What phone to go for iPhone 4s , Android , Windows Phone or BlackBerry

mrochester

grumbler wrote: »

I don't know what we are arguing about really, but...Nobody forces customers to pay. As I said it's a great Apple's success that they have customers willing to pay £100 for extra 16Gb.
This does explain partly the high profits Apple make - because it costs just about £10-£15 to add extra 16Gb.
This doesn't make these £16Gb a good value for money.

I'm arguing that value for money is subjective as everyone's wants and needs are different.

Whether it's good value for money or not would depend on whether you could live without the extra storage. If you couldn't, spending the extra probably would be good value for money. If you could, spending the extra is likely not good value for money.

Toe-Jam

*Chattie* wrote: »

factitious comment due to it not being the end of the world if a weather app doesn't work

There is nothing wrong with the weather app, if your going to criticise at least be accurate, it is Siri that is not working.

Considering i paid £500 for it and its one of the 3 main features of the new device, its a pretty big FAIL on apples part that it doesn't work.

If I bought a new tv and the remote didn't work i'd be annoyed about that too. When your paying a premium for a premium product, you expect it to work. Not be some half baked piece of garbage.

Considering this is the ad for it they forget to mention that most of it doesn't work outside the US.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uS6d7fsPnM&feature=relmfu

mrochester

Toe-Jam wrote: »

There is nothing wrong with the weather app, if your going to criticise at least be accurate, it is Siri that is not working.

Considering i paid £500 for it and its one of the 3 main features of the new device, its a pretty big FAIL on apples part that it doesn't work.

If I bought a new tv and the remote didn't work i'd be annoyed about that too. When your paying a premium for a premium product, you expect it to work. Not be some half baked piece of garbage.

I'd suggest you take it back if performance isn't what you were expecting. Siri is currently missing a fair bit of functionality in the UK and is very much a work-in-progress.

Toe-Jam

mrochester wrote: »

I'd suggest you take it back if performance isn't what you were expecting. Siri is currently missing a fair bit of functionality in the UK and is very much a work-in-progress.

I'd rather sell it to some fanboy on ebay for twice what its worth and spend the money on something useful.:T

mrochester

Toe-Jam wrote: »

I'd rather sell it to some fanboy on ebay for twice what its worth and spend the money on something useful.:T

Best of luck then.

Yolina

JJ_Egan wrote: »

I want a phone to do xyz not to be a status symbol that i can brag about all over town .

You're not the only one ...Android leads the way with 50% of the UK smartphone market

BBerry in 2nd place at 22.5% and Apple in 3rd at 18.5%

DUTR

Yolina wrote: »

JJ_Egan wrote: »

You're not the only one ...Android leads the way with 50% of the UK smartphone market

BBerry in 2nd place at 22.5% and Apple in 3rd at 18.5%

Now 4th ZTE have overtaken them too.

mrochester

Yolina wrote: »

You're not the only one ...Android leads the way with 50% of the UK smartphone market

BBerry in 2nd place at 22.5% and Apple in 3rd at 18.5%

Of course that depends entirely on which of those devices you consider a status symbol. Personally I don't consider any of them to be a status symbol; I'd like to think that most people pick a device because it's the best one for them, not because it's the most popular (and I suppose that would make Android devices the status symbol in the context above).

Now 4th ZTE have overtaken them too.

Not in the UK market, and not in the smartphone market. ZTE are currently the 4th largest manufacturer out of all phones, worldwide, with Apple at number 5. ZTE took that spot from Apple sometime last year I believe, and then traded it back for 5th place, so this is the second time ZTE have taken 4th. ZTE predominantly make low end featurephones and smartphones for Asian and Western markets. They have seen explosive growth in emerging nations such as China and India.

lindopski_2

what is the general consensus then ?

I bought the Iphone 3Gs back in March 2010 and I still use it at the moment, the battery could be better but all in all it has been a good machine.
I dislike Itunes and the whole (sync) thing that Apple has going on locking phones down to PC's etc especially when I plug mine into about7 different ones.

I am considering Android next, I have had 3 windows based phones (HTC) and each was as bad as the last, unresponsive and poor - I know things have moved on but I have been put off - especially as my friends 2 month old HTC sits there rebooting itself every 45 minutes all day long.

Nokia N-95 was my last Nokia and it was a superb phone though Nokia seem to have dried up a little.

The Galaxy S2 tempts me though by March the S3 may be here - or I could maybe go for another Iphone (4S?) though it is unlikely due to the restrictiveness of the apple kit.

I wont be getting a blackberry as I am not a teenage girl or a businessman who needs email constantly at his fingertips.

I think Android is the way to go though I would like to know which one would be best to go for ?

mrochester

lindopski wrote: »

what is the general consensus then ?

I bought the Iphone 3Gs back in March 2010 and I still use it at the moment, the battery could be better but all in all it has been a good machine.
I dislike Itunes and the whole (sync) thing that Apple has going on locking phones down to PC's etc especially when I plug mine into about7 different ones.

I am considering Android next, I have had 3 windows based phones (HTC) and each was as bad as the last, unresponsive and poor - I know things have moved on but I have been put off - especially as my friends 2 month old HTC sits there rebooting itself every 45 minutes all day long.

Nokia N-95 was my last Nokia and it was a superb phone though Nokia seem to have dried up a little.

The Galaxy S2 tempts me though by March the S3 may be here - or I could maybe go for another Iphone (4S?) though it is unlikely due to the restrictiveness of the apple kit.

I wont be getting a blackberry as I am not a teenage girl or a businessman who needs email constantly at his fingertips.

I think Android is the way to go though I would like to know which one would be best to go for ?

Your best bet is to try the lot and decide from there as all you're going to get here is a myriad array of opinions in all directions. There's no substitute for hands on experience. You're definitely right that Windows based phones have come along way since you perhaps last looked at them. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) is a cracking OS and well worth a second look. With Nokia behind it, it'll hopefully gain a lot more momentum. Beware that you do need to sync with Zune on the desktop (the Microsoft equivalent of iTunes) but much like as you can now do with Apple devices, you can do this wirelessly if you so choose.