buy a feature phone. I buy the phone that has the most content and services in the country I live in, and for me that is by far the iPhone. With the iPhone you not only have access to apple services (iTunes being the best for content availability) as well as other companies services such as Amazon and Google. I just think its a no brainier. Yes, people are still leaving contracts to get an iPhone. I don't debate that in the least. And the iPhone is an excellent phone, and probably will continue to be for some time. The iPhone here seemed to peak with the 4 and 4S. It is early days for the iPhone 5 though, so it may not remain that way for long. Currently, I only know one person who has an iPhone 5. I asked about it, and was told it's more of the same. There isn't even anything wrong with that - it's an excellent product. In fact, for this very reason, the alternatives I'm considering for my next phone are the iPhone 5, and the Lumia 820 or 920. With regards to consumer sentiment, I work in a store that sells Apple products as well as competing products, so what I see might be magnified from what others see, or it could simply be a trend of people who dislike Apple, all buying things at the same time (this is why I said I'm considering exiting the Apple ecosystem, and I'm not