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Should I wait for the iPhone 5 or buy an Android Phone now?

I have a 16 GB iphone 4 that I have had for about 1 years. I recently dropped and now have a couple of lines of dead pixels at the top of the screen. I really want a phone with a bigger screen .Will iPhone 5 have a bigger screen?I once found an android phone.not the Samsung Galaxy.but it have a so big screen.and i like it
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Should I wait for the iPhone 5 or buy this big screen Android Phone now?

I was wondering the same thing. I was hoping sprint would drop the iphone 5 by now but i went ahead and got the photon.
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Well if the screen size is all you are concerned with, go Android. But if you prefer better hardware, more functional software, better support, easier mods, and cheaper apps you need to definitely go with....wait.... Android there too.
Damn.
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TJBunch1228 said:
Well if the screen size is all you are concerned with, go Android. But if you prefer better hardware, more functional software, better support, easier mods, and cheaper apps you need to definitely go with....wait.... Android there too.
Damn.
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Yea plus you can take advantage of the hardware and software! Once ice cream sandwhich drops then iphones will be crushed!?!?

Android forever!

If you want something functional take an android, and yes there are loads of screen sizes to choose from, while devices by the fruit dont have much variation

Please buy an iPhone5. There's enough stupid questions in the Android forums as it is

johncmolyneux said:
Please buy an iPhone5. There's enough stupid questions in the Android forums as it is
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Sarcasmness .
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EmoBoiix3 said:
Sarcasmness .
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Not a real word...
-How cruel is the golden rule, when the lives we live are all golden plated-

If u want to be dominated by Big Brother, then get the iphonie...

i will make this simple for you... if you dont know much about computers or electronics, and dont care to. get an iphone. if are a huge techy guy, and plan on being a power user of your phone (somebody who treats it more like a computer and not a phone) then do yourself a favor and get a high end android phone - top of the line, cutting edge.
iphones are bland, for soccer moms, and people who love having AMAZING hardware, with no in depth user functionality.
IF YOU LIKE PLAYING ANGRY BIRDS... AND TEXTING... AND CHECKING EMAILS...AND THAT'S IT........ get an iphone.
if you are a boring, sad individual, who loves a socialist society and socialist phones and socialist phone carriers who force their socialism by saying "use this, it looks like this, just like everybody else" then get an iphone.
if you like iphones, maybe you can have xibit pimp your ride...
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With all the joking in this thread I think I should step in and be the serious one. I would not buy either phone for the next two weeks. The iPhone 5 announcement and also a Samnsung event with google are both scheduled for the next two weeks and if at all possible I would wait for these events. The Nexus Prime and the iPhone 5 will be cutting edge when they are released.

muerteman said:
With all the joking in this thread I think I should step in and be the serious one. I would not buy either phone for the next two weeks. The iPhone 5 announcement and also a Samnsung event with google are both scheduled for the next two weeks and if at all possible I would wait for these events. The Nexus Prime and the iPhone 5 will be cutting edge when they are released.
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They can kinda "fight it out" , yeah ?
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Not a real word...
-How cruel is the golden rule, when the lives we live are all golden plated-
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Exactly .
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EmoBoiix3 said:
Exactly .
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How bout sarcasmyness

carden12 said:
I have a 16 GB iphone 4 that I have had for about 1 years. I recently dropped and now have a couple of lines of dead pixels at the top of the screen. I really want a phone with a bigger screen .Will iPhone 5 have a bigger screen?I once found an android phone.not the Samsung Galaxy.but it have a so big screen.and i like it
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I would wait and get the iPhone 5. It'll be the best of the best.

You should sellout and buy a WP7 device.

I'm waiting for the iPhone 5. If it looks something like this mockup (check the video), i'm sold.

buy galaxy s2, it has a big screen

No.
Here's the video of the iPhone 5 mockup prototype. It looks sooo good IMO.

Goodbye

After 14+ long months, I am finally leaving the Evo and Android for good. I gave it two shots (G1 and Evo), and both times it was underwhelming. I actually preferred the experience I had with the G1 than I did with the Evo.
I'll be picking up my iPhone tomorrow morning once I get out of class.
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bjb_nyj101 said:
After 14+ long months, I am finally leaving the Evo and Android for good. I gave it two shots (G1 and Evo), and both times it was underwhelming. I actually preferred the experience I had with the G1 than I did with the Evo.
I'll be picking up my iPhone tomorrow morning once I get out of class.
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Enjoy your new experience.
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The day after tomorrow...
I'll be back... soon

bjb_nyj101 said:
After 14+ long months, I am finally leaving the Evo and Android for good. I gave it two shots (G1 and Evo), and both times it was underwhelming. I actually preferred the experience I had with the G1 than I did with the Evo.
I'll be picking up my iPhone tomorrow morning once I get out of class.
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Good bye. Enjoy ur locked down piece of crap. A smaller screen. No flash support. And be dumbed down to the fullest. Stay in school cause ur gonna need every bit of knowledge u can soak up inorder to counteract ur stupidity

Papa Smurf151 said:
Good bye. Enjoy ur locked down piece of crap. A smaller screen. No flash support. And be dumbed down to the fullest. Stay in school cause ur gonna need every bit of knowledge u can soak up inorder to counteract ur stupidity
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Lol
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No one cares if you leave or stay. To each his own.
We're comin from a pure power source.

Yeah I love the announcement, like its androids fault. The newest iphone release is outdated. Imagine it in 3 or 4 months. The iphone is for people who can't mod and like being told what's cool
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bjb_nyj101 said:
I actually preferred the experience I had with the G1 than I did with the Evo
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If that isn't the biggest troll comment ever made on these boards I dont know what is.

How would you like the G1 better than the evo?
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The posters on here seem sad to see you leave.... cya

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bjb_nyj101 said:
After 14+ long months, I am finally leaving the Evo and Android for good. I gave it two shots (G1 and Evo), and both times it was underwhelming. I actually preferred the experience I had with the G1 than I did with the Evo.
I'll be picking up my iPhone tomorrow morning once I get out of class.
inb4 rude comments
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bjb_nyj101 said:
...I'll be picking up my iPhone tomorrow morning once I get out of class.
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Sucks to be you...

Lol I just can't get enough of Android. Just returned to the evo from a gs2. Probably picking up a 4s to compliment my evo. Plus Cra******* trade market will be CRAZY. Maybe I get my tablet and some cash. One thing is for sure, I'm waiting on LTE and the dual core phones for that.
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This is the OP right about now.
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atapia984 said:
This is the OP right about now.
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I got a good laugh out of that.

kingdazy said:
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Oh my ...
LOL
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You guys are insane someone can't say they're leaving for an iphone because they're automatically flamed and obviously stupid. I like android but I prefer ios. Yet I'm still here. Android just seems to be all over the place and all unorganized right now. It seems like I get a new phone and the week after that a new much better phone is released and our is outdated. There's also the issue where some apps don't work on some phones because of the hardware or some other bull excuse like they did with netflix. We get dumbed down apps all the time. Like they don't even care about us android users. I still love android I just wish it was better.
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Android ****s on iPhone .. but to each his own.
He had to have a bootleg Evo bought in China town.

shawayne21 said:
Android ****s on iPhone .. but to each his own.
He had to have a bootleg Evo bought in China town.
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Your comparing software to hardware. Android ****s on ios? Is that what you mean?
If I had to weigh in I would say that neither is better, tho ios even tho stole the notification system, implemented it better then android. That's neither here nor there. I say they each offer a different user experience, yes you can get great battery life, after an android phone gets rooted and modified. Tho I have yet to be able to watch looped video on my evo for 7 hours straight...
I think the main difference is the app store, android users are cheap as ****. They will use warez, they will not donate(I'm speaking generally). So better support and better apps make their way to ios first. Yes we have the same apps on android but android fragmented system is ****ed up. I love android, but reguardless how you look at it. They are different. Really don't think people should get all pissy about it. Crazy how some people act towards another human just because they like a different phone. I think our priorities are messed up.
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I betrayed us

I went and did it
I bought the new ipad
The retina-ish display was too tempting
And I kinda wish it was an android tab but the display was cool
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i can speak for everyone on the site when i say.....we dont give a damn

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I plan on getting one at the end of the year. How you liking it so far?
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I honestly don't see the point of owning and android phone AND an android pad... same with having an iphone and ipad
if I had an iphone, I'd look at android pads
I was looking at the new ipad too... but I can't see myself using it for anything more than I use my phone or laptop for so I don't see the point

I was thinking about the newer ipad too, but I ended up buying a $1000 laptop instead. Lol

Wizard Knight said:
I honestly don't see the point of owning and android phone AND an android pad... same with having an iphone and ipad
if I had an iphone, I'd look at android pads
I was looking at the new ipad too... but I can't see myself using it for anything more than I use my phone or laptop for so I don't see the point
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It makes a lot of since to have have both apple or both android. You can use your purchased apps on both devices from the same company. But you can't use your ios apps on your android and your android apps on ios. You would have to buy them all over again.

That display is really something to behold. Never seen anything like it before. Would I buy one? Nope. Would I buy an Android tablet? Nope. I have 0 use for both of them at this point.

12MaNy said:
I was thinking about the newer ipad too, but I ended up buying a $1000 laptop instead. Lol
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Better choice, as long as it was a PC.

gtuansdiamm said:
I went and did it
I bought the new ipad
The retina-ish display was too tempting
And I kinda wish it was an android tab but the display was cool
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not sure if there is a jailbreak for the new ipad but i know you can make it look like an android tablet.

There's a nice little video about how "awesome" the new ipad is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YWWQ_Hfk68
(ps, if you respond with pointing out how that video is "wrong for this and that and the other thing, and btw what about this"....
You've been trolled.)
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Just don't let it burn your skin..
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Nothing wrong with that, looks like a decent machine. I am waiting out for a decent and decently priced quad core Android tablet. Sticking with one library of apps rather than investing in two. But some of the serious apps I wish to have on android might be awhile.

kbizzle said:
Better choice, as long as it was a PC.
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We know it was a PC, no way in the world he bought a MAC for $1000

12MaNy said:
I was thinking about the newer ipad too, but I ended up buying a $1000 laptop instead. Lol
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good choice.lol. Woulda done the same.
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Have fun with the rest of the sheep.
And why is that high of screen resolution needed on a 10" screen?
Just like the rest of the iDrones, ooh look it is shiny, look at the pretty colors and lights, and I only have to sign my bank account, soul, and first born child over to crapple? Sign me up! Morons!
Give crapple 500+ dollars,
Get higher screen res than is actually needed,
Tablet overheats and shuts down,
Firmware fix will just slow down CPU reducing performance,
Pay crapple hundreds more dollars for apps that aren't actually worth it,
PRICELESS!
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cant bring my self to do it, now my wife and kids different story I believe apple is the devil lol but thats just me.
but i did watched the video on it seem like a kool toy
lol

I have five of these selling on Ebay right now. They are going for 700 each. I tried for one hour and I was done with it and android has so much more to do than ios 5.1.
I like super amoled better than retina display.
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I'm holding out for the new transformer prime/infinity 700 series. Hopefully it is released in the next month or so.
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I unfortunately can't justify buying a tab. I want one. I bought my girlfriend the Nook Tablet and her roommate uses it more than she does. I think I'm gonna take it and put CM7 on it.

iOS 6

I, personally, was disappointed by Apple's iOS 6 release. I felt the os needed an entire revamp. From what I know about android everything apple did could have been done with app downloads. To me that should have been more of an incremental update rather than a whole new OS version. Do you all agree or disagree. Please let me know your thoughts.

IB4 another lock!

Nope

Before lock, where is the iOS 6 changelog?
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I didn't watch any livestream but from all the Twitter feeds, it wasn't promising much. Maps is probably the only thing that is good, but it's stupid iPad 3 getting Siri but not the other updated devices..
inb4lock

Im not bashing anything. I listened to the mods request and appropriately adjusted my discussion topic
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We also have an iPhone specific site, and this thread would be more appropriately placed there...
http://forum.iphone-developers.com/
Discussion is welcome as we're all tech nerds (to some extent), but if it turns into a flaming pit of trolls I'll have to step in.

http://www.todaysiphone.com/2012/06...update-facebook-integration-3d-maps-and-more/
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iok1 said:
Before lock, where is the iOS 6 changelog?
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This maybe?
http://gizmodo.com/5917473/these-are-the-changes-to-mobile-with-ios-6

Ugh your right
Oh well i am staying on my jailbroken 5.0 ipod touch and using android.
Androids updates are nice cause they add a lot of new features where as apple mainly fixes old crap.
Android FTW obviously

- Maps w/ Flyover = Looks great
- Turn-By-Turn = At last?
- Updated Siri = Don't care, but i guess it's fun for the kids
- FB and Twitter integration = Don't care
- Passbook = Guess it's usefull for people in the US
Overall a couple of nice tweaks but nothing major. Apart from the FB/Twitter integration and other system tweaks, they could easily pushed this OTA.

LordManhattan said:
- Maps w/ Flyover = Looks great
- Turn-By-Turn = At last?
- Updated Siri = Don't care, but i guess it's fun for the kids
- FB and Twitter integration = Don't care
- Passbook = Guess it's usefull for people in the US
Overall a couple of nice tweaks but nothing major. Apart from the FB/Twitter integration and other system tweaks, they could easily pushed this OTA.
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Still a crap update

I heard it's not compatible with first-gen iPads. That's gonna get some people mad.

Archer said:
I heard it's not compatible with first-gen iPads. That's gonna get some people mad.
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That's apple tho. They usually drop support for 3 generation old devices
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Archer said:
I heard it's not compatible with first-gen iPads. That's gonna get some people mad.
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I have an iPad 1 and...
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Nah, I wouldn't be, but then again I can afford to go and buy a newer model. Some people save for months to buy these things. I doubt you'd get much for a first-gen iPad on eBay now, especially after that announcement.

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I have an iPad 1 and...
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I heard it's not compatible with first-gen iPads. That's gonna get some people mad.
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Yeah, but the 3GS is still freaking supported That's actually amazing. I had the 3GS myself like 3 years ago.

Archer said:
Nah, I wouldn't be, but then again I can afford to go and buy a newer model. Some people save for months to buy these things. I doubt you'd get much for a first-gen iPad on eBay now, especially after that announcement.
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Im not selling it. I use it to play pointless games and show photos to clients.

LordManhattan said:
Yeah, but the 3GS is still freaking supported That's actually amazing. I had the 3GS myself like 3 years ago.
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Yup me too but then I discovered this little green robot
And CM 3!!!
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Any ideas on how to get the money for the N5?

Hey all, I love my N4, but seeing everyone in the android communities with the nexus 5 makes me cry inside, so I wanted to get one. Problem is, I'm 14 which is below the legal age to work, I root/flash/unlock/etc. peoples phones off craigslist, but that isn't too efficient as I get about $40 a week from that IF THAT, and $40 a month goes to my servers, any ideas on how I can make money? Preferably online as I go to school and I can't really do as many things during the day. I know Java, HTML, CSS, a LITTLE JavaScript, Python, C++, and some Lua. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks all! <3
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Well first, I think this is the wrong forum. Might want to post in Q&A. Secondly, my advice as a guy who has experienced the same phone envy as you is to be patient, save up, and wait for the Nexus 6 to come out and get that. It'll hand better battery life, and you're not making a huge step up. I've tried it out, it's not worth the upgrade if you're strapped for cash.
IF you're still interested in a Nexus 5 in spite of all these discouragements, then my advice is this. Sell your phone, which should net you at least half the value (more if you're crafty) of the Nexus 5, and do some phone repair. With the addition of phone repair, which could give you, say, $80/week or every two weeks, within a month you'll have the proper funds. If you sell your phone, get a dumb phone in the meantime. I'll donate one of my old ones to you for free if you want.
Shovel snow, mow lawns, work your ass off doing odd jobs going door to door until you get that phone (wash windows, teach elderly how to use a computer or tablet, walk dogs). You'll be a better man for it and it'll build up that work ethic. Honestly when I was younger I walked rich people's dogs and made a ton of money, helped me save up for a car.
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Tanmaynarang said:
Hey all, I love my N4, but seeing everyone in the android communities with the nexus 5 makes me cry inside, so I wanted to get one. Problem is, I'm 14 which is below the legal age to work, I root/flash/unlock/etc. peoples phones off craigslist, but that isn't too efficient as I get about $40 a week from that IF THAT, and $40 a month goes to my servers, any ideas on how I can make money? Preferably online as I go to school and I can't really do as many things during the day. I know Java, HTML, CSS, a LITTLE JavaScript, Python, C++, and some Lua. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks all! <3
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I would say find a part time job with at least 10-18 hours per week, in one or two month (depends upon salary) u'll be able to buy nexus 5 without even selling nexus 4.

Sell it
sell it ? go cex? cashy g?

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sell it ? go cex? cashy g?
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Make your first ten posts meaningful by preferably answering questions in a Q&A forum or doing concise responds in a general forum?
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how good is your PC? You could set it up as a bit coin Miner, mine a s##tload of bit coins and sell them for a profit?
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Yeah, i'm a massive douche, OP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2609916

LordManhattan said:
Yeah, i'm a massive douche, OP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2609916
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Hahahahahaha
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LordManhattan said:
Yeah, i'm a massive douche, OP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2609916
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