Ok so I'm looking at jumping ship from Apple to Samsung. I have the iPhone X and I'm not impressed with it at all. I haven't been with an Android phone since the note 5, so coming back is gonna be a little hard. I have a few questions for those that have made the jump.
1. How did you deal with switch back to sms instead of imessage, Most of my friends and family have iPhones.
2. How well do the emoji's switch over when sending
3. How are the updates from Samsung? Apple is always on the updates to fix or improve issues
4. Can someone help a brother out lol
I just switched to the note8. I loved having a Note, but I got sucked in to the Apple system years ago. I think the last note I had was the 3? 4? I know it wasn't beyond that. I've been locked in to the Apple system since but have missed Android like crazy. The others are right, the Imessage and FaceTime is seamless, but it hasn't been as awful making the switch as I expected. There were a couple days there were messages were lost. But eventually they cycled through the system and I haven't had a bit of a problem since. I can even group message my three best friends who are all on iPhones. They teased me about the fact that they couldn't "name" our thread anymore, but we haven't had any trouble texting and sending pictures.
One friend did send a video and it wasn't the greatest quality but I personally don't care about that. Random videos between us aren't that big a deal, because I love my friends kids but I'm not saving pictures and videos of them. But when my older daughter tried to send me a video of my younger daughter and it was blurry, I logged into my Dropbox on her phone and uploaded it there so I'd have a better quality video. That's few and far between, so if it's a huge daily thing for you, then you'll need to try to figure something out. But as far as day to day texting and group texting, even with iPhones, I've had zero problems. My aunt even sent out a family wide text about Thanksgiving - about 15 of us in the thread. I double checked, and I got all the messages in that thread. For reference, I'm using Textra.
As far as the Emojis, I'm using Textra for texting and the Gboard (Google keyboard) and it lets me select the iOS style emojis. They look exactly the same.
I also want to throw this out there. If I ramble a bit, forgive me. Maybe other Android experts knew this but I didn't and I was pleasantly surprised when I found it out. My oldest son doesn't have a phone yet, but he has an old iPhone that is here at the house (just on wifi, no SIM) that we have facetimed on when I was away from the house - either audio or video. Obviously we couldn't do that once I switched to my Note, so before I went to pick it up, I downloaded Google Hangouts onto that phone. (being in the iPhone system for so long I wasn't familiar with Duo or Allo or the other apps, but I remembered Hangouts from before). So I downloaded it on my iPhone real fast to call him on the iPhone we keep here to make sure it worked, etc. A few hours later, I went to call someone I had received a call from earlier, so I went to my recent calls on my iPhone - and right there in my iPhone recent calls list was the "Google Hangouts " call with my son. Like I said, j was so pleasantly surprised and honestly kind of stunned. This seemed like the kind of openness that Apple doesn't put up with. So I tapped on his name, from the iPhone phone app, in the contacts tab, and it called him on Google Hangouts. I didn't have to open up the hangouts app specifically to call him.
So all of that to say. I know it's a pain. I know it will take some time. But all in all, if FaceTime is a huge deal for your friends and family, they will take the two seconds it takes to download Hangouts onto their phone and log in. Then all they have to do is create a Google Hangouts contact for you. Then they can video call you directly from the iPhone app like they're used to doing, just as if they were doing FaceTime. The only obvious drawback is you can't switch from a phone call to FaceTime in the middle of the convo.
Again, I'm sorry about the rambling. That's just something I thought was cool.
Finally, I just want to end by saying, k held out in switching back for several years simply because I was having a severe case of FOMO about being away from iMessage. Steve Jobs certainly succeeded with the marketing there. But it hasn't been a big deal at least, and I'm so glad I finally switched back. I have loved being back on a Note.
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