Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days?

janimal writes: The iPhone used to be the smartphone that "just works." Ever since the 4S days, this has been true less and less with each generation. My wife's iPhone 6 needs to be restarted several times per week for things like internet search or making calls to work. An older 5S I'm using also doesn't consistently stream to Apple TV, doesn't display song names correctly on Apple TV and third party peripherals. In short, as features increase, the iPhone's stability is decreasing. In your opinion, which smartphone brand these days is taking up the slack and delivering a fully featured smartphone that "just works"?

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[Khyber]

Almost every Win Mobile phone refuses to work with my WiFi point (thought it sees it.)

Droid phones aren't fully featured. They're feature-creep.

iOs is so much more of a horrible piece of crap now than it was before. It has drastically dropped the performance of my fiance's 4S with the latest revision.

My old Nokia does everything I need. Still works. I can turn on and dial 911 faster than you can get past your splash screen.

The same as ever: Android

[msobkow]

Android has always been the superior technology. Why else do you think it has more global market share than Apple could ever dream about?

Apple's products are fanboi toys that put style over substance, brand recognition over quality, and which rely on artificially inflated prices to maintain the illusion of being "better quality."

There is nothing about any Apple product I have ever seen that justifies the price. It's just one big, grand fleecing of a gullible public by the best marketing campaign known to mankind.