Which smartphone should I buy?

You can jailbreak an iphone if you really need to play around or get "techy".
I rather doubt BS wants a phone for any purpose but to use as a normal phone with authorized and vetted apps.

Bashing one system over another is rather childish.

 

It would be, but nothing I've said isn't true.

 

That is a huge point that iPhones do not have, the free/ super low price point that you can get on Android.

 

That's how I got into the market. I got a cheap basically throw away $30 or so phone, to see if I liked Virgin mobile so I would not be out much if I didn't like the network. I kept that phone almost a year. It worked fine as long as you didn't overload the phone with apps. It was glitchy but it was a loaded up $30 phone operating at capacity most times.

 

I'd say most phones are not designed to last more than 2-3 years before planned obsolescence occurs. Either the battery dies, or they get clogged up.

You can get more than 2 years from a phone, but you have to put some effort into doing that.

I'm on year 3 with mine, but I'm looking to replace it sometime in the near future.

 

I use my phone for talking. Occasionally, there'll be a message on it that I actually respond to-otherwise, I don't need to refinance my student loan or get some resort stay rewards plan...(who are these people?)

It has the capability to browse web, take pics, and a bunch of other stuff that I'll never use......just because its a phone. Plain and simple.

It cost me a whole $5 quite a few years ago....5-6? I buy minutes for it when I need to. About $30 every three months.

 

A lot of us have figured text is a great way to communicate. I work in very rural areas. Almost no signal to talk and have a conversation that does not break up but you can almost always text. It works well. Or you can send a quick text to someone with a question you have to get an answer. They can answer it when they have a second. Don't have to get off the phone or stop what they were doing that second. For those of us that work we use way more munites than that. I am not a talkie I've person always on the phone but even I use hundreds of munites a month and thousands of texts. Now most of the texts are not important, like funny meme or random stuff between friends.

 

Me too.

 

SWMBO has a smart phone of some variety and she often can't figger out how to make the damm thing do what she wants. Then too every few years she either loses it or breaks it and has to spend $$$ to get another one. Me, I have a $25 flip phone from Walmart! I love it. And if I drop it in the toilet (done that twice) it's only $25 to replace the thing.

 

We live in a hole in cell coverage and struggled with it for years. Several years ago we went with AT&T and both got an iPhone 5, which we still use. I would like a little bigger screen but otherwise they’ve both been great with no issues. Since we have apple computers we love the connectivity. I usually answer texts on my iPad and the wife does the same on her MacBook Air laptop.
We both have thousands of pictures and don’t have any memory issues with the phone set up to automatically maintain room by moving less used pictures to the cloud automatically.
We use GPS but not a lot of apps other than that.
I agree that you should go with whatever the people you know best use. That way you’ll have lots of help getting used to it. I don’t think you can really go wrong either way. It’s a Chevy/Ford Stihl/Husqvarna kinda thing. Your preference is what it comes down to.

 

I'm never on wifi so that I message thing would gobble up data.

And I did know you can replace iphone batteries, it's just not as fast as it is with an android or as cheap.

And you can move pics but that goes back to I like them on the phone so there easy to get too, without useing data to dig through it and wait on it to load, again very little wifi or signal. That's why I like them on the card.

We all like our certain system aND what works for this. And I say this not to say iphone sucks or Android is better. I personally like android better but apple makes a good phone, just pointing out the contrast to certain points.

And apple soon will come out with a mid market phone I think this year called the SE. Least that's what I have read.

 

Cause there is the belief that they are un hackable or not able to be breached or at least as easy. Its the same thing as viruses and apple kind of.

The federal government offerers both iphone and galaxy and has for a few years if that says anything. They finially got awah from the blackberry a few yeats ago. They were the only thing holding that failing company up and it seemed like they waited till basically noting was offered to drop them.

 

If Verizon works well I'm your area Dennis, then go for it. I wouldn't say that Verizon works the best across the country though. You get away from the cities and freeways, and Verizon is horrible everywhere except the SE usa.

 

Verizon is the only network worth anything in the northeast once you get out of the city . I travel all over new England, upstate NY and PA.

 

Ha, that's opposite here, and I'm SE . ATT is lost around here. Texts won't hardly go through in many places I go to. Their GPS looses signal in the town I live in and forget about any text or calls. Around here ATT real coverage is the cities and interstate corridors. And then even still in our big cities like Charleston and Greenville they drop calls all the time and break up so bad from time to time you can't even understand. The closest "city" to me is 50 miles or more and is 200,000 people. Now the town near me is like 3000 people I lie in a community of like 250, and our big town is 20 miles away and like 50k.

I should say that I travel the whole state of SC except for the coastal corridor. I will make trips to Charleston, but the Beaufort and Myrtle Beach ends are almost non existent to me.