Posted on 03/01/2015 10:56:24 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
For my first SmartPhone, I got the Galaxy S3. Actually 2 of them, one for my wife as well. They worked nicely, but after she lost one and I smashed mine by slamming it in the car door, we went with Motorola Droid Razr and then Razr Max. The Motorolas were definitely a step down from the Samsungs. They had crappy battery life, with the Max not even lasting 8 hours under normal usage. When my wife smashed her screen, we switched again, to the iPhone 5s, for both of us.
After some adjustment to the idiosyncrasies of IOS, I have to say that I have not regretted one bit switching to Apple. No removable battery, no memory expansion, and fairly limited screen area, all negatives. But the IOS is far superior to Android as an operating system. It hardly ever crashes, and runs for weeks without being powered off. Every once in a while, I turn it off just for the sake of a cold reboot. The apps are closely controlled by the App Store, and updates happen regularly. One thing is that you never have to wonder if the latest IOS is going to work on your phone. Android only gets updated if your phone manufacturer decides that your model of phone is worth updating.
The last releases of Android have crippled the usability of the storage card so much I'll probably just go back to Apple in the future. I like my Galaxy Note 4, but I think it's overpriced for its feature set and app availability.
And I really like my iPhone 6--a reasonably stable operating system (with timely updates, too!), reasonable battery life, runs cool, and reasonably fast charging through the Lightning connector (well under an hour for 50 to 100 percent full charge). I'm keeping my iPhone 6 for at least two years.
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