New phone time. What do you think?

[Scott]

half the fun on android is the tinkering and trying to make it yours, where ios to me feels a lot more to me like "this is it, dont play with it"

Agreed. On the vast majority of Android phones it is extremely easy to root the phone and to install new a custom rom from the vast selection available on XDA Devs, or even Vanilla Android or CyanogenMod (which is amazing). That said, you don't have to root your phone to get the most out of it. With iOS, it's not so much a case of "is there an app for that?", so much as it is "Will Apple let me do that with my phone?".

There are some obvious benefits to that as you have better compatibility and quality control, but the moment you try to do anything productive with your phone (outside of the realm of making calls, texting or browsing the internet) you can find you're very restricted by what Apple says you can and can't do. I guess I'm a little biased as what I want out of a smartphone is effectively a smaller version of a PC, so being able to open and edit Office documents, browsing the internet, using FTP or streaming music online, and I know on Android a lot of these features are available through free Apps or are already available on the phone from release, while on Apple that's not the case whenever I've looked. I also just prefer the Android OS rather than iOS, and don't get me started on BB or Windows!