The battery life could be better, it is similar to an iPhone 4, about 1-2 days only. Wifi is bad for the battery, but it is possible to switch it off easily. The display is a bit larger than the iPhone. I have a Vodafone flatrate for the European net, it is a Quadband phone which supports all 2nd and 3rd generation standards from GSM to UMTS, including four GSM frequencies (850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz), GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and UMTS Broadband. Overall a very nice phone, my wife complains that I use it too much ;-)
-J. Sent from Android Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: Good info, thanks. What's the battery life like? The SGS II is one of the phones available on TMo, thus a cheap monthly. I presume you're on European GSM? -- Owen On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: I have a SGS II. Highly recommendable, one of the most sold Android phones in Europe at the moment. Quite similar to the iPhone 4 in form and function. -J. Sent from Android Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: OK .. I'm likely to buy an Android phone, but I confess I'm confused by the differences between the handset manufacturers. They all attempt to have somehow "improved" on the core Google software. And some/most of the phones are locked and/or require jailbreaking to do do fairly standard things. But I thought the whole point of android was being open, right? And there are radically different reports on battery life that I don't seem to be able to parse having to do with "task management", "notifications", and other things. So I'm confused and there isn't a lot of help on the web. I decided to simply reduce the choice to the carrier I prefer, TMobile. These are the androids they offer (on contract) of interest: $260 HTC Amaze $230 Samsung Galaxy S 2 $199 HTC Sensation 4G $100 Samsung Galaxy S $100 T-Mobile G2x Free T-Mobile myTouch 4G Do any of us use one of these phones? Or something close? Any recommendations? Possibly other androids I should consider? How to tame them? Sorry to obsess about phones, but god, this stuff is confusing! I should blog post on the differences in cellular tech and protocols, carriers (Verizon, ATT) ripping folks off, and so on. Thanks! -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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