Just Moved from iOS to Android after 10 Years

Yorkshire-Man on 17/08/2019 - 21:13

It's been ten year since I purchased my 3GS and I loved my Apple phones. Has the 3GS, the 5, 6S and the X but this week I've just jumped to a OnePlus 7 Pro. Annoyed that I didn't do this earlier.

Key benefits:-

  1. Far better reception, get 2 bars in the house whereas Apple got nothing in most of the house.

  2. Much faster / snappier performance

  3. Proper duel SIM. Takes 2 physical cards.

  4. No notch and a flawless fingerprint reader built into the screen.

  5. The clincher, paid $899 instead of over $2k for an XS Max.

Next move is to move my wife onwards as well well !

Mobile Mobile Phone OnePlus Android

Comments

  • modsec802 on 17/08/2019 - 21:42

    Do you miss the wireless charging? Worried about it not being water or dust resistant?

    • Yorkshire-Man on 17/08/2019 - 21:59
      +1

      Never got a phone wet in 10yrs anyway, yes I will miss the wireless charging but the rest more than makes up for it !

    • spiderbite88 on 18/08/2019 - 11:34

      Yes OnePlus don't certify their phones with an IP rating, to save money apparently. But there are countless videos on YouTube of people leaving the OnePlus 7 Pro underwater for 30min+, with the pop up camera open!

  • pjetson on 17/08/2019 - 21:52
    +12

    Next move is to move my wife onwards as well

    You're going to change your wife as well as your phone?

    • Bargain80 on 19/08/2019 - 11:33

      need one without a notch

  • Yorkshire-Man on 17/08/2019 - 21:59
    +1

    Nah, she's a keeper !

  • Axelstrife on 17/08/2019 - 22:16
    +2

    Congratulations on not being brainwashed by apple.
    Enjoy your new phone.

  • jackinyourbox on 17/08/2019 - 23:08
    +1

    I've jumped to and from since the 3g. Hardest to ditch is iMessage and facetime. I always find that I end up going back to iPhone

    • zeomega on 18/08/2019 - 00:14
      +2

      So many alternatives such as whatsapp. hangouts, wechat, line, etc that exceeds what iMessage and facetime can do. Notably, all of these are cross platforms, whereas imessage and facetime is purely iphone to iphone.

      • jackinyourbox on 18/08/2019 - 14:00

        Thanks for the suggestions. The most challenging issue I have faced is that you would have to convince your communications circle to also change with you. From experience it's much easier to keep using iPhone and not be left out of the loop.

    • try2bhelpful on 18/08/2019 - 01:08
      +1

      Try Signal. We’ve got iPhones but our friends don’t so they suggested Signal. It works on iPhones as well so give it a checkout. Relatively easy to setup and use.

  • mbck on 17/08/2019 - 23:52

    Welcome welcome
    Nice first android phone.

  • dins on 18/08/2019 - 01:48

    Made the jump a year or so back and can't say that I miss apple. They became greedy and complacent.

  • aboutconfig on 18/08/2019 - 02:11

    Android is slower when it comes to computing:
    If you open waveapp receipt app which has thousands receipt files, it takes more than 10 seconds to response , if you login and load your bitwarden / LastPass with thousands of passwords, it takes 10 seconds to load. It is just this slow even you have the newest 855+ chip and 12GB of RAM. Both tasks takes 1 second on iOS even you have old phones like 6s 7.

    It is also noticeable that on iOS Gmail app takes no time to open any email, bit on Android, you always see the load icon takes 0.5-1 second to open each email. This is not related to what kind of flag ship phone you use.

    The password manager integration on iOS is several times better, much stable than the same app works on Android.

    But on Android, you have xposed framework, which is magic.
    I can't live without it.

    Also on Android I've spend like $500 on apps, got every app I need now or ever needed.

    On Android most phones now come with multiple phone profile and baked in parallel app support. This seems to be very helpful for some people.

    There are a lot more bad apps on Android platform that will do harmful or fraudulent activities . Google does not spend enough time to test or check them. Actually they provide very little to none service to Android users when you need some help. In other words, you are in a much dangerous environment.

  • try2bhelpful on 18/08/2019 - 08:00

    There are swings and roundabouts with either side. I have spent very little on Apple apps because they have a lot of free stuff on the website. At the moment I barely use my phone and most of the time it is just a hotspot for my iPad. For a phone I just need a phone, camera, hot spot, pedometer, browser and tram tracker. My iPhone 6 Plus is beginning to get touch screen issues but it is ancient, in phone years, and is currently latest IOS compatible. This will change with the next release so I’m currently seeking a replacement.

  • [Deactivated] on 18/08/2019 - 08:50
    +4

    You will be back.

  • RockyRaccoon on 18/08/2019 - 09:08
    -1

    Congratulations, you made a choice you are currently happy with.

    Now why not tell us what breakfast cereal you find best.

    In the meantime I will stay with my porridge

    and watch with amusement the phone wars start again…….

    • pjetson on 18/08/2019 - 09:26
      +1

      what breakfast cereal you find best

      Weeties. No question. Oh, I've dabbled with Cornflakes, and sometimes even Coco Pops, but I always return to my Weeties.

    • Yorkshire-Man on 18/08/2019 - 13:41

      Cornflakes, thanks. Not starting a war just sharing an opinion.

  • WreckTangle on 18/08/2019 - 09:22

    Sorry to hear about your error of judgement.

  • snowcold on 19/08/2019 - 07:38

    I am in the same boat. Moved to S10+ after 10 years of iPhones. Generally happy with Android. But I am struggling with the notifications though. Once I dismiss the notification from the notification bar, the icon badge also gets dismissed.

    • Yorkshire-Man on 19/08/2019 - 08:41

      Yes. Also Apple News was better than google, mine keeps alerting me about things I'm not interested in, seems like a default 'opt in` to notifications?

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