Do you have an Android or an iPhone?

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Do you have an Android or an iPhone?  

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  1. 1. What is your primary cellphone Android or iPhone?

    • iPhone
      42
    • Android
      97
    • Other
      2
    • I don't have a cellphone.
      4
    • My work phone is an iPhone and my personal phone is Android
      7
    • My work phone is Android and my personal phone is an iPhone.
      3
    • Both work and personal phones are iPhones
      2
    • Both work and personal phones are Android.
      7
    • My Primary Phone is both iPhone and Android.
      1

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tsupersonic

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On 17/03/2023 at 14:05, Warwagon said:

Added a choice for you. You have 2 phones with two numbers? or you keep swapping the sims back and forth? If you use one for something else other than making phone calls, I would consider the phone you make phone calls on to be the primary.

I'm probably an outlier. Two personal phones w/ two numbers. Calls? Psht what's that? 😛

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On 17/03/2023 at 13:15, tsupersonic said:

I'm probably an outlier. Two personal phones w/ two numbers. Calls? Psht what's that? 😛

I am in the sam boat. I originally got the second number as it actually saved me 25 bucks a month as i got a discount from going from 3 to 4 phones. Could not say no and it gave me a local number.

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On 15/03/2023 at 20:09, TarasBuria said:

iPhone. Nothing will convince me to switch to Android. I tried many times—Android's hardware is much better and more diverse, but the OS is absolutely revolting.

and I would argue the same in reverse.  I find iOS the most restrictive, uncoordinated, difficult thing to use that ive ever encountered.

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dead.cell

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On 17/03/2023 at 01:17, Drg84 said:

Android. Recently made the transition to a non keyboard phone. It still doesn't feel right at times. 

For what it's worth, SwiftKey helped me out a lot back in the day when I was on a Galaxy SII... and I've stuck with it to the Galaxy S7 Edge, then iPhone as well once it became available for it.

Mileage may vary for everyone, but it's probably the one thing that made typing a lot easier is when the suggestions are based on what YOU say, rather than just suggesting spellings to something irrelevant to you. Mileage may vary of course, but there's no way you'd catch me using the default keyboard on either iOS or Android platforms. :p

 

  

On 17/03/2023 at 20:51, Mud W1ggle said:

and I would argue the same in reverse.  I find iOS the most restrictive, uncoordinated, difficult thing to use that ive ever encountered.

It's almost like preferences are a thing. :ermm: 

Usually when I'd see people complain about iOS, it was because they didn't know how to live without a back button. Or people who'd complain about Android being "complicated", by people who didn't like the idea that it... wasn't an iPhone! This is why back when I worked retail, we never really bothered people about platform, unless they were actually trying to switch. People will stick with what they know. 

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On 18/03/2023 at 14:52, dead.cell said:

For what it's worth, SwiftKey helped me out a lot back in the day when I was on a Galaxy SII... and I've stuck with it to the Galaxy S7 Edge, then iPhone as well once it became available for it.

Mileage may vary for everyone, but it's probably the one thing that made typing a lot easier is when the suggestions are based on what YOU say, rather than just suggesting spellings to something irrelevant to you. Mileage may vary of course, but there's no way you'd catch me using the default keyboard on either iOS or Android platforms. :p

 

  

It's almost like preferences are a thing. :ermm: 

Usually when I'd see people complain about iOS, it was because they didn't know how to live without a back button. Or people who'd complain about Android being "complicated", by people who didn't like the idea that it... wasn't an iPhone! This is why back when I worked retail, we never really bothered people about platform, unless they were actually trying to switch. People will stick with what they know. 

You are exactly right, the lack of a back button on IOS is one of my biggest complaints.  Unless the app specifically creates its own back button (which most dont) then to go backwards, you press the home button, and start again.  There are other issues I have with iOS, too many to detail, but its why I dont and wont use Apple products - they are too dumbed down and for me this makes them actually harder to use than other platforms.  Again personal preference

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On 14/03/2023 at 23:17, dead.cell said:

The only thing I miss from Android is my good ol' WiFi Analyzer to sniff out radio signals... but thankfully, there are apps for that on laptops as well. Just kinda stupid to carry around a laptop to find a rogue AP. :laugh: 

I want to switch to an iPhone because my wife and a lot for her family use iMessage so that would allow to me use SMS a lot less but I use my WiFi Analyzer app at work regularly.

 

 

On 15/03/2023 at 03:09, TarasBuria said:

iPhone. Nothing will convince me to switch to Android. I tried many times—Android's hardware is much better and more diverse, but the OS is absolutely revolting.

Could you expand on that? Android is revolting? IMO a walled garden platform that limits what  the user can do is revolting to me.

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SnoopZ

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On 15/03/2023 at 07:09, TarasBuria said:

iPhone. Nothing will convince me to switch to Android. I tried many times—Android's hardware is much better and more diverse, but the OS is absolutely revolting.

Complete bollocks, let's hope you never get to review anything Android in the future.

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On 20/03/2023 at 09:13, Good Bot, Bad Bot said:

I want to switch to an iPhone because my wife and a lot for her family use iMessage so that would allow to me use SMS a lot less but I use my WiFi Analyzer app at work regularly.

I mean, if that's the one use-case for you too, I'd just buy a cheap Android phone for work and write it off as a "tool". :laugh: 

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On 20/03/2023 at 13:19, dead.cell said:

I mean, if that's the one use-case for you too, I'd just buy a cheap Android phone for work and write it off as a "tool". :laugh: 

Yeah, it doesn't work that way. LOL I get $40 a month to go towards my phone (so basically free service) but don't really have to use it for work beyond beyond firing up my WiFi Analyzer app once or twice a month for troubleshooting purposes.

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On 29/03/2023 at 10:35, Matthew S. said:

@cork1958 warwagon updated the poll options after most of us that use two voted so :/

Don't think it was quite "after most of us had voted" as there were only 12 posts between start of poll and when warwagon added the option for using both, but I get your point.

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On 29/03/2023 at 09:35, Matthew S. said:

@cork1958 warwagon updated the poll options after most of us that use two voted so :/

Can't you just remove your vote and revote? I can.

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Android (Unihertz Jelly 2, Android 11) for personal use and an iPhone SE 2020 for work.

Despite using iPhones for 5 years for work, I still find the experience poor compared to modern Android. Tapping on a word to correct it, or even using the long press on the keyboard to move the cursor is glitchy as anything (usually jumps to the line above). The typing experience ironically is much better on my 3" Android phone (using gboard). Otherwise they're much of a muchness, though I love having all my apps hidden from the home screen on Android with MS Launcher.

Android has come a long way, very raw when I first bought my HTC Desire S in 2011, became usable in 2015 with Android 5 though to 9 making great strides with each release, and now I would put it above reliability, usability and experience of iPhones since the release of Android 10-11+. While my tiny Android is stuck on v11 (small manufacture), I'm getting core app updates that bring more improvements to the user experience than a iOS update brings to iPhones. Syncing from one phone to another is seamless if you're logged into a google account, I never understood how people kept loosing their contacts in the smartphone era, even the early days!

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