diferent smart phones

WIFI is a joke here. I drove 30 miles to town today so I could upgrade Jelly Bean on WIFI. We're really rural. In the winter sometimes it is a challenge getting to town.

strollin wrote:

rk911 wrote:

More To See wrote:
Everybody posting must only be using very high end phones with lots of internal memory. Drop down from that and you will quickly learn that you are very restricted to how many Apps you can run. I'd say that a phone without at least 1 Gig of internal memory should not considered and 2 Gigs would be much better. (What good is a plug in SD memory of perhaps 16 Gigs when a large number of Apps only can be run on internal memory?)

both of our iPhones are 16GB models (no SD card memory...all internal). I have somewhere north of 75-apps on mine, my wife has a few less.

16G refers to the total amount of memory on board, some of that is set aside as RAM while the rest is used as storage.

A phone with 1G of memory set aside as RAM can generally run more programs simultaneously than a phone with only 512M.

well, duh...I should've known that. a bit of poking around on the web revealed that a 16GB iPhone 4 (which is what I have) has roughly 2.4GB set aside for the "built-in" apps and the OS with the remainder available as storage. I found an early reference to a 8gb iPhone 4 that stated only 512mb was set aside for the OS. the first citation was taken from an apple forum but the poster did not indicate that s/he held a position within apple. maybe the information in both is about as accurate and reliable as that fellow on the commercial that says he's a "French model" (bon jour!)

rk911 wrote:

More To See wrote:
Everybody posting must only be using very high end phones with lots of internal memory. Drop down from that and you will quickly learn that you are very restricted to how many Apps you can run. I'd say that a phone without at least 1 Gig of internal memory should not considered and 2 Gigs would be much better. (What good is a plug in SD memory of perhaps 16 Gigs when a large number of Apps only can be run on internal memory?)

both of our iPhones are 16GB models (no SD card memory...all internal). I have somewhere north of 75-apps on mine, my wife has a few less.

16G refers to the total amount of memory on board, some of that is set aside as RAM while the rest is used as storage.

A phone with 1G of memory set aside as RAM can generally run more programs simultaneously than a phone with only 512M.

My phone (Droid Razr) has 16G of memory, 1G of that is RAM, the rest is application/data storage. On top of that I have a 32G SD card that extends my total application/data storage to nearly 48G.

FYI The above $40 Galaxy phone from Walmart has 11.4GB left of 16GB. A 64GB SD card can be installed.

I have a iPhone 4S on son's account on AT&T. AT&T coverage is significantly more limited than Verizon. Both are OK in towns or interstates.

Just got DW a Galaxy S3 with Verizon which has more memory than will ever be needed. $40 at Walmart and $100 at Verizon. Guess where we got the phone. I'm very impressed with this phone compared to the 4S. DW has only had it for 3 days but it's impressive. BTW From all of the reviews we saw no reason to spend $200 for the S4 phone.

I'm sure you can get the iPhone 4S at a good price.

If good maps are important to you then don't go with Apple products. Last fall Apple dumped Google maps and are using Tom Tom maps. These maps are nowhere near as good as the Google maps and since Google has about a 10 year lead on everyone else they provide an excellent product.

BTW I haven't upgraded my phone to the latest Apple software because I'd then have the Apple maps. I'm going to keep the Google maps on my iPhone.

It will probably come down to another VHS versus Betamax thing. The Sony system might have been a little better but the open distribution of VHS allowed them to dominate the market for home recording. You can figure out which is which.

I have Verizon and the iPhone. I go with Apple because I like the simplicity of all their products.

I'm eyeing the soon to be released Motorola X as a replacement for my almost 2 year old Motorla Bionic........

Bill.Winegard wrote:
Samsung Galaxy III!. Just understand that whatever you buy will quickly become the red-headed step child to the phone released the following week.
I would stick with the Android format (vs. Apple) and the Galaxy III is currently the leader in that market. However, the G IV will be out by Summer!

You're right; Samsung just announced the Galaxy 4. My DW and one daughter have the Galaxy 3 and love them. I think the only phone that can equal the Galaxies is Apple, all of which are uber-expensive. You can buy a Galaxy 3 right now for less than $100, and it will be a more than adequate phone for the next few years IMHO.

This is a Chevy vs ford thing. Get whichever phone feels good to you. I have a Motorola razr currently and would not buy another currently. But they change phones on a daily basis, so you never know. I will say my razr can take multiple drops onto concrete floors without major damage and no case or screen protector.

2 gb doesn't last long on 4g. I'm around 20gb a month myself. But if you aren't a power user then who knows....

Apple vs droid thing is not a huge deal in my book. Get whatever seems good for you. I have iPads and MacBooks, but prefer droids for phones currently. But that could change in future too.