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Some interesting light reading about Android OS upgrade from manufactures.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/17649/android_upgrades
This is why I'm never going to buy another Samsung product.
My next phone will either be the Verizon iPhone or a HTC or Motorola that is a "Droid" so Verizon won't forget about it.
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What I got from this blog is that HTC and Motorola spend more time working on releasing updates. Samsung is looking at 11% of their handsets updated taking 159 days for one phone to get to 2.2. HTC and Motorola only spent 1/2 that time getting upgrades out for their phones. Just shows who is more committed to keeping customers happy. I am not sure it has anything to do with Verizon or not. Maybe a manufacturer thing.
I should have known.
Years back I had a Samsung WinMo phone, then I switched to HTC WinMo phones. My brain cells only remembered that the Samsung hardware was very rugged and well made, while the HTC hardware was OK. Add to that the fact that the screen on the Fascinate is nice, and here I am.
It wasn't until after I had this Fascinate a while that I remembered that the Samsung software is filled with quirks, and they have long delays in upgrades. And the upgrades have different quirks.
I've found that they pull 350ma max from the charge port. At max brightness and constant GPS activity (that is, using it as a car GPS) the phone uses well over 350ma. So even when plugged in, the battery gets drained because the charger can't keep up. Who is the idiot in charge of that mistake.
Then there is the auto brightness setting. On auto brightness, at night, if you plug in the charger, it goes to about 30%. Too bright for night use. During the day, on auto brightness, in the car, plug in the charger and it goes to about 30%. You can't see it in the sunlight.
Software and hardware quirks like this make this wonderful phone a FAIL. Add the slow response time for upgrades means I will not be getting or recommending Samsung.
I have to admit, the Fascinate does appear to be rugged and durable. But a 5 year old PDA phone with 5 year old software is irrelevant in today's world, so that has little value.
working for flextronics as a tech in a vzw corp store, I've seen triple the amount of moto droids (all variants) come back for one hardware issue our another compared to the sgs offerings. also factor in the e-fuse and I'll probably steer clear come my upgrade this march. I'm interested in what lg has to show, but after the lackluster android offerings they've had so far and the sheer amount of lg phone I fru a day (on average 5 or 6) I'll probably wait a couple of weeks before I grab either the lg or the thunderbolt (no matter how much I hate sense... hate hate hate). love the sammy hardware. but but with out the latest software and the benefits it brings to the table, why go with then again to feel like I still have lsat months best regardless of specs
The Swift seems to have been well received and gets good reviews and often compared to the Moto G. However reviews for the Storm haven't been so complementary with criticism of the camera, battery and other hardware issues. Posts in this forum generally relates to problems found and probably doesn't give a fair indication of the quality of the phone.
I believe Santa is due to bring me a new Storm at Christmas and I was wondering what I might be getting? I am familiar with Cyanogenmod as I currently use it om my Moto G and Nexus 7 but it is the hardware which seems to have the big question mark over it.
I suppose I'm asking you guys out there who are using the Storm everyday, how are you finding it?
Thanks.
Brianrh
Would be interested in hearing about the Battery Life too.....generally reviews are saying its bad (but then compared to my One M7, which is slowly dying from a very poorly batt, anything would be better!!!)
Cheers
Dongers
Battery is good not extraordinary but good, BUT processor little poor an gpu not really good for 1080p
Hi.
I got a Storm for my birthday. I'd ordered it a month before, and given it to my wife to give to me.
Generally, it was pretty good. Note I said "was"!
I'd come from an HTC Desire (Beats edition) from 2011. If I unplugged it from the charger at 7am, by 7:30, it was down to ~90%. I would get 12 hours out of the battery if I was lucky.
The storm (with the same usage pattern) at one point was lasting ~4 days between charges. Heavy use (for me!) it would last ~24 hours.
The camera was OK. I was a little disappointed as it seemed noisy.
The screen is lovely, and the performance (relative to my old 4 year old phone) was great. It may not be as fast as a flagship phone, but I only paid £200 for it.
Unfortunately, the 1st one had the "bad LED" behind the back button.
I sent it back to ebuyer, who sadly said because it was >28 days since I ordered it, I couldn't re-buy, then return the old one for a refund (which meant I had to use my manky old phone for a week). Wileyfox said the LED was a know issue cause by the 1st OTA update, and that when the new one arrived, to refuse the update.
I *personally* call BS on that one, as I've heard of people who'd not applied the update whose LEDs had failed.
My new one has had *both* new OTAs applied, and I've switched to on-screen buttons for now, and I'll see what everyone else says about the new update 1st.
Overall, I'm happy with the phone. It's cheap. It's fast, and with the new update, takes nice photos. The new OTA has improved battery life for other people too.
HTH.
Just curious how everyone is enjoying their Moto X Pure Editions since they've been out for a little over a year now. I've left mine stock the entire time I've had it which is something new for me. As far as the phone itself is concerned I really like it. Love the screen, the size, shape, etc. However, really looking to get something else or rooting as I've had a ton of software issues. Apps not responding the way they should or crashing repeatedly . This is the first phone I've had that's actually acted this way so kind of turned off by it.
Stock here, 11 months of use, 2 updates (5 to 6.0 and the last security update) never a issue.
Just one time, the screen shows a rare horizontal lines, 1 reboot and back to normal.
The heat you ask? Yes, in chrome and YouTube, the heat is an "add on" not specified in the manual...
Great phone, but my next one is a OnePlus 3, not a Lenovorola
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Screen cracked on first one and had to play endless games with the repair department, including reporting fraud on my credit card. Both speaker grills are working on their second time falling out. Screen and glass coating are better than average on the replacement. I like the LTE bands, high res screen, and the ability to use a big microSD card. The lack of software support is the worst I've seen of an OEM phone. I had to switch to CM13 but there's nobody there who can completely fix the drivers - VoLTE breakup, proximity sensor bugs, speaker fade-out bug, no WiFi calling, poor low light camera performance, etc. I don't see myself trusting Lenovo again for many years to come.
Stock Style
Kept it still in stock. No major issues. Been using the phone with the stock Moto Screen cover plastic still in place (all moto phone have nice plastic screen guard which I never peel. Use it heavily for 3-4 days post unboxing and remove the logo, which has now dried due to screen heat, with a coin). Waiting with finger crossed for Andorid 7.
Camera app and camera as hardware was real disappointment. unlike G4 plus camera app, this phone camera app is very basic in nature. Also the camera is not comparable with other phone's of this budget. Otherwise this was an awesome deal.
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Stock here, 11 months of use, 2 updates (5 to 6.0 and the last security update) never a issue.
Just one time, the screen shows a rare horizontal lines, 1 reboot and back to normal.
The heat you ask? Yes, in chrome and YouTube, the heat is an "add on" not specified in the manual...
Great phone, but my next one is a OnePlus 3, not a Lenovorola
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Much the same experience for me. Very happy with the phone for the price (I paid UK £300 in December 2015). Still amazed at the sound quality from the speakers. Fast charging too.
I also had the horizontal lines problem about a month ago - thought the phone had died but a reboot solved it. Has only happened once.
Issues ? For me :
would like wireless charging
wish Lenovo were better with updates
maybe a bit too big - but that's my problem , not the phone's - I wanted a big display.
Bought it approx. 2 months ago (15th July, 2016) and really enjoying it all over except the display, my display is bit warmish when compared to other phone and also has a slight bleeding in left corner. I wish it had AMOLED display as the previous series. Camera gives really good pics so happy with it. Would like to know if anyone else has the same display concern as mine.
Stock rooted EU Style at 6.0.1 - so far there are no issues with the phone
Picked it up on the Prime Day sale.
It does the job and is better than my previous phone, a Nexus 4.
Minor gripes. If it gets the update to Nougat I'll be happy with what I paid for it.
It will soon be my girlfriends phone and I'm getting an iPhone 7 or Pixel X. That iPhone is just a screamer. Fast, and good looking. Would be my first Apple product.
Used to like the phone, now I'm extremely indifferent about it. I haven't had any hardware problems, but the lack of software support is extremely disappointing. The camera takes OK pictures, the battery rarely provides more than 2.5 hours SOT, and from what I can tell every custom ROM for this phone blows chunks (I've tried all the popular ones, but the CM base sucks). I've had sporadic issues with cell service, which I believe are software related, and to top it off, my phone somehow nuked itself while I was on vacation in June (I was able to get it back but I lost a bunch of stuff and had to re-setup my phone while on vacation)
I was at Disney world all day, battery died about an hour before I left the park. I got in the car, plugged it into the car charger, and while it was coming up to the battery screen it went haywire and rebooted. Then the charging screen came up and I shrugged it off. About 30 minutes later I tried to turn it back on, and it just bootlooped endlessly. So I had to pull out my laptop, use the slow hotel wifi and download the firmware, then use fastboot to re-flash everything. Luckily I use Google photos to back up pics, so I didn't lose any of the vacation photos.
For the first time in years I'm considering an iPhone. Never had to deal with this kind of crap with my old iPhone 5.
Love my Style, changed 2 screens on it, been stock since I purchased it brand new, not through choice, can't root this phone at all, I've tried every combination possible but the remote server times out requesting the token I'd so I've given up any hope of rooting it.
Apart from that the phone has been flawless, the odd heating up with certain apps which I can put up with.
Not really impressed with the way Moto/Lenovo have treated this supposed flagship in terms of updates and still no solid word from the company if our device will get nougat. It probably will get it but I would have bought a pixel xl by then.
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No major issues really (bar the obvious update void). Still love the fact that the phone is smaller than my friend's iphone 6 plus, yet the screen is larger.
First phone I've ever owned that still does not have a single scratch on the screen even though it has been naked since day one, got the phone October 17th. In fact there are very few marks on the phone overall and I've dropped it from knee height onto the road a couple of times.
I often think about wanting a new phone (only because I have G.A.S (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) but then I realise that anything I get won't really do anything that this one doesn't already do.
Waiting patiently for Nougat!
I bought the Style with extreme enthusiasm since it ran "stock" android and had an SDcard slot. My initial impressions were hopeful... it was a little laggy but other than that, it was okay, and the speakers, OH GOD the speakers. But after a month or two of using it and unlocking the bootloader, it was obvious that there were some serious issues with the phone. Lenovo/Motorola obviously didn't know what they were doing when they made the stock ROM for the device. It was always laggy for me and there were other issues as well. After tons of attempts to find an AOSP or stock rom that fixed these issues... i gave up. I just accepted that TruPureX was the best i was going to get. It made me miss my LG G2 and HTC M8. Anyways after a little under a year i did a lot of thinking and eventually made the decision that i was tired of feeling the need to flash custom firmwares, bootloaders, recoveries, etc. just to get my phone to function in the manner that I feel it should. I ended up buying a (very expensive) iPhone 6S Plus. I understand that people will most likely bash this decision and i respect your views, so respect mine. I still believe android as an OS is superior, but the OEMs just can't properly implement it into their devices in the way that Apple can. I don't regret my decision and now i have amazing battery life and everything "just works". Which isn't something i've been able to say about an android phone. I'm not advising anyone to do what i did, i respect all technology as well as your views, i'm just sharing my experience. Owning this phone annoyed my so much i switched sides (at least for a while).
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I bought the Style with extreme enthusiasm since it ran "stock" android and had an SDcard slot. My initial impressions were hopeful... it was a little laggy but other than that, it was okay, and the speakers, OH GOD the speakers. But after a month or two of using it and unlocking the bootloader, it was obvious that there were some serious issues with the phone. Lenovo/Motorola obviously didn't know what they were doing when they made the stock ROM for the device. It was always laggy for me and there were other issues as well. After tons of attempts to find an AOSP or stock rom that fixed these issues... i gave up. I just accepted that TruPureX was the best i was going to get. It made me miss my LG G2 and HTC M8. Anyways after a little under a year i did a lot of thinking and eventually made the decision that i was tired of feeling the need to flash custom firmwares, bootloaders, recoveries, etc. just to get my phone to function in the manner that I feel it should. I ended up buying a (very expensive) iPhone 6S Plus. I understand that people will most likely bash this decision and i respect your views, so respect mine. I still believe android as an OS is superior, but the OEMs just can't properly implement it into their devices in the way that Apple can. I don't regret my decision and now i have amazing battery life and everything "just works". Which isn't something i've been able to say about an android phone. I'm not advising anyone to do what i did, i respect all technology as well as your views, i'm just sharing my experience. Owning this phone annoyed my so much i switched sides (at least for a while).
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Used to like the phone, now I'm extremely indifferent about it. I haven't had any hardware problems, but the lack of software support is extremely disappointing. The camera takes OK pictures, the battery rarely provides more than 2.5 hours SOT, and from what I can tell every custom ROM for this phone blows chunks (I've tried all the popular ones, but the CM base sucks). I've had sporadic issues with cell service, which I believe are software related, and to top it off, my phone somehow nuked itself while I was on vacation in June (I was able to get it back but I lost a bunch of stuff and had to re-setup my phone while on vacation)
I was at Disney world all day, battery died about an hour before I left the park. I got in the car, plugged it into the car charger, and while it was coming up to the battery screen it went haywire and rebooted. Then the charging screen came up and I shrugged it off. About 30 minutes later I tried to turn it back on, and it just bootlooped endlessly. So I had to pull out my laptop, use the slow hotel wifi and download the firmware, then use fastboot to re-flash everything. Luckily I use Google photos to back up pics, so I didn't lose any of the vacation photos.
For the first time in years I'm considering an iPhone. Never had to deal with this kind of crap with my old iPhone 5.
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Sounds like we have similar experiences. I've never owned an Iphone but have had multiple Ipods and Ipads. I think I've grown out of the flashing game myself. I look at all the roms available for the Pure and I'm just not impressed at all. I've come from a long line of Android devices that have all had excellent development and this one has been a bust. I have also been thinking about going with an Iphone but I'm pretty terrified of getting away from the Android environment lol. I'm just to a point in my life where I want my phone to function flawlessly the majority of the time. I wasn't impressed at all with my Galaxy S5 so that's kind of turned me away from Samsung in general. I really liked my HTC devices so I may give them another look in the near future if I don't end up giving Apple the go ahead.
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Sounds like we have similar experiences. I've never owned an Iphone but have had multiple Ipods and Ipads. I think I've grown out of the flashing game myself. I look at all the roms available for the Pure and I'm just not impressed at all. I've come from a long line of Android devices that have all had excellent development and this one has been a bust. I have also been thinking about going with an Iphone but I'm pretty terrified of getting away from the Android environment lol. I'm just to a point in my life where I want my phone to function flawlessly the majority of the time. I wasn't impressed at all with my Galaxy S5 so that's kind of turned me away from Samsung in general. I really liked my HTC devices so I may give them another look in the near future if I don't end up giving Apple the go ahead.
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Yes our experiences are indeed very similar. The phone i was most impressed with was my HTC M8. The battery life that it gave with the "small" battery was amazing at that time, but my 6S+ has a similar battery, bigger screen and more powerful processor and it somehow manages to demolish the M8s battery life. I find it extremely impressive. I'm a college student and i just decided i didn't have the time to keep flashing things, etc. The only thing that i hate about iOS is the fact that you have no access to the file system. I may jailbreak and fix some things but for now i'm trying it unmodified. At least on ios you're guaranteed good software support for a good while.
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I often think about wanting a new phone (only because I have G.A.S (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) but then I realise that anything I get won't really do anything that this one doesn't already do.
Waiting patiently for Nougat!
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This. Exactly this.
A couple of white spots on my LCD. Not a huge deal.
LCD cracked- without cracking the glass, which is a first for me.
It took a ton of work to get the battery where I needed it.
Development is dildos. ONE (brilliant) stock rom, and its developer left. All the AOSP roms have issues.
I can't believe with only 3 unlocked phones on Verizon, we don't have an abundant choice of roms. Ridiculous.
Had mine since Christmas eve. I replaced the battery thinking it was dying, turns out I just use a lot of battery-consuming apps. Aside from that, hardware has been top-knotch. No issues with software (still running Lolipop), but I rooted the day I got it and disabled updates because I heard the MM update was having tons of issues and causing pops in the speakers and battery drains, etc. and never got around to going MM.
Convinced 2 friends to get Moto X pures as well, and they both love it.
I've had the Pure since November 2015: rooted and spent most of the time on stock. Right now, I'm running Dirty Unicorns 10.6 official, which has the September 2016 update. My overall impression is: 5.5 out of 10 (10 being the best). It's a decent, middle-of-the-road phone.
PROS
Unlocked (no carrier BS)
Bright screen
Two speakers with decent sound
CDMA and GSM antennas
Decent call quality
Motomaker configured to taste
CONS
So-so battery life. My LG G3 lasted about 48 hours after full charge. My MXP lasts about 18 hours.
So-so camera. Forget about low light pictures. (Missing my LG G3 camera...)
Mediocre level of enthusiasm about the phone, i.e., it took a long time to get decent cases/screen protectors, ROM development is OK but there are more devs for other phones
Lack of Android updates from Motorola. (I prefer stock due to stability and battery life.)
Heavier than a comparable Samsung Galaxy phone for it's size.
No "wow" feature to the phone: everything is just meh.
why is it nobody mentioned about its ram.. ram management on mm is so poor. i get 600 to 800 sometimes 500 ram free with no other apps installed. pure stock no root.vthats why its so laggy at times... bought it last month for $260 with 32gb on best buy.. i thought it was a deal but cant help notice the lag sometimes. i have a lg g pro 2 3 gb ram with snapdragon 800 on 2014 model... i get 1500 free ram so why is moto x pure on 2015 model only gets 600 to 800 free ram with 3gb phone. will motorola lenovo can still fix this great phone ?
After loving my Moto X and Moto X 2014, I gave the Moto X 2015 a try. On stock It lags a good amount, battery life is below average, sound is loud but quality is bad, also when I receive notifications the sound lags in the middle of it, and the phone ran extremely hot just using social apps or playing light games.
CM13 was the only rom to bring this phone back to life for me. I underclocked the cpu and gpu because of heat and battery power increased dramatically. Notification sounds sound normal and even when underclocked, the phone is still snappy on CM13.
My gf have a Samsung Galaxy s6 with apps I use plus more and her phone didn't nearly get as hot as mines with also better battery life than I was on stock.
I received my S7 today it is a lovely phone to look at, however the 'edge' style screen is no more than a piece of curved glass on top of a flat screen. This means the touch screen is really thick.
I also ran Antutu check and the phone is half of what elephone were claiming it should be... mine was 47k... where i seen screen shots earlier last month of test devices pumping out 80k plus!!!
Still the phone was only £200... hopefully there will be some good community support for the software on this phone, as it seems elephone are notorious for crappy phone support.
Ive been on a lumia 930 for last two years and i have to say it has been a flawless device, its a shame the windows operating system didn't get the app support it deserved. Soooo back to fiddling with android :good:
I can say from my experience with elephone that their devices are not very good. The quality of the devices are mediocre at best and the support is awful. Updates from elephone don't exist and and their promises about software updates are pure lies. I bought the p6000 for my girlfriend and i was very disappointed about build quality and support for this device. Never again i will buy a elephone device, but this is my opinion based on my experience with this brand.
Finding more things wrong with it... The GPS is not working very well at all. I think I'll send it back and get something else.
I had an Antutu score of 70k+ when I first got the phone. Then after a few OTA updates its 55k. Not sure if its Elephone or Antutu.
The build quality is above average for the price, I think. And a poor imitation of a real Samsung edge, the rounded edges give no benefit.
Have seen reboots when i unplug the charger - twice now. Battery drains...I am hoping the OTA updates solve this
Still quite usable for now.
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I received my S7 today it is a lovely phone to look at, however the 'edge' style screen is no more than a piece of curved glass on top of a flat screen. This means the touch screen is really thick.
I also ran Antutu check and the phone is half of what elephone were claiming it should be... mine was 47k... where i seen screen shots earlier last month of test devices pumping out 80k plus!!!
Still the phone was only £200... hopefully there will be some good community support for the software on this phone, as it seems elephone are notorious for crappy phone support.
Ive been on a lumia 930 for last two years and i have to say it has been a flawless device, its a shame the windows operating system didn't get the app support it deserved. Soooo back to fiddling with android :good:
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Hi ,seems like big difference on s7 performance..
I find design very pleasing and the same goes for friends who care ,fingerprint and cam are super and thickness 7.6mm vs galaxy s7 7.9mm .. In My point of view its a candidate to most worth buying phone 2016 like the P8000 but it all about taste..
Just to prove my score! I wonder why they are so different??
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Just to prove my score! I wonder why they are so different??
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Find it so strange too ,so many different experiences with the S7 ,mine where one of the lucky ones or so i thought ,with the new kernel update this morning i now have a score in Antutu at 48xxx what about ur phone after update.. ? now u exeed 80xxx
it's a pity
I've received my S7 yesterday... pretty much phone....
But benchs are a pity.... my old phone with MTK 6752 have best result than the Helio X20
I expect a good update very soon, because actualy, the S7 is the worst phone I have had ...
Mine did not update this morning... It did however update as soon as I booted it up for the first time. So I'm guessing it was the same update.
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Mine did not update this morning... It did however update as soon as I booted it up for the first time. So I'm guessing it was the same update.
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Hi ... before you update your S7 could you run an Antutu Test , and the same after update, to see the difference before after please ...
If it asks to update yes I will. I have a feeling that the update my phone did on first boot was the same one that others are currently getting.
Hopefully there will be some good custom Roms knocking around soon.
I bought the black 64+4 s7, from gearbest. I have already put on the big update the other day. Then I did a factory reset. So*after coming on here I tried the antutu test. I am only getting 37000-38000? How are you guys getting higher scores. I make sure no other app is running etc, tried battery in balanced mode and high mode, and also plugged into the mains. Same score each time.
So I took my phone of charge and ran the test again and I got 86100. Ran it straight after and back in the 40k mark. My phone does get hot around the camera area on the back, top.
Weird, so both tests were done with phone off charge and completed one after the other? I've been running my phone for 3 days now... I'll run another test and see what it is saying.
I also purchased mine from GearBest.
Not that it should make a difference.
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Weird, so both tests were done with phone off charge and completed one after the other? I've been running my phone for 3 days now... I'll run another test and see what it is saying.
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So when I got up tonight I tried again -
Phone 60% charge - 70k
Phone on full charge - 85k
2nd*try - 63k
3rd try - 48k
4th try - 55k
My phone had over*90% charge for each try. Put my phone back on charge and tried one last time, it crashed right at the end, got a message that the app had stopped responding. Backed out and there was a score, 86346
3d - 16307
UX - 36287
CPU - 26813
ram - 6939
So basically the app or the phone only works at 100% when coming of a full charge Seem to lose a lot at 99% charge, lol.
Anyway my next test will be over the quick charge. The standard charger from 5% to 100% takes me just over 1 hour 30 mins. I should get the quick charger, r9000, an extra £10 delivered,*by the end of the week, hopefully. I ordered* the R9000 charger on the 29th nov.
http://www.gizmochina.com/2016/11/28/elephone-s7-will-feature-quick-charge/
You didn't get the quick charger in the box then? Interesting results..
Tbh I have been using my phone allot over the last couple of days and it has performed very well. I screen casted a 1080p movie from show box to the TV and carried on using the phone while it was doing that and it did not stutter or lag at all... Only thing is weirdly my s view settings have disappeared?? So I have the time in an s view box on my lockscreen but I can't seem to change it. Can you access s view on your phone?
I got 81k in AnTuTu but remember to turn on performance mode
You only get a standard charger in the box, don't know why*it didn't come with the quick charger. I bought direct from elephone, said 1-2 weeks delivery.
I found that setting the phone to balanced mode gave me the higher antutu score. High performance doesn't really work, well on antutu for me anyway.
Is everyone staying with the S8 or upgrading?
I cant deside to get the S10 or Sony Xperia 1!
Or something else? Upgrade is 4th March, so not long left.
I already pre-ordered my S10+, did so the first night. My battery just isn't the same and almost every time I plug in my phone it says weak charging detected then goes away. Doesn't matter which charger or cable I use. So an upgrade was an easy choice for myself.
I'm keeping my s8 for the full 24 months. I'm either getting a note 8 or a Stylo 4. Haven't decided yet I got about 6 months left
Probably the Galaxy S12 or S13...?
At the moment I'm really pleased with the S8, the new phones don't offer any groundbreaking features that would justify to buy a new phone. Yes, they are faster, have slightly better cameras and larger batteries, but I don't have issues with speed, autonomy or image quality. The S8 is more than enough for me.
Especially with the excessive prices of today's high-end phones (~1K€) I need a very good reason to open my purse again.
And as I'm pleased with the Galaxy phones, I think I'll stay with the Galaxy brand (this might change however).
I'm waiting till June. Had chance to upgrade now. But contract is til June. So 1st June I'll look again.