I have yet to try an Android phone that wasn't a laggy POS iPhone knockoff with poor design and crap battery life. I need my phone to actually work. Android phones belong in the trash.
Nexus, Pixel, and OnePlus don't have those problems. Have you tried anything other than Samsung or HTC? They put massive overlay on top of Android essentially make their own OS.
Ultimately I won't give up on android because of customization, Google integration, and the freedom to what I want. Apple's lock down mentality bothers me. On the flip side, IPhones are rock solid with the exception on the 6 plus. My 7 edge is the first android phone to have an excellent battery life but the lag kills me. My G4 was a few years older but it ran better. I'm kinda wishing I'd gotten a V20 instead of the 7 edge.
Samsung isn't the issue. I'd buy a samsung phone with ios in a heartbeat. It's android that is the issue for alot of people since it still retains some problems. Hopefully their fuchsia os fixes things like wakelocks and standby battery drain.
The standby battery drain is the absolute killer compared to iOS. When I am travelling I hate that I need a battery pack at the end of 15hrs to top it up. With an Iphone I could go multiple days without needing it. That being said, the design of the Iphone X is pretty awful, and I will need to see how it works out in the real world, but as someone said it looks like a concept phone which will definitely have a better iteration next year. For the time being the S8+ for its battery flaws is still my best option. The OS is a lot closer to stock android than ever before. The experience is actually quite nice, but every month you have clear your cache and get it all clean to avoid micro stutter.. Just android things :/
I ordered a 64GB iPhone 8. Don't want a concept phone (iPhone X) that may have a ton of issues, don't want another Plus, and don't want Android.
LOL I wonder if they sourced their batteries at liquidation from Samsung SDI. https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/6/16437790/iphone-8-swollen-battery-issue-apple-investigating
Battery life on my 7 Edge is the best I've ever had in an android phone. No previous phone would last longer than a day. If I forget to charge my edge it will usually have 35% to 40% the next morning. That's pretty darn close to my iPhone.
iOS uses barely any battery if it's on standby with good signal. it'll sit there for like 5hrs and only go down 1%
I finally got to (briefly) try an iPhone X. It was weird, and not in a good way. I didn’t like the notch. It was like some hideous design flaw that should have been removed in the prototype phase but somehow made it into production. And the lack of a home button made the phone harder and less intuitive to use. Also the Galaxy S8+ that was sitting next to it had a bigger, nicer looking screen. I actually thought the S8+ was a damn sexy phone. And I never thought I’d say this about an Android phone but it was fast and smooth feeling. That thing might turn me gay for big phones and Android again. I was underwhelmed by the X. It felt like a half-baked attempt to play catch-up with Samsung’s large screen, thin bezel phones.
I have currently made peace with the notch but hopefully the next year's model won't have to deal with a notch. the full gesture control isn't too bad either BUT I was a huge fan of swiping up from the bottom for control center. I dislike the current swipe down from top for it now.
They need to find a way to fit the hardware currently in the notch in the bezel. That notch is atrocious. Steve Jobs must be rolling over and taking a diarrhea dump in his grave.
oh, and all of these developers need to hurry and update their app for the iPhone x screen. they look really tiny with unnecessary top and bottom borders
I'm a fan of physical buttons and Samsung and Apple were the last holdouts until recently. I didn't like the fake home button on iPhone and rear button on Samsung is even worse. I wish X never happened until the "underglass" home button / touch id was perfected. Also not a fan of the gestures they choose. iOS's swipe up for control center is amazingly underrated. Android's swipe down from top is a pain on large phones, and I'd just shortcut buttons elsewhere to avoid it. I think the best of both worlds will be edge to edge displays and the home / touch id being incorporated into the power button. The Razor Phone does this and seems to work well. But I'm guessing Apple will never bring it back.... Face ID is garbage. It seems to fail outdoors in sunlight frequently enough. If it fails even 2% of the time that's too much. Touch ID only failed me if I had food grease on my hands.
https://news.sky.com/story/apple-admits-slowing-down-old-iphone-models-11179571 Protecting devices my arse, lining their pockets more like,
Ha. I was just coming here to mention this. Apple finally admitted what we've all known for a long time. They slow down their old products after every new product launch. What has driven me bonkers in the amount people that tell others not to buy last gen apple tablets and phones because the processors are too slow. They've never been too slow. It's all marketing and intentional slowdown. The next processor can be 5x faster than the current one but it wont be humanly perceivable. The only solution is to do what they do, tank their own products, and hope the faithful convince the rest of us that each new phone is faster than the last. This is what happens when product innovation has reached it's limit. That and they remove features, like the headphone jack, and convince people it's an upgrade.
I knew they were doing this shit. My 6 Plus started out fast and steadily slowed to a crawl. Became unbearable around the release of the 8, X, and iOS11. And we're supposed to believe it's a coincidence that the phones slow down right when the new ones come out. As bfun said, this is their way of dealing with a lack of innovation and phones being fast enough for most people.
This isn't as black and white as you guys are assuming. This specifically when the batteries start degrading to a point where the device could start malfunctioning if the soc was working to capacity. More specifically, not so long ago, the Nexus 6P had this problem. The battery would degrade and the device would just start powering off on its own when you would use it since it would try to pull too much current that the degraded battery could handle. The problem here is that Apple wasn't transparent about it. A simple battery replacement solves this issue. This has nothing to do with phasing out older products as even the iphone 6 still runs circles around 80% of android phones out there.
Yes, it opaque. The technical reasons for it have merit but the fact that the slow downs happen around the release of new phones is shady. Apple has to know that will help sales. A hardware failure might make the company look bad but intentionally slowing a device down without telling the customer is dishonest. People who buy used and refurbished devices might want to know that their processor is running at 600MHz rather than the advertised 1400MHz. Additionally, I've read that replacing the battery can bring the phone back up to full speed. That's another piece of information Apple might want to share. A pro can replace a battery for about $80 and that's a lot less than a new $700 phone. I'm also willing to bet that some Android phone manufactures are guilty of this as well.
I can't take it anymore. I'm going to eat a large Taco Bell meal and take a diarrhea dump on the genius desk