I have a Droid X that I have enjoyed. My wife has a 4s iPhone that I envy for it's fantastic camera and all the great photo and sound apps that are available.

We had observed that my maps app, which I use every day I work on the road, was far better than hers.

The recent iOS upgrade included the new maps on her iPhone. Now every time she runs maps her phones crashes, it says the battery is dead, and then requires a reboot. Sometimes she can't get it back up and running for several minutes... at which point it confirms that the battey is fully charged.


She just demonstrated for me... and she couldn't reboot it up until she plugged it into the wall charger... not ideal for driving. And once again it confirms that her battery is 100%.



 
I was planning on buying the new iPhone as soon as the frenzy cooled down... now I'll wait a little longer.

Bummer.


best regards,
mike

I almost ordered an i-phone 5 but..

then I realised that I'd have to spend the rest of my life telling people that I have one.

sharke

Glyn Barnes

With only 64GB of memory the iPhone 5 does not even make a viable replacement for my 80GB iPod Classic which is almost full.`

Mine only has 16GB of storage. I don't store music on it, I have a premium Spotify account instead. When you don't store media on your phone, even 16GB is too much. I've never even come close to filling it. 

The Palm Pre 2 I have has 16Gb on it...and, right now, with something like 135 songs on it and about 55 pix plus 5 vids on it I still have 13.5 Gb on it. Some of the songs are about 20 minutes long btw..

My girls have iphone 4's ..... both have them in the waterproof cases.... yeah.... between toilets and soda.... 

I have considered upgrading my droid eros.... to the Galaxy 3s.... but I hesitate due to the law suit which may make them unavailable soon and replacement under warrantee near impossible.  I have looked at the S3 and have heard they are better than the iphone. 

On dialing the 666 thing...... yeah ... on my droid.... speed dialing my mom....666 gets her name to pop up... I have her in the phone as "mom" .... (sorry mom)

Guitarhacker


My girls have iphone 4's ..... both have them in the waterproof cases.... yeah.... between toilets and soda.... 

I have considered upgrading my droid eros.... to the Galaxy 3s.... but I hesitate due to the law suit which may make them unavailable soon and replacement under warrantee near impossible.  I have looked at the S3 and have heard they are better than the iphone. 

On dialing the 666 thing...... yeah ... on my droid.... speed dialing my mom....666 gets her name to pop up... I have her in the phone as "mom" .... (sorry mom)

I have the S3 and it has stellar reviews for very good reasons.. my son has the 4s and is an apple fanatic (i know i know, i blame myself...) and even he grudgingly think he may move to the dark side..
 
I would not worry about lawsuits and replacement units if i was you, after all, if Samsungs 4G LTE patents are upheld then you wouldnt be able to get an iphone 5 replaced either...so who knows?.. both Apple and Samsung will still be standing after all the lawyer fees are paid, the will cross license everything from the past and get back to making phones.

My wife is spending the morning updating her iTunes on her 4s so that she may roll back to iOS 5.something.

iCatch22.

mike_mccue


My wife is spending the morning updating her iTunes on her 4s so that she may roll back to iOS 5.something.

iCatch22.

i need to jailbreak the ipad to roll back.. the update to os5 pretty much killed its performance...

How fast is the upgrade cycle on iOS anyhow?

All I really need a phone to do is to make calls and check the weather. I suppose if I had a good maps app I would use it too. I've tried buying a couple of different MP3 players and just couldn't get excited about them and threw them in the drawer after a couple of days. Maybe I should just get a free phone and an i-pad. I'll check out the Galaxy but the HTC looks really good and is only 99 bucks, the i-phone is 199.00 plus, I don't know. There is something about buying an i-phone that I cannot put my finger on... I just don't want to do it. I really don't know why... just bucking the trend I guess.

I am glad to hear they changed their mind on the maps, that was a stupid idea.

J

For me, I want the iPhone because the camera and the available apps blow away anything I have seen on Droid.

When I use my wife's iPhone to take a snap shots the results are so rewarding that the experience is fun.

When I take one with my Droid and the results are not so much.


best,
mike