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An iPhone or an Android phone...?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1538818"><p>I might cause Vansmith to faint here, but the *better* Android phones can meet your specified needs as easily as an iPhone.</p><p></p><p>You can probably get an iPhone 5 at a very attractive price right now, and I personally think it is a better phone and better OS than anything on the Android or Windows Phone side (though there are a handful of models that I would consider worthy competitors, the flagship models from HTC, Samsung and Nokia mostly), so naturally I will suggest you give the iPhone a try since you've already given Android a try.</p><p></p><p>The iPhone 5s in particular (yes, I know, they're scarce at the moment) will do what you want arguably better than any smartphone on the planet right now. Don't take my word for it, read the reviews -- particularly the ones from photography-oriented sites.</p><p></p><p>And I definitely wouldn't just ANY smartphone by what their tiny built-in speakers can produce. Dreadful, the lot of them. It's why headphones were invented.</p><p></p><p>I've looked at the best phones on offer from other companies besides Apple and have generally been impressed by at least some of the features available, but my biggest problem with Android is security -- 92 percent of all malware for mobile devices is on guess which platform. Windows and iOS are essentially free of this issue (apart from SMS scams, but that's on every platform and isn't an actual bit of software, just social engineering).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1538818"] I might cause Vansmith to faint here, but the *better* Android phones can meet your specified needs as easily as an iPhone. You can probably get an iPhone 5 at a very attractive price right now, and I personally think it is a better phone and better OS than anything on the Android or Windows Phone side (though there are a handful of models that I would consider worthy competitors, the flagship models from HTC, Samsung and Nokia mostly), so naturally I will suggest you give the iPhone a try since you've already given Android a try. The iPhone 5s in particular (yes, I know, they're scarce at the moment) will do what you want arguably better than any smartphone on the planet right now. Don't take my word for it, read the reviews -- particularly the ones from photography-oriented sites. And I definitely wouldn't just ANY smartphone by what their tiny built-in speakers can produce. Dreadful, the lot of them. It's why headphones were invented. I've looked at the best phones on offer from other companies besides Apple and have generally been impressed by at least some of the features available, but my biggest problem with Android is security -- 92 percent of all malware for mobile devices is on guess which platform. Windows and iOS are essentially free of this issue (apart from SMS scams, but that's on every platform and isn't an actual bit of software, just social engineering). [/QUOTE]
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