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Are you happy with your smartphone?
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Atticus Fynch
#1 - 2011-12-29 01:30:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Atticus Fynch
Do you own a smartphone? Are you happy with it?

The one thing I've noticed is that I miss actual keys. I hate pressing the screen just to dial, pick up or hang-up.

Second, the screen is always smudged (and not becuase Im always picking my nose) so I'm constantly wiping it down.

Third, battery life is laughable.

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Sher Rayet
#2 - 2011-12-29 01:36:46 UTC
wahhh my Christmas gift wasn't good enough wahhh
Atticus Fynch
#3 - 2011-12-29 01:39:39 UTC
Sher Rayet wrote:
wahhh my Christmas gift wasn't good enough wahhh


it wasnt a gift. I "upgraded" a few months ago.Roll

I think I was happier with my previous "dumb" phone.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2011-12-29 02:06:40 UTC
Samsung Infuse and I luv it Big smile

I haz an animated fish tank on the screen Bear

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Atticus Fynch
#5 - 2011-12-29 02:13:04 UTC
LG Genesis.

Meh..it's OK.

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Sebastian LaFleur
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2011-12-29 06:34:15 UTC
I hated my "smart"phone for the same reasons you listed, mainly because of the laughable battery life and poor "feel" due to touchscreen. So I bought a "dumb"phone: Nokia C2-01. I can press buttons with it, call, send text messages, check my e-mail and document police brutality (the only valid use for the camera in cellphones imo). I am content.

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Selinate
#7 - 2011-12-29 07:16:25 UTC
I love my iPhone. Long battery life (longer than my previous phone), good support, no real problems with it.....
VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2011-12-29 07:16:53 UTC
I've been using a free model for years, but I'm looking to move up.

I didn't at first because I felt I had no need for apps, but one day my work is going to want to give me e-mail when I'm away, I see it coming... and I've started to hear about apps I'd like. I've also considered a camera. Maybe a sign of getting older but I never cared for them until recently I felt I wanted one.

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Saint Lazarus
Spiorad ag fanaiocht
#9 - 2011-12-30 02:53:09 UTC
Only prob with my Smartphone is its laughably out of date =( need an upgrade.

I do miss QWERTY slide out keyboard on my old dumb phone, there are a good few smartphones with them just none of the ones that interest me. Batt life is fine though, seems pretty decent in most smartphones tbh.
Marie Hartinez
Aries Munitions and Defense
#10 - 2011-12-30 03:36:55 UTC
Have/had a first gen Droid. Great phone and all that, until it leaped off a three foot cabinet at work and fell screen first onto the concrete floor.

I could of sworn I heard it say "FREEDOM" just as it hit the floor.

Oh well, Motorola has a Droid 3 with slide out keyboard and my cell phone provider carries it. Joy.

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SpaceSquirrels
#11 - 2011-12-30 05:25:03 UTC
My 3gs worked awesome until it went for a swim. Aside from the battery (which is 9 bucks to switch out on your own including the kit...but 90 from apple) I didn't care to upgrade and was going to keep it until it worked no more.

Now the 4g... or maybe it's IOS 5 it's buggy apps fail to work or drop all the time, things just dont work quite the same...
stoicfaux
#12 - 2011-12-30 06:24:28 UTC
The HTC G2 is pretty spiffy. Touchscreen is very responsive and has big number buttons when dialing manually. It also has a slide out QWERTY keyboard which works well even with my big hands for composing email and typing in web urls.

I don't really have a problem with smudges even with a toddler who likes to hog the phone. (SmartPhone + WiFi/G4 + Elmo/Sesame Street youtube clips.)

Battery life is okay. It lasts about a day with heavy use, several days with low/average use. If you only turn on the WiFi/data as you need it, you get a noticeable improvement in battery life.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2011-12-30 07:31:03 UTC
The Samgsung Infuse battery lasts a full 2 days if anyone cares. I forgot the rest of what I was going to say due to whiskey so I will try to make peace with the russians now... Brohoof guys?

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Alain Kinsella
#14 - 2011-12-30 09:15:06 UTC
Blackberry user here (supplied by work, so its Enterprise-locked). It does what I want it to do (and helped me in an unusual way last weekend), so I can't complain too much.

My main complaint about these new phones is not the battery life (you can get extended batteries for anything), but the size and shape. They go so far away from the idea of a 'phone' that trying to use it as such (without a headset or Speakerphone mode) is difficult at best. Some of us still communicate by voice, Pfft.

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Reiisha
#15 - 2011-12-30 11:00:53 UTC
Samsung Marvell - "older" smartphone but it's got excellent battery life (2+ weeks).

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Louis deGuerre
The Dark Tribe
#16 - 2011-12-30 11:26:06 UTC
iPhone 4S

Working good. Siri is pretty funny too P
Jhagiti Tyran
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#17 - 2011-12-30 15:00:03 UTC
I have a BlackBerry bold and I love it, full keyboard and a touch screen gives the best of both worlds. Its reasonably powerful to and can handle 720p videos.

I am not sure if I will get a Torch when my contracts up though, not until I try one in store or something.
Alrione
Black Lagoon Inc.
#18 - 2011-12-30 20:07:09 UTC
I have Galaxy S2, great phone.
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#19 - 2011-12-30 20:36:07 UTC
Have been in love with both my X1, X10 and Arc. Bought this protective plastic thingy that makes it less smudgy and very easy to clean without having to worry about scratching the screen.

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Lady Spank
Get Out Nasty Face
#20 - 2011-12-31 02:24:25 UTC
I nearly got a cha-cha just so I had proper buttons but went with a desire s for more screen space. Perfectly happy with it and accept the shortfalls of the tech at this time. Read up beforehand so no nasty surprises.

Battery life is easily the worst feature but there are thinks you can do to extend it. The other thing I sometimes miss is being able to text without looking at the phone but I can live with that.

Most importantly Aura (evemon with basic EFT and market transaction info) makes it well worth having over a basic phone. When I go camping ill still take my old phone simply because of the battery life but for most times you can keep it charged between work and home.

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