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maxleresistant said:
darkrulier said:

Yup I'm with you on this one, I have a Note 4 with Sprint, got it on a lease and I have 3 months left on my contract. I'm thinking of buying a BLU Life One X2 (costs around $170 for the 4GB RAM version) and go with Metro PCS, $50/month unlimited everything and I own the phone so no monthly on that. It is ridiculous to pay $700 + for a phone! NEVER AGAIN IM GETTING INTO A CONTRACT AND LEASE A DEVICE, NEVER!!!

In my country I pay 10 euros per month for unlimited everything.  I have 5 GB of 4G and then unlimited 3G though

And I try a redmi pro 3S, it was way better than my galaxy grand prime for the same price (130€), everything wxas better, except for the camera who is crappy on both.

It'll be awesome to pay that low for phone service, right now I pay close to $150 for two lines with Sprint, IT SUCKS!! Also it'll be nice if Xiaomi had retailers here in the USA, I think the closest brand that we have is BLU.




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Normchacho said:
Turkish said:

The design looks really good, 3 problems:

1: it's way too fucking big. 5.8 inch wtf? I dont need a screen size that huge. I'd rather have the bezels gone but with a 5 inch or less screen and have the phone be smaller. It's  uncomfortable in a jeans or to hold with 1 hand.

2: Samsung UI is just crap

3: I'm really excited for the 10th anniversary of the iPhone

Sony Xperia UI is the one I love the most, it's simple and clean.

The S8 is barely larger than the S7. It's a little bit taller, but pretty much the same width and thickness.

It's much bigger, "barely" isnt the right word, width and thickness isn't the issue, the vertical dimension is, and the other 2 points still stand

Vertigo-X said:
Turkish said:

The design looks really good, 3 problems:

1: it's way too fucking big. 5.8 inch wtf? I dont need a screen size that huge. I'd rather have the bezels gone but with a 5 inch or less screen and have the phone be smaller. It's  uncomfortable in a jeans or to hold with 1 hand.

2: Samsung UI is just crap

3: I'm really excited for the 10th anniversary of the iPhone

Sony Xperia UI is the one I love the most, it's simple and clean.

5.8 inches wouldn't have been the problem if the phone were somehow less than 140 mm in height, but I draw the line at 145 mm height (S8 is 149 mm). After all, it is a skinny mofo at less than 70 mm. My personal 'golden dimensions' are 140x70x9mm. If I can get less than or equal to that, I'm a happy camper.

... Which is why I love my Xperia X Compact. Not much different from the Xperia Z5 Compact, I wager, but I still love the finger print sensor in the power button. Won't switch from this until there is a good upgrade to it!

I have the Xperia Z Compact for 3 years now, still going strong.

aLkaLiNE said:
Turkish said:

The design looks really good, 3 problems:

1: it's way too fucking big. 5.8 inch wtf? I dont need a screen size that huge. I'd rather have the bezels gone but with a 5 inch or less screen and have the phone be smaller. It's  uncomfortable in a jeans or to hold with 1 hand.

2: Samsung UI is just crap

3: I'm really excited for the 10th anniversary of the iPhone

Sony Xperia UI is the one I love the most, it's simple and clean.

I would love to be able to recommend a Sony smartphone, but I can't, because Sony doesn't sell smartphones in the US. Verizon, ATT, Sprint and T-Mobile (the four major US carriers) don't offer a smartphone from Sony. The last somewhat relevent phone here was in like 2013 or 2014 and it was a gimped version of the international version. A lot of their mobile woes stem from lack of presence in the US honestly, which is why it's silly that people think they should close the division down - they shouldn't consider that before making a serious effort here in the states.

Why dont they sell their smartphones in the biggest market in the world? It's a shame how it turned out, Sony revolutionized the placement of the power button with the Xperia Z, now every phone has the power button on the upper left or right side where it's easily reached with a finger using 1 hand.

They have easily the best designs and UI in the Android market

Just slick like Apple.



Turkish said:

Why dont they sell their smartphones in the biggest market in the world? It's a shame how it turned out, Sony revolutionized the placement of the power button with the Xperia Z, now every phone has the power button on the upper left or right side where it's easily reached with a finger using 1 hand.

They have easily the best designs and UI in the Android market

Just slick like Apple.

They do sell in the US; it just happens to be Unlocked for the lot of them. Sure, you aren't getting phones designed for that network, but you're able to buy them outright and switch between AT&T and T-Mobile whenever you want.



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Vertigo-X said:
Turkish said:

Why dont they sell their smartphones in the biggest market in the world? It's a shame how it turned out, Sony revolutionized the placement of the power button with the Xperia Z, now every phone has the power button on the upper left or right side where it's easily reached with a finger using 1 hand.

They have easily the best designs and UI in the Android market

Just slick like Apple.

They do sell in the US; it just happens to be Unlocked for the lot of them. Sure, you aren't getting phones designed for that network, but you're able to buy them outright and switch between AT&T and T-Mobile whenever you want.

They aren't offered by the main four carriers themselves though and they straight up don't work on Verizon at all. You have to pay full retail MSRP in the US and very few stores offer them online, let alone at retail aside from Best Buy, Sony themselves or Amazon. Picking up a Sony smart phone in the US requires extra hurdles when someone could easily pay less than half the price up front for an iPhone 7 or Samsung Galaxy S8. 

 

As a Verizon subscriber, if there were a way for me, I'd get one to see what it's like.



Samsung has made the back of the Phone out of Glass. Which is shit. Which means it is an automatic "Hell no".

It wasn't okay on the iPhone 4 . It wasn't okay on the Samsung S6 or Note 5... It's not okay on the S8.

I think my next Phone, I won't be bothering with a high-end Flagship. My Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has been the worst phone I have ever owned, Samsungs support is also garbage.
High-end phones have become uninteresting, overpriced and I am disliking their fragile design, ironically they don't even get supported for that much longer than a mid-range or low-end handset anyway.

Turkish said:

Sony revolutionized the placement of the power button with the Xperia Z, now every phone has the power button on the upper left or right side where it's easily reached with a finger using 1 hand.

No. They didn't revolutionize that placement. Many phones had that placement before the Xperia Z.



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Pemalite said:

Samsung has made the back of the Phone out of Glass. Which is shit. Which means it is an automatic "Hell no".

It wasn't okay on the iPhone 4 . It wasn't okay on the Samsung S6 or Note 5... It's not okay on the S8.

I think my next Phone, I won't be bothering with a high-end Flagship. My Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has been the worst phone I have ever owned, Samsungs support is also garbage.
High-end phones have become uninteresting, overpriced and I am disliking their fragile design, ironically they don't even get supported for that much longer than a mid-range or low-end handset anyway.

No. They didn't revolutionize that placement. Many phones had that placement before the Xperia Z.

Which ones?



Turkish said:
Pemalite said:

Samsung has made the back of the Phone out of Glass. Which is shit. Which means it is an automatic "Hell no".

It wasn't okay on the iPhone 4 . It wasn't okay on the Samsung S6 or Note 5... It's not okay on the S8.

I think my next Phone, I won't be bothering with a high-end Flagship. My Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has been the worst phone I have ever owned, Samsungs support is also garbage.
High-end phones have become uninteresting, overpriced and I am disliking their fragile design, ironically they don't even get supported for that much longer than a mid-range or low-end handset anyway.

No. They didn't revolutionize that placement. Many phones had that placement before the Xperia Z.

Which ones?

Well. My Lumia 920 (Which I have on my Desk) Predates the Xperia Z and has it on the right hand side just below the volume rocker.

Motorola DROID RAZR, Motorola ATRIX HD perfectly answers your question, could lump the Samsung Galaxy S3 in there... And I am sure there are far more.

The fact you think button placement is some kind of "Revolution" is pretty comical to me, Sony is known for other amazing innovations in the Phone market,  button placement is not one of them. Nor is button placement any kind of "revolution" in my eyes.



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Pemalite said:
Turkish said:

Which ones?

Well. My Lumia 920 (Which I have on my Desk) Predates the Xperia Z and has it on the right hand side just below the volume rocker.

Motorola DROID RAZR, Motorola ATRIX HD perfectly answers your question, could lump the Samsung Galaxy S3 in there... And I am sure there are far more.

The fact you think button placement is some kind of "Revolution" is pretty comical to me, Sony is known for other amazing innovations in the Phone market,  button placement is not one of them. Nor is button placement any kind of "revolution" in my eyes.

Those phones are ooold and no one cares about Windows Phone lol, after Xperia Z there was a sudden resurgence in power button placement to where the Xperia Z had. I also think the Xperia Z caused Android phones to be much more sleeker looking especially the Chinese ones, before da Z Androids were all sorts of ugly and some still are.



Turkish said:
Normchacho said:

The S8 is barely larger than the S7. It's a little bit taller, but pretty much the same width and thickness.

It's much bigger, "barely" isnt the right word, width and thickness isn't the issue, the vertical dimension is, and the other 2 points still stand



 

It really is barely any bigger. The picture you posted has it next to the frankly tiny Iphone 7.

The S8 has an area of 15.7 inches compared to the S7s 15.37 inches. That's a 2.15% difference in surface area. 

For comparisons sake, the S8 is 8.2% smaller than the S7 Edge

 

Any why on earth is height the issue? Width is the dimension that determines how easy a phone is to use one handed.



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