OK, can someone tell me why the Samsung phones are now considered (at least by some) to be superior to iPhone. I have no exposure to them - I've never touched a Samsung phone, I don't know anyone that uses one and I think I've seen one on the train to work, but I'm not sure. (Those aren't pejorative statements, just stating my situation.) I -think- the iPhone does everything I need it to do, i.e. there are no missing features or performance issues that scream out to me.
As an iOS user and one who has not seen or used a Samsung phone, it will be difficult for you to really pick out features that are missing from the iPhone. The reason is that you don't know what you are missing if you don't know it can exist (on some other device you have not used).
That said, clearly there are additional features of the Samsung phones that people seem to think are missing from the iPhone. Can someone please tell me what those features/capabilities are? The only thing I've learned from their commercials are that I can wirelessly beam a playlist to someone. Trust me, no one want's my playlists.
Samsung makes a variety of phones. They make Windows Phone devices as well as Android. I have a Galaxy S3 which run Android. I will describe a few things I do on my phone which may not be possible on an iPhone (especially without jailbreaking). I also do not root my phone. I just use features that are stock or available via the Play Store.
First of all, I can choose which apps are the default apps on my phone. I do not use the browser that came with my phone. I downloaded a Chrome and set that as the default. When I tap on a link in any app, it will launch Chrome instead of the stock browser that came with the phone. I do the same with my mapping app. I use Waze, so when I tap on an address in my Contacts app, it will launch Waze instead of the default (Google Maps).
I use a third party app launcher. On the iPhone home screen, you will find an app dock on the bottom that has some apps docked to it. When you switch to a different page on your home screen, all of your icons move off the screen and the ones on the next page come on with the exception of the apps in the dock. I personally don't like the dock, so I replace it with another row of icons. When I swipe the screen, the entire screen of icons and objects move over and a new screen of icons and object replace it entirely. I also have the option of adding more rows and columns for icons.
I use various widgets on my phone. Widgets are not available on iOS. (I hear that jailbreaking will enable such features.) What widgets do are many things. Some display information. For instance, I have a weather widget that display the current conditions and forecast for the next 2 days. This is what people commonly think of when talking about widgets, but widgets can do a lot more.
Some widgets are shortcuts to app functions. For instance, I have the SoundHound app that I use to recognise songs. Normally, I have to launch SoundHound then tap on the button to recognise the song. SoundHound has a shortcut that with a single tap will recognise the song. There are also shortcuts for other apps like Google Maps where the shortcut will start the navigation to the destination with a single tap.
When I go to bed, I want all of my notification sounds to be turned off. However, I still want my ringer to sound as well as my alarm. I have a widget that with a single tap can turn off notification sounds, but not the ringer or alarm. When I wake up, I tap the widget again and all sounds are back to normal.
Anther thing I find with Android that is handy is the app integration between apps. When Apple announced in the last few version of iOS that they were getting Twitter integration and the later Facebook integration, I was kinda confused as these seem to be basic functions that should be there. I later understood that iOS does not allow a lot of this integration. On Android, when you want to say, share a web page, you get a list of all of the apps that you can use to share. My messaging, email, FB, Twitter, Google+, and many more apps are on the list.
This may or may not be important to you. I find that some of these features are very convenient to me. There are many others and it is difficult to go through them all. I'm sure others will have their own lists.
