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dougfloyddougfloyd Posts: 2,580
edited February 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
Any cell phone techies on here that can recommend a new cell phone for me? We use Verizon Wireless, my wife and both got Droid 3's when they were buy one get one free a year and half ago. Mine still works fine for me, my wife's has been dropped a few times and fell in water twice now. After the latest incident, I was able to get it to turn back on after drying out for a few days and putting a replacement battery in it that I had lying around. I don't think it's going to survive much longer and she's up for a new one at the end of March.

Anyway, starting to do some research and thought I'd ask if anybody has any recommendations, prefer something that runs Android. Samsung Galaxy S III, Droid RAZR, should she wait on something new that's about to come out? Any advice would be appreciated. New phones come out so often I can't keep up!
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  • twisted thoughtstwisted thoughts Posts: 4,377
    I just got the Samsung Galaxy III myself (on AT&T) and I am loving it!!! Upgraded from my HTC Inspire. Updated Andriod OS. Picture is so crisp and clear, nice big screen and tons of cool functions (which I have yet to utilize as I havent had too much play time on it since I just got it a few days ago) but you can multi task - text while watching vids / use phone and record vids... lots of multi tasking features, and if you know someone that has the same phone you can easily share pics/vids/docs by just holding the phones back to back. Lots of motion controls too. Battery life is much better than my HTC Inspire.

    For the record - when I went in (to Best Buy) it was between the HTC One X (which was $50.00 for an upgrade & 2 yr contract) and the Motorola Atrix (which was free for upgrade & 2yr contract)... But then I realized that I had some buyback program on my old phone (which Best Buy apparently no longer does), and they gave me $120 for my old HTC Inspire! So I went for the Galaxy S III which was $150.00, but only actually cost $30 since I had the credit.

    Other things I can say: The sales guy said he himself had a Razr but was anxious to switch to the S III. Another girl working there said she has had numerous iphone junkies come in and exchange their iphone 5 for the S III.

    Again, Im on AT&T so Im not sure if the deals on the phones are the same for Verizon, but it might be worth checking out Best Buy for good deals. The Galaxy S IV is supposed to come out soon, so the S III will drop in price when that happens too. I always recommend getting the insurance tho. Too many horror stories. Best Buy is $10 a month for the S III and it gets charged to a credit card of your choice.
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  • dougfloyddougfloyd Posts: 2,580
    Seems like from everything I've ready everybody loves the Samsung Galaxy S III. Looks like the S IV might be coming out in March so that will be an option as well.
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,549
    dougfloyd wrote:
    Seems like from everything I've ready everybody loves the Samsung Galaxy S III. Looks like the S IV might be coming out in March so that will be an option as well.
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  • Dr. DelightDr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    dougfloyd wrote:
    Looks like the S IV might be coming out in March so that will be an option as well.
    Good to know. I have an upgrade now and I was going to go the SIII route. guess ill wait now and see about the newer model.
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,549
    Dr. Delight wrote:
    dougfloyd wrote:
    Looks like the S IV might be coming out in March so that will be an option as well.
    Good to know. I have an upgrade now and I was going to go the SIII route. guess ill wait now and see about the newer model.
    yep..they said March...
    SIII is amazing..so S IV probably will be better!
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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,527
    bang it here for all the advice you need:

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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 37,828
    get the full replacement insurance!!!!!
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  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    mickeyrat wrote:
    get the full replacement insurance!!!!!

    unless you a complete klutz, insurance is the biggest scam. 2.5 years in, two phones, zero issues. that'd be close to 500 if we had insurance on both.
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  • MaxGoldenrodMaxGoldenrod Posts: 1,341
    Droid RAZR HD. Nuff said.

    I thought about the S3 but went with the RAZR instead. The RAZR just seemed more durable. The other features were pretty much similar.
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