Pixel ALMOST making me rethink my iPhone

[recDNA]

Has Google fixed bad reception and dropped calls yet?

 

[CHILLYWILL_95831]

I can. I disagree on them being better. One instantly comes to mind because it pains me to this day since the GF uses it on her iPhone.. Google Photos. It cannot initiate backup or do backups unless the app is in the foreground. Therefore you have to remember to open it and let it upload or your photos won't back up. On Android I set it to WiFi / while charging only... And simply never think of it again. .

However, the Google play music app is a little better than on Android and it drives me nuts. When you have a song playing on Android and you see the album art, the album view is completely truncated/ incomplete and on iOS the entire album art scrolls across the screen. That's so annoying that Android cuts out a third of the album art and it doesn't scroll.

 

[CHILLYWILL_95831]

Has Google fixed bad reception and dropped calls yet?

Wait? What?

 

[recDNA]

I read Pixel had dropped call and reception issues? Maybe only on vzw.

 

[robertopod1968]

I tried to use my iPhone 7+ today. After about 4 hours I put the sim back into the Pixel. It just seems to take so much longer to do things on iOS. Too many button presses.

 

[KillerQ]

I'm all for buttery anything, but we all know the posts will have a completely different tune in 5 months.

 

[DJM626]

Hopefully it's not going to take 5 months to show lag and see things start to slow down. If it does I will personally sell mine and move onto to something different. I really don't think this is going to turn out to be your typical Android phone. I think Google did their homework on that especially if they are competing against apple

 

[Wildo6882]

Hopefully it's not going to take 5 months to show lag and see things start to slow down. If it does I will personally sell mine and move onto to something different. I really don't think this is going to turn out to be your typical Android phone. I think Google did their homework on that especially if they are competing against apple

I also don't think this argument still works today with Android in general. My wife has had her S7 edge since April. It hasn't slowed down since then. Still works just like it did when she originally got it. I also think this will apply to the Pixel. I have faith that it will be just fine in five months. Heck, I still have glitches and errors and issues with my 6s Plus that I've had since last December. It's been a good device, but it is far from flawless.

 

[DJM626]

I agree with you totally. No device is perfect but I really see and think Android in general is trying to tighten things up a bit. It's definitely come a long way for sure and it's constantly seems to be changing in different ways and trying to improve whether it be software integration or just the devices itself

 

[Bertolus]

I agree. Some are and some aren't. The Google keyboard is nowhere near as good on iOS and it always defaults to the iOS keyboard during password entry amongst other occasions.

This frustrated me the most about having the iPhone for a week, I was constantly opening Google photos and I rely on it everyday. Runs so smoothly on Android, especially the pixel

Google keyboard on Android is a joke compared to Google's new GBoard, which is only available on iOS as of now. Also the password entry only with iOS keyboard is there for good safety reasons.

 

[WeAreAllUnique]

Google keyboard on Android is a joke compared to Google's new GBoard, which is only available on iOS as of now. Also the password entry only with iOS keyboard is there for good safety reasons.

There Google keyboard on iOS is very smooth. It does get frustrating to have to go back and forth with keyboards when having to enter in secure information that prompts the stock keyboard. But other than that, it's amazing. I like the themes too. The dark theme is sweet. I like the Google search feature built right into the keyboard.

 

[mwest316]

I used Android all the way from Froyo through Jellybean. Was convinced to move over to apple by my family. I then got rid of my LG G4 and went with an iphone 5s to an iphone 6plus. Once iOS 10 was released I grew very disappointed in apples current direction and rehash of Android features only to make their iOS buggier along the way. But as Google announced their own phone as well as software and the fact that all my apps I used on my iPhone were Google related, it became a no brainer for me. Once I got my XL there is no looking back. I am absolutely in love with this phone . I only have 2 complaints. Pixel launcher's icons are not uniform, I know that's the app developer s faults, so I'm forced to use nova for matching circular icons. The other complaint is the Google keyboard.. I want to stay Google but geeze I see myself misspelling or having go back and correct more words than I did when on iPhone

 

[popkurn611]

I used Android all the way from Froyo through Jellybean. Was convinced to move over to apple by my family. I then got rid of my LG G4 and went with an iphone 5s to an iphone 6plus. Once iOS 10 was released I grew very disappointed in apples current direction and rehash of Android features only to make their iOS buggier along the way. But as Google announced their own phone as well as software and the fact that all my apps I used on my iPhone were Google related, it became a no brainer for me. Once I got my XL there is no looking back. I am absolutely in love with this phone . I only have 2 complaints. Pixel launcher's icons are not uniform, I know that's the app developer s faults, so I'm forced to use nova for matching circular icons. The other complaint is the Google keyboard.. I want to stay Google but geeze I see myself misspelling or having go back and correct more words than I did when on iPhone

In regards to google keyboard, I always used Swiftkey on all of my android devices. Once I used swiftkey on my pixel, I found it very difficult to use for whatever reason . I was mi****ting keys as punctuations and felt that I would try Google keyboard. Well I think I am much more fluid on google keyboard than swiftkey, just on the pixel. Really miss swiftkey but I found it unusable on my pixel, anyone else find this to be the case?

 

[mwest316]

I was going to also mention that with my Google Keyboard, its almost that it has a lag, but it doesn't. And then sometimes it's almost that it doesn't respond to my finger on the space-bar when I am typing fast? It's weird. I always used Google Keyboard on my previous android devices but never had an issue with it up until now, maybe I got to used to the iphone keyboard? I am not sure really, I just don't want to switch to a 3rd party - maybe the issues I am having will be fixed on 7.1.1 on December 5th?

 

[JoshDunc]

I'm all for buttery anything, but we all know the posts will have a completely different tune in 5 months.

5 months? My Samsung showed lag within a couple weeks. I think Google did well with integrating the software into the hardware similar to Apple. Apple rules the roost in terms of software optimization and there devices rarely show lag over time. However, I do believe the Pixel/Pixel XL will not show the lag as other Android phones do.

 

[mwest316]

5 months? My Samsung showed lag within a couple weeks. I think Google did well with integrating the software into the hardware similar to Apple. Apple rules the roost in terms of software optimization and there devices rarely show lag over time. However, I do believe the Pixel/Pixel XL will not show the lag as other Android phones do.

I agree. Considering we are not even taking full advantage yet of the snapdragon processor that we have, just shows you that Google future proofed this phone for sure

 

[bnice]

Will still be smooth with any apps you download but no one can argue that apps on the iPhone are just better, including Google apps.

Also with iOS you don't worry about those apps that decide to misbehave and kill your battery.

But many have argue that not all apps on iOS are better. By the way some iOS apps do misbehave so what's your point?

 

[manni1to]

In regards to google keyboard, I always used Swiftkey on all of my android devices. Once I used swiftkey on my pixel, I found it very difficult to use for whatever reason . I was mi****ting keys as punctuations and felt that I would try Google keyboard. Well I think I am much more fluid on google keyboard than swiftkey, just on the pixel. Really miss swiftkey but I found it unusable on my pixel, anyone else find this to be the case?

I agree with this ! When I have used Android devices in the past I would always use Swiftkey and love it. This time on the pixel something isn't right. The stock keyboard is so much better. Weird !!

 

[DJM626]

Maybe developers are optimizing and making their apps so good for Google that it is soon going to eliminate the use for third party apps. Tried Swiftkey and found the same thing. Much easier for me to type on stock keyboard. For me nothing beats the Blackberry keyboard. I'm not talking about the physical one, I'm referring to their on screen KB. It was nearly impossible to make a mistake with it.
I wouldn't even have to look at the screen!

 

[DJM626]

What are your overall impressions so far Manni1 coming from the iPhone 7+