S7 or iPhone 7?

[Hadron]

Ok, I was qualifying my answer on SD because it's not exactly equivalent to having more internal storage. As I see it SD if great for storing photos, video, music. But it's not a good solution for storing apps. So I'd always say buy a phone with enough internal storage for your app needs, then use SD for media. You can move apps to SD, but that's either a partial move (as with the S7) or involves encrypting the SD (making it only useful in that phone, so basically a slower and less reliable version of internal storage). So I personally prefer not to rely on moving apps to SD at all and just use it for media.

So yeah, if your concern is storing a lot of music, video, photos, then that's exactly what it's for.

As for inputs (@Xavier Black), nope, I've tried swipe and hate it. But I've been a touch typist since the 80s, so my background is probably very different, and that's why it's good to have choices. As for voice control, it's mainly that it's something I'd only want to do when I'm alone (it disturbs other people, and doesn't impress anyone any more) and I can usually type what I want with more precision than these assistant apps can interpret what I say (and faster). But that's the thing, different people have different needs and preferences, and what you really want is a system that can accommodate them all rather than expecting you to conform to what suits the corporation.

 

[Xavier Black]

I feel you..

 

[wuyiL]

Anyone care to share any insights on this possible switch? One appeal of the iphone 7 is that Siri will apparently work when not plugged in, which is enticing to me. Is it true The S7 does not offer this feature?

iPhone 7 from Virgin Mobile is $299.

 

[luan22]

For me, you should choose s8 because the price of ip7 is enough to buy s8

 

[heycal]

I would not want a phone as big as Galaxy S8. S7 is max for me. Iphone 6/7 is a bit too small. (Galaxy S4 was perfect, not too tall, wider than iphone).

So on this storage thing, this external thingy remains in the phone and all your songs and videos are there and accessible at all times? Not concerned with apps.

Swype is crazy! I prefer regular typing, and like swiftkey over iphone keyboard. But I'm so much faster with voice texting (maybe because I'm 55 years old!) that I do that whenever possible. Yes, there are errors that need to be fixed, either by voice or typing, but it's still so much faster for me overall.

Speaking of keyboards and speaking, is it possible to have a dedicated microphone key on the Galaxy S7? Either comes that way, or via swiftkey or some third party keyboard? My iphone has one, and it's important to me. A friend of mine has some sort of swiftkey keyboard, and she must long press a key that shares space with a comma to access her mic. Takes longer, and harder for old eyes to see.

 

[Shotgun84]

Swype was one of the things I never knew I wanted until I tried it. I just can't go back to typing anymore, well except for those annoying moments where you've obviously Swyped it right five times and what you've been trying to swype wasn't even in the suggestions once. Anywho I'd go for the s7

 

[Shotgun84]

Anyway yeah there's a dedicated microphone key (ish). It's the cog key which has multiple purposes. You long press it and choose what you want it to do. It'll stay as that until you long press it again.

 

[Shotgun84]

Soz just checked my Samsung keyboard and the , is also on that key. You probably don't want to hear this but Swype has a dedicated microphone button lol.

 

[heycal]

I tried Swype. No more success with that in that I had in my miserable art class in elementary school.

Any not swype dedicated mic keys? A mic key that shares no other purpose, and doesn't require a long press like the iphone keyboard, is what I'm interested in.

 

[Shotgun84]

Although you do know you can also type on Swype right?

 

[heycal]

Although you do know you can also type on Swype right?

I've forgotten. It's been awhile since I've seen a swype keyboard. I've been with iphone for about 5 (often frustrating) years now.

 

[Hadron]

Yeah, to confirm, the SD card can just remain in the phone full time (though you can remove it and stick it in a card reader if you want).

SwiftKey has a mic key which you activate with a long press on the comma key (you can choose how long "long" to suit yourself). GBoard puts at the right-hand end of the suggestions bar (so above the keys). Many if not most keyboards have them.