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doesn't take a rocket scientist to give apple all a's on their retina display by now. Samsung and everybody else is still one or more steps behind to keep costs down

 

In a preference type of scenario, I much prefer super amoled displays from samsung. After seeing the best blacks, I can't look at LCD again.

 

Don't Samsung phones have that saturation selection in the settings? I think by default it's on vivid or something

 

I went ahead and grabbed an iphone 5 for my mom today. She's not going to be back in town until Saturday so I've been fiddling with this a little.

Since I've been using android devices in the last two years, my smallest device was my evo at 4.3" to my galaxy s II variant at 4.5" and then my recent galaxy note II at 5.5". I took a picture of the iphone 5 on my galaxy note II and it looks humorous.

http://i.imgur.com/tRgx0.jpg

The command that ios holds on what background tasks/data may run may seem shitty to some people but it really helps in a smartphone as a phone scenario. You usually want the best battery life possible. I've had this thing off charger for more than 6hrs and it's still at 100%

 

I get about three days of moderate to heavy use without having to plug mine in. I have yet to see the battery die. You just don't get that kind of battery life with Android.

 

My 4S didn't blow me away with battery life but maybe it's better than I realise given my lack of other phone experience.

 

You need to keep in mind that many Android phones can't even last a full day.

 

I’ve heard that most android phones don’t last more than an hour and that the iPhone 5 can go 9 to 10 days with heavy web browsing. Plus the iPhone just works.

 

Pretty much.

 

It's really hard to compare the ios devices to android devices battery consumption given the huge difference in how the os handles background data. If you turn off background data in android, you get similar battery life to an ios device. That's just how it is.

For an idea, look at how ios handles google+ instant upload. On ios, for google+ instant upload to even occur, you have to have google+ open. This kind of defeats the purpose of it.

Samsung really optimized the software on the Note II. I was still at 64% after 24hrs off charger the other day. Given that it does have a huge 3100mah battery for that type of battery life, but at the same time, it is powering a large 5.5" screen. But you can't deny that an android device that allows ~7hrs screen on time is extremely rare. I think the only other recent android device that can do that is the RAZR MAXX HD.

 

I didn't realize how different it was on ios to sync google contacts to it. I actually had to do research on this.

I originally did the MS Exchange set up for it but then realized that two months ago, google released a carddav method. how come nobody tells me these things?

 

My nieces and nephews, 5 -9, all got iPod touches for Christmas. Is there something I should be doing to make them child safe? I figured a volume limit was a good idea. Anything else? Is there some kind of net nanny?

 

Maybe turn on restrictions in the settings and lock safari. For anything else, you'll probably need to jailbreak them

 

@chi: what else would you need to do that isn't covered under restrictions? Just had a look and it seems pretty comprehensive.

 

To lock them out of non system apps, or lock them into a certain app.

 

So was IOS 8.0 ass? My wife put it on her brand new 5 and complained constantly about problems. Horrible battery life, crashes, and no screen rotate. I was trying to get her to return the phone but she updated to 8.0.2 and I haven't heard her complain as much.