I have both. Pixel XL and iPhone 7Plus. Both are great phones for what they are but it's all personal preference. Android will always be my primary device.Thoughts??
How easy/difficult is it to transfer data/pics from iPhone to Pixel? Does the iPhone have to be on a specific iOS? My wife has hers completely full and is on iOS 6/7 (can't remember). I would love to be able to take advantage of an easy move.
Well Apple just released iOS 10.1 so I am unsure how anything would work on iOS 6 or 7.
Understood. Just wanted to know if the there was a minimum iOS that the data transfer from the iPhone to Pixel would allow.
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.
The iPhone 7 Plus better than any Android device you've used...Looks like you really need to try a Pixel first hand. It out performs the 6P in every way.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.
Well Apple just released iOS 10.1 so I am unsure how anything would work on iOS 6 or 7.
ThanksI can't speak for myself. Im very familiar with all the current mobile OS's but after talking to my wife last night about her first week with her pixel here's what she had to say coming from 5-6 years of iPhone use.
She thinks it feels smoother
She likes how she can personalize it more to her tastes without having to mess around and shoe horn things if you will
She prefers the slightly bigger screen size
Now that she's used to it, she loves the Fingerprint sensor (only complain is when its face up on the table)
The camera is quicker, the shots look sharper, detail and low light is better, but she prefers the saturation on her iPhone
Shes in love with Google Assistant/Google Now. She was never one to use Siri much, but she likes how the Assistant and Google now cards feel more personal and give some better information
Hates how some of the app icons are extremely ugly, she prefers the clean look of the app icons on the iphone (I agree honestly, i wish google would force circular icons at this point for any app on a pixel)
Battery life is better than her iphone, it also charges faster
Gets Warmer than her iphone does
Very well stated, and spot on.I can't speak for myself. Im very familiar with all the current mobile OS's but after talking to my wife last night about her first week with her pixel here's what she had to say coming from 5-6 years of iPhone use.
She thinks it feels smoother
She likes how she can personalize it more to her tastes without having to mess around and shoe horn things if you will
She prefers the slightly bigger screen size
Now that she's used to it, she loves the Fingerprint sensor (only complain is when its face up on the table)
The camera is quicker, the shots look sharper, detail and low light is better, but she prefers the saturation on her iPhone
Shes in love with Google Assistant/Google Now. She was never one to use Siri much, but she likes how the Assistant and Google now cards feel more personal and give some better information
Hates how some of the app icons are extremely ugly, she prefers the clean look of the app icons on the iphone (I agree honestly, i wish google would force circular icons at this point for any app on a pixel)
Battery life is better than her iphone, it also charges faster
Gets Warmer than her iphone does
Not as good of a selection of cases for the phone (yet anyways)
Shes happy she made the switch, she hasn't used android since the original motorola Droid.
I can't speak for myself. Im very familiar with all the current mobile OS's but after talking to my wife last night about her first week with her pixel here's what she had to say coming from 5-6 years of iPhone use.
She thinks it feels smoother
She likes how she can personalize it more to her tastes without having to mess around and shoe horn things if you will
She prefers the slightly bigger screen size
Now that she's used to it, she loves the Fingerprint sensor (only complain is when its face up on the table)
The camera is quicker, the shots look sharper, detail and low light is better, but she prefers the saturation on her iPhone
Shes in love with Google Assistant/Google Now. She was never one to use Siri much, but she likes how the Assistant and Google now cards feel more personal and give some better information
Hates how some of the app icons are extremely ugly, she prefers the clean look of the app icons on the iphone (I agree honestly, i wish google would force circular icons at this point for any app on a pixel)
Battery life is better than her iphone, it also charges faster
Gets Warmer than her iphone does
Not as good of a selection of cases for the phone (yet anyways)
Shes happy she made the switch, she hasn't used android since the original motorola Droid.
Which iPhone is she comparing to? It definitely should be more fluid than an older model but I find it difficult to believe it is faster than the 7 or7 Plus. Apple has nailed there software optimization and these phones are lightning fast. I do think Google did well and has lined themselves up to succeed with future Pixels and potentially out-do Apple but with their first "Google-made" phone I do not believe it is faster.
On the flip side, I always find my new phone is the fastest phone I have had. When I get an android phone it starts off great but after a month or so it is slower than snail. Factory reset helps some but then it is slow again.
I'm coming from an iPhone 6+ this time although I've gone back and forth every year for quite sometime, although this time I'd stuck with the iPhone for 2 years. The thing that kept me hanging on was the Siri integration. I probably would have gone another year as the iPhone 7 didn't offer enough this go around so I thought I'd wait for the 10 year anniversary next year. Then I saw the Pixel and it's Google Assistant integration. I've been missing alot about Android so I thought I'd take the gamble. So far I'm really liking it (Pixel XL). Agree with much from the quote above.I can't speak for myself. Im very familiar with all the current mobile OS's but after talking to my wife last night about her first week with her pixel here's what she had to say coming from 5-6 years of iPhone use.
She thinks it feels smoother
She likes how she can personalize it more to her tastes without having to mess around and shoe horn things if you will
She prefers the slightly bigger screen size
Now that she's used to it, she loves the Fingerprint sensor (only complain is when its face up on the table)
The camera is quicker, the shots look sharper, detail and low light is better, but she prefers the saturation on her iPhone
Shes in love with Google Assistant/Google Now. She was never one to use Siri much, but she likes how the Assistant and Google now cards feel more personal and give some better information
Hates how some of the app icons are extremely ugly, she prefers the clean look of the app icons on the iphone (I agree honestly, i wish google would force circular icons at this point for any app on a pixel)
Battery life is better than her iphone, it also charges faster
Gets Warmer than her iphone does
Not as good of a selection of cases for the phone (yet anyways)
Shes happy she made the switch, she hasn't used android since the original motorola Droid.