my cell phone finally died - what to get?

I'm still a Samsung fanboi.

First Samsung was a Galaxie S3. Loved it.

After 2 years we "Upgraded" to an LG G4. That lasted about a year and a half. The LG camera lense clouded up, and 2 replacement lenses cracked within a week.

Then the phone bricked.

We just bought unlocked Samsung S7s (not Edge), and so far, I couldn't be happier.

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And our Samsung Galaxy Tab A have served us VERY well for a few years now. We use the tablets more than the phones, and they've been great.

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dmn23 said:
I love my Moto X. Every time I've messed with my Mom's Samsung I end up hating it.
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You would love any vanilla Android phone, then, since the Moto X is pretty vanilla. In fact, a bunch of base features in Android were originally enhancements Moto put on the first couple Moto X's.
 
I love my Google Nexus 5x on Project Fi. Unfortunately they can't solve my inability to make outgoing calls from honemuch of the time, but I had the same problem with Verizon, so it must be some kind of interference with towers.
 
jp_nyc said:
I love my Google Nexus 5x on Project Fi. Unfortunately they can't solve my inability to make outgoing calls from honemuch of the time, but I had the same problem with Verizon, so it must be some kind of interference with towers.
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You connected to WiFi?
 
OK, one more question for all you cell phone guys.

Is 64gb with no SD card expansion slot generally enough space?

I'm 'this' close to pulling the trigger on the OnePlus 3T, but their 128gb model is sold out, and maybe not coming back to the U.S. market. So it's only available with 64gb of storage, which roughly 12-13gb is taken up by the OS since they went to Nougat 7.0. Rumor has it that the OnePlus 5 will be out in May, maybe one of the reasons the 128 version is no longer available?

Anyways, should that be a deal breaker? I can't see me putting a ton of music on any phone that I get, as I have a really good mp3/lossless music player that uses micro SD cards (the Fiio X3).
 
It depends on how much music and pics/videos you generally plan on storing. I had a 16G iPhone that still had storage left on it after 2+ years of use. When I upgraded they had a deal on the 128G model so I got that.
Media typically will eat up your storage more so than say, upgrades to you apps etc. I would think.

Edit: just saw that you posted that you don't put much music on the phone...I think you would be ok at 64G.
 
I don't store music and don't do that much photo wise. I've got 22 gigs left on my 32 gig Nexus 6.

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I don't think that avoiding LG and Samsung is necessarily "going under the hood." I do agree that some Android phones are better than others, and 'less is more' when it comes to bloatware, etc. I do know that I have been reasonably OK with just about everything I've had, but the only phone I really, really loved was a Motorola.

And the only one I really, really hated was an iPhone.

For a long time I had both - corporate issued iPhones, and 'just to see the difference' I got an Android for personal use (and continue to do so). Gilmour's observation about different worlds echoes my experience. There were a lot of differences, but here's the way I'd summarize my 4+ years of having both: when they worked well, the iPhones were better phones. But when they didn't work properly,* iPhones were a horrible, hellish experience.

* specific things iPhone(s) did that made me crazy include:
- taking over 60 seconds to refresh a map screen. Hey shithead, I'm driving on a freeway in a strange city, looking for the fucking exit. Think you could redraw those directions before I miss it?
- the infamous "don't hold it by the edges" antenna issue with the 4.
- having to scroll endlessly to get to an app.
- serious connection issues with corporate networks (I worked for a couple really large companies where you were expected to be 'on' your phone the minute you walked onto one of their corporate campuses - despite it's reputation as having less bugs, iOS played worse with our networks, and no, we did not have second-rate IT)
- dealing with the iTunes universe for recreational content. Technically, I wasn't supposed to be listening to podcasts, etc., but ... I hated not simply being able to drag and drop mp3s onto my phone via a USB connection. Fuck you, Apple.

Android has never been perfect, but it also hasn't ever left me feeling irate with myself for trusting modern technology.

Verizon is a good network, btw. (Based on extensive travel throughout the western US, rural Montana and Idaho to downtown LA, etc.).
 
I'm due for a phone, probably won't get one soon, because they refuse to make an adequate device with a physical keyboard. I went without it a couple times now, and I hate it with the same white hot fury I did the first time I tried it. The only thing close is the Android Blackberry, but the idiots insisted on making it in their dippy vertical format. Samsung can service diseased sailors, as mentioned, they cripple their devices with garbage, and they are the dumber version of Apple, so they copy of their annoying trends (enormous paper thin fragile devices, headphone jack on the way out etc), without offering the one advantage of their all-in-one integration.
 
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