I went from a 4 directly to 6s+ and will never go back to a smaller size!
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I went from a 4 directly to 6s+ and will never go back to a smaller size!
If you want i message type of a solution for android, you can use Google hangouts,
Samsung Blackjack>iPhone 2G>iPhone 3G>iPhone3GS>iPhone4>iPhone 4S>Note 1>Galaxy S3>Note 2>Note 3>iPhone 5S>iPhone 6 Plus>iPhone 6S Plus... As well as using family and friend's Android phones I can honestly say that the iPhone is the ONLY phone that has just worked without being a headache to use.
I compare it to buying a car. Sure you can buy the new 2016 with all the new bells and whistles with a nice paint job to make it look appealing... But 2 years from now when the engine blows up, and the car rattles itself apart you'll remember you should have bought that "ol' reliable" and that's exactly what I call an iPhone. Just a reliable device that does exactly what it is meant to do, without requiring the user to be a "mechanic" to make it run.
I compare it to buying a car. Sure you can buy the new 2016 with all the new bells and whistles with a nice paint job to make it look appealing... But 2 years from now when the engine blows up, and the car rattles itself apart you'll remember you should have bought that "ol' reliable" and that's exactly what I call an iPhone. Just a reliable device that does exactly what it is meant to do, without requiring the user to be a "mechanic" to make it run.
What sucks is that the iPhone 6s+ could be a lot smaller and keep the same size display, look at the S7 Edge for instance.
I have 2 T-mobile S7 Edge , got them on BOGO+Netflix 2 years+ some virtual BS. Tried one of them. First impression is COOL. 5 minutes later I found problems, lags here and there.
while I share the same opinion I would have been grateful for NOT seeing a thread like this.
Now the forum will be stormed by Samsung fanboys.
I don't like the S7, not more than the iPhone for sure. But why feel the need to open such a thread ?
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I'm not expecting anything better from Samsung...
And for the people saying the S7 has no slowdowns, even XDA, a well known Android centric website, pointed it out.
we still managed to find lag across the user interface, including random stutters and framedrops. Indeed, our go-to GPU profiling test showed many skipped frames when scrolling through the Play Store, significantly more than our 810 devices running stock or close-to-stock software (Nexus 6P, OnePlus 2). We’ve also encountered random input lockups where performance did not take a hit but we simply couldn’t interact with the UI for a few seconds (repeated instances on the camera app and settings menu, reported by two XDA editors).
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I normally consider someone saying there are no slowdowns on samsung s6/s7 being full of **** since i know first hand it is not so. Out of the box my S6 produced lag in a matter of few minutes. I went on to disable all i could (ms office, instagram, dropbox, google games stand etc.) remote app, one drive and so on. then it was much better but the longer it is on the faster i would encounter that god damn lag. Reboot would solve it for some time, but it is inevitably back again every time.
I think the verizon units have the samsung browser disabled, at least that's how it was on my GS6 and Note 5
BUT MY ANDROID HAS 28 CORE AND THIS CPU BENCHMARK SAYS IT IS FASTER!!111
pretty much sums up why you should take computer and mobile device spec sheets with a bucket of salt.
that's the thing that drove me nuts about the galaxy s6. It was one of the smoothest android phones I've ever owned, but once a day (sometimes more), it would slow down to a halt to the point where I would have to reboot the phone. And I would always reboot the phone first thing in the morning just to make sure RAM was cleared and starting "fresh" that day. but that TW induced jank would rear its ugly head every day, sometimes twice a day, to the point of needing a reboot to make it work again. But I will say, that camera and screen were oh so good!
I am currently using the Galaxy S7. Have the edge too and am trying to convert. I usually end up back with Apple and have both a 6s and 6s+. Right now I am using the S7 with my 6s+. I have decided the 6s+ is just too big for my daily using a 6+ prior.
Here is where my problem is. The iPhone 6s is starting to fall behind its larger companion. With the S7 I get no compromises. Screen, camera all the same. For me to buy the iPhone 7 I am going to need Apple to step up a little bit.
I will always have an iPhone but am getting more and more comfortable with Android everyday.
Here is where my problem is. The iPhone 6s is starting to fall behind its larger companion. With the S7 I get no compromises. Screen, camera all the same. For me to buy the iPhone 7 I am going to need Apple to step up a little bit.
I will always have an iPhone but am getting more and more comfortable with Android everyday.
My intention was certainly not to create contention. I don't think this thread has felt that way either. I feel that I have really opened myself up to all phone manufactures and I've tried to see the positives and negatives with every smartphone that is released.
The design of the S7 and S7 Edge is dang impressive and the displays are a sight to behold! But, after really considering the fact of owing one and how frustrated I've been with iPhone's design (huge bezels), nobody can deny the sheer blazing speed, efficiency, and reliability that an iPhone provides. That was made well aware to me after spending considerable time in multiple stores trying out the S7 and S7 Edge. Again, positives and negatives to both sides of the story and I wouldn't blame a single person for buying Samung's sweet looking phones. I'm glad we have the choice but I'm just so impressed with Apple's chip design team and the way iOS runs so efficiently.
Anadtech's part 1 review of the S7 and S7 Edge is pretty telling from a battery perspective. There's no way the 1715 mah battery of the iPhone 6s should even be competing with the S7's 3000 mah battery, which is also 250 mah bigger than the 6s Plus's battery capacity.
I just wanted to share my amazement of the 6s and 6s Plus speed and efficiency is all.
I actually really like Android and would get the S7 Edge today if I could still have iMessage and iCloud photo sharing. Those 2 things are keeping me locked into iOS, which I don't mind. I actually really like iOS as well, I just like changing up OS's from time to time. But my wife and I share way too many photos/videos of kiddos to a large, spread-out family who all own iPhones. iMessage >> MMS when it comes to multimedia sharing and I'm not going to have everyone in my family download WhatsApp, GroupMe, etc. just so I can share multimedia with them (and receive it from them as well).
EDITED to say: Touchwiz is something that is also keeping me from the Galaxy S7. Honestly, my dream phone right now would be the S7 Edge (don't really care about the "edge" feature, just like the size of phone vs screen size) running iOS 9 and optimized software/hardware like Apple does.
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THIS EXACTLY! I got rid of my 6s to try it, accidentally passed my 14 days so I went in and sacrificed an upgrade just to get my iPhone 6s back.
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A little over stated. Millions of people use Samsung phones for years with the same reliability of iphones. And for every crap Samsung there is a crap iphone.
6 of one, 1/2 dozen of other. For the vast vast vast majority who use the phone to primarily text, e-mail, do light gaming and media consumption there is little difference.
Get what makes you happy.
Nope. According to every customer satisfaction survey, Samsung's users aren't satisfied like iPhone 's users are.
Yep, it probably is.
The problem is: that happens on OLED display and not happen on LCD display (even display model iPhones ).
Just the way android is designed makes that false. It requires more upkeep to keep the phone running properly and glitch free. Where an iPhone can be rebooted and 99% of the time the problem is fixed.
How would I know from what? Two thirds of the screen are now yellow. The upper top is white as it should be (on a white background). I can take pictures. It's not a pretty sight.
PS: it's like here only that the upper half is fine and the other two thirds are yellow just like in this picture:
That is ugly. And I've read where some Samsung followers don't consider that to be true or an issue. Go figure.
Eh. People.claim the6s plus has no slowdowns either. I beg to differ. They're certain ly not world ending but I notice then here and there (as opposed to the 6 plus which was virtually all the time).
It is what it is. If a person says they don't notice notable slowdowns I have no reason not to believe them. Considering I see this with Apple devices I have accepted this is part for the course as long as it occurs sparingly.
In my eyes we need not get into a debate in whether a current gen phone ever experiences slowdown, because I suspect they all do.
It is what it is. If a person says they don't notice notable slowdowns I have no reason not to believe them. Considering I see this with Apple devices I have accepted this is part for the course as long as it occurs sparingly.
In my eyes we need not get into a debate in whether a current gen phone ever experiences slowdown, because I suspect they all do.