I'm a long time android fan & user and recently had to upgrade to a new phone for work.... and guess what i got the iphone5, WHY???? Cause the damn androids are glitchy. My brother, father, and girlfriend are all android users and all experience different problems... ranging from music player pausing while plugged into auxillary, cameras not loading or taking pictures that are corrupt files, phantom phone calls.... my girlfriends galaxy II had her camera stop working completely, my dads touchscreen on his incredible II stopped working, my Droid X was the biggest glitchy POS ever, my brothers Droid ONE happens to be the best of them all... and he hates it.
End of day i realized that I have a tablet (nexus 7) and its nice for any sort of media, movies, games, reading, etc... and that in a phone I want a phone that does 3 things and 3 things PERFECT!
1: makes calls and handles contacts, texts, emails.
2: has a nice media player, sounds good.
3: takes nice picture.
MY DECISION:
the only other phones i was looking at wa the nexus 4 (was unavailable) and the SG3... my problems were the size of these beasts... WTF there is no good android phone that is slim and not a damn half tablet... The iphone is straight up faster!! YES ITS FASTER THAN ALL ITS COMPETITORS.. my phone jams loading web pages and just using it! I'll tell you this though... ITUNES SUCKS BALLS! Music works flawlessly and its the best quality player BUT Android has apple beat on the whole "Music downloading" yes apple fans you can download music for free on android directly into your music folders... no need for iTUNES or a secondary music manager. BATTERY LIFE.. kinda sucks on the iphone compared to my old DROID X. I could get two days easy out of my old phone... The camera ROCKS on the Iphone5 hands down.
Anyways I wanted a phone to be a phone.. not a computer, not a tablet. I wanted it to fit in my pocket, make phone calls, play music, and take pictures.. AND MOST OF ALL WORK EVERY TIME! Apple makes a qualty product and some things about it are stupid (Like itunes). I'm not convinced the ipone5 is any better quality than the iphone4s though... just saying. I've also heard the GSIII screen is easy to break! I also would of purchased the nexus 4 if it was available.. supply and demand. After owning the iphone5 i think i would sincerely miss it if I had to give it up