I currently have a ZTE Valet from Straight Talk and was using it to help me decide on Android. I was just posting in this area because I had questions mostly about the Nexus 4 and I didn't see a forum for Nexus 5.
I don't really care about my apps because I only have the free versions, my contacts are saved in Google also, I don't care which calendar I use. The only big thing I like from apple is iTunes but as long as I can buy songs with Google Play Music and download them to my laptop I will be fine.
Wow lots of questions. I do like iOS but now after a month of consistent use of iOS 7 I have tired of how it works and looks and now Apple won't let people downgrade to iOS 6 anymore. My biggest reason to get involved with Android is because I want to be able to do more customization. I also enjoy learning new things and trying out different electronics on the market. I never said anything about leaving Apple I just want to use Android also. Currently I have a Mac Book Air, iPod Touch 5g and a ZTE Valet.
Your thoughts and approach to things are much like myself. You can listen and take in a lot of different opinions about different systems to gain a lot of good information, which I do by reading all over the internet. But in the end I've been willing to try different things to find out myself what I think I like.
After using windows computer a call my life I decided to buy a Macbook in 2008 to try out Apple. I used it for 4 years and then handed it over to my oldest son for college who is the big Apple lover in the family. I wanted to try windows 8 so I got a new PC this year. Found out I really like it. I don't see the big hang up many people have voiced about it. In the mean time got my wife an ipad2 when they came out. The first smart phones she and my oldest son got were a 4s and an i5 each. The iPad is OK, lots a great apps, but iOS just doesn't do much for me.
My first smart phone was a palm pre then when WP7 came out I got a Trophy to see what windows phones were all about. I used that for about a year then after reading a lot about android and had this first impressions looking at them in the Verizon store that they were too confusing to use, I figured I'd never know for sure what they were like till I tried it. So bought a VZ GN on eBay that was already rooted and I messed around with that for several months flashing some new ROMs after learning how to do it. I liked being able to change the looks of my phone.
Well then my wife and sob surprised me last Christmas with a new N7. I love the size of it over the iPad and I love vanilla android. I found myself wanting that for my phone and always being able to get the most up to date android os so early this year I got the N4.
With my wife and son having I phones I have them around to mess with to know I will not own one, but I still use iTunes on my windows 8 computer having used iTunes back from my Mac days. I like iTunes still to get my music because you can't beat their library to select from. So I use a Google program on the PC to sync my iTunes library to my Google music cloud and I listen to it on the N4 and N7 along with my subscription to All music.
Since then this year I picked up a used Lumia 920 on eBay so I could try out WP8. I like it. There are things I guess I like both about WP8 and android. Meantime though my wife wants to try out the windows phone so I've set her up on it first just to try out the functions on it via WiFi. I'm on a prepaid service and we're looking to get her and my son off Verizon also, so if she likes the 920 she'll keep that and I'll keep using the N4.
Again though through trying different things, which by the way prepaid service is the way to go if you want to be able to change devices when you want to, I feel I have a good appreciation to what all iOS, WP8 and android have to offer.
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