May - 31st
More comparisons – Samsung versus Apple
Posted at 10:04 am | Filed Under iphone_to_android
I’ve given up my iPhone for good and am using a Samsung Galaxy phone. Since I’ve stopped switching between platforms I’m sold on Android as a platform. Here’s why…
Jul - 22nd
Upgrade time
Posted at 9:41 pm | Filed Under iphone_to_android
I’ve had to replace SIM carriers in both of my phones — a Samsung S3 and a S4 Active. The S3 is stuck at KitKat, but the S4 Active is being upgraded as I type this to Lolipop. I’m curious to see the new design and see if the lock screen notifications are improved over […]
Jul - 8th
Android Repairs
Posted at 6:50 pm | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. One nice thing about the iPhone is the SIM carrier — it’s a metal frame that holds up well under repeated SIM changes. The Samsung Galaxy S3 has a thin metal carrier that […]
Apr - 12th
Chapter 12 – Android Battery Drain
Posted at 5:44 pm | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’m moving back to my iPhone for a while — while I’m loving the Android environment, I’m getting about 8 hours of idle time out of my Galaxy SIII, and that’s just not […]
Mar - 16th
Chapter 11 – I removed iTunes!
Posted at 5:13 pm | Filed Under iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I removed iTunes from my computer yesterday, and it was the culmination of several years of frustration. iTunes does a lot of things from updating phones to tracking podcasts, providing store access, iPhone […]
Mar - 12th
Chapter 10 – All In With Google
Posted at 4:26 pm | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. The Google Play store has over a million apps available for download, and there are other Android app stores available. There’s no limiting you to one store, as with the iPhone. Trying to find […]
Mar - 11th
Chapter 9 – Secure Android Messaging
Posted at 9:02 am | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. Now that I’ve upgraded to a newer Android phone, I’m testing out secure messaging applications for mobile devices. Open Whisper Systems make two products I’m trying out – TextSecure and RedPhone. They offer […]
Feb - 24th
Chapter 8 – Android OS on Modern Hardware
Posted at 11:43 pm | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’ve traded in my Motorola Atrix 4G for a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. The Atrix 4G is a 4 year-old Android phone with an interesting design that included a dual-core CPU, fingerprint reader, […]
Feb - 18th
Chapter 7 – Switching Gears
Posted at 5:45 am | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’ve spent the past two weeks with a 4 year-old Motorola Atrix 4G phone instead of my almost-latest-and-greatest iPhone 5. I started using an iPhone in 2011, about the same time the Atrix […]
Feb - 15th
Episode 6 – Messaging
Posted at 12:59 am | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. If you search for the phrase “Can’t receive picture text messages” on the web you’ll find a ton of pages – about 9,000,000, according to Google. I ran into that problem this morning […]
Feb - 12th
Episode 5 – Notifications
Posted at 11:41 pm | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. It took iOS several iterations to get notifications right. When I first moved from a Blackberry to iPhone, there were several instances where my iPhone alarm didn’t go off because I’d received a […]
Feb - 12th
Episode 4 – Gingerbread
Posted at 6:02 pm | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’m trying to do a fair comparison between my year-old iPhone 5 and an Android phone, but a disclaimer would be appropriate — my Android phone is almost 4 years old. I didn’t […]
Feb - 11th
Episode 3 – Sync
Posted at 4:56 am | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. Being able to bring my contacts, calendar items, notes and tasks into my phone is what makes it a Smart Phone. Android uses ActiveSync to connect to Exchange mail servers, and the capabilities […]
Feb - 9th
Episode 2 – Hardware Standards
Posted at 10:13 pm | Filed Under iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. The first step to getting my phone up and running was to move the SIM card from my iPhone to my Android phone. My iPhone uses a Nano-SIM, while the Android phone takes […]
Feb - 9th
Episode 1 – Making the Switch to Android
Posted at 12:25 am | Filed Under android, iphone_to_android
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’ve been an iPhone user for several years. I like Apple’s application support, and I’ve learned to work around the quirks in iTunes, the quirky support for Outlook connectivity and ActiveSync, and quirks […]
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