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elfsI rarely regret not spending money. When I went to finally upgrade my phone, I blanched at the MSRP of an unlocked Galaxy Nexus GSM, which at $659 was a lot of cash. Especially since my provider, AT&T, was basically offering me the Galaxy SII (not the "Note" or "S+", mind you) for basically nothing more than a promise to stay with them for another two years.
Since I needed a network provider anyway, I went with the Galaxy SII. I am now regretting that decision. This is a terrible, terrible phone.
Battery life is less than 11 hours with no use. If you have a regular work schedule with some commute, and maybe get some texts and emails and phone calls through the day, this phone is likely to die before you get home. There are services you can "disable," such as Tethering, Wi-Fi Hotspotting, and AT&T "Navigation Help" services, but the processes never shut down. The phone always restarts them. I have no idea what interrupts they're banging on inside the OS, but it's probably eating the battery alive along with everything else.
I even took it back to the AT&T store and complained about it. I said the phone's behavior isn't matching the claimed specifications or the popular reviews, that the phone would last for at least a full day with "typical" use. With no use this phone doesn't last through the regular workday, much less the evening. This is not acceptable. When I started to get loud enough that other customers were becoming uncomfortable, the saleshole told me, "You'll just have to get used to recharging it twice a day. I'm sorry, that's what Android phones are like."
Bleah.
Some people have said that new phones take a while to calibrate their batteries. I have my doubts.
I also looked at a lot of timers to replace Pocket Doan, the beautiful meditation timer for the Palm. Nothing like it exists for Android. I used it for meditation, but also as a productivity app, since it has a lovely pomodoro setting. The first time I used it, it worked fine until the end, at which point it said: "Congratulations on meditating for 25 minutes. 70 other people are meditating right now." I didn't want to know that; I also didn't want to share my own meditation (or whatever) sessions. Genuinely creeped out, I deleted the app when I realized I couldn't turn that "feature" off.
Bleah twice.
I'm annoyed because I let a financial consideration that, really, was not all that big a deal, compromise my sense of ownership of an electronic device. I owned my Palm Pilot and my iPod. I pwned my last phone, and my Nook. I do not own this phone.
And that means It is leasing Me.
Sigh.
Since I needed a network provider anyway, I went with the Galaxy SII. I am now regretting that decision. This is a terrible, terrible phone.
Battery life is less than 11 hours with no use. If you have a regular work schedule with some commute, and maybe get some texts and emails and phone calls through the day, this phone is likely to die before you get home. There are services you can "disable," such as Tethering, Wi-Fi Hotspotting, and AT&T "Navigation Help" services, but the processes never shut down. The phone always restarts them. I have no idea what interrupts they're banging on inside the OS, but it's probably eating the battery alive along with everything else.
I even took it back to the AT&T store and complained about it. I said the phone's behavior isn't matching the claimed specifications or the popular reviews, that the phone would last for at least a full day with "typical" use. With no use this phone doesn't last through the regular workday, much less the evening. This is not acceptable. When I started to get loud enough that other customers were becoming uncomfortable, the saleshole told me, "You'll just have to get used to recharging it twice a day. I'm sorry, that's what Android phones are like."
Bleah.
Some people have said that new phones take a while to calibrate their batteries. I have my doubts.
I also looked at a lot of timers to replace Pocket Doan, the beautiful meditation timer for the Palm. Nothing like it exists for Android. I used it for meditation, but also as a productivity app, since it has a lovely pomodoro setting. The first time I used it, it worked fine until the end, at which point it said: "Congratulations on meditating for 25 minutes. 70 other people are meditating right now." I didn't want to know that; I also didn't want to share my own meditation (or whatever) sessions. Genuinely creeped out, I deleted the app when I realized I couldn't turn that "feature" off.
Bleah twice.
I'm annoyed because I let a financial consideration that, really, was not all that big a deal, compromise my sense of ownership of an electronic device. I owned my Palm Pilot and my iPod. I pwned my last phone, and my Nook. I do not own this phone.
And that means It is leasing Me.
Sigh.
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Date: 2012-03-15 06:08 pm (UTC)In seriousness, for other reasons I keep my cell phone in my breast pocket, not pants pocket.