Iphone to Galaxy S4 - Calling all those who jumped the apple ship to android

Its upgrade time for me and the wife, hers is due now and mine in a couple of weeks.
She has been using her old samsung slider phone for 4 years now and its about time she joined the smart phone revolution. I've had my iphones for the same 4 year period, I love my iphone and I'm one of the few who actually likes itunes. I use it regularly and the app-store is reassuringly monitored.
Basically I like that my iphone simply works, I don't care that with an android I could do x,y and z I seriously couldn't give 2 ****s. I dont mind paying the premium for the assurance that what I'm buying will work with my phone without compromising other functions nor do I mind that I cant personalize my phone too heavily, it does just enough to make me happy and IMO it looks smart as hell.

Previously I've been worried about switching as all my apple purchases and accessories would become useless, apple have helped me out here by changing the ports for the iphone 5 rendering them all useless without an adapter anyway and IMO that surely defeats the purpose of the new connectors.
With the accessories requiring replacement and Google music now been available in the UK, which allows 20000 songs to be imported I need not worry about my music purchases either. This then means I loose nothing by moving to the android... and I'm tempted and here is why.

So as I mentioned it is upgrade time.
If i were to replace my iphone with the iphone 5 with a contract which doesnt involve paying out upfront for the handset these are my options with vodafone and o2:
02 I would be paying £42
Vodaphone I would also be paying £42

If we go that route then Abi would get an iphone sim only deal and take my current iphone her payment options are:
£21/26 with o2 and £25 with vodafone

That means that option will be costing us approx £68 (before taxes) each month, by contrast if we were to both walk into a high street store and ask for the galaxy S4 we could have them for £37 on o2 or better yet £33 on Vodaphone plus I would be able to sell my iphone 4 for a £100 to £150 on ebay so the S4 definetly makes the smart money choice.

This is where you current android and former iphone users come in,
When you switched was it painless?
Were there certain things you missed regarding your iphone?
Are you pleased with your decision?
What would you do differently given the chance again?

I had the galaxy and couldn't stand it compared to my I phone! One of the things I noticed on android is how slow it could be at times and that apps would crash all the time! Personally I wouldn't go to android ever again

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So I've been using android since the start, including tablets and smart phones of various performances. Then I was issued an iPad and iPhone for my job. I'd never used Apple devices until now due to Apple prejudice and the fact they're a rip off. I must say I still feel that prejudice, but I have to be honest, my user experience has been far better with iOS.

It simply is a far better user experience. Still a step ahead. I'm typing on the work iPad now, about to head out to work, happily tapping away. I wouldn't be replying if I was on my Asus Transformer. The typing experience is too cumbersome for me to bother and I have places to be! All this from an Android developer who has avoided Apple at all costs until now.

Android is just as capable, if not more so, and its hard to put my finger on all the points, but if you just want to pick up your phone and have the most smooth slick usable experience its still got to be iOS.

[bat-kam]

I has iPhone 3GS, then 4S and now 5. I did switch to Galaxy S3 for a short moment but i could not stand the complexity of it. There is so many setting and sub settings and sub-sub settings!!! iPhone is simple, everything is where you would expected it to be
Kam


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Always had android phones and tablets, the newer OS like Jellybean are much more stable than say Gingerbread was. I have an S2, S3, S4 and Ace 2 in my house and I have never had an issue with any of them, my son also has a cheap £60 android tablet which works well, bit laggy but that's down to hardware rather than OS.

I would nevwer but an apple product my sister had her iphone replaced 3 times in 2 years and has now jumped to a Galaxy S4 and says she wouldn't go back, I had an Ipod which just died after 2 years and 2 days and Apple refused to help in anyway whatsoever just told me to buy a new one and to top it all my son got a 5th Gen Ipod touch for Xmas 2012 which has become faulty after only 6 months and has been sent off for repair only to be told they could not replicate the fault which they managed to do in the store so have sent it back again still faulty!! Added to which all Apple products are stupidly overpriced!

I had a 3gs for 3 years. Currently have a google nexus 4. The nexus is obviously faster, with a better screen etc. However I think i'll probably be getting the Iphone 6 (when it comes out) if its not terrible. I'll buy the phone though as sim only on vodafone I pay £18 a month for as much of everything as i can use.

IOS is probably better than android, it just works and as you say itunes is good if you like using it. Android does everything ios can and more. But is more of a faff on. If you're lazy you simply dont bother half the time!

Android however is about a third of the price to get into and i got an android phone because i was skint.

I use both android and iOS all the time and while I prefer android (cos I'm a geek) I agree that iOS feels far more refined. But there's no assurance with iOS that it'll work - far from it as Apple business model requires that they beta test their software on the general public, and this goes for iOS and Mac OS X. Frankly Apple's decisions wrt. the iphone have been in the past ridiculous, hilarious and highly embarrasing for them (what company makes a phone which doesn't work as a phone if you HOLD IT THE WRONG WAY?! seriously??) and that behaviour will continue long into the future. Long queues outside apple stores as the new iphone users find their new kit doesn't work? Sound familiar?

Regarding android's usability / stability; Samsing / HTC reskin android so it works like they want it and introduce bugs - Samsung Touchwiz is hilariously rubbish IMO, HTC sense is better though still pants. Vanilla android is absolutely slick and works extremely well - and you'll save a fortune (like £300!) if you get a £10/month sim only contract and buy a £279 google nexus 4 instead if an iPhone. Of course the nexus isn't as feature rich as an iPhone and if those features are what you want then by all means get the iPhone.

With regards to switching from iOS to android I think the back / home buttons will bug the hell out of you - but you'll grow to love them! Apart from that it's all very similar.

(I'm not one of these mac haters by the way, I use OS X all the time and love it. Just important to see their overexpensive products for what they really are, that's all!)

Originally Posted by Owenski

sell my iphone 4 for a £100 to £150

They are going for £150-£220.

Bought the other half an iPhone 4 32GB last week for £200, 16GB versions that I was watching also went for around that price.

Me, I'm Android all the way.

Originally Posted by 85jas

(I'm not one of these mac haters by the way, I use OS X all the time and love it. Just important to see their overexpensive products for what they really are, that's all!)

I disagree when it comes to the Macbook Pro. It may be expensive to buy, but not over-expensive. It has out lasted any other laptop I've owned. Had it 3 years and still as good as new. I can work on it for hours on end without having to plug in and they still go for a good price used.

Like they say, only your first iphone/mac is expensive, the sale of your old one offsets the new one.