I have been a battle-hardened iPhone user for some time, hardened by poor battery life, software glitches and some bizarre faults on the new iPhone 4S. And still I battle on in the belief that it is the best smartphone of them all, like so many others do.
A parcel arrived today containing 4 Android smartphones; the Experia Arc S, Motorola RAZR, Google Nexus and HTC Sensation XE and my eyes opened up wider than they have for some time. These phones are not like the iPhone; they are impossibly thin, have large screens and don’t feel like phones at all. It is not possible for phones to be this way.
How can a phone that is a sliver of technology do so much in such a small space? How can it have such a large screen and still feel pocketable and tough? I don’t get it. These phones are not like the iPhone at all, the phone that millions proclaim to be the second coming, yet they are somehow years ahead in terms of design. They feel like 2012 and in my eyes the iPhone is suddenly relegated back a few years to a design that does not fit in the same micro-generation.
Hardware counts for a lot and is incredibly important in all aspects of smartphone ownership. Every time you use your smartphone, the hardware makes or breaks the experience. It is responsible for the quality of music, video, photos and everything else. But if you can have something extra and house it all in the latest possible housing and make it feel magical, why not?
For hardware alone, that parcel of Android goodness has opened my eyes to what else is out there and it is a lot more creative, sleek and beautiful than I originally thought.
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Now you know why I used 148 phones where 20 of then are android based…
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Try out the samsung galaxy note and you might feel the same all over again…. wondering why you were using other smart phones. If its browsing experience or multimedia then there is nothing else out there at the moment to beat the samsung galaxy note (if your hands can handle the size of it 5.3″). Once you get over the size of it, you will find it easily fits your pocket.
Just one thing bothering me about the samsung galaxy note (and would have been the same with the other phones you have mentioned) is the internal memory although good at 16gb with about 1.8gb available for apps and started getting ‘low internal memory alerts’ on day1 after i installed the apps that i had bought and couldnt transfer some apps2sd apps as my sd 32gb sd card was full too (as always) and odd thing is i cant seem to find a way to transfer the apps to the internal 10gb free of usb memory and apps2sd pro (and internal settings menu on phone) only allow you to transfer portion of app to external sd card but not internal 11gb of usb memory of which i have 10gb left. have to figure out if transfer to internal usb memory is possible at all or buy a 64gb card and format that to fat32 and use it in my phone so that can then transfer apps to sd card.