| masraum |
05-11-2015 08:13 PM |
The Dark Side: multiple Android -> iPhone 6+
OK, I finally did it. I'm not generally a first or even early adopter of things. I'm not a gadget freak that's gotta have the latest and greatest. I started my smart phone life with the first Google phone, the G1, several months at least after it was released. I eventually upgraded to a G2. I really liked the HTC phones, so I eventually moved to the HTC One S. I was pretty "Android" diehard. I recognized that there were things that Apple was doing right, but I thought Android was the superior product. My first tablet was an iPad (the original) because there weren't any good Android tablets yet. It was good, but not great. I eventually upgraded to the iPad Air and that's a much, much, much better tablet. About 2 years ago, we got the missus a Macbook Air 11". It's a great little laptop. A few weeks back, I decided to upgrade her old phone (Samsung Galaxy S2). I figured the iPhone 6 plus would be easier for her to see without her glasses and would integrate well with her Macbook. It was a great phone. She kept saying that I should upgrade. My phone was 3 years old, and after about 2 weeks, I woke up to a phone that wouldn't run without being plugged in. The battery was not technically replaceable, but it is, you can buy them online and there are instructions, but I took that as a sign.
I wanted an iPhone 6. My eyes are good (not as great as they once were), and a big, but not too big phone made the most sense to me. Then I read that the iPhone 6 plus has an enhanced landscape mode, compared to the 6. I also saw that the battery is 60% bigger (2900mAh vs 1800mAh) and should last at least 20% longer. Those two things sold me. I'm less concerned with the optical image stabilization that the 6 plus has, but I'm sure there will be times that I appreciate that was well. The camera is pretty impressive compared to my last smart phone's camera. So far, I'm really digging it. iOS has come a long way. I'm sure that I could have been happy with and had originally planned to get one of the new Android phones, but the Apple stuff all works so seamlessly together.
My wife's laptop and phone and my ipad and phone all work together and talk to each other. If I'm at work, and she sends a text to my phone, I can respond from my ipad or phone, same goes for her with the phone and laptop. We bought swype for her phone, and since our accounts are family, I was able to install it for free on my phone.
And now I've got ApplePay set up, and I setup the "touch ID" which is the finger print scanner which works EXTREMELY well. The main "button" for the phone is the scanner, you can set up multiple fingerprints. Once your finger is scanned, you can scan that finger in any orientation to the button and it's recognized. And it's darn fast. At least half the time, just hitting the button does the trick. It has you "scan" your finger multiple times and has you move your finger around so you don't even have to be very precise on the placement of the finger for it to work. It's very impressive compared to the various finger and hand print scanners that I've used in commercial applications in the past.
I guess I've been converted. I nearly bought a new iMac last fall, but my old PC is still running just fine, so I didn't spend the money. I'm pretty sure the next PC will be an iMac.
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