Thread: Phones

Originally Posted by Pengy

Myth I reckon. After all, don't they share the masts to a large degree?
I recall reading somewhere that the number of bars showing signal strength actually don't mean much, as there is no industry standard on them.

You are correct. The bars mean whatever the bloke programming them intended them to mean. There is a hidden settings menu in most phones that will tell you the raw db reading or better yet install this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...d.telnet&hl=en

It will tell you all the info you want and also comes with two widgets (one for cellular and one for wifi) that will give you a accurate signal quality reading right on your home screen. I use this on all my devices.

Also looking for a new phone.
Always had a good run from HTC(i'm not a gorillia with phones, but do use them. And drop them... - and havent had one really die, its more i want more, and the current one still does everything i now want, apart from hold a charge - i could buy a user replaceable battery, but i think 3 years is a great run, so new phone is needed ) - but open to anything else, apart from apple. Wife really wanted a itouch, iphone and we have a ipad. No way in hell would i have a apple device for work, so that rules out anything for me. Great cameras on them, and great quality of build (i have a gen 1 or 2 ipod, and it stil lives after being dropped, kicked, frozen to minus 42c, and so hot i couldnt hold it - really i am amazed it still works!) however the inflexiblity of file storage is the main let down

Android is the winner here hands down. Microsoft based devices are so un user friendly.

Maybe its just the way my brain works, but apple "trust us and give us everything" just doesnt compute very well. Google seems a bit more polite......

I have a Nokia Lumia 1520 and it's a massive beast but is my daily work computer while out on the farm, has a great camera and works well with all of my office software, windows phone 8.1 was pretty average and i love the tile layouts but has a lot of minor things that are really useless compared to android.
Latest Windows phone 10 however is stunningly good and is still yet to be released, any cheaper current gen lumia's that get the windows 10 update will be great value, especially if Windows desktop OS forces more apps to port over to windows phone

Originally Posted by Beaker

Also looking for a new phone.
Always had a good run from HTC(i'm not a gorillia with phones, but do use them. And drop them... - and havent had one really die, its more i want more, and the current one still does everything i now want, apart from hold a charge - i could buy a user replaceable battery, but i think 3 years is a great run, so new phone is needed ) - but open to anything else, apart from apple. Wife really wanted a itouch, iphone and we have a ipad. No way in hell would i have a apple device for work, so that rules out anything for me. Great cameras on them, and great quality of build (i have a gen 1 or 2 ipod, and it stil lives after being dropped, kicked, frozen to minus 42c, and so hot i couldnt hold it - really i am amazed it still works!) however the inflexiblity of file storage is the main let down

Android is the winner here hands down. Microsoft based devices are so un user friendly.

Maybe its just the way my brain works, but apple "trust us and give us everything" just doesnt compute very well. Google seems a bit more polite......

Yeah thats one take on it and its not original... the other is that an integrated approach to both hardware and software design, yields higher user value and experience, better integration between products and higher functionality across hardware systems, and higher quality overall experience. So the premise that specialised providers assembling composite pcs can compete with superior integrated products, has never actually come to fruition. That part of the industry has always succeeded on the basis of widespread use and adoption of MS OS, not because of superior product.

Of course you will pay extra for an integrated approach..... but the systems last longer and generally perform better for their working life. Ask any university tech dept about mac hardware v PC platforms.... Iv'e had a pretty good run from my iPhones, but I look after them.

If you run pcs, take your pic... if you run macs why would you shoot yourself in the foot.... get an iPhone...

Originally Posted by Beaker

Also looking for a new phone.
Always had a good run from HTC(i'm not a gorillia with phones, but do use them. And drop them... - and havent had one really die, its more i want more, and the current one still does everything i now want, apart from hold a charge - i could buy a user replaceable battery, but i think 3 years is a great run, so new phone is needed ) - but open to anything else, apart from apple. Wife really wanted a itouch, iphone and we have a ipad. No way in hell would i have a apple device for work, so that rules out anything for me. Great cameras on them, and great quality of build (i have a gen 1 or 2 ipod, and it stil lives after being dropped, kicked, frozen to minus 42c, and so hot i couldnt hold it - really i am amazed it still works!) however the inflexiblity of file storage is the main let down

Android is the winner here hands down. Microsoft based devices are so un user friendly.

Maybe its just the way my brain works, but apple "trust us and give us everything" just doesnt compute very well. Google seems a bit more polite......

I posted a couple of reccomendations up above but the top two would be

Nexus 6
Buy the Motorola Google Nexus 6 White LTE/4G 32GB storage 3GB Ram 6" QHD... (1031000178) online at PBTech.co.nz

Anything in the Xperia Z series
Buy the Sony Xperia Z3 D6653 4G/LTE BLACK 5.2" Quad-core 2.5 Ghz 3GB RAM 20... (D6653 BLACK) online at PBTech.co.nz

The nexus is a better phione with a bigger screen but it's only water resistant. The Xperia is waterproof.

I agree with you on most of that.
Google does a pretty good job of integrating everything software wise - but you get the flexibility of choosing your hardware as well.

Run PC's for work so will stick with android rather than move over to apple

Originally Posted by Sidney

Yeah thats one take on it and its not original... the other is that an integrated approach to both hardware and software design, yields higher user value and experience, better integration between products and higher functionality across hardware systems, and higher quality overall experience. So the premise that specialised providers assembling composite pcs can compete with superior integrated products, has never actually come to fruition. That part of the industry has always succeeded on the basis of widespread use and adoption of MS OS, not because of superior product.

Of course you will pay extra for an integrated approach..... but the systems last longer and generally perform better for their working life. Ask any university tech dept about mac hardware v PC platforms.... Iv'e had a pretty good run from my iPhones, but I look after them.

If you run pcs, take your pic... if you run macs why would you shoot yourself in the foot.... get an iPhone...

Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

I posted a couple of reccomendations up above but the top two would be

Nexus 6
Buy the Motorola Google Nexus 6 White LTE/4G 32GB storage 3GB Ram 6" QHD... (1031000178) online at PBTech.co.nz

Anything in the Xperia Z series
Buy the Sony Xperia Z3 D6653 4G/LTE BLACK 5.2" Quad-core 2.5 Ghz 3GB RAM 20... (D6653 BLACK) online at PBTech.co.nz

The nexus is a better phione with a bigger screen but it's only water resistant. The Xperia is waterproof.

Massive what about this z3+?
Is cheaper than the z3 atm

http://www.becextech.co.nz/mobile-ph...l#.VgMWJp9zXqA

Good on ya for getting another iPhone bro Free photo sharing

Originally Posted by Gibo

Good on ya for getting another iPhone bro Free photo sharing

Everyone has that these days. Goggle plus photos, Dropbox, Samsung probably has some kind of lame solution, there are any number of this party ones as well.

Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

Everyone has that these days. Goggle plus photos, Dropbox, Samsung probably has some kind of lame solution, there are any number of this party ones as well.

Just using text is easier for us simpletons I'm sure those that need all the shit on phones have a fair point. Im just not one of them. Shooter and Navionics ap, text, camera, web all done

Originally Posted by puku

Massive what about this z3+?
Is cheaper than the z3 atm

Sony Xperia Z3+ E6553 20MP 32GB 4G LTE Smartphone Copper | BecexTech New Zealand

Here is the side by side spec comparison
Sony Xperia Z3 vs. Sony Xperia Z3+ - GSMArena.com

Z3+ has higher specs than the Z3 so go for it.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Just using text is easier for us simpletons I'm sure those that need all the shit on phones have a fair point. Im just not one of them. Shooter and Navionics ap, text, camera, web all done

Is not that complicated, you just go into the app, select a folder and then choose who you share it with.

If you send a message by text it will shrink it to 300k so that awesome pic you took of that huge stag or your dong web will long look that impressive on your mate of mrs`s huge Android phone.

+1 on the iphone. If you're running a macbook &/or ipad it just makes everything so easy and you'll never lose your photos/contacts/old messages etc.

Yeah thanks for all the input guys.
Right or wrong I went for another iPhone to keep it simple
The samsung's that fitted the bill where huge.


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Originally Posted by BRADS

Yeah thanks for all the input guys.
Right or wrong I went for another iPhone to keep it simple
The samsung's that fitted the bill where huge.


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To big for your little girly hands ae bro