[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] guthrien:
The real base level fanboy stuff is the only bad thing about this forum. People with weird emotional issues. There's just as many tech hounds on the few Apple forums I've been on. Jailbreakers are probably most talented device hackers out there, it's why they get recruited so often. I wish a few of them were working on this bootloader. If it makes you feel better to think its grandmas buying the iPhone, have at it. By the numbers it's Everyone buying their stuff. Anyway, the smart XDA far outweighs the scared. We all have preferences.

I just switched from iPhone to the S3. So far I feel great about it, and for me it's the better phone. My previous experience has been with tablets where I have to still admit the iPad is better than anything yet released, but getting a flagship Android phone has been a revelation. Both it's capabilities and software really shine on a handset.

-I Really didn't like the screen size of the 4S despite the retina display. Typing, watching media, browsing, etc felt cramped and wasted on that small space. The S3 display is gorgeous with popping color and blacks. It doesn't feel like a step down from the Retina and the negativity I read about pentile screens just hasn't affected me at all coming from what is supposedly the gold standard. It proves that all the BS about the iPhone being somehow perfectly designed for one hand that I've read some bloggers spew is nonsense, especially since they will "innovate" their way into a 4" display on the iPhone 5. This is better.

-No more living in silos. My favorite Android feature is being able to share information from any app to another. Easily sending a file anywhere you want. Txt, downloaded app, anything. It's like taking off handcuffs and I can't believe Mac osx is going in the other direction. Even jailbreaking doesn't solve the problem and not giving more freedom to power users is contemptuous.

-browsers, multitasking, Tasker, Dropbox, keyboards, etc. all these things feel like they're running on a real computer, not gimped shadow versions with built in walls. The AppStore is far better than the Play store and what I miss most, however, the base attributes of the OS are so much more robust that many of the things you might have to accomplish in an app are just natural attributes of the system. I focus more on the things I actually use rather than collecting a lot of beautiful, near useless, little programs. So many writers on the web talk about carrying their main pc with them all the time (their iPhone) but now I truly get something that makes that feel accurate.

- 4G, NFC, open GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, sd card slot, faster yet equal camera, S Voice (severely underrated in my tests especially vs the novelty act Siri), Google Voice, dictation and search. Navigation, programmable LED and vibration and crazy gesture support. If you made the most advanced Swiss Knife phone in the world this would be it. Apple doesn't have the guts to experiment like Samsung has here.

- iOS is boring. The 4S was a safe play. iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 if rumors and betas are accurate are more of the same, polishing a beautiful but very old rock in tech terms. ICS is a breath of fresh air to a new user and Jelly Bean can't get here soon enough. TouchWiz...eh, it's different, it can't really go in the plus column despite becoming a Samsung guy.

-Android is as complex as you want it to be. iOS is as useful as you want to make it. Both systems are far past the point where cliches about who uses what are useful, they sound stupid when people fall back on them here, just like when the tech press does it in their love affair with Apple. Android needs more thoughtful writers and thinkers to speak up so other gadget fiends know what their missing. You can't say Android has no apps (well..on a phone you can't) because I discover gems everyday, there's just not a million places giving them the support a 2nd rate podcast app gets on the iPhone. Btw, Pocket Casts alone is worth switching platforms for.

Ok, enough soapbox. I couldn't be happier with my decision to jump ship so far. I've left the hype train and am trying to get this one rolling.