Smartphone

[K Frame]

The last thing I want is a phone that I can open with either a facial profile, voice print, or finger print as opposed to something that you have to enter via the keyboard.

Courts have ruled that police don't need a warrant to force you to open your phone if you use a face print or fingerprint. Don't have anything to hide, but I'm not going to make it easier for anyone to get into my business.

[Ben]

Courts have ruled that police don't need a warrant to force you to open your phone if you use a face print or fingerprint. Don't have anything to hide, but I'm not going to make it easier for anyone to get into my business.

Exactly. It's a matter of principle. I switched from fingerprint back to a password after all that came out.

[Ben]

Very frustrating, especially when I'm trying to take pictures of a wiggly, 5-month-old lab puppy.

I don't believe you. I triple dog dare you to post pictures of the alleged lab puppy.

 

[Brad Johnson]

I don't believe you. I triple dog dare you to post pictures of the alleged lab puppy.

 

...and Ben creates a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple-dare and going right for the throat.

Brad

[Sideways_8]

I have an IPhone 6S Plus. I like it, but will probably be switching to an Android in the next couple of months. I can't decide between a Note 8 or a Razer. The Note 8 would be more "practical", but the Razer is really appeals to me. 120hz refresh rate, 8 gigs of RAM, and twin front mounted Dolby speakers. That's hard for me to resist.

[zxcvbob]

I've been on the road for 2 days.  Right before I left, the weird battery problem got worse and I *almost* took the phone back the Best Buy.  Then it started working just fine.  It has charged w/o a glitch several times now (I've been using high-drain apps like GPS), and before it never charged right.

I need to find another text messaging app.  The version that came standard on this phone is horrible.  I think it's the same app as my old phone, but that was a different version of Android (Lollipop vs Nougat.)  The biggest problem is I cannot delete messages, only delete entire conversations.  The old phone let me delete individual messages and keep the good ones.  It also would tell me the number of unread messages in the home screen (on the icon) and the newer one doesn't.

[K Frame]

Try Message+

I downloaded it from the Google store. It is much better than the one that comes with the Samsung phone. You can delete individual messages but it's a bit clunky in that regard.

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[zahc]

My S7 doesn't take anything like that long, but it does lag for a second or two. Very frustrating, especially when I'm trying to take pictures of a wiggly, 5-month-old lab puppy.

The most important thing to me regarding cameras is speed. In my experience, Android cameras are slower than iPhone cameras on average. I think image quality became good enough several generations ago. I wish all of the improvement resources would go toward making the cameras faster rather than more MPix or more modes I never use.

[Scout26]

As a member of The Association of Mature American Citizens AMAC.us I hooked up with their cellphone plan.  PureTalk USA. 

Unless you need the latest and greatest, they have late model I-Phones, other smart phones, and even flip phones.  I personally, got a a refurbed Kyocera E6560 for, IIRC, $60.  Monthly fee is $37.62 for unlimited talk, text and data.  Provider is AT&T which has really done quite a bit to improve their network.  Both by being able to glom onto AT&T wireless routers, and the 4G.   I was able to surf the web from my tree stand this past November while deer hunting.

[zxcvbob]

Try Message+

I downloaded it from the Google store. It is much better than the one that comes with the Samsung phone. You can delete individual messages but it's a bit clunky in that regard.

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I'm trying the Facebook Messenger app since it was on my phone already; I told it I don't have a FB account when I set it up.  It doesn't seem much difference from Message.

[Perd Hapley]

The most important thing to me regarding cameras is speed. In my experience, Android cameras are slower than iPhone cameras on average. I think image quality became good enough several generations ago. I wish all of the improvement resources would go toward making the cameras faster rather than more MPix or more modes I never use.

Fortunately, I don't really care to photograph much of anything.

[HeroHog]

I also use Message+ on my laptop and like it.