metllicamilitia
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I love Apple design and build quality. Call me a sheepl, I don't care.
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Agreed, it kills me that my iPhone 5 is scratched and dinged right now.
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I love Apple design and build quality. Call me a sheepl, I don't care.
4 of IV
Agreed, it kills me that my iPhone 5 is scratched and dinged right now.
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After using BlackBerrys for several years and doing battery pulls and tweaking the OS all the time I was excited with how well my iPhone worked and I never had to worry about those crazy battery pulls.
So how do you really feel? :biggrin:Read in it's entirety and you'll get to my point.
So this a tough one for me. Let's put iPhone aside for a second. I've had 14 BlackBerry's from the legacy devices of 7100 - 9930 and then the Z10, Q10, and Z30. For the last 8 years I've carrier 2 phones. One was a BlackBerry on BES from work and the other was another BlackBerry as personal device since there was no iPhone out at the time.
When the original iPhone came out, I rushed out to get it as my new personal device, but even though I lived in a huge city like Philadelphia, I didn't have any service in my house. I'd go out to my car in the morning and like 30 texts and 10 voicemails would come through. So that first experience was pretty poor.
AT&T then came out with their 3G Cell Network Extender so I went back and got the 3GS when it came out and the iPhone now worked great in my house as well as out and about. I loved it and got rid of my personal BBRY.
At the time, BlackBerry remained on course with their legacy devices so I had my work BBRY and my personal iPhone that I jumped to the 4 then 4S then 5.
When BlackBerry 10 came out about a year ago work switched us from our legacy devices to new BlackBerry 10's more specifically the Q10. It's an amazing OS upgrade from original BlackBerry's, and there is no more battery pull. So for about a 6 months I had a work Q10 and iPhone 5.
Then the BlackBerry Z30 came out and I wanted to give it a shot. So I swapped out of my iPhone 5 and got the Z30. It's a beast. I mean, there's nothing you can't do. The UI and HUB are great. It's got a 2880mAh battery that lasts 2 days easy with 200 emails, 300 texts, 150 BBM's. Now with 10.2.1 OS you can download Amazon Store and Snap and download 85% of Android Apps. So I truly believe the Z30 is amazing and battery and apps are no longer an issue.
Here's the deal though, with a battery that size, comes a price. It's got a 5 inch screen and it's still got quite a bit of space around the screen. So the phone was simply just to big for me, especially carrying 2 phones.
Now to present day, I'm back with the iPhone 5s and am still extremely happy with the device. It's nicer looking and more professional looking than my old Z30. My only complaint is as a heavy user I do have to charge during the day, but lucky for me my job entails driving from client to client so it's not really an issue.
I hope you see this as a fair assessment. I think Apple puts out amazing products, but also think BlackBerry is on the right track and deserves mention cause without my Q10 for work I'd be lost.
That said for a personal device, iPhone 5s and whatever comes next is the easy choice.
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My first iphone was the first gen iphone.i came from. Nokia. It was a huge jump! Then i went blackberry.then i went back to iphone.them i moves to the dark side and enjoyed android.started with htc butterfly,then s4, then xperia z ultra then the note 3.my last iphone before all of these android phones was the iphone 5. A month ago,tried the gold 5s and then i realized that ios is way better than i thought it was. I still keep my note 3 coz i like to tinker with the phone but i have since gone full time on ios.i now have the space grey plus the gold.an ipad air.ill get the silver 5s soon amd my ipad mini retina is on its way.
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