While that's a fair point, here's how I see it.
On the OS front, Android is just too unreliable - it freezes, lags, crashes, uses data without permission, sends personal information in clear text, and so on. BlackBerry OS has the same problem, particularly starting around OS5, except it doesn't send personal info in clear text.
iOS on the software level is reliable, but iPhones aren't, and with the mandatory upgrade cycle/planned obsolescence, you have to get a new one every 2 years. The iPhone 3G and 3GS had a good hardware design (copying Nokia's antenna patents didn't hurt), but the iPhone 4 had reception problems, the 4S has only mitigated them and has battery life problems. Sticking to iOS4 isn't really an option anymore and iOS5 is slow as a dog on the 3GS. One size just doesn't fit all. If Apple had some different designs for the phones so you could avoid one problem by selecting a different model, that might work better (and actually does as so far there hasn't been anything wrong with the iPod touch line), but on a hardware level, it's not reliable as a phone.
That really only leaves Windows Phone. It isn't yet the greatest in all areas, but in the areas that really count, it doesn't suck.
The word 'Pentaband' means '5 Bands', from the Greek word 'pente' meaning '5'. For a phone to be pentaband it has to support 5 bands. If the phone has AWS support, it doesn't automatically mean that it is pentaband. The reason Wind and Mobilicity users like pentaband phones is because the reverse is true. We're not the only ones who like pentaband phones though, so please stop referring to phones that work on Wind and Mobilicity as pentaband. It causes unnecessary cofusion.
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Originally Posted by KingBuzzo
Just because you haven't experienced those issues, doesn't make them implausible. I had a Samsung Behold II. Horrid phone, but first gen android, not that it gives it a pass but at least understandable to some extend. But my wife's Samsung Sidekick 4g, bought last April, required a minimum of 2 battery pulls a day, the screen often became unresponsive (usually when answering a call or a typing a text), random oddities with the screen self touching, and lag 10 secs sometimes when you hit the home key. Some of those issues were made better with the latest update that was 8 months after the devices launch, but many still remain. There are legions of people with the same problem. That phone was a Galaxy s 4g class phone and it certainly was at least 3rd generation android. There are lots of other androids with issues as well. On the other hand, my Nexus One running Miui is reasonably stable and that is with a beta rom. My Mytouch4G slide dual core phone still has noticeable lag, perhaps the sense on there slows it down. So there are certainly still androids with problems, as with any OS.
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