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[General Questions and Answers] vj_dustin:
HTC is a good brand but among the models you chose, S Advance stands out. It doesn't have a gorilla glass but just put on a screen protector :p

You are getting a Super AMOLED :good:

As for the Nexus 4, the price variation is location dependant. Like, here in India, S advance is for 19000 Indian rupees while Nexus 4 is speculated to be about 23000 for 8GB.

A 4000 bump is a lot but not that much for a nexus flagship device ;)

1. Galaxy Nexus

2. S advance

Or else put your current budget in a fixed deposit and after some months get Nexus 4.. :p

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ASUS has recently launched a device that I think should suit you best.

ASUS Vivobook X202

It is a 11.6 inch netbook with a core i3 processor. Also it has a touchscreen with Windows 8 loaded. It looks pretty amazing too.

It has an HDMI out to plug into your TVs as well. Also the core i3 should easily run anything you throw at it.

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[General Questions and Answers] vangeodee:
hey guys! It's me again, I'm back with a new question altogether. I was skeptical about buying the 2x and decided to do a little more digging around and found that the Sony Xperia Sola is somewhat close to the LG Optimus 2x in terms of hardware specs, though the 2x has a larger screen, albeit by only 0.3", but that is redeemed by the higher resolution screen (233 for LG O2x and 265 for SXSola)

I've done a bit of a background check and found that the Xperia Sola has a microSD(need confirmation) slot as well as aftermarket custom ROMs.

Both phones have what I'm looking for: Cheap, Medium-sized screen (albeit the Sola only has 3.7"), MicroSD card slot and a broad selection of custom ROMs. Camera wise, I'm more inclined to the 2x for it's 8MP camera and front facing cam, not that I take videos or photos with my phone a lot, but it doesn't hurt to have a phone that can take Hi-Quality pictures and still be used for video calling.

Now here's the catch, from where I live, the Sola only costs around $225 while the 2x costs $335. Though the Xperia P has a $287 price tag, it doesn't have an SD card slot and therefore is immediately crossed out of the list. So is the low-res camera and lack of a front facing camera, plus the smaller screen (albeit higher-res) and lack of Gorilla Glass justify the $100 price difference?

Pleas note that I mainly use my phone for Messaging, Music playback, Calls, Gaming ,a bit of facebooking (application) and rarely, internet browsing. Also please bear in mind that the moment I take these phones out of the box, I am immediately rooting/installing custom ROMs, so the difference in OFW stability and reliability is neglected.
[General Questions and Answers] vj_dustin:
I'd have said S Advance but it lacks XDA support so custom roms will be hard to find.

so IMO sola should be a good choice.

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[General Questions and Answers] LLegoLLaS:
Thank you very much.I'm considering to buy the S Advance. It's like 288 euros black and 255 white in Romania.
[General Questions and Answers] mfsr98:
I hate the P design, honestly. :( But damn, that screen is big! I would need to get it in my hands first. But it has the Nexus price, I would go for the Nexus on this situation...

S Advance is not sold on my country...
[General Questions and Answers] svtfmook:
i need a tablet for my wife. she wanted a nook, because she basically wants an ereader, but, i figured why not get a tablet so she can do other things to.

so i'm looking for something cheap, can access the playstore (without needing hack) as well as run the nook app, kindle, etc.

i'm looking at a mid m729, for $79 at newegg. are these any good? she doesn't need barn blazing speed.

looking for 7-10" and under $100, would prefer new since this would be a gift for her.
[General Questions and Answers] slimmbanditt:
Time For New Phone Purchase... Suggestions/Advice For New(er) Devices...

So I'm about to purchase a new phone... I probably will end up rooting... And I want some input on the capabilities and ease of modification... I hard bricked my last phone (Samsung repp SCH-R680), and it was such an unpopular model it was difficult, nearly impossible to find any relavent info for it, whether on rooting, applying custom mods, or fixing bricks... First i soft bricked and fixed in my own by tinkering in cwm, odin was a dead end everytime.... Anyway, I've looked at some newer models, first thought I wanted Galaxy S 3... But after researching, I'm not so sure its worth the extra cash for the new features, not to mention I've heard of problems/bugs that make it unacceptable if these alleged claims are ture... I am going to have to get an unlocked version(preferrably Verizon), because I'm not with signing a contract, and there's a wireless prepaid store in my area that hooks up any unlocked phone for $55 a month, unlimited with a data cap of like 5gbs, and they use Verison's service towers(hence preferring Verizon unlocked model, they can hook up any carrier's unlocked devices but I figure Verizon device will work better, amd they're the ONLY carrier in my area that has acceptable service)... Any suggestions on a good model to choose? I am a little biased to Samsung devices as I have more experience with them, but any advice or different opinions are welcomed. And please give some info on why you recommend this model adn/or brand... My main concerns are price, internal memory storage and RAM (speed of apps/browsing, old phone lagged alot, became a pet peave of mine), battery life, and ease of rooting/low chances of bricking/ease of fixing bricks... I do want a newer model since I will most likely be using it for a good while, but since I'm going to have to pay cash for an unlocked version, depending on quality of new features, I might consider choosing a slightly older model over the newest, basically I'm looking for the best, most conservative route to take, keeping my prefferences in mind(from above), sorry for the extra long post, but I wanted to explain in detail to get the most relavent responses, any suggestions/advive are welcomed and appreciated... Thanks...
[General Questions and Answers] mifero766:
Please help me choose in these phones.

Xperia S

Xperia SL

Xperia Acro S

Xperia Ion

Xperia TX

As we know almost they are the same but the still having problems in choosing what phone to get.

Here are my questions. sorry they are too many hope you can help me...

1) is the new TX worth it since it can go head to head with quad core? quad core can this be utilized by such apps?

2) no gorilla glass is this a major turn off?

3) storage options. some with sd. xperia s has 32gb not expandable is this enough?

4) some has no 4g support? is it ok? do i need it so badly?

5) difference in camera and video

6) battery compared to other flagship

7) last sony smart phones compared to other flagship phones. a up or a down?

Thanks for reading this. :)
[General Questions and Answers] motti94:
sensation xe vs galaxy s2

I have seen many comparisons and forums about it but still can't make my mind up. I like the XE because it feels and looks more solid but it is heavy. overall the s2 may be slightly better. although, it does depend on your preferences.

my q is if the s2 is cheaper than the XE is it better to go with the s2 or still go for the XE? or if they are the same price then which to go for?

I have just seen a video comparing the speeds and I'm very impressed with the boot speed of the XE. significantly faster than the s2. is that because of the CPU? will apps also be faster? its a big factor in my decision.

(I do like the desire x and the one su/st/sc but the desire x isn't powerful enough and the others haven't been released yet and all of them are new so will be very expensive even if not as good specs.)
[General Questions and Answers] aCs_ND:
Entry Level android phones in India

Hello

Any suggestions for a decent quality entry level android phone?

The phone I will buy will need to be rooted and should have some options available for custom roms based on MIUI which have built in call recording feature..

I can only think of two options i.e.

[1] Samsung Galaxy Y

[2] HTC Wildfire S

I need to check if the above two have any custom rom options based on MIUI with call recording as a standard feature.

Are there any options other than the above two that one can look at?

Thanks for your help in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] only-one:
For those who have the G2 (verizon specific) what did you or want to upgrade to?
[General Questions and Answers] lu99ke:
If you are just doing that to set up apps etc, just remember that a nandroid backup does everything.... So all your accounts and settings will be exactly the same.... Assuming you won't want all 10 phones with same "user" accounts you are going to have re set each account up anyway... And by the time you root each one and install recovery and then flash backup... It will be almost as long as setting up from scratch....

That is of course assuming you don't need root for anything other than doing the full backup. Of you dither you need to do that process regardless of course.
[General Questions and Answers] Moyst:
Thanks for the fast reply.

Yes that was in fact my plan, to do a nandroid backup and restore everything on every phone exactly the same.

Setting up the phone takes roughly 4 hours, and i thought, once i learned how to unlock the bootloader and install the recovery, this would take maximum 1 hour. So it would save me 3 hours of my time per phone.

Btw is there maybe a way to push a nandroid backup on the phone without a custom recovery?

the "adb backup -all-apk" does not seem to work for me, since the backup.ab is only 44 Bytes.
[General Questions and Answers] wadrythm:
Help choosing phone

hi everyone, I'm looking to buy a new phone on the price range under 270$ have a few options and confused between them. I'm not sure whether i should get new midrange or old flagship. I just want a 'big' screen 5.2-5.5in for reading on the go and good battery life(lasts a day).

the options i have are Lg g3 (32gb) 266$,

Huawei Honor 5x 240$

Huawei shot X 266$

Lenovo K4 note 240$

Lg k10 173$

I've narrowed my options to these phones i'm leaning towards the G3 but not sure since its old and heating issues mentioned in reviews. If have any other phone suggestion please forward it. Thanks guys.
[General Questions and Answers] hypetaxx:
If it is primarily just for apps, maybe you could do with the app app list backup, with it you can install a apps on one phone make a backup list and use that to restore to the other phones.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.punsoftware.backup

Sendt fra min HTC One_M8 med Tapatalk
[General Questions and Answers] Moyst:
It is mainly for apps, but also for the settings of different apps. For example: i have nova launcher installed, because the home screen is going to be locked into a very specific setting. i want to migrate that exact setting together with the apps which are installed on phone a to phone b. That is why i thought, that the easiest way would be to make a nandroid backup. ( Also there are some apps, which are not available in the Playstore )
[General Questions and Answers] daize:
I guess a sub-thread wasn't warranted, but here goes again...

I'm looking for <5 inch phone lovers' pick (or just those with small hands), that isn't necessarily the budget phone you'd buy your kid.

To start off:

Jiayu G5S

So called iPhone 5 clone

4.5 inch

Stainless steel

Sadly very difficult to find in stock for a reasonable price

http://www.gizchina.com/2014/06/28/o...yu-g5s-review/

Jiayu G4

4.7 inch

Plastic cover

Again, very difficult to still find in stock

http://www.gizchina.com/2013/08/01/j...-normal-usage/

These are phones that'd win over my heart (Jiayu G4 did, though it's awaiting power-button repairs now), but I'd love it if we can have this thread to share more phones that fall into the non-gigantic category.
[General Questions and Answers] prichm1992:
Hey, what's your budget? You could get an xperia z5 compact for ~$400 or a z3 compact for around half that. There are all kinds of cheaper model phones by companies like BLU, and there's the original moto X, or maybe the s5 mini or lg g2 mini. Just a small handful of suggestions, sorry in advance if they're not what you're looking for.
[General Questions and Answers] daize:
200USD is pretty much the max I'm in for :) That's why I was looking for mostly Chinese phones, I feel like there's so much in the market there that just blows "budget" popular brands out of the water...
[General Questions and Answers] KrisDLuna:
Z3C sucks

Just a PSA; Do not get the Z3C. Had a very bad experience with it, though mostly on the software side. But the phone design has 1 major flaw as well, the charging port is covered with a flap, which WILL come loose very soon considering phones have to be charged regularly anyway... and a loose flap is very annoying lol.

They fixed that on the Z5C though.
[General Questions and Answers] sanspark:
Kindly suggest me mobile around 20k INR, best for music and photography, with better battery
[General Questions and Answers] prichm1992:
I heard about that, but it didn't seem like a real issue. I've never seen one in the wild but I've seen lots of galaxy s5's. All of their buttflaps were torn off lol

Even without the waterproofing, the z3 is an affordable, powerful, small-sized phone with a great camera, great battery, and those front facing speakers
[General Questions and Answers] haris2887:
Hi guys. Need some advise about a new phone.

I am currently on a Note 5 which I find ok. Nothing special. Gets slow since I have loaded it up with apps and opening apps takes long now. Compared to my 2 yr old one plus running cyanogen.

I am after a phone with a big screen 6", large battery and Cyanogen support.

I have looked at

1.Huawei Mate 8 which has everything except cyanogen support.

2. Nexus 6P which does not have large screen.

Reason I want to get away from Samsung is cyanogen support likely will not happen anytime soon.

Any ideas for a phone for me?
[General Questions and Answers] lu99ke:
Nexus 6?
[General Questions and Answers] haris2887:
Few ppl have suggested nexus 6. Might go down that path. Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
As someone who just went from a OnePlus One (mine's still on a KK ROM - personal choice) to a Nexus 6 running MM, I can tell you that there's definitely a performance difference. I get about 78k on average with Antutu vs 44k (but we all know what little that can mean). It might not scream on benchmarks like the 6P or the Galaxy S7s do, but it's definitely capable, will run intense games like Asphalt 8 without problem, and will continue to do so for a long time. The main reason I went with the Nexus 6 (apart from the obvious price difference) instead of something like the 6P was the screen size. Funny that you say the 6P lacks a large screen. 5.7" is pretty damn big, but like you, I wanted something bigger. I also looked at the Huawei Mate 8, but it's too dang expensive here. Heck, I'd even go bigger, like the P8 Max, but it's too expensive for what it has except for size. And the Sony Xperia Ultra is a bit too old for what they still go for (and those bigass bezels).

I'll also promise you that once you use a phone with front-facing stereo speakers, you'll never want to go back to anything else, especially bottom firing ones. I kinda wish it was more blocky/square/flat, but that's because I rarely use my phone as an actual phone (plus I usually keep my SIM in my S4), and instead play games, read eBooks, browsing, etc, and something less curvy would be easier to handle.
[General Questions and Answers] haris2887:
A lot of people suggesting that going from note 5 to nexus 6 might be slow as note 5 is pretty powerful.

You see I don't play games at all. It is a work phone so performance in apps like email Dropbox onedrive contacts etc is critical. I need to be able to open emails forward emails replay fast in and exchange environment.

So while the current note 5 is plenty powerful I just feel the TW is lagging my experience when opening and displaying emails. Even opening up contacts it take 2 secs from when I press the button.

It's interesting the other phones you mentioned. The nexus 6P IS also a strong consideration.
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
You'd be surprised. Remember that synthetic benchmarks are synthetic. Back when the Moto E came out there was a bunch of videos comparing its speed to flagship devices like the Galaxy S5 and the LG G3. Quite often, the core apps like the dialer, messaging, even stuff like the app drawer loaded quicker on the Moto E despite being a very inferior device spec-wise. Now, obviously the better phones will have better all-around performance, especially with games (which doesn't apply to you) and other processor and RAM demanding apps. Like the browser. If you like a lot of tabs open, the browser is a serious RAM drainer, so that's where the more powerful hardware shows.

But that's not my point. The Moto E shines where it does because it uses nearly stock Android. Android, especially since KK came out, is really optimized for low-end devices. Stock Android runs just fine on the Moto E because Motorola didn't go all wild and crazy by adding every feature under the sun. TouchWiz and whatever LG calls their UI lag on high-end devices because those companies are more concerned with providing every possible feature under the sun so they can sell more phones, and less concerned about optimizing their own additions to Android. I'm not saying that having a ton of features isn't great, but if you want to load the dialer or your browser without experiencing a baffling amount of lag, the stocker it is, the faster it'll be. I assure you, the Nexus 6 is not slow, laggy, or frustrating in that regard.
[General Questions and Answers] prichm1992:
I can chime in here and tell you I've had the chance to compare the note 5 and Nexus 6. There is nothing in the world that my brother-in-law's note 5 can do that my Nexus 6 can't do just as quickly. No game that doesn't lag on his phone will lag on mine.

The list goes on and on, but the short of it is that the Nexus 6 is a hell of a phone, and except for the craziest octa-core, 64bit optimized benchmarks and games, it will match any phone, blow for blow, on anything you throw at it.

It doesn't hurt to add that you'll have a whole Nexus devoted community at your side lol
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
I hope that in the next year or 2 there's a similar device (Sony, HTC, Motorola, etc) with the newest 64 bit processor, DDR4 RAM, etc with the same (or bigger) screen size. Sony had their Z Ultra, but despite constant rumors of another, they haven't made one. HTC had their M7 Max or whatever they called it with a 6" screen...I came close to getting one, but the aging SD600 suffers on FHD screens when playing games (my toasted LG G Pad 8.3 taught me that), HTC has been rumored to provide Nexus devices for the next 3 years (or 3 devices? I forget), but a 5.5" seems to be the expected biggest size. As for Motorola, I couldn't guess what they have planned next. They said that it was Google that wanted the 6" screen, so they made it. But it's not like their current Moto X Pure/Style is a small phone either. If they made a 6"+ Moto X with the newest hardware, I'd definitely be interested. I was heavily contemplating their current one, but the graphics performance of the SD808 was the deal-breaker. Everything else seemed great. Bright screen, stereo speakers, sexy customization, and 264GB possible storage(!). If they do the same again this year but with the SD820...
[General Questions and Answers] stonedunicorn:
Lg g4 or one plus two

Hello i am asking for a suggestion.I have the lg g3 for over a year now and it was a really dissapointing experience from the first day i had issues with overheating which up to this day i still have the phone after some months got extremely laggy. So i found the lg g4 for 300 euros and the one plus two for 350. I really do care about camera quality but i am afraid that the g4 will do the same thing as my g3 overheating problems,lag and bootloop (that also happened to my g3), problems that many users confirmed. From what i have seen a few people report problems with the oneplus two compared with the lg g4 users which many of them have problems. If i buy the one plus i am losing the display quality and the camera of the g4 but i dont want to send my phone to china for service if anything happens to it. And if i buy the lg i am losing the fingerprint ,the 64gb and the slightly faster processor of the one plus two (but from what i have seen the performance is on pair) and the risk of big problems with the phones. So what do you suggest?
[General Questions and Answers] Gorhell:
Sony Z5 Compact vs Samsung A7 2016

So both phones have same price range here. I just can't pick which to get is Samsung A7 2016 worth it or should I go Z5 Compact? I want a bigger screen but Z5 Compact would suffice. I'm a little bit concern about their android development as of now there's no support here for the latest A7 and at the same time Z5 Compact support takes time. I want to install a CM on both phones, I want AOSP or CM. What I want is atleast 5" inch screen with a good SoC and a better battery life also a fingerprint is a plus
[General Questions and Answers] KrisDLuna:
Unlucky?

Yeah, I admit the Xperia Compact series is the best compact phone currently out there (IMO).

But maybe I'm just hella unlucky. I've had hang/crash/auto-restart problems, proximity sensor died, digitizer went faulty (it has got to the point where I can now only use about 50% of my screen), and my audio jack also died. All these within a year of purchase. :crying:
[General Questions and Answers] prichm1992:
Every word of that was cringeworthy. My deepest condolences to you and your phone.
[General Questions and Answers] D_Tech:
Goodbye N900

Here's the situation:

I've been using my N900 and very happily so since the day they were available in Australia. But now the 2G network is being closed come December and I have to get a new device.

I don't care about cameras ... I don't take photos.

I use the phone for making calls, sending SMS, reading ebooks and VERY rarely web-access. I may, of course, start using it for other stuff but I doubt it - I have PCs everywhere I spend more than 10 minutes (home, work, etc) so I tend to use those for the other stuff.

What I want is a device which has the possibility of a fairly good lifespan - given that I've had the N900 for 6 years you can tell I'm not much of an early adopter when it comes to phones. I'd happily use my new device for 5 years, so I'd like it to be pretty rugged and I imagine a replaceable battery would be a good idea.

I also want to be able to root the thing and remove as much of the bloat that I don't want/need as I possibly can. I will not be using any of the Google services as I don't need them, so a device which can be de-googled pretty thoroughly would be appreciated ... if I don't need a service I don't want it running using battery/CPU/bandwidth etc.

I don't need something as small as the N900 ... a larger screen would be welcome.

I fully realise I'm a pretty 'niche' user - but I'm hoping that someone here might have some good suggestions.

TIA

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