Android vs Apple.

Chewbadger

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Is it just me or does anyone else find they're getting peed off with continual updates that bugger your phone or tablet up?

I've got a Sony phone and a Google Nexus tablet. I use the Nexus a lot, usually in here abusing some of you lot.
Its a running joke that usually when I pick it up it decides to update a load of apps, rendering itself pretty unusable for the next god knows how long.
After its finished, the difference is usually, well nothing. Can't see any improvement.

Add this to the update it did to android itself last week, and now it doesn't like several apps that I run. Won't accept passwords on some sites but will others, and continually hangs up, freezes and resets itself on a regular basis.

To say I'm getting fed up with it is an understatement.

My last phone was also a Sony. Excellent bit of kit, did everything I needed. Until android updated it. Slow was an understatement. Luckily I was due an upgrade.

It this just some scam to get us to change for the latest technology do you think?

I'm now looking at a new phone next year. I'm thinking of going iPhone.
Do they do the same or do they generally just work?
If so would you go iPad too?

Off to turn some customers speed limiters down on their trucks now and tell them they need to buy the new model....
 

Richie B

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I swapped Iphones and ipads for Samsung phones and tablets. Far more upgradeable and open. When the battery dies in my Samsung and I am not near a charger I can swap with my spare. When I am running low on memory space I can insert a micro sim.
 

Whealie

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IPhones are similar in that respect. But Apple is more thorough in trying to ensure there are no conflicts. Google is pretty relaxed about almost anything.
 

Mervin

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umm look it up on google , thats what i did , cannot remember how i did it now though
 

Ian Porter

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I'm an android man, but binned Samsung's software in favour of Cyanogen mod and my phone is much faster now.
 

Chewbadger

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Older versions of Android had update centre, where you could alter settings and stop updates, this new version doesn't. Bloody great.

I thought about giving you or Russ a shout Ian. I'm going to try and get over to see Russ tomorrow. You pair are more switched on with this than me.

I thought Apple would be a little more sorted, as they are trying to keep their market share as large as possible by not peeing customers off. This may well be the route I take next year. Especially as you can get every gadget I under the sun for an iPhone, including bike mount etc. The Sony has virtually bugger all.
 

East Coast

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Of no relevance what so ever for me to say this but I will anyway... I personally do not know a single bloke who owns / has / or uses an iPhone. Oh the other hand I know very few women that don't have an iPhone.
So may just a trend over here in the east but generally speaking in my circles it only tends to be girls that run iPhone, which I have used (though not in public) and they certainly seem quite robust. (except when they loose everything following an update which I've heard is common! :( )
 

nigelphoto

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East Coast said:
. . . . it only tends to be girls that run iPhone, which I have used (though not in public) and they certainly seem quite robust. (except when they loose everything following an update which I've heard is common! :( )

What's wrong with girls using iPhones???? I know girls who ride R1's and Bussa's, and come to think of it blokes who wear tights under their leathers (no, not like that - its for the COLD or so they say) :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Philwhiskeydrinker

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I can't add anything useful to the apple/android debate (other than apple users seem to be full of 'I'm an apple user' type of one upmanship which makes me instantly dislike them!)

Suffice to say that my Samsung android thing is loaded from the factory with a whole load of apps that seemingly can't be deleted - or not without threats of impending doom if deleted.... but still require constant updates.
The previous HTC, I recall had only the apps that I'd installed so far fewer updates.

Phil
 

East Coast

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nigelphoto said:
East Coast said:
. . . . it only tends to be girls that run iPhone, which I have used (though not in public) and they certainly seem quite robust. (except when they loose everything following an update which I've heard is common! :( )

What's wrong with girls using iPhones???? I know girls who ride R1's and Bussa's, and come to think of it blokes who wear tights under their leathers (no, not like that - its for the COLD or so they say) :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm all for being called Nicola and having my hair pulled in the bedroom occasionally but that's where it stops, getting my nails done and eyebrows waxed takes all this metrosexual business way to far for me, in fact i'd rather smell of petrol, sweat, smoke, beer and sawdust than some posh and expensive toilet water! :(

Girls doing girl things = cool :thumbsup:


Girls doing men things = super cool :cool:


Men doing men things = cool :thumbsup:

Men doing girl things = metrosexual perhaps? :thumbd: :Taxii:




And obviously because I had no idea really what being metro is about, I copied this so all the guys on here can identify if or when they can start to see themselves crossing the line (waxing their chest hair, watching towie etc)....


Being metro is all about breaking gender roles.

It makes many people uncomfortable to hear about a guy who takes more time to get ready to go to dinner than his sisters do.  Some get weird watching a man turn in a mirror to make sure a new pair of jeans aren’t saggy in the butt.Men can want to look good in jeans, too.  That’s not reserved for women.  And straight men and gay men and bi- men can all wait in line for a fitting room with a 34-, 32-, and 30-inch pair of jeans, hoping they fit the 32, knowing they should probably by the 34, and only holding the 30 the same way someone orders a diet coke with their whopper: because it feels nice to dream.- See more at: http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/201 ... ale/#.dpuf
 

Rubberchicken

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Phil said:
I can't add anything useful to the apple/android debate (other than apple users seem to be full of 'I'm an apple user' type of one upmanship which makes me instantly dislike them!)
Yeah there is a lot of that Cult of Apple stuff, it's a religion and it causes all kinds of shit assumptions about people, making it really annoying for those of us (ie, me) who do have an iphone because it's a nice bit of kit but can't be bothered with all the cult stuff. But people will gladly assume you either hate them or are completely infatuated with the fruity stuff while contemplating selling your firstborn to get the newest bit of kit. It's just a phone. Not a lifestyle. :lol:

I don't know if I qualify for Blokeness, but I do have an iphone and I know plenty of people of all gender permutations who do. Even men who openly use a gold one. ;)

About the updates stuff, mine tells me when there's an update but only actually goes and installs them after I tell it to. I tend to wait a couple of weeks before installing Apple updates though, let other people get the breakage. ;)
 

Lulu

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Rubberchicken said:
Phil said:
I can't add anything useful to the apple/android debate (other than apple users seem to be full of 'I'm an apple user' type of one upmanship which makes me instantly dislike them!)
Yeah there is a lot of that Cult of Apple stuff, it's a religion and it causes all kinds of shit assumptions about people, making it really annoying for those of us (ie, me) who do have an iphone because it's a nice bit of kit but can't be bothered with all the cult stuff. But people will gladly assume you either hate them or are completely infatuated with the fruity stuff while contemplating selling your firstborn to get the newest bit of kit. It's just a phone. Not a lifestyle. :lol:

I don't know if I qualify for Blokeness, but I do have an iphone and I know plenty of people of all gender permutations who do. Even men who openly use a gold one. ;)

About the updates stuff, mine tells me when there's an update but only actually goes and installs them after I tell it to. I tend to wait a couple of weeks before installing Apple updates though, let other people get the breakage. ;)

Agree with all of this (well, except that I definitely don't qualify for Blokeness). Personally I do prefer iPhone and iPad based on current experience with both compared with previous experience with HTC phone (hardly a big sample though, I agree). For me both bits of kit do what I want and do it well, though I accept that Apple is usually more pricey (but there are bargains to be had if you don't need to go for the latest all-singing all-dancing rip-off). It's a matter of what works for you and NOT a lifestyle choice, as Michel points out. And YES, blokes do have iPhones too!
 

East Coast

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Lulu said:
Rubberchicken said:
I don't know if I qualify for Blokeness, but I do have an iphone and I know plenty of people of all gender permutations who do. Even men who openly use a gold one.

And YES, blokes do have iPhones too!

Things must be very different across there in Holland, and up there in Loughborough, or are you both now living together in Brighton perhaps? :D
 

PaulC

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I won't go the iPhone route as I think they are way over priced and it's turning into a fashion device.
I also won't buy a phone that costs over £200, I prefer to hunt out and read up on reviews and find a good cheap alternative to the iPhone .
Last month I had to buy a new phone as the volume in the earpiece when taken a call was not loud enough, could be because it's a waterproof phone, anyhow, I read up and found the best phone for my money I was prepared to pay is a motorola G for £159 .
If you read up on it you will find it's a lot of phone ,great reviews and very fast due to it being quad core.
It's features are also better than the iPhone,how motorola managed to put it all together in such a small package defeats me.
So for me android for phone ,iPad for home. :cool:
 

Whealie

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IPhones are made of the same components in the same factories as everyone else. They break as often. The software and apps are safer because of Apple's annoyingly lengthy approval process (for app developers). But the main thing is the customer service - a replacement phone if anything goes wrong and you phone restored from iCloud back-up, in the shop, while you wait. They are prices on the basis that when they go wrong Apple can afford to sort it out. I bought my parents Android phones but if I am honest it was because I could not afford iPhones for them.

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