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[AZwildcats]

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Curious as to why this would be the case. They addressed the two major issues from the 6 in the expandable storage and battery. Plus you get marshmallow and a bigger screen and better camera, it'll be hard to botch this for Sammy outside of having some type of mass defects.

I think he's referring to not paying full price right now because in a few months it will be discounted

Might as well let someone else take the depreciation hit

 

[shimmyhendrix]

I personally think Samsung makes the best phones right now. In terms of specs and features. There's a reason why the Note is on top of every year-end smartphone list. Cause its always a beast. But I think a lot of cats like myself just aint feelin Touchwiz. They really gotta work on their UI and then I'll probably hop back on the Samsung wave.

I agree.  Samsung definitely is making the best devices right now.  The only reason why everyone isnt jumping up and down for them is TW.

The hardware is amazing but that doesnt matter if your interface is going to freeze/lag.  Or if you probably will never get the latest updates.  Or if once you FINALLY  get the updates they screw what once was a well functioning device.  The list goes on.

Those are all gripes that people have with the Samsung devices and why some people stick to the Nexus devices, HTC, Etc..  If Samsung put more time and money (which we all know they easily could) into a clean, good looking, and fast successor to TouchWiz, they'd be unstoppable.

 

[shimmyhendrix]

can someone tell me why marshmallow is even good? i finally got the update for my htc m9 for verizon and dont notice that much of a difference

Performance wise its not gonna do much for you if you're on a M9.  The device is already pretty optimized and doesnt really need the fixes.

Interface wise there arent many changes between Lollipop and Marshmallow, and HTC usually doesnt implement many visual changes in Sense until the next device drops with the next Sense version.  When the M10 drops you'll probably get the next Sense within a few weeks.

 

[st1llundftd]

Pre-order in for the Titanium joint. "Can't wait..." $35.43 on JOD ouch!

I thought it's $32.50/month?

 

[MVP]

I thought it's $32.50/month?

Yea it's showing as 32.50 online.

 

[n3rd]

I put it on JOD though, so taxes get added to the monthly. I just checked it again, it says 35.43 and 194.99 left after 18months.

 

[MVP]

I put it on JOD though, so taxes get added to the monthly. I just checked it again, it says 35.43 and 194.99 left after 18months.

Ahhh, that's right I forgot. But you didn't pay anything up front correct?

 

[n3rd]

I put it on JOD though, so taxes get added to the monthly. I just checked it again, it says 35.43 and 194.99 left after 18months.

Ahhh, that's right I forgot. But you didn't pay anything up front correct?

Correct, nothing up front and free overnight shipping. T-mobile
It says ships by 3/10 and it was free next day air shipping but it said 1-2 days.

 

[whywesteppin]

I loved my S3. Samsung makes good phones. But between TW, slow or non-existent updates, corny commercials, and bloat, it's hard for me to justify buying one over an iPhone. just my opinion.

marshmallow made a lot of under-the-hood improvements. overall smoother experience.

 

[flaminhotcheeto]

Nobody is interested in the Alcatel Idol 4s huh? 

http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/alcatel-idol-4s-1315524/review

 

[danikerhino]

Nobody is interested in the Alcatel Idol 4s huh? 

http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/alcatel-idol-4s-1315524/review

I pointed this phone out a while ago. With the powerhouse coming out though, this phone will go unnoticed for a little while.

 

[yeah]

Have they fixed the memory issues?

Nope. And never will.

Read up reviews on the marshmallow tw. It's fixed

Can you point me to a review? I at least glance at nearly everything on Android Authority, Android Police, the Verge, BGR, XDA, etc... Few people ever mention memory/resourcr management, much less go in depth about it. Haven't seen anything about touchwiz and resource management in Marshmallow other than that Samsung saying they were working on it and it was part of the reason why the Note 4 updates have taken so long, so I'm genuinely curious.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

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[dathbgboy]

Nobody is interested in the Alcatel Idol 4s huh? 

http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/alcatel-idol-4s-1315524/review

I pointed this phone out a while ago. With the powerhouse coming out though, this phone will go unnoticed for a little while.

For $500, this phone won't become a household staple. Alcatel is known for low budget devices and selling their phone at that price point doesn't help them either. People will be weary of the phone before they take a leap on it. This is just one mans opinion though

 

[kingfoamnyc]

The Huawei Honor 5X and the Blu Vivo 5 put that Alcatel joint in the casket before it had any chance of being successful

 

[based mod]

Have they fixed the memory issues?

Nope. And never will.

Read up reviews on the marshmallow tw. It's fixed

Can you point me to a review? I at least glance at nearly everything on Android Authority, Android Police, the Verge, BGR, XDA, etc... Few people ever mention memory/resourcr management, much less go in depth about it. Haven't seen anything about touchwiz and resource management in Marshmallow other than that Samsung saying they were working on it and it was part of the reason why the Note 4 updates have taken so long, so I'm genuinely curious.

Couple things found Googling something along the lines of "touchwiz marshmallow memory management"

http://www.xda-developers.com/this-is-touchwiz-on-marshmallow-note-5-android-6-0-leak-hands-on/

 

[yeah]

Ahh, still nothing on a final release build. Interesting, but people were saying the same things before Lollipop dropped. Lo and behold, resource management issues were present in the final builds.

Thanks for the sources.

 

[truth-serum]

Samsung singlehandedly made a lot of my friends switch to the iphone. Dudes were complaining about lag within less than a year of getting their phone

Tryed to put them on to the nexus and pure android but people will be sheep and try to conform to the mindset of either getting samsung or apple and nothing else

 

[AZwildcats]

Where is EWD when we need him?

 

[MVP]

Drone business

 

[halftime]

Nexus is the iPhone of android tho.

 

[truth-serum]

Stuntin in the durango that came with a matching table

 

[truth-serum]

Not even close. The average person doesn't know what a nexus is even though google just started making commercials to publicize it

Nexus is the iPhone of android tho.

 

[halftime]

Not even close. The average person doesn't know what a nexus is even though google just started making commercials to publicize it

I don't mean in terms of popularity.

It's the flagship Android device.  It runs a boring, feature-less version of the OS. 

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

I think most Android phones starts to lag over time because people just keep downloading more and more stuff and never make an attempt to update sync settings or manage the stuff they download. I look at people's Android phones sometimes and they have 20 notifications at the same time. Like they'll have 2 different email apps syncing, location on, Bluetooth on, and every other app you can think of syncing every 10 minutes but will be shocked that their phone is slow