Most reliable smartphone?

[Jeff7181]

I'm looking for opinions on the most reliable smartphone.

I had my own iPhone 4 up until about 6 months ago when I switched to using my work phone for personal stuff too. I couldn't use the iPhone for work because I need the phone to be able to repeat alerts for MMS and missed calls indefinitely until I pick up the phone and do something.

I had a Blackberry Torch, which served its purpose well as a business phone until my role changed and I had to respond to alerts much more quickly - within minute. The Torch wouldn't notify me of text messages until sometimes hours after they actually arrived.

So our AT&T rep gave me another Torch, thinking it could be a weird hardware problem - same issues.

AT&T rep gave me a brand new Bold - same problem as the Torch.

Then I got a Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. It's been working well for the better part of 6 months, with the occasional freezing and battery pull necessary, but I'm now running into an issue with it deleting my personal email accounts and leaving only my Exchange account. While it doesn't impact anything related to work, which is good, it's extremely annoying to have to reenter my personal email accounts every day.

Isn't there anyone out there that makes a feature rich, modern, reliable smartphone?

 

[A5]

I'm not really sure what would cause the phone to be deleting your e-mail accounts. I've been using Android for 3 years now and have never seen that.

Are you sure it isn't an Exchange policy being pushed by your IT people? They're allowed a lot of control over the device as part of the Exchange protocols (notably, they can do a full wipe on your device any time, any place).

 

[Jeff7181]

I'm not really sure what would cause the phone to be deleting your e-mail accounts. I've been using Android for 3 years now and have never seen that.

Are you sure it isn't an Exchange policy being pushed by your IT people? They're allowed a lot of control over the device as part of the Exchange protocols (notably, they can do a full wipe on your device any time, any place).

They say they're not. Waiting for a response from our AT&T rep... I assume they're going to tell me to do a factory reset.

 

[cl-scott]

I would look into a Nexus phone. Or at least something that is a stock Android setup, not something with one of the various overlays companies love to slap on things. For the most part I just consider them a waste of RAM, which is a scarce resource on cell phones (less so these days, but still it shouldn't be wasted on some program duplicating 75-90% of stock functionality) not to mention they make debugging that much more difficult. Plus the Galaxy Nexus is also a developer phone, so should be a bit more solid than the rest.

Not sure you can get the Galaxy Nexus on AT&T, but if you can get your hands on an unlocked GSM model, you should be able to use it on AT&T without any issue.

Is strange on the BB notification thing. My experiences with the BB platform have generally been that I get email notifications on my Gmail account before I even see it show up on one of my computers with an IMAP connection. You could almost say that it was TOO fast at alerting me to things.

 

[s44]

Are you on ICS?

 

[A5]

They say they're not. Waiting for a response from our AT&T rep... I assume they're going to tell me to do a factory reset.

Yeah probably. I'd say maybe try out the S3 or HTC One X if you like Android, otherwise I'd say to wait for the iPhone 5 and/or the Lumia 920 assuming they can meet your current needs.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Just get a unlocked Galaxy Nexus for 350 and keep it at stock.

 

[psych2]

Another vote for an unlocked Galaxy Nexus for $350, I think it's even cheaper at expansys

 

[Jeff7181]

Cost is not a concern, my employer will provide me with whatever phone I want.

I am using ICS and it actually seemed to introduce an element of unpredictability. Now, I never know if my battery is going to last 12 hours or 4 hours. Occasionally the phone becomes unresponsive and after a few minutes it will start to come around, but will be slow enough that if it's even unresponsive for more than a few seconds I just reboot it to avoid wasting time waiting for it to recover.

I hope Apple adds the ability to repeat notifications indefinitely... I actually liked everything else about my iPhone... had no complaints.

A coworker of mine has a Windows phone... I'm not too sure about them. I'd almost rather go back to Blackberry.

 

[Red Storm]

Ironically my most reliable cell phone was the Droid X. Go figure.

Not that my other phones were/are crap. I just never had any issues with that phone.

 

[vshah]

another vote for gnex with stock JB, if you want to stick with android. by far more stable than samsung's / HTC's skins.

 

[shortylickens]

A blackberry with the Otterbox Defender.

 

[dajet24]

I really like My Titan Windows phone... reliable never has to reboot does what I want.