Retiring my eris soon

[frostbyte32]

Mostly a reader on here..but wanted to get suggestions from you guys on my next move. I am looking at the 4 or the 4s just because I work on a Mac and like the idea of being able to get iTunes music and podcasts downloaded right to my phone. I love the Android setup though and am looking for something that I won't have to root in order to enjoy. The eris sucked for me from day one (well really after the new factor wore off is when I realized I made a mistake).

Is the Incredible 2 pretty good? I get sick and tired of hitting a button on my eris and having to wait a minute or two for the app to open. The camera isn't crazy important, but I want something that when I take a picture it isn't always blurry.

I don't want to pay more than $188 because I could just get the 4s for that price. Suggestions?

 

[Rico ANDROID]

Mostly a reader on here..but wanted to get suggestions from you guys on my next move. I am looking at the 4 or the 4s just because I work on a Mac and like the idea of being able to get iTunes music and podcasts downloaded right to my phone. I love the Android setup though and am looking for something that I won't have to root in order to enjoy. The eris sucked for me from day one (well really after the new factor wore off is when I realized I made a mistake).

Is the Incredible 2 pretty good? I get sick and tired of hitting a button on my eris and having to wait a minute or two for the app to open. The camera isn't crazy important, but I want something that when I take a picture it isn't always blurry.

I don't want to pay more than $188 because I could just get the 4s for that price. Suggestions?

Welcome to AF and as you may know by now.. theres PLENTY good android discussions with plenty members ready to offer help. So keep AF bookmarked for your first and one-stop location for android related info

Oh, and uh, when you are ready to retire the ole Eris. Android Forums got just the 'right" place for you to "lay your Eris to Rest (in pieces) with Dignity".. a place where you can come visit and invite others to pay their respects to your sidekick .

Click Here to go to Android Forums Cell Phone SIMetery

(browse around and we hope you chose AF Cellphone SIMetery
for your retiring device's uh..final Resting place!)

 

[doogald]

Mostly a reader on here..but wanted to get suggestions from you guys on my next move. I am looking at the 4 or the 4s just because I work on a Mac and like the idea of being able to get iTunes music and podcasts downloaded right to my phone. I love the Android setup though and am looking for something that I won't have to root in order to enjoy. The eris sucked for me from day one (well really after the new factor wore off is when I realized I made a mistake).

Is the Incredible 2 pretty good? I get sick and tired of hitting a button on my eris and having to wait a minute or two for the app to open. The camera isn't crazy important, but I want something that when I take a picture it isn't always blurry.

I don't want to pay more than $188 because I could just get the 4s for that price. Suggestions?

I know that there are Eris users on this forum who have switched to the Inc2 and who love it, though I'm not sure they did so because it is a great rooted phone (though, honestly, I think it's fine stock.) It's a single core processor with (I think...) 768 MB of RAM, and HTC has not yet promised an ICS upgrade for the Inc2 (if that is important to you - honestly, I am not sure that it should be.) The only thing about it is that you are committing to a 20 month upgrade cycle for a phone that is almost a year old now, but otherwise I am not sure that there are any better 3G Android phones (though I have a Droid 3 and I love that phone, it does have a so-and-so camera - not blurry, but it often takes a long time to focus and take a photo in low-ish light), and I think that LTE is still too flakey to recommend at the moment.

The iPhone 4s is a great phone, and it's camera is pocket camera quality - I doubt that there are any Android phones with a better camera. Apple also supports their iPhones better than any Android OEM supports theirs. And, of course, the iPhone is about the same size as the Eris (though thinner), and you are not going to find that in any high-end Android phones at the moment. And, of course, there are crazy numbers of great iPhone accessories that just do not exist for Android phones.

BTW, even with iOS 5, iPhone podcast support (on the phone itself) is rather mediocre at best, but there are great third party apps - iCatcher and Downcast - that are reasonably priced and offer great features. If you do go iPhone...

 

[Rico ANDROID]

Heehhhyyy, this is an A N D R O I D forum, not icrap... xD

 

[grvthang]

I'm a former Eris user who has been using an Incredible2 since August 2011. I think the Incredible 2 is the closest you're going to get to an Eris; it's like a logical progression. The Incredible 2 is an Eris without the issues lol - no lag or bugginess.

As gar as integration with iTunes goes - I use a program called Audiogalaxy (there are others that are similar). What Audiogalaxy does is allow me to stream my iTunes collection directly to my phone. This way, I don't need to store music directly on my phone. Actually, my phone is set up to stream Pandora, Amazon mp3 (I have 20gb storage there), and my 43gb iTunes collection from my pc. The drawbacks are: 1. to get itunes, you must leave your pc on (which I do anyway), and 2) no 3g, no music.

 

[doogald]

As gar as integration with iTunes goes - I use a program called Audiogalaxy (there are others that are similar). What Audiogalaxy does is allow me to stream my iTunes collection directly to my phone. This way, I don't need to store music directly on my phone. Actually, my phone is set up to stream Pandora, Amazon mp3 (I have 20gb storage there), and my 43gb iTunes collection from my pc. The drawbacks are: 1. to get itunes, you must leave your pc on (which I do anyway), and 2) no 3g, no music.

Just to note some alternatives, Google Music has a good system panel app for the Mac that will automatically upload iTunes music to Google music as you add it to iTunes, and you can stream Google music without needing to keep your computer on. It's free and supports up to 20,000 songs. You can also do the same with Amazon Cloud Player, though I think that the Amazon app is something that you need to run periodically, and Amazon does have an annual fee for the cloud player storage (though you get 20 MB for a year for the cost of buying a single MP3 album on Amazon.)

 

[frostbyte32]

Stopped and looked at the phones while doing some shopping today. I like the feel of the Incredible 2, but my concerns are with the battery life. That is my biggest concern now that I have had the Eris and the battery that makes me want to punch myself in the face. What kind of battery life does the Incredible 2 get? I don't mean with the bare minimum usage and everything turned off to squeeze out every possible minute. I mean the real deal. Using GPS and normal usage. I hated that if I wanted to "check-in" I had to turn on GPS and wait for it to connect and then do it.

The price of the Incredible 2 also has me concerned because last time I got the Eris because it was only $50 and then a few months later they stopped offering updates for it. What are the odds of them doing something similar with the Incredible 2?