iPhone vs Android. Any objective comparison from 2014+ ?

[pcslookout]

Android--- better for openness, customization, and bang for buck.

Iphone--- better for performance, gaming, and reliability.

Agreed!

 

[mikeymikec]

Goodness gracious, 4 days of battery life? Please share your secrets.

Wifi, mobile data, location, NFC all off until I need them. I use my phone to make calls, send texts, read ebooks, satnav, wifi reception troubleshooting for customers, and occasionally to look something up on the Internet (or check e-mail) if I'm not at home.

I also put the phone in airplane mode if I'm in an area with no signal (sometimes I visit customers who live in the sticks).

I used to faff around with screen brightness but convenience won out on that one (ie. back to default auto brightness setting).

Occasionally I have to reboot my phone due to runaway battery consumption; I think it's due to switching off location after finishing with it, and while the OS says that GPS is off, battery graph reckons it is as well, but it's not. Sometimes it's a case of reboot, switch location on, reboot, switch location off again until battery usage is back to normal.

 

[Anubis]

so you basically don't use your smartphone like it designed to use

 

[mikeymikec]

so you basically don't use your smartphone like it designed to use

Please approve of my smartphone usage, I beg of you!

 

[evident]

was a pretty happy android user until now. had a galaxy s2, s4 and now note 4.
My Note 4 just started acting up for no reason and now it seems bricked... I'm ready to use my backup iphone 5s as my main device. fed up with samsung and their crap quality.

 

[Red Storm]

Please approve of my smartphone usage, I beg of you!

He does have a point though. You say you get 4 days of battery life, but really there's a giant asterisk on that claim because you turn everything off to the point where it does not really compare with how the majority of people use their smartphones. If I wanted, I could get a week of battery life on my phone... but I should probably also mention that it's because I leave it idle on the table with everything turned off.

I do think it's awesome that you can get 4 days use off of one charge though and it meets your needs/use case.

 

[poofyhairguy]

He does have a point though. You say you get 4 days of battery life, but really there's a giant asterisk on that claim because you turn everything off to the point where it does not really compare with how the majority of people use their smartphones. If I wanted, I could get a week of battery life on my phone... but I should probably also mention that it's because I leave it idle on the table with everything turned off.

Good point.

Hell, I got a week on my LG G Watch once. It was left in Theater Mode and I didn't touch it.

I wouldn't say that device gets a week of battery though.

 

[mikeymikec]

He does have a point though. You say you get 4 days of battery life, but really there's a giant asterisk on that claim because you turn everything off to the point where it does not really compare with how the majority of people use their smartphones. If I wanted, I could get a week of battery life on my phone... but I should probably also mention that it's because I leave it idle on the table with everything turned off.

I do think it's awesome that you can get 4 days use off of one charge though and it meets your needs/use case.

I never claimed "everyone ought to get x life out of their battery" or anything like that. If I chose to read an ebook in bright sunshine for say an hour the resulting battery drain would be entirely different to my usual reading time (before I go to sleep). Come to think of it, I also set minimum brightness while reading because a bright screen is hard work on the eyes at bedtime, so it literally is a case of max brightness vs. minimum brightness.

If other people choose to use their smartphones in a way that drains the battery as quickly as possible, that's entirely up to them.

My wife has the same phone as I do (though it's a year younger, same model), and has to charge the battery every day (I think) because she spends a fair bit of time on Twitter each day even though she's sitting in the same room as her desktop. Go figure.

I am genuinely curious about a claim I questioned near the start of this thread though, do other people really need to replace their phone battery every couple of years? I've literally never heard anything like that before.

 

[blankslate]

Please approve of my smartphone usage, I beg of you!

Why should he? It's not as if there is some authority on the proper usage of smartphones...

He just noted that not everyone is as careful about power usage as you. Me? I just carry a spare battery or two with an external charger for them at home and one in the car.



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[Artdeco]

I am genuinely curious about a claim I questioned near the start of this thread though, do other people really need to replace their phone battery every couple of years? I've literally never heard anything like that before.

That was me, I'm a big fan of electric stuff, I have 3 very nice Swiss e-bikes, and a couple of electric skateboards, so I jack around with lithium batteries a lot and have done quite a bit of reading, the reason I suggested it is because after a year, you're lucky to have 80% of your battery left, and 2 years about 60%, but the wear and tear is charge cycles, so if you're tha conservative, you have many fewer charge cycles than the "average" user, so your battery should be in very good shape.

I'm just wild ass guessing on the typical battery reduction from memory, so please nobody flip out, anyone want to go through the specific battery formulation and life span VS charge cycles, feel free and give more accurate data.

Re your use case, I wouldn't bother with owning a smartphone if I had to manage it that closely, it would make me crazy, and my phone near useless. I'd get a dumb phone with awesome battery life and an LTE tablet.

 

[mikeymikec]

Why should he? It's not as if there is some authority on the proper usage of smartphones...

 

[blankslate]

Oh I know what facetiousness is... but the fact you had to resort to it (then use a meme picture featuring a character that takes everything literally) says more about you than the people you are replying to... =P


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[tvdang7]

Moto X Pure is almost half the price (AWH deal) for basically the same specs.
plus megapixels and microSD slot.

was going to go with the pure but the 6p had finger print scanner, bigger battery ,MUCH better low light camera , and quick updates. I think the extra money is worth it.

 

[GoodEnough]

Wrong. Both have f/2.0 lens. Same in low light.