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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5794251" data-attributes="member: 7883">And good luck getting the Apple product when it's released.  When I got my iPhone 4, I couldn't even *get* one until November of 2010.....even though it was released in....what...June?  July?Maybe that's part of the reason I've been so blasé about it.  My expectations were so high based on how much the people around me talked it up, and the marketing, that maybe it didn't have a chance.Android's a little more tricky.  Seems like at least until recently, I didn't see much marketing for it, and had no idea how to tell what was a good phone vs. a bad phone.  My brother got a Samsung Galaxy S II, and loves it, and after rooting it exclaims about how fantastic it is, and my father got a Samsung Defy, which has pretty much everything locked down, so it really doesn't seem very impressive at all.  But is that really the phone's fault?  There's such a range in the devices.....Further, it seems sometimes that the hardware manufacturers are making hardware corrections for what are essentially software problems.  My brother's Galaxy S II had terrible battery life when he first got it.  It would last *maybe* 8 hours *if* he didn't use it.  He was going to return it.  Then we read about a battery bug in some older versions of Android, and he learned that between Samsung and his carrier, his phone was like 4 iterations of Android behind.  He rooted it, thus getting the newest version of Android, and there was a dramatic change in battery life...night and day.To me, that would appear to indicate that the device didn't need a bigger battery....it needed them to actually be timely with their updates.The whole thing with releasing a product, then a new product right after to fix a perceived flaw happens with companies other than Motorola.  ASUS is doing that with the Transformer Prime.  The Prime is getting rave reviews *except* that WiFi/GPS is getting interference from the aluminum chassis......so they've already announced a new product that has a plastic strip along the top of the back, and 1080p resolution.  Of course, that's not exactly making some people who bought the Prime very happy.Banshee</blockquote>

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