Moving to Android from iOS. Device recommendations please?

Oh, and here's The Verge's review of the HTC One S:

[video=youtube;1ZLHSDFHl0c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1ZLHSDFHl0c#![/video]

I was amused by the dig at the Sony Xperia near the beginning.

Incidentally, if you skip ahead to the 3:30 minute mark, there's a pretty succinct summary of what your current options are, smartphone-wise.
 
Sony Xperia S
HTC One X

please dont forget to look at the phones PPI. You coming from a high PPI so you gonna notice the grainy screen if you downgrade in this regard

and if you keep up-to-date on gsmarena you will know that quad-core is more bragging rights than anything. means blow all in real world application performance. Yeah you might have a great benchmark, but synthetic means stuff all lol

dont even get me started with quad-core battery. HTC One X already reporting ONE DAY battery life. Will look for sauce
 
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Thanks for the feedback. Think I'm gonna go with the One X. There are some links to online stores on the UK HTC website which offer shipping to SA. Just waiting for the insurance payout to clear and then will order it. Gonna carry on reading reviews in the interim:)
 
Well wait for the S3

Or get a oneX from China

Both Samsung and HTC phones are pretty good with after market roms (enjoy flashing, feels like a new phone after each flash)

Moto has a locked bootloader (even though Moto is my fav, awesome build quality in the Razr)

Sony's phones are pretty classy and optimized well (camera, sound)

If you want to get a pone now, get the one-X, if you wanna wait for a couple months for the SGS3 then that should be awesome too.

And dont worry about grainy screens, hard to tell unless you have 20/20 vision and holding the phone to your face....

Screen wise
SLCD2 - HTC common, not bad but nothing outstanding.
Super Amoled advanced - Razr: pentile, can see pixels in diagonal lines but awesome colors and brightness, power saving
Super Amoled plus - SGS2, Gnexus: awesome colors and brightness, power saving
Sony White magic - really high brightness, bravia engine adds more saturated color (havent seen it myself yet though)

Personally I would get the HTC One-X, though the quad core is for bragging rights, once developers can optimize it well, it will not only be powerful but also power efficient.

You cant always wait for something better, because something better always comes out and you will be waiting forever ;)
 
Imho, the Note. Love this phone. In the past used a samsungS2 and a iphoneS4 alternatively. I know it's stupid but I love technology. Sold the S2 and bought a Note. Since then I never used the Ip s4, gathering dust in the drawer.
 
I got the Xperia S in the UK last week - great phone, very happy with it, but battery life is a bit of a problem (mainly when in heavy use, lasts long in standby), probably because of the highly clocked dual CPU and very high resolution screen.

But it has a big battery, so I wouldn't like to guess what you will get out of the quad core CPU's, 2hrs max ?

Edit : BTW the camera (12Mp) is superlative, beats anything out there at the moment !

Also, it uses a microsim, so I bought a sim cutter, works well.
 
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The insurance payout has finally cleared! Going to go for the One X. Does anyone know if you are able to purchase it cash from MTN?
 
paddy_za said:
The insurance payout has finally cleared! Going to go for the One X. Does anyone know if you are able to purchase it cash from MTN?
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Cash buy outs is normally cheaper from Vodacom, only problem is if you stick another SP's SIM into the device they normally tell you it voids the Vodacom warranty so you end up taking it to the OEM's for warranty claims.

In this case, HTC is now back in SA, or so I hear so should not be a problem.
 
Galaxy S2 or Galaxy Nexus
Recommend avoiding the monster phones (unless of course you're trying to outsize your netbook :p )
 
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Ordered the phone (white) from clove.co.uk today. Does anyone have any experience with them?
 
paddy_za said:
Ordered the phone (white) from clove.co.uk today. Does anyone have any experience with them?
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Btw good choice re HTC (would most probably have been also mine re size, spec and reviews)...

Keep us is the loop on how it goes (iOS to Android experience)
 
Android gets just as boring as ios... I have a SGS2, great phone but as I said just as boring!
 
Freaksta said:
Android gets just as boring as ios... I have a SGS2, great phone but as I said just as boring!
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Hahaha love your honesty... Yes sometimes the grass is not greener on the other side.

I still think Android is the better choice for the inquiring and techie minds... iOS without a JB could be considered simple and even boringly intuitive (just the way I like it :D)
 
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Hahaha love your honesty... Yes sometimes the grass is not greener on the other side.

I still think Android is the better choice for the inquiring and techie minds... iOS without a JB could be considered simple and even boringly intuitive (just the way I like it :D)
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Add "irritating as hell" & itunes to iOS as well. :p
 
<sarcasm>
If your a true techie you should be running Linux anyway.
</sarcasm>

Dont need iTunes at all, rhytembox and banshee sees iOS devices and allow you to sync media/playlists.
Nautilus mounts iOS Apps as separate mounts so you can copy files into the applications folders with ease.
Shotwell can import all your pics with ease.
 
Elimentals said:
If your a true techie you should be running Linux anyway.


Dont need iTunes at all, rhytembox and banshee sees iOS devices and allow you to sync media/playlists.
Nautilus mounts iOS Apps as separate mounts so you can copy files into the applications folders with ease.
Shotwell can import all your pics with ease.
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Unlike some I actually like iTunes, it's never given me crap and does exactly what I need it to do; hence never had a reason for look for anything else.

In combination with my AirPlay speakers and Apple's Remote app is one of the solutions that is always in use while I'm at home.
 
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