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From iPhone 3GS To Nexus One | Excellent decision

sn0warmy said:
After owning all 3 generations of iPhones I decided I needed a change so I sold my 3GS and purchased the Nexus One on T-Mobile.

I originally made this thread to explain why I was regretting switching from my iPhone 3GS to the Nexus One. After comments and suggestions from other Nexus One and Android users I've fixed the problems that were plaguing me and have grown to love the phone.

NEGATIVES (Now with solutions!!)

1) On the iPhone, when you answer a phone call and put it to your ear the screen goes black to save battery. But the instant you pull the phone away from your ear the screen lights back up so you can hang up the phone or look at Google Maps or something. The Nexus One lacks this feature, and in order to hang up you have to hit the button on the top of the phone then swipe your finger to unlock the screen before you can hit the "end call" button.:mad:

SOLUTION: Simply install an app called "Shake Awake" and the phone will now wake back up as soon as you pull it away from your ear, allowing you to hang up just like you would on the iPhone.

2) There is no built in visual voicemail. I forgot how awesome this feature was on the iPhone because it eliminated having to call your voicemail, enter a passcode, then hit "7" to delete and "9" to save. With the iPhone you can pick certain voicemails to listen to while deleting the rest, in any order.

SOLUTION: *Thanks llustig* (requires Google Voice) You can set your phone's voicemail to be received by your Google Voice account. When you receive a new voicemail just click the Google Voice icon and it will display your Voicemails on the screen and even translate them for you so you can read them without having to listen to them.

This feature is even better than the visual voicemail built into the iPhone because you can go into your Google Voice account on your computer and read/listen to your voicemails without even using your phone.
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Glad you found solutions to your problems. However, my stock Nexus One does what your third party app does for the first issue. Not sure why it's different.

The Nexus One rocks though doesn't it? Best phone I've ever used.
 
I like comparisons regardless of being for or against the product I have if! they consist of quality info instead of 5 lines of sentences.

Next time you make a comparison please make it more detailed since with current one you wont be able to change anyone's opinion and you are not making anyone fully informed about sth.
 
Nexus One looks really cool however the deal breaker for me is it doesn't work on AT&T, I would be better using two cups and a string to get reception because T-Mobile is horrible in my area, not worth it had a phone for 6 months before I dropped the service.

Also the price of $529.99 for an Unlocked phone ? Uh I don't think so, my Limite is $199.99 after that it is not worth it to me no matter what it has to offer.
 
dwd3885 said:
Your comments are interesting.

You can easily select text from a browser by clicking on the menu button and then select text. Then you highlight what you want to copy.

I did find it harder to type on the Nexus One than the iPhone the first few days, but honestly, it's about the same now. You'll get used to it. A plus is that you get more options for the word and not just one when you type so you can complete larger words much more easily.

I don't know about full multitouch across the whole OS. I get multitouch everywhere I think it needs to be. Maybe I don't understand. It's just fine for me.
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Oh man I didn't even realize that. I just tried it out and it is a bit more difficult than the iPhone to copy/highlight what you want to select but I guess with the scroll ball it just takes a little time.

And yes, I am getting used to the keyboard too.

What I mean by the "Full multi touch" is that if you have any part of your hand touching the screen anywhere on the phone, even slightly, you cannot select what you are trying to touch. With the iPhone, this isn't a problem but it isn't a deal break for me at all. I was just trying to point out to the OP that if sometimes the phone doesn't respond to your touch, then most likely you are holding the phone with one hand and have a part of your hand touching another part of the phone which in turn doesn't let you select the icon/place you are trying to hit.

Anyway, I'm loving the phone so far. The torrent download integration with Torrent Fu is wonderful. You can literally just download a torrent file and it will start the download for you on the server you have setup with uTorrent or whatever.

Also, the sms app called handcent replaced my stock sms app on the phone. It is so much more customizable and is actually better than the iPhone's sms app believe it or not.
 
The deal breaker for me when it comes to the Nexus one is that they don't sell it in Canada :p

Then I'd have to seriously consider it.
 
I have a Droid I have to agree Android is mostly excellent and surpasses the iPhone in many ways imo. Sure the iPhone remains superior in music and games but Android is now the better mobile internet platform and that's my number one need for my smartphone.

Browsing the web on a high res display is excellent and there is simply no going back to a low res 480 x 320. The Android 2 browser is better than mobile Safari, the first one I've used that I confidently say surpasses mobile Safari, there is NEVER a checkerboard effect no matter how fast you scroll around a page. Also you can scroll down page super fast in Android which for me just makes web browsing easier. It almost never crashes either.

Google maps navigation is awesome, it's seriously the slickest nav app I have ever seen. The customizable home screens are also great along with the notification shade. The weak spot of Android is in the gaming area but for me it's not much of a problem, though I do hope they make progress there. The media player is also weak, it works but there's nothing impressive about it.
 
I bought a Nexus one as a second phone. I still love my iPhone but the Nexus one is just as good as the iPhone in my opinion. In Canada I can only get edge with it and Google turn by turn does not work but it is faster than the iPhone and has a much better screen. I can see why iPhone owners would switch. The next iPhone needs to have a better screen. Everything looks sooo crisp on the Nexus.
 
chameleon81 said:
I like comparisons regardless of being for or against the product I have if! they consist of quality info instead of 5 lines of sentences.

Next time you make a comparison please make it more detailed since with current one you wont be able to change anyone's opinion and you are not making anyone fully informed about sth.
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I'm not sure what you are referring to with this post, so I will to have guess. If your comment was concerning the OP's post, then I have to disagree. The OP at least got me interested enough to check further into the N1. The OP is not obligated to make a more detailed post, just because you think there is nothing of value. Look at how many other posters have contributed to this thread, your comment really sticks out like a sore thumb.:rolleyes:
 
dwd3885 said:
Glad you found solutions to your problems. However, my stock Nexus One does what your third party app does for the first issue. Not sure why it's different.
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Weird. I'm really going to have to look into this issue then.

llustig said:
Also, the sms app called handcent replaced my stock sms app on the phone. It is so much more customizable and is actually better than the iPhone's sms app believe it or not.
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I'll have to give this app a try as well. Thanks!

chameleon81 said:
I like comparisons regardless of being for or against the product I have if! they consist of quality info instead of 5 lines of sentences.

Next time you make a comparison please make it more detailed since with current one you wont be able to change anyone's opinion and you are not making anyone fully informed about sth.
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. What other details are you looking for? I'd be happy to elaborate.
 
I am thinking about selling my iPhone and getting the Nexus One. But, I don't want to go to TMobile. I was with them before and did not like them. I am hoping that Spring 2010 isn't too far away... that is the date Google gives on their N1 site for when the N1 is avail on Verizon's network.

In any case, how do you get pic and songs and such from your Mac to the phone? When you connect it to the Mac, does it show up as a drive?

Where do you buy apps for it?

Thanks
 
Gix1k said:
I have been considering this move. I am getting bored with my iPhone. I just know i'll miss the hell out of it. I know it.
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You wont miss it believe me YOU WONT MISS IT........ Nexus one is the dogs, take the plunge you will not be disappointed
 
bigbadneil said:
You wont miss it believe me YOU WONT MISS IT........ Nexus one is the dogs, take the plunge you will not be disappointed
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you can't possibly know that because you don't know what the poster you're talking to does with his/her iphone. I, for example, would greatly miss my iphone if I left it for a nexus one unless there are very good replacements for a number of fairly specialized third party apps - so anyone who recommended a nexus one to me without knowing about those uses really wouldn't be doing me any favors.
 
I have had my nexus one for 3 days. This phone is better than my iPhone 3gs in every aspect except the music playing part. The music player sucks. That said everything else is great. The o/s is amazing. There is so much it can do out of the box. The notification screen where you hold down the top and drag it down to reveal all your notifications is wonderful. While the android market lacks in quantity compared to the app store it had a lot of useful Apps that you could only dream about in the app store. I was able to download a video from youtube, rip out some audio from it and convert it into a ringtone all on the phone. Honestly, I can't go back to my iPhone anymore, it would be like going backwards.
 
The Nexus One doesn't tether with the Mac out of the box. It doesn't tether with anything out of the box. The iPhone does. This is essential to what I do for a living. I can't use the Nexus One. I'm not interested in third party solutions. Android doesn't tether out of the box.
 
rje said:
The Nexus One doesn't tether with the Mac out of the box. It doesn't tether with anything out of the box. The iPhone does. This is essential to what I do for a living. I can't use the Nexus One. I'm not interested in third party solutions. Android doesn't tether out of the box.
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The iPhone in The US does not tether out of the box you need to jailbreak in order to tether. The only reason why I haven't tried the Nexus one is because I wouldn't switch to TMobile. AT&T for me has been great and wouldn't expect leaving them.
 
steve31 said:
I bought a Nexus one as a second phone. I still love my iPhone but the Nexus one is just as good as the iPhone in my opinion. In Canada I can only get edge with it and Google turn by turn does not work but it is faster than the iPhone and has a much better screen. I can see why iPhone owners would switch. The next iPhone needs to have a better screen. Everything looks sooo crisp on the Nexus.
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Ok, we can see here as all of you "iPhone basher" have a biased opinion NOT based on fact:


iPhone 3GS display far better than nexus

The LCD screen on the iPhone 3GS is far from perfect, but it's also significantly better than the much-touted AM-OLED display on the Google Nexus One, a scientific comparison of the two displays has found.

Dr. Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, has published the first in a three-part series comparing the much-touted AMOLED display on the Google Nexus One with last year's iPhone 3GS. Parts two and three of the in-depth look are due to be published in the days to come at both displaymate.com and displayblog.com. He also spoke with AppleInsider about his time with the Nexus one and its comparison to the iPhone 3GS.

Soneira's discovery that the Nexus One screen is inferior to the iPhone is interesting, because many who spent time with both handsets said they found the Nexus One OLED display to be superior. But Soneira said eyeballing the screens isn't enough.

For his tests, he had the Nexus One, iPhone 3GS and a professional broadcast studio monitor all next to one another. The same image would be displayed on all three devices, and the two handsets were compared to the monitor.

The result: While the Nexus One might have a bright, eye-catching display, it also has lots of noise and artifacts, and it just isn't accurate. He said most users are probably wowed by the Nexus One display for the same reason people buy TVs at electronics stores with the brightest and most exaggerated picture -- it looks great at the store, but at home it just isn't right.

"The Nexus One really exaggerates the colors, and when you first look at it, it looks great," Soneira told AppleInsider. "But if you know what a picture is supposed to look like, then it doesn't look so good, because there's just too much color."

Most high-quality displays, including the iPhone, have at least 18-bit color, and emulate 24-bit color with dithering. But in his tests, Soneira found that the Nexus One screen uses only 16-bit color, which allows 32 possible intensity levels for red and blue, and 64 for green.

"This is common on cheap low-end devices, but it is unacceptable for an expensive high-performance 'Super Phone' that Google claims to to be," he wrote. "All screen colors are derived from intensity mixtures of the RGP primaries -- with so few levels to work with the colors are coarse and inaccurate, which produces quite noticeable false contouring in many images and photos."

Soneira also found that the Nexus One display is good at showing text, icons and menu graphics. But images and resolution scaling, he said, fell far short. He demonstrated this with a photo from NASA shown on both the iPhone and Nexus One.
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This is just the first part of the entire article ....
Very true indeed: the Nexus has a "much better screen" .... if you are blind :D:D:D
 
hey people I also just bought the google nexus one. Where I live in CA, tmobile has waaay better service than AT&T. I am most concerned about synching with my macbook pro. specifically the podcasts and itunes content. Does anyone know of a way to sync my content between my mac and my google nexus 1?
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
Yes the N1 is the first phone i would possibly stray away from the iphone for. I does seem like a very nice phone.

But I won't for 2 reasons
1) I want to wait to see what apple has in store for it's iphone 4.0 hardware/software 1-2 punch. I'm not going to switch and be kicking myself just 4 months from now.

2)apps. I don't just mean the wide selection of apps that the iphone has. That's nice, but I mean the apps that I've already invested in. I have bought so many apps, and I don't want all that to go to waste. I've spent probably over 100 bucks on iphone apps (including $50 on tom-tom USA on sale). When I got the iphone I decided I was in it for the long haul. I just like how easily it works with my Mac :)

With all that being said, the nexus one is probably an equivalent (if not superior) phone, but it's still not good enough to stray me away. Apple won me first ;)
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you know you get google navigation for free with the nexus one, right? and because you can use google's dictation feature, from the home screen (or even while on a call), you just say "Navigate to Mishka's Cafe near Davis CA" or whatever and the phone identifies what you are saying, googles the address, and starts up a gps navigation directing you there. All of this is free.
 
Nexus One G2 on Verizon will be the next time I consider leaving the iPhone.
 
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