Back to iOS once again

[Savor]

After being on iOS for five years (2008-2013), I can honestly say I would go back to iPhones if they werent so reliant on iTunes to organize media files and photos. Having iTunes on a Windows PC can be horrible at times for me. And iMessages and AirDrop is just to restrictive for me. Being forced into an ecosystem. And Apple keeps changing the sim size faster than their screen sizes. Makes it a hassle to switch around phones.

iOS7 isnt really that bad though. I can live with it.

I wouldn't mind a smaller phone for casual fun to throw into my pocket but I do prefer bigger screen phones now as a main/work phone. I say iPhones is more for play and then I can easily sell it once I get bored with iOS again.

Maybe in 2015 when the iPhone 6s comes out. Hopefully with a bigger screen and better design with sapphire crystal glass. Didnt really like the design of iPhone 5/5s just like I dont like the Nexus 5 design. The lightweight made it feel cheap and hollow. And being too thin is a neg on me. I dont want to have credit card thinness from a phone. I need something more to hang onto. Abt 8-10mm thickness feels abt right for me.

 

[JH-]

After being on iOS for five years (2008-2013), I can honestly say I would go back to iPhones if they werent so reliant on iTunes to organize media files and photos. Having iTunes on a Windows PC can be horrible at times for me. And iMessages and AirDrop is just to restrictive for me. Being forced into an ecosystem. And Apple keeps changing the sim size faster than their screen sizes. Makes it a hassle to switch around phones.

iOS7 isnt really that bad though. I can live with it.

I wouldn't mind a smaller phone for casual fun to throw into my pocket but I do prefer bigger screen phones now as a main/work phone. I say iPhones is more for play and then I can easily sell it once I get bored with iOS again.

Maybe in 2015 when the iPhone 6s comes out. Hopefully with a bigger screen and better design with sapphire crystal glass. Didnt really like the design of iPhone 5/5s just like I dont like the Nexus 5 design. The lightweight made it feel cheap and hollow. And being too thin is a neg on me. I dont want to have credit card thinness from a phone. I need something more to hang onto. Abt 8-10mm thickness feels abt right for me.

I wish manufacturers would increase the thickness of phones and increase the battery life. I would probably go back to Apple if they added a notification light or t the ability to choose default applications. I feel like a notification light is more likely though.

 

[Technarchy]

I sold my GS4 after 3 months and returned to iOS with the iPhone 5S.

The UI lag that extended even into the camera interface was a big factor. I also missed Siri and the better design apps had, and the superior smoothness on iOS. The Apple user experience is just more seamless.

I have a 2nd gen Nexus 7 though and I think its solid with some quirks but nothing too major.

 

[cynics]

Another word to describe Android is true multi-tasking. On iOS, if your finger is on the screen most data loading stops. It is really frustrating when you realized that the page loading has not progressed at all when you lift your finger off the screen after you done scrolling.

On Android data continues to load while you scroll making it better experience since you don't need to wait for page to load when you scroll further down the page.

With iOS this is much better. I was just testing this out in safari. Load a web page and before it's done start scrolling without lifting a finger.

Prior to iOS 7 everything would freeze and wait.

Now everything on the screen freezes the way it is but the instant I lift my finger everything else pops onto the screen meaning it was downloading and loaded ready to display.

This isn't that bad of a thing because you can essentially freeze the screen to look at it before a rogue web page ask you to download apps and look at ads.

I also noticed it only does this once. If you freeze it and lift you finger and put it back on the screen and start scrolling everything continues to load.

I'm not exactly sure the inter workings but it's definitely been changed since iOS 6 for the better, more android like. And in reality now it's completely unnoticeable, and difficult to try to even simulate. In real world it's a non issue just as much as Android lag on modern Android phones.

 

[jdlindsey7]

I sold my GS4 after 3 months and returned to iOS with the iPhone 5S.

The UI lag that extended even into the camera interface was a big factor. I also missed Siri and the better design apps had, and the superior smoothness on iOS. The Apple user experience is just more seamless.

I have a 2nd gen Nexus 7 though and I think its solid with some quirks but nothing too major.

I have purchases every first iteration of the iPhone (2, 3, 4, and now 5) every other year and have dabbled with android intermittently between. I always find my way to iOS also. The app quality, camera, and smooth user experience draw me in to iOS while the screen size pushes me away.

 

[spinedoc77]

I prefer to think of it as my finger being a race car, and it takes the tires a moment of burnout before moving things along. While childish, this also makes scrolling so much more fun. I also make the screeching noises whenever I change finger direction.

Wouldn't it be cool if we could have a tires screeching sound every time we tried to scroll something?

On a serious note, I still cannot for the life of me figure out what you guys mean in terms of lag when scrolling in Android, I have yet to see it on my G2 or N5. Is this in Chrome, or some other application?

 

[Stuntman06]

I wish manufacturers would increase the thickness of phones and increase the battery life.

Me, too. The problem is that a thin phone sells a lot better than a thick phone with an outstanding battery life. You simply cannot demonstrate outstanding battery life at the store. However, you can show off a thin phone and get people's attention in a snap.

 

[spinedoc77]

After being on iOS for five years (2008-2013), I can honestly say I would go back to iPhones if they werent so reliant on iTunes to organize media files and photos. Having iTunes on a Windows PC can be horrible at times for me. And iMessages and AirDrop is just to restrictive for me. Being forced into an ecosystem. And Apple keeps changing the sim size faster than their screen sizes. Makes it a hassle to switch around phones.

iOS7 isnt really that bad though. I can live with it.

I wouldn't mind a smaller phone for casual fun to throw into my pocket but I do prefer bigger screen phones now as a main/work phone. I say iPhones is more for play and then I can easily sell it once I get bored with iOS again.

Maybe in 2015 when the iPhone 6s comes out. Hopefully with a bigger screen and better design with sapphire crystal glass. Didnt really like the design of iPhone 5/5s just like I dont like the Nexus 5 design. The lightweight made it feel cheap and hollow. And being too thin is a neg on me. I dont want to have credit card thinness from a phone. I need something more to hang onto. Abt 8-10mm thickness feels abt right for me.

I haven't used itunes for my iOS devices in years, literally.

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I wish manufacturers would increase the thickness of phones and increase the battery life. I would probably go back to Apple if they added a notification light or t the ability to choose default applications. I feel like a notification light is more likely though.

Maybe with a wider footprint we will get nice battery life out of the ip6. I look at my LG G2 and it's not much thicker than the ip5s and still gets 2 1/2 times more talk time.

 

[JH-]

I haven't used itunes for my iOS devices in years, literally.

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Maybe with a wider footprint we will get nice battery life out of the ip6. I look at my LG G2 and it's not much thicker than the ip5s and still gets 2 1/2 times more talk time.

Honestly for me talk time isn't that big of a deal. I understand everyone has different use cases but my phone is mostly used for internet as it's faster than my f home connection and unlimited. I would like better screen on time for data intensive operations.

 

[Technarchy]

I haven't used itunes for my iOS devices in years, literally.

My first iPhone was the 4S, purchased not long after it was released, and since that time I've used iTunes like 6 or 7 times tops.

There is no need to. When I hear someone talk about using iTunes to manage their iPhone I wonder what the hell they are doing. It's not 2008

 

[mib1800]

My first iPhone was the 4S, purchased not long after it was released, and since that time I've used iTunes like 6 or 7 times tops.

There is no need to. When I hear someone talk about using iTunes to manage their iPhone I wonder what the hell they are doing. It's not 2008

Then I guess you don't have your own video files which want you to watch on the phone.

Then again watching videos on ios devices is not easy at all having to load up 2gb video file to the cloud and then waste 2gb of data to stream it back to the phone. And after watching you just want to delete it.

Even with iTunes is also a pain since you have to wait for iTunes to convert that same video file to supported format.

 

[tbayrgs]

Then I guess you don't have your own video files which want you to watch on the phone.

Then again watching videos on ios devices is not easy at all having to load up 2gb video file to the cloud and then waste 2gb of data to stream it back to the phone. And after watching you just want to delete it.

Even with iTunes is also a pain since you have to wait for iTunes to convert that same video file to supported format.

Try Plex--I've been using it for years, can handle just about any format you can throw at it, encodes on the fly as needed. Yes, it's streaming but works great.