You should be able to disable all of the carrier apps that you don't want. I've done that on mine...
Android mocks crapple "innovations" as five year old google tech
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I think you have to root it to do that. The last device I rooted in any way was an XBox, and even that was physical modding and not rooting.
Ralph
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Because when you set it on a hard surface it amplifies itself.
Ralph
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This is quite irrelevant. No matter what phone I have, it's going in an Otterbox. The S3 with the Otterbox Commuter on it is solid as hell.
Shouldn't need a case to make it less flimsy. That's why I never bought an iPhone before the 5
No it doesn't. It muffles and distorts it. That's why I hated it.
Ralph
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I forgot, I'm dealing with His Omniscience.
I can only speak for my experience with the S3 - it has its speaker on the back, and it amplifies it quite well when set on a hard surface. Works perfectly fine for me. I can't imagine Samsung ****ed up the speaker that much from the S3 to the S5.
No matter what phone I use, it has to have external protection. Not an option based on the environment in which I use it. I need a case to keep sandpaper grit out of the phone and protect it from drops on concrete and jagged edges. The S3 has been accidentally dropped mid-step and subsequently kicked across a concrete floor into a steel machine. So whether the phone is "flimsy" out of the box is completely irrelevant to me.
Yeah and my mom's neighbor is a farmer and ran over his Otterbox protected iPhone with his tractor and it still works. Big friggin deal. The S3 was an inferior constructed device and felt like junk IMHO. The GUI was twitchy. I didn't like that crap and didn't settle for it. I thought the Moto phones felt fragile and weak too. I don't know about the S5, but everyone in my office who left their iPhone for the S4 is VERY disappointed and will be going back to iPhones. Thus far anyway.
His ominescense lol. I really tried to like that phone but in the end it's not for me. The speaker placement is idiotic and you won't convince me otherwise.
Btw another poor design is the "water resistance". My boss and I were curious and we tested it and put it underwater. The fact that the phone still worked was very cool, but we had to take it apart and dry the speaker because it sounded all garbled.
Btw another poor design is the "water resistance". My boss and I were curious and we tested it and put it underwater. The fact that the phone still worked was very cool, but we had to take it apart and dry the speaker because it sounded all garbled.
I'm not going to make that claim since I haven't had mine that long, but have you had an Android phone for 2 years?
It didn't last even a year. Also, I have a wife and kid. Kid has gone through two Android phone in two years, wife still has her Iphone and it still works perfectly.
ricktj
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I've had my note 2 for 2 years and it still runs as well as it did when I got it. I like this phone 5x more than I did my iPhlop 4.
Bullshit, I have yet to have an android phone not last 2+ years. Its Icraps that I see everywhere with broken screens.
You got a problem with S2's
I had my Nexus for 2-years before iI washed it my sons lasted 2.5 years before it went swimming, my S4 is 5-months old and works like a champ.
