What is the single biggest reason you chose the Iphone over the S3?

#1 - ios, app store, stability - I've used Android and just don't like it.
#2 - if I wanted to walk around with something the size of an iPad next to my head, I'd buy an iPad and use some IP phone, Skype, Voice thing etc. :D
#3 - It works extremely well with every other Apple product I own.
 
rotlex said:
#1 - ios, app store, stability - I've used Android and just don't like it.
#2 - if I wanted to walk around with something the size of an iPad next to my head, I'd buy an iPad and use some IP phone, Skype, Voice thing etc. :D
#3 - It works extremely well with every other Apple product I own.
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Had to take this pic just for you. I think you are using the wrong phone if you think its like an iPad.

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Southernboyj said:
Had to take this pic just for you. I think you are using the wrong phone if you think its like an iPad.

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LOL, you do realize I was using a bit of sarcasm\humor there right? I'm assuming your doing the same, or either your a little to uptight over your "devices". :D

Either way, the S3, or a lot of these new "phones", are going backward IMO. Smaller, lighter, faster better; not bigger, badder, need to carry the thing in a back pack is the direction I'd prefer to go.
 
iCloud.

Although technically I didn't choose the iPhone to begin with, I used the S3 for four months then decided to give the iPhone a go after using Android for two and a half years.
 
As someone who used Android for 3.5 years and just bought the iPhone 5...

I went with the iPhone due to the lack of fragmentation. The GSIII might get Jellybean soon, or it might get delayed, but it probably won't get another software update after that. The lack of manufacturer support, even for flagship phones, is shameful on the Android platform.

My Androids all slowed down after 3-4 months, and I was ready to be rid of that as well. Everyone I know with an iPhone really likes it, and even old ones still got OS updates and they work well, even after two years or more.
 
Southernboyj said:
Such as the reports of the black iPhone scratching easily or iOS 6 maps?
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My friend is on his 3rd iPhone 5 as every one his got so far has been scratched out of the box so I can totally agree with you in that the build quality is not there this generation. My own iPhone 5 has been perfect but I can't ignore people around me who keep getting dinged phones straight out of the box. In-fact he received a replacement phone from Apple Care and it came in a box with a sticker seal that said "Inspected by Apple Care" and inside? Dinged phone. That is just ridiculously poor.

And about the Maps I agree with you again the iOS 6 Maps suck. I know this, everyone knows this. But we have to look at this a little from Apples perspective.

Windows Phone & Android both had turn by turn directional systems built in and iOS did not. This is a feature people were either using free apps like Waze for or purchasing software like TomTom to accomplish while other platforms had this for free and integrated. Personally I bought the TomTom app on iOS because I wanted to get rid of my dedicated TomTom from our car and just use my iPhone instead.

Google would not allow Apple to have Turn by Turn in the Maps app unless Apple basically branded the whole thing as a Google product and gave them complete creative control. There are alternative map data providers out there who do not require such control and so Apple partnered with TomTom to provide some mapping data as confirmed by TomTom and the application itself.

Now this launch of the iOS Maps tells us something that some of us probably didn't already know, TomTom's maps are complete rubbish and Apple needs to setup some way of getting aerial shots of the globe. These are the two areas where the app falls short the rest of it works quite nice the software itself works it's just the data underpinning it that is crap and they can fix this.

Google has had a monopoly on free mapping for a long time and they've invested heavily in this area. A competitor starting from nothing buying up a few imaging and 3D modeling companies isn't going to have a great product on day one.

In my opinion they should have kept the maps as-is using Google and then when you selected to have directions it simply switched maps to Apples this would have given them a long time to fix things and not taken away any existing functionality. But hey, I'm not Apple, I don't know why they do the things they do and never will.
 
I had been waiting on the iP5 before I made a decision on a new phone. I was considering the S3 as a top contender.

I pre-ordered the iP5 mainly because I got caught up in the preorder frenzy and based on early reviews and wanted to order before they went out of stock.

Big reasons for iP5 was that I liked my previous iPhones & I was afraid the S3 was too big to put in some of my pants pockets. Plus I don't like how Android phones are forever updated.

Now that I have it, I like it. But I think there's a good chance I would have picked the next Nexus phone instead of the iP5.
 
Apple ecosystem, we have 4 iPhones, 2 iPads, an AppleTV and finally a new Mac Mini.
And it all just works.
 
Ecosystem. I have so many applications I would not like to buy again. Not to mention the transition to this iPhone from my 4S, all of my settings, apps, etc stayed put.
 
Single #1 reason: Updates. Having been burned on a WinMO phone from Palm and my N95-03 from Nokia on getting new firmware updates, I didn't want to go through the crap that android users go through to get OFFICIAL releases. I certainly didn't want to have to mess with rooting and loading third party ROMS. I love to tinker with my computers but I actually need my phone to be, you know, a phone. A working phone. Not so fond of tinkering there. I like being able to get a new iOS release day and date, and not have to wait for a third party hardware vendor to molest it, then wait for the phone company to bless it. I'm also not fond of the vast differences in versions of the same phone (2 vs 4 cores, 1 vs 2 gigs, only the Verizon version gets wireless charging in the US???)

Now if Google was selling the S3 as a Nexus, instead of the current Galaxy Nexus, it may be a different story. I did buy a Nexus from Google over the summer and was not impressed with the hardware. Android is OK, but the Galaxy Nexus hardware was severely lacking.
 
WouterDS said:
No offense but everyone who knows a bit about cameras knows that you shouldn't take pictures with direct backlight.

@ maps: could be, but turn by turn and all the cool stuff never worked in my country anyway for Google Maps :(
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Ahh. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash the iPhone 5 and label it ad "crappy" or other derogatory terms people use. I'm just simply stating that it isn't "perfect". (Which almost nothing is) I just feel Apple shouldn't have ditched Google Maps for their own mapping system until it was fully beta tested.

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Quu said:
My friend is on his 3rd iPhone 5 as every one his got so far has been scratched out of the box so I can totally agree with you in that the build quality is not there this generation. My own iPhone 5 has been perfect but I can't ignore people around me who keep getting dinged phones straight out of the box. In-fact he received a replacement phone from Apple Care and it came in a box with a sticker seal that said "Inspected by Apple Care" and inside? Dinged phone. That is just ridiculously poor.

And about the Maps I agree with you again the iOS 6 Maps suck. I know this, everyone knows this. But we have to look at this a little from Apples perspective.

Windows Phone & Android both had turn by turn directional systems built in and iOS did not. This is a feature people were either using free apps like Waze for or purchasing software like TomTom to accomplish while other platforms had this for free and integrated. Personally I bought the TomTom app on iOS because I wanted to get rid of my dedicated TomTom from our car and just use my iPhone instead.

Google would not allow Apple to have Turn by Turn in the Maps app unless Apple basically branded the whole thing as a Google product and gave them complete creative control. There are alternative map data providers out there who do not require such control and so Apple partnered with TomTom to provide some mapping data as confirmed by TomTom and the application itself.

Now this launch of the iOS Maps tells us something that some of us probably didn't already know, TomTom's maps are complete rubbish and Apple needs to setup some way of getting aerial shots of the globe. These are the two areas where the app falls short the rest of it works quite nice the software itself works it's just the data underpinning it that is crap and they can fix this.

Google has had a monopoly on free mapping for a long time and they've invested heavily in this area. A competitor starting from nothing buying up a few imaging and 3D modeling companies isn't going to have a great product on day one.

In my opinion they should have kept the maps as-is using Google and then when you selected to have directions it simply switched maps to Apples this would have given them a long time to fix things and not taken away any existing functionality. But hey, I'm not Apple, I don't know why they do the things they do and never will.
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Yeah I understand Apple's logic for releasing it's own mapping system.. I just believe their software wasn't polished enough to be released yet. I feel like they should have waited until the iPhone 5S? And spent that year polishing and fixing bugs in it so we as consumers get the best experience with it.

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rotlex said:
LOL, you do realize I was using a bit of sarcasm\humor there right? I'm assuming your doing the same, or either your a little to uptight over your "devices". :D

Either way, the S3, or a lot of these new "phones", are going backward IMO. Smaller, lighter, faster better; not bigger, badder, need to carry the thing in a back pack is the direction I'd prefer to go.
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What would I be uptight about? I own more Apple products than Google products. I'm typing this on a Retina MBP, if you noticed in my picture I had an iMac in the background as well as my iPad.. I've also owned every iPhone 1st gen - the 4S. I do really enjoy Apple products.. just stating the Galaxy S3 isn't really that big. It is about the same height as the iPhone 5. I find the screen size on it enjoyable and still easy to use with 1 hand. I feel like the Galaxy Note requires 2 hands and is uncomfortable. To each their own though.
 
I went to the Verizon store today to test out the iPhone 5, and my first impression was it was really light! Then on-wards to the AT&T store which I also tested the i5 (one bar of LTE :D) and then I tried the SGSIII, and my first impressions was "This is a big screen", but Android wasn't as good as iOS. I'm making sure that my 1 1/4 year old Nokia C7 lives another 6 months so I can buy an iPhone 5 on T-Mobile. :apple:
 
Hello,
I have been with Sprint since 1999 and have been using Android Phones for the past several years until I ordered a 64gb iPhone 5 on Friday which arrived today.

My previous Android was a Motorola Photon that I was actually quite happy with one the whole. However, the Photon 4G replacement was a major downgrade and that left it between the HTC EVO 4G LTE, Samsung Galaxy SIII, and the iPhone 5.

Truth be told, had Sprint had gotten something similar to the RAZR MAXX or better yet the Intel Atom powered RAZR, I would have really had a difficult decision.

However, the SIII is simply to plasticky and I have never cared for Samsung across all sectors. I am a Senior Moderator at a Home Theater Website and worked at a very High End AV Store after graduating college and throughout my feelings towards Samsung have never changed.

The SIII with Jelly Bean (4.1) is a pretty impressive device from a hardware aspect. However, the screen is overkill for me. While I would not have minded if the 5 had offered a 4.3 inch Screen, the Samsung's is just too much. And it also does not feel good in the hand.
Cheers,
JJ
 
I personally don't like Samsung (past experience with various Samsung products, all cheaply made & in the end weren't worth my time, patience or money.) so they'd never get another dime out of me.

But I am not opposed to android (or even wp8), I'm just finally giving iOS a real chance. I've been on android since the original Droid was on Verizon & I've tried the Evo 4G & HTC Sensation.

I've kept a current gen iPod since the 2nd Gen iPod touch & I'm finally letting iOS become my full-time device. And the iPhone 5 will be my first. It should be here Friday :D
 
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