Smart Phones

[Ricky Roma]

Sonim XP7.

 

[Taddy Mason]

i've been on sprint for over a year now and just took the shit phone they offered me that was basically free (said my old phone wouldn't work on their network??), the phone is a POS, is there any good phones for sprint and how would i go about purchasing them outside of sprint. preferably it'd be something with a removable sim card like my old phone (always helpful when traveling out of country to just pop a different one in for a few weeks).

 

[Camfantasy]

You need a backpack like a teen or a purse like a woman to carry something like that with you. If a phone doesn't fit in my pocket, it's not going with me and might as well be a land line.

My 6.3" phone fits in my pocket fine. Not sure about a 6.8" one though. I've heard some reviewers say that it does feel kind of cumbersome in your hands when using it.

 

[Camfantasy]

i've been on sprint for over a year now and just took the shit phone they offered me that was basically free (said my old phone wouldn't work on their network??), the phone is a POS, is there any good phones for sprint and how would i go about purchasing them outside of sprint. preferably it'd be something with a removable sim card like my old phone (always helpful when traveling out of country to just pop a different one in for a few weeks).

What kind of budget are you working with?

 

[Taddy Mason]

What kind of budget are you working with?

whatever. i'm not necessarily looking for the most expensive. never cared about camera, which was always a bragged about feature. ability to add memory or have a decent amount to start, if non removable, again would like a removable sim card for travelling (though maybe sprint's punk ass doesn't do it). are they past quad core yet in the phones?

 

[Camfantasy]

whatever. i'm not necessarily looking for the most expensive. never cared about camera, which was always a bragged about feature. ability to add memory or have a decent amount to start, if non removable, again would like a removable sim card for travelling (though maybe sprint's punk ass doesn't do it). are they past quad core yet in the phones?

so what would you say are the most important features to you? speed? software experience? screen quality? battery? etc. etc.


I believe the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 (think all flagship Android phones) is octacore with Apple's bionic being 6 (Apple's new one is actually the better one though).... i am talking a bit out of my ass though as i'm not too familiar with all the cores, gigahertz, overclocking, en all that sech shit.

 

[Taddy Mason]

so what would you say are the most important features to you? speed? software experience? screen quality? battery? etc. etc.


I believe the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 (think all flagship Android phones) is octacore with Apple's bionic being 6 (Apple's new one is actually the better one though).... i am talking a bit out of my ass though as i'm not too familiar with all the cores, gigahertz, overclocking, en all that sech shit.

meh, do you know what sprint offers? if not, this conversation is moot. granted, i should switch, but verizon fucked me, so fuck them.

 

[Camfantasy]

meh, do you know what sprint offers? if not, this conversation is moot. granted, i should switch, but verizon fucked me, so fuck them.

almost all of them have unlocked versions sold from the manufacturer themselves that work on sprint and any other carrier

 

[Camfantasy]

shit mine is unlocked and I use monthly pre-paid Straight talk so I can pop in various sim cards and get various carrier's towers if i wanted to lol

 

[Taddy Mason]

almost all of them have unlocked versions sold from the manufacturer themselves that work on sprint and any other carrier

that's what i assumed my old phone would have been (granted, i needed to upgrade from that). it's been a while since i looked at the market. how real is 5g from happening and do they have anything that would actually be 5g ready? i'm only asking if you want to google all of this for me.

 

[Taddy Mason]

shit mine is unlocked and I use monthly pre-paid Straight talk so I can pop in various sim cards and get various carrier's towers if i wanted to lol

but is that with sprint? i'm not locked into anything, just when i started with them, they gave me a bit of a runaround. sold me on a phone.. oh, that promotion ended yesterday. this phone is free.. why am i seeing a monthly bill for the phone? oh, you get credited at the end of.... etc...

 

[Camfantasy]

that's what i assumed my old phone would have been (granted, i needed to upgrade from that). it's been a while since i looked at the market. how real is 5g from happening and do they have anything that would actually be 5g ready? i'm only asking if you want to google all of this for me.

There are some spots (mainly certain areas of bigger cities) that have it now, but i just don't think we are close enough to the mass integration of it into the United States cellular infrastructure to matter at this point. Now that is also coming from someone in rural Alabama who will probably be waiting 2-4 years i imagine for any 5g integration at all, much less enough of it to matter on a daily basis. The amount of time that you typically would keep a phone may matter to you if you are willing to pay a premium and keep the phone for a long time.


I just don't see it as being that big of a deal right now. Those speed tests are fucking ridiculous though. Gigabit speeds over cellular networks is amazing when you are old enough to remember dial-up speeds on PCs. I just don't know how that shit is going to work from an infrastructure standpoint. Speeds fall significantly just by walking around the corner from one of the 5g Nodes. The waves that 5g produces don't penetrate through walls and objects near as well, nor go as far as far distance wise as the 4g does. Seems like that shit is going to take forever in the grand scheme of things.

but is that with sprint? i'm not locked into anything, just when i started with them, they gave me a bit of a runaround. sold me on a phone.. oh, that promotion ended yesterday. this phone is free.. why am i seeing a monthly bill for the phone? oh, you get credited at the end of.... etc...

A CDMA capable unlocked phone should work on Sprint. CDMA is what Sprint and Verizon uses. Most all others (ATT and T-Mobile, and basically everywhere outside the US) use GSM. Most unlocked phones are capable of both but i would check the specs of it and make sure it is says that the CDMA radio is supported (should clearly say that though on any of their websites or with a quick google)

 

[Camfantasy]

If you did decide on 5g and had to have it now then I would go with one of the flagship Samsung's from this year. They are expensive as fuck but are beasts spec wise. There isn't a whole lot to choose from on 5g right now, but I imagine that will change over the next year or so. I don't think Apple is even going to offer one at all until 2020.

 

[PEOPLESCHICKEN]

What bunch of puzzies you all are

 

[BigKen]

I don't like viruses or having to install anti-virus software, so I'm still Apple. Xr.

me too

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

I'm not a fancy phone user. I buy cheap unlocked GSM's off amuhzahn. I usually spend about 80-100 bucks on an older model that has come down in price.

The trade off is that I'm often on an older version of Android that will not update anymore, so certain apps won't work.

I'm about to spend $120 on a Blu that has 64/3 GB's and comes with Pie 9.0. I don't care what the cameras are like.

 

[WizardHawk]

Real use of 5G is years away even if limited rollout trials are already here. You'd have to be crazy to buy anything 5G at this time as they are not backward compatible with 4G/LTE and you'd be without service pretty much everywhere. Yes, there are some hybrid LTE/5G stuff, but it's still not going to be widespread for anyone. I'll wait a few years to buy anything 5G.

Dlink and others are working on 5G routers, but it's unclear how that's going to work out. Right now pretty much no one has 10G coming to their home to tap into and the bands are controlled by the carriers just like 4G. They won't be typical routers.

Eventually the current cell phone tower model will shift toward smaller more local coverage with businesses and micro tower/devices filling in the blanks. Going to take a fuck ton of time though.

 

[SteelersPride]

I phone X

 

[SteelersPride]

any users with I phones above the I phone X think its worth upgrading? the specs ive seen say no

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

any users with I phones above the I phone X think its worth upgrading? the specs ive seen say no

I heard there was no significant difference between iPhone 6 and the current models. But I'm not expert on apple products.