What's your favorite Smartphone?

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People complain about Apple prices but the hardware is excellent. You can’t compare a Mac to a $500 PC. The same is true with the phones. Apple isn’t cheap, but you can (typically) get years of use out of it.

You can see this based on resell prices. You can sell a pretty old iMac and get really good money for it. In fact if you are enterprising you could buy a new iMac each year and easily cover most of the price by selling last years. You could never do that with a PC.

The components and construction are usually great. And they come up with things like the MagSafe connector so you don’t drag your laptop off a desk if you pull the cord.

I came to the Apple party late but regret all those years I spent in PC land.
 
Sony Xperia xz not a fan of iPhone at all had one previously
 
People complain about Apple prices but the hardware is excellent. You can’t compare a Mac to a $500 PC. The same is true with the phones. Apple isn’t cheap, but you can (typically) get years of use out of it.

You can see this based on resell prices. You can sell a pretty old iMac and get really good money for it. In fact if you are enterprising you could buy a new iMac each year and easily cover most of the price by selling last years. You could never do that with a PC.

The components and construction are usually great. And they come up with things like the MagSafe connector so you don’t drag your laptop off a desk if you pull the cord.

I came to the Apple party late but regret all those years I spent in PC land.
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Yes to that MagSafe. That was what sealed the deal for me - getting my foot caught in my Vaio cord and pulling it off the table back when I was in college scared me to death. When it was time for a new one, I went with a MacBook.
People complain about Apple prices but the hardware is excellent. You can’t compare a Mac to a $500 PC. The same is true with the phones. Apple isn’t cheap, but you can (typically) get years of use out of it.
I agree with those who say that the software here makes a difference. I can remember updates on my PC causing havoc. Now, Apple isn’t always perfect with its OS updates, but that software was designed with the hardware it would work with in mind. With PCs, you’re still potentially putting round pegs into square holes, although my understanding is that situation is far better than it used to be.

Also: operating system update cost with Microsoft - at least $100, if not more. With Apple? $35. And the office suite by Apple is far less expensive than the MS one - and you own it, and it’s a native PDF application (that took years for MS to figure out - I could save as PDF long before my PC counterparts could, and did it without a plug in or additional software), and it will convert to the MS formats. For the naysayers, having had Macs for over ten years, I promise you it’s almost a 1 for 1 shift now between Pages/Numbers/Keynote and Word/Excel/PowerPoint. I do presentations at home all the time, convert them, send them to myself, and then finish them at work. It’s awesome.
 
I am now well entrenched in the Apple ecosystem. I’ve never even tried an Android. Even if I did and found it better it would have to be significantly better for me to want to switch.
This is me. I’m a 53-year old stuck in my habits kinda person though…
 
I’ve had a blackberry, an iPhone and an Android phone.

I prefer Androids.

The Galaxy line is fantastic but these days I use OnePlus. They’re great phones and the price is a great deal for the features.
 
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I am now well entrenched in the Apple ecosystem. I’ve never even tried an Android. Even if I did and found it better it would have to be significantly better for me to want to switch.
This is me. I’m a 53-year old stuck in my habits kinda person though…
My mother has about a three hundred year old Droid. LOL. I look at it and go - I have no idea, can’t help you, not even sure what to do with it. LOL. She sees my phone and is all - THAT LOOKS SO EASY TO USE.

Well, yeah.
 
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See, with computers, I’m fully entrenched in the Microsoft/PC world.

It makes things confusing sometimes. 😝
 
Google Drive is a far better alternative in regards to documents /spreadsheets/ presentations
 
You are right you can’t update a five year old iPhone with today’s iPhone operating system. But that is because the software is too demanding for the old hardware. Apple does provide updates to older phones far longer than Android makers do.
One of my friend is still using the iPhone 4 .
 
I switched from Apple to Android, and I’ve never looked back. In the box with my phone, there was a wire and connector so I could link my two phones and transfer all of my apps, photos, and music to my Android. Easy peasy!
Really ? a wire and connector are enough ?
 
I’ve had a blackberry, an iPhone and an Android phone.

I prefer Androids.

The Galaxy line is fantastic but these days I use OnePlus. They’re great phones and the price is a great deal for the features.
I’ve had a Samsung and Android , but i have never used the iPhone , It was because I couldn’t afford it before ,Now I might try .
 
Yup! I was very surprised. I was worried I’d lose stuff. As it turns out, my transfer to a whole new phone was easier than my parents upgrading their iPhones to newer ones!
 
Do you mean it’s easy to transfer to new phone ? Your ideas seem to be the same as Fauken’s .
 
See, with computers, I’m fully entrenched in the Microsoft/PC world.
I have to use Microsoft a fair amount. I hate it. If I didn’t have a Mac at home I’d probably try living with Linux.
One of my friend is still using the iPhone 4 .
I have an old 3GS I was using as an iPod. It still works fine for that and probably would work fine as a phone. I upgraded to an iPhone 5C as my iPod and that will last many more years.
 
I would prefer no “smart-phone” at all.
 
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