[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
Okay, I'm too lazy to read five pages of comments before staying my opinion and experience.

I started using Android since the Samsung moment times.

In October of this year, I bought a 64GB 4s. I did my homework about the pros and cons of the iPhone, so I had an idea of what to expect. The phone was okay but I needed time, like I did when I got a MacBook, to get used to how to do things and navigate and learn the new os. I bought a speck candyshell, otterbox defender and moxie juice pack pro cases. I ended up using the moxie. To those who don't know what that is, its a split slide on case that has a 2000ma battery in the back of the case, molded inside the case plastic and uses micro USB to charge and transfer data. Instead of replacing a phone's battery, it was used as a secondary battery. I would run it in the mode that would trickle top off charge the phone battery all day until the case battery went dead, then at that point, the phone battery would take over. Runtimes between charges were NOT an issue. I could go off the charger at 8am and wouldn't kill the case battery until 3-8pm depending on how heavy I used the phone. I use the phone a lot, so i'm not an average user. The phone would never go dead, even if I didn't go to bed until 3am sometimes. I did not have the 4s battery issue btw, even without the second battery. I tried to tell other iPhone users the awesomeness of the ability to go all day long, no matter how much you used the phone, and you wouldn't ever need to charge it until you went to bed. I don't know what their deal was but I guess they like charging the phone every few hours or think spending $100 is too much for a case and awesome battery life. Whatever.

Then fast forward to December. I was getting tired of the quirks of the 4s and the iPhone experience. I was tired of the eyestrain from the small screen and needing to zoom into webpages to read the text. Yes I know that you can increase font sizes but many times that messes up the layout of the page and sometimes words are on top of each other. The screen was beautiful but too small. The external speaker was loud, clear and had good fidelity for what it was and sounded better than any Android phone's speaker I've ever heard. I got tired of apple's heavy censorship of apps. Yes, the app store has more apps than the market does, but I seriously don't think the quality was there. Here's where I really started to get pissed off. The app store does not give refunds. If you buy something, you're stuck with it. The apps tend to be more expensive on average when compared to the market. The app store is a money making machine. I spent so goddamned much money on apps, that turned out to not be what I was looking for, was crap, or didn't work that I said that was the last straw! There aren't many apps or games in the app store that have a free/donate/trial version besides the paid version. Right there that was a huge waste of my money! The app developers there weren't as friendly or responsive as they are in the Android world. Out of all the emails I sent to the devs with questions, comments and issues, I only received two replies. That's bull**** to feel like you're being ignored! Also, I knew from my time with Android, that many of the popular apps and games that you had to buy with apple, were free on Android. To add insult to injury, some apps and games STILL had ads, even in the paid versions! The majority of **** in the app store is pay for. In the market, I had the feeling like there were way more things for free. I know devs don't and shouldn't work for free, that's not a problem with me. If you're going to sell an app, could you at least have a free and limited or trial program to help the prospective customer decide if that's what they want to buy ESPECIALLY since there's no refunds there!? I got tired I'd having to rely on iTunes so much to do anything with the phone. The hoops you have to jump through just to make a custom ringtone and making it available to the phone to use, don't get me started.

This rant is longer than I intended it to be. My credit card has calmed down much more since I went back to Android. About the no flash issue with ios, I didn't feel like the Web browsing experience suffered much with that. In fact, with online video, I noticed the ability to play more videos natively to be quite impressive, especially since the websites you'd think you'd have a problem with flash, it would stream mp4 instead. I could go on but I need to hit the submit button!