Nice iOS6 Breakdown Preview

Does Android have any equivalent to VVM (Visual Voice Mail)? If not, I'd find it hard moving from iOS, going back to managing/listening to voice mails through an IVR would be painful.
 
Dave123 said:
I have a nexus 7, a Galaxy S2 and a ZTE Blade 2 (running JB, ICS and GB between them). Last week I got a S3 as my upgrade, and kept it for 1 week before selling it and banking the cash till the new iPhone launches.

The main reason I've put the money aside to buy the iPhone 5? The keyboard. Not one of my Android devices can match the accuracy and ease of use of the iOS keyboard of my iPhone 4 and iPad.

I've tried stock as well as any number of keyboards from the market, I've bought thumb keyboard from the market, none work as well as iOS. Every sentence ends up with mistakes and worse, the mistake correction is much easier on iOS, as is copy and paste.

I'll probably keep my iPhone 4, it's jailbroken and full of useful apps, but I think an iPhone 5 will replace the SGS2.
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Lolwut? The most popular keyboard on the Play store is SwiftKey. And the default iOS keyboard doesn't hold a candle to it. It's typo correction, word completion and character accessibility are unrivalled. Plus it remembers common groups of words that you use, so often you can finish entire sentences just by tapping word suggestions. My step-dad has an iPad and iPhone 4s, so I'm fairly familiar with the input options. I can't believe you'd prefer that...

news24 said:
I disagree, I used to have iPhone4S, best phone I ever had. I sold it so that I can have a Lumina 900, it's not a bad phone, I like the windows os but the screen was terrible compared to a Retina on the iPhone. I returned my Lumina to get HTC One X, the phone is a piece of $hit, I can barely reach half a day without the battery dying on me, widgets are nice but I don't have any use for them, the HTCsense keeps on rebooting all the time. The android experience on this phone is not a nice one, typing sucks and in no ways compares with iPhone, I can't even use the phone with one hand, it's so gigantic.

By the way, I have iPad(1st gen), iPad(3rd gen), BB Playbook, iPod Touch(4th gen), Kindle Fire, HP touchpad, Nexus 7, SGS(1st gen) and Nokia Lumina 900(wife's) at my house. Even with Swype on android devices, I always prefer typing on apple devices, it's so much better.


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I don't like Swype. Use SwiftKey. I'm not a One X fan, but any flagship Android should have better battery life than that. I've used my S3 a fair bit this morning and it's on 95% battery. In general I use my phone a lot and I almost always have at least 50% battery remaining by late evening. Maybe you haven't configured the phone to not use battery draining services when not needed or the screen is too bright or something. Granted, the S3 has a 2100mAh battery to the One X's 1800mAh one.

cerebus said:
I can touch type on my ipad on screen keyboard in meetings. My android devices aren't even close to that level of accuracy. I will see when the Sony arrives though, planning on making it my primary tablet for a while at least. Or maybe I just buy the keyboard case they're selling for it.

In general though, I know the iOS interface hasn't changed much over the years in the basics but it is still extremely well engineered, and I'd say from a solidity pov still ahead of jelly bean. Some touches like the home screen folder animations are far more ambitious than anything in the jb ui. Then again the google apps are looking better and better every iteration.
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There isn't the slightest chance that a fast touchscreen typer isn't faster on Android than iOS, on a phone or tablet. I'm a 'slow' typer who uses one finger, but I have a few friends who use thumbs on their phones and type normally on tablets - it defies belief how quickly you can type with SwiftKey. And seeing how SwiftKey has superior typing correction and is very intelligent with punctuation, I don't believe iOS would come close.
 
There isn't the slightest chance that a fast touchscreen typer isn't faster on Android than iOS, on a phone or tablet. I'm a 'slow' typer who uses one finger, but I have a few friends who use thumbs on their phones and type normally on tablets - it defies belief how quickly you can type with SwiftKey. And seeing how SwiftKey has superior typing correction and is very intelligent with punctuation, I don't believe iOS would come close.
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I will certainly experiment side by side and post the results. I'm dubious though. I've never found multitouch recognition on android to be quite on par where I'd like it to be. But I'd happily be proven wrong as the Sony will become my primary go to.

http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php

46wpm with no mistakes on iPad. Will post for the Sony on swiftkey when I get it.
 
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Android wont be as good as iOS for touch typing unless they pay Apple for their patent that implements a version of text prediction into the keypad. I remember it being discussed when the first iphone launched, and it is the reason typing seems more forgiveable on iOS, the system guesses the word being typed and makes the area of the correct key bigger while shrinking the areas under the surrounding keys.

I'm typing this on my Nexus 7 and virtually every second word has come out wrong.

My biggest annoyances are the simple words, "the" ends up as "ygr" more often than "the" and doesn't auto correct, for example. And why does the shift arrow bring up z so often? It doesn't happen on iOS so can't just be my technique.

I still have some Play Store credit, I'll give Swift keyboard a try seeing as some recommend it (other than input, I quite like the small form factor of my Nexus 7).
 
Bryn26 said:
Lolwut? The most popular keyboard on the Play store is SwiftKey. And the default iOS keyboard doesn't hold a candle to it. It's typo correction, word completion and character accessibility are unrivalled. Plus it remembers common groups of words that you use, so often you can finish entire sentences just by tapping word suggestions. My step-dad has an iPad and iPhone 4s, so I'm fairly familiar with the input options. I can't believe you'd prefer that...
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SwiftKey is king. Way better than iOS keyboard.
 
Dave123 said:
Android wont be as good as iOS for touch typing unless they pay Apple for their patent that implements a version of text prediction into the keypad. I remember it being discussed when the first iphone launched, and it is the reason typing seems more forgiveable on iOS, the system guesses the word being typed and makes the area of the correct key bigger while shrinking the areas under the surrounding keys.

I'm typing this on my Nexus 7 and virtually every second word has come out wrong.

My biggest annoyances are the simple words, "the" ends up as "ygr" more often than "the" and doesn't auto correct, for example. And why does the shift arrow bring up z so often? It doesn't happen on iOS so can't just be my technique.

I still have some Play Store credit, I'll give Swift keyboard a try seeing as some recommend it (other than input, I quite like the small form factor of my Nexus 7).
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Your argument isn't valid though as you weren't using SwiftKey. I don't personally know any Android users who don't use it. It's the first purchase to make. No one has ever typed "ygr" accidentally with SwiftKey.
 
Plus a 7" screen typing is totally different than a 10" screen. Full hand touch typing is the only way to go.
 
Mike Smit said:
I was wondering the same thing.
Even more so, was wondering why people still "tap" in the age of the touch screen. Swype is far more efficient than tapping.

Each to their own I suppose.
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+1.

I have never had any accuracy issues with any Android keyboard. Swype is on a different level commpletely.
 
Dolby said:
You mean as you turn it on?

The S3 has 'continuous' typing as stock
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Not sure now.... Anyway my gold standard is touch typing with 10 fingers. And I put a typing test on for the iPad, and I'll put up a test for the Sony when I can get that set up on Swiftkey. I'm interested to see how it performs.
 
Well, that was an experience, luckily Swift key was cheap or I would be quite annoyed. I tried it for 24 hours and found it OK for key presses, but still a lot more mistakes than iOS (or even stock Android).

Trying to move the cursor or to select for cut and paste just gave me high blood pressure though. What a f-up, why must it be so difficult to select 5 lines of text? I actually gave up in the end, the stupid little blue sliders are pathetically temperamental with swiftkey.

Life is too short for that sort of idiocy. The android makers need to licence the keyboard and cut and paste patents from Apple...
 
Dave123 said:
Well, that was an experience, luckily Swift key was cheap or I would be quite annoyed. I tried it for 24 hours and found it OK for key presses, but still a lot more mistakes than iOS (or even stock Android).

Trying to move the cursor or to select for cut and paste just gave me high blood pressure though. What a f-up, why must it be so difficult to select 5 lines of text? I actually gave up in the end, the stupid little blue sliders are pathetically temperamental with swiftkey.

Life is too short for that sort of idiocy. The android makers need to licence the keyboard and cut and paste patents from Apple...
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My personal view, and I'll probably take some flak here for it but whatever, is that Apple is far better engineered under its hood than Android. It's always been, in the many years I've been using devices of both OS's now, that iOS has felt weightier and less buggy overall. The touchscreen seems more responsive, snappier, almost tactile. It never crashes out on me, whereas I frequently have to restart my Galaxy. I know it's much more locked down than Android but that doesn't bother me as long as it works brilliantly for what it does do.
 
cerebus said:
My personal view, and I'll probably take some flak here for it but whatever, is that Apple is far better engineered under its hood than Android. It's always been, in the many years I've been using devices of both OS's now, that iOS has felt weightier and less buggy overall. The touchscreen seems more responsive, snappier, almost tactile. It never crashes out on me, whereas I frequently have to restart my Galaxy. I know it's much more locked down than Android but that doesn't bother me as long as it works brilliantly for what it does do.
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The problem with Android is fragmentation. There are a gazillion Android phones with several UI overlays from different manufacturers. Any relatively new iPhone will slaughter a cheap or midrange Android phone in a shootout - but that's not a fair comparison. From the release of Ice Cream Sandwich, I'd favour a flagship Android over the latest iPhone any day of the week. Using an iOS device these days gives me a splitting headache. The chance of me moving to Apple is pretty close to zero.

Sure, the iPhone feels great in the hand, but so does my S3, with the bonus that it won't shatter if it touches something. My S3 is more 'magical' than any iPhone has been at launch. It's crazy thin, has very good hardware, can have nearly 100GB storage with some help from the MicroSD slot, has good battery life, an amazing big screen etc. No iPhone has left me with an impression that it must surely be powered by witchcraft. Similarly, the iPad is downright boring and severely limited when compared to an Asus Transformer Prime or Infinity. Good engineering is not limited to Apple.
 
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Begone pestering fandroids!

:D

Honestly, I don't get the "mine is better than yours" mentality. I'm happy with my purchase, so I keep my pie hole shut. The way some people ramble on about their purchase makes it sound like they regret their choice and they're trying to justify their decision.
 
cerebus said:
My personal view, and I'll probably take some flak here for it but whatever, is that Apple is far better engineered under its hood than Android. It's always been, in the many years I've been using devices of both OS's now, that iOS has felt weightier and less buggy overall. The touchscreen seems more responsive, snappier, almost tactile. It never crashes out on me, whereas I frequently have to restart my Galaxy. I know it's much more locked down than Android but that doesn't bother me as long as it works brilliantly for what it does do.
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I agree with you. And I've had a number of the newer android phones.

Fragmentation is a very real problem for android, I still have 3 android devices, Galaxy S2, ZTE Crescent and Nexus 7. All 3 use a different version of Android, (GB, ICS, JB).
 
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