cheers guys

i'm leaning towards the galaxy.

i'm really not a big fan of mac, the only reason i went iphone in the first place was i was bored one day, rang optus and said "i was wondering if i could get a new phone", they said "actually, you're eligible for a new phone. do you want a black or white iphone?" and 2 days later an iphone was in my mailbox. didn't get signed up for two more years or had to sign anything, was quite random. then when i upgraded from ihpone 3 to 4 (with my new plan), it was just easier to stick iphone as none of the other phones really appealed to me.

but i've been hearing enough lately that it really seems the iphone is shithouse compared to others. plus i really got angry with the world when they decided to change the charger size, just to make people buy more accessories. hence why i am looking for a move away from iphone.

are the batteries in the iphone and galaxy pretty similar in size/power/longevity?

And a large percentage of those issues came from people fucking with the ROMs.

Happens when you jailbreak iPhones as well.

-PB

:lol: Pretty much every complaint about android on the whirlpool forums is from Linux users who have fucked with the OS.

Battery life is dependent entirely on the usage. My battery can last anywhere from 10 to 20 hours with android but I use it frequently.

i use my phone frequently. currently, after a full charge overnight and waking up around 5am-6am, i'll be getting close to 10% battery life come bed time on iphone 4.

The batteries are fairly comparable because they're both made by Samsung :lol:

The usage of the two phones are a lot different though.

Also, I run Custom ROM's and haven't had any issues, unless I use beta builds or the like. Another big positive for Android imo.

Yeah, given that the iphone doesn't have multi-tasking it should have a slightly lower battery use, but I hear a few complaints about the iphone battery life.

Mum has a SGS 2, only a couple of months old. Would touch an app icon and the app wouldn't open. Effing useless.
She ditched it and returned to her several year old iPhone 3G :lol:

See, my friend has an iPhone 3gs which does the same thing. Obviously Android is better then.

although i didn't want to get caught up in teh slinging match, i've had a fair few issues with my iphone:

every now & then it won't slide to open - sometimes even when i'm receiving a call.

i can't hang up on people - when i click end call it says call ended, screen goes to the home screen, but then the green bar up the top of the screen saying you're still in a call comes up, and the timer is still going, and people are still on the end of the line (as if you're in a call and you press the button to see the menu at the same time - but all i've done is pressed end call). i have to wait for other people to hang up. when i finish talking to the mrs i genuinely have to say "no, you hang up" in a non-cute way.

sometimes i'll be surfing the net & sporadically, whether i'm connected to wifi or not, the screen will just black & send me to my home screen, and when i go back into safari my web page is no longer open.

i've taken the phone to several different phone shops, none of these issues have been solved by any phone refreshes/software updates/etc.

must mean android is way better, if i come to conclusions as easily as ozboy

I've seen that happen with multiple iphones. If it was a couple of months old it would have been covered by warranty...

:lol:

Yeah, I want the hassle of taking things back for warranty service after a couple of months, rather than it working in the first place...:lol: :lol: :lol:

Spend $600+ on a phone. Go back to 4 year old phone because validating a warranty is "too much effort" #-o ozboy logic.

Inability to understand the point of the post; Afro comprehension...:lol:

Could say the same thing to you. If something worth $600 isn't a motivating factor for you, you probably need to take a look at yourself.

Not my phone; still a comprehension problem...:lol:

I've used an iPhone, a Blackberry, and now on a HTC with Android. Honestly prefer the iPhone above the others, although I've only had this current HTC for a week or two. Blackberry is horrendous, avoid like the plague.

You know what I mean. If a person spends that kind of money on a phone and doesn't validate the warranty then that's their own fault for being a moron, not the phone company's fault.

What do you expect from old people who are technologically averse?

Not to buy top of the range smartphones :-" :-" :-" :-" :-" :-" :-"

This. And tbh, that only makes it worse. Spending $600 on something you don't understand.

Released over 18 months ago - tickets on Samsung much....

When she purchased it I can guarantee it would have been one of the top smartphones on the market, at least top 5. If that's not top of the range I dont know what is.

When the Galaxy S2 came out it was Samsung's flagship model.

Annnddddd this went exactly where I thought it would go.

Kudos to ozboy, I should of seen right through the failbait but I deciding to try and be reasonable but oh well.



-PB

Quote from Whirlpool user (no jail breaking):

"I'm back to using my iPhone after having so many problems with my Galaxy SIII, really it was a POS – laggy, buggy, large, headphone jack isn't working, the screen is nothing to jump up and down about (it's only bigger, but the quality isn't near anywhere as good as the retina display). The ONLY things the SIII had going for it is it's features – it's feature packed but when the phone is a laggy POS, there's no use having them there."

Just google "whirlpool iphone problems" :lol:

Not related to the OS, but I had a HTC Mozart for the last couple of years (just upgraded last month). The HTC amazed me with its ruggedness. It was dropped into a muddy creek while 4WDing (and I mean INTO the creek, not just on the bank of the creek). Another time it was in my pocket when I was utterly drenched in a downpour. Both times I figured it was stuffed - screen was all flickery and the colours were all over the place before it eventually wouldn't power on any more. In both cases, I left it to dry overnight (without much hope) and it was as good as new the next day. Gobsmacked.

you can do that with most phones . Try putting it in a bag of rice .