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I (regrettably?) bought the Motorola Triumph back in august and it's been fine ever since, but i guess it's going to inevitably be be brought up by someone. I'm laying it out so someone doesn't have to watch a 15 minute long review made by someone in denial - it's probably not going to make you want to kill yourself but i don't suggest purchasing it. One problem - it's bad at doing mobile data and therefore bad at battery life. 3g speeds are ok but even blazing 3g speeds aren't fast enough to do anything with but the real problem is battery life, which lasts a day if you're willing to spend minimal effort managing it and lasts like 10 hours if you are retarded but for android that's honestly just middlin' tier. Screen is crisp and good, Game/movie battery life is good, camera is good but won't replace a real one(good at macro but probably not compared to other phone cameras), processor/gpu is powerful enough to do pretty much everything you will ever need (yes that includes n64 emulation), and even though its only got 512mb of ram its never a problem (i'm not being apologetic). Also the speakers are really good for phone speakers and the haptic feedback is less tinny than other phones The real question - If you're gonna spend $300 on a phone why not buy a real phone without problems on a real carrier? If for some reason (NOT BEING CHEAP) you can't buy a smartphone on contract but you absolutely must have the best android experience you can get for the cheapest price then i guess this phone does that?
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Mister Fister posted:Me too, i guess i was lucky in that i've had no problems with mine... The cm7 rom greatly improves the phone and I'm really not in support of blindly flashing custom firmwares. It's got some minor problems (not being apologetic here either) but it makes the phone more stable and perform a lot better.
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I got a nexus s to use on tmobile and i'm pretty happy that i won't have to gently caress with lovely roms and workaround bullshit to just have a working phone. And ICS owns pretty hard. I dont know why i didn't do it in the first place and instead had to deal with a lovely chinese crapphone for 10 months
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Jun 7, 2012 06:02
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spengler posted:I'm thinking hard about an HTC Evo V on virgin. What's the best phone I can get for $300 for t-mobile prepaid? Let me put it to you this way, I could have bought an evo 3d for $100 and I bought a Nexus S for $230 instead.
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Jun 12, 2012 08:09
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The $30 monthly 4g t-mobile plan has 5 gigs of data at 4g speeds, Does that mean that they're going to throttle you down to some awful, vaguely 3g speed after 5 gigs of data or do they just cut off your 4g access? The Nexus S doesn't even have a 4g radio in it, so if it's the later I'm not concerned and I get to use even more sweet, sweet faster-than-dsl 3g internet 
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Jun 14, 2012 05:06
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kalibar posted:Will Ting get full access to Sprint's LTE network, or is that still up in the air? Virgin has their own datacenters (?) or at least infrastructure that most MVNO's don't have.
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There's been multiple text and data outages for only virgin, though.
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Jun 26, 2012 06:17
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the kawaiiest posted:What is so bad about Android 2.x anyway? I mean, I understand that eventually some apps won't be compatible with it anymore and that these phones won't get OS updates, but is there something else in addition to these things? Are they going to eventually just not be compatible with anything anymore or something like that? The difference in usability, stability, and smoothness on ICS makes older versions of android just terrible in comparison. It's like the difference between XP and windows 7 - XP does everything 7 does and it's not like XP is any less usable, but you really should go out of your way to get 7/ics. I was of the impression that gingerbread was fine on my triumph and didn't really care about ICS but after using Nexus S ICS for a month gingerbread is just terrible outdated poo poo. It's not just a numerical upgrade. And installing unstable and questionable cm9 builds on your phone is technically running ICS, but with a fraction of the stability and smoothness that well supported ICS has. People swear by their hacked cm9 installs and for a lot of phones it's still the best rom avaliable but you shouldn't spend $200 on a phone that only has unofficial cobbled-together ICS builds and runs an outdated OS stock. Especially when the nexus S sells for close to that and it's probably still the best smartphone deal next to the gNex
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I used to worry about data but last month i used 1.5 gigs - 900mb was about 4 days of tethering because my internet died and 200mb was when I accidentally downloaded shadowgun over 3g I don't even bother turning wifi on anymore.
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Tremors posted:Being the lazy person that I am, I let my motorola triumph sit on my desk for a couple months before deciding to list it on ebay today. The thing is, when I tried to charge it up to wipe/reset it, it won't turn on. The charge light doesn't even come on. I've tried different chargers too. I'm wondering if it is the battery. Should the phone turn on when plugged into a charger with no battery installed? If so, then it's something wrong with the phone and I'm sol. Any thoughts from triumph owning goons? I have mine sitting on my desk because the three times i've tried to pawn it off on ebay, the buyers dodged and responded weeks later with "sry no interested" But yeah I just tried it out and if you take the battery out the phone won't turn on.
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MAJOR STRYkER posted:The charger port on the triumph sucks dick and is the only reason i don't like this phone (besides the gps hardware) Also the piss poor signal, battery life, build quality, data speeds, and android version.
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Roulette posted:After doing some research the past few days I think I'm leaning towards TMob prepaid for the $30 100/U/U plan. Currently I'm with Sprint and my contract is set to expire 11/26 (I was told if I cancel 10/26 I won't have an ETF) and I'm currently paying $80 a month for service. I was told that if I cancel now it would be $50 for my ETF so in my head it makes sense to just do that since it's either pay $160 for Sept/Oct or just pay $50 to cancel. Maybe I'm missing something? You can pop a sim card into any phone as long as it's unlocked and it will work, yeah (3g and 4g only work on compatible phones though). And I bothered with google voice but to be perfectly honest I would rather have saved the $20 because the voicemail doesn't work on tmobile, if it doesn't seem like something you would want to do then don't bother. The nexus S is pretty much the recommended "not-gnex" phone and while I have it and quite like it, it's still almost two years old. It's small and one of few phones you should spend your money on but, well, it came out in late 2010. It speaks for itself. nigga crab pollock fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Aug 16, 2012 |
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Even though the Nexus S is 3g, it's the same speed as my home DSL so I don't even notice a difference 4 mbit down 
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I've played games of league of legends over Tmobile 3g and not had any problems. TF2 was a bit iffy because my ping was around 120 though.
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Yesterday night two dudes had a table set up in front of the student center on campus and they were pitching a cell phone service called Solavei and nets you unlimited everything for $50 a month and lets you refer people for bonus cash (So basically it's a ponzi scheme) The dudes were poorly informed and really poorly chosen college students and did a piss poor job of not sounding incredibly sketchy, the actual website is less back-of-an-alley sketchy and more 80s-used-car-salesman sketchy http://www.solavei.com/ I'm not dumb enough to fall for it but it's weird because $50 a month for service isn't underhanded or that bad of a price (even assuming really low hidden caps) and unlike most pyramid scams the product is something people would actually want
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It's going to fail pretty spectacularly because nobody has tmobile compatible phones and few people are going to jump ship to a carrier because of contractual obligations. Unless they expect idiots to buy a plan to not use and just to refer people (likely option tbh)
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Hughmoris posted:For those using T-Mobile's prepaid service, what phone are you currently using? I bought the Samsung S2 prepaid phone for $299 at Walmart, and flashed it to CM9 but not sure if I'm going to keep it. I know the GNexus for $350 is a popular choice, but from what I'm reading its not that different from the S2 and has issues all its own. How is android a thing you get bored with?
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spengler posted:Goodbuy, VM Triumph, hello T-Mo Nexus. You can't even sell it if you tried I tried to sell mine for parts and three separate people won the auction on ebay and they just didn't send payment
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Oct 11, 2012 23:26
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Long Francesco posted:Is there a way to start a new month early on the tmo 30/mo plan without screwing anything up? I've got 6 days left, I'm out of minutes and hit the data cap a couple days ago. Having throttled data feels like I'm back on vm all over again How did you manage to use five gigs in three weeks? I don't try to limit my data usage and i never use wifi and I've only gone over 2gb when I downloaded a game loft game over 3g
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Radbot posted:What's wrong with a sidegrade if she barely uses her phone? If you're gonna spend 100 clams on A Thing you might as well make that thing better than whatever you got two years ago
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ThermoPhysical posted:You'll be pretty loving happy on HSPA/HSPA+, to be honest. I tried N4/ST out on Saturday at the Kmart on 50th and L, that place is a black hole for signal on Sprint. The Nexus 4 and Straight Talk (AT&T) handled it like a pro. I only saw EDGE once and that was when it was disconnecting from the call I made. Straight talk uses a proxy (or something) and speedtest doesn't work on ST without getting rid of it
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Omaha has never had WiMAX or LTE from Sprint so, to me, this is like LTE and I like it a lot.
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1karus posted:For anyone who is still using a Motorola Triumph, there is news of a partially working camera on CM9. Shouldn't be long before we have a fully working CM9 ROM. Jesus christ people still use the triumph? I gave up on it like may of last year when i bought a nexus s
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1karus posted:Yeah, I still have mine. I never had any of the crazy problems most of the people in this thread did. I didn't have any crazy problems, the thing just died after an hour of 3g use. And took a couple minutes to lock onto gps. on a good day. Going from the triumph to the S was like "wow this is what a smartphone is actually supposed to be like" because i never had to turn off 3g or go on wifi or watch my battery life on the S. The triumph is straight up one of the worst android phones ever made
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ilkhan posted:You should be able to go into a T-Mo store and request a microSIM. Thats what I did when I got my N4. No cost, but that seems to be variable. I went and asked for one and gave it to me for free. But while the rep was doing computer bullshit she made small talk and asked what new phone I got. I said i got the nexus 4 and she did the "this person has no idea what they're talking about i'm just gonna let them keep talking" nod and smile. I guess they hadn't gotten the memo that tmobile is getting it on contrct 
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Long Francesco posted:It really depends on what carrier you're on and your budget, but you'd probably be happy with any high end popular phone from the last generation or the current one if you can swing the bucks for it. The sgs2 is still a great phone for most things and there's the nexus phones if you want to sperg out about software. And people seem to be happy with the razr and it's variants if you're looking Verizon. For a low end phone you really can't beat the nexus s At around $100 you're lucky to get a mediocre phone running gingerbread used let alone a phone that's pretty stable with great battery life that also runs 4.1. It's low end but it's actually usable.
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