If you're going to use the internet at all I would say; go for it.Originally Posted by Flixy
If you're going to use the internet at all I would say; go for it.
Congratulations America
Got my new iPhone4 now- really like it so far.
Not sure what to do with my old iPhone3G. Thinking:
Sell it to a colleague who wants to buy it for cash
Sell it to a 'trade-in' company
Keep it as a spare in case anything ever happens to my current one and I have to do without for a few weeks
Use it as a Touch
Flog it to colleague for cash.
Them trade-in companies pay pennies.
I gave my last phone (Nokia N70, think it was) to an occasionally unemployed friend of mine who'd accidentally dropped his phone into a pint of beer and couldn't afford a pay-as-ye-go replacement. Until that time it had been sitting in my drawer gathering dust as the trade-in price was barely worth the effort of shoving it in an envelope and posting it.
Having a spare phone is useful too. How much would you get from the colleague?
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
He's offered me £150 for it, not pennies. But then again the trade-in price is £140 (I'd mentioned it to him when he offered to beat it). But I'm not sure I want any hassle afterwards about it.
I gotted one
I am hating the transfer process though.
Well, rumor is that the iphone will be available at other carriers than t-mobile in the near future. Will have another look at it then
The absolute minimum total cost of an iPhone 4 over the two-year AT&T contract is $1,674.52 before taxes, regulatory and miscellaneous fees.
In comparison, I bought the HTC Desire with a one year contract discounted for 400$. At that moment, I thought to myself; what exactly do I miss out on. Here's the list I came up with:
- Video calls
- Higher contrast & resolution display
- More avid games
- Superior 5MP camera
- Exceptional battery life
For all of the critics, the Desire is not bad, the iPhone 4 is just better. It got plenty of processing power, a decent sized 3.7" AMOLED display and of course, can be updated to the latest version of Android OS.
I like that new models like the Samsung Galaxy S, iPhone 4 and HTC EVO have shuffled the price down substantially for the last generation. I think I'll be aptly satisfied with both the display quality and the camera. Video calls couldn't bother me less, and were introduced in mediocre phones many years ago to boot. I always appreciate longer battery life, but it's not much of an ordeal charging it over night. Games I do miss.
Bottom line is that HTC Desire is a premium, overall excellent phone running Android OS, costing less than half of the iPhone 4. I feel like I did a great purchase.
Last edited by Kazuha Vinland; 09-12-2010 at 09:46 AM.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
Who, realistically, needs an enormous house?Who, realistically, needs an iPhone?
Pick me!
Oh, you're not giving away enourmous houses are you?
I have a 2 year old HTC Diamond which is still doing what it is meant to do.
It also has the coolest marble game where you tilt the phone to get the ball to move through different mazes - sweeeeeeeet.
Such is Life...
Don't mean to piggyback too much here, but this isn't important enough for its own thread:
I've been thinking lately about getting a new iPod Touch. The current 2gb nano I have now doesn't hold even a fourth of my music and the buttons are pretty unresponsive since last year. I already have a phone (basic one at that) and don't want to pay a minimum $1700 for an iPhone 4 for 2 years--I'm not leaving Verizon either--so I plan on using the iPod for music, texting--which I don't have under my current cell plan--photos, videos and games if I need to. I've never been a big fan of Apple, but this is one damn cool device...
I don't like the idea of paying $300 for only 16 gigs, and I don't know if it would work with the current dock/stereo I have, but aside from that I can't think of many reasons not to do it.
If your current dock/stereo is 'designed for iPod' it should work fine for the touch I imagine.
Can you text using a Touch?
I got a HTC Desire too. I am happy with it. Froyo definitely enhanced its use.
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
Hmm Froyo? Sounds like something from Bag End.....
Such is Life...
Came across HTC for the first time a few weeks back - mate of mine had one. Pretty nice
Provided you download one of a few apps I'm fairly certain you can.
I look forward to the upcoming Android tablets. I strongly suspect the tablet-made version of Android (3.5) will also include the ability to remove applications no matter what as part of the license agreement, which will prevent these carrier-bundled Android tablets from being filled with bloatware.
I think the next iteration of Android will also mandate that carriers who use it allow all applications to be removed. EG I met someone with a new Verizon phone from Samsung (I think the Galaxy?) and it was packed full of insanely useless and consuming Verizon and Bing bloatware that couldn't be removed without hacking the phone. I spent 15 minutes at least disabling some of the stupid background data/battery-hogging "social" apps. Because everyone wants to use the Bing-branded Verizon social mapper.
I am quite happy with the new iPhone. It seems quite snappier and faster overall. The screen is pretty amazing compared to the old one too.
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