iPhone 6 going back, 5S just sold it's back to Android for me

[mercuryjones]

Agree, the 6+ is looking hideous, especially the white one, can't believe people are buying this...
On this photo it looks like two 2014 devices with one from 2009 in the middle

Really? Looks to me like 2 almost identical phones on the left and right and then the iconic iPhone design in the middle. Plus, why are you comparing black phones to the white iPhone? Seems odd. Personally, I prefer the white iPhone, but that's just me.
Also, that huge LG on the front is the hideous thing in the picture.

 

[Dontazemebro]

Agree, the 6+ is looking hideous, especially the white one, can't believe people are buying this...
On this photo it looks like two 2014 devices with one from 2009 in the middle

It does look kind of dated in that photo but this is Apple's first foray into the big screen market so I'll give them a pass.

Really? Looks to me like 2 almost identical phones on the left and right and then the iconic iPhone design in the middle. Plus, why are you comparing black phones to the white iPhone? Seems odd. Personally, I prefer the white iPhone, but that's just me.

Just curious but what do you think is iconic about it?

 

[Fireblade]

Really? Looks to me like 2 almost identical phones on the left and right and then the iconic iPhone design in the middle. Plus, why are you comparing black phones to the white iPhone? Seems odd. Personally, I prefer the white iPhone, but that's just me.
Also, that huge LG on the front is the hideous thing in the picture.

A matter of taste for sure, but iconic, c'mon

If the design of the white thing on the picture is iconic, than this car's design is iconic too

 

[mercuryjones]

It does look kind of dated in that photo but this is Apple's first foray into the big screen market so I'll give them a pass.



Just curious but what do you think is iconic about it?

It's iconic, just like the original RAZR was, or the Nokia candy bar phones. You can look at it and instantly tell what kind of phone it is. Try that with any of the flagship Android phones on the market. Hell, without the LG plastered on the front, you'd never know what the phone was. And the OnePlus? It looks just like the LG, minus the "chin" and label.
Just because you don't like the design, doesn't make it any less iconic.

 

[Fireblade]

It's iconic, just like the original RAZR was, or the Nokia candy bar phones. You can look at it and instantly tell what kind of phone it is. Try that with any of the flagship Android phones on the market. Hell, without the LG plastered on the front, you'd never know what the phone was. And the OnePlus? It looks just like the LG, minus the "chin" and label.
Just because you don't like the design, doesn't make it any less iconic.

It was iconic in 2008, but now it looks nothing but outdated...

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

It's iconic, just like the original RAZR was, or the Nokia candy bar phones. You can look at it and instantly tell what kind of phone it is. Try that with any of the flagship Android phones on the market. Hell, without the LG plastered on the front, you'd never know what the phone was. And the OnePlus? It looks just like the LG, minus the "chin" and label.
Just because you don't like the design, doesn't make it any less iconic.

VHS tapes are iconic too. If the iPhone 6 Plus was thicker, it would look just like it.

 

[mercuryjones]

VHS tapes are iconic too. If the iPhone 6 Plus was thicker, it would look just like it.

I suppose so. Let me know when you get around to designing a mobile phone.

 

[macrem]

You are either referring to going through iTunes or using a specific app.

I am not talking about whatever app you are referring to. I mean needing iTunes to transfer files, whatever files a given app uses, via iTunes.

The alternative is to use the apps browser-based transfer functionality, which is usually basic and can only handle one file at a time.

There should be no need to even have to consider iTunes nowadays. It was barely acceptable in 2007 when the iPhone came out. And WiFi sync via iTunes is still using iTunes. On the one PC/mac you are allowed to is it on.



Mike

I was referring to the Music app. You can automatically get all your music on all your (& family member) devices via iCloud. Apple cut the cord with iTunes a long time ago.

 

[Jibbajabba]

And who would need excuses to change his phone?

People on the interwebs

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Speaking of. Company only supplies iPhones and for the first time people begged to get their old 5S back. As it wasn't possible 2 out of 4 decided to ditch the company phone and went Nokia while the other 2 went Android (Note 3 and Sony something).

I think the biggest mistake was having ONLY large phones in the lineup.

With other companies you got at least a choice.

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A matter of taste for sure, but iconic, c'mon

If the design of the white thing on the picture is iconic, than this car's design is iconic too
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Everything that is designed on TopGear is iconic

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The iPhone 6 Plus already looks dated, compared to other same sized 5.5" screens.

LG G3...Apple iPhone 6 Plus...OnePlus One
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I don't see this design aging well, if it's two more years before a redesign with the iPhone 7 in 2016.

Man the bezels. That's just hilarious. All a master of taste I presume. And to the guy asking to give Apple some alavk because they are new in the big phone game. We aren't talking a cheap Chinese knockoff here. Here in the UK you can spend up to $1300 for the 6+ (compared to $950 in US .. As usual). I wouldn't cut anyone some slack for that price.

 

[Tinmania]

I was referring to the Music app. You can automatically get all your music on all your (& family member) devices via iCloud. Apple cut the cord with iTunes a long time ago.

You may have been referring to just the music app. But I wasn't, nor was the person who brought up still needing iTunes.

Here is an example: I have a karaoke app on my iPad. It is only useful if a lot of songs are loaded. You have exactly two choices to load songs. One, you can use iTunes, where you can select as many files to upload as you want. The other option is via the app's browser interface. After manually typing in the URL you get to choose exactly one file at a time to load. You need to use iTunes, for all intents and purposes.

Plenty of other apps work the same way. And if I have more than one app that does the same thing, say another karaoke app, I need to duplicate all the files for each app--uploading them separately.

On Android I would just connect via USB (or use DropBox, or another wireless option) and copy the files I want all at once. I am not restricted to using them in one app. If I had five karaoke apps installed they could all use the same songs.




Michael

 

[mib1800]

You may have been referring to just the music app. But I wasn't, nor was the person who brought up still needing iTunes.

Here is an example: I have a karaoke app on my iPad. It is only useful if a lot of songs are loaded. You have exactly two choices to load songs. One, you can use iTunes, where you can select as many files to upload as you want. The other option is via the app's browser interface. After manually typing in the URL you get to choose exactly one file at a time to load. You need to use iTunes, for all intents and purposes.

Plenty of other apps work the same way. And if I have more than one app that does the same thing, say another karaoke app, I need to duplicate all the files for each app--uploading them separately.

On Android I would just connect via USB (or use DropBox, or another wireless option) and copy the files I want all at once. I am not restricted to using them in one app. If I had five karaoke apps installed they could all use the same songs.




Michael

Yep. The silo data of ios is pretty big step backward in iPhone. People say data is king but in ios twisted reality the app is king....if you uninstall the app ios wipes the data loaded into the app. yeah ios doesn't care about your valuable data / files.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Few days ago i caved in and bought an iPhone 6 64GB, I've just sold my 5S 32GB to which i got a very decent price for over £400.

The iPhone 6 is going back due to having problems with it freezing for no reason done this 3 times already and had to hard reset to getting working again :/ and i'll be getting a refund not exchanging it, my sister also got a iPhone 6 last week and that came out of the box with a nice scratch to the screen which is also now been returned.

Both iOS 8 and the iPhone 6 have been a total disaster for me, I've decided now I'm going back to Android.

As i now will have plenty of disposable income to spend on a new smartphone, been having alook around see what there is, i was gonna wait until the Note 4 launched in the next week or so, but decided against buying that for the moment at least, what I've gone back to is the Galaxy S5 reason being I managed to buy a brand new simfree one for £384 which is a brilliant deal for what still considered still a flagship, basically the 5S has paid for this, only downside is going back to 16GB again, but as i don't have alot of apps on Android this isn't really a problem and i have a 64GB SD card for music,video,pictures ect.


Things i miss on Android first of a notification light, god how i missed this little feature no more will i have to keep picking up my phone to have alook to see if anybody rang or left a message.

Customization & widgets, no longer will i have to put up with the same old boring screen of the iPhone i can change things to how i like again.

NFC that isn't locked down and can be used for whatever i like, not just what Apple says.

Apps that take to each other properly, so have links to dropbox ect without going though loads of hassle just to upload stuff ect.

No longer have to rely on iTunes

Swifkey that isn't buggy is can change things to suite me & works great plus has haptic feedback to boot aswell.

Launchers can change the launcher from touchwiz to whatever i so desire.

And finally

A stable OS that is riddle to high heaven full of bugs as is the case with iOS 8 atm.

So there you have it my little rant over and done with, I'm back on Android and so glad i've moved back it feels like freedom.

It looks to me like you were pretty sceptical of the iPhone before you purchased it and this issue is simply a good excuse to go back to what you prefer. There is no shame in that, but the iPhone 6 is a great phone nonetheless.

 

[Savor]

No longer have to rely on iTunes

That's generally the sole reason I will NEVER go back.

I no longer have a desktop computer and laptop which makes things harder if I had to rely on iTunes and I never got into cloud services. I have songs stored on my Google Music cloud and Amazon since 2011 but rarely use. So iCloud wouldn't make a difference to me either. Hackers easily exploited iCloud. Ask Jennifer Lawrence and a host of other female celebrities who's privacy got invaded.

I think iTunes was the best thing that ever happened to Apple that popularized the ecosystem term for technology. Without iTunes, no ecosystem. Usually I only heard the term ecosystem in biology class. But iTunes to me, became a cancer. I also need a recognized USB mass storage and Bluetooth file transfer (forget Air Drop!).

If iOS is a gated community in the rich suburbs, then Android is New York City. But I would rather be LOST IN NY than be stuck and bored with iOS. Notice when people move away from iPhone, it isn't really about hardware but iOS? Apple's hardware is fantastic. Nobody really goes I hate the design, display, or audio quality, The crux has usually been about iOS and its proprietary restrictions.

 

[adder7712]

Agree, the 6+ is looking hideous, especially the white one, can't believe people are buying this...
On this photo it looks like two 2014 devices with one from 2009 in the middle

The bezels are not reflective of a 2014 device.

 

[silvetti]

It does look kind of dated in that photo but this is Apple's first foray into the big screen market so I'll give them a pass.



Just curious but what do you think is iconic about it?

Really? You need to ask ?

Simple example, anyone can tell you that is an iPhone.
On the other hand, if you take the LG from the front of the screen on the left phone, no one can tell you what that is.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

The iPhone 6 Plus already looks dated, compared to other same sized 5.5" screens.

I don't see this design aging well, if it's two more years before a redesign with the iPhone 7 in 2016.

Really? The iPhone looks like an iPhone and this is about as powerful in itself as the Apple brand. It has an identity through its aesthetics, and you know by looking at it exactly what it is. The frontal view has not changed massively since the first iPhone much like car manufacturers don't change their badge design for every release. The design itself is clean and has become quite iconic in modern popular culture.

The other two phone's are pretty generic in their own right. If the branding wasn't on them or your post had not pointed out what they were, I wouldn't have a clue. They are simply black rectangular touchcreen devices and look very much alike to their OS system sharing competitors IMHO. This isn't to say they are not great smartphones, but as far as pure product design goes, I think Apple have created a great product that hasn't needed to reinvent its appearance every release.

 

[silvetti]

That's generally the sole reason I will NEVER go back.

I no longer have a desktop computer and laptop which makes things harder if I had to rely on iTunes and I never got into cloud services. I have songs stored on my Google Music cloud and Amazon since 2011 but rarely use. So iCloud wouldn't make a difference to me either. Hackers easily exploited iCloud. Ask Jennifer Lawrence and a host of other female celebrities who's privacy got invaded.

I think iTunes was the best thing that ever happened to Apple that popularized the ecosystem term for technology. Without iTunes, no ecosystem. Usually I only heard the term ecosystem in biology class. But iTunes to me, became a cancer. I also need a recognized USB mass storage and Bluetooth file transfer (forget Air Drop!).

If iOS is a gated community in the rich suburbs, then Android is New York City. But I would rather be LOST IN NY than be stuck and bored with iOS. Notice when people move away from iPhone, it isn't really about hardware but iOS? Apple's hardware is fantastic. Nobody really goes I hate the design, display, or audio quality, The crux has usually been about iOS and its proprietary restrictions.

Who's holding you back ? I really don't get this posts, what are they trying to achieve ?

 

[wilky76]

Well it been a few days back on Android with the S5 & it's been brilliant it's like being released from prison.

First & foremost i no longer need to keep checking my phone see if I've missed any messages or calls, because now i have a little flashing light that tell me.

Secondly all the apps i had on iOS i also have on Android, so I'm not missing out on anything there, if anything some apps are better like Whatsapp for example on Android.

Dropbox to upload a picture i now don't need to open the app like i did on iOS for it to upload it does it automatically.

Also i have 1080p screen & 2GB of ram, NFC & Bluetooth that i can do anything i like with, all for alot less that what the 6 Plus would cost me.

I can now also customize both my launcher & my screen, decided to use the 6 Plus wallpaper oh and iPhone tones just to rub it in Apple users at work.

 

[mercuryjones]

Well it been a few days back on Android with the S5 & it's been brilliant it's like being released from prison.

First & foremost i no longer need to keep checking my phone see if I've missed any messages or calls, because now i have a little flashing light that tell me.

Secondly all the apps i had on iOS i also have on Android, so I'm not missing out on anything there, if anything some apps are better like Whatsapp for example on Android.

Dropbox to upload a picture i now don't need to open the app like i did on iOS for it to upload it does it automatically.

Also i have 1080p screen & 2GB of ram, NFC & Bluetooth that i can do anything i like with, all for alot less that what the 6 Plus would cost me.

I can now also customize both my launcher & my screen, decided to use the 6 Plus wallpaper oh and iPhone tones just to rub it in Apple users at work.

Good for you. Glad you found something that worked for you, and that you aren't being a complete ass about it.
Oh wait, you are. Typical Android user.

 

[wilky76]

I might be a complete ass about it but the fact is when you been on Apple ecosystem, it's surprising what your really missing out on that should have been added to the iPhone, but Apple like to control everything NFC for instant can only be used for Apple pay and there no saying that the UK will get it anytime soon, so making one useful feature all but useless.

 

[mercuryjones]

I might be a complete ass about it but the fact is when you been on Apple ecosystem, it's surprising what your really missing out on that should have been added to the iPhone, but Apple like to control everything NFC for instant can only be used for Apple pay and there no saying that the UK will get it anytime soon, so making one useful feature all but useless.

I've been to the "other side". Was not impressed. Android is all about choice, but sometimes it overloads you with it. Take for example the settings of apps, including the stock apps. At some point, too much is just too much.
I don't begrudge you the fact that you prefer Android. Just don't be an ass about it to others, as if Android is the best thing for everyone. Because it isn't.

 

[kbty824]

My ip6+ in Gold is beautiful........so thin and light....to each their own . It's lighter than my previous HTC ONE M7 lol.

 

[ama0219]

Every time I go back to android I come running back to my iPhone. The S4 was a nightmare for me and one of the reasons I paid full price for my iPhone 6.

 

[mattopotamus]

OS' are virtually a wash to me. IOS and Android can both 100% satisfy my needs. The kicker is I can get great unlocked android phones in the $250-$399 range (nexus 5 ($299), 2013 moto x ($249), etc).

 

[jrswizzle]

I might be a complete ass about it but the fact is when you been on Apple ecosystem, it's surprising what your really missing out on that should have been added to the iPhone, but Apple like to control everything NFC for instant can only be used for Apple pay and there no saying that the UK will get it anytime soon, so making one useful feature all but useless.

It's actually not.

I've used Android - used it for going on two years now (most of that time as a daily driver across a variety of Android devices).

I never felt like I was being "released from prison". I never was surprised what I was missing. I never felt like I was suddenly out from under someone's thumb.

All I found was an inconsistent experience that made it harder in my cases for me to do the things I wanted to do. I got around many things, tweaked like crazy and was never satisfied. I could iMessage (crappy cell reception in my house) and my wife almost never remembered to use Hangouts (why would see when iMessage moves back and forth between SMS and iMessage seamlessly).

I couldn't access my shared photo streams, I couldn't easily trade contact info or photos with my family (all on iPhones). I had to mess with file folders and systems that I didn't care to mess with. I just had to do a lot more in order to accomplish the things I wanted to accomplish.

I don't say all this to make you change your mind. Like the poster your referred to, I'm glad you found something that works FOR YOU. But don't pretend like you speak for everyone. That's what makes many Android users look like completely *******s. They think they know better. "Oh but you don't have any idea" - "Oh its like being freed".....

Guess what. I don't want the kind of "freedom" Android offers.

So once again - good for you. We're all very excited you've made this decision. Now kindly leave the rest of us the hell alone and stop being an ass to your iPhone-using friends. They don't envy you. They think you're a tool.