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whatever you do, don't sign a damn contract. i just got stuck with Sprint for 2 fucking years, and i regret it.

uberjames said:
It's time for a new phone! I wanted to see what's out there and what you all think is the best. I know for sure that I am interested in the following phones, please give your thoughts and recommendations about these phones or others. As a sidenote, I am not so much concerned about exterior phone design, as performance is more important for my uses. I've never liked Apple iOS or small screens; however, if Apple has a larger phone in the works, I might consider it.

Current carrier - Sprint. May consider switching, but only to T-mobile. They have excellent service where I live and I like the concept of not having a contract.

1. Galaxy s5
2. Galaxy Note 4 (whenever it comes out)
3. HTC One M8
4. Google Nexus 6 (whenever it comes out)
5. Your suggestions!
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521 is great. cheap. the 925 is $220 ish but much bigger screen and better camera. get a prepaid SIM plan. wah lah

A-Rich said:
I bought a 521 (pretty much the same as 520 but for t-mobile) to play with. I think the OS is pretty slick and is smooth on the low-end phones. It just severely needs more apps. I know that'll get better in time.
Also, speaking of cheaper and/or no contract phones, the Moto G has been a hit. A bit lower in specs, but still amazing for the $99 it's sold for at some places.
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fAt Kaka said:
521 is great. cheap. the 925 is $220 ish but much bigger screen and better camera. get a prepaid SIM plan. wah lah
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I'm with you fK. I've been on AT&T pre-paid gophone for years now. Wide selection of GSM phones. Only AT&T, T-Mobile, and other not-so popular providers are GSM. The rest use CDMA (SIMcard-less?). Whenever I go to the Philippines (I'm a flip), I just stick a local SIM card in my phone to avoid roaming and text to oblivion.
 
I took my windows phone to china and it had a hard time sync to the APP store. and it wasn't working right in terms of data and shit....disappointment
 
fAt Kaka said:
I took my windows phone to china and it had a hard time sync to the APP store. and it wasn't working right in terms of data and shit....disappointment
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Yeah, Chinese sim cards are weird.

They work fine for calls and texts, but data plans need some extra help, especially apple crap.

But I agree with tuc0 - GSM phones all the way. Essentially the rest of the world uses sim card technology, but only a few markets fully utilize CDMA.
 
el jorge loco said:
Yeah, Chinese sim cards are weird.

They work fine for calls and texts, but data plans need some extra help, especially apple crap.

But I agree with tuc0 - GSM phones all the way. Essentially the rest of the world uses sim card technology, but only a few markets fully utilize CDMA.
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I believe the GS3 was one of few that really worked well with an Sim card in any country and used full CDMA
 
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