Re: Anyone using pixel coming fro iPhone?
I did the exact opposite.
Here's my take. I've been an Android FanBoy since 2008 when the first device was released. I've have 4 or 5 DIFFERENT Android devices each year since that time. Each year, everything improved.... come 2015/2016, the Nexus 6P was, by far, the best Android phone I have ever laid my techy paws on - and it was priced under $400 brand new. It was the best of all worlds.
Now, the Pixel comes out with many staples (stereo, or even. DECENT speaker to be the most obvious omission) are missing and they jack the price up; way up.
It hit me that Google was charging a current-generation iPhone price for a first-generation guinea pig device.
For the first time in my life, I purchased an Apple Product. The iPhone 7 Plus 256GB to be precise. It already feels better and out performs anything I've used from Android.
I'm almost embarrassed to admit it since i always bashed Apple, but this device is simply stunning. I can do everything in half the time that it took me to do with Android.
I don't miss the ROMmig and Modding, because everything just works.
I'm close to you as well, haven't had as many android phones but been an android fanboy ever since smart phones started coming out. Well this year, due to the 'poor' selections in android I decided to try out the iphone 7 plus 256g coming from a motorola nexus 6.
It's been an experience let me tell you...long story short I'm moving back to android and going for the pixel xl.
I like the iphone, it's well built and does function well and smoothly - albeit not fast like my n6 (which I had the animations to 0 and a custom rom). On the iphone I have to wait for the animations which is a pain. A couple big things did it for me. The first and largest reason I'm switching back is because the pictures are TERRIBLE for this new of a device. This is using the stock camera on auto mode. The pics are washed out in some lighting and in anything other than direct light they have this pixelated watercolor effect going on, which appears to be from being over processed. I am not the only one w/ this issue, see
here and
here. It also happens on my wife's new iphone 7 (regular).
A few other more minor things are simply that the system isn't as user friendly and fluid as android. For example, I use my phone for my small business on which I have a chat widget (tawk.to) which will allow customers to chat directly w/ me via the widget and an app on my phone. Well with android not only would the phone sound the alert and show up on the lock screen, it would also show up a symbol on the top of the notification bar when browsing in any other app you happened to be in (say google chrome). This the same for emails and texting. On the iphone I have to go to the home screen to see if there have been any alerts overlayed on the app itself... there is no symbol present in the notification bar to alert me that I missed someone trying to chat w/ me until I have to pull it down to see for myself.
Another thing is that there is no permanent back button which is kind of annoying. Apple does standardize where the back button is (upper left) but then I have to basically use 2 hands to go back whenever I want to. Lastly, there is no good call recording app that natively works from the phone itself (I use call recording ALL the time for my business recording phone calls - if I'm driving and can't write a number down I simply replay the recording later). For iphone you have to call a third party and have them connect you. Also, one thing I noticed is the scrolling isn't fluid... you can't just 'fling' a screen and go all the way to the other end (especially noticeable w/ the 'recents') but you have to physically scroll through multiple times.
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