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Devastated that my partner wants to switch from Apple lol I would like some advice on Samsung

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I need advice from those familiar with Samsung. I know the high end Galaxy is a great phone. Coming from an iPhone 15, would she be happy with a base S25?

I’d say front camera is most important to her as she props her phone up to film her skateboard tricks when I’m not around to do the filming. I’ve told her it will be a culture shock at first, and I have zero experience with anything other than iPhone so I will truly be of no help to her. Should we consider any higher end S25? Is it easy to switch to android from iPhone in terms of transferring data to the new phone?

Again, I know this is fairly out of place on an iPhone forum, so I expect this to be moved to a more appropriate forum but I scrolled through and didn’t see one I thought it’d fit in. At least it is iPhone related as it’s about how Samsung compares to iPhone. I know I’ve seen Samsung users/fans around here :)

Anyway, I’d really appreciate any pointers you guys have, I love this place and I really trust you guys! An S25 should cost us around $100 out of pocket and her phone 15 has one more installment left on T-Mobile so she will be trading it in.
 
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If your partner is moving to android it's on her to find out what suits her needs or wants.

However, the base Samsung Galaxy S25 will more than be enough for her, it's a great phone and size. If she wants bigger then there are the other 2 models to consider.
 
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I have an android phone for work - my advice is to NOT go with Samsung. Its obnoxious how there are built-in google apps and then samsung equivalents of everything. I find it very confusing having both google and samsung browsers, passkey/password stores (samsung knox and google), two app stores, etc.. You need to make accounts with both google and samsung!

I'd suggest a Pixel phone to have an android experience as google intended, without all the bloatware that comes with a samsung phone.
 
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As a stand alone device Samsung phones are fantastic, but Android in general, lacks the cohesion of the Apple ecosystem. I personally like Android as an OS better than iOS, but Android is so fragmented, the devices do not communicate as seamlessly as Apple devices do.
 
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As a stand alone device Samsung phones are fantastic, but Android in general, lacks the cohesion of the Apple ecosystem. I personally like Android as an OS better than iOS, but Android is so fragmented, the devices do not communicate as seamlessly as Apple devices do.
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Yeah, we will miss airdrop. When she has long skate days we accumulate tons of video clips and often the easiest thing to do is airdrop. I am not looking forward to trying to send 20 clips at a time to an android device via text 😅
 
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I’d say front camera is most important to her as she props her phone up to film her skateboard tricks when I’m not around to do the filming. I’ve told her it will be a culture shock at first, and I have zero experience with anything other than iPhone so I will truly be of no help to her. Should we consider any higher end S25? Is it easy to switch to android from iPhone in terms of transferring data to the new phone?
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Here's a wild suggestion- get her a Flip 7. Fun little device that flips open to a full size "normal" slab phone. If front camera is important to her she'll love the Flip. You can use the superior outer screen (regular) camera as the selfie cam to take much better photos and videos. She can prop open the phone and set it down and use the outer camera and record herself too.

Samsung has its Smart Switch app that makes it simple to switch. Download it on her iPhone and then let it do its thing.
 
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Here's a wild suggestion- get her a Flip 7. Fun little device that flips open to a full size "normal" slab phone. If front camera is important to her she'll love the Flip. You can use the superior outer screen (regular) camera as the selfie cam to take much better photos and videos. She can prop open the phone and set it down and use the outer camera and record herself too.

Samsung has its Smart Switch app that makes it simple to switch. Download it on her iPhone and then let it do its thing.
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That would be a really good idea but we are trying to minimize out of pocket costs. I mentioned the flip option and she wasn’t thrilled about it. I wish she was as passionate about technology as I am 😂

Smart Switch, that’s awesome! That’ll be easy for her then :)
 
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That would be a really good idea but we are trying to minimize out of pocket costs. I mentioned the flip option and she wasn’t thrilled about it. I wish she was as passionate about technology as I am 😂

Smart Switch, that’s awesome! That’ll be easy for her then :)
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There's always the cheaper Flip 7 FE. Basically a refreshed Flip 6.
 
Just research some things that Google and Samsung have done that she'd think are awful. Then she will stay with iPhone and save you both the hassle. Ask any AI in research mode and forward the report.

Rain fire and brimstone on any potential choice she makes that would inconvenience you. Answer every two sentence rant with a 60 page report. Peace through strength.


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Google's Pixel 10 series are coming in 2 weeks, it might be better getting Pixel instead of Samsung (or other brands) in order to receive the latest Android features drops (especially AI related features).
 
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So many bad takes on here 😂.

Apple has done bad things too. Heck they have more investigations into them about being anti competitive than any other company probably.

As for communicating with other devices, apple to apple may work the best, but with android you can communicate with more devices nearly seamlessly.

People say that Samsung are slower with updates, but if the browser has a bug then that gets updated separately and quickly, it doesn't need a full system update.

Once she realises how much better android is, you might even join her.

A few tips, download gboard and use that instead of the Samsung keyboard, and Samsung internet browser is actually good, plus you can add extensions, like ad block.

Or change DNS to the adguard one to block ads system wide. (iOS only does it connection to connection so 4g will need setting up, each WiFi network will need it setting up)
 
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