So anybody switched to gestures instead of on screen buttons? Giving it a try as I'm used to it from the iPhone will see what I like better
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Due to getting rid of on screen buttons decided to remap bixby to google assistant seeing as it's gone from home button
It's not gone. Just swipe up and hold, from where the home button was.
Finally got everything working with Google Music, Android Auto, and Google Drive back ups. All of a sudden the back up option became available, no idea why. Not feeling any lag at all compared to my Pixel which is nice.
As another person said, I still feel that many things, mostly settings and navigating through the phone options, require an extra step or two compared to Pixel but I'll keep learning and adjusting. So far loving the phone overall.
As another person said, I still feel that many things, mostly settings and navigating through the phone options, require an extra step or two compared to Pixel but I'll keep learning and adjusting. So far loving the phone overall.
No idea but from experience Swiftkey is the best i've used.
I like it, but I don't find it good at correcting as much as an iPhone keyboard.
It learns over time, mine completes full sentences for me now. The only other one that i've heard great things about is Gboard.
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EverythingApplePro switches to the S10+.
Not normally one to say I told you so but....
And to be clear, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with him since I've spent zero minutes using the S10, but rather I never had any doubt he wouldn't see it through.
Not going to lie...I've wavered over the 'Buy' button on a cart with a Black Ceramic S10+ over at Samsung.com on more than one occasion this past week. TBH, if I ever tried another Samsung it would probably be for a Note or possibly a 2nd or 3rd gen Galaxy Fold .
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Not normally one to say I told you so but....
It's been longer than a week, you were wrong!!!
I think his final thoughts will be the same as many users who are trying to switch to the S10 from an iPhone, ultimately i think the ecosystem and ease of use will have them return to an iPhone sooner rather than later. Instead of forgetting how things are done in iOS and embracing a new way of doing things most try to find apps or ways to replicate how it was done on an iPhone ultimately leading to disappointment.Not normally one to say I told you so but....
I am leaning on returning back to my iPhone due to a few things:
- Hassle of selling my phone now.
- FaceID is so much more better and secure for me, I just don't like the FP sensor placement on the S10e nor do I like the facial detection.
- My iPhone has iMessage, which uses data instead and makes texting easier. I don't like how slow my iPhone XS Max or S10e handle normal texts, but I blame bad signal for that. Going to take both phones out with my SIM in either one to see if signal impacts it.
- I am fond of the Apple Watch.
- My XS Max wasn't expensive and I might be trying to squeeze $ out just to make something work.
- I fear the depreciation that comes with the S10e right now with values tanking early.
- My biggest concern is that if Apple makes a sound iOS 13 update, I might end up selling my S10e just to get the iPhone XR, which is worse than having my XS Max now.
Not that the S10e is a bad product, it's just not the most ideal situation. I can go back to a device that may not be feature fledged, but isn't as quirky with the core functionalities. Going to see if I can use this as a daily driver because the $ saved could be huge.
I’ll tell you this. I picked up the XR today and cancelled my preorder. The XR really is close to the same phone as the Max. Battery life blows the Max out of the water so far. So if you go that route you won’t be disappointed with the XR.
Eh, but I also don't want to give an OLED screen if I stick with an iPhone. My friend got an iPhone XR for a work phone and has a XS for his personal device. He ended up wanting to sell his XR and he will use the XS for both work/personal.
If I keep an iPhone for personal usage, I'll go for the S10 regular for work usage. If I keep my S10e for personal use, I'll go X for my work use.
He has a very interesting take on how great he perceives iOS to be. It’s okay now, but the past few months I’ve found so many little things to be such a pain in the tail. So many little crashes and stutters. Somewhere along the line Apple fixed it all. Thank goodness. But that’s why Apple wears me out. They make it stable and then they update and stuff breaks again and is wonky for weeks or months. Misery ensues until they update with bug fixes. To some extent that happens on the Pixel, too. There might after all be some benefit to Samsung being “a bit tortoise” and testing updates before putting them out there.Not normally one to say I told you so but....
And to be clear, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with him since I've spent zero minutes using the S10, but rather I never had any doubt he wouldn't see it through.
Not going to lie...I've wavered over the 'Buy' button on a cart with a Black Ceramic S10+ over at Samsung.com on more than one occasion this past week. TBH, if I ever tried another Samsung it would probably be for a Note or possibly a 2nd or 3rd gen Galaxy Fold .
And the rest of what he had to say, well it is true but just very annoying about Apple and brings out the contrarian in me. Lol, yeah HomePod doesn’t work if you go Galaxy. Can’t use Apple maps on anything but an iPhone, true. That sort of thing makes many people go back to Apple.
It just pisses me off.
The ecosystem is starting to feel like a prison. You will have bits and pieces of it that aren’t optimal but you can’t swap out those pieces for something better because the whole other parts of the ecosystem will then just not work.
Yeah iOS scrolls nice. It does. Samsung scrolling looked janky on my husband’s S10+ and on my S9+. That must be a Samsung thing. My Pixel 3XL scrolls fine.
Anyway I am listening to this fellow talk about the flawless unlocking of his Tesla that his S10 gives him that the iPhone can’t. Something like that would have me keeping the Samsung.
But he and others his age and in his profession find Instagram and other social media important. He makes a good point about Android not playing nice with those platforms. I don’t use them but those here who do feel his pain on that point.
I think he gave it a fair shot. It’s just frustrating to see the reasons people can’t break away from Apple. I like Apple and am posting this from my Xr. So I’m not rooting against Apple. I am rooting for people to feel more free to move fluidly from one choice to another and back again. I don’t like that Apple gets these hooks into people because I think it makes them arrogant and they tend to hold back from the “insanely great” products we know they can make. It frustrates me that it takes years of trickling out “S” iterations to get their best out to us. It’s not that their products aren’t good. But we know they can do better or not cheap out on a few things every year but they don’t because they know they don’t have to. We will just take what we are given and poop rainbows over it.
I hate Huawei for a lot of reasons but I like that they put it all out there as soon as they’ve stolen stuff and polished it up.
They’re dressed to impress. And they really do have some good engineers now. We can’t have them in the USA so I hope Google and Samsung wake the hell up and go full on Huawei style and take a bite out of Apple where it hurts. Make Apple hungry for our business again.Very well summed up, i could not have said it better myself.He has a very interesting take on how great he perceives iOS to be. It’s okay now, but the past few months I’ve found so many little things to be such a pain in the tail. So many little crashes and stutters. Somewhere along the line Apple fixed it all. Thank goodness. But that’s why Apple wears me out. They make it stable and then they update and stuff breaks again and is wonky for weeks or months. Misery ensues until they update with bug fixes. To some extent that happens on the Pixel, too. There might after all be some benefit to Samsung being “a bit tortoise” and testing updates before putting them out there.
And the rest of what he had to say, well it is true but just very annoying about Apple and brings out the contrarian in me. Lol, yeah HomePod doesn’t work if you go Galaxy. Can’t use Apple maps on anything but an iPhone, true. That sort of thing makes many people go back to Apple.
It just pisses me off.
The ecosystem is starting to feel like a prison. You will have bits and pieces of it that aren’t optimal but you can’t swap out those pieces for something better because the whole other parts of the ecosystem will then just not work.
Yeah iOS scrolls nice. It does. Samsung scrolling looked janky on my husband’s S10+ and on my S9+. That must be a Samsung thing. My Pixel 3XL scrolls fine.
Anyway I am listening to this fellow talk about the flawless unlocking of his Tesla that his S10 gives him that the iPhone can’t. Something like that would have me keeping the Samsung.
But he and others his age and in his profession find Instagram and other social media important. He makes a good point about Android not playing nice with those platforms. I don’t use them but those here who do feel his pain on that point.
I think he gave it a fair shot. It’s just frustrating to see the reasons people can’t break away from Apple. I like Apple and am posting this from my Xr. So I’m not rooting against Apple. I am rooting for people to feel more free to move fluidly from one choice to another and back again. I don’t like that Apple gets these hooks into people because I think it makes them arrogant and they tend to hold back from the “insanely great” products we know they can make. It frustrates me that it takes years of trickling out “S” iterations to get their best out to us. It’s not that their products aren’t good. But we know they can do better or not cheap out on a few things every year but they don’t because they know they don’t have to. We will just take what we are given and poop rainbows over it.
I hate Huawei for a lot of reasons but I like that they put it all out there as soon as they’ve stolen stuff and polished it up.
Samsung scrolling might look janky, cause it scrolls as fast as your finger can go. I doubt users have a constant finger speed and release. I never been a huge fan of iOS scrolling cause it's to slow for my liking. It's probably one of the main reasons Apple came up with tap to top. I'll choose the precision of scrolling to where I want quickly vs the smooth animation of scrolling.
I want to say to those would be switchers to s10: if you expect the s10 to be a clone of your iPhone, you may as well dont bother to switch.
Switch to s10 if you want to experience things that are not possible with iPhone. And I can say there are a lot more things you can do with s10.
Switch to s10 if you want to experience things that are not possible with iPhone. And I can say there are a lot more things you can do with s10.
That's probably one of my weaknesses with this switch. I am so used to having my core functionality one way. If I can adjust in a week or so, adios XS Max.
That’s my issue!! I snagged a black ceramic S10+ at Best Buy yesterday and it’s freaking gorgeous but I have an Watch with like 15 bands and an iPad Pro and a MBP and a HomePod I’m an iWhore haha. But seriously I love handoff, continuity, airdrop and just the little attention to detail in iOS and omg 3D Touch which I use constantly ugh.
There just to many things I have to find workarounds for or alternatives with my Samsung S10 and the rest of my Apple devices.
I'll give it a few more days.
But I have got to admit, after the last software update which included improvement for the fingerprint sensor and redoing all my fingerprints again, I am actually pretty happy now with the fingerprint sensor.
I truly think the 2nd gen. fingerprint sensor will be similar as the 2nd gen TouchID years ago.
Sometimes I get the phone out of my pockets,finger on the screenen and once I have got it pointing my face its already unlocked...about 7 out of 10 times...so pretty good!
I just got the phone yesterday to check it out and I’m curious as to what workarounds you’re referring to. My main issue is visual voicemail and how annoying it is that I have to use a separate app from the phone app and getting my school email to work yesterday was so annoying.
Otherwise I’m loving the fingerprint sensor and the phone is gorgeous. I got the Ceramic Black.
I've been using Google Voice for my voicemail on my Android phones and iPhones and I can't go back to iPhone's voicemail nor any carrier's voicemail app on Android.
Back when I was using my Droid Bionic eek up until my last Android phone that I used extensively (galaxy nexus) I started out by using YouMail and then discovered Voice and it was heavenly. I just wish it integrated with the phone app on the S10 instead of having to open the app every time but I digress LOL.