So I finally am using this device, three months after buying it in the first flash sale. We'd been planning to move over from Sprint for the longest time, we were just waiting for an opportunity when one or both of us really needed to upgrade. Well, the LG G3 I'd been using started giving me real trouble. This was the second replacement for that phone - the first one bricked after just a few weeks, the second one after a little over a year. This time, the screen just started doing weird stuff - freezing up, fading out, flickering. Made it unusable...so we went over to T-Mobile last night and signed up.
The Pro 3 is a nice, solid device. Easy to set up, fast and responsive. The interface takes some getting used to, but it's not quite as annoying as I thought it would be. Slowly having to get rid of my LG muscle memory (I miss knock-on!), but I'm already getting the hang of it. The one thing I've noticed is the fingerprint reader is not as dependable as I'd hoped. I've figured out how to touch it to get it to wake faster, but I'd say it's probably somewhere between 50 and 75% success at first touch.
Another thing that took me a while to figure out was why my screen seemed so much bigger. The G3 was also 5.5" (although it was a quad-HD display, this one seems just as crisp as that one did). No...I finally realized the difference: capacitive buttons. I'd gotten so used to the on-screen buttons, I never really thought about how much real estate they took up on the screen. It feels like I have much more room on this one, amazingly enough.
I'm not a big 'music on my phone' kind of guy, so I haven't messed with the earphones or the audio, but what I've heard just messing with the notifications and ringtones, the audio on this is decent. Surely not among the top performers, but clearly better than my G3.
While I tend to keep my phones in the 2 to 3 year range, I suspect this one will not be a long-term device for my 'daily driver'. It's good, not outstanding. I'm hoping to see some software and UI upgrades this year, hopefully closer to stock android as rumored. I have heard the camera is disappointing...but I haven't taken many photos yet, so we'll see. I think it's enough to keep me happy at least through this year...long enough until I can have a choice for a higher-end device with better camera and fingerprint sensor...maybe water-proof/resistant. We'll see. I'm sure I'll be back if anything comes up that I want to complain about (or praise, of course).