I understand it's hard to compare across different OSes, what I meant was comparing previous gen iPhone (6) vs. the new iPhone (6s). It doesn't even have to be in the review itself, perhaps a separate article that goes in depth on the differences between the two, showing how much faster the new one is at performing various commonly done tasks.
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That is pretty dated info. Most 4.4+ Android phones are pretty smooth, and ever since I got my iPad last year I have had a decent amount of lag and app crashing. Hell Safari alone has crashed five times more than mobile Chrome ever has for me.
Battery life? iPhone wins. Ease of use? iPhone wins. Smoother and effortless? Depends on what you are doing.
Actually the best sellers are the 16GB models. Which makes sense, that is the lowest cost iPhone someone can get.
Sure, but many of them are really nice to have. Like a real file manager, I would pay $50 for the free on Android ES File Explorer for my iPad.
The S6 is generally smooth, but it does have some places where it stutters. I'd say it's primarily due to Touchwiz. So, really, "smoothness" is model dependent. My Moto G 2015 is noticeably smooth for a mid-range phone, and I'd say more smooth than the S6.I think "android is just as smooth" is dated, there was once parity after kit kat but after owning an s6, iPhone took the crown back with the appliance like speed of the 6s
Quick charging decreases battery life by quite a bit, I suspect that's why Apple doesn't recommend or advertise it.
3)There is no notification LEDs. Again.. WHY?! Because Steve Jobs didn't have it in his design originally? But it's 2015!!! Madness....
Actual Quickcharging, which has multiple voltage levels and negotiation between the charger and phone isn't available on iPhones. The 2A charging using the iPad charger is simply a lot faster than the anemic adapter provided with the phone. It's only as fast as Quickcharging phones because iPhones are more efficient and have smaller batteries.
Also, Quickcharging (with the capital letter) is designed to avoid battery degradation since it really only does the fast portion in the middle of the battery charge range and trickles the top percentages of the charge. Furthermore, since it moves the voltage adjustment circuitry to the charger, there's actually less heat on the phone side unlike traditional charging which helps reduce battery degradation even further.
The only exception is cheaper replacement batteries that aren't manufactured to specifications but since most phones nowadays have sealed batteries, it's not an issue.
Besides the pseudo-fix suggested above... I don't think a notification LED is as essential as you think. For every person who absolutely needs it, there's another who doesn't want to be distracted by a blinking light while they're working. That and the light isn't very useful if you get a lot of alerts. If your notification LED is always flashing, how will you know when something important comes in?
I just got an iPhone 6S Plus 128GB. Although iOS has some significant drawbacks when compared to Android, it also has some very significant advantages which many people keep denying. Here's what I instantly noticed:
5)The fingerprint sensor is excellent... But, there's really no fingerprint sensors in the Android world outside of Nexus 6P and 6X. Please don't mention Samsung. Samsung phones are really, really bad. Only the camera and design is good. I am speaking from a very, extensive experience.
OK, so excluding Samsung (and Nexus) there's still Sony, HTC, LG and an armada of Chinese manufacturers.
I admit that my Sony Z5 Compact's scanner is nowhere near as reliable as my iPad's but I have to wonder whether the native fingerprint scanner support in Marshmallow will help - it greatly benefited the Nexus phones after all. Could easily be Sony's proprietary Lollipop-based fingerprint scanner software being a bit rubbish.All those other guys don't count. Their fingerprint sensor either barely work or very spotty.
All those other guys don't count. Their fingerprint sensor either barely work or very spotty.
Change the notification color depending on the type of notification that is active? Turn off flashing notifications for trivial things like Facebook updates? There are plenty of ways to make a multi-colored notification LED work well and only show important events like missed calls or unread text messages.
That only works if you're looking for a change in notification type, not to sort the wheat from the chaff.
For example: I get dozens of work-related email messages every weekday. Unless I can set the LED to change color for specific contacts or keywords, it's nigh-on useless -- there's no point to responding to the light, because there's always a new message waiting. These alerts are based on ideal use cases: that you only get a few important notifications each day, or that there's enough variety in them that you'll have a reason to pick the phone up.
If there's anything the iPhone should pick up notification-wise from other hardware, it's Active Display (or its Nexus equivalent). That's an actual time saver, because you can see what those alerts are without waking up your phone.
If one doesn't want notification LED, then simply turn it off completely. It's better to have this feature than not, 100% of the time.
Arguing against it aimlessly in favor of Apple's design choice is simply mind blowing....
If one doesn't want notification LED, then simply turn it off completely. It's better to have this feature than not, 100% of the time.
Arguing against it aimlessly in favor of Apple's design choice is simply mind blowing....
I'm not saying it wouldn't be useful for some people, but it isn't nearly as important as some make it out to be... and it'd be an active nuisance for others.
That's my argument. Not that it would never be useful, but that I can understand why Apple wouldn't worry about including it. For most people, its omission doesn't matter at all.
4)There is no easy.. or reliable free way to transfer all your text messages from Android to iPhone. This is very upsetting.