phone advice needed
Well, I missed August entirely, but I actually have things to talk about now, so I might be posting for the next few days. We'll see.
Today's topic: cell phones. I'm ready to replace my iPhone 4S, and I was waiting for yesterday's announcement from Apple to make a decision, and nothing they said made it any easier. The thing is, I'm generally pleased with my iPhone. I'm happy with how it syncs with Outlook, and I'm one of the five people in the world who doesn't hate iTunes, and, on the whole, it does what I want it to. I haven't even seen the need to jailbreak it. Plus, I'm grandfathered into an unlimited data plan on AT&T, and I'm not sure I want to mess with that. (Yeah, I know, I don't hate AT&T either. I'm a freak.)
I have a Nexus tablet that runs Android, and I'm generally happy with it, but I don't do much with it except browse the web, check e-mail and Twitter, and play games. The thing that drove me nuts setting it up was that it seemed like Google wanted to control everything--I had a terrible time getting my Outlook contacts onto it without putting them into Gmail first.
But I know that a lot of people say Android phones are tons better than iPhones. So I've been looking at the Galaxy S4, and I'll admit it looks like an amazing phone, and the larger size would be very nice.
So, questions:
Thanks for the input!
Today's topic: cell phones. I'm ready to replace my iPhone 4S, and I was waiting for yesterday's announcement from Apple to make a decision, and nothing they said made it any easier. The thing is, I'm generally pleased with my iPhone. I'm happy with how it syncs with Outlook, and I'm one of the five people in the world who doesn't hate iTunes, and, on the whole, it does what I want it to. I haven't even seen the need to jailbreak it. Plus, I'm grandfathered into an unlimited data plan on AT&T, and I'm not sure I want to mess with that. (Yeah, I know, I don't hate AT&T either. I'm a freak.)
I have a Nexus tablet that runs Android, and I'm generally happy with it, but I don't do much with it except browse the web, check e-mail and Twitter, and play games. The thing that drove me nuts setting it up was that it seemed like Google wanted to control everything--I had a terrible time getting my Outlook contacts onto it without putting them into Gmail first.
But I know that a lot of people say Android phones are tons better than iPhones. So I've been looking at the Galaxy S4, and I'll admit it looks like an amazing phone, and the larger size would be very nice.
So, questions:
- Why should I get an Android phone? I know they're supposed to be better than iPhones, but I honestly don't know why. What would I be able to do on an Android that I can't do on my iPhone. Pretend I know nothing at all about Android, because I really don't.
- Can Android sync my Outlook calendar, contacts, and tasks without going through Gmail? This is a deal-breaker if it can't--I absolutely refuse to move all my contacts into Gmail. (And while I'm at it, is it possible to set up two Gmail accounts on an Android phone? I couldn't figure out how to do it on my tablet, but I didn't work too hard at it, because it's not that important.)
- How much effort will I have to put into setting up an Android phone? I've heard that a lot of them come with a lot of bloatware that can be removed, but I'd rather not go to the bother. And apparently Samsung's phones have a lot of stuff eating memory that can't be removed--is that still true? Once I'm happy with how it's working, will I be able to pretty much leave it alone, or will it take some effort to keep it up?
- Anything else? Seriously, if you have an Android phone you're happy with, I'd love to hear from you. And if you have both an Android phone and an iPhone, I'd really love to hear from you. *looks at
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Thanks for the input!