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Rage wrote: why should people buy a new phone ?
Don't know about others but I buy a new phone when the old one stops working. Unsurprisingly, the old cheap "dumb" phones used to last much longer than the new shiny "smart" ones.
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Hear, hear! I have only just "upgraded" from my Nokia N95 to a Samsung. All I can say is WHY?
This Android. Has a mind of its own. It starts doing things when no one is touching it. It closes things and opens things seemingly at random. My wife's iPhone is very well behaved but both phones suffer the terrible short battery life that folk have got used to these days. Personally, I want a simple phone that makes calls, sms and does nothing else.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I upgrade my phone because where I work has an option to receive work e-mail on the phone. However, my old one didn't meet the required minimums.
And, if I get work e-mail, I can expense a portion of my bill monthly... so, there was a financial inducement that more than covered the added expenditure.
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The iPhone is just over hyped for what it is. I have owned one for 2 years now and have the iPhone 5.
In my opinion the samsung phones are much better. The UI seems to respond more fluidly.
I see no need for me to upgrade to the iPhone 6. The current handset does more than I need or use.
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My oldest has gone through four phones since I got my Samsung flip phone 3 1/2 years ago. After breaking a Galaxy 3, she swore the iPhone 5 was the best thing ever and switched to it. Then complained endlessly about what a piece-of-crap it was. Two weeks ago, she switched to a Galaxy 5 and likes it. My ex-wife's first iPhone 3 bricked itself when being patched for the first time, her second turned into a crap-fest and she just switched to an Android based phone. Three things they both hated with iPhones were terrible battery life, iOS 7 and iTunes. As a receiver of calls, one thing I did like about the iPhone over the Galaxy is better noise cancellation, especially while on speaker-phone mode.
I still prefer my cheap, Samsung flip phone.
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Disappointing there's no mention of a Windows Phone considering they are often much more stable among other things. If you just want a phone to work then you really should be looking at WP.
If you really don't want to leave the popular choice then why not just install CyanogenMod onto the android? that will most likely fix every single problem you have with it.
FYI I've used all 3 OSes extensively and the most unproductive and troublesome devices I've ever had are iPhones. I've had plenty of problems with Samsung phones but at least they were problems you could actually solve (googling the answer, installing Cyanogen etc.) Currently my Lumia is my latest and most satisfactory device.
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I switched from an iPhone 5S to android, and wasnt happy until i got a HTC One M8 (i tried nexus 5, and galaxy note 3 before that).
HTC have refined android in subtle but nice ways, and overall its a polished user experience.
As much as i like the look of the iPhone 6 plus, i just cannot go back to iOS as android has so many nice little touches that make it better to use.
i do miss the camera quality of the iPhone though!
---Guy H  ---
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I really don't have much of an issue with anything you posted except the part about the iPhone always "just worked" and didn't give you a hard time moving Apps to the SD card. There has never been a version of the iPhone with an SD card to move Apps on to. And the same is true with the iPhone 6. At least your HTC has that capability, as do most other Android phones and now Windows Phones. If your worried about space on your new iPhone, you better get the 64GB version or the 128GB version, because you're locked into whatever size you pick.
BTW: I currently have the iPhone 5 and previously had the 4S, and 4, and 3GS. But, I'm seriously considering "jumping ship" to the new Moto X or the new Nexus 6/X (whatever they decide to call it) this go around.
Cheers.
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Kelly Wilkerson wrote: and didn't give you a hard time moving Apps to the SD card. There has never been
a version of the iPhone with an SD card to move Apps on to.
That's what I meant. The HTC I'm using right now can only move an App to an SD card if the Developer enabled the option - An iPhone just worked for me and didn't gave me a hard time moving apps BECAUSE there was / is no SD card.
Kelly Wilkerson wrote: At least your HTC has that capability, as do most other Android phones and now
Windows Phones.
As for Android phones: http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-3/364626-cant-save-move-apps-sd-card.html[^]
Kelly Wilkerson wrote: If your worried about space on your new iPhone, you better get the 64GB version
or the 128GB version, because you're locked into whatever size you pick.
I'm not worried - 32 GB were great for me, since I only carried the songs I was listening to and the apps I need (WhatsApp, Skype, Newspaper, Train connections etc.).
The console is a black place
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I hear you.
Why not a Windows Phone if you want something reliable.
Especially if you get a Nokia you get the best camera on a phone.
There are pretty much 4-5 fundamental things I need in a "phone" these days.
- being a reliable phone and SMS messenger
- reliable light browsing and emailing
- a very good camera
- GPS
- lasting battery
Other applications, be honest, how much are you using them and if you do use them, can you live without them?
Of course you could. For frak sake many of us grew up in a time when you didn't even have a cell. Generally, you had to be somewhere with a land line, like home to call or get a call on a phone. So, I can assure you, if you can survive just fine without a mobile phone, now that you have one anyway you will surely survive without the apps.
Oh, where was I ... yeah. I want the same thing, now that we are stuck with these "smart" phones yes I want them to just work and not have to reflash, install new firmware, jailbreak them and so on ....
After my first experience with an LG Android a couple of years ago (phone that luckily was run over by another car) I bought a Nokia Lumia 710, very simple phone. I was amazed how good I felt about myself after a week, how simple my phone related experience had become. You know, like Japanese cars which for years need just gas and engine oil change.
So, buy an iPhone if you want reliable but if you want the whole package buy a Lumia 'cause today never comes back and if you want to capture this moment in a quality picture, you need a good camera.
I own a Lumia 920 now and it is the "sh*t".
Did I mention they cost less?
giuchici
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The new Windows Phone 8.1 is actually pretty good, why not try it out. WP stability and performance is on par with iPhone's.
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I've had a few android phones, the problem isnt with the os is with all the bs the manufacturers put on it. If you're up to it load cyanogen mod on your HTC and you'll be amazed at the difference w/out that HTC Sense crap. I switched to a windows phone and dont ever want to go back. My boss still has an htc with sense and gets a message about sense locking up at least once a day, even when the phone has just been in his pocket.
Please remember to rate helpful or unhelpful answers, it lets us and people reading the forums know if our answers are any good.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
The design is perfect, the only flaw is that we have to rely on you to fly it.
Which movie?
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The Developers Revenge
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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V. wrote: The design is perfect
And God Created Woman[^]! 
I was a little thrown off by the word "fly", but I think that must have been a misspelling. Should have been f***... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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i'm so sorry murica 
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Firefox?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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How I Crashed the Plane
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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GIJoe?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That's a comment about the iphone 6, from the upcoming iphone 7 release notification movie.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"The Flight Of The Icarus - Duct Tape Would Have Been Better"
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Jep 
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