I love the quality of the images, I hate how the cameras are really bad about zooming and it takes a lot longer to focus on close things than it should be. It’s ability to take clear images despite poor lighting is really impressive.
It’s Bluetooth is absolutely awful. Frequently, and I mean sometimes as much as five times in 10 minutes, the Bluetooth will disconnect and then reconnect within a second or two. And I know it’s not the Bluetooth devices because I have used lots of different speakers and headphones and it’s always happening with everything. It’s incredibly annoying.
I can attest to its durability though. I have dropped this several times and not even a scratch has happened. Though I will say, the extra glass that comes with the phone developed a single sliver of a crack for absolutely no reason without being dropped. I have no idea how that could even have happened.
Let I not understate how absolutely huge the battery is. And I mean huge. I tend to leave my phone on Bluetooth all day long and I don’t mean an 8 hour work day. I mean all DAY long. Think 12+hours. Not once has the battery percentage lowered any more than the 60s. The only way to get it lower than that is to play a game on it.
There is a setting on this phone called dura-speed. And it took me far too long to figure out what it is and what it has been doing. For the longest time, I wasn’t getting any notifications from anything outside of a text message. It wasn’t until I opened an app that I saw what I needed to see. And it wasn’t happening nearly fast enough. This setting, called dura-speed, is found at the bottom of the settings of the phone. It stopped all apps from notifying me or using any battery when it isn’t open. I appreciate it, but at the same time it drove me insane because there are some things I need to see when it is there. But now that I know it’s there I was able to fix it and the notifications show up when they should now.
Last thing, this phone is huge. And heavy. I don’t think you understand what it means when I say huge. The kind of sacrifices and creative adjustments you will have to make. I had to search high and low to find something that could hold it on a gooseneck. Wish me luck on dashboard mounts and bike handle mounts, because it has been fruitless thus far. No purse pocket or jean pocket is sized right to hold this. You have to know what you’re getting into. You have no idea.