Smartphones thread

[gillza]

Um comrads pay attention to price limit set in the first thread

 

[HitShane]

Best buy had GS3's for buy one get second free... also $50 off on the first one...

 

[gillza]

Lol please read the first thread, he is in Croatia.

 

[HitShane]

Lol, well im sure there are many phones aval he can buy on ebay. I have 3 lines on my account. I do when we dont need one, get the newest upgrade, and sell it on ebay for his price range on a new never used phone...

 

[Eudaimonium]

Understood, so basically the moment I get a new phone, I should flash it with newest firmware that exists for it, in Xperia's case, 4.0.4 "Ice Cream Cake".

Since the interface is highly customisable, not worried about bloatware much. 'Tis Android, after all. How hard can it be to remove?

 

[HitShane]

Thats ICS, Ice Cream Sandwich... But, there are a ton of Jelly Bean custom roms out there now you could find

 

[HitShane]

I have a HTC Vivid that has ICS on it from ATT. I put a custom JB onto it and it works great and non the att crap...

 

[Eudaimonium]

So you mean, upgrade it to 4.1 even though it's not designed for it?

Hmm I dunno, how reliable is that?

Also yeah thanks for correction, stupid typo...

 

[HitShane]

Read the tips on JB. It is the best android software to date. the system req's are the same. it will handle quad core.

 

[HitShane]

Here is a good place to Educate yourself before you do

CyanogenMod | Android Community Rom based on Jelly Bean

 

[HitShane]

Galaxy Nexus Seeing First Batch of Android 4.2 Custom ROM?s From AOSP ? Droid Life

 

[HitShane]

This is the Forum for all things Dev Android... Enjoy

Android, Windows Phone, and Windows Mobile Development News, Information, and Howtos - XDA Developers

 

[Eudaimonium]

Jeez dude, use "Edit" button to add stuff to your posts, don't make 4 posts in a row. Tends to look bad.

I much appreciate the links, though.

What's this "GB" you speak of? Gingerbread? The old 2.3?

What "quad core"? What are you talking about?

I was asking,

Xperia U is designed for Android 2.3, and comes shipped with it. For all my intents and purposes, it's a great OS, but if I can upgrade why not.

So I have an option to upgrade to 4.0.4 and it's officially supported. I will do that.

Why would I want to upgrade to 4.1 if the phone wasn't designed for that and that upgrade isn't supported by makers of the phone?

Besides, there was a video, differences between 4.0.4 and 4.1 are trivial at best.

 

[Bionic-Badger]

You might want to upgrade to a later version of the OS the phone wasn't designed for (or at least the OEM doesn't provide for) because you might want some of the features or optimizations. Also, some of the OEMs are just lazy or want you to force obsolescence on you so that you upgrade your phone and buy a new plan when your contract is up. You can get more life out of an older phone if you can successfully utilize newer firmware--provided the hardware is sufficient.

Hell, if I stuck with the "official" software on my current iRiver H-140 music player from 2003, I'd certainly have ditched this beast half a decade ago.

 

[HitShane]

Lol, Jelly Bean... Samsung note 2 is quad, lg nexus 4 is quad, and LG Optimus G is quad and includes wireless charging...

 

[Eudaimonium]

You might want to upgrade to a later version of the OS the phone wasn't designed for (or at least the OEM doesn't provide for) because you might want some of the features or optimizations. Also, some of the OEMs are just lazy or want you to force obsolescence on you so that you upgrade your phone and buy a new plan when your contract is up. You can get more life out of an older phone if you can successfully utilize newer firmware--provided the hardware is sufficient.

Hell, if I stuck with the "official" software on my current iRiver H-140 music player from 2003, I'd certainly have ditched this beast half a decade ago.

Understood, thank you for the explanation man.

How would I go about a downgrade? Is it as simple as upgrading to new version? So if anything goes wrong and I want to return it to 4.0 ?

Lol, Jelly Bean... Samsung note 2 is quad, lg nexus 4 is quad, and LG Optimus G is quad and includes wireless charging...

Umm... not understood

Slow down man, I don't know what are you saying here last few posts.

What quad core, how does that relate to anything?



In other news, I just had an Xperia U in my hands to try out for a minute, and I have to say, even with original OS 2.3, it appears to be brutally fast, smooth UI animations, and most of all I really enjoy the screen colors and sharpness (that's something Youtube videos will never show you),

Also it's very light, it's EXACTLY the size I expected it to be (can put in pocket but large enough)...

Man now I can't WAIT until I save up munies.