I literally just put my finger on why I find the iPhone more enjoyable to use.

The backup I am referring to backs up and restores everything. Sometimes you need to re-add the onscreen widgets but all apps+data are restored i.e. the FACTORY WIPED phone is restored to the point the backup was made with a few "clicks"

No, you cannot do this with an unrooted Android phone but that was the reason I said I rooted it. No idea if you can do this even if the iPhone is jailbroken.

Anyway, my point is that all devices (Apple and Android) are designed to please the majority of people but others wont be happy. Lo and behold, this is highlighted to a greater extent on a tech forum such as this where the majority of users are quite comfortable with "messing around" with their phone.




As I said, I think Apple products are good. The main gripe (again) I have with Apple is the way they restrict the NATIVE features of things (and their constant suing ATM but that's a whole different thing). Again I will use Bluetooth as an example:

BT File Transfer is a native feature of Bluetooth. If you had to ADD something to it to allow file transfer and Apple didn't then I wouldn't be so bothered but they deliberately hamstring something because they don't like how it may be used by the end-user

With Android phones, Google (who make Android) are more than happy, nay encourage, the end user to hack away and improve things (they state exactly this with the Nexus Q).


If I pay a lot of money for something then I want to use it how I feel not have native features disabled.... It's like buying a Ferrari and they stick a 70MPH limiter on it thereby dictating how I drive it.

If I choose to drive my Ferrari at 160MPH then that is my choice and I will deal with the consequences but I won't stand for the manufacturer dictating how I use it. It is MY product.
 
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My experience of iOS and Android is the exact opposite.

I bought an ipod touch. Its laggy, it hangs, apps crash// all of this means touch input is awkward and you're never quite sure if you tapped/scrolled/swiped etc. That and various other issues with it just made it utterly tiresome to use.

My phone (S3) on the other hand is much better, it remains responsive and accurate.
 
If I pay a lot of money for something then I want to use it how I feel not have native features disabled.... It's like buying a Ferrari and they stick a 70MPH limiter on it thereby dictating how I drive it.
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Its much like how if I spend a lot of money on a phone, it damn well better work the way I want it to and not require me to have to mess on with it to make it work how I like. I haven't paid £480 for a half baked product I need to fix as soon as it comes out of the box!
 
mrochester said:
Its much like how if I spend a lot of money on a phone, it damn well better work the way I want it to and not require me to have to mess on with it to make it work how I like. I haven't paid £480 for a half baked product I need to fix as soon as it comes out of the box!
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Then just buy an iPhone clearly Android is not for you.
 
mrochester said:
Its much like how if I spend a lot of money on a phone, it damn well better work the way I want it to and not require me to have to mess on with it to make it work how I like. I haven't paid £480 for a half baked product I need to fix as soon as it comes out of the box!
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Straw man TBH.

I used the Ferrari and speed limiter analogy because it is a given that a Ferrari will do over a certain speed. You, on the other hand, ask for things to be on a phone that are not guaranteed to be there e.g. lock screen audio, animation speeds to your liking etc... Not the same thing...



Just because YOU think there is a fault does NOT mean there is a fault. How can something be half baked if the end product is the intended and designed result?

Perhaps you should have done more research before paying £480 for a phone. I know I wouldn't be spending that much on something without doing my research.... Or perhaps Samsung should just ask everyone what they want on the phone and implement every idea ever placed before them... Or maybe they should just get you to design it with your wealth of experience...

If I took your view and applied mine to it then the iPhone is also a half-baked product which costs even more as it doesn't do stuff out of the box without major tinkering... Even then I don't think it can for some stuff!!
 
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Its much like how if I spend a lot of money on a phone, it damn well better work the way I want it to and not require me to have to mess on with it to make it work how I like. I haven't paid £480 for a half baked product I need to fix as soon as it comes out of the box!
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Surely by that argument you expect everyone to think the same / like the same things etc? Would be a boring boring iWorld if that was the case!!! (sorry couldnt resist :D :D )
 
mrochester said:
Its much like how if I spend a lot of money on a phone, it damn well better work the way I want it to and not require me to have to mess on with it to make it work how I like. I haven't paid £480 for a half baked product I need to fix as soon as it comes out of the box!
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Half-baked? :confused:

One could quite easily argue the iPhone is more of a half-baked product than the Galaxy S III.

You're picking on an extremely niggly feature, one that, switching between all of these devices, I've never actually noticed, and I'm pretty fussy.
 
This is a silly thread, just seems like a fanboy trying to pick holes in Android and failing miserably. And the way mrbell1984 fawns over Apple products makes me throw up in my mouth a little tbh.
 
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i have owned seven different android devices and 3 apple devices

and only one windows wp7 device

i am currently and will be sticking to my wp7 device
 
I personally use a 4s and S2 daliy and I have never noticed much differnce between the 2 devices. There both just as smooth as each other and I feel that recognise touch input about the same for the relative size difference. This could be due to the fact that I run stock cm9.

Also a note for JB, using it for 1 week on a GN I think its is by far the fastest OS, everything I find is very very instant and I love the on screen keys, the multi tasking key making it a joy to switch tasks and I hate Samsung for not following this. I think google really has a winner on there hands, and hopefully the newer line of Nexus device will have much faster SoCs and better screens which will truly make it top dog. I think android is really shaping up to be a great OS.

Also personally I like OS but it does look rather dated, its a very nice OS but at this point its getting a little boring and I is starting to be some what of putting.
 
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We have a new challenger!!! :p


Back in your box WP7 user :p
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Just coming back to Android (Huawei Ascend G300) from a Lumia 710...

1. WP7 is incredibly fluid/responsive.

2. That fluidity is actually false in real usage. Whether due to loading times or just because they feel like it developers (including Nokia) put splash screens in front of apps. This combined with the odd way WP7 does "multitasking" (clicking a icon re-launches the app from scratch. But there is fast app switching for the past 6 apps) means (it would be stupid to go into fast app switching to see if the app was there unless I had JUST been in it) it is actually incredibly slow to work with. With Facebook taking the prize for the longest time waiting to load the app.
 
Perhaps you should have done more research before paying £480 for a phone. I know I wouldn't be spending that much on something without doing my research.... Or perhaps Samsung should just ask everyone what they want on the phone and implement every idea ever placed before them... Or maybe they should just get you to design it with your wealth of experience...
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I didn't expect the S3 to not have lock screen controls so I didn't know I'd need to research whether they were there or not. How do they expect people to control what they're listening to when the phone is locked? I guess it's wrong to assume that the little common sense things will be there!

This is a silly thread, just seems like a fanboy trying to pick holes in Android and failing miserably.
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Should I lie and say it's perfectly fine and works exactly the same as the iPhone instead?! It was merely an interesting observation I noticed when scrolling through the menu that made me realise what it was about Android that just doesn't feel right in comparison to the iPhone. It's not my fault that it works that way. Some of you are way too defensive for some reason.
 
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DIABLO said:
This is a silly thread, just seems like a fanboy trying to pick holes in Android and failing miserably. And the way mrbell1984 fawns over Apple products makes me throw up in my mouth a little tbh.
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You should check out the Apple forum, where this type of thread would be deleted, as opposed to this which is clearly an attempt at elaborate trolling.
 
mrochester said:
I didn't expect the S3 to not have lock screen controls so I didn't know I'd need to research whether they were there or not. How do they expect people to control what they're listening to when the phone is locked? I guess it's wrong to assume that the little common sense things will be there!.
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Add them then.

If the equivalent Android feature is missing from your iPhone you can add it al...oh wait - No you cannot.
 
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