I don't get iPhone 5

[TheStu]

Why don"t you just adopt google voice as a permanent number then?

This is going to sound INCREDIBLY paranoid and tin-foil hatty... but I don't want Google to be the one that all my texts and phone calls route through. It is bad enough that they hold all my emails. If I had the know-how to do it myself, I would.

 

[Kaido]

This is going to sound INCREDIBLY paranoid and tin-foil hatty... but I don't want Google to be the one that all my texts and phone calls route through. It is bad enough that they hold all my emails. If I had the know-how to do it myself, I would.

A little OT, but have you tried the new Outlook.com? I'm a big Gmail fan, but this is a pretty dang good competitor.

 

[TheStu]

A little OT, but have you tried the new Outlook.com? I'm a big Gmail fan, but this is a pretty dang good competitor.

How are their spam filters? That is the biggest thing.

That and not wanting to trash the email address I have had for like, 10 years (or however long gmail has been around, I got in on it early)

 

[TuxDave]

LTE really should have been in the 4S. However, I'm not too bothered with mobile broadband. 3G is plenty fast enough. Data caps are just too limited to make good use of the higher speeds LTE offers.

I'm not sure if I would've liked it. 4S and the Galaxy Nexus came out roughly in the same LTE generation and that was a power hungry useless LTE process generation (which I heard depends on area).

At least in the Portland area, Galaxy Nexus users had to keep LTE disabled most of the time unless they weren't getting enough speed through the CDMA networks (Verizon LTE was the only one available until recently). Otherwise they saw significant battery drain.

 

[Red Storm]

I'm not sure if I would've liked it. 4S and the Galaxy Nexus came out roughly in the same LTE generation and that was a power hungry useless LTE process generation (which I heard depends on area).

At least in the Portland area, Galaxy Nexus users had to keep LTE disabled most of the time unless they weren't getting enough speed through the CDMA networks (Verizon LTE was the only one available until recently). Otherwise they saw significant battery drain.

While my Nexus did drain more battery because of LTE, my phone still lasted me a whole day with typical use. With my S3 I got to bed with around 40-50% battery left.

How do you use that much data on a phone?

Streaming music, lots of picture emails back and forth with friends, video chatting, Youtube, Dropbox (I use it to watch my TV episodes on my phone), etc. I don't ever think about data caps so I do just about everything on it.

 

[Tegeril]

Why don"t you just adopt google voice as a permanent number then?

Because I don't actually want to rely on Google like that.

 

[kyrax12]

Because I don't actually want to rely on Google like that.

Is Google some kind of bad entity or something like that?

 

[TheStu]

Is Google some kind of bad entity or something like that?

No, it is just that I am not Google's customer. I am the backend to their product.

At least that is my position, not wanting to speak for Tegeril.

 

[TuxDave]

While my Nexus did drain more battery because of LTE, my phone still lasted me a whole day with typical use. With my S3 I got to bed with around 40-50% battery left.

The S3 has the 2nd gen LTE which makes LTE a useful option since it basically doubled your battery life. (and I'm absolutely not going to do the disable/enable this and that nonsense).

I'm not sure what your typical activity is but it sounds similiar to mine. I usually can charge every other day with typical use on my 4S and probably a (6-8hrs) if I'm heavily surfing/gaming. Extrapolating from your data, with the 1st gen LTE it looks like it's 1 day of typical use and probably 3-4hrs of surfing/gaming. That just sucks.

This is my typical use on two work days. Mostly standby except for some call/texting/email in bursts. And look at my home's crappy cellular reception. 🙁

 

[Tegeril]

No, it is just that I am not Google's customer. I am the backend to their product.

At least that is my position, not wanting to speak for Tegeril.

I completely agree.