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LG G3 Pre-release/Rumor/Speculation Thread

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Definitely limits your options if expandable storage is a must.

If so & you plan on staying w/SPRINT & hanging out here @ A/F,the M8 is a great choice.

The support in the forum is the best anywhere,Bar None,& that includes SPRINT & HTC.
 
meganoobie said:
So, is the M8 the only option at this point? Or the Prime horizon? I can't think of any other new phones with 32gb. Maybe Moto
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I'm sure as many different opinions as there are posts here, but I will wait and see what Verizon offers next month. Then I may wait a bit longer and see if verizons gets a so called "prime" G3 maybe, and then after that by mid September I may just go back to Apple and one of the new iphones if worst comes to worse which are supposed to only have 32 or 64 storage sizes.

What I can't see is giving up my Lg G2 with 32gb ram and wireless charging for a 16/2 plugin in charge only phone just because the camera is better and the screen has more pixels. The sd slot is useless to me. I wouldn't use it after my experience with it on the S3 and S4. As far as the other options, S5, Samsung anything, HTC, MotoX etc . . . . yuck to all of them quite frankly.... In the end though, I still like the G3, just not the watered down model they are try to shove on us.
 
iowabowtech said:
There certainly are a lot of references to VS985 16GB and none for 32GB. So either false information is being perpetuated by these sometimes bot looking specs comparison sites, or you were right Rush.

I don't believe for a second that they'll offer 2 phones so I'm hoping its a regurgitation of false info. Otherwise, its goodbye and goodnight for me. I'm on the fence for other reasons but I'm straight up outta the picture if its 16GB. I bought my last 16 years ago.
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Verizon and LG have FCC approval for the the VS and AS985. No clue what that means but they are tracking two models in the system.
 
I want a phone with the new "L" Android OS that they are revealing at Google I/O today. It does look very nice from what I can tell so far. problem is it will likley not come to Verizon till the next gen phones come out later in the year or even next year I'm guessing.
 
grdh20 said:
I want a phone with the new "L" Android OS that they are revealing at Google I/O today. It does look very nice from what I can tell so far. problem is it will likley not come to Verizon till the next gen phones come out later in the year or even next year I'm guessing.
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Any phone you buy now will eventually get Licorice or Lollypop or whatever.
 
Nah! My S4 is doing fine, but I like getting new stuff each year. This might be the first year I do not in the cell phone cycle of life. If my S4 were to break, I would get a Note 3 for now and then cry about not being able to use with one hand :) ;) Signal is the same as the S4, so at least not worse.

I do think it's a given that at least Samsung will release a Prime globally and perhaps LG as well. Sometime in late-ish August to combat the market share battle with the new iPhones. I agree stuff releases all the time and waiting for the next thing can be perpetually silly, but this might be the one time to actually wait. Maybe, but I am just rationalizing due to the near apparently likely 2/16 G3 from Verizon.

If 2/16 only is true, BOOOOOO!


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BTW, I am going for it by predicting at least one more calendar week of non-official, completely concocted news! I feel like Kramer in the Seinfeld episode where he drives around with the car salesman on an empty tank :)
 
rushmore said:
Nah! My S4 is doing fine, but I like getting new stuff each year. This might be the first year I do not in the cell phone cycle of life. If my S4 were to break, I would get a Note 3 for now and then cry about not being able to use with one hand :) ;) Signal is the same as the S4, so at least not worse.

I do think it's a given that at least Samsung will release a Prime globally and perhaps LG as well. Sometime in late-ish August to combat the market share battle with the new iPhones. I agree stuff releases all the time and waiting for the next thing can be perpetually silly, but this might be the one time to actually wait. Maybe, but I am just rationalizing due to the near apparently likely 2/16 G3 from Verizon.

If 2/16 only is true, BOOOOOO!


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BTW, I am going for it by predicting at least one more calendar week of non-official, completely concocted news! I feel like Kramer in the Seinfeld episode where he drives around with the car salesman on an empty tank :)
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I can't believe it's the 25th and we're still guessing on this. I half hoped it would actually be RELEASED by now, yet we don't know WHAT will be released or WHEN. Now I'm getting irritated. Sprint says July. July 1? July 30? I don't understand it and it's really turning me off.
 
meganoobie said:
I can't believe it's the 25th and we're still guessing on this. I half hoped it would actually be RELEASED by now, yet we don't know WHAT will be released or WHEN. Now I'm getting irritated. Sprint says July. July 1? July 30? I don't understand it and it's really turning me off.
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I agree. Though we do know when it's being released on VZW (7/17).

The other manufacturers need to take a lesson from HTC. They had an announcement for the M8 and it was available at 1:00 THAT DAY. That's how to get people to buy your new flagship phone. Get them excited with a launch event and offer it immediately for sale. It worked on me, I was in the VZW store at 1:01 buying it. Of course, I returned it a week later.....
 
Is anybody listening/watching the Google I/O presentation? Did they just say that Google Drive will have unlimited storage for $10 a month?

While it still won't force me to rely on the cloud, it would make me consider using Google Drive much more often than before, for $10 a month.
 
grdh20 said:
I'm sure as many different opinions as there are posts here, but I will wait and see what Verizon offers next month. Then I may wait a bit longer and see if verizons gets a so called "prime" G3 maybe, and then after that by mid September I may just go back to Apple and one of the new iphones if worst comes to worse which are supposed to only have 32 or 64 storage sizes.

What I can't see is giving up my Lg G2 with 32gb ram and wireless charging for a 16/2 plugin in charge only phone just because the camera is better and the screen has more pixels. The sd slot is useless to me. I wouldn't use it after my experience with it on the S3 and S4. As far as the other options, S5, Samsung anything, HTC, MotoX etc . . . . yuck to all of them quite frankly.... In the end though, I still like the G3, just not the watered down model they are try to shove on us.
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My thoughts exactly
 
halon said:
So maybe Android L will add around an hour to the G3? Or not.
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That and displace about 20% more of the internal storage space due to ART requirements ;) Dalvik is going away, so look forward to probably even less space and some apps that worked to stop. Then hope the dev that created the app updates and has not moved on.

Based on the IO love fest, seems Android devoted people are becoming similar cultists as iOS counterparts. Might as well join hands, since becoming similar as time progresses.

I am beginning to think that Google are the Borg and very arrogant about it.
 
rushmore said:
That and displace about 20% more of the internal storage space due to ART requirements ;) Dalvik is going away, so look forward to probably even less space and some apps that worked to stop. Then hope the dev that created the app updates and has not moved on.

Based on the IO love fest, seems Android devoted people are becoming similar cultists as iOS counterparts. Might as well join hands, since becoming similar as time progresses.

I am beginning to think that Google are the Borg and very arrogant about it.
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Maybe in my opinion they just should embrace together and stop these silly bashing but keep the competition to a balanced level. Maybe it'll be interesting to see integration from both platform but having the mindset of openness and less greeedd please!!!!.

As far as storage I see 64gb coming up soon along with swappable ROM storage modules.
 
Frankly, I value the interaction in this thread more than a 3/32, so a 2/16 is not a total loss. I will not get one if 2/16, but appreciate the folks in the thread :)
 
rushmore said:
Frankly, I value the interaction in this thread more than a 3/32, so a 2/16 is not a total loss. I will not get one if 2/16, but appreciate the folks in the thread :)
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I'm more concerned with the 16 part than I am with the 2 part. I could live with the 2. 16 in today's world is just ridiculous and even Apple now seems to have apparently accepted that notion. I wonder how much of the 16 the new "L" Android will take up for instance. I'm assuming more than KK.
 
It seems to me with HTC saying the m8's are going to get L within 3 months, that HTC moves to the top of desirable phones. .. but what do I know? Right?
 
T Mo has identified that they are getting the 3/32. Verizon's G2 was 2/32. They will not allow T Mo to have a 3/32 and they not. Verizon is a very good customer of LG and LG will do whatever they want. I can almost provide a 10 gold pressed latinum guarantee. If I am wrong, then we meet at Verizon HQ and give Rush a group hug.

Of course...........the G3 Prime is coming.....maybe.
 
Jeyd02 said:
Maybe in my opinion they just should embrace together and stop these silly bashing but keep the competition to a balanced level. Maybe it'll be interesting to see integration from both platform but having the mindset of openness and less greeedd please!!!!.
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Can you think of a single example from anywhere throughout modern commerce history where two companies embraced, without a merger, that did anything good directly whatsoever for the consumer and not resulting in either criminal prosecutions or criminal actions claimed by the public for collusion and price fixing?

Do you believe that the engineers from both companies would rather sing kumbaya and design for the utopian good, or do you understand that that they're every bit as competitive as their masters?

Please define "keeping the competition to a balanced level" that doesn't involve socialist or communist market control or illegal activities or the economic ruin of an industry - because I have yet to understand what you're talking about and you've brought this up often before.


And my final thought - when a bully comes up to steal from me or lay down threats, I meet the situation head-on with as much overwhelming force as I can.

I know a lot of people don't believe in that and think that the bully and I ought to get along because, surely, good and evil don't exist.

Victims on the other hand have no trouble understanding that they're being mugged, and no, let's not all get harmoniously along, and no, the bully and the victim are not the same.

That's just my opinion, take it or leave it.

Meanwhile, here's a fact -

Number of legal actions taken by the Android side NOT in direct response to an Apple legal attack: zero.

None.

Nada.

I hope I die before bully = victim ever becomes reality.

I want no part of that.

Again, that's just my opinion, take it or leave it.
 
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