Cheers both for your replies.

Samsung galaxy's usually crash, my iPhone 4 hasn't crashed. Android has more free apps whereas apple charge for a lot

I have recently upgraded my s2 to latest android version. No problems and no crashes. Don't know much about s3 sorry.

I have a I phone 4s and Ive had I phones for the last four years and I tried the HTC Wildfire in between and hated it, so |I phone all the way for me.

I have the 4s. It's the best phone I've had by some distance.

Missus has one of the old Samsung Galaxies, and I think it's pretty pants if I'm honest.

Well i love my s2 older galaxies are pants but then again so are iphones imo

Get the nokia 6230. Bounces down the street well after leaving on the roof of the car and survives 3 hours in a pint of stella to work again in 3 days after fully drying out. Easy to make and answer calls.

It begs the question maurice, why was it in a pint of stella for 3 hours.

1 mate fell asleep sat outside boozer, another mate decided it would be funny to put my phone in his ale when I went to bar.

You can tell im an owd un , i dont even have a mobile , never have , they are selling P-PODS in Morrisons at £1.00p a bag , i bought 2 bags .

Ours are just nearly ready int back yard.

There are loads of Galaxy S3 v iPhone on Youtube. They are both on the expensive scale, and have their good and bad points. I would never buy a Apple product on principle because I don't believe in their business ethos, which is getting like Micro$oft.
Best phone ever made is Nokia N900 (which isn't Android) IMO and after 2 years I decided to keep it another 12 months rather than upgrade. Great operating system that was open source (like Android its a variant of Linux), and could have been another option to Android - unfortunately Micro$oft flexed its muscles and paid Nokia $250 million to only use Windows on its phones. That was the end of the next generation of N900's - but the legend still lives on.

Thats my geeky contribution anyway.

Had an iPhone 4 for 18 months and never have much trouble with it. As I've downloaded quite a bit from apple now I'd probably never go to android (plus I have an iPad too) but I know people who have galaxy phones and also htc phones and love them. Each to their own. YouTube have lots of videos of all the features of each phone. Take a look and take your pick. iPhone 5 is due for release in the autumn to coincide with iOS 6 so that's what I'll be getting next.

I hope all of the expensive apps for Iphones can be tranfered to the Iphone 5.

You will have to get up to speed and get a mobile then Ian.

Yes, they can. So can the cheap apps, and the free apps.

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This is enough reason not to buy Apple.

Except most of it is either BS or singling Apple out for criticism for business practices that are common amongst its rivals.

The reason why Apple is wildly financially successful versus is rival is quite simple: Tight focus on a small core of products and variations enables it to achieve a level of fit and finish that is beyond its rivals, and enables it to achieve phenomenal production cost savings due to scale of production.

I find it very funny that Apple would sue Samsung as Samsung make the screens for IPhones.

Fair do's michael. But its all about making money and lots of it. And with that money ensuring at all costs (marketing and hype for product launches) they keep that monopoly, buying up patents so the common small business or individual have a minefield to dodge when trying to create something innovative without being sued.

Apple was running away with the smart phone market - so much so that we was heading towards Apple utopia of which Micro$oft would be proud of. Ie a smart phone would be like buying a tin of soup at a supermarket but without different flavours to choose from.
Luckily Google gave manufacturers a chance to compete with Apple, and give people a choice. Once Android found its feet it outsold Apple in a very short space of time, where only in the high end of the market does Apple still win but they are getting pegged back in that too. Android offers limitless options and price ranges, and differing ideas due to the OS being contributed to by different companies (even tho they compete with each other for sales) working together for the common goal.

Apple would be out of business now if they hadn't built their patent portfolio. Unfortunately, this is the way business has to be done. The patent system need fixing to avoid this situation.



Competition is a good thing, always has been in free market situations.

But their was no 'luckily' about Google's entry in to the smartphone OS market. They copied the main themes from the iPhone and enabled manufacturers to produce phones similar to the iPhone, and they did it to get ad impressions through their software.

Apple currently make around 75% of the profit in the mobile space, Samsung 25% and HTC are breaking even — everyone else runs at a loss. Apple's clever move was to avoid joining a race to the bottom, and they won't release products that won't generate them a healthy profit. If only every company realised they need to be in profit to continue innovating, we'd see much better products across all markets. Unfortunately, we continue to see cheap crap.

We'll agree to disagree.

I was just making a point which you obviously have a different viewpoint.

Always remember though Apple wasn't the first company to put a GUI on a PC, which they built their business on. They wasn't the first to make a MP3 player. They wasn't the first to make a smart phone. They wasn't the ones that created the idea of touch screen either. Basically Apple copied what others had already done.
The right and wrongs of how they go about their business is open to debate.

I don't use Micro$oft products at home (at work I have no choice

), and I have never bought and never will buy Apple products either. I have never suffered a virus since 2005 and I don't use a virus checker, and you wouldn't be able to name one thing which can't be done without these companies products.

can one of you techno guys help, i am looking at updating my rather dated mobile, but i am partially sighted, so i need a phone that is clear, and has the ability to increase font size, any ideas?

The iPhone is widely believed to be the most accessible smartphone available. For details of settings for the vision impaired see www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html

The iPhone is widely believed to be the most accessible smartphone available. For details of settings for the vision impaired see www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html

There's some info for Android here with useful links, including Youtube links etc.

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Both Apple and Android will have this covered. If you do opt of Android then try to get one which runs latest Android OS which is 4.0 on the phone before buying - you will get all the latest bells and whistles then.