Well if you're a person that gets sucked up in hype than you should just chill for a bit and make your decision later. No rush. See what the Nexus 5 turns out to be. The only reason I think anyone would consider an iphone 5s is for ios (if you prefer it) or the camera. Sounds like they just took the best parts of the HTC One's camera but kept the high pixel count. Sounds like a win win. The 5's camera was already really great so if you have to have the best camera on the market, maybe the iphone is the right choice. I could just never deal with that tiny screen. Or those massive bezels. Or ios.
I'll agree with that. The camera will probably be the best on the market for a while.
I don't doubt it will have the fastest CPU on the market, too, but I don't think that's necessarily all that big of a deal. Wasn't the big argument that iOS fans were making up until yesterday that the "user experience" is more important than CPU power and that's why the iPhone 5 was as good, or better than the One or S4? Now Apple is trying to claim that the opposite is true, that you "need" more computing power in your phone. Another thing to consider when looking at the marketing material is why they're comparing the 5S to the original iPhone and not the iPhone 5. Again, I don't doubt that the CPU will be super fast, but when a phone company resorts to selling specs rather than features you have to wonder what the point in better specs really is. Is it something that will give you an advantage or is it just marketing hype to try to sell phones?
The M7 processor is cool, and a very welcome addition to the iPhone, but it's something you can get with Android, along with another processor that handles continuous voice recognition. The most exciting part about it is that it adds more legitimacy to that concept and I think it makes it more likely that more Android phones will have that type of architecture in the future. I'll bet Apple is super bummed that Motorola beat them to that. IMO, it's by far the biggest advancement in smartphone technology of the past few years.
Whether or not the fingerprint scanner is worth it seems highly situational. I don't use a PIN or lock pattern on my phone because I've never had the need, but if you want better security or spend a lot of time typing in your password to buy apps then it's probably a good feature.
The screen size would absolutely be a deal breaker for me. That and the lack of customization options. I like being able to make my own to-do list or custom list of locations I can access or add to how I want (even from other devices) or add custom features that aren't found on other phones. An improved processor (which will undoubtedly be bested before the next iPhone comes out) and better camera just isn't enough to make up for the lost functionality and screen size. I'd rather my phone do more than it do the same things all other phones do, but slightly faster.
If you like using a tablet then I'd keep the iPad either way. It's a pretty commonly held opinion, even by many Android phone users, that the iPad is superior to most all Android tablets. IMO, you have to be willing to put in the work to take advantage of the custom automation and inter device communication you'd get with an Android tablet, and my guess is that anyone considering an iPhone probably isn't interested enough to do that. There's nothing wrong with either approach, it's just that you have to give up quite a bit to get those relatively specialized features.
I suppose the point of this thread isn't to convince you to switch to Android. It's been pretty obvious from most other threads that you'd rather stay with iOS. You don't need our blessing, buy whichever phone you want.
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