Wait.... what? The camera is excellent, but the battery life? It's horrendous. The standby drain is a mess, Google Maps is chunky AF. I'll give you the screen and fingerprint reader, they are quite good. But the battery life and chunkiness of the software. Yikes. I've had mind since it launched on AT&T, and I've been through everything trying to get the battery life back on track and nothing works.
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Wait.... what? The camera is excellent, but the battery life? It's horrendous. The standby drain is a mess, Google Maps is chunky AF. I'll give you the screen and fingerprint reader, they are quite good. But the battery life and chunkiness of the software. Yikes. I've had mind since it launched on AT&T, and I've been through everything trying to get the battery life back on track and nothing works.
Every year, there are threads saying "Goodbye, Android" or "Goodbye, iPhone." These platforms have been available for us for 10-11 years now. People are still wishy-washy and still like to flip-flop?
I just both of them concurrently and been doing so since 2011. I've routinely carried two phones since 2004. Right now, my Essential Phone is my main phone carrying my sim but I carry my iPhone SE for browsing. My Moto E4 is for GPS in my car.
It's no big deal. Android vs iOS doesn't need to be a Jihad. I guess people really do get bored if they aren't arguing.
I just both of them concurrently and been doing so since 2011. I've routinely carried two phones since 2004. Right now, my Essential Phone is my main phone carrying my sim but I carry my iPhone SE for browsing. My Moto E4 is for GPS in my car.
It's no big deal. Android vs iOS doesn't need to be a Jihad. I guess people really do get bored if they aren't arguing.
I have an iPhone 7+ and a Samsung S6, both are good phones and both work as I expect them too. The iPhone is the primary because of iOS and the Apple ecosystem. IMO, it is the best of the two ecosystems.
I took a look at the Note 9 yesterday at the Verizon store, it is a beauty and if it was running iOS it would be in my pocket now.
I took a look at the Note 9 yesterday at the Verizon store, it is a beauty and if it was running iOS it would be in my pocket now.
But then it would be a Note.
Ironically, one of the things attracting me to the Note 9 is it's massive storage, which will finally allow me to have my iTunes music on my phone again, using DoubleTwist since it's all DRM-free.