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

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Post by acchow »

jedahan wrote: post #213
acchow wrote: post #14

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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.

The screen is the immediately impressive quality about the One X. Photos are mediocre in good lighting/outdoors but excellent under very dim light. Speed is alright I guess, but runs out of ram more often than I'd like (thus clearing an app out of cache causing a reload when switching back to it).

To me, the most impressive is its battery life. I've gone through too many Android phones with poor battery life. The (snapdragon) One X is the only Android phone with acceptable battery life to me. So it's either iPhone or One X. Everything else dies on me at some point in the afternoon/evening.

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Post by i386 »

jedahan wrote: post #211
desigooner wrote: post #166

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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.

That's the problem with the HN:News iOS app - it shows the comments first and I've always believed it should show the article first.

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Post by clarky07 »

greggman wrote: post #281
clarky07 wrote: post #268

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Or that they don't like broken phones?

the majority of cases will not save your phone from breaking. There's only a few "shock resistent" cases and they don't appear to be very popular.

Sure they will. It doesn't have to withstand drop from top of building. Just drop from pocket most of the time. A bit of plastic definitely cushions the blow.

Otter Box seems to be one of the most popular that I see, and it is definitely made to offer some protection.

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Post by SeripisChad »

TrisMcC wrote: post #97
SeripisChad wrote: post #92

GROUP TEXT MESSAGES drive me crazy on android (complete rubbish), iOS has nice user experience for this. If there was one thing I wish google would fix ASAP its this.

Group text messages work fine on Android 4.2.

according to this it's still not implement in stock Android - only patch on certain phones by the carriers. see: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24468

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Post by taligent »

shinratdr wrote: post #255
niklas_a wrote: post #72

Can only agree with OP. I gave up my iPhone 4 for a Galaxy Nexus this summer and have never looked back. I think Google can still work on the default look, but I find Android to be very "clean" and quick to work with. Android feels much more like a real operating system. iOS is so restricted and there are many work tasks that I cannot do (e.g. mailing a dropbox file to someone). Google Now is also amazingly good. And…

Mailing a Dropbox file directly is only hard on iOS because Dropbox makes it that way. If they offered a "send link" and a "send file" option it would be one step like Android. Instead I have to kick it to FileExplorer and send it from there. It's not ideal but its also not Apple's fault.

Dropbox offers a Send Link feature.

Have you seriously never used it before ?

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Post by rogerbinns »

My huge problem with iOS (and Apple in general) is the obsession with constantly making you enter passwords. Sometimes it gets so overwhelming that I am convinced the codebase mainly consists of password entering routines interspersed with small bits of other functionality. iOS's inability to share between apps also means usernames and passwords have to be constantly re-entered there too (eg every app that supports Dropbox requires entering a username and password in each app).

This Apple disease spreads elsewhere. I had to enter my username and password on their developer site, and some web developer at Apple had gone to great lengths to prevent you from pasting your password into the password field. (I don't know that password - it is stored in a password management program.)

I can't for the life of me understand why the Apple faithful put up with this nonsense.

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Post by nathanstitt »

slykat wrote: post #245
leephillips wrote: post #162

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You sure make a good case for Android being vastly more capable. After that litany, I'm really curious what are the "plenty of things I like about iPhone over Android". Why are you sticking with the iPhone despite your compelling list of Android advantages? I ask as someone who has used iPhone but not Android, is keenly aware of iOS limitations, but likes the hardware.

I've switched between the two platforms a bit - I had an iphone 3G, a few android phones, and switched back to iOS with iPhone 5. I really like Android but there were a few deal killers: 1) Battery life - pretty much the reason I switched back to iPhone. It doesn't matter how great the software is - if I can't turn on the phone it's useless. I don't know how many times I would be racing to meet friends at night, hopi…

Yup, that's my list as well.

Android users will tell you that battery life is not an issue anymore but that hasn't been my experience at all. I think that it's a case of you can get good battery life as long as you don't take full advantage of most of the Android features. In particular GPS based apps are horrible on Android, most of them seem to poll constantly.

The article talks up the app data sharing, but I haven't found many apps that take advantage of it. Sorry, it just feels kinda gimmicky to me.

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

gallamine wrote: post #85
gonehome wrote: post #3

Interesting - I switched from android to the iPhone 5 recently (after having the N1, NS and Galaxy Nexus). I thought this was the first iPhone that finally had the necessary hardware (LTE being required after the galaxy). The main things I miss are better google voice integration on the nexus phones (the ability to use the web interface for texting is something I can't give up). I also used to not pay for texting thi…

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.

I'm glad that my Google Voice number doesn't accept MMS. What a silly invention. If you must use MMS, my email address works more than fine.

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

clarky07 wrote: post #276
pook1e wrote: post #177

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> no LTE Fair enough. > battery life Benchmarks never demonstrate typical use cases, which is especially true for battery life. Unless all you do is load web pages for hours on end at fixed intervals. Personally, I have better things to do with my time. Based on what I've witnessed with my Nexus 4 and iPhone 5s in my family, battery life is very comparible. > screen quality When compared to the iPhone 5, the Nexus 4…

> Seriously. You have no idea what you're talking about. This thread was about Galaxy Nexus, not Nexus 4. Pot, meet kettle.

taligent was still horribly wrong then, though it's easy to understand given Apple was a year late to the LTE party and since half his posts are pro-iOS apologies.

My Galaxy Nexus has 4G and has excellent battery life. The AMOLED screen is also, of course, gorgeous.

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

shinratdr wrote: post #257
josteink wrote: post #75

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Upload to Google Music. Tag the music you want on the device as "available offline", on your phone, when you have internet connectivity. No cables. No sync. No fucking iTunes. No computer required. Just internet. Done. If you feel old-fashioned, you can also just copy files to your device as a standard MTP or mass-storage device using USB-cables, or copy to SD-cards. As long as the music files are properly tagged you…

So exactly like iTunes Match? Oh, except iTunes Match has a real client that allows you to manage your music instead of a crippled uploader that only allowed you to pick folders, 5000 more song storage space and smart playlist ability. Also, it doesn't require that every song be uploaded instead of matching them against songs that already exist on the server. Half of my library didn't need to be uploaded and most of…

Google Music has a web client that is just as functional as iTunes and doesn't require a 1GB download for every update. Further, Google Music also performs matching now.

Nice completely inaccurate rant. Oh yeah, and Google Music matches at 320Kbps.

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