Kids at my twins elementary school have smart phones…
I like that google play tells you what authorizations each app comes with. Its crazy what some apps want to allow like looking at my phone log and sending that data back to them. Facebook is nuts and glad I don’t use it anymore.
Being able to download custom ringtones and pictures to the phone via windows explorer is awesome. I just copy a ringtone to the right folder, and its on the phone. The samsung kies sucks but I can do all the same shit with connecting it to the computer, airdroid, and in the end managing files is no different than normal windows stuff. It took me 10 minutes to root my phone, install titanium back up, and I have a full phone back up I can transfer or store to any HD.
As the rest these companies are always one upping each other. When the S3 came out it trumped the 4s easily which was the current standard Iphone. Now the iphone has a few better marks, and apple fans are pointing to those few things. In a few months/early next year Android based phones will have something better on paper. The on paper thing is kind of pointless, too, when you take the OS as a factor as well. I LOVE how many more options I have with Android, and since its open source you can do so much more with it. Aside from the improvements Apple has made everything looks the exact same as the first iphone.
In the end, though, either is going to be a good phone.
yeah insane we homeschool now
when she was in 1st grade and I would pick her up I would see gradeschool like 3rd grade kids get out of class whip out the phones and start going at it ???
insane !!!
my kids play with iPads and such but often its just fun games or we use them for homeschool a lot
no chatting no chat rooms etc…
but then again we make our kids write and mail letters thanking the grandparents for gifts they get so its not a total lost art !
same thing for Bday parties they can write the invites out 
Yes. No fanboys here.
I was correcting a few common misconceptions is all.