Best Phone?

Bloatware certainly slows phones down. That's why I rooted my S3. Its runs much smoother and faster without useless crap running in back and without the dumb skins.

Anyone know about tethering on the X or G2?

Shocky said:

My international galaxy S3 was pretty smooth even with touchwiz, disabling the Samsung background apps made no difference to performance. Carrier bloat?

I do allot of benchmarking so yeah, I tried.

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The international version was very different than the US vzw one I believe.

codesplice said:

I can't say for sure, but that is likely something mandated by the carrier - in Verizon's case, I highly doubt that you'd be able to pull it off without paying.

(Anything is may be possible with root, of course.)

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This is sad, I may have to look into this a bit before purchasing. But I'm thinking root will come to both...eventually. I currently have VZW and I'm tethered for free. Was still tethered before root, but it's been awhile.

Well, I went to VZW and played with the G2 and the Moto X. I have to admit, the G2 really impressed me with its slim size and being much more lightweight than I expected.

Respectively, the Moto X also felt much more sturdy than I thought it would be, as long as you got one of the backings that were more rubberized and less plastic.

I think I made my decision, and it was pretty easy after playing with them, the Moto X was just much more comfortable and usable...by a LONG shot. Ignoring the specs, the software is just leaps and bounds above the G2. The G2 is basically a large screened, speedy, clusterfrick. There was so much going on, it honestly was giving me a headache. It's like they took every half-assed idea they could think of and just threw it in the phone to see what worked. Great, but not for me. I REALLY liked Motorola's focused, clean, and smooth approach to everything.

Another large factor was the size. I'm not a big fan of big screens. I could barely get my hands around the G2. I drive A LOT, and I could see that being much more burdensome.

Finally, I was impressed by the Moto Connect thing. I work some days in an office, and that'll be sweet in meetings or at my desk. The size will keep it slim when I'm at events in my suit as well.

I've also started a construction company, so there are days when I'm outside working...hence durability importance. And the small size will be easier to keep safe in my pocket and such.


Thanks for your input everyone. I don't think I'm pulling the trigger till Sunday or Monday, so feel free to let me know of anything else that may sway my decision. It is possible

As it turns out, there may not be a way to upgrade and keep unlimited data. Kind of back to square one after all this. Damn that sucks.

Now I'm told something different by a different sales lady. Christ people, cant you give me a straight answer?! lol I'm not doing anything until I know for 100% what wll happen. I have a message into a friend, hoping he can at least give me honest info.

DragonSlayer95 said:

If you upgrade you can't keep unlimited without buying outright.

There are loopholes though, for instance, if you've got a extra line on your vzw account that doesn't have unlimited or don't care for losing it. You could upgrade that line and swap phones between lines. As in upgrade line 2, switch new device (line 2) to line 1 and your current will go to line 2 without losing your unlimited.

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I have 5 lines t2 smartphones and three basic phones all recently updated only mine is unlimited data. only mine has an upgrade available.

That's what I thought. But I now have 2 people at Verizon telling me yes and no lol. I know a friend of mine knew someone at vzw and upgraded his unlimited last month and kept it. Going to see if he can that person to do it for me too lol. I'm going to call a couple more times tomorrow and see what the majority says from vzw too. It seems as if there is technically a way it CAN be done. but finding someone to do it is the hard part.

DragonSlayer95 said:

I'm not on vzw myself, but from my understanding, with you being on the older unlimited plan. Once you upgrade, your renewing your plan which means you'll be forced to into one of their capped plans since you can't reselect your unlimited.

That sounds odd someone upgraded and kept their unlimited unless they did a loophole like I mentioned earlier.

I can almost say the reps that are telling you that you will keep it will probably say "oops I was mistaken" once they upgrade you lol.

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That's what I'm afraid of. I know for a fact my friend did it though and kept unlimited. He showed me online. I'm going to put my eggs in the basket that hopefully he can help me out.

Ok apparently he can help me, but needs my billing pswrd. Not my myverizon one.