[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] dodgebizkit:
I think it's stupid how people insult people for their choice of phone, you people referring to isheep don't look cool you look ridiculous.

I started off on ios after the terrible n95-8gb broke my brand loyalty to Nokia by sucking hard. At the time the 3gs was far superior to any android phone in terms of quality and user experience:android felt like a beta and if you weren't a hacker or a tinkerer even the top Android phones like the evo with wimax were just frustrating to use.

when the iphone 4 came out I was tempted by it but moved to wp7 which started off pretty bad until the mango update made the phone amazing and in my opinion the best phone userwise (though hardware was lax) on the market.

The first phones to tempt me to android were the s2 variants but pre ics they still felt buggy and unpolished.

there was no sign of wp8 and didn't want to use my upgrade on another wp7 phone that wouldn't get the full wp8 upgrade so I stupidly (on reflection) went for the iphone 4s.

at that point the s3 was released and watching YouTube, this was the first time an android product looked really desirable to me. I really wanted to try it. The hardware was beautiful, the software ran like liquid silk (even before project butter) and the screen was immense.

after trying it out in stores I knew I had to have one, and bought it sim free.

I have never looked back. The s3 us wonderful, the fastest, most stable (since 4. 1. 2 at least) and smoothest phone I've ever used, with so much inbuilt funtionality plus so much more just with a keyboard change, new launcher and a few widgets.

even with so much syncing, so many apis running, so many widgets on the home screen, this phone runs not only as smooth as the 4s and I pad 3, but actually FASTER, SMOOTHER and unlike the ios products, lag free and virtually force close free [outside of dev errors that get fixed], when a year ago no one would have ever have predicted that an android phone could win in those areas.

I realise that there is now better hardware on the market but I am yet to feel that attraction with a nexus or any other android phone as I do with this, the enhancements that Sammy made on it are incredible.

the iphone gets used as a work phone and music player, not a bad phone at all, runs apps just fine and the daytime camera is better [though in the dark or with flash, s3 is superior) and I can't hate on it at all, I just wish that apple innovate the software a bit more. Its a decent phone its just not exciting or as functional.

the ipad does well as an internet search and facebook & twitter device or movie player for the bigger and amazing screen but in a way I wish I'd opted for an android one now or waited for the surface.

any way, in conclusion, yes Samsung had turned me into a fanboy just not a blind one. Thanks to Samsung I went from despising the android experience to loving it even more than windows phone.

It also let me see the flaws in ios which is a great beginner it granny/simple phone but doesn't cut the mustard for a poet user or geek like us :p

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