Thinking of switching allegiances!

baldshin

Hey folks,
I've recently started getting the bug to change my tech. I used android up until about three years ago when I switched to iOS. I've always found iOS better, but I'm thinking that's because I've only owned very basic and entry level android devices. For some reason now I want to change, and I'm wondering if I should?

I have a 16gb iPhone 4, 32gb ipad 2 and an Apple TV 2. Am I right in thinking that with the money I would get by selling these, I could by top android replacements? I've been looking at the jiayu g3t phone and other Chinese devices, can anyone tell me how they compare with the fluidity of my iphone 4? I'd also welcome any tablet recommendations. I would replace the Apple TV with chromecast.

I reckon by selling by current setup I'd get close to €600 to fund android purchases.

fdevine

I recently sold my iPhone 4 and got an Acer Liquid E2 Duo

Recent lackluster developments at Apple prompted me to jump ship, although I have no intention of getting rid of my AppleTV.

Have to say the Acer is a fantastic phone for the money. Cost delivered is around the €225 mark. Very popular in Europe and comes with a two year return to base warranty, which unfortunately I have had to use already. Think I've just been unlucky though.

In comparison to my iPhone there is little or no lag & app loading times are much quicker, as is browsing.

There are decent reviews on the Jiayu phones and I'm sure there are people better placed than me to advise, but I certainly wouldn't hesitate in switching allegiance

Nolimits

baldshin wrote: »

Hey folks,
I've recently started getting the bug to change my tech. I used android up until about three years ago when I switched to iOS. I've always found iOS better, but I'm thinking that's because I've only owned very basic and entry level android devices. For some reason now I want to change, and I'm wondering if I should?

I have a 16gb iPhone 4, 32gb ipad 2 and an Apple TV 2. Am I right in thinking that with the money I would get by selling these, I could by top android replacements? I've been looking at the jiayu g3t phone and other Chinese devices, can anyone tell me how they compare with the fluidity of my iphone 4? I'd also welcome any tablet recommendations. I would replace the Apple TV with chromecast.

I reckon by selling by current setup I'd get close to €600 to fund android purchases.

So you want to try Android again after only using basic enrey level devices before and they didn't stack up to your iphone. So now you want to come back to Android, seemingly having learned your lesson and you want to go to a cheap(er) Chinese make.

I know that most people who get these phones like them, but you're still not really comparing apples to apples. The phone that was recommended above costs €225. Your iPhone when brand new would have been closer to €600 and maybe more.

If I were you I'd wait and see how the Nexus 5 is priced and maybe a Nexus 7, together they might come to your budget or thereabouts anyway.


I know it's almost a cliche on here to recommend Nexus products, it's not just because we're geeks who like the Nexus experience. Their price points are unmatched. There is very little to no money made on the devices itself and you buy from Google directly.

Overheal

Im not personally gaga for Android, but if you really want to dive in you need to go with a Samsung product, they're more or less the flagship of good design for the platform.

I preferred Honeycomb's tablet UI over newer iterations personally. Never did get the hang of a couple of the changes since. Where did the multitasking control bugger off to?

Dcully

If you have the budget id recommend a HTC One or Sony Experia Z1.
Best android devices imo.

biebiebie

Or Samsung Note 3 if you want a short list.

waynegalway

Overheal wrote: »

Im not personally gaga for Android, but if you really want to dive in you need to go with a Samsung product, they're more or less the flagship of good design for the platform.

Well.....that's a matter of opinion! I had an S3 for just over a year, but it had the motherboard replaced at 6 months old (a well know fault with the S3). It took 6 weeks from reporting the fault to getting the repaired one back. I found that the battery drain was a bit random (I'd get nearly 36 hours sometimes and under 12 hours sometimes, with broadly consistent usage at all times). Also, the plastic felt cheap.

So, IMO, Samsung is not the be-all and end-all when you're after a "quality product".

I've had a HTC One for about a month now, and I'm very happy with it (yes, I know it has no expandable memory and removable battery, but that hasn't been an issue for me). In that time, I'm consistently getting 36 to 40 hours battery with the same usage as I gave the S3. The feel of the product is far superior than anything Samsung has out right now.

The other thing is that it seems to manage power much better than the S3. On standby it hardly uses anything at all. I can often get 1-2% battery drain overnight, where the S3 was way more, even with all the usual battery-saving tricks employed. I have a theory that this might be to do with hardware.....is it possible that the antenna in the One is better than the S3? I think that the One finds and holds coverage (I'm with Three) better than the S3. When the S3 was doing all its searching for coverage, that was one of the biggest reasons fro the battery drain.

That's my 2 cents on the phone aspect of the OP.

On the tablet issue, I found that I held onto my iPad 2 when I made the change from iOS to Android phone. In my case it was a simple decision...I need to output slides to a VGA projector, and the iPad can do this very simply compared to Android.

dloob

Well I went from Symbian smartphones to Android with the HTC Hero, while it was all right I found it a little bit flaky and unpolished and after a year or two moved to the iPhone 4.
The Hero had suffered two digitiser failures by then as well, one repaired under warranty the other I did myself, no obvious damage they just started reading touch’s in the wrong place along with phantom touches.
I suppose you could blame my occasional messing with custom ROMS for some of the software stability issues with the Hero and to be fair it was a big step up from Symbian.

Last May I decided it was time to give android another chance as a lot had happened since eclair so I got the Sony Xperia Z.
At first it was great but the shine quickly went off I’m afraid.
I had to do a factory reset to get the course location services working properly.
It had a sleep of death bug in the early firmware which would require a hard reset if it happened, after you’d missed your alarms of course.
They did fix them through various firmware revisions but it had rather coloured my early impression of how much android had improved, and it was not helped by several apps I had on iOS having rubbish buggy Android versions.
So then I ended up annoyed with the phone and Android, and once that happens every minor little niggle seems amplified, every app crash or bug is noticed right away and filled away to the now long list of grievances and annoyances.
So I’m looking for an iPhone 5S asap before I do harm to the poor xperia the next time an app crashes.