I don't think the main price concern is with phone. I got a refurbished Samsung galaxy s4 for $330, and then got a one year contract at something under $45/mo, after taxes and all, with unlimited everything. My advice - buy your own phone, get straight talk or something like it, and pay in bulk. Get a year - their monthly rate is cheap, but with a contract it's even cheaper.
Sorry, this is wrong. I just tried it to make sure. I installed the shortcut widget/app you linked to. Upon running it the first time, it detected more than one calendar app installed (Touchwiz calendar and Google calendar) and gave me the standard prompt to choose which app to use and the buttons "Just Once" and "Always". I chose always, and the Google Calendar app opened as expected to the create event dialog. I then terminated all running apps and ran the shortcut widget again - it immediately opened to the same Google Calendar event dialog as before, this time without the prompt to choose an app.
Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone has been my last choice [I'm a Nokia maniac and now that Microsoft has bought that society .... I feel lost!].
I just came off of a two-year contract with AT&T. Now I have a plan that's month to month. I want to buy a smartphone from eBay, and then I'll have my plan without a contract. I really like Samsung and HTC.
Don't feel lost, Microsoft has made a nice Windows phone. I bought the Nokia 520 for $60.00 and it has much of the features the expensive phones have. Soon Microsoft is going to issue an upgrade, free, Windows 8.1. Watch. I hooked it up with Consumer Cellular for less than $30.00 Gets phone, text and Internet and no contract. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/features-8-1
I have an Iphone 5. It's rock solid dependable and has more apps and features than I will ever use. It will hold a charge forever. My wife has an S4. It has more features and a better camera, but it isn't as dependable. It won't hold a charge well. It's very picky about which chargers it will work with. I got my wife a portable battery to keep her phone charged while it's in her purse and it won't accept it. She has had the phone worked on and they replace it. The new S4 is doing the same thing. I wonder if the battery life has to do with app management. I'll have to look into it. My oldest bought an HTC. He seems to like it, but he only had it for a month before he left for the military. He doesn't get to see it much nowadays.
My wife and Daughter both have Apple phones and they are nice. But I can't see the price they are paying for them compared to my cheap Nokia phone. The new Windows phone has a talking assistant like Apple. nice camera, although my cheaper model only has one lens. I have a GPS, M.S. Word, Find my Phone, a program that will find your phone if lost. It will tell you the exact address and give you the options of calling it, even if turned off, locking it, or deleting everything on it. It will tell me places of interest, gas stations and different kinds of restaurants and the directions to get there. It has both voice text and Internet connect. Post to facebook , etc. How can you beat that for $60.00?
New Android L features. The UI will look like this even on "low end" phones like the Moto E. It will be just as fast and smooth. [video=youtube;1rVm9Duvnrg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVm9Duvnrg[/video] Android L is due out in a few months for Nexus devices, followed shortly by Moto and GPE devices.
personally I kinda wish I would of stayed with my flip phone,battery life was way way way better.. though now I am addicted to Android I would definitely get something that had changeable batteries next time, something like the Casio GzOne Commando, than can buy a couple extra batteries and swap them if need be .
I thought you could change batteries in all cell phones. What do you do when your battry final gives out?
You can. But many cell phones do not allow the user to change them easily. They are intended to be permanent. They can all be removed though, if you know how. The batteries themselves are sold from vendors online (even OEM batteries). There's lots of videos online showing how to manually remove and replace iPhone batteries. In iPhones, Applecare will replace them for you if they go bad. They do charge for it though. With Android phones, your warranty service should replace them (until the warranty runs out anyway). If it has no warranty, any cell phone repair shop can do it for a fee as well. The main benefit to user-replaceable batteries is 1) you can swap them out, which means you can survive a lot longer away from a charger, and 2) you can replace them with enhanced batteries ("extended" batteries) you can buy online. These are after-market versions of the stock battery with much higher capacity. My 2011 HTC Rezound could go days between charges because of it, even without turning stuff down or off. The downside is that they added thickness to the phone that a lot of people didn't like. And this was during a time when thinness was a big deal.
The Nokia can let you change batteries. No having to pay a fee. For $60.00 I got this, Cortana, my talking personal assistant. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/features-8-1 With Consumer Cellular, I pay less than $30.00 a month and no contract.
it's all a scam, tablets that do not let you change the battery, phones that do not let you change the battery, when the battery dies they want you to buy a new phone and not give your old phone to someone else
The price of these phones and the carriers are a rip off. There is hardly anything my wife's I phone can do that my cheap $60.00 phone can't. I even have some features she doesn't have. It's not as good as a I phone I admit. But for what your paying for, it's great. I even put in extra storage in the Nokia which I'm not sure, but I don't think the wife can with her phone. She pays $10.00 more a month to insure it. For what I paid for this, that doesn't make sense. I just bought a spare, just in case.
Windows phone will be dead within 3 years. Pretty much agree with everything he said. If you want to buy a Windows Phone to use now, go for it. Just be aware that you probably will not have any long term support. There is going to be a limit to how much money Microsoft is willing to throw down the WP hole. WP just doesn't do anything that Android does not also do, and often better. It's not that it sucks, it's that it's a "me-too" product. No one is going to have an incentive to switch to it.
Might be right, but for $60.00, you can't lose. How much would I be out? This phone will do all I want it to do. Consumer Cellular will do it for less than $30.00 a month. I'll let you guys and my wife put out the big money.
I also added more memory to my cell phone and didn't have to pay someone else to put it in. I really don't understand pouring out a lot of money for an expensive cell phone when these cheap ones will do 85%-90% of what the expensive ones will do. I can call, fax, take and send pictures, play games. I have a personal assistant that will do 90% of my dialing and web searches for me. She will remind me of appointments from my calendar, traffic and weather conditions. I have a calculator, word speller, I have a program that keeps track of my investments, Word Perfect, address book, navigator, a hookup to my bank and facebook, can give you bus schedules,music and if you lose your phone, you can find out exactly where it's at and if you can't get it, you can lock it or delete every thing that's on it.It will ring even if it's shut off. It can even interpret many foreign languages.All for a $60.00 phone. I think they'll be around for awhile. They just bought out Nokia and for what they ask and offer for these phones, I think they will only grow. It's not like people aren't aware of the Windows platform and have to learn everything new.
I doubt that. Microsoft spent billions buying Nokia and developing Window phone to work with Windows 8 and I see they are going to come out next year with a new Windows 9 that looks and works more like the more popular Windows 7. It can do most everything a Android phone will do for hundreds of dollars cheaper. The features they have put on even their cheapest model, like I have, is amazing. I have all these features and it cost me about 5 cents more than my old dumb flip phone.
I got a pre paid Samsung Galaxy Discover during Xmas when it was $60.00. My plan is worth 20 bucks plus an extra 10 bucks for another 100 mb if data Its a crap phone cause it wont turn on half of the time when its off Im gonna get. Samsung galaxy mini. But the plan will be 70 per month Should be good! iPhones are too much. Theyre like a months rent.
I use Windows 8 and love it. I am a diehard Microsoft fanboy on the desktop...and I still have zero interest in Windows Phone. It is doing nothing that Android does not already do. If anything it is more locked down. Android is way more like Windows than Windows Phone is. If WP cannot even generate interest among their diehard fanbase, I don't see them gaining any traction. LOL...according to who? Who told you Android phones that do the same thing are hundreds of dollars more? Moto G is $180 retail. Moto E is $130 retail. These are not sale prices...the Moto G has been as cheap as $99 at verizon (off contract). And they are only going to get cheaper. Outside the US there are even more like this. http://www.motorola.com/us/moto-g-pdp-1/Moto-G-Wizard/moto-g.html#steps/1 I agree. WP doesn't suck. It just isn't better. And it needs to be better in a market where Google and Apple dominate everything else. The One-Horse Race: 85% Of The 300M Smartphones Shipped In Q2 Were Android - http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/30/th...ted-85-of-the-300m-smartphones-shipped-in-q2/
Which is about how often I replace phones and computers. Currently, I have an iPhone 4S with 32GB. Bought it used for $180. I had an iPhone 4 for about 3 years and love it but it only had 8GB. It was worth the $180 to upgrade. I haven't sold by old phone yet, but they go for about $80-90 so I'll recoup some of the costs.
Because they don't. Cheap ones often lack LTE, and have significantly slower processors, and definitely way-worse cameras (even if you don't care about the lower-res displays...none of them will have a 1080p display yet). Cheap phones only make sense if you don't care about these things. But I make use of that stuff all the time (especially the camera). So for me, it would be incredibly annoying to be forced to use a cheap phone. Just like buying a car...you get what you pay for. If you don't care about driving a junker, you will be fine driving a cheap car. Someone who wants speed or durability is going to pay more though. But they will...because the vast majority of people are using other platforms. And the Metro UI is not old hat to most people...most people are still using Windows XP and Vista and 7. Even many people who have embraced Windows 8, like me, refuse to use the Metro UI. Metro is generally a huge pain in my ass and makes everything take longer, so I install a 3rd party Start menu to bypass Metro.
Unbeatable photos and video Nokia Lumia 1020 http://www.nokia.com/gb-en/phones/phone/lumia1020/ The only 4G smartphone with a 41 megapixel camera sensor, Full HD video and Nokia Rich Recording for incredible audio capture. I have window 8 on my computer and not crazy about it, but like Windows 8.1 on my cheap Nokia 520 phone. With Cortana I no longer have to look up phone numbers in my phone book I no longer have to type texts. She even takes me to any internet site I ask for and does it fast.. Gives me voice and site directions on how to get there without using my minutes. She knows all my family and friends names. I don't have a 1080 display, but I can see things pretty clear. My camera has 5mp sensor, auto focus and it's a snap to send pictures to friends or Facebook. While your phones are nice, no doubt about it. But to get the good price, you have to sign up for a two year contract and if your smart take out insurance on it and pay those higher fees. To me, it just isn't worth that expense. I paid $59.95 for the phone and a little over $27.00 a month to use it. So cheap I didn't bother to take out insurance, as I could buy a new one for what I would pay in six months for insurance. As a matter of fact, I did buy a second one for a spare. I don't know much more you can do on yours I can't do on mine. I know my wife can't find her phone if she loses her Apple phone. I can find exactly where mine is at if I lose it. If I can't get it back I can lock it, or delete everything on it so no one can use it. When hers broke, she had to wait till they sent her another phone. I can take mine out of the drawer and switch the memory and sim card and I'm ready to go. I can even take out the battery that would give me an extra if I needed it. Not bad for a cheap phone.
I have an extra 32 GB of memory I got for $20.00 and I can tell my phone where I want to store things. On my phone, on the memory card or on the cloud. She'll also tell me where Wi-Fi is in the area I'm at and hook up to it if it's not secured. It will tell me how close I am to using up my min. and has a battery saving mode. Much of that came with the 8.1 upgrade.
