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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 mirkules »

chrischen wrote: post #6

I had the same experience when first switching to Android after a lifetime on iPhone. But after a year of really getting to use Android features it eventually became apparent Android has its own problems, and I ended up switching back to iOS. It'll seem great at first since it does things differently and improves on many aspects of where iOS fails at while it's fresh in your mind, but you'll need to spend much more t…

This is the review I'd really like to see. I'm not interested in "first impressions" or "1 month in". I'm interested what happens after a year, two or even three years.

I have an iPhone 6S+, and it works almost flawlessly - animation is still good, very few app glitches, and even the original battery is in decent shape.

I'd like to hear how Androids from that era fare compared to iPhones from that era - because I plan on having my next phone for at least this long.

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

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Post by addicted »

simonh wrote: post #71
aldanor wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He might have meant, e.g., that iPhone X has a wildly different set of gestures and shortcuts. Like, guided mode being triple-power instead of triple home, battery/volume/etc menu swiping from upper left corner instead of from below, apps being minimized vía swiping up instead of home button, etc, the list is long.

That's hardly going to be an iPhone only thing though. Any phone that does away with one or more hardware buttons, especially the home button, is going to have to present a new command interface. It's not like going into getting an X that this is going to be some unexpected surprise, and certainly not every month.

Android phones got rid of hardware buttons in favor of SW ones. Making the entire interface gesture based isn’t the only option.

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

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Post by hellofunk »

syshum wrote: post #45
hellofunk wrote: post #8

> Much more transparency about what the phone is doing This is a curious point, especially considering the recent FB Android app revelations about lots and lots of things the phone was doing that nobody realised, things that cannot happen on iOS due to stricter privacy enforcement. I suppose no month is complete without an iOS/Android flame war, but hopefully that won't happen here. For what it's worth, smart phones…

>>especially considering the recent FB Android app revelations about lots and lots of things the phone was doing that nobody realised, No lots of people realized them, and lots of people have been talking about them for years just no one really payed attention until now. When you install FB or any other app you get a nice list of things the App is allowed to do, if you do not want the app to do those things you shoul…

> When you install FB or any other app you get a nice list of things the App is allowed to do, if you do not want the app to do those things you should not install the app.

This is actually a fairly recent change to Android. It did not used to provide you with these choices. It demonstrates that user privacy is a bit of an afterthought with Android.

For Apple, these kinds of user choices have been there since the start.

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

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Post by dvirsky »

I've managed to destroy my Pixel 2 a few days ago, and for the time being switched to an iPhone 6.

Some of the difficulties I'm having are due to habits or not knowing how to do stuff in iOS, but all in all, the Pixel 2 and latest Android are so good, iOS really feels like a step backwards. It used to be more polished than Android, but that's not true anymore as well. It just feels clunky and primitive compared to the Pixel.

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

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Post by caf »

dmitriid wrote: post #70
gls2ro wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Old conversations actually used to be the worst offender for some users - it included all media sent or received in those conversations which could be really hard to track down.

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

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Post by harshaw »

As a long time Android user and current pixel owner I wonder about how well Android does with degraded hardware. My Pixel has not only gotten slower and slower but the battery life is horrible. Yes, I use the phone all the time but it's really bad. Aside - I wonder if the crappy boxer email app required by work is a source of pain.

I don't see iPhone user's charge their phones as much as I do, or carry around an external battery pack like I do.

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

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Post by timrichard »

I develop on Macs, and really like using iOS devices. The iPad is my tablet of choice.... But I've always stuck with Android phones, since the G1 (and a lot of jokes at the time).

I think it's because the app interoperability was designed in from the start, something that only appeared gradually in iOS. I find a lot of value in workflow companion apps. So when I get a text message, it gets archived to Gmail with a label so it's searchable. And every incoming/outgoing/missed call puts an entry with the details and timestamp in my calendar, so I can look back for reference.

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

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Post by antihero »

ssijak wrote: post #30
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.…

My experience exactly. I always said bad things about iPhone. Hay it is closed, it has fewer options, worse hardware than top Android phones, etc.. It was the time during which I fiddled with the phone much, installed Ubuntu on Android phone, etc.. But then my last Nexus started to glitch like any other Android top phone after 1 year of use. I was so irritated by it that I said well I will try iPhone now. It was abou…

Also there's small stuff like: Photo map. I've traced back treasured photos that would have been lost in a sea of 44,000 photos by finding them on the map.

Google Photos doesn't seem to have this.

Notes also works really nicely for loads of stuff.

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

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Post by antihero »

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…

Lack of Headphone jack is annoying as fuck, but if it's for in-car use buy a cheap £10 Bluetooth audio adapter.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-SoundSync-Bluetooth-handsfree...

Anker do one now!

For headphones you can use that adapter (fiddly) or a 3rd party dongle, or buy something like the ATH-M50x with BAL-M50 bluetooth adapter, which was my daily driver and I loved it (until they got nicked :( )

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