# What type of smartphone operating system do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 17, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579 "2018-04-17T12:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/1 "2018-04-17T12:43:23Z")
This poll is about which operating system you have: iPhone, Android, Windows or other. If you wish add make and model. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/2 "2018-04-17T12:47:06Z")
iOS. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/3 "2018-04-17T12:47:08Z")
I’ve got a Samsung S6 with Android(ver. 7.0). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/4 "2018-04-17T13:08:01Z")
We were discussing this over beers the other day. I told everyone what a sweet deal my brother has through his employer. They provide him with a smartphone, no charge. Loss or damage? No problem, he gets a replacement no charge. Upgrades are free, on request, never denied. Unlimited calling, text, _and data_. No restrictions on use. When he leaves the US, IT sets the phone up for wherever he is going. He has never paid a cent. Everyone was salivating over the great deal my brother has. Then I dropped the punchline: It’s a Windows phone. Collective groan.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/5 "2018-04-17T13:09:30Z")
Android. I was a longtime (and diehard) fan of Windows Phone, but I have now come to accept that it is over. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/6 "2018-04-17T13:10:04Z")
iPhone. I hate it, can’t wait to go back to an Android. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/7 "2018-04-17T14:41:55Z")
Complaints about iPhones and Windows? Like what? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/8 "2018-04-17T15:07:26Z")
I don’t like the keyboard/texting of the iPhone. I much preferred my Androids for fast typing. I also seemed to get more bang for my buck with Samsungs than I have with my Apple. This iPhone is always telling me I don’t have space to take a picture or check my email. I spent more than twice as much for this thing than I usually spend on a smartphone, but seem to have less memory. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a situation where I wanted to take a picture, only to have the message pop up that I don’t have the space to do so. I was using the iCloud thing for a while, but that filled up in a ridiculously small amount of time. So then I started having my pics stored on Amazon Prime. But when I went to upload my latest (four) pics last night, the phone told me it couldn’t upload because there _wasn’t enough memory_ to upload them! I had to delete an app just to upload four stupid pics to my cloud. I have deleted all but my most necessary apps, which allows me to check my email for a day or two. But then, without fail, I’ll go to check my email, and it’ll tell me there’s not enough space for me to do that, and it’ll push me into my Settings where I then have to decide what app to delete today just so I can see if Nancy Pelosi or Groupon has sent me a new email. I never had this level of frustration with a Samsung/android. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/9 "2018-04-17T20:05:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Complaints about iPhones and Windows? Like what? Windows phone was functionally a great OS (IMO) - I enjoyed the consistency and style of the UI, but as a smartphone, it just never actually took off - it suffered from a vicious cycle of insufficient apps in the store, which stifled uptake, which reduced incentive for anyone to develop apps, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/10 "2018-04-17T20:12:55Z")
None. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/11 "2018-04-17T21:40:55Z")
iOS and I love it. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/12 "2018-04-17T21:43:42Z")
Always have had an Android. I have an iPad that has iOS that allows me to play around with that operating system. It has never made me want to get an iPhone, however. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/13 "2018-04-17T21:45:19Z")
Android for my personal phone. iOS for my work phone. Much prefer Android. Much. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/14 "2018-04-17T21:56:02Z")
iOS 11x/iPhone 8 plus. I am happy with my phone. It allows me to sync nicely between my other Apple devices (iPads and laptops) and Apple does a better job of policing their developers than Google does. For a long time at work I had a Windows phone, and liked it. IT finally pried it out of my hands, and I switched to Blackberry. I really liked that for work, but IT finally took that too. For a while there I had 2 iPhones, one for work and one for home. I’ve used a wide variety of Android devices. They always seem less elegant in execution to me than the Apple devices. I imagine I’d get used to them if that’s what I had to work with. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/15 "2018-04-17T22:22:53Z")
For me, it was a purely monetary decision. I like both Apple and Google in general, but a Moto G was much, much cheaper than anything Apple could offer. I haven’t had any experience with an iPhone (I did have an iPod Touch for a while, but it was a very out-of-date one), but the Moto G has been perfectly adequate for all of my needs so far. I did know going in that I wasn’t going to get Windows, though, because who wants anything Microsoft? ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/16 "2018-04-17T22:26:56Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I don’t like the keyboard/texting of the iPhone. I much preferred my Androids for fast typing. > > I also seemed to get more bang for my buck with Samsungs than I have with my Apple. This iPhone is always telling me I don’t have space to take a picture or check my email. I spent more than twice as much for this thing than I usually spend on a smartphone, but seem to have less memory. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a situation where I wanted to take a picture, only to have the message pop up that I don’t have the space to do so. I was using the iCloud thing for a while, but that filled up in a ridiculously small amount of time. So then I started having my pics stored on Amazon Prime. But when I went to upload my latest (four) pics last night, the phone told me it couldn’t upload because there _wasn’t enough memory_ to upload them! I had to delete an app just to upload four stupid pics to my cloud. I have deleted all but my most necessary apps, which allows me to check my email for a day or two. But then, without fail, I’ll go to check my email, and it’ll tell me there’s not enough space for me to do that, and it’ll push me into my Settings where I then have to decide what app to delete today just so I can see if Nancy Pelosi or Groupon has sent me a new email. > > I never had this level of frustration with a Samsung/android. This doesn’t sound like an Android/iOS thing, this sounds like a you have too much stuff on your phone thing. Go to Settings \> General \> About. What is listed as “Capacity?” Go to Settings \> General \> iPhone Storage. Scroll down a little bit and tell us which apps are taking up the most space. If you have only the most necessary apps loaded on the phone, you probably have either a very small storage capacity or a lot of photos/movies/music which can be safely offloaded to a computer. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/17 "2018-04-17T22:36:13Z")
Mine is a Windows phone and it sucks. I chose something cheap that was a year out of date but said could run Skype. I got the damn phone and Skype says they discontinued support of that OS. I am moving shortly and my sister is getting me a phone on her family plan. Apparently I will soon have an Android phone. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/18 "2018-04-17T22:40:46Z")
I’m surprised by the results. Perhaps I don’t pay much attention, but it seems like practically every phone I see (\>75%) is an iPhone. Since I switched from a dumb phone to a smart phone, it’s all I’ve every used. (I did have a Blackberry for about 6 months before I switched to iPhone, but I have no idea what operating system Blackberry uses) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/19 "2018-04-17T23:06:32Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I’m surprised by the results. Perhaps I don’t pay much attention, but it seems like practically every phone I see (\>75%) is an iPhone. Since I switched from a dumb phone to a smart phone, it’s all I’ve every used. (I did have a Blackberry for about 6 months before I switched to iPhone, but I have no idea what operating system Blackberry uses) You can’t always tell by looking. I have an android that apparently looks like an iPhone from people’s surprised comments. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579/20 "2018-04-17T23:15:16Z")
Samsung Galaxy S8+, Android 8.0. Like **Mangetout** , I had a Windows Phone. I really loved that OS, but it is pretty well dead. Android is acceptable. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-smartphone-operating-system-do-you-have/812579.md?page=2)