Not too far back my wife and I upgraded our phones thru our carrier AT&T. I opted for the HOX (HTC One X). One side of me wanted to jump on the Sg3 bandwagon but with my history on a Samsung phone I couldn't force myself to do it. So I decided to jump on the HTC Mothership at the time. I've had some what of a roller coaster ride of emotions with this phone, however, I'm pretty satisfied with it for the most part.
At first I thought I did enough homework on the phone to make a knowledgeable purchase. After returning my first within the first 30 days I was a little skepticle. However the sales person eased my fears and as my wife says, "you're so picky it's probably your imagination". She could be right. I get a little uptight when it comes to my electronics so I'm always focusing on the most minute thing.
As time went on I did what EVERY phone addict does and I jumped on XDA Developers and started reading up. Turns out that AT&T not only did a bait and switch on me, they stopped offering the cloud service of Dropbox as well. As it turns out, I thought I was getting a quadcore phone because that's what the affiliate told me, but low and behold I'm only on a dual core. Obviously, I was a little frustrated. However, it was my fault. I really should have paid a little more attention to my investigation into the phone before my purchase.
I decided that I should just remain stock and enjoy the features. The rapid fire camera on the phone is awesome. I have a todler and a newborn and that rapid fire comes in HANDY. Another great addition is the ability to take shots during video recording as well as playback. So any shots that I've missed I can play back and capture them directly from the video. They've both been ingenious additions that both my wife and I find extremely useful.
Not too long after finally getting over the bait and switch I feel happened, my brother picked up the Sgs3 and began his bragging session. NFC this, WiFi direct that, Google wallet, etc. Low and behold it turns out that my HOX has the exact same benefits. So my wife and I decided to start playing with the phones. Turns out the only thing we can transfer to each other via NFC are apps. A little frustrating, but ok. We moved on to the WiFi direct and for some reason, no such luck to send pictures and videos. Not sure why it's on the phones if we can't use it. So I decided to play dumb and act like it didn't exist. I've lived without it before. On to Google wallet. I've heard so many awesome things about this feature and of course I was excited to check it out. Time to open up the play store and download the app. Low and behold, it's not available? But it's a Google App... for a Google phone?
After a little research, it turns out that AT&T has blocked Google Wallet because they're looking to make money off this feature with another company. I wanted to throw my phone through a wall. However, I wasn't going to take my frustrations of AT&T out on my phone.
I believe at this point I've decided it's time to Root, remove the Sense UI and flash a nice AOSP ROM. If you have any suggestions on one that helps utilize all of these awesome features feel free to chime in!
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