I have had a iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S and 5 and decided that the SGS3 was best for me. Reading your previous posts you seem to have had an Android phone for some years, just out of interest, this being an iPhone5/SGS3 thread, how many iPhones have you owned? And have you ever owned a SGS3?
I dont use my phone for gaming, in fact, I don't do any gaming whatsoever, I also don't use my phone for music, I have over 160 GB of music that I keep on an iPod classic (I select a couple of albums that I don't want to transfer) that is always hooked up to my car, my wife does the same in her car, no phone or iPod touch would suffice. In the house I transfer my music from iTunes onto a Western Digital MyBook Live NAS and stream it through my Sonos system throughout different speakers around the house. I do however have some films, Kindle, browse the web and use Flipboard on my phone, the bigger screen size of the S3 over the iPhone is more than enough reason to have the S3, the iPhone 5 just cannot compete (IMHO).
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0.8" of more screen is the main reason you switched? I mean yeah its nice to have a bigger screen, but 0.8" isn't a lot. If I switched, it would be for the handful of features mentioned in the 50 reasons video.
I've owned 2 android smartphones, every gen iPad (but sold), and every gen iPod Touch.
I like the S3. I think it's a good phone, and if I was staying with an android phone when I sign a new 2 year contract, that's the phone i'd pick. My friend let me use it on a very long flight, and I spent a good couple hours getting a feel for it.
But I am big on games, and music apps, and there's just too many good apps that I was using on iOS, that I was disappointed to see Google Play not have.
The apps that Moog, Korg, Fender, and Propellerhead have released on iOS is really remarkable stuff. The sound modeling that would have costed hundreds just 7 or 8 years ago, is now on an app that's $1-$10.
I also have a fair amount of purchased content invested in iTunes, and many of my closest friends and gf use iOS devices, and that makes sharing and communicating easier,and playing multiplayer games possible.
When I got my android phone, I was downloading and using apps a lot for the first couple weeks, then I kind of lost interest. Now I only use my phone for calls, texting, looking up something online, or maybe a game of zynga poker when I am waiting in line.
On my iPod Touch, I was always gaming, and I used web browsing every day. Even though it was not a cell phone, I always had it in my pocket when I left the house.
And I just found iOS to have fewer issues, and less hassles. While it's by no means perfect, I didn't encounter the kind of issues that totally interfere with what i'm trying to do like my android phone has been doing. Maybe a newer set running jellybean would be more reliable, but that still wont change the fact that a lot of the content I want isn't available on it.
I guess it boils down to me putting more value on software than hardware.
