Many of the apps you have you will find better and more sophisticated apps in the iOS environment. . . especially in photography. Many of those will be free.
I am firmly convinced of the superiority of the iOS ecosystem and the iPhones over the Samsungs. I’ve seen too many people fighting with their Samsung and other Android phones while problems with iPhones are generally minor when they occur and quickly fixed in an update. Androids rarely get updated.
Frankly, fireman15, with all you’ve told me, at this time, with the gift of the watch and the accounts you’ve got in place, although the iPhone 5s and 6s would work with your accounts. I would highly recommend that you stay with what you have until the next upgrade cycle. Then you can buy some iPhones and upgrade. But for now, stay with the phones you have. There is no reason to change.
Hi Swordmaker, thank you for the advice. All of our devices even the watch have been purchased on eBay and have not really lost much value. We have probably spent $100 on Android Apps over the years, but we can still use those on our tablets if we chose to switch phones. So it would be possible for us try an iPhone without losing a lot.
We generally wait until a new generation of a device has been released before we buy a used device from the previous generation. So we would not be purchasing an iPhone 6 until sometime after the 7 was introduced and the price dropped.
As far as photography and videography... I remember a couple years back a friend of mine used his iPhone 4 to take video of his snowmobile adventures. Then he switched to a GoPro camera and he felt that the GoPro videos were superior. I was not sure about the convenience of using either, but in my opinion the iPhone videos were better.
On the other hand I know that iPhones have very good sensors but they are still much smaller than those found in most dslr cameras and so have a much smaller amount of light available to convert into images. I also have made a considerable investment in high quality interchangeable lenses and also lighting equipment most of which could probably not be used with an iPhone.
Thank you again for sharing your advice.