[Fascinate General] jatilq:
I had the Droid X from launch and I have them both sitting here as I type this. One of them has to be shipped back. The Droid X was meant to replace the Fascinate that replaced the Droid X.... lol ... Since the Droid X launch

Droid X (important to add I have a 32GB sd) Rebooting issues

Evo Solid Phone only drawback was space, and that was not serious.

Droid X long fight to get VZW to send me battery, back chargers ( 2 FCC complaints resulted)

Vibrant (2x on $99 dollar day) The best of them all in my opinion. Lol I still have the Avatar movie in hopes of getting past the drm on it. 16gb + 32gb. Only problem T-Mobile Customer service! Sales in English / Customer Support I don't understand English! (FCC to get refund and cancel service)

Droid X minor issues once I recieved a new one

Fascinate 1st brick, 2nd strange shut offs could be setcpu issue in hindsight.

Droid X Froyo update, working well, but (see below)

Fascinate (currently using)

As you can tell I've had some experience on this debate. I mentioned a couple other phones because they do play into my choices.

I wanted to decide between Epic, Vibrant, Fascinate or Droid X. Customer service is a big deal to me. I work for Verizon (not wireless) and this is the first time I'm using my discount on the VZ network.

Epic very nice phone, but small rom. I did have a nice discount and 4g was nice. Very hard not to take this phone

Vibrant ... Customer service killed it

Droid X amazing hardware on this phone. I can even live with the screen not being Super Amoled, but the software is terrible!

locked bootloader

No DLNA support to stream to device. Moov Atom different than most DLNA devices so Mezzmo who would create a profile is useless! Bootloader prevents cifs so not possible to mount drives (or I never found a solution). Only real option is Androstream in my opinion.

The Droid X does shine when it comes to syncing. Moto's Link tool is very nice to be free. I had no problem finding something that worked out of the box.

Fascinate small rom, but codec support is amazing! 5.1 audio. I want the option to listen to music and or watch tv shows on the go like I did with my iPhone through AirVideo. Cifs manager I can mount shares and watch anything! If I needed to I can use Twonky, Tversity, Playon and Mezzemo (they have a profile and it works well). I couldnt send a simple 5 second movie on the DX through mms, just would get an error. Fascinate converts and sends. Once this phone gets flash, native Playon support it will be perfect.

My real complaint is the fact this Version does not have the Kies option in the sync settings for Samsungs sync software. Media Monkey is the best option I've found.

The media hub now works (something happened in last couple days). Able to use my iPhone armband to workout with it as well as my

http://www.amazon.com/Acoustic-Research-ARWH1-Bluetooth-Headset/dp/B00195HS28

I just read that HTC is going to start locking down their phones, so I might stay with Samsung a while.

I put alot of thought into this decision and if not for my just getting an iPad I would have more to say about the media issues.

It's been mentioned before. You want a solid multimedia phone for the average user. Droid X is the way to go.

Honestly buy the Fascinate it comes with a Droid X free! Buy one get one of the same or equal value promotion will always trump the Droid X on its own, I have two this way! You would laugh if you knew how many screen protectors I went through in the last couple of months. Not that I'm hearing the Samsung Tab might be 399 with 2yr or 500-600 instead of the 1k first rumored, I believe that is where my next gadgit fix will go. Google Voice + Whistler = free phone anyway on my iPad, so its going to be interesting what options I have with the Tab.

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