Went back to my iPhone 5s.....

[bassplayrguy]

Ohhhh it is an app. Nevermind. I hope that fixed your battery life.

 

[Lynx]

Where is that setting? I would like to make sure mine are not on as well.

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where is this setting?

Dynamic Notifications is a 3rd party app I had installed.

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[LJ Washington]

Greetings: I am also an iPhone convert. But I will never say iPhones are bad, I think they're a great, solid and fun to use phone. My wife has the iPhone s5 and I could not imagine her with Anything else. She would never even attempt to go into the settings and try/adjust the phone on and iPhone. So you get where I am coming from on an Android device; KISS.

I don't want to get flamed here but I have to say as a convert, this Apple vs Android gets a little overblown. I mean on an iPhone you swipe left or right to get to your screen of applications.
On my GS5 I do the same thing. GS5 has hidden apps once you delete them, Apple you can just hide them in a folder. To get to messages on an iPhone you can swipe down from the top, same with the GS5. On and iPhone you can swipe up and turn on the flashlight, BT, Wirless, airplane mode, on the GS5 you can do the same by swiping down. With the phone in lock mode you can take pictures, listen & control music and view messages on both. The real argument is over the stability you get with closed in Hardware, OS & App Store versus the freedom of and open OS and Hardware. If you step back its pretty much the same with a point going here and there for small items. The Apple ship turns slow but IMO I see more old Iphones than I see old Android phones.

But as mentioned before at this time the GS5 screen and camera rule the roost!
I wonder if Apple does come out with a big screen, comparable camera and better battery life would people go back.

 

[joe_m_p]

@lynx I agree with you 100% when it comes to iMessage! Nothing available in the world of Android comes close. I love my S5 by the way.

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[Netherscourge]

Doesn't Google Hangouts do the same exact thing that iMessage does?

Combines MMS and SMS texts into one interface?

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ils?id=com.google.android.talk&token=6PgP4Wik

 

[21stNow]

@lynx I agree with you 100% when it comes to iMessage! Nothing available in the world of Android comes close. I love my S5 by the way.

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What's so great about iMessage?

 

[Almeuit]

What's so great about iMessage?

I think some like the fact it doesn't compress some things like video. It can send HQ video with no issue.

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[BlueGoldAce]

I think some like the fact it doesn't compress some things like video. It can send HQ video with no issue.

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Can hangouts do the same as well?

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[Almeuit]

Can hangouts do the same as well?

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Not that I know of. Hangouts does live video calls but doesn't send a previously recorded video.

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[lizardchest]

You guys seem to have your stuff together and probably know this, but a coworker had this issue when moving from iPhone to Android and no idea he was missing business texts. Be wary. Issues with texts after moving to Android from iPhone? Here's an easy fix! | Android Central

 

[kregstrong]

Use hangouts, it integrates with Google chrome and anything else u have, iOS or whatever. I love hangouts

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[pappy53]

I left the iPhone and have not looked back.
Apple really needs to step up its game with the iPhone 6. Bigger screen is not gonna win people back.
iOS is stale and boring and needs a revamp, pastel color change was not the answer.

Win people back? More switch from Android to iPhone than vice-versa, so I don't think that it is a case of winning them back but is to add more. BTW, I am using a Moto X.

 

[scipio11111]

Use hangouts, it integrates with Google chrome and anything else u have, iOS or whatever. I love hangouts

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Just tried Hangouts and like it a lot! gifs animate on their own, pictures look like a higher rez, and the interface is nice and clean. Thanks!

 

[Almeuit]

Win people back? More switch from Android to iPhone than vice-versa, so I don't think that it is a case of winning them back but is to add more. BTW, I am using a Moto X.

That has nothing to do with what he said. He simply said win people back since people do leave.. You're taking it and responding as if he said iPhone was losing more to Android...

I take it as to get the people who left back is all he meant. Some left due to screen.. Some left due to alot of the same for years.

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[OceanView]

That has nothing to do with what he said. He simply said win people back since people do leave.. You're taking it and responding as if he said iPhone was losing more to Android...

I take it as to get the people who left back is all he meant. Some left due to screen.. Some left due to alot of the same for years.
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Exactly!

I was a die hard Apple/iPhone fan.
I bought every version of the iPhone that was released. Even stood in line for hours at multiple locations as the phones were hard to get but that all ended after I got the Note II. I haven't been back and don't plan on returning unless Apple creates something pretty amazing.

 

[joelee88]

Question: when using Google Hangouts to send text messages, does your wireless carrier count it as a SMS message they charge for, or is it free over the IP network? I am on a pay-per-text-message plan (20 cents) and would like to avoid the carrier's SMS charges.

 

[DudeThatsErin]

No it does not. It only sends regular SMS/MMS and instant messages to other Google users (anyone who owns a GMail account). Other than the IMs it is a regular messaging application. That is one thing I wish they'd change as you can have two separate convos going on with the same person whereas iMessage keeps everything in one convo thread and switches back and forth automatically.


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[BlueGoldAce]

No it does not. It only sends regular SMS/MMS and instant messages to other Google users (anyone who owns a GMail account). Other than the IMs it is a regular messaging application. That is one thing I wish they'd change as you can have two separate convos going on with the same person whereas iMessage keeps everything in one convo thread and switches back and forth automatically.


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Hangouts integrates the two convos now. It will automatically switch back and forth.

Recent update.

 

[pappy53]

That has nothing to do with what he said. He simply said win people back since people do leave.. You're taking it and responding as if he said iPhone was losing more to Android...

I take it as to get the people who left back is all he meant. Some left due to screen.. Some left due to alot of the same for years.

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Your interpretation is different than mine. No big deal.

 

[mayconvert]

What's so great about iMessage?

iMessage works across All of Apple's ecosystem. If you get a message on your phone, you can respond on you iPad, iPod, Mac, or iPhone ( same with Facetime video and HD Voice calling)
iMessage also work on wifi, so even if you are in an area where signal isn't great inside your house, it's a non issue if texting.
And, as one other mentioned, Apple doesn't compress photo's or video messages.
And, Say someone sent you a picture message yesterday and maybe even a few days before that, and then today sent you 3 more picture messages: all you have to do it tap on one, get it full screen, then then I can just swipe the pictures to go back and forth thru All of the picture messages sent from that person.
On android, if someone sends me 2 pictures back to back. I can view one, then I have to go Back into the message feed, and then click on the second, SO annoying.

Hangouts isn't even close to iMessage. I think hangouts kind of sucks. I have 4.4.2 on my LG G2 and don't use hangouts at all. its boring white background and poor implementation is just not for me. I use my default message app instead.
hangouts and ALL android phones compress all pictures and videos.