> So I was hoping for a few other evaluations of phones, but that > hasn't appeared so far. Do others have suggestions for what are good > geek-friendly "smart phones" these days? I'm thinking of replacing my > old HTC-1 with something better, and wondering if it's possible to > make sense of the commercial hype.
The friendliest phones for geeks are the Nexus phones bought directly from Google, because you get all the system updates right away. But that limits you to GSM carriers and means no LTE, and the Nexus phones lack an SD slot. (The Nexus 4 actually has an LTE-capable modem but doesn't officially support it.) Still, if your carrier of choice is T-Mobile or AT&T (or a virtual network carrier that uses one of those) the Nexus 4 is a good phone if you can actually get one. (Google seems to have trouble keeping them in stock.) The Galaxy Nexus (the previous generation of Nexus phone) is also friendly if you have the no-longer-available unlocked version from Google (it was replaced by the Nexus 4) but less so if you have one of the carrier versions. The big mobile conference is currently happening so there will be lots of new phones on the market soon; a Samsung Galaxy S4 is one of the upcoming devices, release date March 14. A new HTC One was announced recently ahd looks tempting with its 1080p screen; the second phone with one to my knowledge, the first was on the HTC-built Droid DNA which is a Verizon-only phone. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
