A world of opinions and experiences is a great world <smile> I had a lot of trouble with the first Android device I bought which was a Samsung S3 back in 2013.
Yes, looking back and knowing what I know now I could have persisted and perhaps had a pleasurable experience with that phone but I was impatient and in any case, I knew of a Blue-Eyed groovy who really wanted the Samsung so it seemed like a good idea for me at the time to cut my losses and keep using my iPhone which I did until the end of 2014. At that time I began to be made aware of other people’s experiences with Android in particular the later Samsung devices and the cleaning up of the “Touchwiz” launcher which seemed to be the route of much of my previous frustrations. I bought a Note4 and used it with content and satisfaction for just over 12 months and no, not everything was perfect but to my surprise 95% of Apps I downloaded and tried - eventually purchasing - worked extremely well. I guess the other help was being a member of an active, knowledgeable and thriving Android email list community which helped one hell of a lot. In December last year I bought a Samsung Galaxy S6 and my Android experience using Samsung’s Voice Assist has born even mor fruit, I still have an iPhone - there are still those times when an iPhone works better than my Samsung - but the Samsung is my phone of choice and its the first I pick up from the table for all sorts of reasons. I’m always making discoveries and exploring new features I never knew about with my Samsung whereas IOS seems pretty drab in comparison. Anyway its not my nor anyone else job to tell you what you should and shouldn’t use. I found the article of great interest and a good read, I don’t agree with all the material presented within however much of what was written I found to be very enlightening. > On 16 Jun 2016, at 10:51 AM, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > X-SpamDetect-Info: ------------- Start ASpam results --------------- > X-SpamDetect-Info: This message may be spam. This message BODY has been > altered to show you the spam information X-SpamDetect: *******: 7.0 sd=7.0 > Close nspam=0 nok=2 0.00 0.92(X-NotAscii:us-ascii) 0.90(spf2_failed) > 0.89(X-LangGuess:English) $0.20(dnswl_low) 0.20(X-Phrase:clean) > 0.70(X-myrbl:unknown) Sane2 7.0 > X-SpamDetect-Info: ------------- End ASpam results ----------------- > > I've tried multiple times to use an android phone, and I've never been able > to get it to work anywhere near as well as my iphone. I've tried hard, and > I've tried on multiple versions of android, and while some experiences were > better than others, not a single one ended with me thinking it'd be a great > idea for me to switch to android. If anything, everytime I try it, it just > makes me more frustrated, because I know it works for some, but I just can't > get the level of usability out of it I'd need to even consider switching to > it full time. > I do have an android phone that I use as a backup, and for that, it works > just fine, but as a primary device, for everyday use, it's just not practical. > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
