There's a decent demand/market for <5" screens. Not too small obviously, but not too big either. One of the advantages big phones have is they can pack a larger battery, but that technology will eventually catch up to the quickly dropping price of high res screens.

Functionally the S6 is the best phone of all time. But when you throw in the price for the 128 GB variant and the battery life functionality starts to take a back seat to overall utility. I need to check out G4 reviews but the build quality looks pretty abysmal. If OnePlus can put out a sleek well built phone at $300 why can't LG at over twice the price?





What textra features do you rely on? Google messenger is pretty bare bones but they've been slowly adding features lately (this week it's getting quick reply).

Isn't Textra premium literally a dollar?

The market of sub 5 is people thinking they couldn't like 5+.people trying 5+ and then downgrading are pretty rare

I just ordered a zenphone 2 for my wife I'll report once I get it

Yeah .99 , I paid it myself today. No big deal. I'd rather spend .99 extra on my cell bill vs having adds

Didn't even know google messenger existed until now. It's pretty smooth and great, but Textra just edges it out imo on compactness/niceness/intangible stuff (plus some nice customization stuff if you care), and lol @ not spending ONE ****ING DOLLAR on an app that you probably use more than any other app.

Can Textra connect to Hangout convos?

I actually just re-downloaded Textra after hearing they went premium to check it out again. They appear to have fixed the one issue I had with it before (where it left my old messages as unread with no apparent way for me to mark them as read). This time, my messages were imported with the proper "read" status AND i noticed an option in the settings menu to "mark all as read".

I prefer its UI and feel to Google Messenger (which is what I had been using) so I was happy to make the switch for $1. Seriously, people, support developers. They're the one making smartphones great.

However, I primarily communicate using Hangouts, so I wish Google would bring that up to modern UI/speed standards. So frustrating that they don't care about Hangouts when it's currently a decent cross-platform texting replacement but could be amazing with just a few tweaks to the UI.

Fakebusto, nope. I like em separated because I don't use hangouts that much and I sort of view the conversation style differently (more interactive vs "messagey"), but I can see that being a legitimate gripe for other people.

Hangouts (does Messenger?) can merge them, but I agree with dukemagic on the same UI/slowness issues.

I have yet to hear a "con" for telegram

Pros: fully encryped end to end

Wow. So Hangouts has superior functionality, but Textra has a superior interface. Boy. Decisions, decisions.

Does textra integrate gchats like hangouts? That's the main benefit of hangouts for me, being able to toggle back and forth from sms/gchat with each contact in the same conversation.

No its the opposite (unless Textra has overhauled their UI in the past 3 months).

Apologies, that was my question. I might not have been clear.

According to saw, the answer is no. I looked around the interwebz, and it appears he is correct. That's probably a dealbreaker for me. I like having Gchat and text conversations being seamlessly integrated.

No hangouts has trash UI, it but has the functionality of integrating the 2 types of messaging.

Textra allows you to do super awesome stuffs like customize speech bubble color! I'm actually being serious. I also like notification LED color customization. I feel like other apps may do this, but I doubt hangouts does. I have different colors represent different groups of people.

Textra also has gestures like swiping back from within a conversation to go to the main screen, and swiping left/right on individual conversations to delete the conversation or call the person.

Hangouts doesn't let you do anything with swiping from inside the conversation, and swiping from within the main menu just changes tabs when 99.9% of the time I want to be in the messages tab.

Plus Textra just looks better and fits in with Material Design better (aside from the left-edge menu which is mostly useless in hangouts).

A lot of people use gchat though, and many for work, so no ui will trump that if textra doesn't have it integrated into 1 message like hangouts.

Almost all my close contacts use gchat so that'd be a deal breaker for me.

wow I've never met anyone that's used Gchat, I just figured it was dead.

What field are you in?

KPew,

I use Gchat for maybe only two people, but I like have an integrated interface for all of my instant messages.

I use a program for work called Trillian. The program allows you to combine pretty much every IM program except cell phone texts. I want to be able to integrate all of those interfaces. Hangouts is fine because most of my texts use the cell service, with the occasional text coming from Gchat. But it would be nice if I could have Yahoo Messenger and Facebook Messenger all come through the same interface.

You absolutely 100% have to be joking. Or is the year still 2001?

YM still has a foothold in some parts of the world, mainly Asia. Though Facebook messenger, viber and WhatsApp are rapidly killing it there too.

show your work. here's mine.

http://www.amazon.com/BLU-Advance-Un..._1?t=000111-20

#1 selling unlocked phone on Amazon is 4-incher.

No. But it could be if you asked nicely.

70$ is most likely more relevant than the size