I truly LOVE my current personal phone - do you love yours? (or is it "just ok" for your needs?)

[Arlen Holder]

I truly LOVE my current personal phone - do you love yours?
(or is it "just ok" for your needs?)

I have plenty of iOS & Android devices, and I have had them for years.

Yet, I _love_ my current (and previous) personal smartphone.
o I truly enjoy using it & testing out the features & apps it can run.

In fact, my personal mobile phone is an utter joy to use every day.
o *Do you feel the same way about your mobile phone?*

Why or why not?

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[Bob Campbell]

On 12/26/19 10:55 AM, Chronos wrote:

> No. Mine is a compromise.
>
> I bought into the Wileyfox hype when they first appeared.

<LONG list of complaints snipped>

So, the bottom line is you bought a no-name (WTF is Wileyfox?) phone and
found out that it sucks.

My whole family has iPhones. We are all quite happy.

Note that I started with Windows phones. Yes, I know. But in 2013 it
was actually viable. 2 or 3 years later I abandoned them (when it
became clear MS was abandoning them) and moved on to Android. A Samsung
S6 and then an S7 Edge.

While the hardware was fine, great screens and cameras, Android has (or
at least had at the time) serious problems. Both of them would just
randomly become VERY hot in my pocket, and the battery would be down to
around 25%. There was some stupid utility you had to run (can't
remember the name) to "clear memory and storage". Yes, I had to
manually kill apps that I had actually closed hours or days before.
These apps were running wild in the background, overheating and draining
the battery.

Note that this was 2 different versions of Android. 7 and 8 I think.

Anyways, after 2 years of this Windows 95 era "memory management", I
gave up and moved to Apple. MUCH to the surprise of my whole family,
who have always been iPhone users.

I now have 2 iPhones, 3 iPads and a new iPod Touch. All are great, easy
to use and have no problems. To be fair, I have no problems because I
have skipped iOS/iPadOS 13 so far. It is a complete joke AFAIAC. Still
on iOS 12.4.1.

So yes, I now LOVE my phones and tablets. Windows and Android are just
bad memories for me.

[Max Mustermann]

On 12/26/2019 4:04 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:
> I truly LOVE my current personal phone [...]
I would love it when people would stop sending their messages to
multiple newsgroups. And specially when they have nothing to say.

[Arlen Holder]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 23:00:10 -0500, Bob Campbell wrote:

> My whole family has iPhones. We are all quite happy.

Many people on both iOS & Android _love_ their mobile devices!
o Many are happy with iOS; many are happy with Android.

The question is what makes them happy (on either platform).

To your point of your "whole family" being on iPhones; I would think almost
every family has one platform, or the other, or, in many cases, both.
o Mine certainly does.

*Hence, the reason WHY people LOVE their phone is apropos.*
o For example, I have multiple iPads & Android phones myself.

There are price & hardware differences between the two platforms...
o For example, expandable memory, headphone jacks, stylus, tons of RAM,
many CPU cores, FM radio, headphone jacks, removable batteries, etc.

Given those differences, I use my 64GB iPad as a USB stick where I simply
slide large movies over USB to the iPad all the time, using the iPad as a
portable movie player): <http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2107706usb03.jpg>

As another example where I make use of the differences, I use my main
Android phone as a WiFi signal debugger (using apps freely available only
on Android as they don't exist on iOS or I would use the larger screen on
iOS if the apps did exist on the iTunes app store):
<https://i.postimg.cc/hPyP1v4s/wifi.jpg>

I have both platforms - but even so - I love one more so than the other.

However, the question here is agnostic, in that it simply asks:
o *Do you also LOVE your mobile device?* (whether iOS or Android)
o *What is it that you LOVE about your current mobile device?*

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People love their iOS & Android mobile devices; the question here is why?

[Arlen Holder]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 08:37:28 +0000, Chronos wrote:

> OK, with reference to my previous post, the one thing I do like about
> the Storm is it does exactly what I want it to. No more, no less. This
> is rule #0 for any device I own. If it didn't meet this rule it would
> be replaced pretty darn quickly.

It's good to know why people love their iOS & Android mobile devices.
o I have had many iOS and Android devices, where I _love_ mine.

For example, my 2-year old $130 8-core LG Stylo 3 Plus was great, but my
brand new $100 64GB/4GB RAM (plus 512GB sd) 8-core Moto G7 is even better.

For the price of just the California sales tax on an expensive iPhone...
o This $100 phone has far more app functionality than any iPhone ever sold.

For example, this is my homescreen at the moment on my Moto G7:
o The iOS app launcher is utterly primitive by way of comparison
<https://i.postimg.cc/hjwRjQWV/homescreen01.jpg>

Where I've installed hundreds of apps (all sans a Google account).
o Whose automatic APK backup is impossible to do on primitive iOS.

Notice I love you can change the name of any app icon, which is yet more
basic functionality that is (shockingly) impossible to do on iOS.
<https://i.postimg.cc/rwdW0vrW/apk01.jpg>

In fact, iOS is so primitive you can't even change the name of an icon!
o Whereas, with this phone, you can change any icon's name you want.
<https://i.postimg.cc/FFV02Mcg/tasks01.jpg>

And, you can have an app icon anywhere you want & in multiple places.
o Or, nowhere at all save for being in the app drawer app.

You can export any installed app (even system apps) to an APK any time:
o And you can store whatever you want on the sd card inside the phone.

Which is, yet again, more basic functionality not available on iOS.

I use the G7 to graph all nearby WiFi APs (which iOS just can't do):
<https://i.postimg.cc/nrpBX28D/network01.jpg>

This G7 has secure browsers which have never been available on iOS:
<https://i.postimg.cc/8cdTSVMn/browser01.jpg>

And I added a bunch of keyboards (e.g., encryption) easily switched:
<https://i.postimg.cc/NMjf6fGd/keyboard00.jpg>

The good news is _all_ my old auto-backed-up APKs, worked the first time
o Right off the sd card (I just moved it from one phone to the other!)
<https://i.postimg.cc/QtNcky5V/motog702.jpg>

Easily copied by plugging the USB-C cable into any desktop on the planet!
<https://i.postimg.cc/MZF1VtGK/motog703.jpg>

Not only does my new phone run _everything_ right off my old LG Stylo 3
Plus sd card (literally, it's the same card, and everything runs
perfectly)... but ... get this ... the G7 even runs software designed for
the Pixels!

Yup. This $100 Moto G7 runs both of these Pixel-only apps:
o Google GCam APK port
o Google offline recorder & offline search & transcription engine
<https://i.postimg.cc/zG2nnFzg/recorder03.jpg>

Note it's so much fun to use this phone that I love it.
o I just wish my iOS devices could do half of what my $100 phone does.

[Zage C.]

Hello, Arlen Holder.

Currently loving my used Note 9. However, I made a terrible decision.

I bought the US snapdragon version...meaning no root for me.

Other than that, works like a charm. I might just stick to buying
used flagships from now on.
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