A ittle off topic

[Sir Smithwick]

My little flip top phone of 6years is on its last legs.  Wont hold a charge.  Looking at getting a smartphone.  Those on the board that have one what do you have is it worth the cost of getting one and which way would you go iphone or droid.  Would like to here any suggestions from the board because i do need to get a new phone soon.

[PyroMaster]

Droid for the win. I have an HTC Thunderbolt 4G from Verizon.

[dbaldock]

Droid for the win. I have an HTC Thunderbolt 4G from Verizon.

Do you know if there is good coverage at TRF for all of the major carriers?

[Breandan]

Verizon has good coverage, can't speak for others. I know some do, some don't

[eloquentXI]

FYI- The mods will probably move this to a different part of the forum. Just a heads up as this area usually sticks to faire related stuff. 

[Yrose]

I've had both and like different things about both. Some of the lay out and programs are better with the iphone. The droid you can get alot more free programs, you can increase the memory. Find friends with both and ask to play with them.

[Strange]

I say Verizon android.
2 of us in the shop have VZW, one on 3g and the other on 4g, and data and voice both work great, including hotspot.

[Glaodian]

Verizon with one of the androids would be the way to go.

I am currently using the Charge, but have also used the Droid X2, X, and the 2.  All of which were great phones.

[ravic]

TRF has relatively good coverage...except when 30,000 people are trying to use the towers all at the same time. Then, not so much.

[Sir Martin]

FYI- The mods will probably move this to a different part of the forum. Just a heads up as this area usually sticks to faire related stuff. 

I agree, but we can let this one stay for a couple days so Sir Smithwick can get some input.  I've heard several people tell me they have vastly different quality of coverage at TRF, so this can be slightly faire related.   

[Just Randall]

Well, he said he needed a new phone, NOT a new provider. S.S., who is your current provider? Coverage can be wholly dependent on your provider. Does your provider offer iphones, droids, or both? What will be the primary purpose of said device? I, myself, am quite happy with my HTC G2, but I have special needs due to disabilities.

[Sir Smithwick]

Thanks for the replies.  Service provider is with Verizon.  Most of family and friends are on it plus it has good coverage.  After doing a little research it looks like I am going to go with an Android base phone.  So maybe a droid - Samsung device.  Those that have one give a shout out and give a review of what you have.

[Glaodian]

Thanks for the replies.  Service provider is with Verizon.  Most of family and friends are on it plus it has good coverage.  After doing a little research it looks like I am going to go with an Android base phone.  So maybe a droid - Samsung device.  Those that have one give a shout out and give a review of what you have.

I am currently using the Samsung Charge.  It is a great phone with a lot of nice features.  Plus the size of the screen helps when watching a movie or whatever when you are stuck in a waiting room or something.

[KiltedPrivateer]

A little tip from someone who just recently upgraded from a feature phone (Dumb phone) to a smart phone.  Battery life can kill you.  Be diligent at turning off resources you aren't using.  For example, leaving the house for a long communte to work?  Turn off wifi.  Blue tooth headset dead, turn off blue tooth.  Not using any location based software, turn off the gps (Which is NOT a real gps I don't care what anyone on this board, the verizon store, or anywhere else on God's perfect earth says).  Turn it all off if you can.  Keep your display brightness as low as you can.  These phones drain batteries like Dracula drains virgins.  My feature phone could last a week without a charge.  My new Motorola Atrix sucks the battery dry in just over 24 hours.  If you go app crazy and download a bunch of games, expect your battery life to diminish even faster.  Anything that keeps your screen active for prolonged periods will kill your battery.  This may be the one thing that the iPhone can legitimately hold over the heads of android users. 

But I despise Apple and their closed system so I'll just suck it up (o:

[Glaodian]

There is an app called App Killer for droids.  Download it and set it to kill apps when the screen goes blank.  This will save the battery.  Other than that, I agree with everything KP said (except the GPS thing.  Sorry KP, I had to take a poke at ya.)