[Q] G3 best option on Sprint?

[jonnyg333]

So I am looking to get a new phone. I actually bought an iPhone and sold it and was planning on getting the new Nexus phone. However, I was banking on the price of the new Nexus phone to be $350-400. Now that it looks like the phone will be much more ($650) and also the fact that it is WAY too big, I have mostly ruled out getting the Nexus 6.

My backup option was going to be the new Moto X, but now Sprint isn't carrying it. So now what?

Is my best option the G3. My last two phone have been from LG, the Optimus One and the Optimus G is my current phone. My complaint with LG is manly around updates. Custom ROMs have helped ease this issue, but I usually end up falling back to a stock based Rom, so I would like if LG was better at updating their stuff.

The only other phone I am interested in is the HTC One M8. I like the hardware and the developer community seems to be bigger than the G3, also HTC is committed to providing better updates.

I am torn. What is your opinion of the G3 and does anyone have experience with both the HTC One and the LG G3? Is there something I should wait for?

Thanks, Jon.

 

[ouroborus2012]

So I am looking to get a new phone. I actually bought an iPhone and sold it and was planning on getting the new Nexus phone. However, I was banking on the price of the new Nexus phone to be $350-400. Now that it looks like the phone will be much more ($650) and also the fact that it is WAY too big, I have mostly ruled out getting the Nexus 6.

My backup option was going to be the new Moto X, but now Sprint isn't carrying it. So now what?

Is my best option the G3. My last two phone have been from LG, the Optimus One and the Optimus G is my current phone. My complaint with LG is manly around updates. Custom ROMs have helped ease this issue, but I usually end up falling back to a stock based Rom, so I would like if LG was better at updating their stuff.

The only other phone I am interested in is the HTC One M8. I like the hardware and the developer community seems to be bigger than the G3, also HTC is committed to providing better updates.

I am torn. What is your opinion of the G3 and does anyone have experience with both the HTC One and the LG G3? Is there something I should wait for?

Thanks, Jon.

I like mine, dude... Oddly, there's a little lag here and there, but it hasn't even had its first update yet... The lag isn't a deal breaker and it's easily fixed by switching from Dalvik to Art, but they may affect a few apps.... It's finally unlocked, so we'll have some ROMS here soon and it'll be a beast. The screen is REALLY nice, but at full brightness it IS a battery hog. I came from the Note 2, so i got the same screen size on the G3 with a smaller phone!

My wife has the S5 and it's pretty awesome too ... I was torn between the two, but i've had Samsung for the past like 5 years and wanted something different. I honestly would have been happy with either phone. Don't forget, the Note 4 is coming out too. But, that's a huge bastard. The Note 2 was just big enough for me and I would NOT want to go any bigger just because of how it feels in the pocket.

 

[chazglenn3]

I have a HTC One M8 and I just got my wife a LG G3 today. When I was shopping I was torn between the two. I chose the M8 for the front facing speakers. The G3 is a very nice phone also. I don't think you could go wrong with either phone.

 

[meyerweb]

I like my G3. There's a bit of lag, but since you're willing to root it's really easy to get rid of, and there are good threads on XDA (both here in the Sprint section and the general G3 section) on what you can do. Just installing something like Nova launcher and a 3rd party keyboard makes a big difference.

Now that the locked bootloader has been overcome, we're starting to see ROM development. How active it will turn out to be, who can say, but there are definitely multiple people / groups working on them, including stock based ones.

I personally don't like the One M8 all that much. The only other phones on Sprint I would go for are the S5 or Note 4 (but like the Nexus it's really too big). The best screens in the business, and great developer support. But the S5, in particular, is just so ugly.

I have no real complaints about the G3. If it had Samsung's SAMOLED screen, it's be darn close to perfect.