Switching to Verizon, which phone should I get? with poll

[murphy55d]

I love my X, but you can't say you don't want a big phone and then add the Fascinate because it's not a whole lot smaller than the X is. Just saying.

I will say this, my wife has the Fascinate, and even she remarked as to how "cheap" it felt. The plastic battery cover feels like it's going to break just by holding it. And it's so slick that it's very easy to drop without a case on it. TouchWiz also sucks. Blur isn't a whole lot better on the X but thats why I root and install custom ROMs.

 

[Bateluer]

GPS works fine on my Fascinate, found some place in the middle of nowhere easily last weekend, got me there within a few driveways. Does NOT feel cheap, Bat, your bias is really getting old. Screen is amazing. What does 2.2 bring that I'm missing in 2.1? Is it anything I'd notice? Probably not on a large scale, therefore, I don't care. It isn't locked to Bing if you're smart enough to root, which I couldn't understand why anyone WOULDN'T do.

It feels cheap to a lot of people, not just myself. Others have posted about it in numerous threads as well. That doesn't bother some people, others want their phone to feel a little sturdier.

If you're not familiar with the benefits of 2.2 by now . . . yeesh, you've missed a lot.

Yes, I realize you can root and scrap Bing and likely all of TouchWiz, but one shouldn't need to root, voiding their warranty in the process, in order to use the Search button and have a decent UI. The rooting community isn't the majority of Android users, either, most do not. For example, every one I know personally with a Droid 1 aside from myself, doesn't root at all. They run pure stock, not even a theme.

The Fascinate and Epic seem to have much better GPS than the Vibrant and Captivate, I grant that, but its still poor in comparison to their competition, taking longer to lock, lower accuracy, and sometimes needing cellular triangulation to work. Your Fascinate may work fine from your perspective, but there's still a lot of users having problems with it and it still lags behind their competition.

My position remains firm, wait the couple of weeks to CES to see whats coming. If there's nothing your interested in, or they won't be available until May, you can still pick up whatever suits your fancy now. Odds are, a lot of people will suddenly want to sell their phones after CES too, so you might be able to pick one up for very cheap.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

It feels cheap to a lot of people, not just myself. Others have posted about it in numerous threads as well. That doesn't bother some people, others want their phone to feel a little sturdier.

If you're not familiar with the benefits of 2.2 by now . . . yeesh, you've missed a lot.

Yes, I realize you can root and scrap Bing and likely all of TouchWiz, but one shouldn't need to root, voiding their warranty in the process, in order to use the Search button and have a decent UI. The rooting community isn't the majority of Android users, either, most do not. For example, every one I know personally with a Droid 1 aside from myself, doesn't root at all. They run pure stock, not even a theme.

The Fascinate and Epic seem to have much better GPS than the Vibrant and Captivate, I grant that, but its still poor in comparison to their competition, taking longer to lock, lower accuracy, and sometimes needing cellular triangulation to work. Your Fascinate may work fine from your perspective, but there's still a lot of users having problems with it and it still lags behind their competition.

My position remains firm, wait the couple of weeks to CES to see whats coming. If there's nothing your interested in, or they won't be available until May, you can still pick up whatever suits your fancy now. Odds are, a lot of people will suddenly want to sell their phones after CES too, so you might be able to pick one up for very cheap.

LOL so true, the girl I'm seeing right now (who has a Vibrant) asked me what GPS she should get for herself, when I said just to use the google navigation she said it doesn't work very well and how it often shows her on a side street when shes on the freeway. She exchanged it 4 times and they all do that.

I showed her my G2 and she got majorly annoyed by how well it worked, lol.

 

[zerocool84]

The Samsung Intercept got Froyo today and still only one Galaxy S phone has Froyo. Sad, very sad.

 

[Rottie]

Samsung Fascinate is making you feel macho!

 

[s44]

I love my X, but you can't say you don't want a big phone and then add the Fascinate because it's not a whole lot smaller than the X is.

Sure... if you have a heavy-ass case on the Fascinate.

 

[s44]

LOL so true, the girl I'm seeing right now (who has a Vibrant) asked me what GPS she should get for herself, when I said just to use the google navigation she said it doesn't work very well and how it often shows her on a side street when shes on the freeway.

Install one of the many ROMs that fix this for her, then.

Nice BF you are.

 

[ginfest]

Droid X.
I just swapped out my BB Storm for the X and the difference is incredible ! Yes it is bigger than most of the other but I like big
This thing is a lot quicker than the Storm and blows it away in most things, especially the internet.
Add a ton of apps, with a lot of good ones free, and no chains to the Apple oligarchy, you can't beat Android.

 

[Bateluer]

Install one of the many ROMs that fix this for her, then.

Nice BF you are.

Thats the issue at hand, the GPS problem is hardware. ROMs can improve it to a point, but ultimately the GPS will still be slow to lock and often show your location to an accuracy of 30m instead of 1-2m of other GPS enabled phones.

You factor this in with Samsung's support issues, and their history of not providing OS updates, and even if you life the lighter feel of the Galaxy S, its a good idea to avoid the Galaxy S line.

 

[rcpratt]

I'd get a fascinate if I had to pick one now.

But what you should really do is wait a month or two.

 

[lothar]

I'd get a fascinate if I had to pick one now.

But what you should really do is wait a month or two.

What happens in a month or two?

 

[zerocool84]

What happens in a month or two?

CES where a lot of stuff gets announced for EVERYTHING which starts Jan 6.

 

[Bryf50]

Thats the issue at hand, the GPS problem is hardware.

Source?

 

[s44]

Thats the issue at hand, the GPS problem is hardware. ROMs can improve it to a point, but ultimately the GPS will still be slow to lock and often show your location to an accuracy of 30m instead of 1-2m of other GPS enabled phones.

Your FUD is getting repetitive. Except for a very few actual broken units (like all other phones, there are duds), GPS is a software issue that's now ironed out.

30m isn't even GPS.

 

[s44]

I'd get a fascinate if I had to pick one now.

But what you should really do is wait a month or two.

I agree with this, but most of the big rumored models have been for AT&T of all things... It may well be that the next significant Verizon release is the iPhone, with no dual-core Androids for a while.

 

[rockyct]

What happens in a month or two?

Well, personally I'm waiting for Windows Phone 7 on Verizon and that's rumored to come out in January.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Of the options, I'd go with an Incredible, I like HTC phones, it has a large following at XDA dev's, lots of custom roms, none of the drama that seems to follow Samsung phones around.

 

[Bateluer]

Your FUD is getting repetitive. Except for a very few actual broken units (like all other phones, there are duds), GPS is a software issue that's now ironed out.

30m isn't even GPS.

Yep, 30m isn't GPS. Its why people continue to complain about it. And its cropping up in units people are buying right. Drop the FUD accusations. Everything I've brought up is 100% valid.