My information is my experience with the new phone that I just got and with the Android that I used for a couple of years.
For some reason, when I tried to make a phone call, Android would freeze and become sluggish.
What part of "your information is out of date" was unclear? No seriously, if your opinion of Android is based on a phone that's several years old then your information is out of date.
It's not several years old. It's a Samsung Galaxy. I got it in 2010.
I'm not that impressed with the Galaxy Tablet, either.
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Jered wrote:
It's not several years old. It's a Samsung Galaxy. I got it in 2010.
A Galaxy what? S? I was going to mention that that phone launched over 2-1/2 years ago. And it really was never a very good phone. It had unfixable gps issues, issues receiving calls, overall performance worse than the hardware would indicate (RFS?), Touchwiz....
Really Samsung only did 2 things entirely right- they didn't skimp on the internal storage, and they put a big screen on it (for the time).
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Jered wrote:
It's not several years old. It's a Samsung Galaxy. I got it in 2010.
A Galaxy what? S? I was going to mention that that phone launched over 2-1/2 years ago. And it really was never a very good phone. It had unfixable gps issues, issues receiving calls, overall performance worse than the hardware would indicate, Touchwiz....
Really Samsung only did 2 things entirely right- they didn't skimp on the internal storage, and they put a big screen on it (for the time).
I think it's a captivate. I know that I got it at the end of 2010.
I have a friend with a current generation Android phone. It has issues, too.
I've got a Samsung Galaxy Tab II that has had issues and wouldn't connect to the network for some reason. Powering it off and on fixed it, though.
I had some sort of other Android Tablet. I think it had a software issue, but I took that one back to Costco.
My experience with Android devices has been less than stellar.
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NVGdude wrote:Which is best for out in the middle of AZ where the closest thing to a "road" is a forest service trac they graded back in the 80's?
I'd look at one of the Garmin units designed for hiking, rather than a vehicle unit for those conditions. Many of them have Topo maps built in and you can download more detailed ones if needed.
A buddy of mine uses a hiking unit for his Jeep when his 4X4 club is out in boonies.
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We have a Garmin. I don't use it all the time, but it beats trying to read MapQuest directions in the dark in unfamiliar territory. My favorite voice is the British woman's voice (received pronunciation); we call her "Emma" and make up dialogue for her to mutter after "Recalculating" (such as "Miserable humans, you shall drown in lakes of blood and fire").
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Jered wrote:I have a friend with a current generation Android phone. It has issues, too.
It isn't Android(well it is, but it it doesn't involve Google) - each manufacturer puts on it's own version of Android, adding some things, removing others, and changing something else. It's why some of the phones are good(good hardware AND software) some meh(Good hardware/bad software and vice versa), and some that just flat out suck(bad hardware AND software). It's why third party versions of Android are popular - if you have decent hardware, but the OS has been hobbled, butchered, and loaded with crap, it makes sense to replace with something else - it's why Cyanogenmod, among others is so popular.
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NVGdude wrote:Which is best for out in the middle of AZ where the closest thing to a "road" is a forest service trac they graded back in the 80's?
I use a combination of Topo's. Usually newly generated from National Geographic Topo Arizona, Google Earth, and then a GPS. I have a couple of older Garmin handheld units it is easy to put the route into.
Then I have a recent Garmin Nuvi 2455 that isn't too bad either. It does sometimes recognize "FR" (forest routes) that are numbered.
Oh, a Forest Service map for the National Forest (available for free) comes in handy too, especially with the massive closures in the National Forest in AZ.
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No seriously, if your opinion of Android is based on a phone that's several years old then your information is out of date.
