I have an iPhone 4S, which I'm happy with. I've never used a different kind of smartphone, so I think I've just run out of useful things to contribute. :)
I use Android. Part of my initial reasoning was because the Android app system is more open than Apple's. But I guess also that I'm happy with other Google products. The following wasn't an issue at the time I went with Android, but now, it also has better maps. Plus I wanted a hardware keyboard, and some Android phones have hardware keyboards, while the iPhone does not.
I've heard some people really pleased with LTE. I had a Droid 2 Global without LTE, and now have a Droid 4 with LTE. However, the Droid 2 Global really needed more RAM (and possibly more CPU), so it was just slow in general, and I have no idea how much of the slowness was the device, and how much the service was slow. (But non-data-related things were slow too.) For what it's worth, over LTE, I'm getting about 16 Mbps down and 8 Mbps up (according to the SpeedTest app).
Oh, I guess LTE may also matter more if you use your phone to tether (which I often do when I go on trips). Tethering lets me avoid hotel Wifi fees, of course, but also, at least in once case in which the Wifi was free, I found that tethering to my phone gave me faster service. (In that case, it was 25 Mbps down on the phone, 12 Mbps down when I tethered, and 0.4 Mbps when using the hotel wifi.)
I'm happy with the battery life on my Galaxy Nexus (GSM) but I also hear bad things about the Verizon ones. I loooove the OS and the screen on the thing. There's less and less software out there that is iOS only.
The Galaxy Nexus is huge, though, so unless you have large hands like me you probably won't be able to use it one-handed very effectively. The Nexus S is slower and less awesome in the screen but also smaller.
I'm a pretty strong believer in the "Nexus" brand of phones, that have the stock Google experience, without any "HTC Sense" or Samsung's weirdo add-ons... though I'm hearing enough positive things about the latest Samsung stuff that I might be willing to give it a chance...
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I've heard some people really pleased with LTE. I had a Droid 2 Global without LTE, and now have a Droid 4 with LTE. However, the Droid 2 Global really needed more RAM (and possibly more CPU), so it was just slow in general, and I have no idea how much of the slowness was the device, and how much the service was slow. (But non-data-related things were slow too.) For what it's worth, over LTE, I'm getting about 16 Mbps down and 8 Mbps up (according to the SpeedTest app).
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The Galaxy Nexus is huge, though, so unless you have large hands like me you probably won't be able to use it one-handed very effectively. The Nexus S is slower and less awesome in the screen but also smaller.
I'm a pretty strong believer in the "Nexus" brand of phones, that have the stock Google experience, without any "HTC Sense" or Samsung's weirdo add-ons... though I'm hearing enough positive things about the latest Samsung stuff that I might be willing to give it a chance...
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