I'm scared to switch. The last month I've contemplated on trying Android for a year. I like the bigger screen the GS5, LG G2, and Moto X have to offer but in the back of my mind I'm afraid they'll let me down when I'm text messaging, taking a picture, web browsing, gaming (threes, scrabble, wheres the water) or listening to music (I listen to music a lot on my 64GB iPhone 5).
My iPhone 5 has never let me down, and I hear a lot of negatives about android. Especially with battery and app issues. Who is me........
When you say "let you down", do you mean as in crash and become inoperable? If that is the case, you have nothing to worry about.
I'll share my wife' current state of transition from an iPhone 5 to an S5. Her usage was extremely simple in that all she does is Facebook, surf, calls,Tango, Skype, photos/videos and text. She didn't even know how to crop a photo on her iPhone. She would literally zoom in on the image and take a screen shot... lol.
She is currently 10 days in, and by far the first 5 were the most difficult. I did nothing to help her other than setup backups for photos and contacts.I wanted her to try and find her way to discover what she didn't like as opposed to me adjusting to what I like. Things that annoyed her:
Did not like the autocorrect of the Samsung keyboard. She is bilingual and it constantly messed up her words.
Didn't understand the slide to call or message from contacts or missed calls so it frustrated her that she had to click multiple times (she also didn't realize how Android handles notifications so she didn't use the NC. to return calls/texts/FB messages).
Why the different folders in the gallery? I'd share a photo which goes into the downloads folder but she'd be in the camera roll, so naturally couldn't find it.
Likes:
Larger screen. This is the most obvious and the main reason for people switching.
Notification center and LED. Once she realized she no longer had to scan for badges or look for banners on the lock screen, it made things much easier for her. The notification center really is the core for Android and makes things much more seamless. Return calls, messages and reply to emails right from within it, impressed her because in her words, "I like it, it's simple".
Keyboard: I installed Swiftkey, gave her a pink theme, installed the Latin American version of the spanish keyboard and she couldn't be happier. She used to peck at the keyboard on her iPhone. She now types with both thumbs and is much faster.
Photo Gallery: She just had to learn here.
. What is interesting, is that for some reason she wants to actually learn the features of the phone. So she learned how to crop the photos and enjoys the ability to share to other apps from within a single place. She even made her first NFC payment using ISIS wallet with the free $50 she got for setting it up at the ATT store. That kind of amazed her.
Video: Absolutely loves the UHD video with HFR and the fact she never runs out of space with the MSD card. She was constantly backing up and deleting since icloud has a cap for storage you can purchase.
I know I kind of went on a tangent, but it seems like your uses are pretty basic and wanted to point out that those things won't be an impact. It is the even more fundamental things that frustrate due to being different.
