# Mobile device **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [November 25, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797 "2013-11-25T00:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/1 "2013-11-25T00:44:22Z")
Looking at migrating my home phone to a mobile device. What type phone do you have & why do you like/dislike it? What are good/bad things you’ve heard about phones that people you know may use? – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/2 "2013-11-25T01:18:27Z")
> [@](#): > > On Sun 24 Nov 2013 10:44:22 PM CST, Stevo wrote: > > Looking at migrating my home phone to a mobile device. What type phone > do you have & why do you like/dislike it? > > What are good/bad things you’ve heard about phones that people you know > may use? Hi We use LG AN160’s cheap (as in free) as well as the contract, and it does what all ‘smart’ phones should do…be a phone 😉 Bluetooth works fine between openSUSE and SLED as well as between phones for transferring files. Texting works fine as well, they just work… – Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SLED 11 SP3 (x86\_64) GNOME 2.28.0 Kernel 3.0.101-0.8-default If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, please show your appreciation and click on the star below… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/3 "2013-11-25T18:45:28Z")
I have a Galaxy Note 2 which I love. It’s big enough to see with bad eyes (and watch a movie on when sitting in a plane) yet small enough to fit my pockets easily. It’s a complete Android tablet integrated into a phone…or vica versa. I’m a Google fan myself and love how Android integrates into Google stuff like mail, calendar, search, maps, GPS, etc. etc. With GW mobility stuff it makes work tasks pretty seamless. Of course, you have to realize I traded in my Blackberry Curve for it which is like turning loose a prisoner who has been in a stinking dungeon for 50 years into Shangrila. Yea, it felt like that much of a change so I may just be giddy from that. Did I say I love my Note 2? I assume the Note 3 would be frosting on the cake. – Kim - 11/25/2013 9:39:42 AM ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/4 "2013-11-25T18:49:09Z")
That said, I just bought my family members Nexus 5s for Christmas because after checking prices and comparing features, they seemed to offer the most bang for the buck. – Kim - 11/25/2013 9:47:32 AM ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/5 "2013-11-25T21:03:40Z")
Stevo wrote: [color=blue] > Looking at migrating my home phone to a mobile device. What type > phone do you have & why do you like/dislike it?[/color] HTC One. Amazing screen, feels solid, great size, good sound and nice camera - it’s large enough to be able to RDP in to servers in a pinch, but not so large that you look silly making calls 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/6 "2013-11-30T06:46:12Z")
Scott Campbell wrote: [color=blue] > Stevo wrote: > [color=green] > > > Looking at migrating my home phone to a mobile device. What type > > phone do you have & why do you like/dislike it?[/color] > > HTC One. > > Amazing screen, feels solid, great size, good sound and nice camera - > it’s large enough to be able to RDP in to servers in a pinch, but not > so large that you look silly making calls :-)[/color] Same one I have. On my third one (thank you AT&T) as one bricked and its replacement didn’t want to make phone calls. Third time was a charm, as I have had this one for almost six months. If I could just get Alarmpoint to work with it, all would be good. – Lindsey ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/7 "2013-12-16T21:18:18Z")
“Stevo” wrote: [color=blue] > Looking at migrating my home phone to a mobile device. What type phone do you > have & why do you like/dislike it?[/color] iPhone. What I like? It always works. I have an iPad as well, and most of the apps I purchase can be used on both. I just “get it”. What I don’t like? There are days when I wish it wasn’t so locked down (for example, I have an app called textexpander that can’t be used in all apps, etc.), but realistically I don’t have many complaints. – Danita Novell Knowledge Partner Are you a GroupWise Power Administrator? Join our site. [http://www.caledonia.net/register](http://www.caledonia.net/register) If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, show your appreciation and click on the star below… ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/8 "2013-12-16T23:44:29Z")
I wonder what the reason is that Apple phones are losing market share and Android phones are gaining? – Kim - 12/16/2013 2:43:48 PM ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/9 "2013-12-17T02:34:32Z")
I think Screen Size is one factor as the “Phone” portion of Smart Phones become less important than the laptop functions. My Wife is a Real Apple Lover. She has an iPad 2, iPod Touch, iPod Mini, and is getting an iPad Air for Xmas. She always wanted an iPhone too, but when she just bought her last phone she chose a 5" Android because when browsing websites, doing facebook, texting, etc… etc… the difference between 4.3 and 5.0 was just huge. I suspect the New Larger iPhone Options that are rumored for next year is really going to help with customers like my Wife. I have zero doubt that if Apple would have had something close to a 5.0 iPhone she would have bought that so long as it was priced somewhat competitively with a nicer Android. On 12/16/2013 4:44 PM, kgroneman wrote:[color=blue] > I wonder what the reason is that Apple phones are losing market share > and Android phones are gaining? > [/color] ---
**Author:** ![buckesfeld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@buckesfeld](https://forums.suse.com/u/buckesfeld)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/10 "2013-12-17T12:59:23Z")
kgroneman wrote: [color=blue] > I wonder what the reason is that Apple phones are losing market share > and Android phones are gaining?[/color] Price. U ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/11 "2013-12-17T13:41:27Z")
On 17.12.2013 11:59, Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:[color=blue] > kgroneman wrote: > [color=green] > > > I wonder what the reason is that Apple phones are losing market share > > and Android phones are gaining?[/color] > > Price.[/color] Hardly. Samsung Galaxys are roughly the same price as the iPhone, but combined alone sell way more items by now than Apple, so that can’t be it. It’s the amount of different options for all tastes combined with the openness and the price. Leaving alone the fact that I would most likely never buy an Apple device, the iPhone for me simply is no considerable option for a single simple reason. As Craig said: Too small. Such problems simply don’t exist in the combined android market. Literally everybody can find a matching phone for his needs/preferences. ## CU, Massimo Rosen Novell Knowledge Partner No emails please! [http://www.cfc-it.de](http://www.cfc-it.de) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mobile-device/24797/12 "2013-12-17T16:12:19Z")
Massimo, [color=blue] > Literally everybody can find a > matching phone for his needs/preferences.[/color] and in the Apple world, almost everyone can find an accessory that fits it - swings and roundabouts… – Shaun Pond ---
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Massimo Rosen wrote: [color=blue] > It’s the amount of different options for all tastes combined with the openness > and the price.[/color] Actually, I think it’s more of a “settling” of the market. For quite awhile, the iPhone really was “the” option. In the early iPhone days, there were no decent Android models to choose from, and really either people who had “no” needs (my children had an Android phone that was shamefully dull) or were just too “geeky” to want an iPhone bothered with Android. Now it’s becoming more of a real market. I also think that iPhone lovers have slowed down their upgrades. It was not uncommon for iPhone people to upgrade every year for awhile. But as the phones become more sophisticated, the annual “changes” are no longer as compelling to jump right into a new phone. I think this and the “carrier barrier” (not all carriers have iPhones, but effectively every carrier has some kind of an Android phone) give the Android more favorable market share numbers overall. But while Apple “won” the market share for a long time, Apple has never really been in it for the market share (in no product they produce does Apple seem to care about “units sold” other than as a marketing initiative). There is no doubt that every iPhone sale makes Apple directly more money than every Samsung sale makes for Samsung, for example. – Danita Novell Knowledge Partner Are you a GroupWise Power Administrator? Join our site. [http://www.caledonia.net/register](http://www.caledonia.net/register) If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, show your appreciation and click on the star below…