Alright! Let me add prices, though the quality of the phone is what I am after.Iphone is now after android smartphones....
You've forgotten "5 - Prices"
Wow! Seems Windows Phone is on the last... You never mentioned it here...Performance - iPhone has lower level hardware but is specifically designed for ios however Android phones have a lot better hardware for a significantly lower price.
Battery consumption - depends on the phone you get, but iPhones are known to have good battery life, while not all android phones can beat this mark, but many still do,although you'd have to check with the phone you're getting.
Features and customizability - android wins, no questions asked, especially because you can install custom launchers from the play store easily and customise pretty much everything in the OS. You can also install a custom ROM to completely change the OS ifeself.
Really... So Windows Phone 10 has a future...well I only use Wphone and android, and comparing this two I only say that Wphone don't "lag" even with 512 ram. (I use Wphone as my main smartphone, daily):
however, android has more features, I think that with new Windows mobile 10, microsoft os will beat android.
Ps:. I never test Iphone, but I what I read about it's a good os, the best at moment.
I read an article a while you saying that Wphone was very safe beating android and iphone.
Thanks much.Its pretty identical characteristics of OS smartphones as follows:
Battery Consumption:
Honestly I will go between IOS (Iphone) and Windows Phone since they are totally optimized for such lighter task like browsing, messaging and callings. Such program like Facebook, Facebook Messenger which are main culprit to gather lots of battery resource are manage to handle very well. Of course its from the users that properly disable any such communication when idle to conserve for longer times.
In Android, there are instances that the manufacturers can manage very well like ASUS which design to optimize the battery very well which should be the primary concern but other are not quite same thus battery affects from the performance status.
Performance:
IOS got my vote because the optimization of OS is very good at any games I've encountered and use by my classmates/friends, no slowdowns and running very smooth. That's the edge compare to Android where its totally slow on some application and occurrence of crashes exists.
For Windows Phone I assume that should be run well like in IOS; no matter how big the specification provided by the manufacturers in Android. still a slowdown may exist. (Even the first time setup for Android for newly smartphones, I've noticed slowdowns already)
Features:
Android and IOS have a very neck to neck in terms of features, which it couldn't prevent issues/lawsuit about implemented of patent technology.
Android you can do everything as possible, especially application are widely available from Play Store; next to IOS where very prominent too.
But I like the feature of IOS the Camera ability where there is no stabilizer unlike to Android. But Windows Phone where can handle such high quality of pictures/videos on their Camera feature.
Customization:
Android has a widely list of themes and launcher available on the store where you can change depends on your cozy appearance; or with the power of Root you can manage in such full privilege.
IOS and Windows Phone are tend to be limited in such category.
Price:
Most expensive are from IOS products because it handles a one manufacturer (Apple Inc.) so everything from its hardware and all features are made from their own.
Next stop is Windows Phone, since Microsoft manage to acquire Nokia then its prices are a little bit pricey however guaranteed the quality for longer use.
Lastly Android which range from the cheapest until the most expensive where depend on the brand name it handled.
Overall:
My vote goes to IOS in such performance wise, but the things you can do a lot will be from Android and lastly for simpler task then Windows Phone.
These limit the candidates considerably to undefiled-by-carrier Android devices running KitKat. (I don't think Xprivacy is ready for Lollipop/M yet)4. Customization
5. Price
For reliability? iPhone or Windows Phones
For cheap prices? Android
For power? Not sure about iPhones but Windows Phone and Android are pretty beefy in specs. Seems iPhones are very weak compared to much cheaper Windows and Android phones. Just not worth the price to me.
For security? Well Android is far inferior to Windows Phone and iPhone here... that much should be obvious without technical knowledge.
I chose Windows Phone for it's power, reliability, medium cost, and it's very good security. I'm had to switch to an Android phone (because I'm moving soon and the Windows Phones from Verizon (the only provider with service where I'm moving) are too expensive (because they are the higher end ones. Unfortunately, they didn't have phones like the Lumia 635 which is cheap and very nice in performance.
While I don't care for overpowered devices (just a huge waste of money but I guess it can feed your ego) it must at least be stable and smooth. As long as it doesn't crash, I don't care about it's specs. I've experienced a ton of crashes on Android. It's really not that stable of an OS unless your using 4.2 or higher. 5.1 (which is on my Motorola Moto E (2nd gen)) is very nice for stability and lower RAM usage.
Whatever phone you chose, just make sure the specs are decent and if possible, have recent to up to date OS.
Please tell me why Android's security is less? Sometimes obvious is not so obvious.
I am using Android for last 5 year. In between I tried windows lumia 520 but got fed up in 15 days.
And android has phones of every range. You want to pay more then go for high range phone.
The one problem with Android is every company is putting their customization over the stock ROM and that's causing the issues. Use stock rom , it's very stable.