Android. I’ve always owned HTC phones, all the way back to the G1. My latest, the HTC 10, is nice, but they seem to be getting steadily less and less impressive, yet more expensive. I think I’ll jump ship to another manufacturer next time. Maybe Sony or One-Plus.
Android and I’m very impressed.
Google took Linux, modified it heavily, and actually made it easy to use.
IOS here as well. I’ve used both and prefer the iPhones to Android, but it’s definitely a matter of taste (and cost).
Android, only version 4.4.2. It’s the latest and greatest version on my old Samsung S3.
In the US Android phones have a slight majority of the market share (53% to 45% for iOs). Worldwide it’s brutal with Android having over 80% market share. We’re US-centric but the non-US Dopers should push the numbers towards Android. You may just be in a pocket where social factors push things towards iOs.
Android 7.0, soon getting 8.0 on my phone(so I hear).
Have used Ipods and Ipads as well.
Very much prefer Android. Apple products are pretty nice, but I don’t get why anyone would pay more for something like that.
I am on my 5th iPhone. I’ve had the 3G, 4S, 6+, 6S+, and now the X. The 3G went to my wife when I got the 4S and lasted another 2 years. My son got the 6+ when I got the 6S+, and he’s still using it.
I make heavy use of the accessibility features that Apple is constantly improving (I am mostly blind), so I will probably never switch (unless Google comes out with VR that bypasses my retinas).
To flesh out the story… I loved Android as a concept and I was a fairly early adopter - I had a couple of Android phones when the current version was around 2.3, but was constantly frustrated by the lack of consistency in the UI, and in the way apps worked, looked, and performed.
Windows Phone 8 (at that time) was a breath of fresh air - the UI was bold, bright and (IMO) quite stylish - all of the apps worked in the same way (bold titles across the top, swipe left and right to access different categories of function - it was lovely because the learning curve flattened off very fast.
However, later on, a lot of the apps started to diverge from the standard UI (probably because they were straight ports of their Android cousins) - and, like so many of Microsoft’s ventures, the whole market offering and stance was just terribly limp - it didn’t ever really seem like Microsoft cared whether the platform lived or died.
The app market was slim to begin with, and never really got going. I upgraded to several different Windows phones, including upgrading to WP10, which, whilst it was stable and modern, was not as snappy or distinctive as WP8
Then one by one, apps started to be discontinued by their providers; the range of available devices shrank down to nearly nothing, and everything went quiet; everyone was waiting for Microsoft to say something about the next big thing, which was rumoured to be ‘Surface Phone’, but then this was postponed, and Microsoft accidentally shared a comment to the effect that they had accepted the death of Windows Phone.
I switched back to Android about a year back - I’ve actually owned about 8 or 9 different Android phones in the last year, because I test and review them on my YouTube channel - and while had been away using Windows Phone, Android went and grew up. It’s now a very capable OS, it’s got a lot more consistency in the system UI, and it also seems like most of the app developers have come to a consensus about how menus, navigation and other UI elements should work, so there is greater consistency in the in-app experience too.
So I actually quite like Android now, having experienced it in both ‘stock’ and ‘skinned’ versions around 7 and 7.1. I’ll watch with interest as to whatever (if anything) Microsoft does next, but I’m not sure I ever want to jump back in that bed.
What you see around you is also going to depend on economic factors. For high-end expensive phones, it’s pretty much iPhone vs. Samsung Galaxy. For cheap, low-end phones, there are a lot of players… but they’re all Android, because there isn’t a low-end iPhone. So if you hang out with a lot of rich folks, or folks who put a higher priority on performance of their phone, then you’ll see a disproportionate number of iPhones.
That explains it 
My very first smartphone was a Blackberry, but since then I’ve been all Android.
I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S7; previously I had an HTC8. I liked the HTC, and only switched because I decided to replace my Pebble smartwatch with a Samsung Gear S2 (after Pebble went out of businesss) and figured that being all-Samsung would help with compatibility. I’d had a Samsung phone before, and liked it. I wound up not being crazy about the Gear, though; currently I use an LG smartwatch. I’m also having some significant issues with delayed notifications on the S7 (I’ve tried everything I can find), so between those two things I’m ready to try another manufacturer. When the Pixel 3 gets released – hopefully this fall – I might switch to that.
Same here. I’m glad to have the exposure to iOS, and I’m extremely pleased with the iPad as a tablet (in fact I recently upgraded to an iPad Pro), but for my phone OS there’s no question.
Windows phones are perfectly capable. And you can use them as mobile hotspots, so you can use your data through your iPad or whatever.
And yet Bill Gates uses an Android phone.
I assume you mean “for free.” Lots of phones can be mobile hotspots.
I’m the reverse. I have an android phone and prefer it to the iphones we use at work. For whatever reason the iphone interface just seems a little clunkier and less intuitive to me. But I’m sure that is 100% subjective.
I actually thought(what with all the iPhones I see every day) that the numbers would be closer to a tie between the top two.
Naw, I think a lot of younger people especially like the Android phones better. They are generally cheaper and to someone who hasn’t used the iPhone or Apple products since the start they are more intuitive. A lot of the younger engineers here at my work use them and love the things. I tried one out (Galaxy 6) and I just wasn’t feeling it so went back to an iPhone (7 Plus) which is my current phone. I did give up the iPad in favor of a Surface Book 2, which I like a lot more.
Rocking a Galaxy S4 with Android 5.0.1. I love the AMOLED screen on this phone and it still does everything I need. Mostly Gmail, Hangouts, WhatsApp, Reddit, Samsung Health for step counting, Google Navigation, and Weatherbug. Bought it in mint condition about 3 years ago for ~$125.
I’ve had multiple android phones over the years and all of them have been used as a mobile hotspot for free. I suspect any restriction on that is more to do with the service provider than the phone.
this. Windows Phone 8.x to me was the best smartphone interface in existence. mostly because the home screen could be set up the way I wanted it, to be able to show me and tell me what I wanted to know at a glance. I grew tired of the iPhone home screen being nothing more than a dumping ground for app launcher icons. and Android, though having a more customizable home screen, had a dearth of useful widgets and what was available was often poorly implemented.
that said, with Windows Phone being dead I moved back to the iPhone. its saving grace for me is CarPlay; I use the shit out of that. Android Auto stinks in comparison; the only place it excels is in navigation.
Your workplace might be an anomaly. 82% of US teenagers own an iPhone and 84% say their next phone will be an iPhone.