We got new iphones a few months ago after years of using Samsung android. I want my old phone back.
There is one feature my iphone has that my other lacked, it anticipates words and phrases well while I am texting.
Other than that, I hate the damn thing.
Once I left it on top of my big gas guzzling SUV and pulled out of my driveway with it up top. I heard it slide off the rooftop and saw it fall off in the rear view mirror and bounce on the street a few times. Thought for sure it would be shattered & dead. Nope. Still working!
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As good as a Samsung Galaxy except it cost me $129 at Wally World online. And it works a lot better. $35 got me an unlimited replacement warranty including for breakage.
I had nothing but problems with my Galaxy S4.
I’ve own a Turbo Droid for the past two years. I am very happy with it.
I know of few iphone users who would consider anything else.
I think the answer to your question would depend mightily upon which iphone version you have and how many of the included features you are addicted to. I am in no way whatsoever conversant in the differences between versions.
I needed to replace my (android) Samsung Exhibit (prolly 7 yrs old) and was tossing about whether to go with an iphone one version out of date (which would have been a 7 at the time; still $500+)
I happen to be a very, very low power user. I make phone calls. Texts. Take pix. Send them. There is virtually no phone that cannot do those things at this point. Stream movies: Never. Stream youtubes/clips: almost never.
Fortunately I was directed to a LG K20 by the guy in the T-Mobile store. This is a $250 phone that does about 92% of what a $550 iphone 8 and a $1K iphone 10 does. It’s never advertised because it probably generates half the profits of the glitzier models for the handset reseller. I’m happy with it.
I have a Samsung 5 and it hasn’t failed yet. The annoying thing is the near daily app update requests. Reception is poor out in rural areas and we use US Cellular. I often have to go outside to use it. Landlines were far more reliable and clear.
One more thing, my youngest son has an LG. He left it in his pocket and it went though a complete washing machine cycle. My wife dried it out, and it never failed. Apparently LGs are waterproof. He has also dropped it several times on concrete. Durability.
I switched to an iPhone 5s awhile back and am very happy with it on the straight talk network. Unlimited everything for 45 bucks a month.
Just upgraded from an iPhone 6 to iPhone 8.
Got $145 for the 6 on trade in. The A11 Bionic chip rocks. If you’re already invested into the iPhone ecosystem, I’d stay with it. Your call, but I’m happy with the new phone.
IMO, iPhones, while they are quality products and very nice, are way over priced.
We have gone from simple feature phones to Nexus smartphones, which are pure Android devices, meaning that they lack the layer of extra bloat that other purveyors of Android devices put on top. The Nexus devices also receive o/s updates sooner than 3rd party Android phones.
We have just replaced my wife’s aging Nexus 5 with a Moto 5+, which set us back $169 at Costco. It’ll be our first experience outside of pure Android, but I expect that she will be very happy with it.
I use the Tracfone service. Pay as you go. My current phone is an LG LGL62VL
I usually make a call or text about once a week, some times more. It costs less than $100 a year.
I had an iPhone until the iPhone 4. I switched over to the Samsung Galaxy S5 and then the Galaxy S7 and never looked back. They’re both great.
Straight Talk has worked well for my wife and me. I have a flip phone and my wife has the Android Z716BL.
Old Blackberry with real keyboard. I can type a message twice as fast as someone with a virtual phone. Outstanding smartphone that refuses to die but they don’t make them anymore. Even new Blackberrys have the crappy virtual keyboard the masses have grown accustomed to because they know OF nothing else. :-0
Unless your iPhone does not do something that you need it to do and you can’t get an app for the phone to do that, I would stick with your iPhone.
A new phone is going to cost you $400 and up.
You know your iPhone. If you buy some other brand you will have to start from scratch learning a new system. With your iPhone you have your data backed up to iCloud and you will not be able to transfer it to your new phone.
My advice is stick with your iPhone until it dies or is no longer supported.
If you have money burning a hole in your pocket take a nice weekend vacation with the money you would have spent on a new phone.
I’m an Apple guy from way back so I have an iPhone, but I intentionally lag behind to keep the cost under control. So, I’m rockin’ a 5S. No slowdown here, I resist OS upgrades until forced unless there’s some obvious benefit to upgrading.
You’ll find that Android devices feel jittery and unstable after an iPhone, it’s the same quality that Windows devices have in comparison to Mac OS devices. Apple stuff is far more integrated, not cluttered up with junk from third parties that don’t match, don’t have the same user interface, it goes back to business philosophy.
Apple does the whole widget, soup to nuts. There are certainly strengths to that, and some constraints that you hear the MS/Android fanboys screeching about, it’s fairly locked down as far as mods. MS and Android lend themselves to tinkering and mods. If you’re prone to that, then you’d prefer such an environment but most people view both computers and phones as appliances and just want them to work well.
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