Yeah I was a massive fan of HTC's way back, 10years+ ago. I think I'd have to have a look and trial some of these units at a store. The last time I used one it was running an MS OS but it actually worked, when everyone was complaining about them not working.

I'll have to do some physical shopping, then. Goddammit. Have to deal with those guys at BestBuy.

That's a point, I think I missed this bit but where will Pixel's sell? Anywhere particular?

 

So many options! As I was saying to Neil, I think it'll come down to test driving these handsets lots. I guess none of them, even the iPhone, are out of the question.

My Brother had a Nexus tablet thing I bought him, that lasted a good while, seemed pretty cool.

 

Best way to go tbh. As long as you buy the full fat version (rather than the mini or whatever they call it now) then you won't really go far wrong. Contrary to what TP would have you believe, you'll struggle to buy a crap smartphone these days.

 

I might be wrong but you may be better off importing, something about a tie in with Verizon or some other carrier.

 

Thanks, Jack. I'll have a look.

 

If the S8 Galaxy has 6GB of ram, Exynos 8895 plus UFS storage it will be an absolute beast.

 

I've put my name down for an Elephone R9 ($229), was tempted by the LG V10 but it's battery life isn't as good as it needs to be.

I've had an Elephone p7000 for the last year and a half but I've finally killed it after a heavy drop onto concrete, could fix it but it only cost $149 originally so I've had decent value out of it.

The Elephone P20 might be worth waiting for, but meantime I'll give the R9 a try, might even be tempted to try the Elephone S7 as well.

Elephone are still a bit of a gamble, but they're trying hard to get into the big league with nice designs and full features.

http://www.elephone.hk/elephone-r9-5...ull-metal-body.

 

Jack, you need to get this out of your system.

iphones are over priced, period. They dont necessarily hold better value. In fact a quick check on ebay showed Galaxy Note 5s going for as much, indeed more than a iPhone 6S plus, I saw some 6s Plus models going for dirt cheap, even a 128GB.

To me it seems if Anything that iPhone has lost value as it cost far more than the 64GB Note 5 on launch, like most iPhones do.

£1000 for a 256GB iPhone 7 is insane, the actual cost of that memory is about $13 so dont be put off that fact you are getting a device with a whopping 256GB of storage.

 

UFS storage is as fast as SSD drives and will be out soon, nothing wrong with removabale storage its very nice to have all your music ,tv shows, ebooks and movies put onto a sd card from your laptop or NAS ahead of a trip or weekend away.

 

Try the new HTC quad core cerebral cortex edition, its a limited edition for you only.

 

Jack, being who he is will always be in support of Apple.

They clearly are not releasing devices with storage slots as they get more $$$$ from just selling vastly over priced products with higher memory itself.

else everyone would buy say 32GB iPhones but Apple would not be happy with profits.

Case in point is the iPhone 7 256GB, yours for a sweet price of about £1k.

 

Exactly right, you can see what Apple's game is from a mile off. One of the main reasons i refuse to buy one for personal use.

 

I don't think they are available to buy from retail yet.

 

Nope, you're still failing hard there. Vacuous. Not that there were high expectations for you. Come back with something better.

Yeah, hopefully they will eventually, so I can actually test drive one. Or I will have to just wait 'til someone I know gets one and check theirs out. Buying a $700+ phone with no idea how it will function is not high on my list.

 

I would have to stoop very low to compete on your PVS state.

 

Well done on already achieving limbo award winning stooping. I don't even need to leave my 'PVS' to make you do so

Next....

 

lol, what a numpty

you, Jack and neil should hook up. An award winning troll collection of the highest order.

 

Nexus devices haven't had an SD card slot for years. This is nothing new.

 

Yea so what, plenty of other Android devices still do. That's where the choice lies. With Apple there is no choice as far as that's concerned.

 

There is a choice, don't buy it and stop whining like a bitch.

 

But i want to use it, i'm not whining, just stating facts and hush your gums again.

 

You're whining like a little bitch about something next to nobody cares about. Nobody not stuck in the 90's.

 

I'm not whining about anything you complete and utter tit.

 

"Exactly right, you can see what Apple's game is from a mile off. One of the main reasons i refuse to buy one for personal use."

"Yea so what, plenty of other Android devices still do. That's where the choice lies. With Apple there is no choice as far as that's concerned."

Whine with your cheese.

 

Removable storage is still a useful option, for sure. I can't see what is wrong with having that option. The argument of "well others haven't/don't have that option" is no argument at all.

 

Useful for some I'm sure but even gum forger admits that once it's in the device it doesn't come out. So that just leaves costs and well... you get what you pay for.

 

Yes it is if i'm forced to use an iphone for work and keep running out of storage space! Yea now i'm whining.

 

Why does it need to come out?

 

Exactly! Why is it removable if it doesn't need to come out.

 

Erm i thought we had been through this before, because its a bloody cheap way of expanding your storage.