The 'My Smartphone Sucks' Thread
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I wouldn't worry about it.
cell phones are just the latest form of a good ole fashioned dick-waving contest.
cell phones are just the latest form of a good ole fashioned dick-waving contest.
As DarkEd said, it is really too ambiguous to say what it is for.Outgoing/incoming call funtionality != in progress sound/connection quality.
Well, my comments to DarkEd were more based on him not getting his phone working than what phone he switched toAs for the bashing, maybe I'm wrong in the big picture, but where I've been and on this forum specifically I have never seen any iphone fans start crap but Android fans are the ones I've seen posting flamebait. "Oh hahahaHERRDERP u gotz an iphone? wut a dumbarse!1" That is a fact.
I watch Engadget reasonably closely, and the Apple diehards on there are always making the same claim as you (that the Android fans are more inflammatory and stuff), however further reading of the comments just doesn't bear that out.I think the thing is that people who own Android products that are also interested in technology is steadily increasing and so it seems like there are more anti-Apple firebreathers these days.
I had an iPhone 3G. It was good for 5months then battery life got worse and worse when I got rid of it it could do about 5 hours on a full charge doing nothing. Touchscreen became lessresponsive overtime, and it randomly locked up and froze for no reason what so ever even after reinstalling software it had worked fine on before.
Had my HTC Desire since launch, had some battery issues early on but that was fixed. It's on-screen keyboard isn't as nice as the iPhones was, but it's useable.
And OLED is infinitely better then IPS stuff!
Had my HTC Desire since launch, had some battery issues early on but that was fixed. It's on-screen keyboard isn't as nice as the iPhones was, but it's useable.
And OLED is infinitely better then IPS stuff!
yeah well my cell phone is bigger than your cell phone
wait
that's not quite right is it
Point taken. All I was saying is that if you go to Google and type in 'Atrix 4G call quality problems' or 'Atrix 4G battery life problems' you'll see tons of results. It's not affecting the entire field, but it's still affecting a reasonably large number of people.
I missed that one, but since it only updates Bluetooth and helps system stability, it's not a big deal to me that I missed it.
Go get one from Costco, that's where I got mine... for $100 less than the AT&T store
Meh.
I don't like how Apple manages the platform either; that's why I jailbreak. Sure, jailbreaking won't get me flash, but flash on a smartphone isn't a make it or break it feature to me. Plus, apps exist for the most popular flash-enabled sites (Youtube, Vimeo) so it's not even really a drawback.
True, but I'm pretty happy with my iPhone 4 by now, so I won't be one of the guinea pigs for this one. I'll get a bad-ass Android device next year, I can live with iOS until then. No biggie.
Exactly. Google says the same. Motorola says the same. I was never saying all were affected. Just mine
I got the lockups and autoreboots, and my battery lasted for about a year before it got worse, but otherwise I didn't have any major issues with my i3G. Just slow performance.
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Eh? This one is fixing the HSPA+ speed issues. Bluetooth was in the last update.
Meh.. when I got my iPhone everyone told me that a jailbroken iPhone was everything you could want it to be. They were wrong. Jailbreaking just can't fix some of the core design decisions in iOS that I really dislike. Also, having "apps" for every site under the sun is the dumbest idea ever.
I guess you'll hvae a good Christmas next year, then, since that is the earliest you will be able to upgrade
Buying an iPhone was the best decision of my life. I didn't know how much my life sucked until I got my iPhone. With out my iPhone I would be a lesser man. I love my iPhone so much that I bought extras so I could have one in both hands and something for my toes to do.
Hmm, I never experienced any issues with HSPA+ speed on my Atrix. I was regularly getting download speeds around 600kb/s with a full signal when I was tethering. I guess that would work out to about 5mbit/s downlink, which is about right considering AT&T currently has it capped at that rate.
What core design decisions are those, if you don't mind me asking? And I agree with the 'app for every site' idea, it is pretty dumb. I only use the apps for Youtube, Vimeo, and Facebook, of which I think all three are pretty decent.
I guess you'll hvae a good Christmas next year, then, since that is the earliest you will be able to upgrade
Touche
Still, I don't think there's any 'wrong' choice. I'm happy with what I ended up with.
In Gingerbread or later, the battery use thingy is very useful for working out what's draining the battery. As well as showing a list of applications with some estimates for battery consumption, there's a graph of charge over time which you can enlarge by tapping the top. Below the graph are colour-coded bars showing you phone signal, time awake, screen on/off, GPS on/off and so on. This is a very useful way to work out whether the power drain is caused by something you can change.
It's not that terrible in Froyo either, really. They should make the battery usage screen more visible somehow so people will actually look at it. I found a widget that was using an abnormal amount of my battery time and so I deleted it.
So.
People who put those rubber protectors on them are not going to get hearing-aids.
I got given the new HTC 7 Mozart at work last week. It's alright, but the operating system and everything is half arsed at best. It's also painfully slow to charge. I believe it may genuinely take longer to charge the battery than to drain it :/
Take note that those tricks and tools are outdated (pre iPhone 4 / iOS 4.x) and only work on iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS running iOS 3.x or below. There is no evidence to support the idea that they also work on iPhone 4 or iOS 4.x, which is what you have.
Apple fixes dozens of security vulnerabilities in each update. It's probably silly to assume that there aren't always dozens more waiting to be patched. As recently as 4.0, there was a vulnerability that allowed a downloaded PDF to contain and execute malicious code.
I honestly don't know how this compares to Android or WP7 or WebOS so I won't go there.
I honestly don't know how this compares to Android or WP7 or WebOS so I won't go there.
