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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (169587)	5/19/2014 8:21:21 PM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 213176

Long story short, I had nothing but problems with my Android phone (Moto Droid Bionic). I also had a fairly negative experience with a Gingerbread era Android phone. At the time, I would not consider an iPhone because of what I considered to be 3 deal-breakers with iOS: lack of multitasking, obtrusive notifications and no-integrated turn-by-turn navigation. Android delivered on these features, but was overall kind of jittery, non-responsive, and had terrible battery life. I tolerated it, but never loved it. I later switched to a Windows Phone, which I was more happy with, and then finally got an iPhone once iOS6 finally addressed the last of my "deal breakers." I have no doubt that, like iOS, Android has improved over the years, but I would need a very good reason to not get an iPhone for my next phone.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (169587)	5/20/2014 12:14:19 AM
From: MGV	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Long story short, I had nothing but problems with my Android phone (Moto Droid Bionic). I have yet to meet a person who similarly has explored having an android phone with a different experience than yours.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (169587)	5/20/2014 12:31:18 AM
From: Ryan Bartholomew	1 Recommendation Recommended By HerbVic Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213176

Ryan, a few years ago when my two year contract with my iPhone 3GS was up, I decided to switch to Android.I had nothing but problems with my Android phone (Moto Droid Bionic). The UI customization was nice, but it was also necessary as my phone came with sooooo many garbage apps ....The battery life was abysmal. And finally the LTE service was spotty at best. You describe a very common experience from the early days (v2.x) of Android. While it's still possible to find extremely low end or used phones with carrier or manufacturer installed bloatware or sub-par battery life, there are dozens of modern phones that run Android and have none of these problems, some costing half as much of the iPhone and having not only the customization benefits you liked, but many others (better battery life, screens, camera features, voice assistance, etc.). It's amazing how many people still think that Android circa 2011 is similar to Android today, but they are completely different animals. The people I run into who carry the perception you do typically haven't used a phone running Android 4.3+ for any length of time. I'd love to hear your thoughts if you do. You'll most certainly find that the "it just works" concept is more applicable to many newer Android-based phones than the iPhone (the latest couple releases of which had many problems that had to be addressed through patches, workarounds, etc., upon release.)

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (169587)	5/20/2014 7:47:10 AM
From: techlover1	5 Recommendations Recommended By AJ Muckenfus clean86 MGV Tenchusatsu Zen Dollar Round Respond to of 213176

I echo the experience with Android. I've got a Sprint HTC and i got it because at the time this area of North Carolina didn't have a good service for Apple. Now it's different. My biggest problems are stupid little things like Sprint loads total crap on the phone like the Nascar Ap that you can't remove and it takes up memory which limits the aps I can use. And the background can't be locked so a slight miss tap and all these backgrounds come up and if you accidentally select one it erases the equivalent of your desktop.YOu then have to reload desktop or phone top as. My next phone will be an iPhone.