I need a phone

[zookuw]

Alright guys I am planning on asking my parents for a phone soon, getting sick of not being able to walk away from them and know I can call them, the reason I am making this post is I am wondering what type of phone I should get.

I am planning on asking for a smartphone because I would rather be able to also check facebook or anything like that well i'm out and about.

Besides that I was thinking of steering clear of apple because i'm sick of itunes and I would love to be able to use winamp for syncing anything onto the phone.

The reason I am posting mostly is because I don't know stuff about phones.

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[Katamari007]

Eh, I'd get an Android

[Jaxx]

Android platform.
Research DroidX

[Daedalus]

Android platform.
Research DroidX

[Miga]

NO.
Do not get ANY Motorola phone, they have locked bootloaders that are uncrackable. Basically, you can't modify your own device because of this.

Get an HTC phone or Samsung phone.

[Jaxx]

NO.
Do not get ANY Motorola phone, they have locked bootloaders that are uncrackable. Basically, you can't modify your own device because of this.

Get an HTC phone or Samsung phone.

I said research, not get. But you DO have to heavily lean towards an Android platform phone. The only reason i support the DroidX is because my dad has one. :U

[Miga]

I said research, not get. But you DO have to heavily lean towards an Android platform phone. The only reason i support the DroidX is because my dad has one. :U

And I've made a commitment to steer everybody away from Motorola Android phones until they do something about their horrible bootloader policy.

[Messes]

And I've made a commitment to steer everybody away from Motorola Android phones until they do something about their horrible bootloader policy.

This,

I have a Motorola Android

[Marcem]

And I've made a commitment to steer everybody away from Motorola Android phones until they do something about their horrible bootloader policy.

What's so great about modding?  It's just a phone, I don't need all sorts of mods to see the memory usage and stuff.

[superslayer]

Oh but the best cell phone you could EVER get is a track phone. Its so good that at&t and all those other phone companies pay them money not to advertise it.



go with it guys

[ShadowStep]

Blackberry

they taste horrible

[Miga]

What's so great about modding?  It's just a phone, I don't need all sorts of mods to see the memory usage and stuff.

Their kernel sucks, and that's part of the system you can't change without setting off the "e-fuse" and bricking your device.

Literally, I have to restart this thing (my Droid 2) every few days, battery life isn't very good, and it has a "feature" that will mount a virtual CD drive every time you connect it to your PC which will then install the horribly broken drivers automatically that will end up setting off Windows Genuine Advantage, saying that your copy of Windows isn't genuine anymore (I had to disable autoplay to get it to stop trying to install the drivers every time I connected it to my PC). So, until Motorola decides that they don't know what they're doing and allows the modding community to install their own kernels, I'm steering everybody towards devices that won't restrict their freedom from an OS that's designed to be free and open.

[Marcem]

Their kernel sucks, and that's part of the system you can't change without setting off the "e-fuse" and bricking your device.

Literally, I have to restart this thing (my Droid 2) every few days, battery life isn't very good, and it has a "feature" that will mount a virtual CD drive every time you connect it to your PC which will then install the horribly broken drivers automatically that will end up setting off Windows Genuine Advantage, saying that your copy of Windows isn't genuine anymore (I had to disable autoplay to get it to stop trying to install the drivers every time I connected it to my PC).

Now that's just weird.

[Belogna]

I need a phone too. My mom is going to buy me a tiny piece of cardboard that only calls. I wish I had a loving LG Lotus again.

[Nick4t]

iPhone 4
I like mine