Feb 13, 2016 06:00 PM
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In the past 4 years I have owned Android and Blackberry phones prior to buying an iPhone 5s last year. Overall I prefer the iPhone over the others and would recommend it, with a few minor reservations.
The iPhone 5s is superior in these areas:
The design is a work of art, finely sculpted and proportioned; a pleasure to hold and use
The screen is fantastic; big enough to be really useful but small enough for the phone to be easily pocketable. The Blackberry screen was maybe too small for most applications except for email, and the Android too big and heavy for portable use. I particularly like the long narrow screen on the 5s
A lot of thought has gone into the way a user can navigate around the screen through the different functions. I have owned an iPod Touch for a couple of years and have become a fan of Apple's clear and simple graphics: on the 5s, it's even better. The software never crashes, which it did with both my Android phones frequently
For a user with larger than average hands/fingers, the on-screen keypad of the 5s is really well designed - especially true if you use the phone in landscape format which has the effect of widening the keypad. In comparison, the Android was frustrating and not very user-friendly and the Blackberry Storm completely hopeless - though the permanent keypad on the Curve was great
The ring tone & speaker volume is louder and clearer on the iPhone than any of its rivals
The camera is so good it's up to the standard of a dedicated Canon or Nikon compact, for the first time on a cellphone
The memory(64GB) is vast, with a storage capacity so huge you're never likely to need more no matter what you download and store on it
Siri, iMessage and Facetime are genuinely useful apps, not just gimmicks. They actually work well. The fingerprint scanner works too, though how much of a real security feature this is remains doubtful
here's my review on my iphone
Thanks for your time
