I love my iPhone, I HATE apple.

I had a 3G, my first phone to last a full contract in 12 years. It was beaten, abused and teethed on by 2 babies. It survived. I"m a very technical person, and played with lots of other phones... but my iPhone just works. I use it way too much, i'm the guy you see sitting there giggling at his phone while life goes on around me. It's never failed me. And i'm yet to find something i wish my phone did, that others can do. after 3 years my 3G still held a charge for 2 days even with my extensive use, and most BB/Galaxy's can't do that from the start, so a replaceable battery seemed useless to me. The reason i got rid of the 3G? my contract was up and it was my birthday... so... 4G!. my Wife now uses the 3G.

As for dropping and stuff, my 3G had a simple rubber case (not an otter case, i have that on my 4g though). It has dropped from a 2nd story window to a wood deck, fell in the toilet, my toddler's thrown the thing arcoss the room more than once, chewed on by him as a baby, and now his younger brother (there's apps for that... lol). And I've dropped it from sitting an unknown amount of times, I've become a very fidgety person since quitting smoking last year, so it tend to drop things lots while playing with them. No screen protector and only one fine scratch on the screen that you can only see in a reflection while it is a black screen.


And for the otter case, get the otter commuter, it's small. the otter outdoor one is massive. I have the commuter on my 4G and so far like it.

The otter commuter is what I have, very sleak for a case. I like it!

+1, Thats what I have as well, and I love it.

iPhone for new iPhone upgrade is free too. Just pay the 3 year term price and add 1 year to existing term

huh? My wife has an iphone, and on her retail plan, she has to have the phone for 30 months before she can upgrade without any extra charges. This is on Bell. My friend says her's is the same on Telus.
You're adding a year, so upgrading after 2 on existing contract? My option is for any phone, not android specific, if I had an iphone or BB, same thing. We get the annual upgrade as we have a lot of employees.

ya tellus you can do a paid upgrade at any time but it goes like this.

you take the discount you recived so if you got a 599 buck phone for 99 with a 3 year deal and you have 24 months left on the contract you have to pay 333 bucks plus the new 3 year contract price of the new phone.

so this is what it would cost me to upgrade now. after 30 months they wave the upgrade fee. this used to be 24 months for a free upgrade.

its actualy more expensive to upgrade a Iphone as they are 200 bucks more than anything else to start.

Steve

I bought an iPhone on a whim because it felt like a nice product and I didn't have to do any research. Selection paralysis at the vendor had me pretty flustered.

"so what's the difference between the X5r42, the galaxy supernova, the blackberry flamethrowing STRGTX and the 4Gstt from whoever?"

"oh, this one has more ram but that one has a better touch screen, some people like the color options of the Sony Xperia better."

"isn't there one with better ram and touch screen?"

"yup, next month, there's a new phone from company x with all of those features"

"... wtf, why wouldn't they just release one uber phone with ALL the best features and call it a day?"

"these phones are all good."

"... Thanks for answering my question. How many models does the iPhone come in?"

"two"

"what's the diff?"

"one's 8 GB and the other is 16GB"

"do you have either in stock?"

"I only have the 16 GB"

"okay, good, I'll take that"

So yeah, problem solved.

Two blackberries, different models (i forgot what model they were) at my work were dropped accidentally ( not by me), it wasn't even 2 feet either and both won't even turn on after. BB's are as fragile or even more so I would say than Iphones.

HAHAHAHAHA look what i have done, 5 pages later... im sorry for ruining your thread :P

now back to debating..

Well I must add my 2 cent just because I can.

I bought a 3GS about a yr ago, it was great for a few months then.........BAM........SIGNAL LOSS.....DROPPED CALLS......NOT RINGING AT ALL.

Anyways I was really getting sick of this whole situation so I finally decided to get a new phone & when the 4S came out I said what the hell....only because I know an owner of a Telus dealer I went to see him. Well after about an hour later & a few well placed calls by my friend I walked out with not 1 but 2 IPhone 4S for under $150.

So after a about a week now I am very happy with my new phone, no more lost signal, dropped calls or missed calls ( unless I want to miss them ) every other phone that has been in my house drops down to one bar in the basement and shop except mine, full bars and kickin a$$. Best phone I have ever owned, also have an otter box on it as its a necessity.

My first two BB's were a heap of junk, but the 3rd one after getting replaced was dropped about 1-2 times PER DAY... sometimes from 3-4feet. Sometimes just an inch or two. It took a year before I actually cracked the screen. You guys would have been impressed at the scratch/wear marks. The phone still worked after that... but it still had all the problems that occured before I started dropping it. (Im much more careful with my Iphone4... only dropped it once 2 feet so far in 2 months).

I had the iPhone 4 which I got on launch day and after having it for about 15 months I got a text from bell stating I was eligible for an upgrade. Not sure why but I took advantage and got the 4s.

That was a free upgrade, or their pro-rated early upgrade option? If free, wahoo, good mistake on their part. My wife has the 4 and got no such msg :(
I'll add her to my corp plan though, and then she's eligible right away.

I still had to pay the $160 3 year price and sign into a new 3 year plan. But I sold my 4 for 350 so I made money on the deal.

Good deal! My wife is eager to get the 4S (for no real reason other than it's newer and has a S in the name :))

Blackberry is utter crap and if the guy who said that bb hardware was superior could kindly tell my 7 junk bb perals, curves and bolds it would be greatly appreciated. No for real though iv had nothing but problems with BB for years now and will never buy another BB. I'm currently sitting on the fence and despite people claiming androids are better I see absolutely no difference in the two phones. It's apples vs oranges no pun intended

BB for business? iPhone for play? I don't understand that argument.

I've done a tonne of business (running conferences and talking to almost 100 vendors) through my iPhone. No problems, easy to communicated etc.. I have NEVER had a situation where I couldn't do "business" on the phone.

Truth is - people are attached to their phones

BB users (like the BB corporation) is unfortunately "OLD SCHOOL THINKING" and is losing marketshare RAPIDLY!

iPhone and Android phones are #1 & #2 in the world and RIM is falling fast.

Google will NOT buy BB unless there is some intellectual property they want. Not because it is a good brand. They (google) already own Motorola Mobility so they don't need much more. (although every time google sneezes they spit out 10 BB companies in $ value).

I use my iPhone for business and storing music/podcasts. I can edit documents (in a pinch... screen is a bit small... but good for emergencies), read PDFs and do everything I need to do.

for us, it's security. Smart phones don't securely connect to our servers, so policy says nothing but BB. The company pays for the BB, not smart phones, so that's a lot of Blackberries (we have close to half a million employees)

Same here. Only bb can connect to our VPN

Best thing I like about the iphone 4s is the ability to have talk to text.

ya the pearls were a bad phone.. first forage into a consumber based flip phone desgine. girls BBerrys I call them :mrgreen: curves were better but not much, I never had a bold but they had a real good track record.

BBerrys are also the only cell phone that can be used in an oficial capacity by our military.

Steve

I have a blackberry bold 9700 and have no issues with it, i work construction and I have been outside all week in the -10 weather with the phone clipped to my safety vest exposed to the cold for 10+ hours a day No problems with anything.

My BB went down for about a day no big deal since the internet browser still worked so I could check emails that way. I bought it because I want a good quality phone all around not a toy, and the blackberry has the best talk quality out of all the phones. for me its blackberry all the way. Not to say I dont own an Ipod Touch, macbook pro and a spare droid phone I just prefer the blackberry all around.

IPhone 4S w/ 32GB = $749
A Top 10 Ultraportable Gaming Laptop = $750
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817...id=JK4YK8-XCWU

The point is $750 is a lot for a phone albeit a smartphone. Understandably, early adoption of cutting edge technology is always expensive. A lot people told me that they don't know what they would do without thier iphone. I reply that I don't know what I would do WITH an iphone (given that I am not paying more than $20/mo for my mobile plan). :)

no one buys a phone these day without a contract.

Must be some weird thing with your VPN. I don't seem to have trouble with my work or home VPN.

Not m VPN.

Unless something happened to their existing phone and they're already in a contract..like I had to :)

iPhone swam for it
 

Well here goes,was changing my sump out a few weeks ago and had my iPhone 3GS in the front pocket of my hoody, bad idea. Straight to the bottom it went. set skimmer down as quick as I could and retrieved the phone from about 10" of water. Panicking at this point I ran up stairs and turned the hair dryer on cool n low and layed them both on the counter for about 30 minutes or so...believe it or not phone works fine, no way I could go with anything else after that.

:wave:

Right here, and the reason for this is because I have been screwed over so many times with the providers its not even funny. Every provider will tell you straight up they don't support the hardware only the service. So if your phone can still receive the network signal and dial out they don't care. Last time I had a phone act up the guy on the phone told me straight up "Your phone can still send and receive calls sir so we don't care if the touch-pad doesn't work that's not our problem". They suck you in with contracts and extended warranties but when the hardware dies they push you around the ring 100 times before someone finally tells you they will replace the phone for the same price as a new one. I find it easier to just pay the price of the phone outright then if it breaks you at least know your screwed right away rather than having screaming matches over the phone with a provider asking for repairs.

you're one of those people that keeps their phone longer than 1 year then?

i just get a new phone every year and with it comes a 1 year warranty from apple... which replaces the phone if it breaks

Most providers don't allow free upgrades for 30 months, so the average retail customer isn't going to be able to do this..