"You're Holding the Phone Wrong" II

[SineSwiper]

http://wmpoweruser.com/apple-calls-ipho ... lumia-920/

Sigh, now it's just sad...

[Flip]

My buddy posted pictures of his dog on Facebook with the iPhone 5 and its eyes are green flares almost everytime. Way worse than typical red eye.

[Zeus]

I think Maddox said it best: "The iPhone is a piece of shit and so is your face" :-)

EDIT: Hopefully you don't get charged for extra data usage otherwise it may cost you that much more to have your iPhone 5

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2 ... litch.html

[bovine]

I wonder if buying my iPhone has made me an apologist for iPhones in general....

I think that the iPhone 5 is one of the best phones on the market. I think the GS3 is probably the biggest rival, but it falls into a weird place where it uses the ugly and obtuse touchwiz interface instead of naked android and that some of its features work only on a GS3 to GS3 basis. The iPhone can get away with something like the latter because the OS and the platform are the same all the time. Android's fragmentation really bothers me and even though I would prefer the GS3 over my current iPhone 4S. It is how poorly Android phones are supported, if they are not Nexus phones, that creates this anxiety for me. Should I jump back on board when a new Nexus appears? Maybe that is the answer for me, but I also find the Nexus phones to be aesthetically unattractive.

Anyways, to stay on topic - Maps suck and the new iPhone's camera does some weird shit. I hear the GS3's camera is pretty good.

[Shrinweck]

The antenna/reception problem bothered me a lot more than the map and camera problems, but you can work around the old reception problem... these problems you're just fucked. Unless you use Google Maps manually. I guess that's kind of working around it. Avoiding the fucking SUN is a larger issue.

[SineSwiper]

I wonder if buying my iPhone has made me an apologist for iPhones in general....

Stockholm's Syndrome

I think that the iPhone 5 is one of the best phones on the market. I think the GS3 is probably the biggest rival, but it falls into a weird place where it uses the ugly and obtuse touchwiz interface instead of naked android and that some of its features work only on a GS3 to GS3 basis. The iPhone can get away with something like the latter because the OS and the platform are the same all the time. Android's fragmentation really bothers me and even though I would prefer the GS3 over my current iPhone 4S. It is how poorly Android phones are supported, if they are not Nexus phones, that creates this anxiety for me.

This is how true development works: on the battlefield. GS3 basically tests and touts this feature with their phone, and Android will likely have something similar with the next OS. (They have to share; it's GPL.) Progress and Google didn't have to work hard for it, since it was somebody else's work. Now every Android phone ends up with this feature and it's universal.

And your issue with support is illusionary. Don't group the support for Android phones, because Google doesn't do the support for them. (It would be like treating IBM as tech support for every PC ever made.) Hell, most of the time, your first line of support is your carrier, anyway. We've been happy with support from Sprint.

Should I jump back on board when a new Nexus appears? Maybe that is the answer for me, but I also find the Nexus phones to be aesthetically unattractive.

Hopefully they've learned from their first launch. The first Nexus was a disaster, partly because they thought they could release this phone and not even think about the support apparatus. (In this case, they ARE the support for this phone.) I'll give Google a pass on that one because they've had a pretty good track record overall.

Aesthetically unattractive? Like how? The design for phones in the last decade have been mostly around the size, OS, and features. They would have to purposely make it ugly for it to be considered "aesthetically unattractive".

[bovine]

When I'm talking about support and fragmentation, I mean in terms of OS updates. When there is an iOS update, it hits all iphones regardless of its benefits and repercussions that is has on legacy versions and the gimped versions that might come out on older handsets. On the other hand, the rollout of Android OS updates is extremely spotty. The Galaxy 3 is still running on ICS, and the rollout for Jellybean is just starting to occur. This is the latest and greatest Android phone and its just now, maybe going to start getting an international release.

Again, I like the Android OS better than iOS, but I don't want to be stuck with an older version of the OS because I bought a phone that doesn't get fast and regular updates and if you don't have a Nexus device then it seems entirely random what gets supported.

My aesthetic tastes in phones is entirely subjective, so it doesn't really matter.