Re:iPhone X
by plaguuuuuu on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:40AM
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On the other side of the fence here. I've been on vanilla Google phones since the Android Nexus. I have a Nexus 6P now, which was the flagship of that generation.
Between Google knowing my porn fetishes and the increasing number of issues & bizarre bugs (severe battery degradation, performance issues during normal usage, random freezes, photos occasionally not saving properly and getting corrupted) plus no security updates after 2 years, I've just about had it.
I had a 6p and ditched it for the S8+. Never looked back, it's a night and day difference.
Google/Huawei should be ashamed for the 6p.
Re:iPhone X
by randomsearch on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:46AM
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I can confirm that Android has all these problems. I use both.
iOS is getting worse, but it's still an order of magnitude less buggy (in terms of crashes etc)
I've been using the Galaxy S8+ since launch. And the Note 8 is, by any definition, as good or better than the iPhone X.
If you haven't used a Samsung phone lately, go try an S8 or Note 8. They have "the package" down. It just works, and doesn't require a PC or iTunes. I don't care about speeds and feeds. I care about how the phone operates on a daily basis.
iPhone X has FaceID and pin# to login. Samsung has face, retina, touch and pin options.
The Note 8 is cheaper, with expandable storage, a higher density display (with the same white balance adjustment), stylus, side-by-side applications, a headphone jack, samsung pay, and NFC.
(There are probably many more, but these are things I use on a daily basis, or very frequently in the real world)
The iPhone has iMessage and Facetime.
Seriously, it's worth a sniff of the other side of the pond. It took me 2 hours to transfer everything - contacts, media, apps. And another day to get the UI sorted (there's even an "ios mode" for the launcher that acts almost exactly like the ios interface). I still use an iphone often for work and it's honestly painful going back to it, there are so many little annoying papercut experiences.