Buyers' remorse

[JonnyBravo]

Unfortunately Ive taken a bashing from the android gang and cant get through a day without hearing "oh have you heard the new phones are coming damaged?" or "did you read about apple maps?".

Im not the type to bite but any mention of it performing better in benchmarks, droptests, or screen quality and they look away like they dont want to hear anything positive lol

Proof the iPhone is still top of its game

Its so funny that you say this!!!! I've had three situations just this week where my iPhone 5 would be sitting on the table or I would be texting and a random Android user would see it and start commenting on how his specs are better. I had one person wanting to compare youtube videos with me???? (like that made any sense to me). Sometimes I feel Android users are a little militant about wanting to prove their phones are better...like they have a "size matters" complex!

I'm not saying that I don't like their phones..I kinda like the Samsung Galaxy 3 myself, but geeez...I guess choosing an Android is very personal to them and they want to make sure everyone knows that they're better.

 

[tu4thenguyen]

From 4g to LTE... I was sold

 

[dagamer34]

I have remorse for switching carriers. Verizon sucks in my area..

 

[Glideslope]

So what's a legit criticism? The screens too small? The phones too light? It looks similar to the 4s? That's all personal opinion but you can't sit there and say apple didn't take a big leap in the hardware.

Be careful. You're talking facts now. The A6 is just a refined A5.

 

[molingrad]

It's basically my old phone but the Internet is insanely fast. And it's a bit bigger. And AT&T is giving me 2 more GB before throttling. No remorse at all. Joy?

 

[Scottyee]

Except for this ONE thing, I'm very happy with my new iPhone 5:

My Verizon iPhone 5's on a $30/month 2 Gb data plan, yet I'm not able to use the iPhone 5 as a "free" personal hotspot for my iPad 3, like you can on the Samsung Galaxy S3. To merely enable my iPhone5's personal hotspot feature would cost $30/month on top of the $30 data plan I already pay for data, bringing the total to $60/month. Since the iPhone has got the hotspot feature like the Samsung Galaxy does, why does Verizon/Apple disable this feature and charge a $30 monthly fee to enable it, yet not charge for the use of the hotspot feature on the Samsung Galaxy S3? It doesn't seem fair, and I would expect a reason many opt for the Galaxy over the iPhone 5 to avoid the $360 annual hotspot fee charge.
Is it Verizon or Apple that dictated iPhone5's free vs monthly charged personal hotspot feature assessibility?

 

[MrXiro]

OMG YES... I'm remorseful that I couldn't buy one SOONER!!!!

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Except for this ONE thing, I'm very happy with my new iPhone 5:

My Verizon iPhone 5's on a $30/month 2 Gb data plan, yet I'm not able to use the iPhone 5 as a "free" personal hotspot for my iPad 3, like you can on the Samsung Galaxy S3. To merely enable my iPhone5's personal hotspot feature would cost $30/month on top of the $30 data plan I already pay for data, bringing the total to $60/month. Since the iPhone has got the hotspot feature like the Samsung Galaxy does, why does Verizon/Apple disable this feature and charge a $30 monthly fee to enable it, yet not charge for the use of the hotspot feature on the Samsung Galaxy S3? It doesn't seem fair, and I would expect a reason many opt for the Galaxy over the iPhone 5 to avoid the $360 annual hotspot fee charge.
Is it Verizon or Apple that dictated iPhone5's free vs monthly charged personal hotspot feature assessibility?

Verizon.

 

[Scottyee]

OMG YES... I'm remorseful that I couldn't but one SOONER!!!!

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Verizon.

I kinda of guessed this, but equally surprised Apple would allow them to do that. Which (if any) carriers (Att, T-Mobile, Sptrint, etc) allow access to the iPhone 5's 'personal wifi hotspot' feature completely free? Interestingly enough, my Verizon iPad 3 does include the free personal hotspot feature. Why not on the iPhone5 too?

 

[MrXiro]

I kinda of guessed this, but equally surprised Apple would allow them to do that. Which (if any) carriers (Att, T-Mobile, Sptrint, etc) allow access to the iPhone 5's 'personal wifi hotspot' feature completely free? Interestingly enough, my Verizon iPad 3 does include the free personal hotspot feature. Why not on the iPhone5 too?

Because providers are greedy bastards and want to nickel and dime you every way possible...

They don't care about the pay as you go option because they know they can't milk those people (mostly cause pay as you go people predominantly poor or dispose of their phone plans frequently).

That's also why they created the "Shared Data" plans too so they can milk more money from their loyal users. What a sham... "pay us more money so you can use your already paid data on more devices!" Notice that At&t is giving away Hotspot as long as you are on share data.