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michael_stutzer on 08 March 2013
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RVDondaPC said:
sethnintendo said:
RVDondaPC said:


It was a good phone. Until the battery stopped holding a charge after 13 months. I still wanted an Android phone but didn't trust any of the hardware manufacturer's to make a quality built phone. So I reluctantly bought an iPhone, only then did I realize how much the phone was better without all those pointless customizations and focused on simplicity and doing what it was supposed to do. 

You could have just bought a 10-20 dollar battery replacement off Amazon...  I suppose you just wanted an excuse to get a new phone.  I usually throw my phones against the wall for that.

I wanted a phone that didn't need replacement parts.I suppose if I wanted to spend my free time looking for used batteries online and going a few days with no phone once a year, then the GSII was a great phone! But who the hell wants that? It's just another prime example of why the iPhone is better. Samsung makes it easy to replace the battery, which sounds like a plus. But then they make shity batteries that actually do need replacing. Apple just makes a good battery and designs the phone to use less energy on pointless things and encases the battery so that you don't have to worry about it. I'll take the Apple way please. It just works. You can stick with the customizable phone that feels like a part time job to customize and maintain in order to fully appreciate all the options it offers. 


 It was just that your battery was defective, shit happens. Iphone batteries get worse much more quickly because they are charged much faster. It is bad for the battery.

IOS is good if you use Itunes but that is about it. It is a pain in the ass even if you want to use it as a consumption device. I have an Ipad 4 and software is so bad it hurts. When I need to change settings I need to go to quit the app, go to settings, make the adjustments and go back. Still, it should be an easy process right. Since it can't really multitask, it reloads everything when I go back. Yesterday I wrote a two page article for a website, changed the tab for something, I went back and Bam! It's gone. It reloads every webpage, everytime! Wtf is that? Apps can barely talk to each other. That is a big one. It just doesn't know what to do. They are trying to implement it Android style but it is half assed at this point.

The notification center is laughable. It is a big rip off of the Android notification shade but this is stupidly bad. I don't really care on Ipad but if I had an Iphone I'd go crazy. It is just crap. Though better than WP's implementation :p.

I can go on and on really. Music, video transfer, lack of a folder system etc. 

There are good things of course. It is really fast and as long as you stick to a single tab, it works very well. Gaming performance is also very good, though it is pointless for me. App selection, no need to mention.

I just hope that Android app selection can be as diverse as IOS for Android. I use Pro apps like Final Draft etc on my Ipad, which are sadly not available for Android tablets.