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Anyone planning to upgrade?

Is anyone planning to upgrade their device and is looking for a replacement to their current phone? What would it be? And why? I'm planning in a few months so I could use some opinions!!
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thakur90 said:
Is anyone planning to upgrade their device and is looking for a replacement to their current phone? What would it be? And why? I'm planning in a few months so I could use some opinions!!
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I've been using IncS for just over a year now. I still think my phone is pretty good and fast for me. Now with ICS, it's even better. I believe it can at least last for another year.

Changed phone to one x. Nice ICS.
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Was all in for one s but found the coating chipped problem on the black version, so decide to wait and see.
To me, give my IS duo core, a little better camera (It's already quite good), I will be happily stick with it for another year, it is just so overall nice compare to other phone.
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Archos G9 101 - i wanna have a Tablett too ;D
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h.han said:
Was all in for one s but found the coating chipped problem on the black version, so decide to wait and see.
To me, give my IS duo core, a little better camera (It's already quite good), I will be happily stick with it for another year, it is just so overall nice compare to other phone.
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Exactly!!! This phone is good enough! Just dual core and bigger battery!! Camera upgrade is optional!
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h.han said:
Was all in for one s but found the coating chipped problem on the black version, so decide to wait and see.
To me, give my IS duo core, a little better camera (It's already quite good), I will be happily stick with it for another year, it is just so overall nice compare to other phone.
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Duo/Quad core with slightly better GPU and I'll use it for another 3 years.

My phone is currently with HTC service for changing USB port /mainboard. Depending on the condition it comes back,I'm sticking with my current phone.
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I mean I intend to stick with my IncredibleS. Served me well for a year, still has good value & mileage to last for another year,easily.
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I've had this phone for close to a year n still not bored with it. Anyone who sees it always has something good to say bout it. Personally I feel it is a very well manufactured phone n with ics it shud b the best performer in its segment cos I heard ics is freakingly stable!!
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I sold my IncS and bought a One X instead. And i have no regrets so far
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ragapa97 said:
My phone is currently with HTC service for changing USB port /mainboard. Depending on the condition it comes back,I'm sticking with my current phone.
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I just got my phone back from HTC, I sent it in because my power button was a bit dodgy, and my warranty is running out
Anyway I got it back, more than a month later, and it had a new motherboard, s-on with HBOOT 2.00.000
I had planned to sell it, and buy an Evo 3D, but after I took pictures for ebay, I decided to keep it, and I downgraded and rooted it
As soon as ICS arrives, I will be happy

tandfeen said:
I sold my IncS and bought a One X instead. And i have no regrets so far
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Like everyone would ask!! If you used your one x as much you use incredible s daily what is the battery life you get??
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Nexus Family is one of the best candidates.
My friend moved from InS to Galaxy Nexus for a month, And he told me that he wouldn't buy any other brand but Nexus.

The only current phone I would upgrade to would be the One S, and right now I have no plans to retire my Incredible S for the foreseeable future.

thakur90 said:
Like everyone would ask!! If you used your one x as much you use incredible s daily what is the battery life you get??
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Well my IncS sure had a better battery life.
I would like my onex's battery to last longer, but I can live with it.
And the speed and smoothness is so much greater on this one. And I am running completely stock and not even rooted.
Also I am one of the lucky ones having almost none of the reported issues with the OneX.
So its clearly an upgrade I would recommend
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Nexus is a good phone but the money u pay for it is not what u get ...earlier nexus were great and up to the mark but the recent one is just plain odd for a flagship phone!! Hope HTC makes the next nexus! And I recently had a chance to use the xperia s .. must say for the price I was impressed and it has a pretty good battery life!!
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thakur90 said:
Nexus is a good phone but the money u pay for it is not what u get ...earlier nexus were great and up to the mark but the recent one is just plain odd for a flagship phone!! Hope HTC makes the next nexus! And I recently had a chance to use the xperia s .. must say for the price I was impressed and it has a pretty good battery life!!
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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...-to-make-the-next-Nexus-phone...again_id29469
You might be out of luck mate

markj338 said:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...-to-make-the-next-Nexus-phone...again_id29469
You might be out of luck mate
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Aah... Again... I guess it has something to do with cost control!! Btw whatever happened to the rezound ... Its disappeared suddenly!! Its a one s with 720p screen isn't it!! Would love to buy it for cheap!!

No one's planning for the s3... Just announced recently!! What's the thoughts on that?
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thakur90 said:
No one's planning for the s3... Just announced recently!! What's the thoughts on that?
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The rezound is a Verizon US only phone.
My contract ends this time next year :/
IMO the galaxy s 3 looks ugly, if I wanted something else I would get a one s
It just looks good, fast, and cos the one x is too big

vivid a step up?

So im getting a vivid thursday in a trade on here and i was wondering is it going to be a major stepup from my infuse? Im running a 2.3.6 gingerbread rom on it.

Oh yeah, massive step up from the infuse. Screen will probably be about the same, same size, vivid's screen res is hgher, but the infuse has no pentile so it'll be about the same there. As far as hardware though you got 2 cores, and twice the ram too, and you got Android 4.03. Also sense > touchwiz, and LTE is faster than HSPA+ which is what the infuse has.
Overall the infuse is really just an overclocked captivate with a nicer screen, and Captivate is what i upgraded from. I definitly like the vivid better, but I will warn you on one thing, if you like putting custom roms on, its a little bit more difficult. Not extremely difficult, but its different put it that way.

thanks man. Yea i took the same upgrade from a captivate to a infuse. I aint too worried about flashing roms as i use to run android and ubuntu on my rhodium ;p.

Yeah I've left my vivid stock, I got my flyer to mess with roms and such on
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What up Sean lol...me and you both jumped the infuse ship
Vivid is defintly a step up...a lot smoother I think...don't have an LTE sim so I can't use LTE...really my only complaint is the micro USB port...why did HTC put that in the most awkward spot??? It makes the phone so awkward to use when charging....(its right on the bottom left)
Also I miss the superamoled screen...I know some people don't like superamoled...but I guess I do...or I'm just used to it lol...this screen is already starting to grow on me though...
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I was happy i got a infuse as i went to do a insurance claim and they were out of stock so they sent me.a infuse. But its not as good as i thought it would be. I think im going to be pretty happy with the vivid
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sean1197 said:
I was happy i got a infuse as i went to do a insurance claim and they were out of stock so they sent me.a infuse. But its not as good as i thought it would be. I think im going to be pretty happy with the vivid
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I'm updating mine to ics right now...downloading...can't wait to use a fully working ics!!!
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Hey former infuse owners I gotta ask, a friend of mine just picked up the skyrocket, which has the exact same screen as the infuse, and even though the vivid and skyrocket have the same size screens, is it just me or is Samsungs screen wider?
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Cor-master said:
Hey former infuse owners I gotta ask, a friend of mine just picked up the skyrocket, which has the exact same screen as the infuse, and even though the vivid and skyrocket have the same size screens, is it just me or is Samsungs screen wider?
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Yeah...they are the same screen size but the vivid does seem thinner (screen size)...I just figured it was because I did not have a case on the vivid and I was used to a case...but it is possible that maybe the infuse/skyrocket is wider and less tall, while the vivid is taller and thinner...even.my friends thought the vivid was smaller...
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mg2195 said:
Yeah...they are the same screen size but the vivid does seem thinner (screen size)...I just figured it was because I did not have a case on the vivid and I was used to a case...but it is possible that maybe the infuse/skyrocket is wider and less tall, while the vivid is taller and thinner...even.my friends thought the vivid was smaller...
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When I was on Sprint I had the Evo 4G and upgraded to the Evo 3D. Both 4.3 in screens but the screen imon the 3D wasnt as wide but was a tad taller then the 4G. I found out it was because like the Vivid, the 3D has an qhd display as to where the 4G didn't. The high quality qhd display is what makes it skinnier and taller. And since the skyrocket and Vivid have to different types of displays that is why they seem different in size even though they are both 4.5 inch screens.
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Now don't quote me in this but it may because of the qhd resolution.
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skippyg said:
Now don't quote me in this but it may because of the qhd resolution.
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Yes it is. (I quoted you )
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Lol
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Different aspect ratios to the screens. I'm pretty sure the Infuse uses a 16:10 and the Vivid uses 16:9.

I figured it was aspect ratio. Thanks guys
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Sean, are you scamming me? I still haven't received my Infuse from you and you haven't responded in the for sale thread. I'm getting very worried.
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tanner4137 said:
Sean, are you scamming me? I still haven't received my Infuse from you and you haven't responded in the for sale thread. I'm getting very worried.
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What are you talking about he promised it to me I already paid him. Now where is that phone?
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Wait... he sold the uncracked infuse to you too?
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Lmao I'm just messing with ya
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Lol I went through your posts and gathered that
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NO new rom,NO new kernel,Very Low Update, (this is the end of vivid life?)

HTC Vivid topic is very quiet.
NO new rom
NO New kernel
Very Low update for roms (only De-sensed and Holics have some activate), and i think this low activate goes very soon.
so this is the end of Vivid dev life ?

No there are many good roms out there
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ronnie498 said:
No there are many good roms out there
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i know have many rom before. but it's so many time that don't have new rom. or some of them have bug and not fixed (like signalbar in de-sensed and miui)

Looks like we have 5 currently working roms, several on hold and also looks like they are being updated regularly.
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This phone isn't very popular. We aren't gointo be seeing much more development going on for it and the ROMs that are out there cover all the bases our community is capable of. That being said...every build that's out there right now is very solid and generally a joy to use. If you want a hundred sub-par ROMs to choose from, then by all means sell your phone and get a new one.
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The developers have hit a wall with ril issues so that best thing can really do is give us good tweaked stock roms. The issue is HTC didn't make the phone very developer friendly
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l0000l said:
HTC Vivid topic is very quiet.
NO new rom
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Very Low update for roms (only De-sensed and Holics have some activate), and i think this low activate goes very soon.
so this is the end of Vivid dev life ?
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My kernel doesn't need to be updated. Likewise roms shouldn't need to be updated regularly. If you want buggy roms or kernels that need updating a lot I would advise a different device
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kozmikkick said:
My kernel doesn't need to be updated. Likewise roms shouldn't need to be updated regularly. If you want buggy roms or kernels that need updating a lot I would advise a different device
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i know your rom and kernel are now best for vivid. i use your rom and kernel. i mean add a new feature like usb otg.
(why HTC don't use usb otg? even OneX don't have this. but most of samsung have this. i think that's very important for a modern phone.)
or nobody work on jelly bean (in next forum worked but know is closed)

I'm still lost as to why we can't get a working sense 4.0 Rom.
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l0000l said:
i know your rom and kernel are now best for vivid. i use your rom and kernel. i mean add a new feature like usb otg.
(why HTC don't use usb otg? even OneX don't have this. but most of samsung have this. i think that's very important for a modern phone.)
or nobody work on jelly bean (in next forum worked but know is closed)
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I think USB otg Lso is dependent on hardwaren...could be wrong...and these roms already have plenty of features...have you used leedroid tweaks?
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I'm still lost as to why we can't get a working sense 4.0 Rom.
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Because HTC has s*** coding, doesn't provide source, when they do its s*** and a mess, att just adds to the troubles
The main problem is the rills...basically the devs can't figure out how to get signal -that's in really basic terms for the non-tech people...there's obviously more to it...
Not sure why everyone is so crazy about sense 4...looks the same to me...what we really need is a solid (real) aosp Rom...bot One based off sense...one built from source...preferbally cm9/10...either one...
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Yeah I really don't care much for htc enlight of this phone and my flyer (Cut my losses with it to get a nexus 7). My captivate was my 4th straight Samsung and I was always impressed with HTCs build quality and Sense looked cool so I thought I'd give them a chance. But now they'll never get my business ever again.
CM was always an option until I got these htc pieces of crap. I'm pretty strapped for cash at the moment but when I get back on track financially I'm buying a Nexus phone, either the gnex or its successor if it's out by then. As I've found from my Nexus tab with pure android an the most current version of android the desire to root is pretty weak
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I don't know about you but my phone stays updated and I get new kernals every other week it seems like ....
The Rom.of choice for me is wcx illuminati mod build ....google wcx illuminati and join the forum to get it
#FTW WCX
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randong said:
I don't know about you but my phone stays updated and I get new kernals every other week it seems like ....
The Rom.of choice for me is wcx illuminati mod build ....google wcx illuminati and join the forum to get it
#FTW WCX
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can you explain more about it

l0000l said:
can you explain more about it
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He was a dev here and made some very good roms for the vivid then some crap happened and he left/was banned. Google wcx Illuminati and register to see the roms but, you have to have 10 or more post to download them.
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bswann said:
He was a dev here and made some very good roms for the vivid then some crap happened and he left/was banned. Google wcx Illuminati and register to see the roms but, you have to have 10 or more post to download them.
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send link to me

bswann said:
He was a dev here and made some very good roms for the vivid then some crap happened and he left/was banned. Google wcx Illuminati and register to see the roms but, you have to have 10 or more post to download them.
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Wasn't banned ....he left and had all his stuff taken down....and if you look at some of his post it will say guest and not banned ....
And he is still making VERY GOOD builds
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I don't know why all of develpers can't work together.
every of them have a good knowledge about one piece (gps , sound , ril , ...)
there is any way to get all vivid devs together ?

randong said:
Wasn't banned ....he left and had all his stuff taken down....and if you look at some of his post it will say guest and not banned ....
And he is still making VERY GOOD builds
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Oh, OK. I wasn't around when all that happened. His builds are more than very good, lol.
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I just broke my screen. called asurion.. got myself a brand new HOX!!! PROFIT!!!

I really hope the Vivid gets some more Roms I just bought this phone 2 months ago and enjoy it and would like to see some more development
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Upgrading from Vivid

I'm on AT&T and looking at getting the HTC One X, SG3, or waiting on the note 2. Any advice as to which phone I should I get?

comepso said:
I'm on AT&T and looking at getting the HTC One X, SG3, or waiting on the note 2. Any advice as to which phone I should I get?
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Well, if you had to buy now, I would say you get the Galaxy SIII. You might hate Touchwiz, but if Sense is your thing, there's a port of Sense 4 coming from the Sense4all guys. Performance is good, and you should expect a Jelly Bean rollout soon.
The One X is a good device, but if you plan on rooting it, the 2.20 update (which is on all shipped S4 One X/XL devices) essentially puts you out of luck. The international version is fine, though, and you can also get an official bootloader unlock on it.

altanimi said:
Well, if you had to buy now, I would say you get the Galaxy SIII. You might hate Touchwiz, but if Sense is your thing, there's a port of Sense 4 coming from the Sense4all guys. Performance is good, and you should expect a Jelly Bean rollout soon.
The One X is a good device, but if you plan on rooting it, the 2.20 update (which is on all shipped S4 One X/XL devices) essentially puts you out of luck. The international version is fine, though, and you can also get an official bootloader unlock on it.
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i say Siii or wait until the new Samsung note comes out

I say hold off a little longer til you can compare the s3, and note 2 to the One X+. Remember, a variant of the X+ just passed through the FCC, bound for AT&T, just 2 weeks ago. We should hopefully get a definite release date at their events scheduled for tomorrow. My opinion, wait for the Note 2 and X+ to release and compare those 2.
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Gonna upgrade too... But waiting on the one x+.
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same here looking at the X+ but will it give issues like current HOX users are having now, no root and bootloader locked

Thanks for the recommendations, I'll wait to compare the S3, note 2 and One X+. Maybe the One X+ will be easier to unlock and root versus the current One X.

One X+ looks great, just the thing I've been looking to upgrade to. I really hope its easier to root and unlock bootloader than the current One X.
On a design note, am I the only one who really hates the red soft buttons?
EDIT: Actually it seems as of the AT&T version of the One X+ is going to keep the white capacitive buttons
Source - http://www.engadget.com/photos/atandt-htc-one-x/#5330769

comepso said:
I'm on AT&T and looking at getting the HTC One X, SG3, or waiting on the note 2. Any advice as to which phone I should I get?
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I had a Vivid and upgraded to the One X, could not be more happier.

Yeah I was just looking at the One X+ and comparing it to the note 2, at phone area and both are great looking phones.
If the One X+ is easier to root i might go with it rather then the note 2 sense i really don't like the touchwiz ui.

Any ideas on what to get? I am so over the vivid that I'm not even going to root or s-off. I filed an insurance claim cause I thought it broke and when the new one was sent out, I fixed the old one. So fml on that. I don't want to be stuck with this much longer.
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Get a Nexus 4.
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No SD card slot .? Uh.. hell naww.. lol and it doesn't have a notification led either .! What kind of world has thus become .?? I'd go with the galaxy siii or if you like fat ass screens, then the note ii
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Go with the s3. My mom just got one and it's a glorious device. Easy to root and plenty of great ROMs to flash. HTC will more than likely continue to give the development community the middle finger.
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FoxyGrandpa said:
Get a Nexus 4.
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Get a nexus 4.
Repeat after me.
Get a nexus 4.
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drwario said:
Get a nexus 4.
Repeat after me.
Get a nexus 4.
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It does seem like the device to get, but the glass back and lack of lte is a bit of a downer. A reviewer for some company dropped it off a desk and wound up with a major crack on the back. Seems like they could have used a bit more common sense in the design. A case should protect it well enough, but it's still ridiculous that a device of that quality has such a weak exterior.
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XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
it doesn't have a notification led either .!
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Yes it does. Just below the screen. Likely full RGB, too.

ronnie498 said:
I had a Vivid and upgraded to the One X, could not be more happier.
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+1
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Nexus 4! Just pay a little more and no contract. In fact, drop AT&T and use StraightTalk.

Nexus 4 ftw!
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Should i sell my AT&T Galaxy S4 for a HTC ONE?

I have a month old flawless condition Galaxy S4 White. I'm not to impressed with the Development for this phone lately as it hasn't really been out that much less than the HTC one yet has 1/4 of the development. Ive been with HTC Phones my entire life HTC EVO 4G HTC EVO 3D HTC REZOUND HTC AMAZE I even had a HTC TOUCH DIAMOND. And the last 2 phones I had were the GS4 and the Gnex. I love heavily modded and feature packed roms. And the HTC ONE has all of that. And Mikes rom is doing Amazing on this phone so quite frankly im jealous. I absolutely love my S4 and it does everything I need but me being a crack flasher idk what to do right now and im stuck.

You should do what you're heart tells you. If you want to stick with the S4 do it. If you want a HTC One, buy it Most of the people on the One forum will tell you to ditch the S4 and get a premium aluminum boomsound One ( including me ) Fact is that the S4 and the One both are great high-end devices with excellent development here on XDA. Just do what you think is best!
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Short answer: absolutely.
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Yes.
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That's what I did too!
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squabbi said:
That's what I did too!
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are you much happier where you're at now? What do you like better about the HTC ONE

Easton999GS said:
are you much happier where you're at now? What do you like better about the HTC ONE
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I'm very happy now, I remember them saying that the Snapdragon S4 would have tons of custom roms.. but the octacore version was much better off .
I think after using the note for a couple of months and I got the S4, I saw nothing different. I think it was software and the build of the phone that got me. Also the development .
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