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| Huawei's flagship is a very attractive package with a superb screen |
AndroidNZ Ed-In-Chief Murray decided that it was time for me to slum it a bit. Not in a homeless person kind of way, but more in the "OMG, does he drive a Suzuki Swift?" sense. The Huawei Ascend D1 Quad XL (apparently there was another model named the "D Quad" - very unfortunate when spoken aloud) had turned up for testing and I got the short straw. However, the spec sheet suggests that the Ascend really isn't too far off the pace when compared to the very high end offerings from the likes of Samsung, LG and HTC. And arguably, even Nokia's recent Win8 kit. And even when it misses the bar, it's by only modest margins. Is that even important though? Good question. We shall see…
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| The Ascend's spec sheet is right up there with the best in the business |
Dimensions: 129 x 64 x 10.9 mm
Weight: 150g
Screen tech: IPS+ LCD, multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.5 inches, 326 ppi resolution
Audio: Dolby Mobile 3.0 Plus sound enhancement, MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player, active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
Internal storage: 8 GB ROM, 1 GB RAM
External SDCard: microSD, up to 32 GB specified, 64GB tested fine
Data capability: HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
2G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
Radio: FM broadcast (requires headset for signal), GPS with A-GPS support
WiFi: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, DLNA
Bluetooth: v3.0 with A2DP, HS
Cable connection: microUSB v2.0 (MHL)
Camera, rear: 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash
Video: 1080p@30fps, TV-out (via MHL A/V link), MP4/H.263/H.264 player
Camera front: 1.3 MP, 720p
OS: Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
CPU: Quad-core 1.4 GHz
Sensors: Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Battery: Li-Po 2600 mAh
You certainly wouldn't be embarrassed to discuss the Ascend's specifications with your iPhone owning buds - that screen res is easily competitive with Apple's much-touted "Retina" spec, for example and the Dolby audio implementation is not to be scoffed at.
So having dealt with the specification attributes of the Ascend, it's time to turn to the user experience. And here's the wrinkle - we who have the good fortune to sample the finest tech kit there is, tend to be a rather jaded bunch. We experience the fastest, smoothest, most responsive, feature-rich and innovative gadgets as yet devised by mankind, and thus anything that fails to meet such lofty expectations must by comparison be deemed second rate. That's the nature of this fast-evolving tech sphere. So the substantially less expensive Huawei Ascend would always be on a hiding to nothing, right?
Well maybe not.
Keeping to AndroidNZ's policy of real user reviews, I decided to tackle this review in a slightly unorthodox way, courtesy of a colleague I'll call Bill and a young family member we'll refer to as Pat.
Bill is, as he's happy to admit, something of a technophobe. Despite his having the perfect credentials to be an iPhone user, a year or so ago Phil took advantage of some Telecom deal that provided a free Samsung mini smartphone which, I'd hasten to add, is complete rubbish. It's the kind of device that Apple Fanbois love to claim is used by the large majority of Android users. For as a first step into the smartphone world, it's difficult to imagine a less compelling or satisfying one.
Pat, on the other hand, is more tech-savvy and has had a year with a handset that was probably the device of its day (though getting a little long in the tooth now), the Samsung Galaxy S.
Thus Bill and Pat are each the perfect choice to provide the kind of baggage-free alternative viewpoint that the regular tech blogging reviewer cannot. So this review includes their insights as counterpoint to my own somewhat over-privileged view of this "flagship" Android phone.
What's it running?
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| For those of us on Jelly Bean, ICS won't cut it, but 4.1.2 is rumoured to be on its way |
But Android has moved on and the latest incarnation, Jelly Bean, has since raised the bar even higher. So coming as we bloggers do from these rarified heights, smoothness aside, ICS is somewhat of a disappointment. Where the heck are the notification bar toggles, just for starters? Well, to be fair, this phone was supplied unrooted and unmodded, and as such, is about as vanilla as it's possible to get. So its limitations were always going to be obvious to the JB-equipped among us, especially those with modded handsets.
Bill, on the other hand, was used to the very basic experience that his Gingerbread powered Samsung Galaxy Mini provides, and his time with the Ascend was a revelation to him. As he expresses the improvement for himself: "The Huawei Ascend D1 XL would sell here at around half the price of the iPhone 5, yet offers so much more than the entry level phone I’ve been using. Decent screen real estate, smooth scrolling and a good camera were all appreciated. I was using more data but I enjoyed having for instance a nav app that really added value. If I owned this phone, I would certainly be syncing diaries and social media, using dropbox and all the other things I know are theoretically possible but hardly practical with my current phone."
In short, Bill found that the Ascend transformed his user experience and made a him a convert almost immediately. For Bill, coming from an earlier and more modest Android device running Gingerbread, the Ascend is clearly a positive revelation.
Pat's higher-spec device had ICS and a modded ROM, and some experience with his siblings' iPhones meant his expectations were higher. Nonetheless, going from a relatively low performance GPU and single core CPU on a daily basis to multi-core was still going to be an eye-opener.
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| A brave choice by Huawei to design and build their own SOC, but it's no slug |
So for both guest reviewers, their initial expectations were generally met or exceeded, despite the fact that before they used it, neither had even heard of Huawei, let alone the Ascend D1 Quad XL.
But what about me?
First impressions
The device is both shorter and narrower compared to my current daily driver, the popular Samsung Galaxy S iii, and 3-4mm thicker. The Ascend screen is 4.5" diagonal while the SGS3 sports a 4.8" display. And in the heft competition, the SGS3 weighs in at 133g vs the Ascend's 146 (as measured on my kitchen scales), although that's an amount that's mostly imperceptible in real use.
Neither phone excels in the finish area, the Galaxy's back a slippery, glossy plastic, while the Ascend sports a matt, textured surface that misses out on the precision fit of the SGS3's cover. In fact, the Ascend's cover flexes and squeaks which doesn't impress in the quality perception stakes, but again, in use, it's grippy and apparently highly durable.
Huawei have also taken a punt in developing their own ARM-based SOC solution for this flagship 3G device, called the K3. Its 4 CPU cores and 16 GPU cores promise a decent experience with virtually all the tasks one might reasonably expect such a device to encounter, and for the most part that promise has been kept. If this is their first shot at a home-baked system on a chip, expect extraordinary offerings in the future.
The Ascend's display is anything but budget. It's bright and the colour saturation is about spot on while the SGS3's doesn't match either the colour nor the Ascend's brightness. And if Huawei's marketing department felt like copping the litigation that would surely follow from Apple, they could rightly claim that Ascend's pixel density with its delightful IPS panel matches that of the iPhone 5's much-touted so-called "retina" display. You'll perhaps glean from those observations that I'm impressed.
Using the Ascend every day
Call quality is at the high end of the scale from a purely seat-of-the-pants comparison with the SGS3 and my older generation HTC Sensation. No problems there. I'd like to have the kit to test call audio in a more scientific manner, but that isn't an option so the Mark One Earhole is my current best perception.
Having the good fortune to be running Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) on my daily driver, the Ascend's ICS feels like somewhat of a retrograde step. However, there's little doubt that the Ascend will be upgraded to JB in the future, especially as it will run the new OS easily, so that in itself should not be a barrier to purchase. And as it happens, the ICS installation on the Ascend runs smoothly with no perceptible lag from the OS.
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| The Ascend boasts multiple ICS themes out of the box, with more available online |
Bill: "Ice Cream Sandwich is a huge step up from Gingerbread. Actually, I didn't know the Samsung's version of Android had a name. So now I know and I'm pleased to say ICS is a massive improvement. Well, some of that was bound to be the hardware, but I can honestly say the software is much more intuitive for me. Going back to the Samsung was pretty disappointing to be honest. I found the 3D launcher to be a bit gimmicky though and wouldn't use it if I bought the Ascend."
Pat commented: "My Galaxy S is getting a bit old now. I find the Ascend feels really snappy compared to my phone, even though the OS is much the same. All my apps run better [on the Huawei] so I can see the benefits in upgrading, but I wonder if things might be even better on a better Android phone - like your S3 or something like that. Anyway, if I had to use the Ascend every day, I wouldn't be sad about it. It was like, pretty good really."
While we're talking about quirks and stuff, there are a few more. For reasons known only to the Ascend's designers, the volume rocker appears on the right side of the phone, foregoing the 'normal' placement on the left. The micro-USB port is placed on the left side where the volume rocker might be expected to be. And the position of the "Back" and "Menu" capacitive buttons are reversed. Actually, that last thing I find hardest to understand. Many times I've unwittingly closed my app while intending to modify its settings. Annoying, especially at first, but after a few days it should become second nature even for those who, like me, are used to the Samsung setup. Unless, like over the last weeks with me you skip from one phone to another multiple times a day, when it again becomes an issue.
There have been some excellent decisions that have contributed to this phone's enjoyment potential, including but not limited to its having external SD-Card capability, 8GB of internal memory and Dolby Digital Plus audio. However, although the device has a decent battery, it comes at the cost of it not being removable. It's wired in and requires special tools to remove, so switching batteries to extend the uncharged life of your handset is a no go. Lucky then that the standard battery is a 2600mAH beast. It's probable that at least some of the additional thickness the Ascend has versus its rivals is also down to the bulk of that high capacity cell. You pays your money…
Battery endurance
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| The Ascend's battery performance was a surprise, to say the least |
Since nobody in their right mind plays games or watches movies for 12 hours straight, especially without their phone plugged into the wall charger, the relevance is questionable. But I don't have the answer either. All I know is that the biggest drain on your phone from day to day, on average, is your screen. It's not surprising really since the screen uses power in running the GPU, switching the necessary screen pixels, taxing the CPU as required and in the case of an LCD display like the Ascend's, powering the screen's backlight.
So here's how I attempted to provide some meaningful battery performance numbers. I've timed the endurance of the phone at idle, which means the phone is on with wifi, data and the supporting subsystems running, but the screen is off. Then I timed the phone with the screen on until it reached 5%. The former to indicate it's maximum frugality, the latter, its minimum frugality. It's possible mathematically then to extrapolate your maximum performance as a function of screen-on time vs total endurance. Of course, it's a maximum and we all know real-life results never reach those giddy heights but there are too many variables to achieve better.
So how did it do? Very well, as it happens.
On the screen-on test, the Ascend ran for 11 hours before hitting 5%.
On the screen-off test, it managed six days before hitting the 5%.
And in a somewhat meaningless test where the phone sat at idle with the radios off altogether, it took 17 days to run the phone down. First time I've seen that.
That means that every hour the screen is on burns 12 hours of the Ascend's potential battery endurance. Consider those figures in the context of the reality that you're also doing stuff like running apps, playing music, scrolling around and so on. That in turn would suggest you could never exceed two days if you were screen-on for six hours, giant battery notwithstanding. Based on your 'normal' usage, your screen's power draw is also significantly less than 100% of your phone's total, so the amount of time you can reasonably expect will be pro-rata with the actual (average) use. In my case, my screen-drain percentage is as near as dammit to 70% of the total drain.
So my expectation with the Ascend will be six hours screen on time over seventy percent of two days - that comes out as 26 hours, (or 1 day and 2 hours). I'll test that and report my findings at the end of this review.
So that segways nicely into the compulsory benchmarking bit…
Regular followers of Murray's writing will be aware that as a matter of policy, we don't quote Quadrant results here on AndroidNZ, and this review is no different. But we're going to provide results for the usual suspects and they follow. Keep in mind that there is no perfect benchmark or suite but some will be more relevant to you and your usage and you should pay more heed to them.
Frankly, I find benchmarks to have value only when comparing results from the same phone after changes or tweaks, or in the worst case, a supposedly identical handset. But you're welcome to take whatever affirmations you desire from our results.
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| Clearly the D1 Quad XL is a very competitive unit, even given the modest cost compared to its opposition |
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| Again, the Ascend is not exactly embarrassed in such company |
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| Confirmation that you're unlikely to suffer from poor performance |
Another useful performance measurement for me are the wifi and data speeds, which in turn indicate the health of the radios and/or the way the kernel drivers are performing - so here I'll deliver the results from SpeedTest, Wifi Analyzer, and the ubiquitous GPS Test.
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| Cell data result is right up there... |
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| ...with the Wifi result also top class |
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| The Wifi radio gets a result as good as I've seen on HomeNet |
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| Nothing to moan about with the GPS performance |
How the phone shapes up as a multimedia device
As always, Murray has completed a battery of tests cataloguing the myriad connectivity options that the Ascend is capable of (and those not so capable) and this will be explored later. Meantime, I'll cover some entertainment aspects of the device that form the basis of my "real user" activity.
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| Ascend comes with an FM app, but is it any good? |
Installing the Spirit FM application (available from the Google PlayStore for a small fee) had the effect of improving the issue of poor separation but not to any significant extent, suggesting that Huawei has some work to do in that area.
So you know my feelings on the subject, but what about the guest testers? From the horses’ mouths…
Bill: "It has an FM radio? Not something I'd use, I reckon. Well, maybe... I dunno. How good would it be? Signal fade and that?"
Pat: "Can't imagine using it. My iPod is all I need for noises. I never used the Ascend as an MP3 player. Don't use the Galaxy S for music much, either. I think the Galaxy has FM but I never used it. Kinda old school?"
Which surely goes to show that we all value these things differently. None of the testers rated the standard ear buds, each of us reverting to our favored kit. My Skull Candy IEMs worked well however as did the Sennheiser cans. Pat thought his pricey Beats headphones sounded great, but even better on the iPod Touch. Sounds are in the ear of the beholder, apparently.
Lights, cameras, action…
The cameras are very much in line with the HTC Sensation in both image quality and colour. Which is to say not a great deal, it must be admitted. On a bright day, the happy snaps you shoot will be entirely fine for 4"x5" prints or for sharing on social media, However, the image gets progressively noisier as the available light decreases as you'd expect. Shooting indoors in available light during the day is a definite hit and miss scenario while shooting inside at night, lit by incandescent or fluoro lamps is pointless. The level of visual noise and lack of definition are par for the course in the phone/camera space which is to say mediocre, so don’t expect great results.
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| Rear facing camera coped quite well with high contrast subject matter but don't throw your SLR away just yet |
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| Losing a fair bit of detail in the shadows but the Mrs would probably prefer that anyway |
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| Low light performance was OK rather than spectacular but was adequate in this setting - seen better, but seen much worse |
However, the front-facing camera was better than I'd anticipated (which to be honest still isn't much of a recommendation). Better than the Sensation, worse than the SGS3. Still, it worked well enough on a chat connection across the globe to Canada via Skype.
Summarizing the still cameras then, good enough for most but don't throw away your SLR or PAS kit on the strength of the Ascend’s offerings. Check out the sample images below.
So, how about the video then? Actually I was pleasantly surprised. I recorded identical scenes on both the Ascend and the SGS3 under various lighting and weather conditions in 1080P and found that the Huawei was better in overall exposure, more saturated in colour and the auto iris reacted faster than Samsung's flagship.
On the other hand, the SGS3 had better detail in the shadows while it was less inclined to blow out the highlights, and its auto-focus was more responsive. The Samsung also handled tracking shots more smoothly, while the Ascend at times had a shearing effect on a frame or two. I believe that was because the recorded data was occasionally too big to be processed onto the SD card.
I should stress that this was very much an infrequent occurrence so unless you plan to shoot short films or broadcast TV on the device, then you’re unlikely to find this a deal-breaker.
As far as the sound recorded with the video was concerned, neither was especially good yet both were amply crisp and loud for YouTube. Not unexpected with the lack of an accessory mic, and amplifying and cleaning up in post production is likely most people's option I'm guessing. It's certainly mine when I think it’s important enough.
So I'd say that the video capabilities will please most everybody but the purists (there's not a phone camera in existence that will keep a purist happy). And while we're dealing with video, playback on the Ascend was top notch. Murray's MHL adapter allowed connection with the Samsung flat screen TV with no complications whatsoever and the resulting images and video playback were pleasing and glitch free. On the other hand, no amount of coaxing could get the PS3 wireless controller working with the Ascend. Some driver missing perhaps, or an oddness with my Wi-Fi setup. But I'll update this with an addendum should the Ed have achieved a better result.
So what say the guest testers?
Bill: "What use I’d find for shooting video, I can’t imagine. Unless I happened across some newsworthy event like an exploding asteroid or a multi-car pileup. It’d be great if I wanted to chronicle family things like kids growing up, birthdays and other events like that but to be honest, I don’t have kids and I find records of those big occasions are adequately handled by the still shots.
Speaking of which, the still shots from the Ascend are so far ahead of my cheapo Samsung that I think I could leave the point and shoot camera at home and not really miss it.
Skyping with the front camera is better than my laptop so no complaints there. Can’t really fault the Huawei’s cameras, in other words."
Pat: "The still and video cameras are way better than the ones on the Galaxy S. Although I rarely shoot on either – just some action like at a party or burnouts or at footy or whatever. Usually they go on Facebook and even the Galaxy’s shots were good enough, so I wouldn’t make a decision to buy based on how good the pics were from the phone. But they were more than OK for me."
Navigation and the art of not getting lost
This is an area that is of major importance to me. Not because I’m unusually inept at finding my way about, but I have a habit of sailing close to the wind when it comes to keeping appointments – I cannot abide arriving at a meeting earlier than the appointed time, nor can I deal with the stress of being late.
So when heading to a get-together in unfamiliar territory, it’s an absolute joy to have a comforting, well-spoken English woman calmly telling me how to get there while the app keeps me abreast of my ETA. Very cool.
My app of choice for this happens not to be the free and universally used Google Maps Navigation, but the rather pricey Navigon. Besides the fact that there’s little in Navigon that compares poorly to Google’s effort, it has one gigantic benefit. It doesn’t need to use your precious mobile data – all of its map data is stored on your device. Bliss…
However I digress. The three most important components of any navigation device, including the smartphone, are accuracy, reliability and sensitivity. All of these properties are inherent in the hardware and the Ascend was put through its paces with both some known routes (to test accuracy and route following) and a couple of random destinations to, and from.
The results, I’m happy to confirm, were excellent. The Ascend’s GPS found several satellites quickly (within 10 seconds from app start) and never dropped its GPS signal in any of the tests. And it always showed the car where it was meant to be. In short, except for the Galaxy Siii, it’s the best nav device I’ve used, and that includes standalone GPS receivers in rental cars. Great job. How, then, did my fellow testers fare?
Pat: "I’m more used to Google Maps nav app so I didn’t try Navigon. And I only tested it over routes that I already know, so I can confirm that it’s the best route and stuff. It was better than the Galaxy S. Sometimes with the Galaxy the signal goes and the map stops. Sometimes the car is like 100 metres ahead of where it’s indicated on the map. The Ascend didn’t have anything like that. I thought it was pretty good.
I hardly ever use navigation though. But you can definitely trust what the info on the map shows."
Bill: "This basically sold me on the Ascend. I tried both Google Maps and Navigon and they were both spot on. Quite eerie.
I prefer Google maps as you can tell it where you want to go more easily than you can in Navigon – I found entering the destination in Navigon was laborious and took too long. I guess you’d get used to it over time but I couldn’t be bothered persevering.
My old Samsung had Google Maps but the GPS wasn’t functional, or at least, I couldn’t get it to work, so I was very pleasantly surprised with how functional the Ascend’s GPS navigations is. Not very scientific, but I reckon its superb."
So it’s universal then. In the real world, if you regularly use GPS you won’t be disappointed with the Huawei Ascend D1 Quad XL’s nav capabilities, regardless of the app you favour.
Stability and other potential issues
That sub-head is a cheat. Mea culpa – there weren’t any issues with stability in everyday use. The implementation of Ice Cream Sandwich that is pre-loaded on the handset we received is that intended for the Chinese market. One of Ed-In-Chief Murray’s first reactions was to update to an English version and whether or not the OEM original version was stable was instantly rendered moot. What I can tell you is that during the weeks of testing that I put on the device and the many more weeks of testing that the guest testers applied to Huawei’s finest, it steadfastly refused to crash. Not once. Bulletproof.
However, it’s also true that none of us chose the 3D launcher version of the OS. Each of us found that launcher to be less than smooth, with lags and hesitation evident in the UI conspiring to encourage us to stick with the snappier, smoother 2D version instead. So while we can wax lyrical about the phone’s stability, the 3D OS doesn’t garner the same universal enthusiasm.
But here I must let my fellow testers take over the review, since going back to ICS from Jelly Bean is such a retrograde step in functionality, that it would be unnecessarily harsh for me to apply my experience to the review. So over to the lads…
Pat: "The Huawei runs basically the same operating system as the Galaxy S so it’s easy for me to find my way around. There are some things that look different and the order of some things changes in some places, but it didn’t cause any problems.
What I noticed straight away was how much quicker everything was. Loading apps, web pages, saving images. It was really good for that. Every video played properly – no frames dropping and that. Much better to use than the Galaxy."
Bill: "The Samsung I’ve been using uses an older operating system so the Ascend was always going to feel better. What I hadn’t expected I think was how it never froze. Or crashed apps. Or anything like that. I thought all smartphones had crashes and videos locking up and such. It was a real eye-opener to find out how good a smartphone could be.
I know from discussions with Andy that there are better experiences than the Ascend out there, but wow, this is like night and day to me after the Samsung. Bloody brilliant. I didn’t experience one crash or freeze in the weeks I had it. The Ascend is a class act, as far as I’m concerned."
It’s worth mentioning, from my point of view, that the Ascend was rooted at the end of the test period, and there’s now a ROM and firmware to take the Ascend into the world of Jelly Bean. So I may yet do a follow up piece with my thoughts on this area once the OS has been updated and if I succeed in prising the device from the fingers of its new owner.
We shall see…
Back to that battery
Clearly, Huawei have done their battery homework and the Ascend must surely hold the award for best smartphone battery performance so far.
To put that in some kind of context, my SGS3 gets 27 hours from fully charged to 5% remaining, with a maximum of a little over 3 hours of screen-on time. That’s a very respectable performance from a smartphone, as it happens, and is the envy of other hardware and OS makers everywhere.
The Ascend’s battery performance that I touched on earlier in this review is not really a fair comparison with my normal S3 battery endurance. The real test will be with the Ascend used as my daily driver using the same apps, taking calls, sending and receiving txts, and reading my usual news feeds. So how did it do?
It routinely managed six hours screen on over 48 hours. That’s some impressive endurance and makes my SGS3 look positively piggy in juice draining. Huawei can be justifiably proud of their battery management. The Ascend’s endurance isn’t only the best I’ve used – it’s also the best I’ve heard of.
Summary
Where to begin? I could go back through the previous and make a list of my pros and cons, but that wouldn’t take the guest testers into account. And if I used their versions, it would leave my thoughts out of the equation. Instead, there are actually three summaries. Pick the one that most matches your personal circumstances and you should have an honest appraisal of what the Ascend would likely mean to you.
I’ll go first: My first question to myself was, would I buy this? And the simple answer is no. The reality is that in every way except for the battery and the display, the SGS3 suits me better. And even in those particular areas, the Galaxy Siii isn’t far enough behind that the Huawei would be compelling to me. The sad fact is that had the Ascend D1 Quad XL been released soon after it was announced, my feeling is that it could have been a contender for stellar sales despite the brand not being a household name.
It’s actually a competent smartphone and if I were still using my HTC, I’d have seriously considered it as a replacement, its performance far exceeding that of the Sensation. And its price, if available to buy in this country, would be around half of the flagship devices from HTC, Samsung and Apple.
As it stands, you could always import one from a reputable e-tailer overseas and still save a bucket-load of loot compared to the high-end offerings from the big names. It’s really a decent device with a near-high-end performance for a mid-tier price. And it promises to be a durable and hard working smartphone for at least a couple of years. It’s certainly less likely to suffer the potential failures that Samsung’s flagship has seen of late.
But honestly, had I bought one when they were supposed to have been released, I think I’d be feeling buyer’s remorse already – it’s that spoiled thing we tech reviewers have to contend with.
But I’m excited to see what Huawei are capable of on their next foray into smartphone competition. I wish them only the best. I leave the last words to the guests...
Bill: "I’ve pretty much said it all and I don’t think I need repeat anything. The Huawei Ascend D1 Quad XL is so impressive to me, that I can only say that I want it. And in fact, I’ve decided to buy it from AndroidNZ. To me, it’s just that good. Does it match or exceed the high-end offerings from Samsung, HTC, Motorola, LG, Apple et al? Frankly I don’t care. This’ll do me fine. Great phone, great price."
And finally, Pat: "No. I wouldn’t buy it. No coolness. It’s way better than the Samsung Galaxy but then, what isn’t these days? I gotta be honest… I wouldn’t want my mates to judge me on it. They’ve all got iPhones. So I need to have something that’s as cool. So I just bought an iPhone 4s. It has some cool games and stuff that you can’t get on an Android phone – any Android phone - and I probably wouldn’t get the Galaxy S3 or even the S4. Maybe I’ll change in the future and go Android or something else, but right now, nope.
Nice phone but no cool factor. Bummer, but that’s how it is."
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