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After 4 months with the 6Plus, is anyone else bored?
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Because im allowed to post where i like. Ive also owned a few iPhones and moved onto Android because i was bored.
Ok here is my take on this post 
.some people are not going to be happy with something because it not the fast thing out there .
So what'do you really want out of the phone .im not bored with it I love it for beening a simple machine to use in the end
My iPhone 6 plus is my internet device my music player my gaming unit plus it keeps track of my books I have and a few other things plus it makes phones calls and it can fit in my pocket for travel.
.some people are not going to be happy with something because it not the fast thing out there .So what'do you really want out of the phone .im not bored with it I love it for beening a simple machine to use in the end
My iPhone 6 plus is my internet device my music player my gaming unit plus it keeps track of my books I have and a few other things plus it makes phones calls and it can fit in my pocket for travel
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I hear you. Feedback is good but nothing beats actual hands on experience in my opinion.
Some will say this is better and others will swear by another product.
But either choices or suggestions might not suit your needs.
I'd start off by playing around with some friends phones or hit up some store demo units.
First hand experience here. I started out with a 6 Plus on launch day. I wasn't not happy with the 6 Plus, except for the fact that it's so expensive. That was the motivating factor for me to try Android. If I could find a decent phone off contract, I could sell my 6 Plus for a little profit and become unchained from my carrier for good.
The straw that broke it was (finally) getting an invite to purchase the OnePlus One. Seeing it was $349 completely off-contract, had flagship specs and received great reviews, I figured why not try it out. The OPO came with a nifty nano-SIM adapter so all I did was switch out SIMs, shut down my ip6 ,cleaned it up, and put it back in its box and left it in an empty space on my bookshelf, fully expecting to sell it.
I loved my OPO while I had it. Solid build quality, nice screen, really pleased with the size and general performance. As for Android, I loved (and still love) it. One of the advantages of Android (without JB) is the sheer number of customization options -- everything from fonts, icons, widgets, the different launchers you can install that completely change the way the phone interface works -- could be customized. Very pleased with Action Launcher 3 and the Flow Beta launchers -- they made the phone feel "fresh" as you might refer to it. As for other things -- having direct access to your phone's performance down to CPU clock speed is a tweaker's dream. And this is a phone that wasn't even rooted.
Also I really love Google's services from Maps and Google Now to Inbox, Play Store, Google +, etc. are really solid imo. Once you commit to really using these services you really appreciate how well set up they are (and even on my 6 Plus the Google App (with Google Now), Google Maps and Google Play Music are front and center on my home screen). As for Apps, no complaints. Android pretty much has any App you would ever need or want.
But...here I am back on my 6 Plus. Why? Because of one nasty bug I found on my OPO that I could never un-see, which bothered me so much I switched back. I had a severe problem with video stutter -- everything from Play Movies to YouTube and Netflix suffered from a frame hitch every 20 seconds. Nothing I did fixed it. And this is something typical you will find on Android devices I think. Because the hardware is de-centralized you won't find the consistent build quality and support you'll see with an Apple device. One phone might have loose rattling buttons. Some might have video issues. I once had an HTC with a loose headphone jack. Etc.
So one fateful day I looked at that 6 Plus sitting on my shelf (just hadn't gotten around to selling it), pulled it out and started watching videos run as smooth as anything. And then I started realizing, with that 6 Plus in my hands, what made me buy iPhones in the first place. Build quality, boring consistency and attention to detail. The buttons are so snappy and tight. The screen is gorgeous. And then I started thinking about the other things -- how the camera is best in class. How incredibly polished the apps are. And how well iPhones handle multimedia. And Apple's customer service (which is the exact opposite of the horror story that is OPO customer service, or so I hear). And Apple Pay. And it goes on.
So here I am, back on my 6 Plus. TBH though, I don't think there's really any point to my story. Why? If you stuck a Nexus 6 in front of me and it didn't have that ugly video issue I had with my OPO I might just be tempted to go back to Android. The point is -- you can likely be very happy with Android, just as you are with Apple. They're both very very good and have their strengths and weaknesses. I don't think you can go wrong either way.
But with Android, it's more of a wild west out there when finding a good device. That's one advantage Apple has.
If you need a new phone to keep your life interesting, you have some serious life issues.
Being tired of something (who hasn't been there?) doesn't equate to one's life not being interesting.
I do the stair master at the gym, it is basically the lesser of evils for cardio during the winter for me. I am tired of it, I guess I better get a more interesting life and switch to the treadmill or elliptical or don't do any cardio at all?
You said itBeing tired of something (who hasn't been there?) doesn't equate to one's life not being interesting.
I do the stair master at the gym, it is basically the lesser of evils for cardio during the winter for me. I am tired of it, I guess I better get a more interesting life.
I love my boring iPhone 5S. Never fails to please me because it just works. When I want to make a call, it calls. When I want to browse a website, it browses. When I want to listen to music, it plays music. Etc.
What do some of you want to do with your phones that you can't do? This is a serious question?
My 5S is a fantastic product that I use all the time. And it never fails to please and amaze me. Maybe I'm just a simpleton though....
What do some of you want to do with your phones that you can't do? This is a serious question?
My 5S is a fantastic product that I use all the time. And it never fails to please and amaze me. Maybe I'm just a simpleton though....
Thank you for this. The inconsistency between devices, build quality, apps, etc., is the reason I'm hesitating to switch. I think I may just wait until there's a jailbreak for ios 8.1.3. But thanks for your input. It seems like the majority of people that switch end up coming back to Apple, so that speaks volumes.
What that even mean? A "true phablet experience." The home screen landscape switch is very nice on the 6plus vs my note 4, what sucks is the pace developers are updating their apps for the 6plus screen and IOS 8. I guess the it can be compared to a Windows phone in that the returns don't justify the effort required for many app owners. To bad Apple doesn't have a developer requirement or an automated process to update apps when hardware changes are made. Both Apple and Android marketplace need a good housecleaning. Deleting all the necro apps that haven't been updated or supported for years. Since both use store size to pound their corporate chests,deleting dead apps isn't a priority. This would be more difficult in Android because of fragmentation. As far as Safari tabs reloading, this isn't a problem for me. What is a problem is the "an error has occurred" in landscape on several of the websites I use.
Which would you think you'd make more money with? A dollar for everyone who switched from the Iphone to Android and stuck with it or two dollars for those that did and ended up coming back to an iPhone?
I have every OS covered including Blackberry, go figure. Don't understand why one would not explore other opportunities out there. Nothing wrong with a preference though and right now it is the 6+.
I have every OS covered including Blackberry, go figure. Don't understand why one would not explore other opportunities out there. Nothing wrong with a preference though and right now it is the 6+.
Which would you think you'd make more money with? A dollar for everyone who switched from the Iphone to Android and stuck with it or two dollars for those that did and ended up coming back to an iPhone?
I have every OS covered including Blackberry, go figure. Don't understand why one would not explore other opportunities out there. Nothing wrong with a preference though and right now it is the 6+.
I was tired of touch wiz/andriod so I finally switched to IOS. I actually love it because its refreshing. I have a Blackberry Z10 as my back up phone.
Yeah, I don't understand how people can get bored with a phone. Is breaking and fixing stuff a hobby for people?
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We know, this is also a first-world forum. There's nothing wrong with wanting to improve your digital experience, and it doesn't mean we still can't worry about kids going hungry.
They are the same as the examples of "real work" that Blackberry users convince themselves cannot be done on iPhones, Android phones, Windows phones, computers and typewriters.
can u explain a little more how to do this ? i've been haviing itransmission issues since ios8 and have no idea how to fix it.
But with something purely subjective as that what do people's opinions about their experience with it matter? If enough people love what they did it means absolutely nothing to someone else who will do it and hate it for their own personal reasons (or even really no reason), or vise versa.
Seeing as 6+ owners are in the house, can I hijack this thread temporarily and ask if your phone backs up to iCloud automatically? Mine never has and clean installs/resetting settings/rebooting/signing in & out of iCloud seem to make no difference. It just doesn't back up unless I manually do so.
I suspect one of the reasons you are bored with the 6+ is that you are bored with the sort of things you use it for.
For example, if you love reading, I suspect the 6+ is a great book reader. There are so many good books out there that you can spend your life time reading on the 6+ and never get bored. However, if your interest in the 6+ as a book reader is how nice the text look and whether you can make it do text to speech in natural sounding voice, then once the newness is worn, you will be bored with it.
For example, if you love reading, I suspect the 6+ is a great book reader. There are so many good books out there that you can spend your life time reading on the 6+ and never get bored. However, if your interest in the 6+ as a book reader is how nice the text look and whether you can make it do text to speech in natural sounding voice, then once the newness is worn, you will be bored with it.
I miss the iPhones camera very much. It's so much easier to take good pictures with an iPhone than with any Samsung device. The digital stabilisation is really great and dark areas are well lit when focusing on them in an iPhone. The "tap to expose" feature that has been in every iPhone since 3GS is a given and I was literally angry when I discovered that my Note didn't have it. However, when in good lighting, the Note really outshines the iPhone. Have heard of really good results with iPhone 6 Plus though. It's supposed to be a beast photographer.
I miss the continuous fluidity inside of apps as well as outside them sometimes but it's really just a matter of getting used to androids way of doing things. Also when gaming, you do notice that iPhones always have that high and smooth fps while the equal Android phone does not. To this day, the Note 3 can play every game with ease on the play store but iPhone 6 can just simply do it better.
Other than that I do not miss the iPhone. Didn't like to have imessages on my iPad and Mac so I turned off that feature even when I used my iPhone. iMessages is nothing I miss too much either. It was nice and good looking but I talk with most of my friends on Facebook messenger anyway.
I do not use pushbullet but I do use a cloud service called Box that is downloaded in my iPad, Note 3 and is accessible via the browser on my Mac. It works great and I got 50GB for free!
I think it is absurd how Samsung seems to copy the iPhone more for each generation. But you can't get away from the fact that it's nice to have an iPhone that runs Android
I've had both and I agree with this. I've had more frame rate drops and app crashes on my 6+ than I did on the 6.
I'm keeping the 6+ because I'm in love with the screen and the performance seems to be improving some (or I'm just getting used to it). IMO, you put a full HD screen on the 6 and it becomes the superior phone and it's not even close (again, my opinion).