Anyone using pixel coming from iPhone?

[Applejunkie66]

Re: Anyone using pixel coming fro iPhone?

To turn on wifi and Bluetooth on the iPhone don't you just flip up the control center from the bottom? Really no different than swiping from the top to do it.

You would be correct. Swipe left after you swipe up and you control your media. Super easy. And swiping up from the bottom is much easier than swiping down with the larger screens.

 

[strikeIII]

The nice thing about the Pixel is you can swipe down from the fingerprint scanner to get to the notification bar. Or control it with other 3rd party apps.

 

[bembol]

I'm using best of both worlds/OS.

I'm also an addict. LOL

 

[Applejunkie66]

The nice thing about the Pixel is you can swipe down from the fingerprint scanner to get to the notification bar. Or control it with other 3rd party apps.

Which can be awkward. I've found zero use for that. And it still isn't as easy as swiping from the bottom.

 

[strikeIII]

Which can be awkward. I've found zero use for that. And it still isn't as easy as swiping from the bottom.

The whole fingerprint scanner in the back was awkward at first for me but I find it very natural now that I've been using the Pixel XL and V20 for a while now. Now I wish the V20 had the swipe down feature.

 

[SteelGator]

iPhone keyboard was never as accurate as SwiftKey for me on Android. It just doesn't predict to my typing.

Same here. My predictions were always awful, and the auto correct really bad.

 

[cbreze]

iPhone keyboard was never as accurate as SwiftKey for me on Android. It just doesn't predict to my typing.

I never could get swift key to work that great. Word prediction I found to be mainly annoying and would lag at the weirdest times right out of the blue, never could figure out why, then it would be fine. I do better on the google KB.
Tried swift key on my iPhone and what a joke, was pretty poor. My iPhone 6s OEM KB is fine tho, I do better than most with it. Good thing we have choices and not stuck with one eh?

 

[Applejunkie66]

I'm using best of both worlds/OS.

I'm also an addict. LOL

I'm like you. I have the 6S and Pixel XL. A pretty damn good combination lol

 

[jackdubl]

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 gotta tell you, I'm currently doing the exact same thing for pretty much the exact same reason. Using an iPhone 7 for last three days after only using rooted android devices my whole life, coming from Nexus 5X. Was surprised to find iPhone can basically do titanium all app restores out of the box(though not single app restores), and has ad blockers that work, and in a couple of ways, better than Adaway. And the full restores are actually better than titanium. Thats half of why I rooted.

However, I wouldn't say the iPhone just works. I've found more bugs and had lots more crashes in core Apple apps than I ever saw on Android. The Pixel takes better photos, if you can avoid the lense glare, which is hard to do. It's not really from the lense, it's that there's too much space between the lense and the glass I think. The lense flare was the last straw that made me think of it as a guinea pig phone for an iPhone price, like you. So I said I might as well at least try an iPhone.

What I like about the iPhone, apps that are constantly broken my whole life on Android just work on the iPhone. And I seem to get about twice the screen time on the iPhone. And I found it can charge just as fast as the Pixel with the right charger.

 

[qnet]

Hmmm is it just that you guys prefer the iPhone auto-correct or is there something about the sizing and / or spacing of keys that you like?

My favorite keyboard by far is the Wordflow keyboard from Windows Phone which funny enough is on iOS in beta I believe but not available on Android. The Google keyboard is ok, it does the job most of the time. I don't like that SwiftKey puts branding on the keyboad and seems to use a lot of resources.

Something I wish google keyboard had that the Wordflow keyboard had was the emoji recommendations for what you were typing (just like word suggestions).

For me it just simple typing, so it could be what you mentioned. The Iphone keyboard is just easier and more accurate for me. I don't get into all the different keyboards like most, and don't like using the swipe feature. I've tried swiftkey on Android, and just can't get used to it.

I don't mind the Android keyboard and it works for me, but when I got the Iphone 7 Plus I had forgot how much easier it was to use.

 

[WeAreAllUnique]

I never could get swift key to work that great. Word prediction I found to be mainly annoying and would lag at the weirdest times right out of the blue, never could figure out why, then it would be fine. I do better on the google KB.
Tried swift key on my iPhone and what a joke, was pretty poor. My iPhone 6s OEM KB is fine tho, I do better than most with it. Good thing we have choices and not stuck with one eh?

I like the iOS keyboard, but the Google keyboard for iOS is stellar. Even better than the Google keyboard on the Pixel.

 

[WeAreAllUnique]

For me it just simple typing, so it could be what you mentioned. The Iphone keyboard is just easier and more accurate for me. I don't get into all the different keyboards like most, and don't like using the swipe feature. I've tried swiftkey on Android, and just can't get used to it.

I don't mind the Android keyboard and it works for me, but when I got the Iphone 7 Plus I had forgot how much easier it was to use.

I love gesture typing. One of the reasons I opted for the smaller size iPhone because I like gesture typing one handed with my thumb.