paulo


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

Good thing you don't own an Alembic.

trimph1

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..

Yeah 16GB is plenty to store songs, as long as you don't want your full collection on there. In fact I managed with a 4GB iPod for years. However, on an iPhone you're probably going to end up with a lot of large apps, some of which can be very graphically intensive and take up quite a bit of space (especially if you're a gamer). And with an 8 megapixel camera, a lot of that space is going to end up as photos and videos. 

Dang it Mike... do you have any idea how easily influenced I am?? 

Of course, if I get the i-phone I will not be able to resist the IK products, I'll have to get the Tascam 4-track app just because it looks so cool. My older daughter loves her i-p...  Also I am absolutely sure that if I get something else I will always wonder about the i-phone, I want one even though I don't want one. Back in the 90s I got a 4WD truck for my work truck. I don't do any off roadingI didn't need one, I had just never had one... that one is now out of my system. It did come in handy in the blizzard back whenever, when we had four ft of snow in N. GA, I still had to borrow some chains but we drover everywhere in that snow. Hwy 41, a divided 4 lane up here looked like a two rut farm road... it was so worth it. We drove around all day picking up and taking people kerosene heaters etc... but I digress, though for a reason... if I don't get the i-phone now I will always wonder about it.

Anyway... thanks Mike. sigh...

J

mike_mccue


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

oh please, that excuse doesn't work anymore - droids phones and tablets are not worse then apple's.
Rather the opposite they're better, more flexible and expandable unlike Apple. I wpi;d never buy a device
where manufacture us telling me what to do, never.  
Also the difference in number of apps decreases each day, BTW how many apps do you really need??? 

On the other hand my daughter had to come over here yesterday to use a computer. She is taking some online college courses and one would not play on her i-pad. I like that you can now add a USB port to the i-phone but they REALLY should add a slot for a SDHC card and make it so you can use an extra battery or replace the battery, I don't understand why they don't add simple things like that.. and Flash... but still, maybe I should just get it over with. .. too weak to resist. No need to wait in line though... I'm sure Bapu got the first one, 

J

 Well for what it's worth... while on vacation last month I searched every photo app available for the Droid.

 I'll repeat that; I searched through every single photo app available for Droid and checked out any that seemed worth while.

 I was sitting on the beach for a week, enjoying the beautiful weather on Lake Michigan with our large family of avid photographers and we were all having fun using our phone cameras rather than using our big rigs. We were entertaining ourselves by checking out and comparing apps and teaching each other all the cool features.

  Here's what I found out: There are no good stitching apps for Droid and the Droid compatible HDR apps that I bought sucked compared to what my wife has on her iPhone.

 But hey, what do I know?


 best regards,
mike

 

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mike_mccue


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

oh please, that excuse doesn't work anymore - droids phones and tablets are not worse then apple's.
Rather the opposite they're better, more flexible and expandable unlike Apple. I wpi;d never buy a device
where manufacture us telling me what to do, never.  
Also the difference in number of apps decreases each day, BTW how many apps do you really need??? 

I used to think the same about the iPhone. But after using one primarily for business for 2 years, I've changed my mind. The "closed shop" of Apple might be restrictive, but it has resulted in a very reliable device that works brilliantly with not a lot that can go wrong. If I didn't need to rely on a phone for business, the tinkerer in me might well be drawn to the infinitely customizable Android platform. However I've seen Android owning friends screw up their phones way too many times. They'll install all kinds of dubious crap on there which hasn't been fully tested and approved. And before you know it, one thing is conflicting with another and slowing the thing down, and they're having to do a fresh install of the OS. 


To be honest I've never been that impressed with any software that Google has released. I've used a lot of their stuff and it tends to be forever "unfinished" and unpolished, with annoying little design flaws and bugs that seem to persist for years across versions. That is why I would never get in a Google car 

bapu

paulo


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

Good thing you don't own an Alembic.

I've never heard of anyone who has one of those.

sharke

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mike_mccue


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

oh please, that excuse doesn't work anymore - droids phones and tablets are not worse then apple's.
Rather the opposite they're better, more flexible and expandable unlike Apple. I wpi;d never buy a device
where manufacture us telling me what to do, never.  
Also the difference in number of apps decreases each day, BTW how many apps do you really need??? 

I used to think the same about the iPhone. But after using one primarily for business for 2 years, I've changed my mind. The "closed shop" of Apple might be restrictive, but it has resulted in a very reliable device that works brilliantly with not a lot that can go wrong.

mind you most business users are using blackberry not iOS or droids... 

I used to think the same about the iPhone. But after using one primarily for business for 2 years, I've changed my mind. The "closed shop" of Apple might be restrictive, but it has resulted in a very reliable device that works brilliantly with not a lot that can go wrong. If I didn't need to rely on a phone for business, the tinkerer in me might well be drawn to the infinitely customizable Android platform. However I've seen Android owning friends screw up their phones way too many times. They'll install all kinds of dubious crap on there which hasn't been fully tested and approved. And before you know it, one thing is conflicting with another and slowing the thing down, and they're having to do a fresh install of the OS. 

That makes sense Sharke... my wife would certainly mess it up and I would have to fix it or... more likely than that, she would continue to use it  messed up and complain all the time about it.


Thanks for the insight!


Julien