Nexus 7 vs Galaxy S2? - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

HSN has the Samsung Galaxy S2 on sale today for $199.
I got one for my daughter to do Lycamobile on (I know I have to unlock it) but I'm torn and thinking of selling my Nexus and getting one as well.
It seems to have a better camera and most importantly takes SD cards!
Why would or would I not want to do this?

Also the GS2 makes call, the nexus 7 does not.. It is not really possible to compare a tablet to a phone they are for very different usecases.
In case you are considering exchanging a GN for a GS2, I wouldn't even consider it. Not without a rather sizeable cash amount going my way. But we have different preferences, and if the camera means a lot to you it may be worth considering. As for the sd-card, I never enjoyed the sd-card space on my previous phone since my apps just filled the internal memory anyway, and I find having everything on an internal memory is easier to manage, but again if you use your camera a lot the extra space for pictures may be worth considering.

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Preorder 32/64 GB

The Note II is certainly the (if not) best Android phone of 2012. I'm just wondering, does anyone know when the 32/64 GB versions of the Note II will be available. Currently there's only the 16GB version. Also, do you think the Note II will get a 2GHz stable overclock? I I'd like to think so. Thanks
MartinDLawliet said:
The Note II is certainly the (if not) best Android phone of 2012. I'm just wondering, does anyone know when the 32/64 GB versions of the Note II will be available. Currently there's only the 16GB version. Also, do you think the Note II will get a 2GHz stable overclock? I I'd like to think so. Thanks
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Honestly why do you need that much space/speed ? Just stick a 32gb card in it. If you try to overclock it you'll just fry it and kill the battery and any warranty.
djfuego said:
Honestly why do you need that much space/speed ? Just stick a 32gb card in it. If you try to overclock it you'll just fry it and kill the battery and any warranty.
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Because I choose to buy a 64GB version. I didn't ask which one I should get, I asked where I could find those versions. Anyway most high end Android phones can all be overclocked. Like One X or S III. People run them at 1.8GHz without issues.
djfuego said:
Honestly why do you need that much space/speed ? Just stick a 32gb card in it. If you try to overclock it you'll just fry it and kill the battery and any warranty.
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Your storage space issue is for me the easiest to answer. I am an extensive user of audio books. The teaching company series, Will Durant's seminal 12 volume series, podcasts, science fiction audio... Asimov, Huxley, Clarke, current fiction, "Why the West Rules for Now" (i highly recommend by the way) is how i keep sane on morning and evening commutes. I have a 16gb g-note and a 64gb SD card and i use all of this storage. Samsung's release of a new 128gb SD card will be none to soon, and if it cannot be utilized on my current note, it will most likely spur me to buy the note 2 with 2 GB ram and 64 GB SD internal. I also can access and stream from my collection on my home server but my at&t "unlimited" isn't, so i use WiFi whenever possible. This means that i use the phones memory as a cache buffer to limit my telecoms' leverage. Concerning speed. I am currently testing an incredible voice control app called Utter. Extremely flexible, configurable and powerful. Coupled with Ivona voice the results are simply stunning. I am also running a custom JellyBean rom called slimbean that is half the size of ice cream, is overclocked at 1.8 ghz and is as smooth as a baby's butt. I've been overclocking and flashing roms since i joined xda, its why i joined xda. I understand your credulity, we do still call these devices phones after all. i am also aware that my setup and usage is not typical, yet it is just this flexibility of android and current Samsung products that make them so attractive people like us with such differing needs and views.
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To the Op, i am keeping my eye out for the larger 32/64 internal storage versions and will let you know if i stumble on a release date reference. Thanks for starting this thread
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Every time someone responds to a person who asks about when a model with a larger storage will be out with the "you don't need that much" line, or something like that, they should get an infraction.
Hotobu said:
Every time someone responds to a person who asks about when a model with a larger storage will be out with the "you don't need that much" line, or something like that, they should get an infraction.
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3 strike policy, and you're out of XDA, haha
First time i heard the "you don't need that much.... " line was when i opted for a 10MB hard drive for my then new spanking hot PC AT. It had a 16bit processor and 512kb of ram...my buddy had the
commodore 64 (64 KB of ram and a cassette based memory). Despite his lack of technical sense, we remain friends to this day. Unsurprisingly, he favors that other phone ecosystem....the glass jewelry ones with those little screens. He still freaks out when he sees my note. His first words? Yeah, you guessed it; " you don't need that much..." I notice his wife checking it out though... So maybe there is some justice in this life
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You only get to see the true value of a decision if you get to live with it.
I had friends that laughed at me s3 about its size. Now one of thes ( a .... girl! ) got one for free
Her first reaction was "un#@#$ing believable... i was blind and now i saw!"
Same thing with 2nd battery. People give 500+$ for a phone and they don't get an extra battery and a charger.
If i borrow them mine for a few days they get to "see the light"
Same thing with sd cards. From 16 to 32 and from there to 64gb they were telling me what you will do with all that space for ?
Guess what? Its usually full.
So i ll be waiting for the 32gb at least , i dont believe we will see a 64gb version sadly
We might need to wait for a month or so to get it
64gb + 64gb
I have about 80GB of mp3 files which I want to carry around with me. I have several GB more of pictures I have a Galaxy S3 with 32GB internal and a 64GB card, and it's getting crowded. And I'll keep adding more files. Maybe one day I'll be comfortable with keeping this in "the cloud", or streaming it from HDs in my house, but right now I want it all on my phone.
Right now Samsung's web page only mentions a 16GB version for US carriers. I definitely won't buy that.
I agree with the philosophy of not questioning why someone wants the storage they want.
It is already available for pre-order on some sites (handyshop.de) by an exorbitant price of 899 eur and a delivery date at the end of October...
MartinDLawliet said:
The Note II is certainly the (if not) best Android phone of 2012. I'm just wondering, does anyone know when the 32/64 GB versions of the Note II will be available. Currently there's only the 16GB version. Also, do you think the Note II will get a 2GHz stable overclock? I I'd like to think so. Thanks
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I was wondering the same as well. I just ordered my Note 2, but am wondering about the storage. I have a 16GB Nexus 7 and have found that with no music/videos/picutres stored, I cannot download all of my apps without getting a low storage warning.
Anyone have issues with downloading around 200 apps on a 16GB Note 2? I know you can add an SD Card, but that doesnt help with app storage, correct? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
022908ali said:
I was wondering the same as well. I just ordered my Note 2, but am wondering about the storage. I have a 16GB Nexus 7 and have found that with no music/videos/picutres stored, I cannot download all of my apps without getting a low storage warning.
Anyone have issues with downloading around 200 apps on a 16GB Note 2? I know you can add an SD Card, but that doesnt help with app storage, correct? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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just wait and purchased highest memory storage device.. 16gb will give you actually 11gb and which will spent very fast..
I am going to sell my 16gb note 2 soon.. its worthless as we cant install apps on external SDCard

why no card slot htc?

This was supposed to be the phone that compete with the galaxy s3 and I would have loved to buy this except what, no micro sd card lot? dang.... I love HTC phones and I'm so saddened that this phone doesn't have a card slot for me to expand its storage capacity. I just hate jumping over to the samsung side....
sorry if this was brought up before... but why didn't they put one in?
To get a unibody design with less slots and projections. If u are not happy with the design and prefer cheap plastic material with poor ergonomic design and aesthetic feel, go buy an s3. No one's stopping you.
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rohitbalan said:
To get a unibody design with less slots and projections. If u are not happy with the design and prefer cheap plastic material with poor ergonomic design and aesthetic feel, go buy an s3. No one's stopping you.
ViperX Goodness
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my point is i don't want a samsung, i love HTC phones. btw, i don't think the S3 is poorly designed.
well, hopefully HTC's next set of phones will have card slot. until then I'll have to keep my htc vivid which is actually a quite powerful phone, but the One X would have been faster and got a bigger screen.
32gig inbuilt and 25gig with dropbox is more than enough for me
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Bro u hv got 25gigs usable on ur phone +25gigs on drop box. Dat makes it 50 gigs.... How much more u want
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Oh please, why do you need a bloody card slot? I have always used to use phones with one, starting with HTC blue angel with normal sd card, than HTC neo. I have had about 15 different phones, and each had a slot for a memory card. but I really appreciate HTC built hox like this. 32 gb is more than enough for me, I would even prefer 16gb if it would be cheaper.
I hated my Acer liquid and HTC Desire, because I needed a card for flashing roms.
HOX is really a perfect phone except of the battery. This is really the only point, why I suggest tu buy a new phone in the next to years (I hope HTC will follow Motorola in this case, so my next phone will be htc).
Really, HTC is the only major player, who makes phones with individuality right now. Iphone is boring, Sammy is good in making pieces of sh=t (galaxy s2 and original s were the only phones I adore) , LG is not available here in Germany and Sony is to Sony styled for me.
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You could buy the Sammy and you could buy a 64GB card and you'd get 14GB more than HTC give you (in practical terms). You could even buy a 128GB card for £100 but I wouldn't, I think you'll find failure occurs before 2 years is out, especially with the read write cycles generated by apps which use the SD as storage for data. Even then you'd have little advantage in real world usage and a pentile matrix AMOLED screen and nasty plasticy feel, cracks appearing in your battery cover and touch wiz.
The reality is, like it or not, storage is going in the cloud and HTC know it. I bet I could get 100GB of free storage in the next hour just by signing up with all the free services. Many of these have android apps as well so integration is almost seamless.
Zlotin said:
Oh please, why do you need a bloody card slot? I have always used to use phones with one, starting with HTC blue angel with normal sd card, than HTC neo. I have had about 15 different phones, and each had a slot for a memory card. but I really appreciate HTC built hox like this. 32 gb is more than enough for me, I would even prefer 16gb if it would be cheaper.
I hated my Acer liquid and HTC Desire, because I needed a card for flashing roms.
HOX is really a perfect phone except of the battery. This is really the only point, why I suggest tu buy a new phone in the next to years (I hope HTC will follow Motorola in this case, so my next phone will be htc).
Really, HTC is the only major player, who makes phones with individuality right now. Iphone is boring, Sammy is good in making pieces of sh=t (galaxy s2 and original s were the only phones I adore) , LG is not available here in Germany and Sony is to Sony styled for me.
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i guess because I don't have a data plan. I put all my vidoes, podcasts onto my phone. I have a 64gb card in my phone that has 8gb usable internal and together i have about 10 gbs left.
i guess if i ever get a data plan then hte HOX would be almost enough.
i agree with these guys, all my phones had an SD slot, i put the SD in and never touched or took it out again, that said i have 2000+ songs leaving me with out 8GB SD save, more than enough for pictures.
slamming_sammy1 said:
i guess because I don't have a data plan. I put all my vidoes, podcasts onto my phone. I have a 64gb card in my phone that has 8gb usable internal and together i have about 10 gbs left.
i guess if i ever get a data plan then hte HOX would be almost enough.
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You'd better hope that 64GB card holds out! If you get a HOX on any network you'll get unlimited data. If you're PAYG then the reality is, with storage going cloud based you're going to find your choices dwindling fast over the next couple of years. Simple answer is that for the price of a 128GB card you could have data added to your plan.
slamming_sammy1 said:
i guess because I don't have a data plan. I put all my vidoes, podcasts onto my phone. I have a 64gb card in my phone that has 8gb usable internal and together i have about 10 gbs left.
i guess if i ever get a data plan then hte HOX would be almost enough.
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To be honest, I don`t prefer to have so much stuff on my phone, you can store stuff for 2 weeks non-stop awasomeness with 32Gb. Don`t say, You have no possibility to update Your library every two weeks (ok, music will last longer, but podcasts and films are usually deleted after watching\hearing)
But for such a video-maniac, I would advice to buy a tablet (n7 for example), it`s much more adorable to watch videos on the bigger screen, and the battery life on the last-gen phones is terrible for long-time video enjoy.
But as a tip, you can use flash drives with hox, because some kernels support USB-Host functionality.
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Nexus 5 vs GS3 + Zerolemon + 32GB MicroSD

I currently have a GS3 with a 7000mah Zero lemon battery (3-4 days battery) and a 32gb micro sd card giving me a total of 48gb storage (incl 16gb internal memory).
I feel really compelled to sell my GS3 and buy the 16gb Nexus 5 once it's in stock once again. I won't spend much extra buying the nexus since the GS3 sells for around $300-$350.
I need your opinion haha...am I affected by commercialism? It is a worthy upgrade since I won't really be spending money on it? Or should I ride this one out and maybe wait for the nexus 6....although the value of gs3 would drop severely by then.
Thanks
x3malex said:
I currently have a GS3 with a 7000mah Zero lemon battery (3-4 days battery) and a 32gb micro sd card giving me a total of 48gb storage (incl 16gb internal memory).
I feel really compelled to sell my GS3 and buy the 16gb Nexus 5 once it's in stock once again. I won't spend much extra buying the nexus since the GS3 sells for around $300-$350.
I need your opinion haha...am I affected by commercialism? It is a worthy upgrade since I won't really be spending money on it? Or should I ride this one out and maybe wait for the nexus 6....although the value of gs3 would drop severely by then.
Thanks
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Everyone to a point is affected by commercialism. Google and Nestle did a great job marketing, they stood quiet about the device until the very end and released a huge update.
1. It's worth getting if you want to get away from Touchwiz and into 4.4 AOSP.
2. If space doesn't matter too much, Nexus 5 is a good choice. Use cloud storage to back up your things!
3. It's a worthy upgrade because of the CPU at least, 2.3 GHz. However, camera is the same. It has a slightly bigger screen with 1080p display.
4. It's cheap brand new.
5. It's unlocked already.
If you're looking at the Nexus 5, don't look back, it's a good device!
There is a sticky for other device discussions and upgrading

What next after the Note 4?

I'm finally getting to the point where I'm tired of not having root and might bite the bullet and spend the couple hundred to early upgrade to another device and I'm kinda out of the loop on what's what now. Maybe you guys have some input? I used to only use the upper-end Samsung phones, but since I'm on Verizon now it's not looking so good (at least with the Note 4). What top-end phone is out there for Verizon that can be rooted and has an external card slot?
Can't speak to if it can be rooted or not but this is what I am going with.
I went with the Nexus 5x. Good price, quick updates, unlocked bootloader, compatible with every US carrier, and more available pocket space. It's a step down in some aspects, but as a hypochondriac, I really shouldn't have access to a pulse oximeter in the first place lol.
well not willing to spend $500+ for a Verizon bloat boat phone, I'm looking at the nexus 5x, nexus 6p, Moto x pure and OnePlus2. All of them will settle my flashing addiction. 6P is a little pricey so I may go with one plus 2. $389 for 64GB version. The only beef I have is it isnt AMOLED.
Ive been looking at getting a nexus 6p, because i really like the screen size of my note 4. Sucks it cannot accept sd cards, and the battery cannot be removed, but with an option of 128mb built in, and how well the internal battery performs on it, it throws those issues out the window for me.
Looks like the Nexus 6P in 128gb would be the most interesting out of those mentioned. It just sucks that with the improvement of the technology, there has to be compromise. Maybe the external memory option is getting dropped because it's getting unused from all the online/cloud services now? I just can't imagine not having ample storage space for NAND backups, app backups, alternate ROMs, etc... And then moving things back and forth to memory. Sure wireless ac is nice, but what about some damn USB 3.0? *sigh*
3dux said:
Looks like the Nexus 6P in 128gb would be the most interesting out of those mentioned. It just sucks that with the improvement of the technology, there has to be compromise. Maybe the external memory option is getting dropped because it's getting unused from all the online/cloud services now? I just can't imagine not having ample storage space for NAND backups, app backups, alternate ROMs, etc... And then moving things back and forth to memory. Sure wireless ac is nice, but what about some damn USB 3.0? *sigh*
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Well I think a big reason is for the deletion of microSD is room in the phone. They strive for thinner phones with more features. With the online\ cloud space really why do you need a micro sd? You can store the important things on the internal memory and things you don't need to access all the time on the cloud. SD cards are only another thing to go wrong with the phone.
Check out the Elephone phone. It has a SDcard slot. Down side is it has a MediaTek CPU which may hinder custom ROMs.
scarygood536 said:
Well I think a big reason is for the deletion of microSD is room in the phone. They strive for thinner phones with more features. With the online\ cloud space really why do you need a micro sd? You can store the important things on the internal memory and things you don't need to access all the time on the cloud. SD cards are only another thing to go wrong with the phone.
Check out the Elephone phone. It has a SDcard slot. Down side is it has a MediaTek CPU which may hinder custom ROMs.
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I agree, it is another thing that can go wrong with the phone, and I've had plenty of issues with them. It might just be more of an issue of want versus need and what I'm comfortable with. My downtime isn't always places with a good connection to the internet, so the storage space is a lifesaver. I do have one of those thumb drives that has a micro usb port on it, so that might just live in my pocket or something instead.
moto x pure is pretty sweet. keeping my note as a backup though.
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I just ordered a 6P. I'll be keeping this as a backup for sure. I really love this hardware, but I'm getting tired of the issues 5.0.1 carries.
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Does a 64GB Version Exist??

Okay so my tablet has been running pretty ****ty as of late. Battery draining very fast, charging being very slow, locking up from time to time, and overall sluggishness.
So I just went looking around see what replacement parts there were out there. And I found one site that sells Tab S Motherboards, now I have no clue whatsoever if a replacement mother board would even fix my problems, and honestly I don't plan on getting it.
I'm just curious as when selecting the ram, it not only had motherboards with 16gb and 32gb's, but also a motherboard with 64gb's of ram.
But I've looked around and I can't find anything about a 64gb version of the Tab S. Was it exclusive to another country? Does it exist at all? I'm just all kinds of confused right now.
As far as i know, 32GB was the largest and only sold by BestBuy in the US.
You can always use an micro-sd card, I use an 256GB on my T800, There is supposedly a hack too turn internal and external storage memory into all internal storage.
John.
I have been shopping for Tab S parts long time ago and I was surprised how ridiculously expensive these parts can be on ebay. I mean, about 18 months ago, I needed a new mainboard (didn't care how much storage), and the prices were in the neighborhood of 130-200dollars for one with no real guarantee that it works. Eventually by some luck I run into some person who was selling a working 32GB T800 tablet with a cracked screen for something like 120 bucks on ebay. I decided to buy that tablet for spare parts, like battery or mainboard. That's still too expensive for such an old tablet, but what can we do? The Android tablet market has literally gone to ****. Brand new 2018 or 2019 models suck big time and cost like they were an iPad or and iPad pro.

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