Quote Originally Posted by Rowan View Post
I have been an Iphone user for 4 years. It started with a 3gs, then I upgraded straight to a 4s and both were on contract for 2 years each. Next month will mark the end of my 2 year contract with the 4s, and after seeing the new range of iphones, my 4 year run with apple.

Read here for information about Apple's new Iphone 5s and 5c models.

The reason I wont be renewing my contract with apple? Well its basically been the same damn phone over 4 years. Im bored of it. I hate Itunes, yet I perservered because it seemed like it was worth having an Iphone. Little did I realise that I've been missing out on so many standard options when it comes to phone customization, that the Iphone lacks. Like having my own ringtone/message tone, easily dragging across mp3 files straight into the phone and addable card storage. Without sounding like a complete yuppy, I'd like to know which smartphone Is the best option in terms of overall quality. Contract is up next month and I need to renew with something. Ive been looking at the galaxy s4 and the sony xperia.

thoughts?
I've had 3 different version of iphones. Four phones total (one swimming pool regret). They were all excellent phones. Did their job well, etc.

That being said I recently jailbroke my iphone 4s, and it was amazing. It was my first time doing it, so I messed up a bunch of stuff in SSH (nothing terrible, I just wanted to redo it), and I had read of the consequences of restoring (the jailbreak no longer exists). I figured it was worth it one night and did it on a whim (the restore), only to find out that the new patch fixed it and no developers were going to continue with that patch of jailbreak, they were waiting on 1.7.xx or whatever. So now that I've seen the light and what a phone can do unrestricted as far as being an actual USB drive for music and much, much other things, (Picking google maps and chrome as defaults instead of safari, etc, and generally choosing how I want to live my damn life), I will not be getting a new iphone.

I have also been looking at the Galaxy S4. But now I guess I will read these articles on the new iphones to see what I'm "missing out on". =)

edit: lol. Clicked on the video. Thought that was Joe Biden.