Then there are some seriously sad, technological infants out there. My daughters two years ago were given their first cell phones. Both Galaxy S's. Now they have Galaxy 2's. At the ages of 9 and 11 they had no problems figuring out Android, didn't have to root anything, and have had their phones running custom skins and all. I never had to show them anything since the first day they had their phones. And that was just the basics. Oh and my almost three year old daughter knows how to navigate just about every aspect of our phones just fine.
Yea, but the crazy thing is, by then there will be 10 other phones with greater capabilities running Android.
This, I never heard one of my friends or family say that Android phones are hard to use. Some people here make it sound like this is Pentagon software.
I have been using an android for two years now and have not had a problem with it. Even though my phone is is only a galaxy S and old I can still run the latest version of Android (ICS) on it. I like the flexibility of the android system versus the closed system IOS. The rooting process and installing new ROMs was not very difficult at all ( this varies from phone to phone though in general from what I have learned and read Samsung phones are easiest to root) . I also like that the phone can be loaded as mass storage device and then you just drag and drop files into your phone. Even if you don't want to root your it is still very easy to use and not any more complex than IOS. It does have a lot of complex tweaking available if you WANT to DO SO. all the OP who claimed that you have to be some kind of technical genius to use android are either misinformed or just apple fanboys.
Ok so at the risk of sounding like a tech infant, will I have problems if I switch out my iPhone for the galaxy s3 if all I own is a MacBook pro? Is there any sort of cloud space available like iCloud? Many thanks.
You can upload all your music to 'google music' for free -- there is also cloud storage, but I haven't used it yet. It's free I believe for the typical user and there is pricing for those requiring lots of uploading and downloading. _____ For those thinking you have to be a tech nut to use Android -- it's very easy to use straight out of the box.
Is it really that easy to screw up an Android? I mean my 3 year old loves playing games and watching videos on my iPhone. She can screw it (an Android) up that easily?
No, it's not that easy to brick your phone. There are several backup steps if one decides to hack their device, void their warranty, and update with a different version online... And if you don't hack your device, there's also an option for resetting it to how it was when it came out the factory . What I'm commenting on is how Hak34 brags about his tech infants updating ROMs with ease without considering that he'd have to bail them out if things didn't go as written in the instructions. I've done ROM flashing before, but there's a lot to consider and it takes a few hours of research to accomplish. ...Or you can trust some website, download a tool and hope things work out. Different approaches for different personalities.
Switching from an iPhone to an Android phone is probably easier than switching from one iPhone to another. I haven't plugged my Android phone into my Mac once, and I probably won't ever need to! To answer your questions: 1) You won't face any problems 2) Yes, there are plenty of options available. See below. Contacts - Apple won't let you (unless you have a jailbroken phone) export contacts to your sim. Using iTunes, switch all your contacts over to Google contacts. Once you log into your Android, all your contacts will automatically load and will continue saving any new contacts directly to your Google account. Songs - download Google Music. Once you log in, it will ask you if you want to upload your entire iTunes library. You can upload 20,000 songs to your account for free. My entire library took a day and a half to upload. And if you ever download songs via iTunes, it will automatically upload to Google Music. You have the ability then to stream directly to your device or even your computer. If you don't want to use data, you have the ability to download the songs to your phone. For pictures, videos, and documents - Download either Google Drive or Dropbox (I use both). Just click and drag from your computer into folders and these will automatically appear on your phone using the same app. It works well and very convenient. No stupid iTunes needed ever again.
I absolutely love my android phone and I was never a big phone-phile. The apps make it so easy and logical to use.
Seeing how 3 of my close friends just converted from iPhone to Samsung (2 S3 and 1 Note), I'm really tempted by the bigger screen and flexibility to do so too. I'm thinking of getting an S3 and selling off my iPhone 4S while it still has better value before iPhone 5 comes out.
Well apparently reading comprehension failed you. Please point me to the place where I stated they run custom roms. They run custom skins, but you don't need to root to do so. To be honest with you, if they decided to customize their S2's and bricked it, I wouldn't be upset with them at all. They would have to get a cheap replacement and have to deal with their mistake.
after getting the OTA update to jelly bean, my nexus S is basically a brick now I'm no android fanboy, but this has seriously soured my experience with android, which has been pleasant thus far I'm an e-mail only type of user, and this sucks Spoiler my nexus 7 tablet handles exchange just fine, so i don't know what's the deal with my nexus s
It did. I jumped the gun after seeing that you replied to another member about tweaking and rooting the phone. A brick is a phone that doesn't turn on or run android. In your case, backup everything to a file, to google, etc... The apps you download will be stored to your online account. Remember any settings or notes you have stored. Afterwards, reset your phone to factory settings. Something similar happened to my razr. The way out of it was to do a reset after the OTA update, and restore with a backup.
