Long time iPhone user moves to Android

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Love to hear how you get along with the Pixel2 (which size?) .. the non plus is out for me due to screen - no SD card storage either? I need to look at specs again.

You are correct, there is no SD card storage. Google offers 3 years of free storage for all photos and videos taken on their Pixels at full quality. After that, newer photos taken default to free storage at high quality settings. But not original full quality. Content already stored will remain at their original quality.


We have one Black Pixel 2 XL 128 GB on order and one smaller Black Pixel 2 128 FB on order and both are due to arrive later this week. I also have the black and white “Panda” Pixel 2 XL 128 GB on preorder but that’s not shipping until the end of next month.

If I like the smaller Pixel 2, I will cancel the “Panda” preorder.

The function should be excellent. That’s what most people are thrilled about. But there are three key areas suffering from quality control issues. One is the display of the 2 XL model can be prone to 4 different issues, sometimes concurrently:

1. A granular look that gives a grey dirty look on low brightness settings.

2. A very limited viewing angle that means your screen will look very aqua blue unless you’re looking at the dead center of it.

3. This is not a problem exactly and will be resolved in software updates, but the colors look washed out to people used to Samsung’s heavily saturated Adaptive mode. The Pixels are set to a default sRGB for accuracy and that’s not the problem. The problem is that their “vivid” setting doesn’t give some people the color punch they’re looking for.

4. Some XL units are starting to show premature burn-in.

For the smaller Pixel, so far I’ve only heard about some units having odd noises sort of like what’s being reported on iPhone 8’s. I haven’t heard much about that one yet.

For both: some issues with Bluetooth connectivity to different devices, mostly to car audio systems I think. Again, I haven’t heard a lot about that one yet.

 

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As an avid switcher as of late after being with iOS since 2007, I can say that the only thing holding me back from switching fully is messaging.

Messaging on Android to iOS folks is terrible. More so with group chats and MMS. If you have an iPhone and group chat thread, then switch to Android, forget about receiving any messages on that thread ever again. Using a third party is not an option with my circle of friends, nor is deleting the thread and restarting. Its stupid that that has to be the fix for this bug. After a dozen Androids over the last year this sole issue prevents me from switching. I had a NOte 8 last week and found myself back on my 8 Plus because I wasn't receiving my family's messages. Its pretty sad and I hate that something so simple would be a deal breaker for a lot of people. This issue is well known. Have a look at reddit, XDA, etc. No fixes. Just kind of a deal with it type of thing.

My whole family has iPhones and have not experienced this. We just started new threads. Of course, if the old thread was being directed to Apple's system vs. SMS, and you pulled out then that wouldn't work. Is there something I'm missing? Photo quality isn't great when sharing via SMS, but not the end of the world.
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I actually would rather avoid TOO many customizations. I tried Android briefly about 4 years ago (S4) and it was so unreliable after 'tweaking' .. didn't know whether it was the OS or bad apps but either way I went back to iOS within a week. I really want to give it a proper chance this time.

What Android smart watches are worth a peek? It seems like I cannot put my Spotify music on one and use it untethered from the phone, that's a pretty big deal to me which is a shame - I thought Google didn't pull those Apple-esque stunts with limited functionality to get you to sign up for their music service ?!?

I have the Gear S3 and see that you do too. Mine is LTE, so that adds to what I like about it, particularly at the gym. I have switched from Apple Music to Spotify because you can download/stream on your Gear S3 with Spotify.

A couple of other comments... I've done a very similar switch that you've done. I also tried this a few years back on an S5 and had similar experience to you with your S4. I am trying to stick to as much out of the box as I can. I did change the launcher to Microsoft's... playing with some of their integration stuff with Win10.

I've not had any problems with OneDrive... what are you running into that is causing difficulty? I have it connected to both work and personal Office365 accounts and it works well, as does OneNote.

On Bixby, I was ready to kick it to the curb, and then watched some videos on it and am giving it a chance. Its usefulness is in creating automation with in the phone... kind of creating voice activated macros.

I would also suggest giving the Iris scanner another look (no pun intended). I've been using FPS and facial and have given up on facial. On the advice of someone else, I turned on Iris again. Iris is very quick when it works, and I'm usually in the process of hitting the FPS in case it doesn't. I like the combo.

I wish people moving from iPhone to Android for the first time would always pick the stock Google phone the Nexus or pixel is the best way to experience Android for the first time and I my opinion Samsung's a bad way to experience Android for the first time.

Right off the bat, the Pixel has "raise to wake" standard. Plus the OS is super smooth zero lag.

I think you'd have a much happier time going to the Pixel.

I've never used stock Android, but I am really enjoying the Samsung experience on the Note 8. Most of the Samsung apps I like, and better than the Google alternatives. They have done a great job.

Anyone know how to accept a meeting (Outlook) invite in the Samsung email app? I get an email with an attached .vcs file which I open and it pops up in the calendar app. There's an option to add it to the calendar but no option to actually accept the request so although it shows in my calendar the meeting organiser never sees that I've accepted which sort of defeats the object.

Outlook app behaves a little differently, I get the option to accept via the RSVP button, but the organiser still never gets an update to say I did so.

These are meeting invites sent to my icloud email so perhaps that's part of it, will keep testing.
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It's buried in the account settings, I'll get a screenshot later.

..is there a way to add a shortcut to the Samsung screenshotting app without using the edge bar?

I'm using the Samsung email and calendar apps with Exchange for my work email, and I can hit accept for meetings from the email notification and it seems to work fine. I'm not getting what you are. I have thought about trying Outlook, but don't see a need thus far because the Samsung stuff is working.

"I'm moving to android" and then proceeds to tell us about his samsung bloatware special. Have fun with that. Another unwashed user and his misadventures..lol

Crawl back under the rock you came from...