Recent content by Trackr

What reason would someone think that plastic is superior to metal and glass? Yeah, exactly. It just feels like Samsung put a "this goes to the plastic plant" sticker on my Nexus because they figured that it's 'good enough'. I mean, you could say that Samsung prefer to use plastic because it...

Well.. how is it subjective? Metal/glass are clearly superior to cheap plastic. I mean, for the battery door.. okay. But why make the rest of the phone out of the same material? Couldn't someone in the design team have gotten up and said "Hey, Apple have us beat hand down in build quality...

That's fine. I don't mind what material the back is made out of. I'm just saying that the plastic rim around my Nexus could have been made of something besides cheap plastic. This wasn't a cheap phone; I didn't buy it for a teenager. But Apple sells even higher volumes and it can take the...

Damn, so you're saying that Samsung literally decided to use plastic to save cost? Am I wrong here that plastic is cheap or is it that metal and glass are posh? I guess my point is - why did they have to go all the way down to plastic? I have an HTC Desire HD that's made of something in the...

I got into an argument the other day with an iPhone 5S owner who claimed that his phone is superior to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, despite the size difference. Thinking about it, I realized that he was right - the build quality of the iPhone 5S seems to be far better. In fact, it seems that the...

I paid for the device, it's my right to use it however I choose. I don't care what the law says, it only exists to enrich corporations.

That's great! So, how do I find out? USC are not giving me any codes.. what do I do?

Well, the question right now is - is my phone GSM or CDMA. It has a SIM slot, but apparently it's not GSM.. does that make sense? If I knew for a fact that I could use 3G GSM SIM cards in it, I'd contact whoever I needed to contact.

I saw that post, but like I said, my phone does not support the *#xxx commands so I can't use it. What do I do?

Illegal solutions..? What, like taking the phone apart and changing the hardware? But my phone has a SIM card slot! Doesn't that make it GSM?

I bought a Samsung Galaxy S III U.S. Cellular R530U on eBay and it appears to be CDMA//LTE, though it has a SIM card slot. I'm trying to unlock it so I can use it with my GSM carrier here in Israel, but none of the codes are working for me, like *#197328640#. What am I supposed to do? I don't...

No, I'm planning on buying it from eBay. That sounds really cool. So, I could just buy a regular phone and cover it with Otterbox.. But which phone? I'm like..100% lost. All I know is that I love my iPhone 4.

We live in Israel. I bought my iPhone 4 in NY and unlocked it. So, no carrier.

I didn't know where to post this, because there is no "Which Android should I buy?" forum.. Basically, I need a phone for my little sister, who tends to break her phones within the first year. Is there anything more rugged on the market? I don't want to buy a used Galaxy S II and have it break...