Are there any mobile phones you consider are better than the iPhone and why? Or is there certain things other phones do better than than iPhone or are better value for money?
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Best phones for what? Call quality? Apps? Reliability?
Apple has the customer base, so they'll always sell regardless of the quality of the phone. I don't believe that makes them the best around. Sales numbers don't always equal the best quality (Just look at COD games).
The iPhone is simple to use and well built, but I recently switched to a Galaxy Note 3 and I don't think I'll be going back to the iPhone.
I just recently switched from an iPhone 4 to a Galaxy Note 3. Spec wise the iPhone is a ways behind many other phones. I do miss iOS and the APP Store though. Good thing I still have my iPad...
@jasean79: if you read the opening statement of a thread and not just the title of the thread you might get more insight into the question. Just sayin :p
I did read your post. My answer is still the same, no iPhones are not the best out there for too many reasons to state here. All phones basically do the same thing anyway. So, who really cares? Either you like Apple products or you don't. No one person's opinion on here is going to sway you otherwise.
I just recently switched from an iPhone 4 to a Galaxy Note 3. Spec wise the iPhone is a ways behind many other phones. I do miss iOS and the APP Store though. Good thing I still have my iPad...
A lot of the major apps are on Android though.
It doesn't restart every 20 minutes during the night, yelling "droid!", or produce more btus than the sun when placed in my pocket, or have a 2 hour battery life, or unable to find a roaming tower, like my old droid phone. So yes, it is the best phone on the market.
It doesn't restart every 20 minutes during the night, yelling "droid!", or produce more btus than the sun when placed in my pocket, or have a 2 hour battery life, or unable to find a roaming tower, like my old droid phone. So yes, it is the best phone on the market.
That is not typical of Android Phones. The battery life in my Note 2 is a lot better than the Iphone5.
High end Android Phones at similar or slightly less cost of Iphone are far better in many ways. I'll list some reasons off the top of my head.
1) Removable Batteries - Not all Android phones have this, HTC have moved away from it, but I love removable Batteries because you can buy a spare in case you get caught somewhere you need your phone with low or no battery left. You can also buy 3rd Extended batteries which can give some phones ridiculous long battery lives.
2)Freedom - I like to mess with how my phone looks ans sounds, you'll notice expect the background everyone Iphone will look the same, this is not the case with android. You can change your Keyboard, The Launcher, Bootscreen, Use Widgets, change default applications.
3) External Storage - My Note 2 is 64gb, I also have a 64gb SD card, that's a lot of memory for a phone, which youll need for Movies,Music,games apps etc
4) Emulator & Controllers - I have Emulators for the SNES,NES,GENESIS,Atari 2600.Playstation, N64, and a LOT of games.
5) Multi Tasking - Being able to split screen two apps, or browse the net with a pop video also playing, I'm not sure Iphone has the processing power for this.
6) No Itunes, if you want to put music or movies or Ebooks onto your phone, simply attach it to you PC and copy the files over job done. When you plug the phone into your PC you get a normal file system. Apple do not give you this type of Access to your own files.
7) Choice - There are lots of different designs and models to pick from, if you only going to Iphones your limited, if you choose and Android there are options of shapes and sizes.
@thehig1: @jasean79: fair enough but I'm asking for people's personal preferences, experiences and recommendations, and if I had no intention of considering the advice of a majority I wouldn't have created the thread.
@thehig; some good points there the last android phone I has was the Sony Ericsson Play I had a ps1 and snes emu on it and it was a good phone, and it was good for all the points you mentioned. The build quality wasn't as good as iPhone and the feel of it in your hands but did everthing else just like an iphone.
You literally have no freedom with the iPhone.
@ariabed:
Well, then I guess for accurate advice, one would have to own both iPhone and Android to give a valid enough opinion for you to consider, right?
I've never liked Apple, but that's just me. My opinion would be biased and therefore not very informative. I think this is true with most people these days. Apple seems to be one of those companies you either love or hate. I'm with the latter.
@jasean79: seems like samsung galaxy s4 and the note3 are big contenders it's the only phone anyone has mentioned as being there preferred choice over the iPhone.
Yeah, I guess. I own the S4 and it's a pretty good phone. Prior to that I've owned mostly LG and HTC. The HTC One is supposedly a good phone, but having not owned it, I can't make that recommendation.
Higher end Android phones rival the iPhones in most areas, and the LG Phones seemingly do the same job for a much lower Price.
Ultimately It will depend alot on what OS you like, and what you use it for. I like how clean and simple the iPhone is, I do not like how Apple is notorious at cleaning up after thier updates, and have had an iPhone slowing to a crawl due to this.
I like how the android OS is more flexible and allows for some truely interresting Things. My personal favorite in phones so far is the HTC ONE (m8) which I found a good ballance between build quality, freedom, and batterylife.
I used to be a fan of Samsung, and iPhone. Ironically those two once giants of the smart phone industry both seem to suffer from lack of vision or will to todate the phones with much needed additions. the iPhone 5s is such an incremental update that I can hardly see any use for it. Samsung suffers the same. just Iterations of the same worn formula.
If it is true that the iPhone 6 will have a sapphire glas display then that will be fairly interresting. but outside of gimmicks there is Little to praise the iPhone for anymore. Nor the Galaxy s5
The upcomming LG smartphone could be interresting for a few reasons, as I stated I really like what the m8 have done so far.
Ultimately iPhone is not the best there is, it ranges up there with 3-4 android phones as the best ones. But it is not better then any of the others, and how it seems to have become an aimless incrimental update year over year, now Hurts it more then helps.
For me it is, yeah. It works 100% of the time, apps never crash, battery life is good, which is more than I can say for high-end Android phones.
5C here
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