Looking at migrating my home phone to a mobile device. What type phone
do you have & why do you like/dislike it?
What are good/bad things you’ve heard about phones that people you know
may use?
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Stevo
Hi
We use LG AN160’s cheap (as in free) as well as the contract, and it
does what all ‘smart’ phones should do…be a phone 
Bluetooth
works fine between openSUSE and SLED as well as between phones for
transferring files. Texting works fine as well, they just work…
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I have a Galaxy Note 2 which I love. It’s big enough to see with bad
eyes (and watch a movie on when sitting in a plane) yet small enough to
fit my pockets easily. It’s a complete Android tablet integrated into
a phone…or vica versa. I’m a Google fan myself and love how Android
integrates into Google stuff like mail, calendar, search, maps, GPS,
etc. etc. With GW mobility stuff it makes work tasks pretty seamless.
Of course, you have to realize I traded in my Blackberry Curve for it
which is like turning loose a prisoner who has been in a stinking
dungeon for 50 years into Shangrila. Yea, it felt like that much of a
change so I may just be giddy from that. Did I say I love my Note 2?
I assume the Note 3 would be frosting on the cake.
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Kim - 11/25/2013 9:39:42 AM
That said, I just bought my family members Nexus 5s for Christmas
because after checking prices and comparing features, they seemed to
offer the most bang for the buck.
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Kim - 11/25/2013 9:47:32 AM
Stevo wrote:
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Looking at migrating my home phone to a mobile device. What type
phone do you have & why do you like/dislike it?[/color]
HTC One.
Amazing screen, feels solid, great size, good sound and nice camera -
it’s large enough to be able to RDP in to servers in a pinch, but not
so large that you look silly making calls 
Scott Campbell wrote:
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Stevo wrote:
[color=green]Looking at migrating my home phone to a mobile device. What type
phone do you have & why do you like/dislike it?[/color]HTC One.
Amazing screen, feels solid, great size, good sound and nice camera -
it’s large enough to be able to RDP in to servers in a pinch, but not
so large that you look silly making calls :-)[/color]
Same one I have. On my third one (thank you AT&T) as one bricked and
its replacement didn’t want to make phone calls. Third time was a
charm, as I have had this one for almost six months. If I could just
get Alarmpoint to work with it, all would be good.
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Lindsey
“Stevo” wrote:
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Looking at migrating my home phone to a mobile device. What type phone do you
have & why do you like/dislike it?[/color]
iPhone. What I like? It always works. I have an iPad as well, and most of the
apps I purchase can be used on both. I just “get it”.
What I don’t like? There are days when I wish it wasn’t so locked down (for
example, I have an app called textexpander that can’t be used in all apps,
etc.), but realistically I don’t have many complaints.
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I wonder what the reason is that Apple phones are losing market share
and Android phones are gaining?
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Kim - 12/16/2013 2:43:48 PM
I think Screen Size is one factor as the “Phone” portion of Smart Phones
become less important than the laptop functions.
My Wife is a Real Apple Lover.
She has an iPad 2, iPod Touch, iPod Mini, and is getting an iPad Air for
Xmas.
She always wanted an iPhone too, but when she just bought her last phone
she chose a 5" Android because when browsing websites, doing facebook,
texting, etc… etc… the difference between 4.3 and 5.0 was just huge.
I suspect the New Larger iPhone Options that are rumored for next year
is really going to help with customers like my Wife. I have zero doubt
that if Apple would have had something close to a 5.0 iPhone she would
have bought that so long as it was priced somewhat competitively with
a nicer Android.
On 12/16/2013 4:44 PM, kgroneman wrote:[color=blue]
I wonder what the reason is that Apple phones are losing market share
and Android phones are gaining?
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kgroneman wrote:
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I wonder what the reason is that Apple phones are losing market share
and Android phones are gaining?[/color]
Price.
U
On 17.12.2013 11:59, Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:[color=blue]
kgroneman wrote:
[color=green]I wonder what the reason is that Apple phones are losing market share
and Android phones are gaining?[/color]Price.[/color]
Hardly. Samsung Galaxys are roughly the same price as the iPhone, but
combined alone sell way more items by now than Apple, so that can’t be it.
It’s the amount of different options for all tastes combined with the
openness and the price.
Leaving alone the fact that I would most likely never buy an Apple
device, the iPhone for me simply is no considerable option for a single
simple reason. As Craig said: Too small. Such problems simply don’t
exist in the combined android market. Literally everybody can find a
matching phone for his needs/preferences.
CU,
Massimo Rosen
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Massimo,
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Literally everybody can find a
matching phone for his needs/preferences.[/color]
and in the Apple world, almost everyone can find an accessory that fits
it - swings and roundabouts…
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Shaun Pond
Massimo Rosen wrote:
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It’s the amount of different options for all tastes combined with the openness
and the price.[/color]
Actually, I think it’s more of a “settling” of the market. For quite awhile,
the iPhone really was “the” option. In the early iPhone days, there were no
decent Android models to choose from, and really either people who had “no”
needs (my children had an Android phone that was shamefully dull) or were just
too “geeky” to want an iPhone bothered with Android. Now it’s becoming more of
a real market. I also think that iPhone lovers have slowed down their upgrades.
It was not uncommon for iPhone people to upgrade every year for awhile. But as
the phones become more sophisticated, the annual “changes” are no longer as
compelling to jump right into a new phone. I think this and the “carrier
barrier” (not all carriers have iPhones, but effectively every carrier has some
kind of an Android phone) give the Android more favorable market share numbers
overall.
But while Apple “won” the market share for a long time, Apple has never really
been in it for the market share (in no product they produce does Apple seem to
care about “units sold” other than as a marketing initiative). There is no
doubt that every iPhone sale makes Apple directly more money than every Samsung
sale makes for Samsung, for example.
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