Skip to main content

My brief Android experience forced me to buy an iPhone

Recently I took my iPhone 4 in since once again I had cracked the screen, 3 times in 4 years.

Firstly I must say I was slow to go to the iPhone, but once I did I was in love. Finally with one device I could really and simply manage all goodies. To give you an idea these are the applications I use almost daily:
  • Email, for both company (Microsoft Exchange based) and personal use (Gmail Apps)
  • Accuweather
  • Audible
  • iTunes
  • Deezer
  • Evernote
  • Standard Bank App
  • Browsing (using chrome)
  • HAI (for home automation)
  • Camera with sharing
  • Not so often facebook and twitter too
So once I got use to the weird Android interface I install all the above besides iTunes (I tried a few rip off products, we cannot use Google Music in SA at the moment so I was unable to use that, perhaps that was one of the reasons I was unhappy with the experience) and I was not paying another R700 for my HAI software.

Besides that I was surprised that many features I considered standard were not there, I had to down load Sleep and torch since I use these too.

The Good

  • Wireless handling seems a little better than the iPhone, seems to identify string signals easier (both at work and home we have multiple wireless zones that we connect to)
  • Google integration is good Picasa (pity it is such a rubbish app, so I no longer use it) etc integrated well
  • There is an anti-spam feature for SMS's which I like, a little easier to use than iPhone's block caller system

The Okay

  • The widgets are interesting but they create clutter
  • the swipe keyboard is an interesting concept not quite there yet
  • the audible app works better on the Android device than the iPhone, not sure why

 The Reasons I went and bought an iPhone

  • I missed my iPhone predictive text. I found both the swipe keyboard and the standard keyboard terrible. Where on the iPhone I am almost too confident the correct word is selected not matter how rubbish I type I found I was checking and rechecking what I typed all the time, and when you send some many remote messages this is a problem
  • the text selection is terrible some times I go so irritated trying to select text I just retyped it, cursor control is archaic.
  • iTunes - I love iTunes, since it has been available in South Africa I have been catching up on all the music I had on vinyl and more. I ended up not loading any music on the phone since it it would cost to do more than 25 songs etc, so lived off Deezer
  • Why do I need a app section and a desktop section, the iPhone combines this and it is far better, this is the same criticism I have for Windows Phones
  • Quality - the product just felt rushed and cheap, there is no polish
  • The phone rebooted twice in the week I had it, WHY?
  • Even though we have wireless MB connection it kept telling me my Internet was unreliable
  • Screen accuracy to finger always appeared out and I was forever doing things a few times to get it done.

I was so irritated I found a second hand iPhone 5 and bought it. now I am happy again. Give Android 3 years and perhaps it will be good :)


Comments

catskinner said…
Dig the irony:
"almost too confident the correct work is selected"
Nah, not "almost". Problem with predictive text is that people are unpredictable.

Popular posts from this blog

Migrating QuickBooks to Sage One Cloud accounting - Part 1 Exporting the data

Some notes Sage means sage one online accounts, wherever we say Sage we mean Sage one. The QuickBooks we used was version 2012 Professional. But most of the information is similar. What you need > You need the templates from Sage and the data from QuickBooks, see below for how to do these. Get Import Templates from Sage To get the templates for the items go to help.accounting.sageone.co.za/en_za/accounting/from-your-previous-accounting-system.html Although you can construct the templates from the information in this post you can download samples of the templates need. Below are the links they provide: Use the following downloads which are referenced in the guide: General Ledger Accounts Import Template Customer Import Template Customer Outstanding Invoices Import Template Supplier Import Template Supplier Outstanding Invoices Import Template Item Import Template   Another useful page that is hard to find on their system is: help.accounting.sageone.co.za/en_za/ac

Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency – what is it and how can I benefit

What is it I started investigating Bitcoin when it was worth just over $1000 a bitcoin. I was interested in what it was and how it worked. A lot of people are saying we missed the boat, but I believe that everyone should at least try put a little money in now, or at least use a faucet (see below) to make a little micro-currency. You can read a Wiki article about bitcoin and its history etc. But what you need to know is that it is a currency, that is independent of country. No one really knows who invented the concept of a cryptocurrency since the person who published the paper used a nom de plume. All new cryptocurrencies work more or less the same way as Bitcoin. So as I explain below I interchange these terms. Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency. How Bitcoin works The currency releases a coin based on a mathematical formula. There will never be more than 21 million bitcoins (other cryptocurrencies do not work like this). Each bitcoin can have divided into one hundred mil

Mindfullness Meditation and Depression - in a pod cast

Over the last 3 years I have found that meditation has really assisted me, in resolving the depression I have had. I have planned to write about my experience for a while, and hopefully will get around to doing that. However today having listen to the latest podcast by Dan Harris on 10% happier, so many things just clicked in to place, so I want to share it. To understand what is covered in the podcast I would recommend you understand what mindfulness meditation is, and what the default mode network in the brain is (see links below). Listen to the pod cast - but here are some extracts (which I do not have permission to publish - and will remove if asked). Link to podcast: tumello.com/listen/H11a5NYJf; or itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/10-happier-with-dan-harris/id1087147821 Chuck Raison, a psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, and Vlad Maletic, a clinical professor of neuropsychiatry and behavior sc