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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
My parents never read anything about the phones that they buy. They have a shop that they like, and they have loyalty points from Vodafone that they can use to get a discount on phones. They decide on which phones they buy in the shop.
I know. I got the impression that this was the case from the fact that she replied with 'no' when I asked if she read the amount of memory on the box.
It is absolutely fine if someone is primarily interested in other features.
Here's the thing: her husband had this phone for 6 months when she bought her own. She would have been familiar with its performance to some extent. Either the memory was an issue or it wasn't. If it was an issue, then I don't understand why she got it, when there are new phone models being introduced all the time. If it wasn't an issue when she got it, when did it become one?
Also: looking at it I see that the Epic 4G was released September 2010. She got it 6 months later and had it for 18 months, which brings us to September 2012 and it means that she had her iPhone for 7 months.
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I'll just jump in here.
I work in the automotive industry and "flagship" cars are the vehicles that bring people to the dealerships, even if people don't necessarily by that model. Think Corvette or the new Camaro, Challenger, etc. They are not necessarily what gets bought, but it brings people in and hopefully they leave with *something.*
I was not trying to say that the Epic 4G was the best phone ever; I was trying to say that it was what Sprint put out as the best example of their then current offerings, rather than having to put in a long explanation as to why I thought that was *my* best choice. I tend to get long winded and that was an effort to abridge my post.
When I bought the Epic 4G, I compared all of their Android phones across the board and it had more of everything (with the exception of the HTC Evo, which had comparable specs). I couldn't now tell you whether or not I *specifically* compared memory. Since I had never run into memory issues before, available memory was not as big of a concern to me as what the phone and UI felt like in my hand, the version of the OS running, and whether it would receive support and updates.
Yes, I was familiar with the performance of my husband's phone, which is why I went with the same phone. (And I was very happy it it for almost the entire time I had it.) It wasn't until the much later that the memory limitations became an issue. By the time we were ready to upgrade, both phones were constantly performing random uninitiated reboots as well, but for me, the memory issue had become a bigger deal (not so much for him.) Also by then, Samsung had released the Epic Touch and the Galaxy SII and there were no more updates coming to the Epic 4G.
Yes, I have no intention of leaving Sprint. It's just a phone. AT&T has poor coverage in my area and Verizon costs significantly more without any better coverage or performance. I also have a really good local Sprint store with fantastic customer service (in store). This is one of those areas where service trumps product in *my* decision making.
I stopped following Android iOS updates when I knew my Epic wouldn't go past Gingerbread, but it seems to me that with Honeycomb / Ice Cream Sandwich, Android has stabilized enough that if I had bought an S3, I would still have a usable phone even with the S4 so close. But seeing now the size of the S3, I speculate that had I compared them in the store (the S3 was not out when I bought my iPhone) I probably still would have gone with Apple -- *this* time.
Samsung continues to be my brand of choice, even though, based on my limited experiences, I seem to be not fond of the Android OS itself. You could say that if I had been following the tech blogs, I would have known that at that time Android was young and not fully realized. I took what I thought was the best of the initial options I had and although it has worked for others, it didn't work for me.