strain my eyes.

Feel the Thunderbolt is close to everything I want in a phone. Hopefully when I can upgrade again this January, there will be a phone that can do 8+ hours screen on usage, LTE, mini hdmi out and can play 1080p mkv's. Think then I would keep it for 2+ years.

 

[shortylickens]

Had the droid Incredible for 11 months. Still a fine phone but I felt the 3G is what was really making it feel slow. Also the 3.7" screen was starting to strain my eyes.

Feel the Thunderbolt is close to everything I want in a phone. Hopefully when I can upgrade again this January, there will be a phone that can do 8+ hours screen on usage, LTE, mini hdmi out and can play 1080p mkv's. Think then I would keep it for 2+ years.

If you got an extended battery for your Thunderbolt you could do that now.

 

[RockinZ28]

If you got an extended battery for your Thunderbolt you could do that now.

Yea, but don't all the extended batteries make the phone require a new back plate and stick out? Prefer to keep it thin and fit in my case.

I'm not desperate for battery life, rooted with custom rom and usually lasts at a minimum 12 hours under my usage. Just would be nice to have even more while still remaining the same stock size.

 

[shortylickens]

Yea, but don't all the extended batteries make the phone require a new back plate and stick out? Prefer to keep it thin and fit in my case.

I'm not desperate for battery life, rooted with custom rom and usually lasts at a minimum 12 hours under my usage. Just would be nice to have even more while still remaining the same stock size.

Every time battery technology improves they use it as an excuse to ramp up mobile processors. You will never get more than a short days use out of any device unless you use aftermarket parts.
One day they will shrink a Cray 2 down into your change pocket, top it off with a micro-fusion reactor and the bastard will still only run 8 hours.

 

[Deeko]

wow... my friend just told me he didn't like WP7 because a bunch of people he talked to told me that it was just "difficult to use". maybe I should hold my breath t'il the next iphone! Jobs will get it right! He always does! that's his motto know: I'll get it right THE FIRST TIME!

Pretty much everyone that has used WP7 says eas of use is its best advantage.

 

[RockinZ28]

Every time battery technology improves they use it as an excuse to ramp up mobile processors. You will never get more than a short days use out of any device unless you use aftermarket parts.
One day they will shrink a Cray 2 down into your change pocket, top it off with a micro-fusion reactor and the bastard will still only run 8 hours.

Haha. What if you downclock the processor? Guess I should try that on the Thunderbolt. To me these phones are already fast enough. I hardly play games cause the screen is so small, and nothing I use seems to struggle running.

In fact videos and flash run far better on my phone than on my asus transformer. Actually I'd say that pretty much everything does other than games.

 

[cecco]

I got the Droid 1 at launch. It has been over 2 years and it's still holding up like a champ thanks to Cyanogen mods. Now I'm just holding out for the next great thing (wife wants an iphone, we'll see).