I use the find my phone to locate it on a map, or I use find my phone to make it ring so I can locate it on the snow bank.

18f when I left for work this morning, do it is coming.

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...here's a scenario that will happen to you soon Kevin and your precious iPhone...

@AU you will leave your hotel room at 8am and will have crappy reception (inside layers of concrete and steel) and you won't find any outlets in any of the class rooms...and you will be using the heck out of your phone as everyone else does...so you'll get back to your room at 7pm and your battery will be 80% drained...so YOU will have to leave your phone on charge...OR if you plan on bringing it along as a camera to site see and yes your data usage will be heavy again...then your amazing iPhone will suck monkey nuts by 8pm...so you will carry a useless device around...

...on the other hand if you had a Droid...you would have a second battery back at the hotel room...or carried one with you...and only be off the grid for 30sec whilst you switch batteries and reboot...

Again...if you travel a lot...you will be tethered to a power cord...if you have an iPhone...period.

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Stephen: You're not helping my cause with the RAZR since I can't replace the battery:-P not that I need you to justify MY phone...but I'm just sayin'

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I sir, will take your challenge. You may appoint somone that is going to AU to monitor my battery and if I have my phone with me at all AU funtions and all after AU functions.

Chad you should seriously consider the Galaxy Nexus...here's why...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... eZ8sfJjoRI

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/11/17/sc ... eedfetcher

...its not that much bigger than the RAZR...its screen size of 4.65" is actually deceiving because there are no physical buttons...so the screen incorporates a section on the bottom for the home/search/menu/return buttons...

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It seems pretty cool...but the camera, I could swear he said was 5 MP. Really? my D1 is 5 MP, I would expect at least 8 MP...otherwise, it seems pretty cool...nearly 80% of the video was for Icecream sandwich, which, I am willing to wait for, if I get a RAZR. I don't see that ICS would be too different on a RAZR than a Nexus...also, i have never been a fan of Samsung or HTC form factors...color me crazy.

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You have a point...they are 2 great phones...the Nexus does still shoot in 1080p and form argument sake the iPhone 4 was a 5mp camera which took amazing pictures...but your so right if you apply the Ice-Cream Sandwich features to the RAZR its going to be an amazingly fast phone! ...the bad/good part to all this...the OS is changing dramatically for the better.

Here's another interesting comparison link of the two super phones!
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/251742/ ... -specs.htm
What stands out is the Data Speeds...RAZR is a mere 12.3mbps (4G) while the Nexus can boast a whopping 21.1mbps!!!

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The wife insists on me waiting to see if there is any black friday sales for the RAZR or the like.

That said, I was reading the reviews on Verizon, and overall, most people are more than happy with their phone, but that pesky battery life keeps popping up...I have to wonder though...the people who are saying their battery life sucks, what are their system settings? Are they in a faraday cage so the phone sits there just looking for a signal burning up batteries? I don't put too much stock in "unprofessional" reviews, since its usually the indian, not the arrow .

I did read a review on Gizmodo over the weekend where they benchmarked a nexus, a RAZR, and a iPhone 4S. Based on their findings, the Nexus was better than the iPhone or the RAZR, however, they suspect the RAZR will actually be better than the Nexus once it gets ICS in the first quarter. It will be interesting to see.

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I read same article Chad...and I also happen to stop in a Verizon Wireless Store...had some time to kill waiting for Chinese Take-out next door...so I get my hands on a demo RAZR and Rezound ...the RAZR is AWESOME...and soooo thin...I really like it...and the Rezound compared face to face is only smidge wider than the RAZR...unfortunately they had no live demos ...I'm sure if I said I was buying he would of brought it out...anywho...

The glaring problem I see is this darn battery issue...even if the RAZR last as long as the iPhone...the iPhone has the whole I'm forever reliant on a cord problem...for us heavy users...so I am still a bit perplexed as to the 2 phones I'm favoring for next July (yeah feels like 10yrs away) ...I'm banking a better phone or atleast one of these RAZR / Nexus phones proves its claims and becomes THE best smartphone to date!

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..again..my point is not about how fast it drains...its about what you do when it does drain...with an iPhone YOU ARE F#%@!

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http://www.energizerpowerpacks.com/us/p ... p1201.html

Kevin your problems are solved with this extremely thick case for your iPhone...

...saw a lady conducting home school class follow ups/appointments with one of these on her iPhone...I ask why is your iPhone4 SO thick? ...she said...and I quote..."iPhone's battery suck...I wish they would just make it replaceable" ...I replied with a firm grin..."I hear its because of the super high resolution screen"...and she says "yeah and I really wish the screen was a lot bigger too"...

...my case in point...I can't tell you how many people tell me these exact words...so I'm very curious to see how these non-removable batteries play out in 6 months.

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Interesting...I got an update on my phone this morning...seeing as the build started with an FR, it is froyo, and not some magical happenstance taking my phone to Gingerbread.

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First off, I'm just waiting for you guys to start talking about the clock speed of the ram they use in these phones or who makes the mother boards or how to pull up a terminal command to get into the bios to change user preferences..............yeeeeesh people. It's a phone!

I know you guys think I base all my Android opinions on my Droid Eris that I had. Not the case. I fully understand that was one of the earliest Android phones and hardware has come a long ways since then. I base my opinion on things other people say. Now keep in mind that until the Verizon version of the iPhone 4 was finally released, there was no way possible for people that live in all of North Dakota, and a ton of Minnesota to get an iPhone. So what do you do when you want an iPhone, but can't have one? You go to Verizon and buy the Intellicad of the smart phone world, the Droid. I would say there are more Droids than iPhones that I see in the Fargo/Moorhead area. I'm now finally starting to see the iPhone be a common option people have though.

So I ask these people with their Droids how they like them. They usually either are OK with them, or hate them. A very small percentage are geeks and absolutely love them. So then while looking at their phones I always see the task killer. So I ask them what that icon is. They tell me what it is and then I ask them why they use it. "If I don't my battery dies in half a day or my phone runs so slowly I can't do anything with it". They often add that they like the app store since the applications are usually free, but they don't use it much. Very rarely do I find their phones set up to be able to purchase anything from the app store.

I ask the same questions with people with iPhones. They never really seem to mention the battery either good or bad. Most think they need to charge their phones too often, once a day. They are used to coming from feature phones that last 3 or 4 days on a charge. Then I ask them to double click their home button. They get kind of a confused look on their face and ask what all those icons are. I tell them those are all the programs you have used since you last turned the phone on. Not uncommon for the list to have 20+ icons. But I never hear them complaining that all these applications running in the background are killing their batteries. However, strike against Apple that their multitasking feature isn't obvious.

I'd like to see the iPhone have a bigger screen too. At least 4". I'm pretty OK with the non replaceable battery. I can't really think of a time that it has been a big problem. It isn't the thinnest phone ever. But unlike the razr that is really thin except for that bigger fatter part at the top, it is uniformly thin. I'm not a big fan of Motorola design. I think Samsung does a far better job, followed by HTC, and then Motorola and the rest.

And Steve, they have had these things since the first iPhones were on the market. No reason you have to keep this on your phone. You could keep it with you like you do your spare battery and have it IF you need it. http://bit.ly/meovZ2

I'm still waiting for Nokia to bring their Windows Phones to the US in Q1 2012. They aren't bringing the Lumia 800 here I don't believe saying that it doesn't meet American tastes. I still think that Windows Phone is going to be a big player in the market. It just has a lot of uphill running to do. Some of that running feature wise, a little app wise, but mostly mindshare wise.

...haven't used Task Killer since OTA update of Froyo shortly after I bought my DroidX...but your points are still the point of our frustrations with you...its either old hardware or old software tech you base it all on...and your a consoling much of the back woods of North Dakota for Pete's sake

....mobile industry moves lightning fast...the iPhone was built to work...not excel over bleeding edge tech...this Apple knew...but they also knew how to pull the wool over the general public's eyes and make them think their product is magical...well its far from it...the only thing magical is Apple's marketing strategies...much like Autodesk they proved to dominate because of it...WebOS is a great OS...but it lacks that magical marketing blanket of fluff

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