aaahhh the memories...Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Today I sold my iPhone 4 and bought the SGS3.
I cannot express enough how amazing this phone is. Im sure Android was bad before 4.0, but ICS is so much better than iOS that it seems like a joke...
Ive been with iOS 2 years: iPhone 4 and iPad. I love my Mac ecosystem: iMac and Mac Mini as media center. But now I seriously doubt I will ever go back to iOS. Ill still buy macs, obviously.
I feel just the same way like when I went from windows to OS X. The difference was abysmal. ICS is to iOS what OS X is to Windows. It also resembles the lap I went from Samsung Omnia HD 3 years ago to the iPhone 4. Huge leap forward too.
Love how thin the device is, how lightweight, the beautiful screen, the capacitive buttons, etc.
You know whats best? Im playing Donkey Kong on a GBA emulator without needing to jailbreak!
I mean, not having to wait for jailbreak releases again is nice, but that will be replaced by waiting for updates, right?
You just need to try this device on person. I didn't want to buy it at first, but when I tried it this wednesday I knew I had to buy it.
Im surprised by Android apps. They are really good (and many look nice too). Facebook, Twitter, Skype... They look the same but on a bigger screen (which makes it so, so much better to view at).
To me, personally, this has been a VERY huge improvement.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Today I sold my iPhone 4 and bought the SGS3.
I cannot express enough how amazing this phone is. Im sure Android was bad before 4.0, but ICS is so much better than iOS that it seems like a joke...
Ive been with iOS 2 years: iPhone 4 and iPad. I love my Mac ecosystem: iMac and Mac Mini as media center. But now I seriously doubt I will ever go back to iOS. Ill still buy macs, obviously.
I feel just the same way like when I went from windows to OS X. The difference was abysmal. ICS is to iOS what OS X is to Windows. It also resembles the lap I went from Samsung Omnia HD 3 years ago to the iPhone 4. Huge leap forward too.
Love how thin the device is, how lightweight, the beautiful screen, the capacitive buttons, etc.
You know whats best? Im playing Donkey Kong on a GBA emulator without needing to jailbreak!
I mean, not having to wait for jailbreak releases again is nice, but that will be replaced by waiting for updates, right?
You just need to try this device on person. I didn't want to buy it at first, but when I tried it this wednesday I knew I had to buy it.
Im surprised by Android apps. They are really good (and many look nice too). Facebook, Twitter, Skype... They look the same but on a bigger screen (which makes it so, so much better to view at).
To me, personally, this has been a VERY huge improvement.
There are Android apps that let you sync with iCloud so it should be fairly easy to switch between the two
). I spent a really good time playing with it making sure everything was as good or better than iOS, and I found out that most things (Id say 80% or even more) are way better, like Maps, Gmail, YouTube, speech to text, etc. Good times.
Where I live (Spain) its very, very difficult to find a place where phones are on and you can try them. They are always off and you just see the outside. Thats why I never could play with Android before. This wednesday finally I found the SGS3 on (it was the only phone turned on in the whole shop!!
I don't want to make it sound like iOS is bad. I really liked it these 2 years, but if I had tried ICS before...
The 3.5 screen now does seem like an issue when you try something bigger in HD. Not just web browsing, but specially games! On my jailbroken iPhone 4 I couldn't play Donkey Kong on the GBA emulator (only emulator that worked!) because the keys where too big and there was no space. Now, with GBAsoid, everything is perfect size. I can't wait to try the N64 and PSX emulators. Even my old games from Game Gear when I was younger!
And here I though Mail in iOS was better...
I just love smartphones. I don't care about brand or OS as long as they are good. Ive been wanting to try Android for over a year, but never found a phone that quite matched the iPhone. Im glad I waited enough time for Android to get better.
Right now, being completely sincere, I see no reason to go back to iOS. I don't find apps to be so bad on Android, for example. Notifications are equally good. For games I have my dear emulators plus new releases. Screen is better (but mainly due to size). LED indicator is nice. Etc, etc.
What I did was sell my iPhone 4 32GB to Vodafone, my carrier. It has been like 8 months with the home button broken, which was another of the main reasons I switched to SGS3: the capacitive buttons. If the button hadn't break I would probably still be using it... so Apple is not perfect when it comes to build quality either.
With the money from the iPhone 4 the SGS3 cost me 273 euros, which is really great. The iPhone 4 cost me 350 euros 2 years ago. At that time it was the best phone on the market for me. 2 years later, iPhone is no longer the king. Im not saying the SGS3 is. Maybe the HOX is, or the Note, or the Razr... I just think the SGS3 is way, way better than 4 (obviously) and 4S.
Even the keyboard is more fast and responsive, although Im not using it since Im obsessed with the speech to text
The SwiftKey keyboard is amazing and it's half price for £1.49 (1.87) at the moment. Really improves typing speed and the autocorrect is phenominal
Competition is great!
I can't wait to see Apple push back this fall!
Hahaha this is awesome!
Just copied my whole iTunes music library to the SD card on the SGS3 and it recognized EVERYTHING without me needing to do anything. So many posts all over the internet about problems with syncing with iTunes had me a little bit worried, but I didn't expect it to be so easy!
I just copied all the folders from iTunes/media/music to a folder created by me named "music" in the SD card and its all there: album artwork, info, albums, artists, etc.
How easy was that??? Take that iTunes!!!
Plus, another thing Ive been wanting for years: folders in the photos app. On iOS its a poor implementation. Here I can have folders and subfolders anywhere on the SD card and it will appear automatically on the photos app.
Thank you Android, thank you
