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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you have a smart phone? If so, iPhone, Android, Windows phone, or something else?
Me: After using an out-of-date Blackberry for a few years, I just got an LG-made, Android-based phone. I love it.
Betsy Ross
(3,147 posts)My niece got a 5 and gave me her old phone, my first smart phone. It is still much smarter than I am.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)LuckyTheDog
(6,837 posts)I got an LG Spectrum 2 mainly because the Blackberry was dying and Verizon offered it to me for free if I renewed my contract. I am amazed at what it can do. It's basically a tablet computer that makes calls.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)All I do is talk on it, and I rarely do that.
IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)regret it. expensive, and I hardly make use of it.
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)And I already know what my next phone will be (Samsung Galaxy 3 or 4 depending on what the 4 is like).
hibbing
(10,098 posts)Hey,
My last phone was almost three years old. This thing is so much faster and lighter, and has some other nifty features.
Peace
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I still have the original Android phone, the G1. In fact, I have four of them each with a different country's GSM card, but they're flashed with Cyanogen's Froyo Android 2.2.
All of them prepaid. I don't even have any dataplans anymore.
Yes, I did brick one of them in the process.
name not needed
(11,660 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)n/t
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)My work cell is an IPhone, its a pos. My personal cell is is a droid HTC, works perfectly.
I hate I Phones.
KG
(28,751 posts)for.
union_maid
(3,502 posts)I like it. Don't use a lot of what it does. Hell, I probably don't know half of what it does, but it comes in handy for some situations and it gets much better reception in my house than any cell phone I had previously. My house is like a tiny bad reception zone and our little section even shows up that way on all the coverage maps of every provider I can afford and then some. One street over on either side gets fine reception where ours is moderate at best. With this phone a paltry number of bars work better than with others I've had.
Bake
(21,977 posts)Can't imagine how I functioned before ...
Bake
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)and have had several Moto Droids since. Currently on a Moto Razr M.
Can't even imagine life without it now. Them angry birds ain't gonna launch themselves!
bike man
(620 posts)keypad is an old one with numbers and 3 letters on each button.
I take it out of the motorcycle saddlebag on the first of every month and charge it.
Loryn
(944 posts)I love it. I don't really like talking on the phone, but it entertains me in so many other ways.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)upgrading from my iPhone 4 to iPhone 5 (which Mr Pipi has) but it really doesn't look seem all that much different from mine, aside that it can talk to him (Siri).
I like my IPhone.
Also have an iPad, which is basically the same as the phone only bigger and I can't make phone calls on it, but I did find out that I can still email... and do Face Time with anyone whose phone also has that ability.
sir pball
(4,742 posts)Rooted and bootloader-unlocked, completely wiped and reloaded with the latest Android Open Source Project build (the bare-bones open-source code released directly by Google and built by the community).
It's the fastest, most rock-solid phone I've ever used and literally everybody who spends time with it agrees, even iFanbois. Phones nowadays are stuck in the same rut that computers are; hardware improvements are generally negated by software bloat. The proprietary frontends (TouchWiz, Sense, MotoBlur, iOS, etc.) just keep getting fatter and lazier and there's no functionality they add that you can't get with a 3rd-party app that's significantly lighter. Ditching all that useless crap and letting one of the fastest mobile processors on the planet run free is amazing.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)are you finding any resistance to using your phone by providers? The reason I ask is that I'm interested in going the same route but I haven't really looked into it that much yet.
sir pball
(4,742 posts)Never had any issues, in fact the 4G got markedly faster. Carriers don't generally care if you're running a custom ROM as long as you aren't screwing with the network itself, though it does void your warranty...not that you can't flash back to a factory stock state with a little knowhow and some grey market software
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)delivers my voice mail when it feels like it. The important people now know if I don't answer...text me.
libodem
(19,288 posts)I'm seriously not sure what to call it? It has the green robot guy to add for smilie texts.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)and I can use the same apps for the iPad, too.
My phone is like a second brain. It contains my music, has e-mail and web capability, a Kindle app with dozens of books, a temperature guide, a radar weather guide, a currency converter, Netflix, Hulu Plus, MHz Worldview, as well as apps from my banks. I also put my shopping lists on its Notes app.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Wife and daughter have them also.