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I was expecting it to suck, given the new OS, 512RAMs and 1GHz processor .. But holy ****
It's like, the smoothest and fastest gadget I've ever used (Faster than the S2. HD7, iPhone 4 and whatever gadget/OS), I've used it for half an hour (Got caught up in heavens and 'till I felt the cashier was pissed off he waited so long lol) and not a single lag in sight, didn't even feel like it was gonna lag. The UI is godly, everything is just a swipe away, swipe left or right to leave the app open and swipe down to close it (Or via the task manager which is a part of the homescreen). I opened a lot of apps and it didn't feel the tiniest bit slower at all. It was a shocking experience.
And the design was sweet minimalist, it sure looks like a plain rectangular in the pictures but in reality it looks very luxurious, and the curved screen (From the outside, not from the inside like Nexus S/Galaxy Nexus) is a beautiful touch.
I seriously considered getting that device right off the market, until I visited the app store, it isn't even above 200. Sure, it has all the basic apps from Angry Birds, Skype, etc. But the need for exploring won't be fulfilled with this one (Beside, no Fruit Ninja).
I wonder why did Nokia give up such innovative and revolutionary OS? I mean, if they kept using it, they'd be one of the best brands out there with an OS that separates them. It's the best thing ever.
Of course, it might have an Android Ice Cream Sandwich port since it's open-source and button-less (It's a very high possibility actually), if that thing happened then I'm switching.
Stephen Elop is by far the worst CEO or president ever, even worse than Gaddafi to be honest.
My experience was a bit different. The hardware amazed me but the software was a downer. I'd already tried WP7 so I had the smoothest and while Meego beats out Android in terms of speed ten times over it doesn't feel like it competes with WP7. That and the OS just sort of looks cheap to me.
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I was expecting it to suck, given the new OS, 512RAMs and 1GHz processor .. But holy ****
It's like, the smoothest and fastest gadget I've ever used (Faster than the S2. HD7, iPhone 4 and whatever gadget/OS), I've used it for half an hour (Got caught up in heavens and 'till I felt the cashier was pissed off he waited so long lol) and not a single lag in sight, didn't even feel like it was gonna lag. The UI is godly, everything is just a swipe away, swipe left or right to leave the app open and swipe down to close it (Or via the task manager which is a part of the homescreen). I opened a lot of apps and it didn't feel the tiniest bit slower at all. It was a shocking experience.
And the design was sweet minimalist, it sure looks like a plain rectangular in the pictures but in reality it looks very luxurious, and the curved screen (From the outside, not from the inside like Nexus S/Galaxy Nexus) is a beautiful touch.
I seriously considered getting that device right off the market, until I visited the app store, it isn't even above 200. Sure, it has all the basic apps from Angry Birds, Skype, etc. But the need for exploring won't be fulfilled with this one (Beside, no Fruit Ninja).
I wonder why did Nokia give up such innovative and revolutionary OS? I mean, if they kept using it, they'd be one of the best brands out there with an OS that separates them. It's the best thing ever.
Of course, it might have an Android Ice Cream Sandwich port since it's open-source and button-less (It's a very high possibility actually), if that thing happened then I'm switching.
Stephen Elop is by far the worst CEO or president ever, even worse than Gaddafi to be honest.
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Hmmm...might have to look into MeeGo. That's the only mobileOS I haven't experienced.
Nice, makes me want to try Meego more. I like to try all sorts of OSes. If only money wasn't a opposing factor. XD
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I've yet to try MeeGo...I'm very eager as well o:
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I have not yet tried meego..........
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My experience was a bit different. The hardware amazed me but the software was a downer. I'd already tried WP7 so I had the smoothest and while Meego beats out Android in terms of speed ten times over it doesn't feel like it competes with WP7. That and the OS just sort of looks cheap to me.
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If all you care about is smoothness then by all means stick with Windows but if you want to see how far the rabbit hole goes try something more open young one
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I wish it would come to the US, looks amazing I would sell my gs 2 for it... I don't care about it being "dead " as long as it works its still "alive "
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I had a similar experience, its a nice phone with virtually no lag, nice UI, etc. but the app store population was a downer for me. That's why i love my android, many choices to look, on top of that the customization is a big plus.
200 apps...total? $690 here in the US...my car cost me $900. LOL
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200 apps...total? $690 here in the US...my car cost me $900. LOL
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200 apps? That'd keep me away. And it sounds like you have a very nice car.
When Alien Dalvik is released for the N9, and if it proves to work well i might buy one. I'm in love with it.
nokia never try android os???
I just picked up my N9 less than a week ago. I have tried most OS except for new winOS. Meego is a killer I really hope Nokia will change their mind and keep Meego alive and going. This phone is so sleek and smooth, no lag nothing. Only downside is the App store but who really needs all those apps. Nokia already integrated your standard apps. Its worth the money.
Thank you ,, very much
may got somebody port cm to it like pre3, then it'll be a "usable" phone
I was praying that they would keep the MeeGo and instead they completely went WP. I was working hand and foot trying to solve the N9Seconds contest they had this summer just to get one of these bad boys with meego on it, but never won
I still see no hope for nokia now, I held on to my N900 for as long as I can waiting for an N950 and just died waiting.
I just want to try N9 so badly. It sounds so sick
But iv'e actually got lots of different kinds of feedback from people who have tried it.
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I just want to try N9 so badly. It sounds so sick
But iv'e actually got lots of different kinds of feedback from people who have tried it.
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Just try it when you get the chance and keep an open mind. Remember, just like anything else, it's nothing like what you're used to.
I came from Nokia to Android and after a slight hate for anything non-nokia, I freaking love my gear! But I will go back to nokia if they up their support of apps and product for meego
Meego was cool, and it'd be nice to see it continued, but wp7 is still a step up from it. I do like that in it's first iteration it's already easily the smoothest open source OS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cAsprVPIRc
What do you think? Seeing what android does on 4 cores still doesn't make me miss android and it's poor responsiveness and lag. I'll stick with my Lumias. That said, the One X jumping onboard the polycarbonate train behind Nokia was not a bad move, it's certainly their best looking device to date and if Nokia wasn't around, a WP7 variant might be my next phone.
Stick with the Lumias you have up for trade in the "Wanting to sell" forum? It is understandable why you don't like Android...you just don't know what you are doing. It's like putting your average Joe behind the seat of a Formula 1 race car...he will never realize its true potential. But hey, you just want an automatic transmission that any old little lady can drive, right?
No, stick with the unlocked 900 I have. Still making statements without foundation I see.
i like , htc one
And how long will you stick with this phone when all rumors point towards all current WP7 devices not getting updated?
Two sources that are known for mocking wp7 and being wrong about it as opposed to those who say that at least the second Gen devices will and the Apollo tests on the lumia 900 and 610? Odds are in my favor, not that I won't pick up a new device then anyway.
htc one x is much better than nokia lumia
android winner!
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htc one x is much better than nokia lumia
android winner!
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Honestly I don't really like the One X. Tegra is 100% marketing crap. it's ridiculous that you have to deal with a browser forced to suck due to the stupid companion core that doesn't let the quad core goodness kick in. To me the One S is a much better phone: it's more pocketable, it has a good S4 SOC doing its job flawlessly (and smoking Tegra pretty much everywhere). The One X is such a waste. Also, I really don't get why pretty much every OEM is pushing for making bigger and bigger screens month after month. Nowadays if you wanna have a phone with good internals you have to carry a ****ing tablet in your pocket, everything else is "mid range". Honestly the GS2 was already too big for me. I'm pretty sure at some point I'll be forced to use an iPhone because everything else will be too big for my pockets. I really hope that at least on WP I'll still be able to find some decently specced device with a 4" screen in the future, I really don't like where the market is heading. By the way, the 900 is way too big and heavy for my taste. I'm 174 cm tall and I wear relatively skinny jeans, I'd look like a moron carrying something like that around in a pocket, not to mention that I'll drop it make it look like crap it in a couple days. And no, I'm not gonna go out with some kind of waist pack like a douchebag. Sorry but a 4.3"+ inchers aren't gonna be mainstream, I can't see girls carrying around a 5" iPhone in the nearest future. Nerds will have to deal with it at some point, a phone is still a phone. Just my 2 cents.
Lumia 900 aint bad, it's just android is far better in terms of user control. It's understandable why you don't like android, it has a learning curve, but heck, once you start tweaking your phone, mastering it... god it's so much damn fun you'll do it just for the sake of tweaking it more and more. AND every tweak will make your phone faster and better than it is as a stock phone.
Android OS better , so HTC One is better .
I have both, but Lumia is going on sale. too limited for now IMO and seeing how good performance is on my X, i wont miss WP7 smoothness ATM. Also, my Lumia never gets close to the LTE speeds my X (and last phone, Vivid) get. My One X gets around 22-30mbps and lumia averages at 5-8mbps... No clue why. Lumia feels more solid though and like the weight of it
Im sure ill look at next gen WP8 phones from Nokia later on, but I rather have everything I need now rather than wait for something better having a somewhat limited feel with my phone
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Lumia 900 aint bad, it's just android is far better in terms of user control. It's understandable why you don't like android, it has a learning curve, but heck, once you start tweaking your phone, mastering it... god it's so much damn fun you'll do it just for the sake of tweaking it more and more. AND every tweak will make your phone faster and better than it is as a stock phone.
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went through that phase, I was crack-flashing roms and kernels just to create the smoothest experience possible. Then, I tried wp7 and it was smoother than anything android could produce out of the box.
Half the guy mustache is missing. Lol.
Too bad the OS is hampering the Lumia camera back.
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mido hamdy said:
Android OS better , so HTC One is better .
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That is debatable
mido hamdy said:
Android OS better , so HTC One is better .
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Flawless logic is flawless
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The software/hardware conflict with the camera is sad, but not as bad as the conflict with every android phone and the general UI of it all. I'll take a camera that's a bit grainy in the dark over lag and instability any day.
Your opinion you're entitled to it, no matter how wrong you are.
Nice troll attempt though.
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No troll attempt, it's very visible and even noted by the reviewer in HTC's knew favored phone.
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Honestly I don't really like the One X. Tegra is 100% marketing crap. it's ridiculous that you have to deal with a browser forced to suck due to the stupid companion core that doesn't let the quad core goodness kick in. To me the One S is a much better phone: it's more pocketable, it has a good S4 SOC doing its job flawlessly (and smoking Tegra pretty much everywhere). The One X is such a waste. Also, I really don't get why pretty much every OEM is pushing for making bigger and bigger screens month after month. Nowadays if you wanna have a phone with good internals you have to carry a ****ing tablet in your pocket, everything else is "mid range". Honestly the GS2 was already too big for me. I'm pretty sure at some point I'll be forced to use an iPhone because everything else will be too big for my pockets. I really hope that at least on WP I'll still be able to find some decently specced device with a 4" screen in the future, I really don't like where the market is heading. By the way, the 900 is way too big and heavy for my taste. I'm 174 cm tall and I wear relatively skinny jeans, I'd look like a moron carrying something like that around in a pocket, not to mention that I'll drop it make it look like crap it in a couple days. And no, I'm not gonna go out with some kind of waist pack like a douchebag. Sorry but a 4.3"+ inchers aren't gonna be mainstream, I can't see girls carrying around a 5" iPhone in the nearest future. Nerds will have to deal with it at some point, a phone is still a phone. Just my 2 cents.
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Hey I love that everything looks way better on that 5" screen but l feel it looks ridiculous when you're holding it up to your ear while on a call. And a 3.5" screen is way too small to do anything other than make calls and sms. 4.3 is perfect for me. But it does look like 4.3+ is going mainstream now. And I thought girls wouldn't buy them either, but in the last few days I've seen 2 women holding Notes. So hey, no need to worry fellow nerds ;-)
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Hey,
Just wanted to start a little thread about the S4, just wanted to let everyone know its a really great phone, the advancements in this phone are truly amazing, and i already can't wait for a large amount of developers to get the phone.
Im hoping that we can use the gestures and tilts on more parts of the phone, and i guess this will come when more people have the phone.
So don't not give it a go, i haven't had any major incidents, battery life is pretty amazing in comparison to the S3, i used to notice that if i was reading something on a website you could actually see the battery draining, the battery is so strong on the S4 it took me a lot of surfing before i could see that battery draining.
I think we should all give the S4 a chance, give it a few days let things settle down, then complain.
Anyone has any comments feel free.
J
Early on in any phones lifetime you'll always see a ton of "this phone sucks" type complaints by people either 1) being trolls or 2) having disappointed expectations.
I would simply ignore the people in threads who complain and instead focus on the people in threads that actually enjoy the device. You will get much better information and experience from them
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Early on in any phones lifetime you'll always see a ton of "this phone sucks" type complaints by people either 1) being trolls or 2) having disappointed expectations.
I would simply ignore the people in threads who complain and instead focus on the people in threads that actually enjoy the device. You will get much better information and experience from them
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Agreed.
In addition to that, I think Samsung has this year begun to partially enter what I like to call the 'too popular to be popular' phenomena. I.e. that flaw of human psychology that results in a backlash/hyper-critique of anything said company does/releases due to some people's desire to always go one way when (in their eyes) everyone else is going the other.
In other words, people love the underdog (which used to be samsung). Now that they're no longer really in that status, they are open to the hate that apple has long been a victim off. Bottom line: ignore it. There's nothing more achingly hip than not liking something lots of people like.
Previous victims include Apple, Facebook.....and apple again.
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i dont dislike apple because they are the big dogs... i dislike them because they are the furthest thing from open source you can get.
their only real advantage is simplicity, and support. you can go to an apple store and they will fix your problem.
the two things that are wrong with that:
-if you want something with extra simplicity, get a basic phone.
-i personally like to fix my stuff myself, and learn it myself, rather than have someone fix the problem for me and having to go back.
that being said, samsung caters to both markets with their easy and normal modes.
Bah, most negatives posted seem to be "One believers" and folks ticked about the low storage space for apps. Besides that it is good.
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Hey,
Just wanted to start a little thread about the S4, just wanted to let everyone know its a really great phone, the advancements in this phone are truly amazing, and i already can't wait for a large amount of developers to get the phone.
Im hoping that we can use the gestures and tilts on more parts of the phone, and i guess this will come when more people have the phone.
So don't not give it a go, i haven't had any major incidents, battery life is pretty amazing in comparison to the S3, i used to notice that if i was reading something on a website you could actually see the battery draining, the battery is so strong on the S4 it took me a lot of surfing before i could see that battery draining.
I think we should all give the S4 a chance, give it a few days let things settle down, then complain.
Anyone has any comments feel free.
J
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So after a lot of days, finally I figured out a nice post. I am using note 2 and wanted to quickly jump to s4, but a lot of people here reporting heat issues, lag issues and battery issues. I wonder how you disagree with them? What was your previous device?
sohebq said:
So after a lot of days, finally I figured out a nice post. I am using note 2 and wanted to quickly jump to s4, but a lot of people here reporting heat issues, lag issues and battery issues. I wonder how you disagree with them? What was your previous device?
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Compared to my Nexus 4 the S4 lags like crazy (rooted and removed all of the crap and installed a custom launcher and enabled force gpu acceleration).
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Compared to my Nexus 4 the S4 lags like crazy (rooted and removed all of the crap and installed a custom launcher and enabled force gpu acceleration).
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This is just crazy man. How can such a powerful device lag, totally surprising, even after removing all the bloat? Do you feel its a hardware or software issue?
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This is just crazy man. How can such a powerful device lag, totally surprising, even after removing all the bloat? Do you feel its a hardware or software issue?
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Its software. Samsung felt the need to rush 4.2.2 out instead of optimising it first.
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Haha you can't just read the good reviews, you have to read both bad and good. I promise you their is equal bs and exaggeration on the good ones and bad ones. Some people have different expectations from the phone though, hence the different opinions for it.
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Phone is great sammy will update software quickly hopefully to fix the minor stutter! Thats all it is stutter
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I have been using my S4 for last 4 days
I have been using Apex Launcher on top of it and never faced any lag on it with live wallpaper running in background all the time
Its super fast and the screen is brilliant
Loving it and enjoying playing with my S4
I have the red blacks issue but definitely no lag... it's extremely fluid, feels like continuous 60fps.
I like mine so far. There are some things that I don't like, but I think they're mostly addressable.
Mine does have some stutter to it, but the one thing that's baffling me right now, is that If I'm typing fairly fast in landscape mode, and there are a couple of sentences typed already, it starts lagging extremely bad, like half a second bad. I had this same problem with my Inspire 4G, so I would assume it's just Android related. I turned predictive text off, so I'm not sure what could be causing it.
Also, even though I have no real issue with the brightness, the fact that the screen will go brighter in auto-mode than it will by manually setting it to 100% kind of bothers me. I'm hoping that someone will find a way around that.
Coming from an Inspire 4G though, the build quality definitely feels much cheaper. The Inspire feels like a solid piece of machinery, and it survived multiple, brutal drops over a 2 year period, and the screen doesn't have so much as a scuff on it. After a few months I basically had no concern for its safety. The only thing protecting it was a cheap silicone case. If I clean it up real nice, it would still look new.
I'm probably about the only person out there who feels like the Inspire's size and heft was a feature, but it was honestly pretty nice to not have to worry about breaking your phone. I feel like I have to be extra careful with the S4 in comparison. I haven't gotten a case for it yet, but I'm certainly not brave enough to get a 10 dollar silicon cover and no screen protector. It feels like it could snap in half if I were to sit on it funny.
At the end of the day, the screen is what did it for me. As a plasma TV owner, I've come to loath LCD black levels, and the solid blacks of the S4 are a thing of beauty.
agreed. This phone is great. Couldn't ask for anything else. Hell of a camera
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I get better benchmarks with my HTC One than ur s4
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After doing some tweaking and replacing most of the animations, I'm pretty happy. Deleted A LOT of crap. Samsung should really learn to concentrate on one or two features instead of piling them on, and not putting any effort into actually making any of them work like they should. Can't really understand why they need a new TouchWiz framework to begin with when they could just add TW as a launcher and theme stock android to their liking. Especially considering its horrible performance. They haven't even gotten the animations to be smooth, and there's lag everywhere. Hope they go the HTC way with the S5, as less definitely is more.
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Agreed.
In addition to that, I think Samsung has this year begun to partially enter what I like to call the 'too popular to be popular' phenomena. I.e. that flaw of human psychology that results in a backlash/hyper-critique of anything said company does/releases due to some people's desire to always go one way when (in their eyes) everyone else is going the other.
In other words, people love the underdog (which used to be samsung). Now that they're no longer really in that status, they are open to the hate that apple has long been a victim off. Bottom line: ignore it. There's nothing more achingly hip than not liking something lots of people like.
Previous victims include Apple, Facebook.....and apple again.
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So after a lot of days, finally I figured out a nice post. I am using note 2 and wanted to quickly jump to s4, but a lot of people here reporting heat issues, lag issues and battery issues. I wonder how you disagree with them? What was your previous device?
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I love it.
I haven't had any overheating and find the phone to be super smooth.
Battery is pretty good in comparison to the s3
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Hi there how are you? I have simple confusion? Should i jump from iPhone 6 to GS6?
History:
I am not a fanboy of any OS/Brand. I have used most Symbian Smartphones, never use to like iPhone because they could not do multitasking back then. Nokia passed away i jumped to Android, used as many as 20 android phones if not more, few older HTC, Galaxy S line, recently note 3 and galaxy s5.
Always thought Android is more capable OS and iOS is dumb OS until when i used iPhone 5 for the first time. Being Android user i didn't like limitations of iOS but after that simplicity, no lags, good UI, greatest keyboard made me confused. So i liked iOS a lot, but only problem was 4" screen, due to which i swapped phones number of times between galaxy and iPhone 5s few times.
Then iPhone 6 came with 4.7" and there was no looking back.
Now?
Galaxy s6 looks good and i am confused if i should try a change again, i need help from current users on following aspects.
Built quality of both phones are same, both are slim, i have to put soft silicon cover on it, so hardware does not matter to me.
Kindly tell me:
1- Does extra real estate of GS 6 matters in real world use? (iPhone is smaller bolder fonts, i feel it may carry more text in a given screen though)
2- Does extra pixel density have any advantage over iPhone already very very good screen. ( One battery disadvantage i know)
3- Exynos and 3GB ram is fine, but is Android/Touchwiz comparable to smoothness of iPhone 6 (Kindly only those who used iPhone tell me this)
4- When i was using galaxy s5, i was trying to imitate iPhones messaging App, Keyboard and other things on Galaxy, just looked neater to me and it use to have more text in it. Android apps use to look little messy to me, can be personal choice, but tell me if such common apps are less of a mess now?
5- Even i use to hate WhatsApp for android, i had to use Mods, thankfully they sort of changed it.
I know my post can be little bit crazy, but any input can be useful.
Thanks in Advance
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Hi there how are you? I have simple confusion? Should i jump from iPhone 6 to GS6?
History:
I am not a fanboy of any OS/Brand. I have used most Symbian Smartphones, never use to like iPhone because they could not do multitasking back then. Nokia passed away i jumped to Android, used as many as 20 android phones if not more, few older HTC, Galaxy S line, recently note 3 and galaxy s5.
Always thought Android is more capable OS and iOS is dumb OS until when i used iPhone 5 for the first time. Being Android user i didn't like limitations of iOS but after that simplicity, no lags, good UI, greatest keyboard made me confused. So i liked iOS a lot, but only problem was 4" screen, due to which i swapped phones number of times between galaxy and iPhone 5s few times.
Then iPhone 6 came with 4.7" and there was no looking back.
Now?
Galaxy s6 looks good and i am confused if i should try a change again, i need help from current users on following aspects.
Built quality of both phones are same, both are slim, i have to put soft silicon cover on it, so hardware does not matter to me.
Kindly tell me:
1- Does extra real estate of GS 6 matters in real world use? (iPhone is smaller bolder fonts, i feel it may carry more text in a given screen though)
2- Does extra pixel density have any advantage over iPhone already very very good screen. ( One battery disadvantage i know)
3- Exynos and 3GB ram is fine, but is Android/Touchwiz comparable to smoothness of iPhone 6 (Kindly only those who used iPhone tell me this)
4- When i was using galaxy s5, i was trying to imitate iPhones messaging App, Keyboard and other things on Galaxy, just looked neater to me and it use to have more text in it. Android apps use to look little messy to me, can be personal choice, but tell me if such common apps are less of a mess now?
5- Even i use to hate WhatsApp for android, i had to use Mods, thankfully they sort of changed it.
I know my post can be little bit crazy, but any input can be useful.
Thanks in Advance
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For me at least YOU MUST change the iphone 6 with a s6
You feel the screen of the s6 way WAY way better than iphone
Due to new touchwiz and 3gb ram, the firmware does not have any lag at least for me. S6 doesn't know the word LAG
The whole firmware is way better more CONCENTRATED
I don't use Whatsapp so I can't tell you anything about it.
Anyway, I hope I covered you
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I have used most Symbian Smartphones, never use to like iPhone because they could not do multitasking back then. Nokia passed away i jumped to Android, used as many as 20 android phones if not more, few older HTC, Galaxy S line, recently note 3 and galaxy s5.
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If you have changed phones as often as you say you have, I don't think it matters what phone you get as you will just jump to another phone soon anyways.
I would stick with an iphone. If you have a crazy love of iphone messaging apps and god forbid the awful Apple keyboard which is the worst and least intuitive i've ever used, you'll never get used to Android.
1. I haven't understand the question, sorry..
2. Some people sees a different, actually, im not.
3. I have nova launcher and it actually fast, i dont know in comparison to iphone 6.
4. Material design is just beautiful.
5. whatsmapp is actually genius. You can do anything.
Well, you can see i have problem with changing phones often, i may not be the only one here, who likes phones and want to keep a good one, every one has different needs though, even though i really want to have a phone to use it for at least two years if not more, may be this iPhone 6 can last long, when i had iPhone 5/5s, it was too small, Note 3, it was too big, galaxy s5, how should i glorify that, Nexus 5 was best Android phone ever, while using that i never missed iPhone, it was smooth and i was happy, then it started dropping signals, i was forced to quit, anyways we are talking something else here.
I don't have crazy love for iPhone messaging App, though i prefer it over any Android messaging App, even though it has flaws like i can't change bubble color. For keyboard, i know there are two kind of people, one who like iOS keyboard, one who hate it, its personal preference i guess too, wish i could take that keyboard to Android, like i use it without even word prediction feature, for me it auto corrects very well. i Should stick, may be.
Well thanks you covered it well, i will go to market to give it a hands on. ThANKS AGAIN
Material design is good, but touchwiz dont have stock material design that's my biggest hurdle, and hurdle of many. Skin seems to be not much different in real world. WhatsApp is better now after material design update, before that it was like software of 1990.
Stay with apple.
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I don't know why people complain about having touchwiz skin.. Without it there would be no fingerprint scanner software, dual window, gestures and etc. As for your question you might want to stick to iOS, if you are perfectly fine with how it operates. I'm a fan of both Android and iOS, and used both for many years. A part of me regrets not getting the iPhone because I know any software issues would get patched within weeks not months. Accessory support, and software support, you'll be getting software updates till your phone can't handle it, and finally battery life of standby which is still unrivaled IMO. But I part of me would've also regretted getting an iPhone since that phone has so many limitations like as simple as sharing files, its limited. Files you've downloaded would be tied to that app. Can't even delete pictures on the go when it came from your PC/Mac. Also the lack of features you get compared with Android. All in all in the end it comes down to user preferences.
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Hey there how are you? Well touchwiz? It's cartoonish. Colours hurt eyes. It has big uneven style icons. Non symmetrical objects. Different apps are different. Even messaging app has such huge bubbles like doremo cartoons. You can say we can change them. But how much change. How much refinement. Refining rooting modifying everything our self? Then what Samsung and company is doing? Finger prints? Samsung can implement them without touchwiz by small driver app. Dual window can also be implemented without touchwiz even though I yet to use it once on my last Galaxy phones.
You talk about file sharing? In my daily life I don't find occasions when I have to share file. So just for file sharing. I can't give up other ease and smoothness.
So just file sharing can't convince me to switch over. Kindly tell if touchwiz is as smooth and lag free as iOS. Then sharing a file or song easily must be good too.
About lack of features? There must be few features which iOS may have over android. Like that of unified settings, back ground data activity can be controlled and few others too.
So if Galaxy this time around is smooth enough. I must give a try too. Not because of file sharing snd some
Other things. I feel.
usmanxhmed said:
Well, you can see i have problem with changing phones often, i may not be the only one here, who likes phones and want to keep a good one, every one has different needs though, even though i really want to have a phone to use it for at least two years if not more, may be this iPhone 6 can last long, when i had iPhone 5/5s, it was too small, Note 3, it was too big, galaxy s5, how should i glorify that, Nexus 5 was best Android phone ever, while using that i never missed iPhone, it was smooth and i was happy, then it started dropping signals, i was forced to quit, anyways we are talking something else here.
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Android OS still got lots more function and mods but the problem is that mostly likely you will need root to enjoy it so no more warranty. One of the app I love is tasker but many features need root to enable. The camera on S6 is far better than Iphone6 though IP6 is already very great.
iOS the OS isn't great but the app store is, they still owned the most high quality apps there.
So it really depends either you need a OS more, or you need more apps. The best is to get both Android and iOS if you have money. Personally, I'm only a light user so I don't need many apps but I need tasker and camera more so Android is the only choice to me.
There's your answer. You obviously like iOS more so just stay. No one is convincing you to switch. We simply gave our opinions on why we chose a certain phone. I came from an iphone before this, I was Android before the iphone. Every 1 to 2 years I switch between Android and iOS.You say Samsung could implement an app or drivers for features, but look at it this way, every corner of the galaxy s6 has its own features, from notification bar to your dialer app. Might as well make it a skin and hide it within the system otherwise you'll be seeing more than 100 apps trying to run these features.
Unified System Settings( all in one place) vs Unified Storage( any app has access and able to use whatever you downloaded or put to you memory) I chose the latter, I mean how often do I find myself in system settings daily? The theme engine does change a lot of the look unfortunately not much themes at the moment... If you want to actually see some of the features the galaxy s6 offers here's a video...since you already know what iOS has. BTW, I'm not trying to make you switch its really up to if you care for what Android offers. I'll be back in iOS for the iPhone 7.
>>> https://youtu.be/wSNwA0aQtIA
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Jonathan-H said:
I would stick with an iphone. If you have a crazy love of iphone messaging apps and god forbid the awful Apple keyboard which is the worst and least intuitive i've ever used, you'll never get used to Android.
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wow....Well I guess this really is a matter of opinion cause I think the IOS keyboard is unbeatable, so accurate.
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sol_671 said:
I don't know why people complain about having touchwiz skin.. Without it there would be no fingerprint scanner software, dual window, gestures and etc. As for your question you might want to stick to iOS, if you are perfectly fine with how it operates. I'm a fan of both Android and iOS, and used both for many years. A part of me regrets not getting the iPhone because I know any software issues would get patched within weeks not months. Accessory support, and software support, you'll be getting software updates till your phone can't handle it, and finally battery life of standby which is still unrivaled IMO. But I part of me would've also regretted getting an iPhone since that phone has so many limitations like as simple as sharing files, its limited. Files you've downloaded would be tied to that app. Can't even delete pictures on the go when it came from your PC/Mac. Also the lack of features you get compared with Android. All in all in the end it comes down to user preferences.
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I couldn't have said it better than this person.
I love both android and IOS and used both a LOT, he summed it up very well.
Well. You must be right about camera. But you may have noticed. I never mentioned camera in my post. as I don't use camera much. iOS well I can't say if it's great if not. But my main concern was even apps like espn cric info and Twitter and even Facebook are far more smooth on iOS than on android. That's what I feel. You people can feel otherwise.
Plus I want to know about features which iPhone lacks and which matters. Features like dual windows is not useful for me. File sharing is one useful feature but since I don't find much occasions so I can live without it. But it is useful feature nevertheless. What are features are like this?
I switched from the iPhone 6 to the S6.
Do I miss my iPhone sometimes? Kinda
Did I make the right decision? For me it's a yes.
Really depends on your use case. The iPhone is a great phone. It just works without any hiccup. The S6 feels like a pocket computer, it does everything the iPhone does and more but it's less elegant and sometimes doesn't do it as well.
One of the reason I switched to the S6 is that I can't stand having to encode videos before I put them on the phone. I watch lots of videos so on android I just drag and drop, takes less than 5 minutes. However, on the iPhone it takes several hours to encode and I still have to use iTunes to transfer.
Also the camera. It's better than the one on the iPhone.
So...
1. If real estate is all you care about, yes. But I care about one handed usability as well and the smaller iPhone screen is the one I prefer.
2. Yes. The S6 screen is sharper. Not significantly sharper, but noticeably sharper. Colour accuracy is much better on the iPhone tho, not a fan of the S6's saturated display. The Amoled screen is much better at power saving compared to LCD since black pixels switch off. I use acdisplay on my S6 which is like a Moto Display rip off, this would suck lots of juice on an LCD but not amoled. Also, since the black pixels are literally off, contrast is simply stunning. Especially in the dark.
3. Short answer, almost. For my case I would say it is just as fast as my iPhone. But, if you're a lazy user and don't bother to remove the crap in your phone, the iPhone will be a smoother device in the long run. If you take care of your device I would say an android phone ages better. (My G2 is a testament to that)
5. Whatsapp for android received an overhaul and the ui imo is much better.
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Controversial as it maybe but if you like ios and apple hardware I'd not switch to the s6 - yes the screen is great, the build is nice and the camera is excellent. But nothing is worth switching platform for in my opinion.
I came from a nexus device and miss that too, I like my s6 I don't love it - and that's purely down to the software experience.
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You are not making me switch, we are talking here to share our point of view only, thanks for the video, i will see it, we all know every phone and OS has give and take, its only what you want to give up and what you want to take, and hopefully soon we can have best of both worlds. Themes are essential in Android and i don't being open and costamizable OS why themes were only for root and mod people, So now S6 have it, its good. You may agree with me Android demands lots of mods and stuff, and the first reason i switched to iPhone and refuse to even try jailbreak because i was feeling little tired of it. At the end it comes down to what a person feel better with.
First off, I dont want to start an iPhone vs Android war here!
But heres the thing. I have always had iPhones and I think its time for a change. Been waiting for a jailbreak for iOS 9.2 and I cant see it happening anytime soon. As the iPhone is very limited without a jailbreak, I need more functionality in my life, so I am looking towards an Android solution!
Im tech savvy and have no issues with flashing ROM's etc etc. Used to be into Symbian phones back in the day!
So I am looking for a phone that is better than the iPhone 6 in relation to hardware specs. I am also looking for a pure Android experience, the less bloatware the better! But I suppose the choice of phone will be narrowed by the availability of a nice, and well rounded custom ROM.
I would like something with a decent screen size, I dont want a tablet in my pocket, but the screen needs to be no smaller than the iPhone 6.
Not so worried about the cost and build quality is important.
I also note that there are some impending releases coming, so might wait a month or two to see what new phones will be gracing us!
So what do you recommend?
Thanks
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First off, I dont want to start an iPhone vs Android war here!
But heres the thing. I have always had iPhones and I think its time for a change. Been waiting for a jailbreak for iOS 9.2 and I cant see it happening anytime soon. As the iPhone is very limited without a jailbreak, I need more functionality in my life, so I am looking towards an Android solution!
Im tech savvy and have no issues with flashing ROM's etc etc. Used to be into Symbian phones back in the day!
So I am looking for a phone that is better than the iPhone 6 in relation to hardware specs. I am also looking for a pure Android experience, the less bloatware the better! But I suppose the choice of phone will be narrowed by the availability of a nice, and well rounded custom ROM.
I would like something with a decent screen size, I dont want a tablet in my pocket, but the screen needs to be no smaller than the iPhone 6.
Not so worried about the cost and build quality is important.
I also note that there are some impending releases coming, so might wait a month or two to see what new phones will be gracing us!
So what do you recommend?
Thanks
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Oh boy, I wouldn't worry about an iPhone Android war but you're going to start another kind of war (the oem one) if you want a new Android phone check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846277
But given the sheer amount of replies I don't think you'll be able to get any help from it. So imo the best phone that has all what you want is the huawei Nexus 6P ( great design and build quality and top notch hardware but most important pure android and fast updates) but im may be a bit too big maybe? (5.7")
Other suggestions maybe motorola since they make great phones with aosp android http://www.google.dz/url?q=http://m...ggLMAA&usg=AFQjCNE0_PMlhvpD9ipMsLFmuauokfuM4A
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