Who switched from iPhone to Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 Edge

[chezm]

jailbreak the iphone and make your own themes. easy peasy.

Jailbreaking voids iOS updates, no thanks.

 

[Wiggum333]

... In my best Forest Gump voice ... "That's all I have to say about that."

^ guess I was wrong LOL.

I just remembered something about iOS (or iPhones, whichever you wanna give credit to) that I really liked, and miss on Android. That is, that when I'd get an email, and it had a date/time or something in the body of the email, it would be hyper-linked so that you could just touch it and it would start a calendar appointment for you. Same thing with phone numbers, so you could just tap to call that number.

Unless I'm missing something, you can't do that on our android phones. I mean, I've noticed here and there (seemingly random) that a phone number or the word "today", or a day of the week will be highlighted somehow ... but the integration of having your phone recognize phone numbers and/or dates to prompt you for a phone call or setting up a calendar reminder ... it just doesn't seem to be there, which is a shame.

 

[Solitude1984]

There are tons that can repeat weeks, months and even years. Look for remind alarm clock for example.

Thank you for the suggestion, but this is not quite what I'm looking for. I want an alarm with one simple option: remind every two weeks (e.g., every second Tuesday, no matter what the date is). The remind alarm does not allow this. Under "Repeat," I can do every 2 minutes, hours, days, months, years. There is no option for every 2 weeks. Under "Week," I have the option to set an alarm on a certain day every week, which is not what I want. Under "Month," I have the option to set and alarm on a specific day every month (e.g., the 1st of every month). But if the 12th is a Tuesday in May, it won't be a Tuesday in every other month. So, I'm back to square one.

Sorry for the off topic post everyone.

 

[tlo07]

I'm going back to the iPhone in the fall when the next one is released. The battery life on my GS6 is awful and I can't believe everyone's answer always seems to be to shut off half the phone's features.

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[Wiggum333]

Apple can add all the features of Android(which they are on they way too) i still wouldn't own an iPhone.

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LOL I dont hate Apple or iOS that much ... Im ok with any brand that delivers a high quality phone that meets my needs and/or offers the best of the main features I need/want.

That said, Apple/iOS still has about 5 key things they must change before I give them my consideration again.

 

[stevelam]

I'm going back to the iPhone in the fall when the next one is released. The battery life on my GS6 is awful and I can't believe everyone's answer always seems to be to shut off half the phone's features.

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same. s6 has been a letdown. its not entirely samsungs fault. google themselves don't seem to really know what they're doing with lollipop.

 

[stevelam]

Jailbreaking voids iOS updates, no thanks.

it doesn't void anything. you update to the next iOS version and jailbreak again if its available. not much different from rooting and losing OTA updates.

 

[Zoostation]

I'm going back to the iPhone in the fall when the next one is released. The battery life on my GS6 is awful and I can't believe everyone's answer always seems to be to shut off half the phone's features.

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Not defending people that say to shut everything off, but the default S6 settings do have way too many many apps and processes running that serve little purpose to a large majority of owners.

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[Bpschoon81]

same. s6 has been a letdown. its not entirely samsungs fault. google themselves don't seem to really know what they're doing with lollipop.

Add another here. I love the camera and screen, but everything else has the s6 up on eBay. I may see if I can buy a used 6+ and get used to the size

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[droidguy1964]

I am probably putting my edge on eBay this weekend. Not having iMessage is quickly becoming a big issue. I was using my iPhone 6 over the weekend and haven't really put it down. S6 is nice but the whole Samsung thing is a little much. I will jump on the next nexus.

 

[nestafaria]

same. s6 has been a letdown. its not entirely samsungs fault. google themselves don't seem to really know what they're doing with lollipop.

I would agree with this. It was a NICE phone. But I don't see what lollipop brought over kit kat from a user experience perspective.

 

[Andrew Fordham]

I recently switched from apple to android and had a texting problem too.I did some research and found is a common problem and it is caused by apple not taking the number off of there platform and so other phones that you have texted before recognize your phone as an iPhone.It can be solved by turning imessage off before switching to a new phone or by contacting Apple customer support.Maybe this isn't your problem, but it was mine.

 

[Zoostation]

2. let me place app icons on the home pages as i want, and not have them auto-arrange to fill up starting at the top left.

This is huge for me and IMO is a mandatory basic functionality requirement of any smartphone. If a phone can't allow this, it doesn't matter what else it can or can't do. That being said, I don't hate iPhones but I won't buy one anytime soon.

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[Andrew Fordham]

I can unsterstand that some miss imessage if you text from multiple devices.But you can have the same experience from hangouts or Facebook messenger or a thousand others.To me,in my switch to android,texting has been one of the best experiences with Google messenger as my default SMS.Replying from the notification bar is really quick and convenient as is having widgets for quicker access to a specific conversation.

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[Zoostation]

While we're talking about imessage and SMS/MMS...if I'm on a group message with mixed Android and iOS users, is it normal for me to miss messages or get blank messages from those on iPhone? On my previous DNA running kit Kat 4.4.2 I routinely had problems, but I've only had one mixed message since getting the S6 and it worked fine.

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[chezm]

it doesn't void anything. you update to the next iOS version and jailbreak again if its available. not much different from rooting and losing OTA updates.

Let me rephrase, I'd rather not modify such as root or jailbreak my mobile device...that being the case, iOS isn't for me. I'd rather have the availability to make such changes built into the OS.

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[scott_0]

I was on android since 2010, I decided to try the iphone 6 in December, I had to jail break it to make it come close to what I was used to with android, I lasted unto last week before missing android and coming back. I love everything about the s6, much better device than the iphone 6 imo

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[Coney718]

Those who never owned or had very little experience with an iPhone will never fully understand why its hard for people to give it up.

 

[Wiggum333]

Those who never owned or had very little experience with an iPhone will never fully understand why its hard for people to give it up.

You mind giving us a brief explanation of what makes the iPhone so appealing? I'd like to think most of us are not so dense that we can't at least understand some of the points you might make.

That said, I think most of us here HAVE had and used (extensively) an iPhone, and for whatever reason have chosen android phones vs. iPhones ...

 

[edubb256]

I just remembered something about iOS (or iPhones, whichever you wanna give credit to) that I really liked, and miss on Android. That is, that when I'd get an email, and it had a date/time or something in the body of the email, it would be hyper-linked so that you could just touch it and it would start a calendar appointment for you.

I wonder why yours does not do that; my S6 does. I just scanned a few emails. Each and every date and time is hyperlinked and clicking on it brings up the calendar app with the date and time pre-set. The last few Galaxy phones I've had did the same thing. This is with the stock email app.