Howdy yall, I have a droid right now thats just getting old and slow (1.5 yrs old) and I have an upgrade to use.. I wanna get another droid but they are so much more expensive than an iPhone (Droid:$300 iPhone4: $100)... But my main question is can you get any tethering apps for an iPhone like PDANet or Easytether has on droids? I wouldn't mind an iPhone cause they run so nice but I kinda need it to tether.. right now I run easytether on my droid and I don't have to pay that extra $20 a month for it, I mainly use it for school stuff like submitting assignments and checking classes.. I looked up on youtube if they have any apps that can and all the videos say the app is pulled from the app store. So if any of you guys know how to kinda hack it or whatever and its not too difficult I'd like to know how. Thanks
Carrier?? If you are renewing the contract, I would get the best phone available at the time. As for tethering, you will have to jailbreak any of the ios stuff to make it work. On my Galaxy s2, I am running CM7 and wifi hotspot and tethering are build right into the rom. Russ
Its all about how hands on you are. If you like to root the phone and load custom roms and stuff like that hands down android is the better platform and better phone over all. If you want something you pickup and it works and you want to do nothing but your basic tasks the iphone will work just fine for that. As far as tethering apps go without jail breaking your iphone(same thing as rooting a android) you wont find anything because apple is very closed minded when it comes to this kinda stuff as well as the carriers.
There are a few other opinions in this thread in this: http://mnsubaru.com/threads/i-phone-5-sprint-what.37083/
I'm on Verizon.. I heard something about that jail break stuff but I havn't really read up on it yet..
I was kind of looking at that new razr.. I guess its pretty nice, the store said it was $300 but I thought I just saw a commercial sayin it was $200.. Anyway, I like droid better.. I'm not really an apple person but but it looks like it runs so smooth. The only thing I've really done with my droid was download apps from 4shared to get out of paying for them, hah. But I might look up how the jail break thing works a little later..
I just got my galaxy nexus for $230 bucks shipped through newegg with a new 2yr contract. Love the phone super snappy. If you are not looking to spend that much i do have my old Droid X2 for sale for $150 and you wouldnt have to reup your contract till you were ready and knew exactly what phone you wanted.
Reason apple only has one new phone a year(if you can call it a new phone) is that it is made by one company. Android is used on literally hundreds of different phone manufactures.
Oh c'mon now You just opened a can of worms Now all the fanboys gon flood this thread and bust yo dome
Play with them both, different people like different operating systems. Any phone you get is going to be "outdated" within a few months anyways, no matter how awesome the specs. Personally, I like the way Apple releases their updates uniformly and supports their older models (within reason). I used to be a BlackBerry user, and it annoyed me that a nice update on one model would come to another months later, if it even did at all. I have never owned an Android, so I can't say for sure, but their many OS releases are scattered over many different hardware specs, causing a bit of fragmentation. For a while, I was trading or updating to a newer model BlackBerry every 4-6 months.... It was a complete waste of money. My iPhone4 has been great over the last year, and I don't have the desire to get something new until it's actually time to renew my contract. Anyways, find a few friends and mess around with their devices!
I have the 4s, love it. runs very well... You can finally jailbreak your iphone http://modmyi.com/ this will let you tether it. Sprint has unlimited I think now so you could prob just tether it standard. there is a setting to let you do it. I would go to a sprint store and ask them. I use AT&T with my iPhone.
Oh wait, just read in your post that you were looking at the iPhone4 as an upgrade, not the 4S. In June the iP4 will have been released 2 years ago... That is extremely old. Assuming you hold onto it for 2 years after that, the model will be ancient. Save up an extra $100 and get an iP4S, or hold out until whenever iP5 is announced (if you're going to take the Apple route).
I just picked up an HTC Evo 3D a few weeks ago. I've got a few other android devices around the house. I fell in love with Android because of how open it is and how much I can customize each device to my liking. Either through custom roms or interface tweaks. After dealing with the android devices for a year or so, I wouldn't even consider an Apple device. They are pretty and "just work." But the second you want it to do more than what Apple intended or allows, you are pretty much stuck. As for the OS fragmentation comment. It goes both ways. Yes, there are different OS flavors running around. But that is because newer, better hardware can take advantage of new and updated OS functionality. And if your older device doesn't support the newest OS, no biggie, go get a newer device. Locking in your OS development to keep outdated hardware on the market only cripples your OS from doing more. The other issue I had with the iPhone was the screen size. Really, it has been quite a while since the 3.5" touchscreen was 'revolutionary.' There are larger, prettier screens on the market (samsung's amo-led screen comes to mind.) that are bigger, brighter and have much better contrast than what the iphone is offering. And I'm not sure what android based phone you are looking at that is 300 dollars. The Samsung Galaxy S2 is 200 with new service from Sprint. The HTC Evo 4G and Evo 3D are 100 with activation. All are very good hardware (the 3D is difficult to root right now though, keep that in mind) And even with the Evo 3D's difficulties in the rooting department, I will still personally take it over an i-device.
http://wireless.amazon.com/Samsung-...=INDIVIDUAL_NEW&sr=2-1-entd&qid=1327619214014 End story. Since it is a nexus phone, everything cab be unlocked without any real hacking, so it is SUPER simple to open up. The nexus line of phones will always get the latest and greatest android (if the hardware can handle it) before anyone else. The current crop of phones are so advanced, that really they will last 2-3 years. If you look at the hardware specs in the last year, nothing has really changed. So it will all end up being software updates to keep things new. My gs2 will be running ICS unofficially WAY before I ever get a official update. Samsung is not the holdup, it is the carriers. Everyone wants their bloatware crap and phone lock downs in place before they release anything to the public. Cyanogenmod already has 95% of ICS ready for my phone, they are just waiting on the kernal source code for the final details. If samsung released the kernal today, I would be running ICS in less than 2 weeks. If I wait for at&t, it will probably be 4-5-6 months. Russ
hahaha im not sure how to interpret that lol, hating on iphone or thread concerns. hahaha i also dont have the latest update so maybe that would do somthing
He's talking about the Apple fanboy retard brigade that scours the internet for instances of anyone saying anything remotely critical about their i-Devices, and then they promptly thread**** all over the place with their burning hate of anyone that would speak ill of Apple products.
I've had my htc resound for a month now and it has been working pretty swell. I have been happy with it all around. Really liking the 4g service too.
I would disagree here, Samsung released a PR saying its Galaxy S phone and tablet would not get ICS (stuck on gingerbread or even froyo), and it has been less than 18 months since it was sold on new 2 year contracts... The reason they gave was that the phone was not powerful enough to run both ICS and their touchwiz UI layer... instead of ditch touchwiz they left 10 million android users out in the cold, paying on a contract for a phone that will no longer get software updates. Samsung gets zero dollars from supporting their aging devices, since there is no recurring revenue split on app purchases with the manufacturers. The ONLY way the manufacturer makes a buck is if you buy a new phone, and while some of us will remember how one manufacturer burned us in the past, the majority of people will not. Ask most older android users what manufacturer their phone is and they will probably say "android" or "droid". I think the model of Google -> manufacturer -> carrier -> customer is broken so you better root it and get your OS updates on your own.
The iPhone is just an iPod with lots of stuff duct taped on to it. It's a GREAT iPod, but doesn't really excel at any of the taped on stuff.
I ended up getting the razr. So far its been acting really good for me.. I was looking at the galaxy nexus but I just didn't like it for the little bit I was playing with it, had an awesome screen on it though I'll give it that.
In reality though, you are better off going with a third party ROM anyway. Most of them remove all the bloat from the OS that the manufacturer puts in there. The Galaxy S is more than capable of playing with ICS, just like most top tier android devices in the last 2 years can likely run it. It's just that most manufacturers insist on making you use their proprietary shovelware interfaces. I'm looking at you HTC
I was almost gonna get an HTC.. It would have been free but they didn't have any left, it was the thunder bolt.
But, I would disagree with you on this. Samsung has flipped back and forth on releasing ICS on those devices. I think they are currently waiting to get it out on the flagship devices first. Which brings me back to my point. ICS for the at&t GS2 is done, samsung has given it to go ahead, we are jut waiting on AT&T. I had a LG G2x, LG released gingerbread for the phone, which was LG's flagship phone (1st dual core, 1gb ram phone). T-Mo screwed up the LG software so bad that they started bricking phones and LG just said **** it. T-Mo blamed LG for crappy software, LG blamed T-Mo for screwing up the perfectly good software they gave them, at the end of the day, the customers got screwed. You also need to realize that the original Galaxy S is coming up on 2 years old. Even the GS2 is getting kinda old. What is nice though, Samsung, Motorola, and I think HTC all claim to only start releasing a couple of phones per year and work more on the software side. Really, at this point, most of the new phones are all dual core and either 512mb or 1gb of ram then just some of the other randoms. At least HTC started unlocking the bootloader on their devices. http://htcdev.com/ Russ
Wow, this is probably the most reasonable and level-headed mobile OS discussion I have ever read on any forum. OP and others, what about windows phone? I have a new nokia lumia on order for development, but I have only played with them a little bit at the microsoft store. What I loved: the UI is super responsive and snappy, live tiles are the first compelling mobile OS home screen update in basically ever. What I didn't love: small app market and relatively small feature list on the OS (pre-mango at least).
What I would love to see is a smart phone with a decent battery life. Not sure bout any of the brand new phones. But I struggle to make it home on nexus s. My wife's Evo 4g was even worse. I bought her the extended battery and now she can go about 2.5 days on a charge. But it added some Bulgaria to the phone
Go get the battery calibration app from the Market and run it according to the instructions. Often times the low battery life is due simply to inaccurate reporting of the battery charge.
Yeah I'm fed up with my iphone, I'm looking to switch over to a droid. I'm probably going to pick up a Galaxy 2.
If you belive everything you read there is a even better version of the galaxy nexus coming out soon. I have the original one and love it even stock with no mods its super fluid and everything moves smoothly. But then again regular price with 2yr contract your looking at $300
The galaxy nexus is a developer phone, so it really doesn't have the bet hardware on the market now. What it does have is open hardware (nothing is locked down) and a very active developer following. So if you are looking to user custom roms and kernals, the nexus phones are the way to go. If you are just looking for a good phone and don't plan on flashing everything all the time, there are better options out there. This is from my GS2. I think there was about 4 hours of screen on time in that pick. I went a full 3 days before I put it on the charger. The time is am, so that evening is when I charged it. That is just a kanged version of CM7.2 (the official CM team is working on the ICS port), so one of the other devs just builds a CM update twice a week to add in any new features. No special apps running (juice defender, background killers, etc), just a well setup system. Russ
