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Do I want an iPhone or an Android phone (probably Samsung Galaxy Vibrant)???

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I can't tell if the salesmen at the couple different stores I've been to get a higher commission for selling the Samsung, but I went into both stores to get prices for the phone and plans for the iPhone and both stores were telling me to go with an Android...the Samsung one.

 

Yes, it's a bigger screen and it looks a little more vibrant...but is it the way to go? Will I regret not just going with the iPhone (which, btw, is $10 cheaper!)?

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I spent a whole week seriously debating this - like day and night losing sleep over it! I had an itouch and loved it and dh had a Galaxy and he loved his. (he was supportive of me getting whatever I wanted). The short of it was this - dh popped his battery out of his Galaxy and said "if my battery dies I can easily replace it. if your battery dies in your iphone...your screwed". I have found that most "geek" type people love the Galaxy and the rest of us love the iphone. I haven't regretted getting the Galaxy once. It's kind of had a steep learning curve for me since I'm so used to the itouch, but I'm honestly finding it to be a lot more versatile. I don't think they has as many app's as iphone had, but the marketplace is really expanding quite quickly so I doubt this would be the case for long.

 

I would only recommend an iphone if you have an itouch already and have a lot of app's already purchased. It would be a shame to lose those. (I didn't have that many purchased).

 

Another thing I love about the Galaxy is that it is no huge deal to transfer things to and from your phone/computer. you don't have to work through any other system (like itunes which I was seriously annoyed with on a regular basis). I don't regret getting the Galaxy one bit. That's my very non-professional/non-sales person opinion.

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IMO Android phones! Now if you are super big on the music then the iphone is for you. Personally I love Android os vs Apple. Also there is tons and tons of free apps with the Android market

 

 

I was at the store a month ago and had the Samsung galaxy and the Sony Ericsson Xperia in hand. I walked away with the Sony. (It comes with 1.6 android, but sony just released an upgrade for 2.1). I love the phone.

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Do you use a Mac at home? We do. The ease of use of Apple products and the ability to very easily sync it with my home computer is a no brainer pro for the iPhone.

 

I don't actually own an iPhone. We are locked into a Verizon contract until next April.:glare: So I could go with a droid phone, but I want to wait for my contract to expire so we can get iPhones. We're just die-hard Apple people I guess. "Lemmings" I believe is the term.:D I did hear something the other day about Verizon now supporting the iPad, but I guess since it's not a phone that's just for internet use or something....:confused:

 

Good luck with your decision!

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I LOOOOOVE my iphone. HOWEVER, when we decided to do a smart phone for eldest? We went with the vibrant. Why? Because AT&T is no longer offering unlimited data plans for their smartphones. For the same price I pay for unlimited data a new subscriber would receive what amounts to 2 hours of pandora radio for the month.

 

eta: Plus, the vibrant has been on sale several times. DD's was $99 as opposed to the regular $199. My sister and her dh have vibrants and they bought them when there was a buy one get one free sale.

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Absolutely love my iPhone. My husband loves his too. My mother brought her new AT&T Vibrant (I think that was its name). It was a good little phone or whatever but compared to the iPhone...there was no comparison. She wants the iPhone but this is what she has to have right now. It's better than the Razor she had before. :) If I HAD to save about $20 a month, then so be it. I would hate to have anything but my iPhone though. BUT that's just us. I can do EVERYTHING on my iPhone.

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I would recommend an iPhone! Everyone in my family loves our iPod touches and our iPad. Unless you're very good technically, an iPhone would probably be easier to use (I've never used an Android phone, though.)

 

So many great answers/opinions! :) We have an iMac, so an iPhone seems the obvious choice (especially if my dh has a say), but you know, those salespeople are pushing the Samsung...must be a commission thing! :)

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So many great answers/opinions! :) We have an iMac, so an iPhone seems the obvious choice (especially if my dh has a say), but you know, those salespeople are pushing the Samsung...must be a commission thing! :)

 

iPhone.

 

Have you played with both?

 

iPhone: the same ease of use and intuitively designed interface you expect from Apple.

 

Android: a cluttered non-intuitive interface that one might eventually get used to...but why?

 

Bill

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iPhone.

 

Have you played with both?

 

iPhone: the same ease of use and intuitively designed interface you expect from Apple.

 

Android: a cluttered non-intuitive interface that one might eventually get used to...but why?

 

Bill

 

Well the thing is this...my phone is old and the Smartphone technology is so new to me I can't figure it out quick enough in the store to know what I want and what I don't want. Is that pathetic? I'm relying on the salepeople, whom I think is biased, and the WTM board to give me the info I'm looking for! I'd need to really sit down for a couple hours with each kind of phone to know what I want and figure out how they work!

 

Even with your post...I get the jist of what you're saying, but what does an "intuitive interface" actually mean???? :confused: :D

 

ETA: Dh just explained what you meant by intuitive...so his interpretation was if you were going to do something in the phone, Apple's set it up to think like you'd think, thus it's intuitive (and why, tell me, are husbands not programmed like that????? lol).

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Well the thing is this...my phone is old and the Smartphone technology is so new to me I can't figure it out quick enough in the store to know what I want and what I don't want. Is that pathetic? I'm relying on the salepeople, whom I think is biased, and the WTM board to give me the info I'm looking for! I'd need to really sit down for a couple hours with each kind of phone to know what I want and figure out how they work!

 

Even with your post...I get the jist of what you're saying, but what does an "intuitive interface" actually mean???? :confused: :D

 

It means with an iPhone you already know how it works, because it does what you think it will do. Android? Not so much.

 

Go to a store where you can play with them. See if in a short time the iPhone feels friendly. Then try the Android. For me there was no comparison.

 

Bill

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It means with an iPhone you already know how it works, because it does what you think it will do. Android? Not so much.
I love my DROID X. Wouldn't switch to an iPhone if you paid me. :tongue_smilie: But then I'm not one to be intimidated by new technology. I was a bit worried about joining the whole pinch and swipe and Swype generation after having been point and click and type for so long, but this would have been an issue no matter the smartphone. But it took minutes.

 

Here's a giggle:

 

me-myself-n-smarphones-3691-1288956502-8.jpg

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I love my DROID X. Wouldn't switch to an iPhone if you paid me. :tongue_smilie: But then I'm not one to be intimidated by new technology. I was a bit worried about joining the whole pinch and swipe and Swype generation after having been point and click and type for so long, but this would have been an issue no matter the smartphone. But it took minutes.

 

LOL too cute!

 

SpyCar...thanks for the info. :)

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So many great answers/opinions! :) We have an iMac, so an iPhone seems the obvious choice (especially if my dh has a say), but you know, those salespeople are pushing the Samsung...must be a commission thing! :)

 

I have AT&T's Galaxy and I love it. I'm not particularly married to a brand (we have Windows, Linux, and Apple machines), and honestly it wasn't an easy choice. I went to play with the both the Galaxy and iphone on several occasions. I ultimately can't remember why I went with the Android, but I think I just liked the phone better. I read on my phone, so I like a larger screen.

 

If you wanted, you could customize it to look like an iphone. :tongue_smilie: There's also a nifty little app called Dropbox that makes it just as easy as an iphone to work with a Mac.

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We have 5 in this house and LOVE them!!

 

Like the other Apple products we own, they are wonderful, work seamlessly with our other Macs, and never crash!

 

I resisted smart phones for a while, but after nearly 2 years with an iPhone, I cannot imagine life without one. It is with me all the time, and I do everything on my phone!!

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"Tech guys" often choose things like Linux. It doesn't make theirs a bad choice, but the OP doesn't sound like a cyber-punk.
I'm hardly a tech guy, but I was building my own Linux kernels before version 1. :tongue_smilie:

 

I greatly prefer the flexibility of Android (and for this reason wouldn't go iPhone), but since Google Voice was recently released for the iPhone, there's little in the way of must-have apps I wouldn't be able to get with an iPhone. Locally Verizon coverage is by far superior to that of AT&T, and with the bonus of an unlimited data plan. I could never deal with AT&T on coverage issues alone: our house is all but a dead zone... one bar, and we're hardly in the boonies.

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I'm hardly a tech guy, but I was building my own Linux kernels before version 1. :tongue_smilie:

 

Note to Moira, you are a "geek" :D

 

I greatly prefer the flexibility of Android (and for this reason wouldn't go iPhone), but since Google Voice was recently released for the iPhone, there's little in the way of must-have apps I wouldn't be able to get with an iPhone. Locally Verizon coverage is by far superior to that of AT&T, and with the bonus of an unlimited data plan. I could never deal with AT&T on coverage issues alone: our house is all but a dead zone... one bar, and we're hardly in the boonies.

 

See above :tongue_smilie:

 

Bill

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Note to Moira, you are a "geek" :D

 

 

 

See above :tongue_smilie:

 

Bill

Maybe so, but I'm a geek who prefers her mobile battery not get drained by poor home reception. :D

 

ETA: I do have a Mac for my home computer, but will be getting an Android tablet rather than an iPad late next year. When it comes to spending money, I'm not an early technology adopter.

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Maybe so, but I'm a geek who prefers her mobile battery not get drained by poor home reception. :D

 

ETA: I do have a Mac for my home computer, but will be getting an Android tablet rather than an iPad late next year. When it comes to spending money, I'm not an early technology adopter.

 

Our iPad fell from the sky (sort of speak) but try prying this bad-boy from my fingers and you'll have a fight on your hands :D

 

Android, schmandroid.

 

Bill (sent from his son's iPad)

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Verison is about to release their iPhone.

Bill, can you point me to more info on this? From what I can google, it appears that Apple is waiting for Verizon to release it's 4G network (called LTE) which won't happen until sometime in 2012. I'm a Verizon customer who has been very happy with coverage and calls, etc, but I want an iPhone!!!! I have to wait until April 2011 for my Verizon contract to expire to switch to AT&T, but I hear so many people complain about their service.

 

OTOH, I could go with a Droid right NOW. DH and I really don't want to wait 6 more months for smart phones. We want them NOW! Waaaaahhhhhhhh!:nopity: We've been trying to figure out if we should just jump in on a Droid which would lock us back in to a contract. But, if we hate the Droid, we'd only have to suffer with it for a year or so by the time the iPhone is released by Verizon...right?

 

Anyone have further opinions?

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Bill, can you point me to more info on this? From what I can google, it appears that Apple is waiting for Verizon to release it's 4G network (called LTE) which won't happen until sometime in 2012.
Verizon flipped the switch on LTE last weekend. However the first Verizon iPhones, supposedly to be released in the first quarter of 2011, probably won't utilize it. They'll be CDMA and 3g, just like the Verizon's other smart phones.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/06/wsj-verizon-to-sell-iphone-in-2011-fifth-generation-iphone-is/

 

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/29/iphone-locked-for-2011-on-verizon-says-fortune/

 

OTOH, I could go with a Droid right NOW.
I love, love, love my DROID X, but if your heart is set on an iPhone, I'd wait and see what announcements January brings. Edited by nmoira
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Bill (sent from his son's iPad)

 

Are you still pretending it is his?

 

Love my iPhone, by the way. I have not even looked at the other thing, but my husband has friends at work who have one, he says the iPhone is better, he has tried both. He also says they keep trying to show him it can do everything the iPhone can, they are often wrong! He also says it is more clunky than the iPhone.

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Verizon flipped the switch on LTE last weekend. However the first Verizon iPhones, supposedly to be released in the first quarter of 2011 probably won't utilize it. They'll be CDMA and 3g, just like the Verizon's other smart phones.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/06/wsj-verizon-to-sell-iphone-in-2011-fifth-generation-iphone-is/

 

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/29/iphone-locked-for-2011-on-verizon-says-fortune/

 

I love, love, love my DROID X, but if your heart is set on an iPhone, I'd wait and see what announcements January brings.

 

See, I thought my VZW contract expired in April, but I just found out it's August! So we just don't want to wait that long for smart phones. I think we both really do want iPhones, my dh is a graphic designer and a professed "Mac" guy. So I suppose it might be worth waiting to see what January brings....

 

OTOH, I've been looking at Droid X's all evening and they look really, really great. I'm having a hard time imagining that there is anything it won't do.

 

We will use our phone to MAKE CALLS, and we both want to be able to get email and surf the web. I also would love to use it for music as I tutor CC and take music with me on my dd's iTouch. It'd be nice to use my own device for that. So because we use a Mac at home, is that going to be a huge problem with a Droid? I will likely use it as my camera too.

 

Moira...should we just wait or based on this criteria will we be fine with a Droid?:confused::D I guess I am saying my biggest concern is syncing with iTunes. Is that easy with a Droid?

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See, I thought my VZW contract expired in April, but I just found out it's August! So we just don't want to wait that long for smart phones. I think we both really do want iPhones, my dh is a graphic designer and a professed "Mac" guy. So I suppose it might be worth waiting to see what January brings....
The dual core android phones should start coming out in January and February as well. If I were going to buy soonish, I'd wait for whichever dual core phone will replace the DROID X, as its end-of-life is scheduled to be in March. By the time the dual cores are released, you should also know what's up with the iPhones on Verizon. If I wanted a phone *now* I'd get an X. You have 30 days to try it out before committing (less the $35 restocking fee unfortunately, though there are some loopholes), but only for an exchange to another phone IIRC.

 

We will use our phone to MAKE CALLS, and we both want to be able to get email and surf the web. I also would love to use it for music as I tutor CC and take music with me on my dd's iTouch. It'd be nice to use my own device for that. So because we use a Mac at home, is that going to be a huge problem with a Droid? I will likely use it as my camera too.
I have a Mac, but I used gmail and google calendar already so integration was easy.

 

Moira...should we just wait or based on this criteria will we be fine with a Droid?:confused::D I guess I am saying my biggest concern is syncing with iTunes. Is that easy with a Droid?
There's a great app called DoubleTwist that will let you sync iTunes.

 

The Android Market itself is only searchable via an Android device, but you can access it using App Brain.

 

ETA: The DX is scheduled for EOL with Verizon at the end of March. Sorry for any confusion. :)

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So many great answers/opinions! :) We have an iMac, so an iPhone seems the obvious choice (especially if my dh has a say), but you know, those salespeople are pushing the Samsung...must be a commission thing! :)

 

If you have an iMac, then I can't imagine getting something other than an iPhone. The Apple products work seamlessly with each other with no geek wizardry needed. I add a contact to my phone, and it's on my computer. If I add an appointment to my calendar on my computer, it's on my phone. I don't have to do anything to make this happen, and I didn't need a tech specialist to make it happen. It just works. I love being able to plug my phone into my computer and sync photos with no trouble. And so on and so on...

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If you have an iMac, then I can't imagine getting something other than an iPhone. The Apple products work seamlessly with each other with no geek wizardry needed. I add a contact to my phone, and it's on my computer. If I add an appointment to my calendar on my computer, it's on my phone. I don't have to do anything to make this happen, and I didn't need a tech specialist to make it happen. It just works. I love being able to plug my phone into my computer and sync photos with no trouble. And so on and so on...

:iagree:

 

And, it is so quick!! It copies new contacts and calendar events in seconds.

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Are you still pretending it is his?

 

 

Half-heartedly :D

 

In all seriousness, he uses it every day. And uses it quite well. There is no feature of it that he doesn't know. Including the new feature in the latest upgrade. Six year olds are scary.

 

But yes, I use it more than he ;)

 

Bill

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In all seriousness, he uses it every day. And uses it quite well. There is no feature of it that he doesn't know. Including the new feature in the latest upgrade. Six year olds are scary.

:iagree:

Also 5 year olds and 8 year olds. They help me out with things all the time.

 

But yes, I use it more than he ;)

 

 

I knew it!

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