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Best time to sell Droid X?

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kentl901

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Hey all,

I'm checking around eBay for prices and it seems to me that close to new units are fetching around 290+. I bought the phone for $199 + tax.

I'm looking to let it go and switch over to the iPhone. I realize I might take a lot of heat for this... but do realize that I still have another Android in hand..so its not as if I'm completely defecting.

Anyway... I haven't been keeping up with the world of Android lately and I know that there are some LTE devices on the way. But I've never heard of the timeline of their release. With that, my question is...

Is there a possible price drop in the near future (around time of iPhone release)? I'm looking to take as small of a hit as possible. However, from the prices on eBay, I can still be in the green if I let it go soon.

Advice?

Thanks!
 
The sooner you sell it the better you'll be. I don't see how waiting would do anything but let the price drop. Especially when the X's go BOGO through Verizon which could be as soon as 30-45 days if I were to guess.
 
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Don't do it dude, just think about what you'll be doing. If your mid contract then your gonna have to buy a new 7 month old phone when all the new LTE Dual cores are just starting to come out. If your gonna get it as an upgrade then your gonna have a 7 month old phone and be locked to it for two years unless you sell it and pay the ETF.

The post above me is 100% accurate, Getting the iphone4 on vzw is a sinking ship. Verizon is laughing at everyone who is planning on jumping to it when the iphone5 is announced in June. Unless something gets fixed, at&t it seems will always have the upper hand as long as they have any sort of contract with apple if both Vzw and At&t stay on the 1 new iphone a year deal.
 
Yeah.. on second thought... scratch that plan. Staying with the Droid X. It is a fine phone.

My only gripe with it is its terrible music/media functionality and random reboots. I'm sure other people has had better luck with me, but my set up just hasn't work. Makes me miss my iPod touch. This is pretty much my second attempt to find a all in one device. My attempt with the BB Storm failed miserably.

The only reason I'd be hesitant to wait on the iPhone 5 is the uncertainty regarding LTE plans and cost.
 
Android is working on better music functionality. Its been a big complaint since the G1 was released. Just wait for Google Music to be launched
 
Best time to sell it was about 2 months ago. Buy low sell high. Now with those that are saying "I want the i-Phone 4" (reference to Xtranormal video) are gonna flood the market with DX's.
Wait about another month or so and THEN sell when they want the DX back ;)
 
I would say that out of the box the iPhone is probably a faster, more stable device than most Android devices at this point. But I also think that if you know what you're doing with rooting and ROMing Android phones you can get better performance out of them as compared to an iPhone. But that's really only my opinion based on playing with my son's iPod Touch 4th generation. Never actually played on an iPhone.

I hate that the stability issues with Android devices seem to stem from the skins they stretch over the OS. I don't hear about these random rebooting problems out of the Nexus crowd. Which really makes me wish Google would start demanding the same thing Apple demands from a carrier... "leave the phone as is".

That's by far the smartest thing Apple has done, and IMO is a much better approach than Google's. I don't agree with the powers that be at Google who say it goes against the openness of Android to put any limits on what the OEM's can do with their OS. I see nothing wrong with Google telling AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and whomever else to produce and sell vanilla Android devices just like Apple does.

They still make money off of the devices. If they didn't then they wouldn't even consider selling the iPhone. Maybe in the beginning when Android was brand new they (they being Google) thought they needed to sweeten the deal to get the carriers to push Android devices out there. But now that they are just as popular as the iPhone, they need no such incentives.

I would really like to see these devices sold upen and as bug free as mine is running without blur anywhere to be seen. This is the way it should have been when I got it. I really can't blame those who have problems with theirs and don't feel comfortable voiding the warrantee trying to fix it. You shouldn't have to do that.

Of course for those who didn't get a buggy device out of the box like I did, I'm sure you appreciate the DX as much as I do mine now.
 
Outlaw71 said:
I would say that out of the box the iPhone is probably a faster, more stable device than most Android devices at this point. But I also think that if you know what you're doing with rooting and ROMing Android phones you can get better performance out of them as compared to an iPhone. But that's really only my opinion based on playing with my son's iPod Touch 4th generation. Never actually played on an iPhone.

I hate that the stability issues with Android devices seem to stem from the skins they stretch over the OS. I don't hear about these random rebooting problems out of the Nexus crowd. Which really makes me wish Google would start demanding the same thing Apple demands from a carrier... "leave the phone as is".

That's by far the smartest thing Apple has done, and IMO is a much better approach than Google's. I don't agree with the powers that be at Google who say it goes against the openness of Android to put any limits on what the OEM's can do with their OS. I see nothing wrong with Google telling AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and whomever else to produce and sell vanilla Android devices just like Apple does.

They still make money off of the devices. If they didn't then they wouldn't even consider selling the iPhone. Maybe in the beginning when Android was brand new they (they being Google) thought they needed to sweeten the deal to get the carriers to push Android devices out there. But now that they are just as popular as the iPhone, they need no such incentives.

I would really like to see these devices sold upen and as bug free as mine is running without blur anywhere to be seen. This is the way it should have been when I got it. I really can't blame those who have problems with theirs and don't feel comfortable voiding the warrantee trying to fix it. You shouldn't have to do that.

Of course for those who didn't get a buggy device out of the box like I did, I'm sure you appreciate the DX as much as I do mine now.
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Agreed whole-heartedly. I had the iphone briefly, and while I loved the cameras and the screen(the OS left me lacking). But from my few days I had the Iphone before returning it for a captivate, it was a great experience.

No force closures and random freezes...I only had it for a few days but even with new android phones, I usually develop these day 1(To be honest, I never really hear of any my iphone friends complaining about the iphone so much as AT&T)

Apple out of the box makes a good product with a good user experience, it seems that the software works well with it's hardware. It seems with Android that often the hardware and software don't play very well together and often times you have to root to get rid of some issues that the software causes(In my opinion anway)

I loved all my android devices(OG Droid, Eris, Xperia, Captivate, Mytouch, Evo, Incredible, Droid X, Hero, and Backflip) but I am now with Windows Phone 7(HD 7) and the user experience is much more along the lines of apple with software and hardware.

I am hoping that Google works out some more control as far as it's software goes when I return back to android....
 
The nice thing about Apple is that they have to write code for ONE phone. Android has to take into consideration different chip sets and different hardware of every Android phone, not to mention the skins the carriers want to load on them. I don't honestly think that Android will ever catch up to Apple in the software race. Sure it's nice to have all the widgets, but if your phone crashes because of them or the skins what's the point? ANd I'm getting a bit tired of the "Give 'em time Android is still a new OS" excuse. How was the iPhone doing after it was out for 2 years software wise? There are a lot of times I miss my iphone 3G, and other times I don't. But I will take a long look at the iPhone 5 if it is dual core and LTE!
 
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