Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Has anybody though about making "The switch"?

[codeda]

Re: Has anybody though about making "The switch"?

I've been a long time iphone user bf a nexus 5 which I only used for a month bf going back to my iPhone. Why bc after all of the "openess" when it came time to perform vital tasks it was less polished and smooth. The final straw was when I used my lg tone bluetooth headset the iPhone performed much better than the nexus. How can a phone made by lg and a headset made by lg perform worst than an iphone? Software. Now that I'm on the note 4 most problems are gone but it's still unpolished. The only reason it performs well is bc of the power of the cpu to throttle thru. I will jump back to iPhone in a heartbeat if it offered a stylus and multi window. A replaceable battery would seal the deal.

What ive found in switching is the fan boyism found in the android community. There are alternatives to iTunes and honestly it isn't that bad. Especially with jailbreak. I'm always surprised to see how fan boys and media delight in seeing apple stumble (bendgate) but take android problems as if it's no big deal. Like the TW lag. People buy it knowing how laggy it is and live with it hoping maybe it will be fixed with an update in the future. Or the answer to androids shortcoming can be fixed with rooting. Rooting is becoming more difficult and eventually will be very rare.

People complain about lag all the time in TW. There are threads here and XDA about it. For any phone there are going to be those that complain about xyz and those that don't see it or those that are so faithful that they bash anyone that say something against it. My boyfriend loves iTunes. I hate it. I don't use it on my iPad and don't plan ever to. But I also have complaints on my note and nexus 6. Everything has it's pluses and minuses and all things have their fanboys

 

[tachyon1]

Re: Has anybody though about making "The switch"?

No way, i don't believe in downgrading.

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[heathersimon]

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I bought an iPhone when they were first released, and had iPhones up to the 4. I liked them a lot. It was a really neat new world to open up - games and productivity apps and all kinds of useful things that "just worked" out of the box. I swore at the time I wouldn't try another platform.

I did end up trying the Windows Phone platform, both for 7 with a Samsung Focus (and to be honest, I hated that phone and swore I'd never buy another Samsung due to cheap build quality) and 8/8.1 with a Lumia 920 and then a 1020 when the 920's battery crapped out - and I swore off Qi charging. The 1020 took beautiful pictures, but it did so like it did everything else - slowly. Cortana is a terrific personal assistant, but the app story was abysmal. When apps came to WP, if they came at all, they were feature-incomplete, buggy, and slow. App switching / graveyarding was terrible. I spent a lot of time staring at the "Resuming..." screen for apps I had only switched away from moments before. I have a new bus commute that really highlighted to me just how painful the 1020 was to use on a daily basis, so I went looking for another phone. There's no new WP flagships anywhere on the horizon, so I decided to branch out.

I considered an iPhone 6 or 6+ briefly, because I had experience with the platform and a prior investment in the ecosystem. However, the 5th-gen iPod Touch I have has a considerable amount of lag and I'd heard bad things about trying to upgrade it to iOS 8. The iOS 8 horror stories in general were enough to make me pause, as was the amount of money required for a handset that had enough storage in it to be usable for me.

So I started looking at Android, after my husband got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. I found I didn't hate the interface as much as everyone told me I would. It grew on me pretty quickly. I looked at phones that had the features I was looking for - expandable storage, an AMOLED screen (I miss the Nokia Glance screen, and DynamicNotifications comes somewhat close but still doesn't get me all the way there, but the trade-off is worth it), and a decent camera. On AT&T, the Note 4 was the only phone I could consider.

Overall I'm very happy with my choice. Some things make me nervous, like GPS being spotty, but the speed and responsiveness of the device, the much better app selection (though that's a low bar to clear, coming from WP), the gorgeousness of the display, the ability to tweak settings "just so", and the amazing S-Pen are all fantastic. I will also say that if I had not read specifically from various reviews that this phone no longer had the "cheap Samsung feel" I would not have gotten it. It's a premium phone that actually feels premium, and I appreciate that.

 

[GSOgymrat]

Re: Has anybody though about making "The switch"?

I switched from iPhone 6 Plus to Galaxy Note Edge and I have no regrets. For me, neither phone is perfect but the Edge has fewer cons. Unlike most people I'm not a fan of Apple's hardware design. I just bought my partner an iMac for Christmas and I see the emphasis on style over practicality. For example the iMac has all the ports on the back, which isn't convenient at all but allows for Apple's minimalistic look. I don't like that choice. With the iPhone 6 Plus they tried to make it as thin and sleek as possible and also make it look similar to previous iPhones. The result is the phone is unnecessarily thin, smooth and rounded; it's like they designed it to fall out of the user's hand. I would has textured the metal on the back to make it easier to grip but that practical modification would probably make Apple users apoplectic. Apple designers moved the power button from the top to the side of the phone without realizing that it makes it very easy to accidentally squeeze the volume buttons when turning off the screen, a design flaw that Nokia smartly avoided by placing all the buttons on one side. Then there is Apple's refusal to have a physical back button. Anyone who has used Android or Windows Phone knows that a back button makes practical sense but Apple insists on software solutions which don't really work as well. My next gripe is no removable storage which forced me to spend $950 to get enough internal storage for my needs and which I consider a rip off. Next gripe is the useless space above the screen. Unlike current trends to minimize bezels and maximize screen, iPhone 6 Plus has a relatively huge bezel on the top and bottom. The bottom bezel is necessary for the home button but the top is obviously to make this iPhone thinner and appear more like previous iPhones, neither being an advantage in my estimation. The one hardware choice of the iPhone 6 I really like is the fingerprint scanner, which works perfectly 99% of the time and is just amazing.

Apple's software works well. I didn't have an problems with lag, although there were a few apps that crashed when initialized. IPhone 6 Plus performance was more reliable than the Edge, which does have occasional brief lag. If you like the iPhone UI and don't really care about customizing the phone then iPhone will satisfy but I found the experience to be boring, particularly after coming from Windows Phone. IPhone is like having Windows Phone app list but without the live tiles or the alphabetical order. I think anyone coming from Android who enjoys having the freedom to "play" with their phone will find iPhone rigid. If there is something you don't like about iPhone you don't change it, you just learn to live with it. In contrast I wasn't thrilled with Samsung's UI but then I downloaded Aviate and now I'm happy.

As I said, no phone is perfect and there are trade offs no matter what you choose. I know part of my sour Apple experience was the result of my expectations. As a Windows Phone user I had heard from tech reviewers and friends how using an iPhone was amazing, "the best phone on the planet" according to writers at The Verge, and when I switched I expected to have a great phone experience but I realized that, for me, Windows Phone is a better phone experience but iPhone has the better APP experience. Android and the Edge are complete different experiences because the Edge seems like a small tablet that happens to make phone calls. It all depends on what you like but in my experience the grass isn't always greener under the Apple tree.