Convince Cain to buy your favoured smartphone - the thread!

[Cain]

OK, in the market for one, am kind of considering either the iPhone 4S or Samsung Galaxy S II, but I want wild, over the top and crazed arguments on the merits of iPhones versus Android versus Windows phones versus whatever

[bds]

SIRI WILL CARESS YOUR BALLS, IF YOU ASK HER NICELY ENOUGH. ALTHOUGH YOU'RE IN THE UK SO IT'LL BE A DUDE HOPE THAT'S OK

[Scribbly]

I got a Galaxy S II last weekend.

It is a little known fact, but in order to keep costs down, the new iPhone 4S is being constructed largely from the parts of rendered down chinese workers and iPhone cultists who died during the mass outpouring of grief following Steve Job's death.

Also the Galaxy S II is available on one of the cheaper contracts at Orange at the moment (£26/month, unlimited texts, 200 minutes of calls and a decent download limit; 750 mb IIRC). Whereas in order to pay for an iPhone it is necessary to put up your firstborn and at least two organs (depending on your health) as collateral. That seemed mildly excessive to me.

[bds]

I got a Galaxy S II last weekend.

It is a little known fact, but in order to keep costs down, the new iPhone 4S is being constructed largely from the parts of rendered down chinese workers and iPhone cultists who died during the mass outpouring of grief following Steve Job's death.

Also the Galaxy S II is available on one of the cheaper contracts at Orange at the moment (£26/month, unlimited texts, 200 minutes of calls and a decent download limit; 750 mb IIRC). Whereas in order to pay for an iPhone it is necessary to put up your firstborn and at least two organs (depending on your health) as collateral. That seemed mildly excessive to me.

The Apple Corporation can neither confirm nor deny the rumours that the A5 processor is, in fact made of approximately 8.7% human body parts.

[LMNO]

THE LOGO FOR THE IPHONE IS AN APPLE.

THE LOGO FOR THE ANDROID IS A ROBOT.

ROBOTS ARE EVIL.

THE CHOICE IS CLEAR.

[bds]

IF YOU BUY AN IPHONE, YOU CAN GET HOPELESSLY ADDICTED TO A WHOLE BUNCH OF GAMES LIKE TEMPLE RUN, JETPACK JOYRIDE, MANY BRICKS BREAKER, ANGRY BIRDS, PLANTS V. ZOMBIES.

[LMNO]

If you get an iPhone, I will send you my "Get In The Back Of The Van" ringtone*.








*I currently use this as Roger's ringtone, to prep me for what I'm about to experience when he calls.

[AFK]

I don't imagine there are any pay-as-you-go options for iPhones or Androids? 

I kind of have to have a cell phone for work/family reasons but I don't really use it all that much.  But if they had some kind of Net10, Tracfone-like option for one of those phones, I might plunk down some cash to get one.  It would be handy to have one of those deals to check work-emails when I'm out of the office.  But I can't justify buying one with my grant money. 

[Cain]

If you get an iPhone, I will send you my "Get In The Back Of The Van" ringtone*.








*I currently use this as Roger's ringtone, to prep me for what I'm about to experience when he calls.

So far, this is the best argument I have been given.

I don't imagine there are any pay-as-you-go options for iPhones or Androids? 

I kind of have to have a cell phone for work/family reasons but I don't really use it all that much.  But if they had some kind of Net10, Tracfone-like option for one of those phones, I might plunk down some cash to get one.  It would be handy to have one of those deals to check work-emails when I'm out of the office.  But I can't justify buying one with my grant money. 

I have seen pay-as-you-go varieties, and I can't imagine they'd only do them in the UK.  It's worth looking, certainly.

[Doktor Howl]

If you get an iPhone, I will send you my "Get In The Back Of The Van" ringtone*.








*I currently use this as Roger's ringtone, to prep me for what I'm about to experience when he calls.

It's how he knows not to answer.  So I leave horrible filth in his VM.

[LMNO]

As an added bonus, Mrs LMNO is always startled when my phone starts screaming.

[Triple Zero]

I don't have a smartphone, but if I would get one, I'd get something that runs Android*. That way I can root it and install CyanogenMod on it. CyanogenMod is the name for the open source version of Android OS. (re-install the Google Gadgets because they're useful but CyanogenMod isn't allowed to package them due to licensing restrictions etc)

That way you'll get full control over the machine you're buying. It's a tiny computer**, with location awareness, Internet access, and a great deal of your personal life is going to run through it, so that's kinda important.

Not having a smartphone, that's about all I know, in the sense that installing CyanogenMod is the first step of turning down the privacy violations to a level that somewhat agrees with common sense.

It has other advantages though, most people that are a bit serious about toying with their smartphone switch to CyanogenMod at some point, it seems.

The problem with an iPhone is that it'll simply just urinate your private info all over the place by default, and you can probably configurate it a lot so that it doesn't, but from what I hear it seems to be a lot like Facebook, plug one privacy hole, and some time later you'll hear about the next one and you opt out immediately, but your data has been out on the streets until you knew about it. It's like a retarded puppy that won't become housebroken.

Like apps uploading your addressbook, without consent (except small print in the privacy statement), to their server, in order so that you can "connect" with your "friends", aka the server will figure out who of your friends is also using the service. Very nice, but in the mean time they're storing your phone numbers. Also opens you up to "why has my ex me still listed" drama

Or maybe I'm just being paranoid, but you know my principles on the matter

I can say this about the iPhone: it's real easy to use, it looks pretty, you can wear it as a status symbol if you like, a lot of it "just works"

Android phones are also better at connecting with PCs, I believe. Because iPhones like connecting with Macs more of course. And Android devices often have more standard connector plugs (micro-USB, micro-SD). And I found out that iPhones don't really support BlueTooth very well, they just register as an audio player device, but you can't transfer files, or use them as a peripheral, a modem or Internet connection

(say you got Internet on the phone, your laptop should be able to connect through that via BlueTooth--in emergency situations, it's like that survival trick with obtaining drinking water with a plastic sheet except digital and an iPhone would be like a plastic sheet but when you try it you find that it's actually a long thin plastic strip and that just doesn't work at all and before you know it you're drinking your own urine just like Steve Jobs trying to alternatively cure his pancreatic cancer and look where that got him)


*which exact model is another question--I don't know, one of my friends, a gadget freak, really insisted on having one that has one of those qwerty keyboards if you slide them open, because typing on a touchscreen is super annoying (i agree) but if you don't care much for that, well I really don't know

**roughly as powerful as the average desktop PC 8 years ago, but with much better Internet connection

[Doktor Howl]

As an added bonus, Mrs LMNO is always startled when my phone starts screaming.

Tell her it's a pick up line.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

OK, in the market for one, am kind of considering either the iPhone 4S or Samsung Galaxy S II, but I want wild, over the top and crazed arguments on the merits of iPhones versus Android versus Windows phones versus whatever

The iPhone has an AWESOME camera. Seriously, the newer iPhone cameras are fucking ridiculous. They use a really high-quality lens that really make carrying a separate point & shoot camera totally unnecessary.

[moose]

Agreed on the iPhone camera. I needed some essays from a textbook I hadn't got yet, so I just borrowed somebody else's for 5 seconds, took pics of the pages, went home and printed them, totally legible. Battery life is something I'd like to see improved. It that seems to be an issue with all the smartphones.