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An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

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Post by jedahan »

desigooner wrote: post #166
lanelio wrote: post #116

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"I haven't read the article but..." So it's come to this on HN...

I routinely read through the comments before I actually click on the link to the article. It's a quick indicator to the quality of the article and often, I learn more from the comments vs. the article itself.

I used to do the same thing until I realized how much it affected my interpretation of the article. It colored my thoughts, making me part of the hivemind. Now I read the article first, then wait a few seconds before looking at what other people think so I can better for my own opinion.

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Post by MatthewPhillips »

obituary_latte wrote: post #51

What are people's experience dealing with the migration of music from iOS to android? As an iOS user with an itch to checkout android again (had one of the first HTC "google phones"), this is one of my bigger concerns.

First things first; stop buying music and movies from a store that is tied to a particular brand device. Never make this mistake again and it won't be an issue in the future. Today Amazon is probably the best choice for cross-platform cloud music, but there are others as well.

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Post by jedahan »

acchow wrote: post #14
sami36 wrote: post #2

& I switched from an iPhone 4S to a Galaxy Nexus & back to an iPhone 5 , couldn't be happier. These posts are pointless. Whatever device works for you. All of these platforms have strengths & weaknesses. You can make equally cogent cases for the upcoming Blackberry 10 or Windows Phone 8. The First iPhone was a significant leap in mobile computing, since then, the way I see it, it's been mostly polish. Google & MSFT c…

The Galaxy Nexus is garbage. I went from 4S to Galaxy Nexus too and it infuriated me. The screen was unusable in sunlight, microphone and speaker quality were laughable, battery life is half the 4S, not-very-sensitive touchscreen, etc. Now on an HTC One X, which I like more than the iPhone. It doesn't have any of the quality issues of the GNexus.

I have a One X, and get a lot of questions from people with iPhones. Its just a good phone to me, but everyone else seems impressed with the screen quality, photo quality, speed etc. I thought all phones were more or less in the same ballpark.

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Post by FireBeyond »

dannyr wrote: post #142
gallamine wrote: post #85

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Do you find you have problems with MMS and Google Voice? Last I checked, it was unsupported and text messages with pictures or video just went to /dev/null without any notifications to either party. That was a no-go for me.

My main # now is Google Voice. For the past 4 years, there was just 2 instances that I needed MMS. What's frustrating though is the inability of Google Voice to receive SMS from short codes. Craigslist and Paypal also don't verify accounts with a Google Voice number.

Perhaps so, but you can't deny that for wider adoption, Google Voice needs to do something about both Short Codes and MMS. Lack of MMS is a dealbreaker for a lot of people, and "text it to my email address", as I explain to friends, is like a paradigm shifting without a clutch (with apologies to Dilbert).

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Post by FireBeyond »

Mahn wrote: post #139
sami36 wrote: post #2

& I switched from an iPhone 4S to a Galaxy Nexus & back to an iPhone 5 , couldn't be happier. These posts are pointless. Whatever device works for you. All of these platforms have strengths & weaknesses. You can make equally cogent cases for the upcoming Blackberry 10 or Windows Phone 8. The First iPhone was a significant leap in mobile computing, since then, the way I see it, it's been mostly polish. Google & MSFT c…

> iOS fluidity still has no equal I've been using the iPhone for a while before switching to a Nexus 4, and honestly there is nothing that feels more fluid on iOS than on a Nexus 4 running jelly bean 4.2.1.

And though some may view it as heresy, as someone who has always had a penchant for "high end" phones, has owned and used the 4S, S3, fluidity seems to be a "solved" problem - even on my latest phone, a Lumia 920 running Windows 8 (now my favorite device, despite the lacking ecosystem - the store is my least favorite aspect).

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Post by enraged_camel »

pagliara wrote: post #10

Interesting. I too am an iPhone lover who recently picked up a Nexus 4 to get into Android development. This is my first experience with Android, so I didn't realize that the Nexus 4 Android experience might be different than your typical Android smartphone. I was very impressed with the overall experience. If I wasn't so used to iOS, I could easily see myself using Android on a Nexus 4. But in the end, I walked away…

Agreed on the size. Nexus 4 is basically a mini-tablet, and looks incredibly retarded when someone holds it up to their ear. Reminds me of people who use their iPad cameras to take photos and videos.

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Post by veeti »

bane wrote: post #82
ebiester wrote: post #80

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I Just changed to Android yesterday. The first thing I missed was the polish of the iOS. I looked up how to switch applications and all I got was "10 best task switcher apps." I don't have time to evaluate three, much less ten task switcher apps! All I've been able to find is if you hold down the main button and then scroll to task manager, you can get to one. I like customization, but Apple's defaults were better fo…

If you're using a modern Android phone there's a specific task switching button. http://www.droidforums.net/forum/attachments/droid-news/5101...

Except not. Only Nexus, Sony and HTC have adopted the new button layout.

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Post by greggman »

w0utert wrote: post #117
vacri wrote: post #98

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You seem to think that 'allows customisation' and 'defaults that work well' are mutually exclusive for some reason. Note that I was responding to your characterisation of personalisation, which was essentially "give people the ability to personalise and they make it ugly!". Yes, to you. Not to them. I've also never really understood the toddler argument for 'well-designed'. 'Simple', sure, but not 'well-designed'. We…

>> You seem to think that 'allows customisation' and 'defaults that work well' are mutually exclusive for some reason. Well often they are, especially in a complex piece of software like a phone OS. Customizability requires trade-offs which may affect usability or performance. More often than not, software that allows skinning looks butt-ugly in the default setting and integrates poorly with the rest of the system (t…

>> but also because it isn't all that interesting to (I assume) most smartphone users.

I'd argue the fact that the iPhone case market is so huge is evidence that most users love customization.

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Post by majorlazer »

taligent wrote: post #42
StavrosK wrote: post #32

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> GN is clearly inferior in build quality to an iPhone It's only inferior in visible quality (I've dropped it a lot and it barely has a scratch on it), but I'm okay with that because it costs half as much as an iPhone, which I think is very significant. You can get a top-of-the-line smartphone for $300. That's amazing.

> You can get a top-of-the-line smartphone for $300. That's amazing. Not sure why you think this. It is mid range phone by every benchmark (e.g. no LTE, battery life, screen quality) and it gets destroyed by the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 in every performance benchmark.

The Galaxy Nexus does have LTE. The Nexus 4 does not.

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Post by pavel_lishin »

enraged_camel wrote: post #216
pagliara wrote: post #10

Interesting. I too am an iPhone lover who recently picked up a Nexus 4 to get into Android development. This is my first experience with Android, so I didn't realize that the Nexus 4 Android experience might be different than your typical Android smartphone. I was very impressed with the overall experience. If I wasn't so used to iOS, I could easily see myself using Android on a Nexus 4. But in the end, I walked away…

Agreed on the size. Nexus 4 is basically a mini-tablet, and looks incredibly retarded when someone holds it up to their ear. Reminds me of people who use their iPad cameras to take photos and videos.

> looks incredibly retarded when someone holds it up to their ear

I care more about my phone's abilities than I do about what people think of me when I'm holding it up to my ear. (Which only happens maybe once a week for me, anyway.)

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