<p>It ultimately depends on what you’re going to use the phone for. I would personally go with the Galaxy S4 as it has a removable battery and expandable storage. Those two things are must haves for me. </p>
<p>I’d suggest testing out the phones in store to decide which you like best before making a decision. Both are great so you can’t really go wrong with either. Like I said before it ultimately depends on your needs.</p>
<p>I just want to make sure what I an watch videos, find most if not all apps I can find on the iPhone, listen to music, use internet, make calls and taking pictures etc.</p>
<p>@lillemonred
Another bad thing about the iPhone that I forgot to say but remembered when you said you wanted to be able I watch videos-- if the video is on a website and requires flash to play it, you can’t view it on your iPhone.
Again, I’ve had android phones and my mom is loyal to android, I have an iPhone currently so I’m not biased to one or the other. I would definitely recommend the galaxy over the iPhone any day. There is no comparison.</p>
<p>Adobe dropped Flash support in Android 4.1. You can hack around to get it to work (maybe) but it’s still a hack. I’m happy that more and more websites are moving to HTML5. I have an iPhone and an Android Tablet. There’s stuff that you can do on Android that you can’t do on the iPhone and apps that are on iOS that aren’t on Android. It’s nice to have both.</p>
<p>These phones are quite expensive and I really don’t want to do the 2 year contract. Does that Nexus 4 a more affordable option? Or is it worth to invest on galaxy s3/ s4?</p>
<p>The Nexus 4 is unlocked and costs $300 for 8 GB and $350 for 16 GB and you buy it directly from Google. You don’t need a contract with it. Our daughter has the previous model (Google Galaxy Nexus - same price). We took the SIM card from her previous phone (a piece of crap feature phone) and put it in the Nexus. She had a prepaid phone and service costs $100 per year. Calls are $0.25 per minute. I’m not sure what text messages cost. She can use mobile data too but it’s expensive - $0.05 per KB. She generally has WiFi available so she can make and receive calls over WiFi or do text and/or IM over WiFi.</p>
<p>Is it possible to do the prepaid service on the s3 or s4? What if I like using the internet alot? or using many apps and texting? I don’t call as much.</p>
<p>I don’t know. If you’re using the internet a lot and you don’t have WiFi, then you’re probably better off using a data plan on contract. The high-end phones typically run $700 + off contract.</p>
<p>Hmm I’m looking into ipads as well for college purposes. Is Google nexus 7 very similiar to something like Ipad? or which is better? Also whats the difference between nexus 7 and 10?</p>
<p>The Nexus 7 is similar to the iPad Mini and the Nexus 10 is similar to the iPad.</p>
<p>The iPad has a larger apps ecosystem. There are a ton of tablet apps while there are far fewer for the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. A lot of the apps that run on the latter are mobile apps blown up to fit the larger screens.</p>
<p>Which would you suggest is a better investment? nexus or ipad? I’m mostly going to use it to read books/ PDF files off it.</p>
<p>I have an iPhone and a Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 is cheaper and it’s more flexible. If you want to watch a movie on it, you just copy it to the device from a PC using the supplied cable. On the iPad or iPad Mini, you have to convert it to mp4 and then sync using iTunes. Android allows you to do more with your device - but the apps ecosystem is smaller for tablets.</p>
<p>Both devices support Kindle so if you’re using Amazon’s E-Book reader, then either would work. If you want to use Apple’s Book Store, then you’re probably limited to the iPad or iPad Mini. In general, I usually recommend the Nexus 7 over the iPad Mini if tablet apps aren’t a big issue and if the person wants to keep costs low.</p>
<p>One other thing that I like about the Nexus 7 is that they sell a dock for it. I use the dock for charging. I just drop the Nexus 7 in the dock and it charges. I don’t have to plug in a connector. It’s an accessory, but it’s very nice for old eyes that can’t see Micro-USB ports easily.</p>
<p>Hmmm. How is this?
[Get</a> the Nextbook by E Fun NEXT8P12 with WiFi 8" Touchscreen Tablet PC at Walmart.com. Save money. Live better.](<a href=“http://www.walmart.com/ip/Nextbook-by-E-Fun-NEXT8P12-with-WiFi-8-Touchscreen-Tablet-PC-Featuring-Android-4.0-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-Operating-System-Black/21054746]Get”>http://www.walmart.com/ip/Nextbook-by-E-Fun-NEXT8P12-with-WiFi-8-Touchscreen-Tablet-PC-Featuring-Android-4.0-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-Operating-System-Black/21054746)
I was told this is very similar but only cheaper.
I want something light.</p>
<p>Google basically sells their tablets at cost - the Walmart model has lower specs compared to the Google products. If you can live with the lower specs, then it should be fine.</p>
<p>I bought the Google branded product because I thought that Google would be better at providing updates to their own products and this has been true. There are other Android products that don’t get updates (they’re stuck on old versions of Android) because the party responsible for providing updates makes money when you buy a new device and have no incentives to provide updates.</p>
<p>The 7-8 inch tablets are quite a bit lighter than the full-size tablets. I think that they are usually around 12 ounces.</p>