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12-04-2013, 10:06 AM | #61 | ||||
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16-04-2013, 08:55 AM | #62 | ||
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My missus gets my handmedowns. I've got an SGS3 and handed her my SGS2. She's been pestering me for an iPhone for about a year and a few weeks ago I took her to a shop to look at one. She held it in her hand for about 5 seconds and walked away. After using the SGS2 for about a year, the iPhone feels tiny in comparison.
For me, screensize is the feature I look for the most. I was torn between the Note and the S3 - the note was just a little too big at the time. |
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16-04-2013, 11:15 PM | #63 | ||
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The big screen has a lot going for it, yes you need a bit more care with it , much nicer for to look at though, and ten times easier too type on, I wouldn't go back to a little phone.
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17-04-2013, 09:45 AM | #64 | ||
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I'm starting to lean towards the note as well now, one concern for me though that they don't appear to use gorilla glass for the screen? That's a mighty big screen if its vulnerable.
My sgs2 is two years old, never had a screen protector on it and there is only one tiny mark on it after all ths time, and I'm not gentle with it. But il wait until I can hold a note and a sgs4 side by side to see if the girth of the note is worth the 1/2inch bigger screen. |
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18-04-2013, 01:08 AM | #65 | ||
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I have a screen protector film on mine and a rubber cover that leaves access to the sockets, it covers the whole back except for the camera lense , and the edges of the phone, it protrude s above the screen line by about a mm, I think it offers reasonable protection, when I bought the phone it did have an optional rear cover that replaced the original and had sort of a hard plastic sheet hinged of it which I quiet liked to protect the screen, but there wasnt any mechanism to keep the sheet on the glass unless you wanted to put an elastic band on it.......... so I gave it the bullet and bought the others mentioned.
Im a clumsey old bugger, I wouldn't be without the cover. Actually the covers vary in quality, my other old smart phone has rubber cover with much thicker edges on it which I think may afford a bit more protection , most of the phone place sell the covers of various types so thats something to look out for. |
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18-04-2013, 09:16 AM | #66 | ||
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Well I had an sIII and had no end of drama, my mex asked for it and I went back to my trusty iphone 4. Now I am on the 5. Sure apple lock you in and don't support flash etc, but for my needs, every iphone I have had, has been rock solid. Iphone for me is also easier as most friends and family have one, so imessage is handy. Other than phones, the 4G network surprised me, download speeds matching my adsl2 and upload speeds 10x faster
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18-04-2013, 10:55 AM | #67 | ||
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I would like to try the 4g one day, but my service provider only does the 3g on the plan I have and its to good a deal to pass up, as it is anyway I think the 3g on my phone is faster than the cable my pc is running on , so its not tp bad.
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18-04-2013, 10:59 AM | #68 | ||
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Edit , while we are on the phone thread , can you buy the google play gift cards in melbourne?
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21-04-2013, 11:16 PM | #73 | |||
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Here's a list of products with Gorilla Glass. Note is listed but not Note2. http://www.corninggorillaglass.com/p...-products-list I just saw on some android forums where users posted that Note2 DOES have Gorilla Glass. http://forums.androidcentral.com/spr...-note-2-a.html Last edited by NickyN; 21-04-2013 at 11:31 PM. |
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21-04-2013, 11:49 PM | #74 | ||||
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But yea protective covers/cases and screen protectors are a must if you ask me unless you don't mind it getting scratched with normal use. I bought this flex protective cover with something called impactology. It has D30 molecules between the inner and outer lining of the cover. D30 is free-flowing molecules that lock together on impact to absorb shock and disperse energy. Neat, huh? And not bulky which is mega important to me. |
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21-04-2013, 11:53 PM | #76 | ||
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Yea thought so.........................no offense to boys.
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22-04-2013, 12:02 AM | #77 | ||
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Thanks to a good friend, I've been using iPhones for a few years. Recently got an iPad too.
Definitely not an Apple fan but I do enjoy the benefits of using iPhone/iPad. Disgusted with some of the limitations Apple creates especially if you don't use iTunes (program). Never been a fan of iTunes. After an iOS update that shat itself followed by a restore from backup to fix it, I lost everything in the phone. Apple don't make things easy. Eg; Apple provides no means to remove an unwanted / dead email address. After googling for a solution, I used a 3rd party computer utility to edit a backup file then restore that file to the iPhone. Ridiculous process but I did it to stop emailing the wrong account. I don't blame anyone for jailbreaking their iPhone if it avoids this kind of crap. I expect I'll learn about better alternatives when my friend gets fed up with Apple. |
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22-04-2013, 12:11 AM | #78 | ||
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Or Apple fixes it. There's got to be a much simpler way to remove an unwanted email address, you know?
But, good for you for figuring it out even though it was quite a lengthy process! |
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24-04-2013, 01:16 PM | #79 | ||
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In the past, users who favored iPhones had to jailbreak (I'm thinking this means unlock) their phones and chance using it with their carrier. This sometimes meant some features might not work because something was incompatible. But now, the 4 major carriers in the US offer the iPhone5. Of course it's at different prices and plans. In the end, the price differs too after 2 years. Here, take a look:
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Ui9...-Ownership.png Or, someone could just buy one off of eBay and use it with their carrier. And here's my question. Does the iPhone5 in AU cost about the same as here? |
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30-04-2013, 08:16 PM | #80 | ||
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Well I've been running around with a HTC One now for almost a week, Bloody beauty is all I can say. Check it out If your in the market for a new phone. It's like an Iphone, but nicer....and not an Apple product, Which is pretty much what we all want.
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01-05-2013, 11:23 PM | #81 | ||
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Good stuff GT69, these modern smart phones are just so handy, i down loaded a freebie app the other week, it basically takes a gps location of your car when you park it in a huge car park , you then go walk about in an unfamiliar area, after going around in circles for an hour or two get lost, at the end of the day your little car locator finds your car for you, the functions available for these things are endless.
I might add some old fella in 4wd decided to do a quick lane change through a small gap and side swiped my stationery car last week, i took photo`s of the aftermath as evidence with my smart phone, you wouldn`t be with out one. |
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02-05-2013, 10:00 PM | #82 | ||
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HA! I needed that app several + years ago when I did the same and couldn't find my car in a HUGE parking lot. How'd I find my car? I did what one of my besties did once, I used my car alarm! It worked!
@mik: Sorry to read about your car, hope the damage was minimal. One of the best apps to me is the Starbucks app. I can do everything with it like check the balance and reload my Starbucks card, track my stars earned with my card as well as pay with my phone! Love it! Starbucks is |
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03-05-2013, 12:44 AM | #83 | ||
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I was as big a Microsoft fan as they come. I'm a .NET dev and have worked with Microsoft and microsoft technologies a lot over the years. Initially I was a big fan of WP7. I planned to get on board the apps bandwagon. That ultimately never happened. Then I picked up an ipad and had it talking with our exchange server in moments. Something I struggled to get working on WP7. The ipad just worked. I bit the bullet. iPhone 5 is in he mail, ipad mini never leaves my side, an a nice shiny new MacBook is waiting for me to pick up in he office.
My old LG Optimus is okay but really it does nothing better than an iPhone and proves to be just another Microsoft imitation. Features like social media integration are just as good on the iPhone IMO. Tiles, if that WP7/8s big trump card hen sorry Microsoft, you've failed. The biggest thing I liked about the windows phone offering is its cheap, but the android kind of has that covered already. I don't think you'll see WP10. |
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03-05-2013, 12:38 PM | #84 | |||
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the star bucks app sounds good, my young brother techie geek told me the other day it won`t be long(he thinks) before we will have in place a network where we no longer need bank cards/credit cards, instead we will just swipe our phone over a screen to pay for items and make transactions in an instant, i`m starting to like this tech age . |
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05-05-2013, 11:45 PM | #85 | |||
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05-05-2013, 11:49 PM | #86 | |||
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And yes it's a pain in the umm..... over there. Probably so (about what your younger brother the techie geek said), afterall facial recognition, iris scanning and more is possible now. And checks can be deposited just by taking a pic of it. Maybe one day we can just think about doing something and it'll get done! *thinking* detail my car, detail my car. Nope. Well, taking it to detailer tomorrow! |
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05-05-2013, 11:50 PM | #87 | ||
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So no one's bought a solar charger to charge up your phone?
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06-05-2013, 09:31 AM | #88 | ||
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No, i don't have a solar charger , was thinking about it yesterday actually(great minds think alike ) although the note has a very good size battery, i wouldn't mind having a solar charger in case i go bush or something for an extended period, you have one NickyN?? do tell.....
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06-05-2013, 06:26 PM | #89 | ||
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I have a small solar charger mounted on top of my forklift for my phone while im at work, charges fine if I'm not using it much, but can't keep up with the power drain if I'm playing music or using it a lot.
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