Quote from: jackjack on June 16, 2013, 03:28:23 PM

Wow
What the hell?

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I'm sorry, but it would be grossly unethical of me to sign you up for a contract when you've indicated to me you're just trying to game the system.

Did a guy from a phone store actually say that?

He said that word for word, dead serious. I was ready to fucking clock him.

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Quote from: moni3z on June 16, 2013, 07:01:11 PM

The s4 is a POS anyways, get the HTC One instead, even better wait until HTC One releases a Nexus version then you can build your own O/S build for it.

Seriously, the s4 under sunlight is completely invisible. It's also incredibly laggy with all the junk and 'touchwhiz' garbage Samsung preloads on it. Unless you rip all that out and use it only indoors you are walking around with a brick.

I actually specifically chose the S4 for its specs. I outlined a while back everything my ideal phone would have, and the S4 is the first phone to meet every single requirement. The screen being a bit dim in the sun doesn't really bother me, nor is the bloatware a problem since I've already wiped it clean. There is a bit of a minor annoyance which is that the system files are actually on a separate partition, which is 8gb in the 32gb model, so even though while rooted, I can technically utilize the leftover space for storage, it's not actually the data partition, so it's not very useful for anything except stuff that you don't access often, like encrypted backups or something. As of now, there's no easy method that I'm aware of to re-partition the internal drive and reclaim some of the that space, so even being completely empty with a bare bones rom, the internal drive only has 24gb usable space. BUT that is just enough for me for things that absolutely cannot be on the external 64gb sdcard, so as much as it's kind of annoying, I am still a very happy camper, given that the phone meets every other thing I've been hoping for in a phone for the past few years.

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Anyway, thanks for letting me rant! Other than the process of obtaining it, I'm really happy with the phone thus far.