Wow, step away for a few days a miss a lot.
First of all, thank you to syspry and Almeuit for giving me a fair shake. While I do think that the conspiracy theorists are being quite paranoid, I can't say it's without reason, because there are a lot of trolls who come to the both Android Central and iMore to do exactly what I'm being accused of. However, I have more than a few posts, and I'd ask you to look at my track record before leveling such an accusation. I couldn't care less what phone someone else buys, but I do care if they want an honest opinion and I can help them with that. So as far as not giving the Note a fair chance, I'd have to strongly disagree. I think I was extremely fair and balanced in my opinions of both phones and my opinion extended to my personal experience only.
I feel like I've explained it as well as I possibly could, at which point I stopped trying because I kept getting the same questions/comments over and over (and mind you, I posted the on AC and iMore, so I was trying to keep up with both threads simultaneously and keep all the comments straight), so I get why you think I just kind of threw my hands up; but I'll give it one more go. Fact is, I have a network extender because the signal in my home is atrocious. As I said, the Note does in fact pull a stronger signal than the iPhone, which is what a couple of you keep saying, but if you would've read the problem then you'd know that the signal strength, even being slightly better, is not a fix (though if it were significantly better then it might be a different story). I need to be able to force my Note on to the network extender, but because you cannot turn off 4G, that's impossible. This is why I was forced to go to the iPhone. It was for NO other reason other than the fact that the iPhone has a setting that allows me to force it on to the network extender 100% of time. As I stated before, if this had been an option on the Note, I would've never even considered the iPhone 6S. I loved my Note 5 and I wanted to keep it. The S-Pen was an incredible tool and I miss it everyday. Unfortunately, though, I can't have a full-time phone that breaks up and drops calls the way the Note did, especially considering that I have a lot of medical problems. The final straw, as I posted, was when I was trying to talk to my surgeon about what to do for a problem that I was having and I had to call back time after time because the call kept getting dropped (and as you know if you're familiar with the medical field, a different person often answers the phone each time and I had to try to retell the whole story in between breaking up to try to get back on the line with the surgeon). As you can imagine, it was incredibly frustrating.
So honestly, I don't know how to make it any clearer than that, so if you want to nit-pick and fight, I'm not interested. I gave an honest account of my experience and some people found it useful, others called my integrity into question because the nature of the forums has conditioned them to be paranoid. Again, I understand why that's happened, but you have to look at it on a case-by-case basis and give each person a fair shot, especially when that person has been around for years with no history of trolling or baiting. Not to mention, I can't understand the desire to troll the forums of a phone that I absolutely loved.
I'd also like to again thank syspry and Almeuit for their fair assessments and for not jumping to conclusions.