Quote Originally Posted by GLC1968 View Post
As far as iphone vs andriod? My husband and I got our phones about a week apart. He's got the Droid X from Verizon (mine is the iphone 4 from AT&T). He has had to replace his and call for service on his twice in that time. Mine has had ZERO issues.
Don't confuse hardware and software though. I've got an HTC Incredible running Android, and I was really surprised how counterintuitive my neighbor's Motorola Droid X is. She asked me for help setting it up, since I'd had my Android phone for close to a year when she got hers, but I couldn't make heads or tails of hers without RTFM (and I made her do that ). I can't speak to reliability though - she hasn't had any trouble with hers, nor have I, and the last Motorola phone I owned myself was a flip phone probably ten years ago (no problems there either, but not a whole lot to go wrong!).

Honestly, if I were getting a new phone right now, if you live and/or work somewhere that there's 4G service or will be soon, I'd get a 4G phone. We've seen over and over again, first with wired electronics and now with wireless, that data expands to fill the pipe, and I wouldn't tie myself to 3G. If you really have to have an iPhone, wait until the iPhone 5 comes out (whenever that happens to be ... and if it really turns out to be 4G as rumored, and as it obviously needs to be).

Plus, some of the claimed battery life on the 4G phones is pretty spectacular. I don't know whether to believe it or not ... but the Motorola Bionic and the Samsung Charge both claim usage times approaching 11 hours.


DH has an iPhone 3GS. He's plenty happy with it.