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Originally Posted by bossy22
I'm in this boat now. I'm in need of a new phone. I'm on a 3gs currently. Screen is cracked, but phone is still very usable. My contract is ending. I plan on purchasing an unlocked phone because I hate contracts and I use my phone in the US. The roaming costs me a fortune. I do have a pay as you go phone from Verizon, but that's for the kids. I'd prefer to just swap sim cards. Also, I don't plan to get a dataplan. I work from home and can use wifi if I choose to surf on a phone
I use my phone for:
- talking
- texting
- gps apps for running
- music
- taking pictures (My wife has a good slr. This is for the spur of the moment things, like when my kid is doing something goofy or like today at Safeway when we went outside and saw a firetruck. My kid loves firetrucks, so we stopped to look at it. The driver got out to say "Hi", and he put a fire hat on my kid and let him sit in the front seat. Awesome, and worth a picture)
- if I'm in a wifi zone, like at my cabin, starbucks, etc, I will check email, facebook, and twitter
so I'm choosing between the s3 and iphone 5. I try to read these forums and they're ridiculous with all of the fighting in the sandbox about who's toy is better than the other's.
Can anyone recommend any good non-biased reading regarding these two phones?
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honestly from your needs, the only real difference between the two phones (right now) is GPS. i'm sure you've heard the mess Apple got themselves into with their homebrewed maps app, and Google maps hasn't made it into the app store yet (with no real word on when/if it will be there). beyond that, it depends on how invested you are in the Apple world. do you have a lot of purchased apps on your 3GS? do you have any other Apple products that you interface with your phone? if no, then i'd say get the S3 simply because it's cheaper with upgradeable storage and a removable battery (handy to have a spare if you travel a lot)