When to buy?

[zedpol]

Hi All,
I have a nexus 4 that still works relatively well but the battery doesn't generally make it through the day. I haven't found a reasonable battery replacement so I carry around one of those battery packs. Anyways, I've looked at a few phones, oneplus one, sony z3 compact, moto x, moto G but I'm not sure this is a great time to buy a phone since android is presumably moving to 64bit. Second problem is I haven't found anything that is exactly what I want. Long battery life, around 5 inches, wireless charging. Any thoughts? I'm hoping those of you that follow the phone world can advise. Buy now or wait a few months?


Thanks,
z

 

[Harry_Wild]

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[RossMAN]

zedpol,

Are you in the USA?

 

[zedpol]

I am, on a GSM network (cricket).

z

 

[razel]

Stick with the Nexus phones since you're used to them. Since you want 5 inches and wireless (QI) charging, the Nexus 5 is stellar. I love everything except the battery life. It's normal battery life to me. It can go from 16 hours to 5 days depending on how I use it. And that 5 days is not standby or airplane mode. My average is 18 hours and that's with 1 hour of continuous GPS driving usage where the screen is on almost half bright. Without GPS usage my average is 30 hours. My only gripe is the build quality. I have collegues with Nexus 5s and it's not the most perfect phone, but at $350 we didn't care. The screen scratches easily, but a glass screen protector fixes that. None of us have cases, since it's rubberized back is a perfect case. You don't fear not gently laying it down since the rubber absorbs impact and easily resists scratches. Any scratches my collegues had easily scruffed off with magic eraser, but be careful... you are scuffing off a slight bit of rubber with that.

Also check out Motorola's latest phones. They were bought by Google and the Nexus 6 is by Motorola. Also the most recent Android update came out OTA on their phones 1st. A few hours later the Nexus phones got Lollipop but only the system factory images your manually install.

 

[sm625]

If battery life is a focus, you could buy a used galaxy S4 and go with a nice aftermarket oversize battery. There is a huge selection of them. This will be one of the most economical options to optain the latest android on a phone that has good battery life. Sadly, used S4's are still kind of pricy...

 

[RossMAN]

I am, on a GSM network (cricket).

z

The best time to buy is coming up soon, I would check SlickDeals.net daily especially on Black Friday (November 28, 2014) and Cyber Monday (December 1, 2014).

 

[soccerballtux]

Hi All,
I have a nexus 4 that still works relatively well but the battery doesn't generally make it through the day. I haven't found a reasonable battery replacement so I carry around one of those battery packs. Anyways, I've looked at a few phones, oneplus one, sony z3 compact, moto x, moto G but I'm not sure this is a great time to buy a phone since android is presumably moving to 64bit. Second problem is I haven't found anything that is exactly what I want. Long battery life, around 5 inches, wireless charging. Any thoughts? I'm hoping those of you that follow the phone world can advise. Buy now or wait a few months?


Thanks,
z

you want the LG G2 or LG G3. G2 has a better battery life, has wireless charging, is 5.2" (better than 5" IMO). I wouldn't worry about the 64bit.

 

[Patre]

you want the LG G2 or LG G3. G2 has a better battery life, has wireless charging, is 5.2" (better than 5" IMO). I wouldn't worry about the 64bit.

I just got the LG G3 and extremely happy with it. The battery life is not too bad (I always keep mine at Full Bright.....) and looks to be similar to the Nexus 4 (YMMV). There's also an oversized battery available for this.
The hardware specs alone bought me over to the G3.