Help me leave Apple forever!
 

I was leaning toward upgrading from my iPhone 4S and this latest U2 spam, which I cannot completely remove from my phone, is making me leave Apple. It was 11 songs and I can't get four of them off there. I imagine they'll start doing this with other bands too and I'm out.

This is what my next phone must have or be:

- Unlocked GSM phone I can always use overseas.
- Excellent camera.
- A little larger than current iPhone.
- Great battery life.
- Durability.
- Great music app, as I need to transfer my whole iTunes library. This is most important, as I use this for hours every day between gym workouts and guitar practice.
- Easy to type on.


What phone do I need?

iPhone 6 Plus

All your bases are belong to us

Did you see my thread from last week? I frequently have issues with songs randomly appearing on my kids' iPods that I don't download to them (they don't have the password). Frequently I can't delete them, instead I have to show all music, download them from the cloud, delete them, then unshow all music. Apparently it's common for ghost songs to show up in your music library.

Oneplus One.

Meets every requirement you listed above and more. The phone is so powerful that I have it encrypted, and ATT doesn't even know what type of phone I'm running on their system. None of that built in NSA register stuff you find with Apple.

Home - OnePlus.net


Also you get everything that a 6 offers at a 1/3 of the price. The trick is being able to get one. Best bet is to get an invite off Ebay then order.

Oh man, that Oneplus One looks badass and the price is right too. Must do some research on this one. Biggest concern right now is easily converting all my songs from iTunes to next phone's platform. I can't even find all the songs that are in my iPhone in my iTunes library on my computer and am afraid of losing some if I try anything. I am really tethered to these tunes.

Edit: Just saw that's it's 5.5". That's way too big for me.

Isn't OnePlus One a chicom company. If that's a concern...

No concern at all for me.

It is, but it's running Cyanogen so security is in the hands of the owner.

I just left the tethered to a carrier world..

After two weeks of use I am liking the Google (LG) Nexus 5

I had totally forgotten about the Oneplus which I had found on a search a few months ago.... maybe it wasn't ready for release when I checked it out...

One thing the OS on the Oneplus is not pure Android, it is a custom Android OS built by a community....it is a very robust community with many talented people...

That said I don't mind that sort of challenge.... If you just want it to work....you probably have to stick to a carrier tethered phone..

I ported my # from Verizon.... the carrier who happens to have the tightest control of devices on their network, to Cricket which is Att (Aio and another) prepaids service...

It took about 20 minutes start to finish... and the Nexus 5 was fully ported in about 2 hours...

I left Verizon a while ago for Page Plus and am never looking back. Never a problem other than it won't work at all overseas and drops off for about two hours on the day my monthly plan autorenews. I can live with that.

I really like my z30.

Samsung S5 or HTC One M8.

Galaxy S5

To buy the OnePlus One, you will need to get an invite.

Help me leave Apple forever!
 

Overreact much?

Seriously if the biggest problem in your life is that you're outraged because Apple bought (for $100M) the rights to U2's latest album and decided to give it to you (and others) for free with no strings attached, you really ought to count your blessings.

I don't like the "pushy marketing" aspect of it but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, nor am I going to go off frothing at the mouth in anger about it. I'll reserve that for people who take up two parking spaces. :p

That's not the biggest problem at all. It just happened to come on the day I decided to start looking elsewhere because I want away from iTunes and a slightly larger phone, but smaller than the 6 plus. The U2 thing is a preview of what's to come and was the last straw.

This. Never Settle.

I registered in April or so. Talked the phone up to a friend of mine looking for a new phone, who bought an invite from Ebay at my suggestion after I got bored listening to him whining about the unfairness of the business model (yeh, he'd been registered a whole two freakin' weeks, LOL)..

He got his within a couple of days. Once I actually held one in my hands and played with it for 30 seconds (I love CyanogenMod anyway, but this phone is GORGEOUS), I had bought an invite within 15 minutes, and ordered the phone 30 minutes after that...

Way it runs right now, if you buy one, you get (I believe) 6 invites. The invites themselves can sell for up to $60 each, and the phone can sell for a premium of up to $80 or so over the OnePlus webstore price.

You might look for a phone that your carrier doesn't weigh down with bloatware. For some reason, Android phones from Verizon, ATT etc often come with a lot of carrier-written software. Apple iPhones do not.

Google Nexus. Then pick your carrier.


OnePlus looks interesting - how does it perform?