Yet another smartphone thread

[CigarNut]

Some caveats when you switch from an iPhone to something else:

- Facetime will no longer work and I am not aware of a good alternative (moot if you don't use it)
- All of your friends with iPhones will need to delete your contact info -- entirely -- and then create a new contact for you. This is because of the way contact info between iPhone users is tied to iMessage

After deleting your contact info any text (iMessage) messages that were sent between you will be lost, so if there is anything important (pictures, videos, other info) it all needs to be saved first.

As long as you warn your contacts with iPhones all will be fine. Otherwise, they will have difficulties sending you text messages (or using any iMessage based services).

We found all of this out the hard way when our son switched from an iPhone to a Galaxy S4.