Question about cellphone usage! - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

How many people think they are too addicted to their phones? Everywhere I go, Im always on my phone, not just talking to someone. I mean using the phone for anything. Im using the phone while walking, driving, shopping, watching a movie at a theatre, eating, standing in line, waiting at the airport, gym, etc. People have told me to get off the phone so I need C.A. classes which stands for Cellphone Anonymous. Thats how bad my addiction is. Lol. Im always checking xda, androidcentral, weather, phonescoop. I know how to use a wireless PS3 CONTROLLER to play all of the emulator games such as nes, snes, genesis, gameboy, turbo grafx 16, n64, neo geo, and soon gba games. Lets hear from others.....
Imagine I get the Galaxy Note 2, it will be even worse. I couldnt be without my phone for more than 10 min. Think about it unlimited 4g fast internet with tmobile wherever I go.
The only place I try super hard not to be on my phone is at church on Sunday morning.
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You're definitely not alone. All of what you mentioned plus a flashing addiction means that unless I'm sleeping, I'm on my phone haha
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Ditto, brb going to flash a ROM. ;D

awesomedeals88 said:
How many people think they are too addicted to their phones? Everywhere I go, Im always on my phone, not just talking to someone. I mean using the phone for anything. Im using the phone while walking, driving, shopping, watching a movie at a theatre, eating, standing in line, waiting at the airport, gym, etc. People have told me to get off the phone so I need C.A. classes which stands for Cellphone Anonymous. Thats how bad my addiction is. Lol. Im always checking xda, androidcentral, weather, phonescoop. Lets hear from others.....
Imagine I get the Galaxy Note 2, it will be even worse. I couldnt be without my phone for more than 10 min. Think about it unlimited 4g fast internet with tmobile wherever I go.
The only place I try super hard not to be on my phone is at church on Sunday morning.
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Yeah you arent alone. i pretty much cry and feel like its the end of the world when i loose service.

Not me.

You use your phone in the theater? I hate you
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Teo032 said:
You use your phone in the theater? I hate you
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Well not talking on the phone. Only on facebook and text messaging.
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Back in the days when I had a sanyo flip phone, I was only addicted to text msg.

awesomedeals88 said:
Well not talking on the phone. Only on facebook and text messaging.
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It's just as bad haha cuz of the amount of light these phones create.

psykhotic said:
It's just as bad haha cuz of the amount of light these phones create.
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I really feel like I need C.A. classes. I accept the things I can not change. 12 step program for recovering addicts. Lol lol.
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Get a life.

Back in the days when I had a flip phone, I wasnt really addicted to my phone. When I bought the Samsung Moment, thats when I started to become addicted. Phones has come a long way.
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I know what you mean, this is my first real smartphone and I'm addicted.
There's just so much that you can always do with your phone now.
Applications, ROMS, kernels, themes, optimizations, etc.
It's fantastic!

You forgot to mention making out and use your cell lol
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I'm always on it, the only time I'm actually not on my phone is when I go camping, or in a movie theater, to prove I'm not truly addicted. Otherwise it's always on my body. One time I did lose my phone for three days, my mother thought I died!

Try some activities which you intentionally have to leave your phone at home, like playing soccer, basketball, etc.

lostintime7 said:
I'm always on it, the only time I'm actually not on my phone is when I go camping, or in a movie theater, to prove I'm not truly addicted. Otherwise it's always on my body. One time I did lose my phone for three days, my mother thought I died!
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Wow hahaha glad it was just a lost phone haha
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Related

Super batteries

If this is true and they let us buy them , its somthing to look forward to
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2011/11/batteries-energy-kung.html
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We just have to wait 3-5 years
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Yeahhhhhh
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paranoid android85 said:
We just have to wait 3-5 years
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That should coincide perfectly with the first MR from Sprint & Samsung for our phones then!
Weeeeeeeee!!!
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n01un0 said:
That should coincide perfectly with the first MR from Sprint & Samsung for our phones then!
Weeeeeeeee!!!
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That's not funny.. OK its funny..
Battery life is easily the worst part of this phone. Better batteries can't come soon enough.
I typically get 16 hours of normal usage (phone, text, email). I don't constantly stream Pandora or Netflix over 3G though...
Light usage gets me 24-26 on average. Of course, I start getting nervous once the battery gets below 40%. I'm used to it dropping like a rock after that from my days on the Moment with Froyo.
Watch Apple buy them out and patenting the technology
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Thats like bacon ona sammich. Samsung get on it!
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Watch Apple buy them out and patenting the technology
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Don't even say that! And I couldn't imagine samsung letting them do that. They know it would crush them. This service will never come in time for this phone but it doesn't later cause this phone had the best battery life of any phone I have used our seen hands down. With multi core processors and more energy efficient phones and this new battery technology coming it is going to be so nice. I'll want me a electric crotch rocker that will go 10x father than the beastly ones that they have now. Pros for posting this for us sir. I appreciate it

Sprint Effing around again.

I've been a Sprint business customer for 10 years. I have several lines with them and found out today that they changed their primer business plan from being able to get an upgrade every year to every 20 months.! I don't get it. Who cares if I get a new phone every year. I'm paying thousands of dollars to you every year. What crap. Looking forward to my g3 in 2 months now I have to wait another 11. I don't understand these companies. .
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Why there. I know many people with the epic touch are looking forward to their upgrade and they should know
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Yeah this is some old news buddy we all know this
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I'm angry at Microsoft for making me pay for live just to be able to watch Netflix on my Xbox... also I think my ISP might be throttling my connection... I'm angry about that as well... just thought I'd share that with you.... also I'm angry at bad drivers and heat waves...grrr
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cp320703 said:
I'm angry at Microsoft for making me pay for live just to be able to watch Netflix on my Xbox... also I think my ISP might be throttling my connection... I'm angry about that as well... just thought I'd share that with you.... also I'm angry at bad drivers and heat waves...grrr
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LOL f ing great stuff
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Your Avatar goes well with this thread, lol.
ITT: First world problems
As a Sprint "Business customer" who makes the dumb decision to upgrade a phone every year? That doesn't sound like a smart business decision.
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ITT: First world problems
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Do you listen to ThePoint?
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I just had a 30 minute call with a rep questioning why my Sprint-2-Home minutes were being clearly charged against my Anytime minutes. The rep had no reasonable answer of why it was happening, all they kept repeating was "wait until the end of your billing cycle and call back".What a bunch of BS in passing the buck. She got low marks on the after-call survey.
I think that everything that could be said has been said in here.
---Jay--- From the Nexus

Addicted to my phone

I'm completely addicted to my phone, like most people on XDA, I mean I m on it 24/7 as soon as I wake up, and no for phone call or text (it actually bothers me) Idk what to do, flashing roms, kernels, checking for updates, does anyone feel the same, that's one the reason I had an iPhone I was limited to what could I do on it, was going more to the gym and what not, I know I can limit myself but is hard, anyone else wants to admit they are too? Anything that you have done to get away with it? And has it work?
I get emails and there not even important, going back 4 years ago is when started, getting the evo a few years back made it worse, I could actually watch hd youtube on it and stop using the computer less and less, where I work I'm the GM and I could check my phone whenever I want and that's bad, I mean looking at might stats I could spent up to 6 hours with my screen on, now it feel like a job to check my phone then anything else, you see xda members asking for the next update or when cyanogen is releasing his work on XDA, is crazy to admitted but truth at the same time, even think of unrooting my phone sometimes and I can't just give it up, anyways guys I just want to see how many people feel the same way, thank you for reading
Thanks for the responses xda members
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I am completely addicted as well...my girl hates my phone!! I am constantly doing something with it. Always on here...hoping for new updates from the devs here...new kernels, themes, whatever. I love my phone...this is also the first one I have rooted...which has made my phone obsession even more intense.
Is anyone addicted to running speed test? I sure am lol
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Warrior1975 said:
I am completely addicted as well...my girl hates my phone!! I am constantly doing something with it. Always on here...hoping for new updates from the devs here...new kernels, themes, whatever. I love my phone...this is also the first one I have rooted...which has made my phone obsession even more intense.
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Yeah my wife hates my phone too, before she though I was texting another girl or something, now she knows about rooting and all the time I'm on recovery mode she ask me"what are you doing to your phone again", really trying to stop tho
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I'm on mine all day too. I have music playing on it though and browsing. I hate flashing phones now though as the hd2 burned me out.
Hello my name is JayVee and I am also addicted to my phone. I have not gotten rid of that just new feeling you get with a gadget. There's no slowing down with this one. I listen to music, browse the Web, watch YouTube vids, and play games on this thing all day. I even refresh my twitter feeds 1000x per day on here. I use it more than my 2 computers. The first thing I do when I wake up is say good morning to my phone to wake it up and it feels so sweet when it listens. Makes me smile. My friends now call me antisocial because I'm on my phone more than I talk to them when we hang out. Idc tho.
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I am addicted to my phone too, but i am neither married nor have a girl friend. Should i be happy or sad? You tell me.
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rakeshchn said:
I am addicted to my phone too, but i am neither married nor have a girl friend. Should i be happy or sad? You tell me.
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Lmao either or one thing for sure is she will never complain to you ever. On the other hand the wife/gf will.
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Im addicted to everything about this phone. Flashing, customizing the home screen and buying accessories. MUST STOP. lol
Lol jeez guys some of you are bad... I'm moderately addicted to it.. not crazy tho.
I still haven't started flashing and etc. Only rooted so far to take off all the junk bloatware but it sure is an awesome phone !!!
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Crisisx1 said:
Lol jeez guys some of you are bad... I'm moderately addicted to it.. not crazy tho.
I still haven't started flashing and etc. Only rooted so far to take off all the junk bloatware but it sure is an awesome phone !!!
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Oh man watch when you start flashing roms and kernels lol.
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This should be submitted to Samsung for a commercial.
I got my first whiff of addiction with MTG3G and it never left me, android in general, now S3 specifically. Android shall rule the world. Oh wait, it already does!
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Bronyr said:
This should be submitted to Samsung for a commercial.
I got my first whiff of addiction with MTG3G and it never left me, android in general, now S3 specifically. Android shall rule the world. Oh wait, it already does!
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Yeah but is not a good thing tho, i been reading articles of how people have a hard time getting of their phones, spent less times with their family,just to stay "up to day", just like the world is coming to an end, and is hard to admit but is true, I hate it sometimes and I really try not to use it 0_o
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I used to be addicted to running speed tests until you realize it uses up a lot of data and results didn't change that much when you keep running the tests repeatedly lol.
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neotoky said:
I used to be addicted to running speed tests until you realize it uses up a lot of data and results didn't change that much when you keep running the tests repeatedly lol.
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LMAO same here!! i ran two speed tests on my 4g via the app.. next thing i know it used like 100 mb of my data.. UNINSTALL! lol
Snook321 said:
Is anyone addicted to running speed test? I sure am lol
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Haha nonstop
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I know this is from wp7 but is funny but thurth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdpQir1sqiQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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jgalan14 said:
I know this is from wp7 but is funny but thurth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdpQir1sqiQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Funny. Not because the addiction but because after they showed it was Windows phone, people seemed to not care as much..
So my name is Joseph and I am also an addict lol. Thanks for your honesty. I started with an HD2. I didn't even know about rooting or flashing and thought Winmo 6.5 was great lol. Then my buddy Wilfred turned me to the XDA site and it's been full on every since. My wife and I have always had the same phone HD2 and now Galaxy SII. When I wasn't fooling around with mine I was trying to doctor up her phone. I can't tell you how many times I have been up all night trying to fix something I broke on her HD2. oops lol. She would get so mad because I would accidentally erase all her apps and have to start over. ( During my noob phase ) But the only thing to do is sometimes just TURN IT OFF! I can hardly do it but sometimes thats the only way. I will leave it upstairs while we hang out downstairs so she does't get mad. I just got a great deal on the SSGSII and now I wish I had've waited on the SIII. lol. Oh well. :silly:
ADDICTED! you bet, I do my HTC-Hd2, mytouch4g, SamNote i717, and this one. Checking for anything to do on any of them, lucky for me the wife is all into it with, also a manager, so I am on them all day also...it's a DRUG...hehe
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Any good toddler learning apps on android?

I been searching for.some time now for any educational apps for my 18 months son with little luck.
Most apps are geared towards older children,not to mention not too many have child lock on them to prevent children from hitting capacitive buttons.Seem like all good children's apps or on ipad/iPhone and I won't to avoid this option if I can help it.
Anyone know of any good apps?
Here are few apps that I have so far that are usefull and not too complicated for children that are 1-3 years old.
1 Toddle Animal Numbers (Probably the best one,its educational and its free)
2 Undersea Adventure for Toddler (Not really educational but a fun and simple game,and its free)
3 Kids Doodle Paint (Best thing about this is that it has child's lock built in,so you can go to sleep while they draw and not have to worry about them turning it off,this one is free too)
And that's about it,yeah I know that's a damn shame.Rest that I tried is to complex.
The sprout app is a good app i use
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bmoreboy02 said:
The sprout app is a good app i use
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Looks good bout to try it,I must have missed this one.All the good apps might be burried at the bottom of search list.
lviv73 said:
Looks good bout to try it,I must have missed this one.All the good apps might be burried at the bottom of search list.
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My 19 month son loves the balloon pop game
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Apps by intellijoy.
Also, there are lots of interactive books by people like "Oceanhouse media" (the book reads and the child interacts with the page.)
This is a good thread, I have an app called "kid mode" that has a lot of stuff in it, my 18 mo old daughter likes it.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
Sub'd! Got my second unit due in April! Will be keeping an eye on this thread.
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You can try BabyApps 2.99 on Play.
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No offense but why would anyone give a toddler a smart phone to play with?
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My daughter sits on my lap and looks at pictures and plays games, she's not allowed to do it on her own.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
Get a Nexus 7.
A broken n7 is cheaper than a broken sgs3.
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No offense but why would anyone give a toddler a smart phone to play with?
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They are toddlers...
They can take your iPad, S3 or whatever you have before you blink. So its better find them with the phone in theirs hands than see your gadgets on the toilet or trash can because they got bored.
Thats why also I have a Otter Defender.
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csmasn said:
They are toddlers...
They can take your iPad, S3 or whatever you have before you blink. So its better find them with the phone in theirs hands than see your gadgets on the toilet or trash can because they got bored.
Thats why also I have a Otter Defender.
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I guess if you store devices on the floor this would be an issue
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Toddlers love technology too why you gotta be a hater.
Cmon guys this get this on track. Its a good thread. Who cares why a toddler has a phone. Its the parents choice. My four year old has my old nexus s that she uses all the time.
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I guess if you store devices on the floor this would be an issue
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Bro... you must be gay or sterile. Only that 2 kind of people hate babies.
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xjayman said:
No offense but why would anyone give a toddler a smart phone to play with?
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If I had kids I would. Getting them a grasp of new things at an early age is important and most useful for the future. Smartphones are only materialistic items so I wouldn't care really unless they're looking at things they aren't supposed too.
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No offense but why would anyone give a toddler a smart phone to play with?
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Bc babys love the S3
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Here are the apps that my 3 year old plays with and has played with for a long time (probably since he was 18 mo.)
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox (His absolute FAVORITE!)
Color & Draw for kids phone ed
Kids Connect the Dots Lite
Thomas Game Pack
Kids Piano Lite
Zebra Paint
SUPER WHY!
And here is the toddler lock I used to use before he really knew how to handle a phone.
Toddler Lock
When my daughter was 18 months old she liked learning animal sounds, She particularly liked the cat on this one Toddler Animal Sounds by Bluphant Games, They also do a paid for version which has a child lock built in it.
Now she's 3 however it's Peppa Pig all the way!

Transforming our T989 to a dumbphone

Hi all,
My father recently decided to pick up a s2 and doesn't plan on using it for anything other than calling, texting, and calendar reminders. In fact, he WON'T even have a data plan.
He's coming from a dumb phone that'll give him wonderful battery life so this phone's battery life will be a sort of shock.
I'm wondering what are some ways to ease that battery life.
I've come up with
-custom rom& kernel
Underclocking
CPU sleeper
Autobrightness
2G only
Data off
Sync off
Wifi Bluetooth gps off
Any other tips you guys have? Help is much appreciated.
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I forgot to include freezing bloat.
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Why would he even want an S2 in the first place. If he's never going to use it fully? That's like buying the fastest $3500 gaming PC in the world and never using it. Just curious. Not trying to troll or anything.
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Why would he even want an S2 in the first place. If he's never going to use it fully? That's like buying the fastest $3500 gaming PC in the world and never using it. Just curious. Not trying to troll or anything.
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3000$ PC? Hardly a proper comparison. This phone is nowhere near as fast as people claim it to be.
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3000$ PC? Hardly a proper comparison. This phone is nowhere near as fast as people claim it to be.
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That went way over your head. He wasn't making a literal comparison. Basically saying "why would you pay more for features you aren't going to use."
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I'd like to suggest Darkside v8! That rom is incredibly stable and well developed.
If you want to save a lot more battery, I'd like to suggest SetCPU and just downlock. I doubt your dad would be able to tell an immediate difference between 1.1-1.2 ghz VS. 1.5ghz. Plus, make sure you install CPUspy and BetterBatteryStats to make sure that the phone is actually entering into 'deep sleep' mode.
Well on our carrier tmobile, there's pretty much no such thing as a dumb phone anymore.. Long story short, we got an s2 free through upgrade and no data plan because he doesn't use it. So for the price of free, why not take it? His old phone is acting up and he wanted something slightly more modern.
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Well on our carrier tmobile, there's pretty much no such thing as a dumb phone anymore.. Long story short, we got an s2 free through upgrade and no data plan because he doesn't use it. So for the price of free, why not take it? His old phone is acting up and he wanted something slightly more modern.
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You can't get a discounted smartphone without adding a data plan.
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a93hunt said:
Well on our carrier tmobile, there's pretty much no such thing as a dumb phone anymore.. Long story short, we got an s2 free through upgrade and no data plan because he doesn't use it. So for the price of free, why not take it? His old phone is acting up and he wanted something slightly more modern.
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Sounds EXACTLY like my dad, but we're not upgrading and not getting anything for free so I'm not getting him a new phone, currently he has a old candy bar style Nokia. I won't even give him my old n8 because it's too much for him
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You can't get a discounted smartphone without adding a data plan.
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Til there is a recognize contributor LOL, totally never noticed that.
I have a family plan. My brother's line was up so we upgraded his line (which already has a data plan) to the s2 and we're giving the s2 to my father. My father is simply going to be putting his sim in the s2 (and my brother will be keeping the same mytouch he has at the moment.) Tmobile will not add a data plan and force my father to use one as his line was not the one upgraded.
And this isn't att where data is added to lines automatically
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3000$ PC? Hardly a proper comparison. This phone is nowhere near as fast as people claim it to be.
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That went way over your head. He wasn't making a literal comparison. Basically saying "why would you pay more for features you aren't going to use."
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No, it didn't. That was a bad analogy. Maybe if he was talking an s3 or something but this phone is pretty basic and to the point when it comes to smartphones. And what features are you talking about that he won't take advantage of?? Any phone released In the last 2 years is capable of everything this phone is minus NFC and speed if were talking single core. If anything I would get him a phone of this caliber instead of a crappier android phone that's going to be much harder to deal with. My mother has a cheapo tmo android phone and its hell to use. Crappy touch screen, ect. I think the t989 is a great choice for anyone not looking for all the bells and whistles. Anywho...
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My father is like your father he asked me which phone was better the Driod or the iPhone. And i like looked at him as if he were high or delusional.. I told him none lol.
But yes i agree with the other user who recommended darkside v8. I recommend STOCK or any TouchWiz ROM. As for the comment "paying for extra features when he wont use them" Well if you already have the s2 which is collecting dust why not put it to use? I wouldnt recommend going out and buying an S2 to not use. But if one already has it then what the heck? lol.
As for data, T-Mobile allows any phone to not have a data plan. Im on the value plan, and if i wished, i could get rid of everything but talking minutes.
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That went way over your head. He wasn't making a literal comparison. Basically saying "why would you pay more for features you aren't going to use."
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No, it didn't. That was a bad analogy. Maybe if he was talking an s3 or something but this phone is pretty basic and to the point when it comes to smartphones. And what features are you talking about that he won't take advantage of?? Any phone released In the last 2 years is capable of everything this phone is minus NFC and speed if were talking single core. If anything I would get him a phone of this caliber instead of a crappier android phone that's going to be much harder to deal with. My mother has a cheapo tmo android phone and its hell to use. Crappy touch screen, ect. I think the t989 is a great choice for anyone not looking for all the bells and whistles. Anywho...
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What features am I talking about?
Everything having to do with data..(unless your on Wi-Fi)
And do you mind sharing the "bells and whistles" the s3 has that ours doesn't? It is a SLIGHTLY improved version of the s2 that does all the same things..
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RushAOZ said:
That went way over your head. He wasn't making a literal comparison. Basically saying "why would you pay more for features you aren't going to use."
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No, it didn't. That was a bad analogy. Maybe if he was talking an s3 or something but this phone is pretty basic and to the point when it comes to smartphones. And what features are you talking about that he won't take advantage of?? Any phone released In the last 2 years is capable of everything this phone is minus NFC and speed if were talking single core. If anything I would get him a phone of this caliber instead of a crappier android phone that's going to be much harder to deal with. My mother has a cheapo tmo android phone and its hell to use. Crappy touch screen, ect. I think the t989 is a great choice for anyone not looking for all the bells and whistles. Anywho...
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Ive had several smartphones, notably the Tmobile Comet (Running Froyo FYI), LG Mytouch, and the S2. The S2 is FAR from basic. If you every tried those phones, you will know. As far as battery life, try juice defender. Use the extreme profile, will save you a ton of battery life
pwner5889 said:
Why would he even want an S2 in the first place. If he's never going to use it fully? That's like buying the fastest $3500 gaming PC in the world and never using it. Just curious. Not trying to troll or anything.
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Funny, is like buying a ferrari and drive 35MPH only lol
To each his own. Everyone is entitled their own opinion.. Not flaming fighting, whatever you guys want to call it.
I'll check out juice defender.
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RushAOZ said:
That went way over your head. He wasn't making a literal comparison. Basically saying "why would you pay more for features you aren't going to use."
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No, it didn't. That was a bad analogy. Maybe if he was talking an s3 or something but this phone is pretty basic and to the point when it comes to smartphones. And what features are you talking about that he won't take advantage of?? Any phone released In the last 2 years is capable of everything this phone is minus NFC and speed if were talking single core. If anything I would get him a phone of this caliber instead of a crappier android phone that's going to be much harder to deal with. My mother has a cheapo tmo android phone and its hell to use. Crappy touch screen, ect. I think the t989 is a great choice for anyone not looking for all the bells and whistles. Anywho...
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S3 is not all that better. S2 is nowhere basic if you know how to use it.
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For ****'s Sake, can someone just answer his question without telling a full grown man how to spend his money?
I love how infatuated with this phone some of you are. Anyone who says the s3 is a slight improvement over this phone is horribly mistaken. I play with my buddies s3 from time to time.. side by side app loading is much faster, gets more FPS while gaming (dead trigger runs smoother on the s3 despite it pushing almost 3 tines the amount of pixels, the 720p screen is much better, the 2gb of ram really comes in handy (have any of you ever noticed how laggy and stuttery the t989 gets when updating apps from the play store? The s3 is completely smooth while updating) the cameras snapshots have better PQ.. everything about the s3 is better. Of all the handsets I've owned I've never seen such infatuation and naivety in its xda forum section. :-/ makes me hurl.
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