superchunk said:
rocketpig said:
If the Lumia 920 was launching against the iPhone 24 months from now, I'd consider switching but right now, I'm moving back to iPhone after a rather sour experience with Android.
The Lumia is a technological marvel. Windows Phone 8 is beautiful. That's the good.
Now, the bad. Windows Phone has no apps. Microsoft can't get their act together and the WP7/8 debacle is just more evidence of that.
So, while WP gets its act together and builds a strong base (if that's possible), I will continue to go with other solutions. iOS does what I want. My past iPhones almost never crashed. I don't need to tweak my phone to the end of the earth; I was a sysadmin for a multi-domain corporation as a day job. I did all the "tweaking" I needed to do there and at home, I just want my shit to work. Apple provides a good solution to that and after dealing with an Android phone that crashes the UI at least three times a week (fuck you, HTC Sense), I'm more than ready to move back to a device that doesn't make me want to throw it in a river.
In short, I don't give a damn about specs. I want a phone that runs smoothly, has a multitude of apps, and doesn't fuck up several times a week. The iPhone 5 will do all of that and more.
And who wants a 5" screen on their phone? Having the option to buy one is nice but after using the One X I told my dad to buy a month ago, that screen is just too damned big. I don't want anything larger than 4.3" on my phone so a 4" screen on the iPhone 5 is just fine by me. I already own a tablet, I don't need a miniature version that makes phone calls.
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Which Android did you have? Just curious.
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I bought the HTC Inspire the day it released. It was decent for a few months but then after the 2.3.3 upgrade (which took forever to get), it started crashing the UI. That has continued through 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 (which I think is actually a pretty lousy OS, the animations are too long and detract from the experience). But it's not just the UI. Apps crash fairly regularly on the phone (here's looking at you, Firefox).
I don't dislike Android itself but I do dislike Google's laissez faire attitude toward OS upgrades and I don't like the Play Store (too many iOS apps offer vastly superior versions to their Android counterparts, like the MLB At Bat app). Not all Google's fault but it is something they need to shore up in the future (along with fragmentation). I just didn't get enough good out of Android to warrant not returning to iPhone with this upgrade.
Plus, I can resell an iPhone for more money when I upgrade next time. Those things hold their value like no other phone.
