Nowadays there are a lot of mobile phones to choose from and this led to a lot of people arguing about which phone is the best. The answer? All of them of course! There will always be an opinion against other phones and that's good, it keeps competition steady for the manufacturers and drives them to improve their own products which in turn benefits us (the consumers). But the true question is what is the IDEAL phone?
Recently the competition between phone specs are focused on size, screen size to be specific. There has been a trend on mobile phone since they first appeared a decade ago. First they were very large, then they became handy (by handy I mean fits perfectly in the hand) then they became really small, almost toy-ish, then they were given life by the Transformer Cube (Form Factor Phones), then they went back to being handy but this time the screen grew little by little until finally they ditched the physical keyboard and just made phones with the whole face a screen like the ones we have today. The form of the phone changed because of how we use them, before it was only for calls, then texts, then email, then web browsing, then media hub until finally it became a portable computer. But to determine which phone is really the best is to check if it delivers the basic necessities at 100% performance and that's where the iPhone comes in. Okay maybe you really didn't expect this to be an iPhone Fan Post but I've been pondering for a while now which phone should I really stick with (at least for the next few years) and all my thinking led me to the conclusion that the iPhone should be that and here's why.
Before everything else I'll just share my opinion on the Samsung vs. Apple trend. I don't think its a real fight at all. Samsung's recently announced Galaxy S4 Smartphone packs a lot of features (It really is a lot!) but almost everyone around the web didn't get wowed by it, why? Because almost everyone around the web cannot think of a situation in their life where they will use these new features more than once! (or at all for that matter). I think that the best devices to compare the Galaxy S4 is the iPod Touch or iPad Mini, because they have the same focus "Content", the iPhone on the other hand focuses on "Communication", same reason why it has recently entered the enterprise market. What people need is to get in touch with each other not isolate themselves and iPhone helps us do just that.
So going back to why the iPhone is the ideal phone. The iPhone delivers features that help people get in touch with others at the most efficient way. Almost all Apple products share the same communication apps through iCloud, namely iMessage and FaceTime. Just with these two apps you'll never get disconnected, say your iPhone's battery died and you can't charge anytime soon, you can just get your iPod Touch, iPad or Macbook to continue on an interrupted conversation. With other phones you simply can't do that. Other phones only have their own messaging and calling applications and thats it, when a conversation is cut short you need to do the primitive way, borrow someone else's phone. Or how about when the other user doesn't have access to their iPhone? They can still communicate with you because of Apple's iMessage and FaceTime through their Macs or iPads or iPod Touches. There are also third party applications that can help you with that but you still need to register and give away some important information but with the iPhone you have one account for all.
The iPhone is an empty canvass. A lot of people always say that iPhone lacks a lot of features or the design is "boring" or they're just simply tired of the OS. But in reality you can personalise the iPhone in more ways than one! As for the look, there are a lot of cases available, if your bored with the colour then you can put stickers. For the UI, are you so lazy that you don't want to do that one extra tap? say to adjust brightness or turn on wifi or bluetooth, these can all be solved by a jailbreak tweak (and admit it as soon as your iPhone's warranty expires you jailbreak it and for some, even if their iPhones are still under warranty they just do it anyway) also if you use these settings so much then why not just keep them on? Right? (by the way, brightness has an automatic function so you don't have to toggle it all the time). Then there are the sea of accessories that can give your iPhone a whole new purpose, starting with the speaker docks all the way to the breathalysers. You can use your iPhone as a POS device for sales, or scanner, or insulin reader and a whole lot more. With all these possible add-ons how can anyone say that the iPhone lacks features? I think Apple intended it to be like that and give users the freedom to add their own feature to the iPhone based on their needs. And of course there's the ever growing app store, which Apple attends to personally, so you can be sure that you get good quality apps to add purpose to YOUR iPhone for YOUR use, instead of just having every possible feature available in the hope that one day you might use it.
As for the screen size, well a lot of other phones beat the iPhone at this one but in my opinion do you really need a phone whose screen is above 4"? Like what I've said earlier the Galaxy 4S is not competing as a phone but as a media hub, with its screen size and other "features" its really good for those who consume a lot of media like videos, photos and more, but for regular users all these features doesn't really matter. If your a photographer then surely you own an SLR, if your into film then surely you have a high end camcorder, if you like music then probably you have an MP3 Player and so on. But if your just a regular person who makes calls, sends SMS and email, and checks your social network every now and then, then what will you do with these other features right? You have to remember that the price of your phone is the summary of the value of all the features so if there are features in the phone that your surely not going to use then why purchase it? This includes the iPhone, but then again apart from the newsstand almost all of iPhone's built in apps are very useful.
So there you have it. Those are the reasons why I think the iPhone is the ideal phone. By the way I have an iPhone 4S and it serves me so well that I did not feel the need to upgrade to the iPhone 5, I even think that this phone will live through another iPhone iteration before I finally replace it. Do you agree with me? Let me know on the comments below.
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