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| Thread ID: 131171 | 2013-04-29 04:48:00 | Android Newbie - advice please. | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1338802 | 2013-04-30 06:21:00 | Hell no I wouldn't jump on 2 Degrees given the chance again... I %@#$ hate them with a passion. Example: Wife and I will be at Orewa beach. I'll go to share a *single* photo to G+, she'll share 10 photos to Facebook (Competing social networks, adds flavour to the marriage). Mine will take anywhere up to 20 minutes to share one single photo on 2 Degrees She'll share 10 of them in 2-3 mins to Facebook, on Telecoms XT network. Same for hacking portals, in Henderson. I've got a total dead spot where it'll literally take me up to 5 minutes to properly hack an Ingress portal. Brother on XT has *zero* issues. Identical model phone as I'm sure you're aware. So no, I wouldn't sign up with 2 Degrees, you're *way* better off just throwing it on your Credit Card or something and picking one up from The Warehouse or Noel Leeming or something if you're in a hurry...I definitely prefer 2degrees to vodafone though. like you say telecom is better still. |
jonovw (16835) | ||
| 1338803 | 2013-04-30 09:20:00 | Wait what!?! You bought the cheapest phone available on the bloody market and are scoffing at it? You bought a phone that's not even good as the *original* iPhone and you're pissed about it? That's like buying a Camry then being pissed because it's not a Mustang?!Nope; the analogy is more like... buying a cheap car and... expecting it to turn off and on when I turn the key, having the windows go up or down when I turn the winder, being able to open the bonnet to change the spark plugs etc etc ad nauseum. Getting that Android ph however, was possibly the smartest 130 bucks I ever spent cos I'll never have to waste another cent on another. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1338804 | 2013-04-30 09:41:00 | No, you spent $130 and expected any kind of performance? Don't be ridiculous. Go spend that exact same amount on a Windows Phone or an iPhone and compare apples with apples. Yeah, I thought so too. Spend some semi decent money on ANY phone and you won't be as upset as you are. That's just silly. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1338805 | 2013-04-30 09:58:00 | Go spend that exact same amount on a Windows Phone or an iPhone and compare apples with apples. You can't :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1338806 | 2013-04-30 10:00:00 | Spend some semi decent money on ANY phone and you won't be as upset as you are. That's just silly.Dammit - you're just plain right as usual Chill. So when I do spend some semi-decent money on my next phone, I know I'll get at least a semi-decent phone. Because...? It sure as hell won't have an OS stupidly named after some dessert! :p | Greg (193) | ||
| 1338807 | 2013-04-30 10:07:00 | Dammit - you're just plain right as usual Chill. So when I do spend some semi-decent money on my next phone, I know I'll get at least a semi-decent phone. Because...? It sure as hell won't have an OS stupidly named after some dessert! :pyou can get the lumia520 for under $300 | plod (107) | ||
| 1338808 | 2013-04-30 10:12:00 | 2yr ago I had a Symbian which it worked, at times it would pause for a webpage to load and sometimes you had to switch tot he main view and back. Wifi would connect and surf the web fine but for some apps like the e-client which requires Wifi as its preferrred connection I had to disconnect/reconnect Wifi. Plus there wasn't much apps on Symbian. 2yr ago bro got a imported HTC Wildfire 3.2" off one of the NZ parallel importers, this LG I imported myself. It is so smooth and responsive but clearly they are in a diff price bracket. But NZ do charge so much more for stuff here ... I find ICS much easier than the Wildfire Android. I agree with Chill that a slightly smaller than a 4.7" might be better, a 4.3" or even 4.0". I can see why the iPhone is smaller and they went for a taller screen instead of going wider also. And I guess the iPhone has decent performance too compared to the cheap Androids, it works as intended and is responsive. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1338809 | 2013-04-30 10:17:00 | the advantage of windows phone and iphones is the hardware has minimum requirments so the phones have far fewer problems. Android gets a bad name for itself from all the budget devices that aren't the quickest or easiest to use. | jonovw (16835) | ||
| 1338810 | 2013-04-30 11:10:00 | jonovw, you've (unfortunately) hit the nail on the head. The Galaxy Pocket comes at a resolution of 240x320, an Android that's almost 3 years old now. There have been leaps and bounds in what is one of the fastest growing industries, and no doubt you're comparing your Galaxy Pocket with the iPhone. The iPhone is almost 10x the price, with a significantly faster CPU, infinitely nicer screen (Plus higher resolution), and an OS that's been optimised for 3 years more than Gingerbread. Point is you could get yourself the Nexus 4, for NZD$600, it's not even 2/3 the price of the iPhone, but the advancements both in the phone hardware and software will absolutely blow your mind! Honestly you don't have to spend a *ton* of money, but unfortunately as jonovw mentioned, there's no minimum requirements for Android, and so the likes of Samsung can honestly ship it on the cheapest nastiest hardware possible. If you want a *good* experience with your phone, you can't buy the cheapest possible one. Same deal goes with a PC. You can buy the *cheapest* ever laptop (Which will be a netbook with a tiny ass screen), it'll come with 1GB and like a 60GB HDD... Or you can spend just a little more and get yourself a real good PC. Sadly, it really is a case of: You get what you pay for. It's just a shame that they've soured your opinion of it by offering such a cheap-ass product, when Android Jellybean is actually incredibly bloody awesome! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1338811 | 2013-04-30 11:43:00 | So Chill, you're saying I should spend something like $600 on something that will give me just a very few extra features I'd find useful? Heck, even my old throwaway Nokia had the ability to set my own homepage in its browser. I dropped that thing no less than six times and it was faultless. The manufacture of my Pocket is absolutely fine too, and the hardware seems perfectly up to scratch. The only thing that's cheap about it is the pathetically mindless kid's toy of an operating system when they could so easily have made it so much better. Naturally you'd be a Nexus 4 fandroid - after all you had 20 or so of them to flog off didn't you? |
Greg (193) | ||
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