talking about battery life, just check out how good the Xperia ZL2 is. My phone can last 3 days easily with normal use. As you can see from this screen grab I'm down to 37% battery yet still have 4 days of stand by or over 1 day of normal use. This is a massive increase from my Sharp Android of 2 years ago.
hunting for a reliable handheld that does virtually what a semi-decent laptop can do, at least in the connectivity sense. ... a friend has iphone, not the latest one, and he cracked, did a flash or something. when he visits, logs into my router and it's a relay as well as fileserver. pretty good on that. battery can last nearly two days in wifi mode, which is pretty good considering. what i didn't like about it was already stated earlier by another. (apple ecosystem) it's a shame the cables and sockets are proprietary for iphone...without that, it's another cool handset. capable of quite a bit, and the icing on the cake is bluetooth app for wireless keyboard, works with anything compliant to keyboard profiles, such as the ps3 and computer. ... it's likely i'll end up getting an android of some kind, if at least not to be held to ransom, and use standard cables for transfers. the itunes is a bit of a headache though, requires installing on every computer that updates libraries for it. (sync) android, not so. that battery life is brilliant on that iphone, an attention grabber for sure. :smile-new: ... iphone does it's job, all depends what you want out of it? if you don't care for the proprietary stuff, android takes up the slack. (wouldn't turn down iphone if given one though, prices are a bit steep in the meantime. android it is) [edit] battery life for iphone 6 that is.
I've owned most iPhones at some point or another, but would usually upgrade every 2 years when they got a design overhaul, so in keeping with that I would say now's the time to go for it if you want to stick to iOS. As for the whole iOS vs. Android thing, neither is perfect, but I'm on Android at the moment (Moto X). Probably going to upgrade to either the Xperia Z3 Compact or new Moto X at some point, but the one thing that is missing from Google's repertoire of software is a dedicated desktop music player like iTunes which is completely compatible with their handsets. I still have an iPod Classic solely for this purpose.
Apple nannies technophobes (and Microsoft's post-Windows 7 corporate strategy! zing) ... If you like pretty colors and coupon apps that only work when location services are turned on, but also use iTunes for music... Apple is the way to be. Android is everything else.
The only people I know who still buy iphones are the ones who already had a ton of paid apps installed which they simply can't move to android, so for them the iphone is the cheap option since it would be more expensive to rebuy all their apps. EDIT: same with accessories, every cable adapter and speaker set made for iphone is worthless for anything else.
I have a White 16GB 6 arriving on release day I hope. I had to really think about it for a few days as to wether I'd spend the money or not but from a developers point of view my 5C just doesn't cut it anymore. The one thing I'm not looking forward to is the point where the excitement wears off and I realise it's just a bigger, faster iPhone. Still I guess that's the beauty of iOS I suppose, you know what you're getting, few surprises. I am looking forward to the watch though, not necessarily from a consumer perspective but from a business perspective. A new market is always lucrative.
I don't get the hype over apple products. The last good apple product imo was the ipod classic 160gb, everything after that meh. Also, how is that picture bullshit? I bet android also has those other features you speak of too. Yes the iphone will have new hardware but I think they are mostly talking from a software point of view.
