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Not sure there is enough there to get me to upgrade my Nexus S but then again mobile phones have reached a plateau of maturity for the moment and I can't see an
by bdfh42 14y ago
Not sure there is enough there to get me to upgrade my Nexus S but then again mobile phones have reached a plateau of maturity for the moment and I can't see any "must have" features around the corner.
- lucian1900 14y agoBut is it an excellent opportunity for people with older phones to buy a nice new one. Only downside is the gigantic screen.
- tadfisher 14y agoSome (like me) consider that an upside.
- lucian1900 14y agoThe problem is that there is no alternative. All high-end phones are gigantic. Same for all Nexus phones.
- tadfisher 14y agoThe Droid RAZR i/M disagrees with you.
- lucian1900 14y agoLocked bootloader, so it's not an option. Also, only Nexus series phones are really worth it these days.
- tadfisher 14y agoThe "Developer Edition" is unlocked, and I agree on the second point. Unfortunately, you're at the whim of Google and the consumer market, which apparently demands large phones.
- rhizome 14y agoYeah, I'm in the market for a new Android phone right now and phones seem to be going through a late-50s auto industry "new larger size!" phase.
- CrazedGeek 14y agoAnd the pitiful internal storage coupled with the lack of expandable storage. It's still much more convenient for me to sync music to a card than to wrangle with the various cloud services.
- lucian1900 14y agoIt's not something I particularly care about. I'm not even using all of the 8GB on my current phone.
- jff 14y agoWifi + sftp client have helped me manage my ebooks on my phone, copying them from my Linux box. You ought to be able to do something similar, just get on your home wifi network and pull over your music.
- corin_ 14y agoI'm not sure about "must have" - while I have a personal list of necessary features (that leaves me happy on my Blackberry) I'm of the opinion that the only real "must have features" are the ones that the Nokia 3310 had a long time ago. However there's a few potentially big features. LTE is one - it's not massively interesting right now but I think if/when network coverage improves it could be. NFC is another - right now it's software that needs to catch up, but after that more phones need to have NFC in them. And I'm sure there will be others that pop up in the near future.
- WrkInProgress 14y agoI think if I was still using a Galaxy Nexus, I wouldn't feel a pressing need to upgrade but I'm not so sure about the Nexus S. What version of Android do you have running on your device and if it is the latest (Jelly Bean), how is the performance ?
- bdfh42 14y agoCurrently running Android 4.2 - my UK network supplier is pretty good about piping updates to the phone. The early 4.1 kept eating the battery but 4.2 is OK as long as I switch of wifi when out and about.
- lmm 14y agoWhich network is that? I'm stuck on 2.2 on my (cheap) year-old phone.
- bdfh42 14y agoVodafone
- barrkel 14y agoAre you sure you're not on 4.1.2? The Galaxy Nexus, never mind the Nexus S, doesn't have 4.2 yet.
- estel 14y agoIndeed, 4.2 hasn't yet been released. And I don't think UK carriers have any meaningful control about when Android OTA updates are pushed out?
- bmelton 14y agoThe Nexus S is quite sluggish with Jelly Bean.