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@General Lighting 976584 wrote:

I use Windows and even various old Nokias (I once had to explain to the station manager at the community radio that I am not a drug dealer – I am just a telecoms engineer so use these for network tests and other experiments).

I have experimented with using (cheap) Android devices but found one to be horribly lagged and near useless when trying to use it as a telephone (like us old people do) and actually managed to trash another supposedly “indestructible” one. Maybe the one like Tryptameanie has is way better but most likely costs a lot more….

for all Microsofts faults these things do usually work for phone calls quite well; the RF section (rather important for a radiotelephone) is way better than any Android I’ve encountered (consider that it has to deal with signals at 5 different frequency bands when you include WLAN and GPS) and they seem to do “Europe” a lot better when it comes to using different languages to send/receive emails/texts.

I don’t play games on the things; the main apps I use are GPS ones for cycling and radio signal tracking. I do like the built in cameras with Nokia Camera installed as you can set it to shoot video at 25fps which is what we use in Europe rather than 30fps so I don’t have to resample all my mobile device footage when I want to edit it alongside any other stuff from camcorders etc…

I have to agree on the point that Android is definitely not a seamless interface at all, period. iOS is much more fluid and so is WP but on the downside of that, you end up sacrificing specs and apps etc. What I hate is that Android devices do not keep their value – once you buy it and walk out of the door with it, it’s at least half of what it was worth when you bought it 4 minutes ago. Apple’s devices tend to hold their value more often because they only release one of each device per year. This also proves to be a great marketing tactic and it works for them. Every phone they release is a flagship, minus the 5C and soon to be 6C which I would just consider to be more affordable options. Affordability is a non factor though because everyone needs a cell phone nowadays so if you can’t afford the $900 iPhone 6 Plus, then the 6C is a great option especially when you have a wide variety of colors and also memory variants.

Android flagships are released all the time because there are dozens of companies that offer that OS on their devices. If you singled out LG, then yes they would have one major flagship device a year but then they have like 5 off shoots that are more affordable. Same goes with Motorola and Samsung and everything else Android. The problem with flagship devices is that for the most part, as I’ve experienced, they fly off the shelves faster than the bugs in the software can be fixed. When I worked at TM, the first week we sold the Note 5, I remember shipping at least 10 right back to the warehouse for software glitches, app crashes, the devices rebooting all by themselves…these bugs and issues need to be looked at before they are sent to the public.

Apple has the best strategy because they give themselves an entire year to work through all of issues while Google focuses on maybe 5 flagships/year for all of 5 minutes before coming up with a billion other ideas for affordable options that are off shoots of those flagships. Just my opinion but I think that if Google changed their strategy to be more like Apple’s and release a flagship say for the LG G5 and wait for 5 months, THEN consider releasing a mini version or whatever, they would be even more successful than they already are.