What is the best bang for buck used phone out there on ebay below £150.00
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At the rate manufacturers are releasing new models these days, there must be some great bargain for android phone out there on Ebay.
I currently use a Galaxy Ace, but am increasingly finding it too slow and unresponsive for me needs.
So looking for a nice big screen phone 4" - 4.5" with a nice speedy processor.,,,suggestions. Oh, looking for a phone that is easy to root too!
I currently use a Galaxy Ace, but am increasingly finding it too slow and unresponsive for me needs.
So looking for a nice big screen phone 4" - 4.5" with a nice speedy processor.,,,suggestions. Oh, looking for a phone that is easy to root too!
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HTC Desire HD
Samsung Nexus S
Motorola Atrix
All three have decent developer communities. The Atrix runs a dual core Tegra 2 with 1gb of RAM. They seem to be very cheap even with the "laptop" accessories.
Looking at the £150 limit, a HTC Sensation could well be about that price. However you may be lucky and pick up my phone (well not mine as I want more than £150), a Galaxy Nexus for about that kind of money.
The develpoer community is spot on for the Nexus S and I think that is the way I will jump. It is for my son later this year and he is currently using one of my old phones, a ZTE Blade, but it pains me every time I see that phone. In many ways I really think I am getting the phone for me to play with before I hand it over to him. Every Android device in our house is rooted and only my daughters cheapy 7" tablet is still stock. So I am looking forward to getting the phone and trying various custom ROMs out. Then of course I will default to Cyanogen Mod as always seems to happen.
No sd card slot is a bit of a deal breaker. FM radio I could live without....anything else to consider (with sd slot)?
It's a hard one. The Motorola Atrix is 4G and very cheap and can be rooted with ease. The mind boggles.
see the full thread on these phones
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1777011
A bit too big for my liking. I would consider a chinese clone if it could be trusted for reliability and could be rooted.
This looks like a great phone with a snapdragon processor....Is there a updated operating system for this phone?
8 MP Primary Camera
0.3 MP Secondary Camera
4.3-inch Touchscreen
1.5 GHz Scorpion Processor
Wi-Fi Enabled
Full HD Recording
Expandable Storage Capacity of 32 GB
The HTC Sensation XE is a smartphone that is crafted with style and finesse. This touchscreen phone runs on Android v2.3.4 (Gingerbread) operating system and has a 1.5 GHz dual core processor integrated in to it. This HTC smartphone has a preloaded RAM size of 768 MB.
The Sensation XE from HTC has a 4.3-inch qHD screen with a resolution of 540 X 960 pixels.
There is an official 4.0 build for the XE. There is also a selection of 4.1 & 4.2 ROMs as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1112
Also there is a Cyanogen Mod 10 (Android 4.1.2) build as well. I have no idea how stable it is but I would give it a look.
The XE has all I need really. I will consider the Nexus S - would I really use 16gb of data music....not sure. I have lived with a Galaxy Ace with a 16gb card which has never been anywhere near full...so maybe.
you can get the S3 versions too,so smaller. They can be rooted, as I have done mine with no issues. I have had mine 2 months now, with no issues whatsoever. it is 'almost' identical to the official Note 2, and is 1/5 of the price:D
Plus, i get to use twin sims! ideal for home and work
I think I have seen these phones....i9300's? Can you post a link to a reliable seller. It there a website to show how to root these phones?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/rc-engine-market/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
UK seller, posted same day recored, but he has no 9300's
Just search on Ebay, and make sure the seller is in the UK.
Or you could buy a sensation and then load the xe rom on it
The Motorola Atrix is NOT 4G!
Not sure if trolling? or deadly serious?
I was looking at the Galaxy S2 today at my local back street phone shop. I would get a nice trade in for my ace and splash out a hundred quid for a decent used on. They are pretty well designed phones and very powerful.
They called HSPA+ 4G in America before LTE was rolled out. On XDA it is known as the Atrix 4G.