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iOS for a weekend

gynormus

gynormus

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I tried iOS 8 for a weekend... here's how it went.

I was using an iPhone 6 on iOS 8.1.2 with Verizon, my first smartphone ever was a iPhone 3G then I went to a 3GS then the OG Droid. Details below but to sum it up I've come to the conclusion that iPhone isn't very functional and they seem to focus more on making it pretty. Design weighed more heavily with iPhone as opposed with Android where technical design and easy of use is weighed more.

iPhone 6 use:
-Mail is crap, no delete button, have to mark mail, then select move to... then Trash.

-Gmail app on iOS wasn't much better

-icons are stuck top justified?!? I should have known this but...why? especially if they are now making bigger phones... why make you have all the icons on the top? So dumb of them. Give us options? oh wait.. android :P

-Settings menu is horrible. No quick access to bluetooth menu? or wifi? nope. have to go into settings. Also app settings in the settings menu? what the hell? Say someone goes into an app, looks around and wants to change something, they have to back out and go into settings.. find the app.. blah blah blah

-Keyboard is horrible. no haptic feedback, the keys don't change from lower case to upper case. just stuck on uppercase. Also all punctuations are on a seperate page. Google keyboard has comma and period on first page, long press gives you more options

-others I could go on for a while but it comes down to no custom options really.

I am really shocked that I actually found it harder to do things on iOS than Android. I guess it comes down to Apple thinking that design and looks is more important then technical functionallity and ease of use.

-Droid Turbo user.
 
thanks for the writeup.

but i do notice.. that iphones connect to other devices for music better.
example... i rented a ford focus to go on vacation... running some flavor of Microsoft OS.
it has a USB plug and an Aux Audio jack.

my Samsung NOTE3... .
USB did charge my phone... but would not recognize any of my media or streaming services.

my GF, put her iPhone in.. and works for her!!!
 
dan330 said:
thanks for the writeup.

but i do notice.. that iphones connect to other devices for music better.
example... i rented a ford focus to go on vacation... running some flavor of Microsoft OS.
it has a USB plug and an Aux Audio jack.

my Samsung NOTE3... .
USB did charge my phone... but would not recognize any of my media or streaming services.

my GF, put her iPhone in.. and works for her!!!
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That sounds like one of those products....
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If this Ford system is indeed a Microsoft OS. Does it work with Windows Phone devices I wonder

I think most people in this country plug USB sticks into their car systems, and play MP3s from them. The vast majority don't stream music via cellular data, because that's metered, not unlimited.
 
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100% it was a Microsoft OS in the car... emblem on the radio face.
car had Bluetooth!!! worked for making calls.. but would no option to do media.!

I head to use the audio jack.. into auxiliary port.

windows OS.. worked with apple product..(did not test Bluetooth with iPhone).
but would not with my android (high end) device.
I am sure they it would work with the current hardware.. just did NOT want to program it in.

I did read last month.. that ford is dropping Microsoft OS from their cars.

that says a lot!!!
 
iOS became utterly ugly, annoying to use (have to swipe to delete email for example---discovered that by accident) after version 7. i loved how it looked and worked in iOS 6 and earlier, but when i had to deal with iOS 7 (and 8, which fixes some but is still horrible looking) it jump-started my move to Android. I have an iPad Air 2 for times when i'm nowhere near a wifi and want to browse the web, but only because the Samsung Tab Pro 10 was super expensive on Verizon, while the Air 2 was free. go figure.
 
gynormus said:
-icons are stuck top justified?!? I should have known this but...why? especially if they are now making bigger phones... why make you have all the icons on the top? So dumb of them. Give us options? oh wait.. android :p
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The home screen is organised linearly from the top line going left to right and then downwards row by row. It was annoying after you are used to Android's 2-dimensional home screens.

-Settings menu is horrible. No quick access to bluetooth menu? or wifi? nope. have to go into settings. Also app settings in the settings menu? what the hell? Say someone goes into an app, looks around and wants to change something, they have to back out and go into settings.. find the app.. blah blah blah
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iOS 8 has a quick settings menu that you can access by swiping up from the bottom of the screen. Here you can toggle BlueTooth and Wifi and a few other commonly used settings.

-Keyboard is horrible. no haptic feedback, the keys don't change from lower case to upper case. just stuck on uppercase. Also all punctuations are on a seperate page. Google keyboard has comma and period on first page, long press gives you more options
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I would say that every new keyboard takes getting used to. Haptic feedback is not available, though. Third party keyboards are available, but currently do not have features as rich as Android third party keyboards. One reason is that third party keyboards are new where as they have been available for years on Android.

I am really shocked that I actually found it harder to do things on iOS than Android. I guess it comes down to Apple thinking that design and looks is more important then technical functionallity and ease of use.
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I think that a lot of it has to do with what you are used to. It took some time for me to get used to iOS as there are some subtle and some not so subtle differences between iOS and Android. I've been using iOS for less than a year now and I have now gotten used to it. I find some things are better and easier on iOS and others are better and easier on Android.

dan330 said:
but i do notice.. that iphones connect to other devices for music better.
example... i rented a ford focus to go on vacation... running some flavor of Microsoft OS.
it has a USB plug and an Aux Audio jack.

my Samsung NOTE3... .
USB did charge my phone... but would not recognize any of my media or streaming services.

my GF, put her iPhone in.. and works for her!!!
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In comparing a Galaxy S3 to an iPhone 5S, I do find that the GS3 sometimes do not connect properly via BT to my car audio system on my car. Once in a while, I would have to manually start the music even though it is set to auto play on connection. Once in a while, after receiving a phone call, the music ends up playing over the phone's speaker instead of my car's speaker. The only way to fix it is to turn off the car and turn it back on.

I've had to use my iPhone 5S for a few weeks instead of my GS3 last year. I found the music playing over the 5S seem to work better. I did not have any issues over those 3 weeks other than the music stuttering once. On my GS3, the music stutters from time to time and more often.

Granted, that these phones were released about 2 years apart, but these were the devices I had to use. In spite of some minor imperfections, I still love my GS3 and have no problem using it for another year. I likely won't switch to an iPhone as I prefer Android.
 
Comparing a Galaxy SIII to an iPhone 5S is akin to comparing an i486DX/33 to a Core i5.


That being said, i do prefer the look and feel of Samsung's UI over what Jony did to iOS and recently, OS X. oh well i can probably sell my MBP on Ebay for a pretty sum...
 
Oh, i have a whole host of tech analogies in store for the poor unfortunate souls who insist that their ancient Galaxy S sucks because it cannot compare to the fluid performance of the iPhone 6 Plus. Or the few who insist that the ZTE Blade should perform to the same level of a Galaxy Note 3.

However, the Galaxy SIII is ancient today. not even remotely comparable to even an iPhone 5S. Though i do like TouchWiz, it really didn't help the now-dated hardware of that once-great Samsung smartphone. The SIII got me into Android, but let's face it. it lags, has a 9 hour standby battery time, reboots itself often, and has a dated design these days. I really think Samsung should have skipped the SIII and just made the S4, which is a much better phone, better screen, much better battery, even though at first glance it looks exactly like the SIII, despite it being a bit more upscale.
 
I don't doubt you for an instant.

But your analogy was for two phones released the same year. :D

So, I'm not sure who's cared about that comparison for two years, who is comparing the OG Galaxy S to the iPhone 6+, or anything else for that matter.

The only analogy that counts is mine - the iPhone uses the equivalent of a one button mouse. The UI/UX is fast enough if you can ever get to where you're going.

The reasons it counts are - 1) this is my post, 2) it's true (and on topic, the OP essentially found out the same thing), 3) no one still cares about my analogies, and 4) this is my post.

Hopefully this clarifies the vast importance of comparing iOS with Android in our daily lives.

It's fun. It's informative. It's like a bridge.


Cheers. :)
 
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Lol Nick well my s3 (now being rocked by Mrs Smith) can get a day and 6hours standby or 4 and a half hours SOT running a cheeky wee cm based custom rom and custom kernel and is fast as lightening and supported by all the rom teams who matter right up to lollipop so there's life in the old dog yet :thumbsupdroid:
 
With CM (CyanogenMod right?) it was worse. it chewed through it. the only way my late great SIII made a day plus standby was when i put the thing in Airplane Mode.

Of course, it died recently so i never got to test the tweaks and optimizations i do to all my Samsung devices that has helped them work well for my use case (essentially ditching Google apps and using the Samsung alternatives, which if you give them a chance have far more features that i find useful to Google's ugly, limited feature apps that have too many permissions and don't seem to place nice with TW)

Your SIII was likely the better, quad-core international model. the US got a laggy, dual-core, 1GB RAM device with undersized battery, no FM radio, and an AMOLED screen that turned green a year later.

I had an S4 last year that was crap. it lagged, had bad battery, and got hot. I was using tons of Google crud then. With my new S4 now, Google is GONE. i use Samsung and Amazon alternatives so there are zero wakelocks, zero lag, the apps seem to be more compatible with the design of the UI, the only sync is email/weather, etc. More RAM available for a handful of apps and their services vs. hundreds causing slowdown and launcher redraws.

I wish i had an SIII lying around to test it with. my S4 can go two days plus on a charge, my Note 3 has excellent screen on time.

Apple you're stuck with their app store, their way, etc. don't like the UI? don't get an iPhone.
 
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Yeah ours is the quad core but only 1gb version. North America got the dual core 2gb version which is still very capable :thumbsupdroid:
And I think both versions used the exact same battery (2100mah?)
 
IIRC, the international S3 didn't have LTE, correct?

Also, can we get a calendar of what weeks Nick is pro Google UI and what months he's anti Google UI? :p
 
bjacks12 said:
IIRC, the international S3 didn't have LTE, correct?

Also, can we get a calendar of what weeks Nick is pro Google UI and what months he's anti Google UI? :p
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Lmao and yeah the first launch of international didn't have LTE "because chipset" but then I think a few months later they launched an LTE version with the same chipset.
(i could be wrong but it would be typical Samsung)
 
funkylogik said:
Lmao and yeah the first launch of international didn't have LTE "because chipset" but then I think a few months later they launched an LTE version with the same chipset.
(i could be wrong but it would be typical Samsung)
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It was because SoC and cost - something that they didn't care about for their own market.

Chipset - abuse of the term by blog writers - literally means: a bunch of chips belonging to the same set, required to work together.

SoC - system on (a) chip - the equivalent of a whole chunk of a pc motherboard, all on one, single chip. Includes mobile functions and can also incorporate the mobile modems without need for a separate chip.

Hilariously, Qualcomm gave up trying to teach the cool blog writers to call them what they are, gave up, and actually bastardized their own website in order to comply with the "experts" writing the stories. So although almost everyone calls them chipsets, they're SoCs.

Calling them chipsets is exactly like calling tires, axles.

There's your trivia for the day. :D
 
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