You left out the t-mobile HTC Mytouch 4G slide. I have one in hand now. $109(msrp $500). Battery life is dependnt on several variables:
How often, how long, display is active. Which antennas are on (if you have bluetooth, wifi, mobile network, gps, and cell\sms all on, you get about 90 minutes, most off, 8 hours. What's running in the background? Playing music? Animated wallpaper? Auto-synch on? CPU usage? Sdcard usage? For better prices, check out myrateplan.com. I got my phone for $90 less than tmobile web or store price. Don't know what you think of as "basic" functions... But I don't feel any strong need to root my phone, yet. ~~James On Oct 30, 2011 12:11 AM, "Owen Densmore" <o...@backspaces.net> 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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