A new smartphone advice thread yay (lol old one is 2008!)
Anyway sorry I need a smart phone for T-mobile which I believe is GSM. I have an HTC shift with cyanogen mod on a different carrier. Frankly I actually like the Windows phone stuff now, but none are unlockable that I can see and I like that option so it is probably going to be android. I like the ability to tether, but rarely use it. Only a couple times a year probably, but it is super handy. That means I should probably get a phone easy to root.
I was thinking a nexus 5 (but you miss out on T-mobile wifi calling if you do that). Anyway I think any GSM phone will probably work. Is there anything better from price performance ratio than the nexus?
The things I hanker to improve from my current phone are the ability to skype on the phone and take decent pictures. Otherwise it does the job of calling, calendar, and email just fine. The pictures is another reason the nokia 1020 is tempting, but it isn't supported by t-mobile in the USA and is darn expensive. It is probably out of my price range, but that camera would be worth something to me. I know sony has some fancy camera phone coming out soon, but it is just as expensive and the camera is worse. I have a nice SLR anyway and was hoping the phone would make a point and shoot obsolete.
edit: I should state I don't care about having a big screen and prefer something <5" but can live with that.
Anyway sorry I need a smart phone for T-mobile which I believe is GSM. I have an HTC shift with cyanogen mod on a different carrier. Frankly I actually like the Windows phone stuff now, but none are unlockable that I can see and I like that option so it is probably going to be android. I like the ability to tether, but rarely use it. Only a couple times a year probably, but it is super handy. That means I should probably get a phone easy to root.
I was thinking a nexus 5 (but you miss out on T-mobile wifi calling if you do that). Anyway I think any GSM phone will probably work. Is there anything better from price performance ratio than the nexus?
The things I hanker to improve from my current phone are the ability to skype on the phone and take decent pictures. Otherwise it does the job of calling, calendar, and email just fine. The pictures is another reason the nokia 1020 is tempting, but it isn't supported by t-mobile in the USA and is darn expensive. It is probably out of my price range, but that camera would be worth something to me. I know sony has some fancy camera phone coming out soon, but it is just as expensive and the camera is worse. I have a nice SLR anyway and was hoping the phone would make a point and shoot obsolete.
edit: I should state I don't care about having a big screen and prefer something <5" but can live with that.
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