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Switching to T-Mobile and Vibrant

it does indeed seem youre decided, despite what seems like sound advice.
are you planning on rooting? reason i ask is because the vibrant is without froyo.
 
Best for tech savy people? Well then I'd go on ebay and get a used nexus one, they're awesome! Also my advice is don't support samsung, but if you want to go for it, I won't be anytime soon.
 
I finally decided to listen to you guys, and not go with SamSung.
I decided I'll just wait it out for a good worthy android phone. So in the mean time I decided to get the new black berry bold 9780. When a good android phone comes out in the future I'm ready. No more SamSung!
 
Cali said:
I finally decided to listen to you guys, and not go with SamSung.
I decided I'll just wait it out for a good worthy android phone. So in the mean time I decided to get the new black berry bold 9780. When a good android phone comes out in the future I'm ready. No more SamSung!
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There is always a good worthy Android phone for you.

A Blackberry 9780 is nice, but I wish you asked about that too. Its another phone in the "sunset" period, and the architecture is even more obsolete, since there are more modern Blackberry that are far more powerful to come. But it will do if you're planning only to use it as something to fill the time before you find a "worthy" phone. But as a long term investment itself, it's not something I would aim for, even for a Blackberry.

What you need is a "sunrise" phone.

The reason the 9780 isn't in my recommended list is the paltry 256mb storage for both OS and apps, and a weak 624mhz processor. I got a daughter with the 9700 and we got issues with it, mainly reboot loops when the phone runs out of its small internal phone memory.
 
Guamguy said:
There is always a good worthy Android phone for you.

A Blackberry 9780 is nice, but I wish you asked about that too. Its another phone in the "sunset" period, and the architecture is even more obsolete, since there are more modern Blackberry that are far more powerful to come. But it will do if you're planning only to use it as something to fill the time before you find a "worthy" phone. But as a long term investment itself, it's not something I would aim for, even for a Blackberry.

What you need is a "sunrise" phone.

The reason the 9780 isn't in my recommended list is the paltry 256mb storage for both OS and apps, and a weak 624mhz processor. I got a daughter with the 9700 and we got issues with it, mainly reboot loops when the phone runs out of its small internal phone memory.
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That sounds pretty bad. :\ I understand your logic about the sunset and sunrise phones. I should have mentioned the black berry sooner but I wasn't really expecting to get a BB. I seriously wanted a 1ghz android phone ready for rooting haha.

I guess I made a mistake but I can wait it out I guess. One thing I will do is really abuse the phone for 20 days and see if it'll give me any trouble like it gave your daughter. If it does I think I'm going to cancel my service before the 31 day period is over. Then I'll look for a better phone, specifically a 'sunrise phone' which you speak of.
 
The Nexus S has an updated gps/wifi/bluetooth antenna. The GPS is great. It's the same CPU/GPU platform as the Vibrant but it has a working GPS. The hardware supports 720 video, but the software doesn't. The reason is it's Google's reference phone for the Android platform. Not all Android devices have a 720 video camera so they can't make that a requirement of the software. That's where the ROMs come in. The Nexus line has the best support for ROMs. I am staying with stock because it addresses my needs adequately. But developers may very well take the admittedly superior camera software from the Vibrant/Captivate and put it into a Nexus S ROM. Best of both. Yes, you'll be supporting Samsung, but your money will be voting for just their hardware.
 
Don't get yourself worked up over the Vibrant's GPS. I bought the phone several months ago on the first day it came out and the only problem I had with the GPS at the time was that it took longer than it seemed it should have to lock on. Since then there have been both official updates and custom roms that have come out that in my opinion pretty much fixed the issue. My GPS locks on very quickly now. I'm not saying you should get the Vibrant but don't discount it because of GPS.
 
I work in TMO's engineering department and the MT4G is currently the best phone for custom ROMs and hardware.

I would recommend the Vibrant for non tech savvy and the G2 for people not interested in ROMs but want stock android experience with good performance.

BTW I have the G2 and love it. One of my coworkers has the MT4G with custom ROM and overclocked, that thing is a beast.
 
There a lot of advice in here from people who don't even have Vibrants. The rule for just about anything is that complainers are the loudest, which is why everyone thinks the Vibrant is a bad phone. It is one of the most customizable and unbrickable phones out there, and I really don't think it can be beat with a custom ROM. Hell, I was stock for most of the time with my Vibrant and ROMs are certainly better, but stock does not suck. GPS works.
 
i dont understand why you would choose the vibrant over the nexus s, unless because of the pricing or something..
 
The Vibrant has better multimedia features: HD video; touch-to-focus stills; hardware accelerated video codecs a bunch of formats (and they depend on TouchWiz so XDA says they can't be ported over to stock gingerbread for Nexus S); usb-to-hdmi video out.
 
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