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I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by andreif »

Wildgoose wrote: post #47

I have an iPhone SE because it has a headphone jack. But if the SE 2 doesn't have a headphone jack then this will be my last iPhone. My son wants to replace his iPhone, he's just waiting to see if the SE 2 has a headphone jack as well, or he will be switching to Android. Some of us like being able to charge our phone and use it to listen to music in our cars using the AUX input of our car stereos. Plus have a wider c…

I own iPhone 5, which is not getting iOS updates anymore. Still works ok though, but the main issue I have with that design is it gets dust on the camera lenses inside the phone case (I don't use extra case). I have replaced it twice in the Apple Store because of the dust, but the last time my 3-month warranty expired before I got sufficient amount of it. Then I bought a repair kit to clean it but managed to crack the glass opening the case, not much but annoying. And in a few weeks there was dust on the lenses again. So I decided to switch to SE and went to Apple Store to have a look on it and guess what, there was dust on the SE lenses right in the store! Well, it's time to switch anyway, so maybe putting some plugs on headphone and lightning jacks would help. Buying Apple Care warranty is actually a good idea for this case, because you can get a new phone every 3-4 months so you don't need to worry about your battery health.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by eksemplar »

Wildgoose wrote: post #47

I have an iPhone SE because it has a headphone jack. But if the SE 2 doesn't have a headphone jack then this will be my last iPhone. My son wants to replace his iPhone, he's just waiting to see if the SE 2 has a headphone jack as well, or he will be switching to Android. Some of us like being able to charge our phone and use it to listen to music in our cars using the AUX input of our car stereos. Plus have a wider c…

You know the pixel 2 doesn’t have a headphone jack either, right? Apple may have been first movers, but everyone is following.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by audunw »

I feel like the pros and cons of iPhone vs Android phones are pretty well known and stable now. I feel like we've had this discussion with the same comments a dozen times before. It all comes down to their business model and design philosophies.

I think the most important thing is not be too locked into one device. If possible, try others for a couple of months at least.

On a side note, I really wish Jolla were more successful. We really need a third option.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by dogweather »

wvenable wrote: post #35
bdamm wrote: post #16

After 7 years Android user across three phones, I decided to try iPhone. Now 2 years in, on my 2nd, and never going back. Android tends to slowly slide into glitch land and demands you throw away your phone far more aggressively than iPhones do. The 911-crash on Android was the last straw. That's when you call 911, and the phone crashes instead of, you know, calling for help. iPhone might not be latest and greatest.…

I think sometimes it's a grass-is-greener situation. I had an iPhone bug where the camera/gallery would just crash on startup or basically anytime I had to do anything camera related. I eventually fixed it (after months of trying) by connecting to a PC with a 3rd party app, navigating the file system, and deleting a bunch of thumbnail cache files. I had plenty of problems answering phone calls on my iPhone -- it woul…

> the always growing "Other" space ...

Lol, I had an "Other" folder for the growing set of iOS apps that I didn't use but couldn't delete.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by modeless »

jb1991 wrote: post #42
wvenable wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think sometimes it's a grass-is-greener situation. I had an iPhone bug where the camera/gallery would just crash on startup or basically anytime I had to do anything camera related. I eventually fixed it (after months of trying) by connecting to a PC with a 3rd party app, navigating the file system, and deleting a bunch of thumbnail cache files. I had plenty of problems answering phone calls on my iPhone -- it woul…

> Even more annoying about the iPhone is the always growing "Other" space on the phone. I was constantly short on disk space with no way of knowing what the cause was or how to clean it up. Hm? There is a very simple Storage page in the Settings that shows you exactly how much storage each app is taking up (including things the app is storing) and it is ordered by size so you can immediately see what's using up your…

Yes, that page is very simple, and very wrong. On my mom's iPad and iPhone, the app numbers on the storage page simply don't add up. Many gigabytes of space are unaccounted for, yet unusable. As far as I can tell the only way to recover the space is a factory reset, and it's only a temporary fix.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by dogweather »

eksemplar wrote: post #62
Wildgoose wrote: post #47

I have an iPhone SE because it has a headphone jack. But if the SE 2 doesn't have a headphone jack then this will be my last iPhone. My son wants to replace his iPhone, he's just waiting to see if the SE 2 has a headphone jack as well, or he will be switching to Android. Some of us like being able to charge our phone and use it to listen to music in our cars using the AUX input of our car stereos. Plus have a wider c…

You know the pixel 2 doesn’t have a headphone jack either, right? Apple may have been first movers, but everyone is following.

The iPhones have a lightning connector, but the Pixel 2's have USB-C.

They look similar from a distance, so I hadn't thought about it. It was a pleasant surprise to see on the new phone.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by dragonwriter »

eksemplar wrote: post #62
Wildgoose wrote: post #47

I have an iPhone SE because it has a headphone jack. But if the SE 2 doesn't have a headphone jack then this will be my last iPhone. My son wants to replace his iPhone, he's just waiting to see if the SE 2 has a headphone jack as well, or he will be switching to Android. Some of us like being able to charge our phone and use it to listen to music in our cars using the AUX input of our car stereos. Plus have a wider c…

You know the pixel 2 doesn’t have a headphone jack either, right? Apple may have been first movers, but everyone is following.

> Apple may have been first movers, but everyone is following.

Well, Google is following, but while Google is the software maker behind Android, they don't own the only, or even biggest, hardware business in that ecosystem. Samsung, OTOH, responded by keeping the jack and bundling higher quality wired headsets than the basic ones everyone used to bundle, but then Samsung also has removable storage on all their flagships, and, on one of flagship line, a stylus, so they pretty clearly aren't on board with the Apple “progress means dropping features” approach.

Re: I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

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Post by dmitriid »

gls2ro wrote: post #59
dmitriid wrote: post #56

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I find this area the single most useless display of information on an iPhone. Yes, you can see which app takes how much space. Then what? There is no way to control or clean up that space. You can hope that an app has a setting somewhere that let's you delete old data, and that's it. The biggest offender? Apple's own Photos app especially with iCloud and Photo Stream: there's exactly zero ways to make it give up spac…

On the General > Storage there are some options I have on my iOS (v 11.3): - Offload Unused Apps - Auto Delete Old Conversations Or I can manually offload apps one by one. I think you are referring to the iCloud Storage settings on the iPhone when talking about deleting photos from all connected devices. Probably the confusion is because they decided to put two storages: General > iPhone Storage (managing local stora…

Both of those options are next to useless because unused apps rarely take up much space, and old conversations don't take up much space either.

And then you have stuff like "Photos X GB", "Facebook X GB" etc. There are no ways to control that.

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