Best cell phone and company? I am goning to get a new phone, what say the masses?

[JxxxOxxxE]

Galaxy S3 interests me but I'm hearing battery life is worse than the iPhone 4gs, what is your experience with both? I'm an iPhone user but have considered switching to the S3.

Well, I'm not sure how it could be worse. The new iPhone 5 battery is 1440 mah, the galaxy s3 is 2100 mah. Now granted the galaxy's battery must run a bigger screen, and can be running NFC stuff also. My battery meter says 42% of it's use went to the screen today. Let's just say you were using all the battery up on either, there are extended batteries made for the S3, since you can change it, and there are battery cases made for the iPhone...

I also like that I can store stuff on the micro sd card too, and change it out if need be. Without jail breaking the iPhone, I do not think I could ever use it for general storage of files either, although I always had it's jail broke, so I don't remember....

I hadn't watched my battery real close until you asked me about it. From unplugging it this morning to crawling in bed now at 1:00 am, I still had 39% left...


Going back to what I said before about the type of user you will be, I installed a new ROM a few days ago based on Android Jelly Bean. The battery life has been a little better with it. I think it's because this rom has done away with all the samsung bloatware that was on it stock. It also seems a bit faster too...

 

[jfssms]

These are cheep, and I hear they work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio

 

[aeropb]

I've had ATT, Sprint, and Verizon. ATT I'd rate worst with regards to how many calls I've had dropped. I'm happy with their 4G coverage though. Sprint and Verizon I never had but 2 or 3 dropped calls.

 

[XDsooner]

the HTC One X+ is LEGIT!

 

[Simon]

The best cell phone co. depends on where you use your phone. I was with Version and liked it as long as I was traveling. Where I live now there is no Version service, but there is an ATT tower 2 miles away so ATT works great. I have had no problem with dropped calls anywhere I use my phone. I can't comment on what phone is best because I use an old Motorola flip phone with the internet blocked, all it does is make calls. For my personal use I would have no use for a smart phone.

 

[OkStateMET]

I have had great luck with my Samsung Galaxy S2 for ATT. I had an HTC insprior prior and they are basically the same thing but with a few different operation features.

 

[vvvvvvv]

ATT sucks... finally switched to Straight talk ... $45 month for unlimited data, voice, text
it'd cost $125 for same thing at ATT.

straight talk uses same towers as ATT, so service is same. using factory unlocked iphone 4
was planning on buying a factory unlocked iphone5... but are waiting for bugs to shake out.
doesn't much matter as Apple is not releasing unlocked iphone 5 for several months yet.

Last time I asked a Straight Talk sales rep (which was in the past week), they said they shared the Sprint network (which is bad for me because they dropped their roaming contracts).

Also, the unlimited data on ST is like the unlimited data on many shared website hosting plans - it's just a lack of a hard cap. If you hit the arbitrary soft cap, you're SOL because you agreed to it.

 

[Keelty]

I decided to go with verizon and the galaxy s3. Thanks for all the input. I really appreciate it!

 

[radarmonkey]

Hey Bird, just left Sprint after 10 yrs. We switched to Verizon and got our first smartphones. The wife and I both got Droids. So far its great. Great service from Texas to North Dakota and back east to North Carolina.

 

[_CY_]

Last time I asked a Straight Talk sales rep (which was in the past week), they said they shared the Sprint network (which is bad for me because they dropped their roaming contracts).

Also, the unlimited data on ST is like the unlimited data on many shared website hosting plans - it's just a lack of a hard cap. If you hit the arbitrary soft cap, you're SOL because you agreed to it.

ST reps suck even more than ATT mostly due to language barrier. English is not ST native language. call centers are seldom in US anymore. once you get setup on auto-pay, ST goes pretty smooth.

ST uses same ATT towers with some fill in from other carriers. I've seen zero difference between ST vs ATT on coverage so far. but this is only in Tulsa area.

they call it unlimited, but it's in reality about 3gigs. then it throttles down... words is ST may not renew once you get flagged as a super heavy user. since I'm near a Wifi almost all the time.. my data usage is very little.

what I really need to do is figure out how to get a iphone to work without a data plan.....