So I am happy with my tbolt I'm rooted and loving it but I justt want to try an iPhone everyone that I know that has one seems so happy should I jump ship or stick around with the android comunity that i know and love?
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I realize that it's hard to compare Apple and Android without starting a religious skirmish, but here goes anyway. First, I don't think one is inherently better than the other, it's what you want to do with it that counts.
The big iPhone plusses have to do with simplicity and consistency. Apps have to go through a vetting process and (in general) have to at least have a similar look-and-feel to the base iOS user interface. Nothing is allowed to change the base user interface. There is a small set of fixed resolutions that developers have to develop for. Only one company compiles iOS for use in their hardware, and that is Apple. The user interface will always be the same, so you can walk up to any iPhone and in about .00001 seconds be utterly confident using it if you've ever used any iOS device before. Music, once you've loaded it into iTunes, is a brain-dead cinch to load to your iPhone. All of this can be done with almost no knowledge of computers at all.
The big Android plusses have to do with configurability, flexibility, and hardware specs. Since many vendors have access to Android, they can pair it with different hardware choices (not just "do you want 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB", but different choices in screen sizes, different cameras, different form factors, physical keyboards, processors, etc etc). The upside to this is you have a really good chance of finding a phone that meets your individual needs, rather than choosing from a single model of phone with the only variable being how much memory is soldered on.
This array of choice in a competitive marketplace means choosing the right Android is a little more work. Hardware vendors may load their own user interfaces which may or may not resemble other vendors' solutions. Hardware vendors might cheap out and not put enough memory, or install features they don't fully support or support many months after release in software updates (*ahem* front facing camera *ahem*).
Apple spends a great deal of time designing a consistent, predictable, specific look and feel to iOS with a highly consistent set of features. They insist that no one can change that look and feel. And if that look and feel are acceptable to you and the built-in features are OK, then an iPhone is an excellent choice. I can take the lessons learned in my iPod Touch Generation 2 and almost every base feature that existed in that works the same way in the iPhone 4S, and will probably work "close enough" in the iPhone 9Q that I can just walk up to it and figure it out in a few seconds.
With Android, you can go nuts loading new launchers, new dialers, hell even a new operating system on most (not all!) models. You can customize the phone to your heart's content. But if you get a new one made by a new manufacturer or even one loaded with a custom launcher, you might find there's a learning curve, because your deep knowledge of Sense UI might not apply to something running Go Launcher or Blur or whatever.
Personally, I like the freedom of choosing hardware specs (iPhone screen is too small to support a screen-based keyboard for my large hands), the freedom to change the UI (trying out different keyboards to see what I like, playing with different launchers), and not needing to have iTunes (no Windows or Mac machine to run it on anyway). I don't need to install anything on any computer to use my phone.
With that, I accept that loading music to my Android is a little more work (nothing "manages" it for me, I use a file manager and mass storage support to drag-and-drop what I want on there). I accept that the OS might have rough edges like needing to know I need to create a folder called "ringtones" to use my own MP3s as ringtones. I accept that my phone is not automatically and completely backed up every time I plug it into my home computer.
These are costs I gladly pay for a phone that I have more control over.
They may not be costs you want to pay.
Go to the store, take a demonstration iPhone off the shelf, and play with it. Spend some time with it. Make a few calls. Send a few texts to your current phone. Type the opening paragraph to your new novel. Videoconference. Ask yourself if this phone, as it stands, is something you want to spend some time using. Ask yourself if you have a machine that can run iTunes and if you really want to have to install it, with the benefit being that app and music management gets a lot easier in return.
But besides everything just working, I also have the latest Flash technology (great for the plethora of websites that use Flash LOGIN SCREENS now) and the latest 4G technology (great for those emails with attachments and downloading PDFs that you need, etc.). Love Blockbuster and Netflix and NFL Mobile on the big 4.3" screen. And, without "buffering", due to the 4G network. It sure is nice using the FREE turn by turn speaking navigation provided by Google. It's good that Wifi is not required for video chat.
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