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Love this new phone

I'm rocking mah BB zee ten with love PMD!  Wife has the S5 - beauty phone no doubt.  Still prefer my BB though. ;)
 
I fully agree that Samsung puts out the finest phones. I have for the first time, had a phone with virtually zero issues. I have the note 2, soon to be the note 4 but Samsung through and through.
Motorola phones suck
 
I got an S5 aswell. Don't regret spending the big money on it for a second. Awesome battery life, great for games, big enough to essentially negate the need for a tablet yet still fits in your pocket. Basically a laptop in your pocket. My favourite thing to do with it is track aircraft on it real time with Flightradar24 and Flightaware. Mad fun.
 
Had my first experience with iPhone the other day... tried setting it up for my mum and just about smashed the thing at the ground..... everything that was so simple and straightforward to setup on Android was an absolutely convoluted nightmare on that bloody thing. Never been asked for a password, pin, email or ID so many times in my freaking life (and then being told "your password/pin/session has timed out so must resend, login to your email and re-activate multiple times blah blah friggin blah), even if I wanted to connect the bluetooth to the car or play a game. FFS  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  Like the other day, I tried connecting my mums iPhone to her car bluetooth, and it asks me for a damn pin. How the fcuk am I supposed to know what the pin is or where to get it from? My S5 on the otherhand took all of 5 seconds to connect to the car bluetooth and worked like a charm. 
 
Needless to say, I now hate iPhone like hell. 
 
Yeah that's the iOS.  It gives you more control over what applications are doing and what they have access to but it's basically the same as doing everything manually.  For example, people were having a stink over the new Android Facebook messenger app because of how many things it requests access to on your phone (contacts list, gallery, location service, camera, email, etc.) but the truth is that it asks for any permissions all at once when you first install it so you don't have to worry about it afterwards.  iOS users have to give it permission each time they want to use it for something...basically asks permission for each instance.  Sure you may not be using your S5 for skyping but if you decide that you do want to you won't have the FB app asking for permission every time you do it.
 
Does that make sense?
 
I don't like apple products at all, but that's a different story as I'm talking about industry standards.  Microsoft is becoming just as bad.  Remember how customizable Windows 95 was?  Now you can't even really run DOS without jumping through a bunch of backdoors, Windows is too afraid of people altering their OS...basically they're inconveniencing their customers in order to protect their programming rather than allowing it to be altered to match what the customer needs to use it for.  Changing programming is typically all open source and they have no control over it, so they put in layers upon layers to make it more difficult to do that.  It's why a lot of people are switching to using Linux.
 
I have a S5 and work with a iPhone 4S which is quite a off comparison.. but had a samsung G600 and S2 before. For personal use I would never get an iPhone as it has a poor compatibility with other systems (apple goes on apple).. Samsung and iPhone are both to expensive imho, but with Samsung you still get a ton more for your money's worth. I also love the camera on the Samsungs.
 
 
And I do have to say that I have to pity the people that sleep in front of apple stores just to get notified that they have sold out.. Just wait a few weeks and get it.
 
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