Need a new phone....

[NotAnalGrap]

So I just can't win with electronics right now. After replacing a bunch of computer parts earlier this weekend today...I dropped my phone (Galaxy Note 2), which popped the back off and tossed the phone down a water drain on the street. After much time spent trying to get the stupid lid on the closest access open, we (my wife and I) managed to get my phone back - broken screen and all.

So, I am on Sprint and need to replace my phone. I'm thinking either a Galaxy S4 or a HTC One. The GS4 seems like the obvious choice since I really enjoyed my Note 2, but I'm open to feedback.
Does anyone own or have experience with either of these two phones?

 

[JayDog]

Few of my buddies have the Galaxy S4, and love it, haven't really heard anything bad about them, as of yet. Dunno if that helps of not lol

 

[RainMotorsports]

Either one of those is on my list but id mainly only go for the One in the vanilla google flavor for the purposes of running CyanogenMod. If i went GS4 I would seriously be turned off by any carriers using locked bootloaders. But depends on if you care for stock.

The Galaxy Note 3 should be out late fall and thats probably what I am waiting for. Sucks you can't hold out and need one now.

 

[NotAnalGrap]

Yeah, sadly I can't get the Google version of either phone because they are GSM only.

 

[RainMotorsports]

Yeah, sadly I can't get the Google version of either phone because they are GSM only.

If the support has been anything like the GS3 the GS4 will be fine on sprint i just havent looked to see if it had a locked bootloader yet or not. GS2 never went official for CM on sprint, we have CM 9 10 and 10.1 and were SO close to getting 10.1 officially but it will probably never happen. The GS3 pretty much ran out the door with support for CM.

A lot of changes for the sprint GS2 were made recently to satisfy the Galaxy device maintainers and managers with cyanogenmod. However issues like Netflix not working on 4.2 with Exynos processors and other things hold it back enough for the maintainers to so no its not stable. The netflix issue for example is the fault of the programmers. When it see's an Exynos 4 cpu on 4.2 it basically says I give up. You trick it into not knowing what it is running on it works just fine.

Being on a variant sucks some days.

 

[Thelus]

I find Blackberry's to be more rugged than most smartphones. Sprint used to have some options for that but they don't now. its all about what you need it for. I do a lot of emailing and texting at work so I need a phone with a physical keyboard to keep up with me. Plus the fact all you need to load programs on the phone is a usb cable and not need to jailbreak it.

 

[balls2dawall]

I have the One & what a phone; You would want to stick with Samsung just because it is what your used to. I had an S3 for a week & had a hell of a time just turning it on, power button on side instead of top. I've mainly used the HTC's so the One was a perfect transition.

 

[RainMotorsports]

Plus the fact all you need to load programs on the phone is a usb cable and not need to jailbreak it.

Same for Android though. You can side load applications out of the box. Just have to unchecked one setting. You only need to root if you want to access restricted system files, drivers etc. But for example there isn't an official TS app out right now and the only way to get it is side load. Now direct downloading is my choice method screw USB

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[NotAnalGrap]

Yup, I picked up the GS4 today and I like it. I would have loved the One also, but the lack of removable battery and no SD card slot killed it for me.