Nexus 6P to iPhone 8 Plus ?

[Tig Bitties]

I'm a pretty big Android nerd, specifically stock Android mostly, not a fan of Samsung and others, I feel their UI's can be prone to lag months down the road with the phone, whereas stock Android stays smooth all that time.

I have only had 3 iPhone's before, the 3G, the original 6 Plus, and 7 Plus. Currently back on my Nexus 6P, because I got bored with iOS 10. But now that I have been back with Android since May, I have been bored as well, and miss the great battery life of the 7 Plus, and come to think of it, I don't even tweak or customize my 6P anymore either, besides first setting it up, with the theme and icons I like, it remains that way all this time later, no changes. So I think I am burned out on the whole "Oh wow customization on Android is so cool" because I don't play with that at all anymore, just don't care lately.

My main important features in a smartphone are in this order;

- Battery life #1
- Bright display that can be seen outdoors well
- Smooth OS, little to no lag or hiccups
- Loud clear sounding speakers, for speaker phone calls, and some YouTube vids
- Water resistance is nice ( but not a must have, more of a safety feature just in case )
- Wireless charging is nice ( just feels more convenient and comfortable, but not a must have )
- Updates quickly and direct from the manufacturer

The Pixel 2 XL would be my obvious next choice, I skipped on last years Pixel XL, more in anger at the new price structure compared to my brand new 64GB Nexus 6P I bought brand new from Google for $449, which the 6P for it's day was every bit the high end flagship, comparable to Samsung's and HTC top phones at the time that were selling for almost double the price, then Google changes the Nexus name to Pixel, and ups the price SIGNIFICANTLY for no apparent reason, because the Pixel XL for 2016 was no different for it's day than the 6P was for it's time. Last year 2016 flagships like the iPhone 7 Plus and Galaxy S7 Edge were waterproof or had wireless charging, and super premium builds, the Pixel didn't have all those features, and Google still thought they could charge upper high end prices. I still found the Pixel XL to be more of a Nexus 7P, but whatever. And now $950 for the Pixel 2 XL, LOL no thanks Google. Bring back the Nexus, the Pixel 2 XL could be a Nexus 8P selling for like $599 or so, if Google still wanted to do that.

Anyways, I do like iMessage, lot of my family and friends have iPhone's, and from my time with the iPhone 7 Plus, I recall it having super good battery life, I would assume the 8 Plus just as good if not better, which is very important to me.

One hold back is all the NEGATIVE feedback I am reading about iOS 11, tons of people complaining it's super buggy, major issues, and seems like an alpha release, not a true release Apple would ship and put out. Even the betas are buggy, and seems like tons of stuff needs to be ironed out first before iOS 11 is smooth and stable. Is that true ?

 

[Tig Bitties]

So any Nexus / Pixel owners jump to the iPhone lately ?

 

[srolock]

Been Nexus grade android forever, Left 6P and Android Wear (3 gens of various brands) for an 8+ 256 and And Apple Watch 3LTE.

Virtually no regrets

Your Wish List:

Battery Life-Incredible, never ran out after doing unthinkable things like Waze for 2 hours and 4AM to 11PM and still have 38% at the end of the day with no additional charging

Watch usually finishes a 17 hour day with 80% left.

Outdoor screen pretty decent, overall very happy with the non oled screen in every way, it isnt oled, but it is great in my eyes

Smooth OS, In spades!

Loud Clear Audio, including surprisingly the watch

Water Resistant, IP67

Wireless Charging, like the nexus 5, its far better than you can imagine

Updates, it is integral to the apple eco system.

Imessage and Facetime are smooth implementations that became more important over time for me so they swayed me.

Pixel2 pricing makes the 8+ not a premium so that washes the apple tax

the touch id is blazingly fast and smooth

My misses with the IOS move:

Some weird techie electronics apps arent on IOS (pretty obscure ones but still not there)

I badly miss sync for reddit, there is no equal. Some close, but alas no cigar...

The limitations that apple puts on bluetooth for some techie hardware forcing to shift to wifi version of those devices is weird and annoying (odb2, bluetooth borescope cameras etc)

The complete lack of customization of app layout, or the inability to use a tool to sort or layout the apps, and the removal of itunes ability to help you is a dumb move on apples part.

The watch is smooth, the interface and hardware is flawless, the watchbands are so far ahead of androidwear it isnt even funny, the battery life is a dream that an androidwear owner dreams of.

BUT the lack of custom watchfaces is a huge hole, I actually don't take any solace in the canned answers apple puts forth over custom watchfaces being a system performace thing is bunk. I hope they allow them, or allow a app that locks down the connections to the os and allows a developer or owner to layout a skin.


Overall no regrets, not going back anytime soon, the ecosystem makes accessories available everywhere, the battery life is unmatched, and with the pixel not supporting cutting edge features or even old ones like sd card expansion or qi it didnt offer enough to keep me in the system.

The icing to me is the support and no BS implementation of that support that was actually a huge issue. having a 6P from google play store, with the extended warranty and still paying $99 each for two swaps over the battery issues (a known and documented problem) when some get it covered without deductible, when some 6p owners were covered... along with 2 LG watches that failed shortly after the warranty and not being able to get two watches repaired at the 13 and 14 month mark was an indication that google and its partners have no interest in the after purchase experience.

I rely on my phone my phones are protected from day one and when their bad implementation and support mean that you live without a phone for up to 3 days is something that I cant risk.

Dont love everything, but I am IOS at least until the time that 2 generations of phones/watches show that google et al understand that they arent toys anymore and are a integral part of how business is done today.

Hope that helps