I'm a pretty big fan of the Apple ecosystem. Currently I have a MacBook Air, iPad Air, and an iPhone 6. They generally work together pretty well and for iOS in particular, the apps available are second-to-none. The apps available are why I even got the iPad again. Too bad iOS is turning into a pile of crap and I can say that the iPhone 6 is the worst flagship smartphone I've used in years. The iPhone 4s was amazing and the 3GS was a tank and along with the Galaxy Note II are the best smartphones I've had and I've been using smartphones since 2006. My specific complaints on the iPhone 6, and by extension iOS 8, are:
The battery life is atrocious if I want to use the phone for things like web browsing or maps apps, yet it streams Netflix over LTE with comparatively little battery usage even if I crank up the screen brightness a bit.
The touchscreen misses taps and misreads scrolling gestures a lot. The OS has random lags in all sorts of places in stock apps and dropped frames are frequent in even the stock apps. Typing on the keyboard is often being a frustrating experience due to missed letters and lagging behind by sometimes whole phrases.
Random app crashes are a near daily occurrence and sometimes the phone reboots for no reason, and I'm only counting stock apps for this.
Apple loves only making the lowest storage capacity iPhones widely available for months after launch. In the past I've been fine with 16GB devices. Now I have to decide what apps I really, really want to use (I don't use games) and have missed moments with the camera due to being out of storage. The apps are extremely bloated and are only getting more so over time.
The camera may do better in low light (as far as brightness) than past iPhones and capture photos much faster, but the quality of the images in okay to good lighting are the worst of the 3 8MP iPhones I've had. The brighter low light pics are generally very grainy and the pics in good lighting suffer from excess sharpening and excess compression.
And finally, the reception. iPhones have never been reception champs and while the 6 is a little better than the 5s I had, it's still terrible. It loves latching on to EDGE and HSPA in LTE areas, hangs on to near useless signals too long, and often takes frustrating long to even acquire a signal. The 5s at least liked LTE more.
In light of all this and more I'm planning to replace the iPhone when my JUMP upgrade comes up early next month. My choices have been narrowed to the Galaxy S6, Nexus 6, and the G4. I've read that neither battery life nor reception are very good on the S6 so it's in third place. The Nexus 6 seems good overall and my husband likes his a lot but the slowness of the camera gives me pause. The G4 seems to have a good and fast camera, is reported to have decent to good battery life, and apparently much better reception than the Galaxy S6. If any of you here have had both an iPhone 6 and G4 that you used for at least a few days each, how did your experience with the two compare?
TL;DR: Loathe the iPhone 6 I have and wish to know actual user experiences of how it compares to the G4.
The battery life is atrocious if I want to use the phone for things like web browsing or maps apps, yet it streams Netflix over LTE with comparatively little battery usage even if I crank up the screen brightness a bit.
The touchscreen misses taps and misreads scrolling gestures a lot. The OS has random lags in all sorts of places in stock apps and dropped frames are frequent in even the stock apps. Typing on the keyboard is often being a frustrating experience due to missed letters and lagging behind by sometimes whole phrases.
Random app crashes are a near daily occurrence and sometimes the phone reboots for no reason, and I'm only counting stock apps for this.
Apple loves only making the lowest storage capacity iPhones widely available for months after launch. In the past I've been fine with 16GB devices. Now I have to decide what apps I really, really want to use (I don't use games) and have missed moments with the camera due to being out of storage. The apps are extremely bloated and are only getting more so over time.
The camera may do better in low light (as far as brightness) than past iPhones and capture photos much faster, but the quality of the images in okay to good lighting are the worst of the 3 8MP iPhones I've had. The brighter low light pics are generally very grainy and the pics in good lighting suffer from excess sharpening and excess compression.
And finally, the reception. iPhones have never been reception champs and while the 6 is a little better than the 5s I had, it's still terrible. It loves latching on to EDGE and HSPA in LTE areas, hangs on to near useless signals too long, and often takes frustrating long to even acquire a signal. The 5s at least liked LTE more.
In light of all this and more I'm planning to replace the iPhone when my JUMP upgrade comes up early next month. My choices have been narrowed to the Galaxy S6, Nexus 6, and the G4. I've read that neither battery life nor reception are very good on the S6 so it's in third place. The Nexus 6 seems good overall and my husband likes his a lot but the slowness of the camera gives me pause. The G4 seems to have a good and fast camera, is reported to have decent to good battery life, and apparently much better reception than the Galaxy S6. If any of you here have had both an iPhone 6 and G4 that you used for at least a few days each, how did your experience with the two compare?
TL;DR: Loathe the iPhone 6 I have and wish to know actual user experiences of how it compares to the G4.