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Samsung Launches $1 Trial Program for iPhone Users
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Do any of the cheap phones on the market run iOS? No? Then the same can't be said about the iPhone 6. It's all about the operating system.
Never had this happen. I swap my AT&T SIM card between multiple devices sometimes. You're free to do that. They just don't like when you put the SIM card in a dumbphone. But why would you? Other than that, you can swap it between smartphones every day if you want.
I threw in credentials because you were trying to make me look like a fool who missed the "I am a Mac, I am a PC" campaign. While I have been researching Apple since before the Jeff Goldblum ads for the iMac. I know what I am talking about.
If you can find any statement or fact in history that Apple had any plans to overtake Windows and be the #1 PC OS please present it here. Maybe in the 1980's, but by the time Steve Jobs got back in around '97 that was never the plan. Its not an opinion, its a fact.
They are all out of the test drive phones...yet, they are very likely to lose so much money on this test drive that they would not do it ever again...
Forget the test drive. I carry two phones, so I bought a Galaxy S6 Edge to replace my Note 4, thinking the laggy UI issues would get resolved, but nope, it's just as bad. I paid full price for my test drive, but I'm now using two iPhone 6's instead. No lag and no issues with the iPhone. Sad to see the Galaxy go, but it was just wasn't usable day-to-day.
S6 as a design and hardware is nice. Software is absolutely horrible.
My daughter works at an AT&T retail store in sales. She says that the return rate is about 10:1 Samsung versus Apple and that is the case even though they sell about 20:1 Apple to Samsung. Most return the Samsung new phones because of what you wrote or crashing or bloatware or poor battery life after just a few months. I just wonder where Samsung sells there products lol
If they offered me a new Samsung Edge and $500 to switch, I wouldn't even have to think.... no!
iOS 7 and now 8 runs great on my iPhone 5. It is okay if you feel sorry.
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iOS 7 and up eventually was butter smooth. And the fact that you will get more updates make it even better.
With S6 i just realized that i will probably not be getting any.
never found 8 to run buttery smooth on my 6+ had the phone reboot on its own once in a while keyboard bugs are really bad bluetooth headset issues have been there since the 5s. the battery does suck on the s6 for sure but it is faster then my 6+ and does to crash any more. bluetooth is much more solid too. it is hard to say what one is better but apple is pretty slow un updates and fixing things. I have saw at least two updates on the s6 in the last two weeks.
I have S6 in front of of me and i really have no idea how can it faster when its lagging in basic UI interaction. Keyboard (i use default) is slow to show up and not as precise. I somehow manage to hit better on iPhone 6 than on this bigger phone/keyboard. Since i never had 6+ i dont know anything about its performance.
Anyway iOS is just miles ahead. You can't be a reasonable person and say otherwise.
in a nutshell, so much irrational love is given towards apple.. they are put on the highest pedestals by their followers.. it's not their fault but they cannot consistently make world beatING products year in year out.. but when you invest so much faith in something, the only way that you can justify your purchasing decisions year after year is to pull down the opposition. anyone who has Had 8 iphones since day one has told themselves that nothing else Comes close.. it's a no brainer.. but the reality is so far removed from that.
my tip, embrace all platforms, the good, the bad and the ugly.. pick what works at the time for you.. when I read "I'll never buy a non apple" phone, I cringe.. why would you purpursly do your some out of some wonderful pieces of kit. all the holiday snaps of the kids you take this year could simply have been better if you had bought a s6, that's not even opinion, just fact. next year it might be different.. the day
yo realise that no tech firms care about you, the sooner you can just enjoy tech..
Mime is not laggy I have list many pics because I can't get the camera up and the lag I picture taking on my 6+ words predict is so bad on all apple devices and that a better keyboard in ups is so buggy it is a pain to use. My s6 is not laggy I was suprised by the speed. I have had issues with all Bluetooth headsets on my phones these problems are gone now with the s6. Not saying it is perfect battery life sucks but it charges fast. The us my first android and who knows if I will stuck with it but another iPhone will just be like the first with the same training wheels that never come off.
When I visit the site from my iPhone, get this:
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4xmCjWaG0JxdmxzZ2VzamFRYnM/view?usp=sharing)
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4xmCjWaG0JxdmxzZ2VzamFRYnM/view?usp=sharing)
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
No, they're just out of test drive phones!When I visit the site from my iPhone, get this:
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4xmCjWaG0JxdmxzZ2VzamFRYnM/view?usp=sharing)
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
In case anyone is curious where their package is or what the transit number is, you can use FedEx Insight to get that info. Just got my info and it says Estimated Delivery 8/25/15 at 8 PM. Shoulda known Samsung wouldn't actually get it to me in 2 days. 
In all seriousness, I'm excited to try a different phone.
In all seriousness, I'm excited to try a different phone.Iphone 4s was sold by apple until late 2014 , So for some this is a device not even a year old.
As for updates itself: both have different models of updating so pointless to compare.
I'm typically someone who likes a fair amount of control over my user experience, and yet I feel more in the driver's seat on iOS than I did on touchwiz. Maybe that's because the user experience is clearly at the forefront of the way iOS works. With touchwiz, I felt like I was jumping through hoops to make basic changes, and many were unsuccessful. You would think since I don't use Facebook, for example, that after disabling the app it would be...you know... disabled, right? Wrong. there was still a Facebook process running in the background of this non-facebook-user's phone that I had to "force stop". At least all the bloatware that comes preinstalled on iOS is made by Apple and halfway makes sense. And at least iOS doesn't tell me that an app and some unknown developer needs to access my location, phone, email contacts, microphone and camera before I install it.
I don't feel like the training wheels analogy fits iOS at all. It's just more secure, extremely well organized, and everything makes sense. There are lots of options in settings and plenty of great apps available in the app store that allow you a number of ways to customize your user experience. People who require further control can attempt to jailbreak the same way people root their android devices.
I'm not a longtime iOS user (first iPhone and iPad were purchased a couple years ago), nor am I an Apple loyalist. I don't need to trash Samsung to justify sticking with another platform. I'm sticking with iOS because I really do think it's better. Samsung make some great products (I love their hard drives), the display on the S6 and the camera are also top-notch, but it's not enough for me. If other people are happy with these phones, great.
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yes iOS is more practical to get around but but really has not changed much over the years. I remember waiting for cut and paste then how buggy it was. finally getting a different keyboard only to have that full of bugs for a year. with iOS if you don't like something tuff stuff suck it up and live with it. I hate how I get my screen arranged right ( a bit of a pain really on how apps shuffle around and how hard it can be to get one to move to the next screen). android lets you put icons where you want them and they stay. yo can also shuffle screens around easily or change what one is the home screen. having widgets on the screen at all times is very cool. though some are better when you pull them down as in iOS as they are larger. but then again sometimes you have to wait for them to load. weather was always sucky on that and on the lock screen in ios. I needed swift keys to get the much better word prediction as my hands are horrible at typing. it helped but it caused mail and iMessage to crash several times a day not allowing the keyboard to come up. word prediction is much better on the s6 wit the default keyboard. and they keyboard always comes up. a year later that bug is still there. I have watched every version of iOS coming out has been getting buggier and buggier and offering very little new.
In case anyone is curious where their package is or what the transit number is, you can use FedEx Insight to get that info. Just got my info and it says Estimated Delivery 8/25/15 at 8 PM. Shoulda known Samsung wouldn't actually get it to me in 2 days.
Care to share what the Shipper reference is? Or how to use FedEx Insight? Trying to figure out my tracking since I receive email saying shipped yesterday afternoon but no tracking #, UNAVAILABLE.