I happen to be a phone tester for a wireless carrier. I have been an IPhone users myself for the past several years, starting with the 2g only phone. I have tested several dozen different phones, even when the first Windows Mobile Phone came out (and boy was that ever a terrible series of phones) and lately I have been testing some very cool Android phones that are coming for Christmas.

Most of my peers and friends use and love the IPhone. I happen to really like the phone as well. It is rock solid, very rare that I have to reboot the device (maybe every 2-3 months just to rule out an issue) a I leave it on all the time and most importantly the apps are very well built and complete. I can't say that about the Android market. Yea, I might be the exception as I need specific apps to work in an enterprise environment, but my point is that they work and are not half **** built like I am finding in the case of the Android market. The bad about the IPhone? Well the battery life does suck, but I fixed that with a Mophie case with battery built in. Makes the phone bigger, but I like that! I can't stand the IPhone naked. I slips out of my hand without it being in the case. I don't get all of you people out there that want smaller phones. That's just stupid! Smaller = less battery performance and less space for antenna efficiency. Remember how well the old Motorola Brick phone worked? Why you might wonder? It had a real antenna! Yes, a 1/2 wave dipole, not some coiled piece of wire shoved somewhere in the phone where most of your face, hands or mouth is already attenuating the signal. And to think you people with the drop call complaints! You just don't get it. I say bring back the brick! LOL Yea, that will never happen. The smaller phones have forced the carriers to make up for the huge RF performance losses by building more towers to compensate for the pathetic effective radiated power your little phones that could have been bought in a bubble gum machine as far as I am concerned.

Ok, enough of that rant! but it felt good cause most of you never knew that fact, and now you do.

Back to the subject of IPhone.. I do have some friends that have been pushing me big time to make the switch to Android, but I keep telling them that Android is just not there yet. But the latest device (sorry can't tell you anything about it as I am under an NDA) is likely going to be the game changer for me. I still say the IPhone is still the leader in stability, and the apps are the best, but the gap is getting closer and even though I will be missing some of the apps I need that work 100% on the iPhone, and maybe 50% on android, the screen, the features, and well let’s just say the cleaver new ideas I have seen in this new phone I am testing is causing me to perhaps rethink the possibility of moving to Android. Sure, it still has lots of bugs, and I find myself rebooting at least once a day, but I am certain as the bugs get worked out it will be one of the finest phones. I will likely have to carry both the IPhone and this android phone around for a while until some of the necessary apps I need to function on the Android gets worked out, but the point is that the gap is getting closer and I believe that more people are likely to jump over eventually.

Finally, I believe that there are two kinds of users out there. One that want stability and functionality with ease (business minded type) that lean towards the IPhone and those that are just looking for a phone with cool features, one that you can play, hack, do all kinds of things, not concerned about stability and patiently waiting for refinements to be made to the android. I am both which makes it difficult for me to jump so quickly.

I also think it's rather telling of a community who don't just ignore, but down-vote an innocent comment like "Love Apple products". Tells of the balance of haters to fanboys on here; me, I like Apple products, I like Microsoft products, hell, I even like Samsung products (I own an S3 and 46" TV). But to have two thirds of people voting on it to down-vote such an innocent comment like that? Well, the community that hangs around this forum has pretty much lost all objective respect.

btw, I don't hang around these forums; I just by happenstance discovered this page, and gave in to the urge to respond to a few ignorant trolls.