Tuesday, September 13, 2011

iPhone 5 vs. EVO 4g

I have for the past 4 months gone on about the supremacy of Android over the iPhone. However, as an owner of the Evo 4g from Sprint, I have experienced a few difficulties, which I'm sure all of you have heard (the short battery life, the too-large screen, the uncomfortableness to hold in one hand, etc.). I am not saying that this phone is a bad phone, in fact, the Evo has repeatedly beat phones that try to match up with it in the CNET showdown. Nevertheless, after a year and a half of frustration, I learned that the iPhone is coming to Sprint next month. With this new information, I face a dilemma. I have spent the past few years of my life, telling people and writing here that there is no reason to get an iPhone, or that if one doesn't have one and has a Mac, it isn't necessary to switch. That I believe isn't so true anymore.

Don't mistake this as a sheep kind of thing, that just because it will become available on my carrier, I need an iPhone now. I am simply weighing my options with a new and revamped version of the phone that I have been bashing. (Maybe bashing isn't the right word for it). In any case, I have looked at the new iOS, (don't ask me how), and I have seen advances that I could possibly get behind. However, how does one go about switching?

The question that I have been asking myself is, what if the problems that I find with the force closing and the freezing, is me? What if the problem is me? I have gone through 11 phones in my eight years of cell phone using. And if the problem is me, will a shiny new phone fix all the problems?

The iPhone definitely has something to offer with the new iOS 5, however these are features that Android  has had for a while and if one was to look at this simply, why fix what really isn't broken?

What I'm really asking for is help.