If you had to though I would buy an iPhone then sell it off contract and use the proceeds to snag an Android phone at full price.
Since the Note isn't an option. This is exactly what I would do.
If you had to though I would buy an iPhone then sell it off contract and use the proceeds to snag an Android phone at full price.
No phone. Be it android, iOS or WP is worth signing away for two years on.
With the rapid changes in technology, I am not sure what devices will really hold up for two years these days, be it Android, Windows Phone or iOS.
The 5s will seem like old news when the 5.5" iPhone comes out. I have an LG G3 that I've had for a month or so (got it during the Verizon $99.99 deal), and I really like it. Though it does have its limitations - I hope that Android L is much better than KitKat, because one place that Apple beats Android is the operating system. I don't care what kind of phone specs you have if the OS is sketchy. I get a lot of force closes and slow responses from my phone. And I have used almost my full 5GB allocation this month - turns out that Google backup is supposedly the culprit. I turned it off yesterday, I am hoping that my data usage goes down next month.
The one thing about the G3 is that it takes so long to take a picture. HDR pictures take even longer.
So many people preclude the Note only to experience it later on and then realize that it's not awkwardly big or unwieldy. Then they say how they can never go back to a smaller device, that it feels akward. I can't tell you how many times I hear this from people.
Went Note 3 - iPhone 5s - HTC One M8 - iPhone 5s.
Yea, I can easily go back. Android is still THAT bad/behind for me to keep going back to an iPhone.