Yes, transferring data isnt easy. But how OFTEN do you do it? Outside of pure bluetooth transfers you can do the next best thing - transfer via messaging apps (telegram), or even dropbox!
Even with a meagre 1800 mah battery, my 6 works for 24-30 hours !!
Siri understands my punjabi english accent just fine - infact much better than Google (voice input on CM) has ever understood me.
Hindi input - works perfectly fine for the occasional usage. It has another set (Bengali, Telugu, marathi, tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi). Enough for most users, not all.
Data security - custom keyboards are disabled automatically in password fields. Apple keeps you safe!
imessage is absolutely brilliant. Automatically it finds out iOS users, and sends them the message as iMessage (no text fees!).
Let me not even get to comparing the real-world results of the MotoX 2014 vs the iPhone 6 from the same year. I didn't use my DSLR for >50 pics on my foreign vacation this year and didn't regret it at all.
Please don't diss the iPhone unless you have used it extensively - it is not without reason that Apple is having its highest sales ever since the 6 came out. Humble request - please stick to praising the device you use (as you do in the second part of the post) than diss the one you havent!!
Talking about android phones - Atleast even on the OPO, Kitkat was perfect. The current OS is nowhere as neat looking, looses data on the move lots of times, and drains battery like crazy (from 1.5 days now it runs 12-14 hours tops). The camera on the OPO was a total mess - my S3 is clearly better.
Problems with iPhone?
- Space usage. 16GB is never enough. Total mess since most apps are easily 2x the comparable android version. You need to delete whatsapp data all the time, or reinstall FB.
- Apple Mail. It fetches notifications and mail titles, but not full email, even upto a day later! Bad luck if you wnat to read mails on the road and 3G coverage is spotty.
- Custom keyboards. I only use swiftkey. Without it, I wont even use the iPhone. Every now and then it loses alignment with the bottom row shifting 10 pixels below, resulting in only part of it showing. Swiftkey itself is much less featured (no long press, no number row) than on android.
- Antiquated dialer. Still doesnt have T9 dialing like the awesome ExDialer.
- 1-2 crashing apps. Worst offender? GMail. It crashes 50% of the time when I click reply for a message.
Overall, its lagfree - superfast camera - great battery - much more controlled and refined app ecosystem (but smaller than Google). I think its VFM.
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Originally Posted by tbppjpr To make my answer in short, transferring data from other platforms is very cumbersome task on Apple devices.
Siri doesn't understand 'Indian' accent English, neither it can type in Hindi or other regional language if you wish to post some very long text but don't want to type. Google Voice does it and does it with ease. Ok, both voice platforms require active internet and screen. But there is an angel device called Moto X which listen even if its offline and doesn't require to unlocked before it starts listening up. It doesn't stop here, you can name it anything, no need to wake it up using the boring preset commands like 'Wakeup Siri' or 'Okay Google', just set any phrase in any language and it will wake and listen to you. Then it assists you while driving by automatically detecting that you are driving and starts announcing the caller names when they call. It asks if you want to answer the call or ignore it by sending a text massage which again will typed only using your voice. All this is done without a fuss because this is not just a device, its your assistant.
Then come to keyboard. Apple just recently introduced Hindi input, not sure about other regional languages. But Indian languages have been there since ages on Google platforms. Most people can argue that they can live with English only device, I also use English 95% of times but there are few occasions when I feel need of my mother tongue and that time I don't want to feel bad after realizing that the device which I bought after spending thousands of rupees is not capable of doing so. Pure Android phones provide lot of possibilities with keyboard customization.
Personalization is one thing which people take lightly and think that its just a cosmetic thing but no, everyone needs bit of freedom to configure personal devices to make them suitable to their needs and taste. All Apples are monotonous, you can't even put widget on homescreen, rather there is no homescreen on Apples. But possibilities are endless in the Androids without compromising performance (talking about pure Android devices, not about the deformed Android like MIUI, TouchWiz, Lonovo OS etc).
There are lot more points but instead of highlighting negatives of Apple, I would like to point out what a powerful and innovatively designed Android 'smart'phone can do.
Please have a look at the link below and the videos explaining features of my favorite smartphone (rather I will call a daily day companion which is always ready to assist me in all handful ways one can imagine) and see what it can do which an iPhone doesn't do, rather other Androids also can't do, I use all of these features during daily day and have got used to of them so much that can't even imagine living without them: http://www.androidcentral.com/lookin...x-pure-edition https://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=uSAs...ature=Youtu.be https://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=z2fIC6clc9Y
You can feel power and joy of having Android only if you use a good Android device which are very few by the way. Most of the OEM Android firmwares are so badly designed and implemented that they spoil user experience and leave bad taste of Android in mind of the user.
Please don't take my post as an typical iPhone vs Android war. I already said in my previous post that Apples don't suite my needs and my points are solely based on how I want to use my device. I am not the kind of guy who just expect simple tasks like making calls, texting, browsing internet or using social media apps along with camera from the phone, rather I expect much much more from my smartphone which an iPhone along with Many other Androids and Windows phones can't do. But I accept that the tasks which an iPhone is capable of are done in very simplistic and elegant way by an iPhone compared to many Androids. If you use only mac as your home and work computer along with other Apple devices and do not use other platforms like Windows, Linux or Android then iPhone is suitable to you. ![Smile](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.png) |