Android on a Galaxy S9. I recently switched to Xfinity Mobile service. Their $12/GB plan is more than enough data I need per month (I’m almost always on wifi and Comcast has plenty of hotspots in my area). They don’t have their own towers; they piggyback on other provider networks. But, so far, I’ve experienced no dropouts.
Comcast has always been the company I love to hate, but I’m quite happy with their mobile service and it’s seamless integration with my Windows PC , tablet and landline.
I had a little fun with my daughter today. She calls me on the landline when she’s ready to be picked up from school (I now work from home). I didn’t tell her that I turned on the option to connect my cell phone to our landline (cell and landline calls ring and can be answered on either device). When she thought she was calling me at home (a 5 minute drive to her school), I was in the car, 15 seconds from rounding the corner to the bench she sits on waiting for my arrival. Her eyes widened when she saw me pulling up a few seconds after hanging up.
*“How’d you get here so fast, Dad!?!”
“Didn’t I tell you I used to be a Formula 1 driver, sweetie?”*
Well…I thought it was funny, anyway. She still has no clue.
How many of them are the ones paying for it? Perhaps when then have to pony up their own money, they’ll find Apple doesn’t offer one in their price range.
Also, voted “Other” because I am one of the 2 middle-aged Americans who does not own a smartphone.
Seconding the thing about iPhones being the choice of this who don’t have to care how much it costs. I use a Moto G4 running Android 7. The phone cost me $130 outright, unlocked from any carrier. I put a MintSim SIM card in it and a 128k micro SD card. My service, with unlimited talk and text and 2 gigabytes of data a month costs me $180. A year.
I can’t comprehend putting a thousand dollar piece of glass in my pocket.
Also, for all the talk about Apple being consistent, there are actually four different ways to access “Home” on iOS devices.
Yeah, those poll results were definitely “aspirational” - “I want to have the overpriced thing that all the celebrities have, and then put it in my back pocket of my jeans and sit on it.” We’re not talking about a group known for making rational decisions.
Ditto. The poll didn’t ask the question, “If you have a smartphone, what OS does it have?” Just “what type of smartphone operating system do you have?” Figured since ‘none’ wasn’t broken out separately, it was a subset of ‘other.’
Except for a very brief stint with an early Windows phone – an HTC slider that I think ran one of the last versions of Windows CE – I’ve always used Android smartphones. I just prefer the customization options, although it does kind of suck that the range of cases is so limited for non-iPhones. I’m currently using a Pixel XL; since I also use Google’s various services heavily, it’s a really good fit. It’s also my first unlocked phone; it’s been absolutely amazing not having to deal with carrier-installed or manufacturer-installed bloatware (I’m looking at you, Samsung)…and getting OS updates on time has been awesome.
I have a [much, much older] coworker who is simply shocked that younger folks don’t sit around chatting in doctor’s office waiting rooms. Yeah, I’ll take my extensive collection of articles, ebooks, and magazines over listening to a stranger’s medical issues, thanks.
started out with Android, switched to iOS. I enjoy the iPhones. I enjoyed Android until I found myself unable to upgrade the OS because the phone I bought didn’t support the latest Android versions (not enough memory as I remember). That soured me on Android. I had a free OS compatible with many phones, but was totally reliant on the phone manufacturer for OS upgrades and the only way to get the upgrades was to buy a new phone. I recognized that situation and decided to switch to iOS. I assume Android has improved the upgrade situation in the years since, but frankly I didn’t see any difference between the OS’es or the companies providing them.
Now if Google had been selling phones back then, it would have been different-I think.
I have an Android Galaxy J. I HAD a Galaxy s7, but it died, as in irreparably dead, and I needed another phone fast. This one was a freebie via T Mobile. Hate 'em both.
I like the Galaxy but am worried the next one would also conk out on me. This time around, I’ll probably whichever operating system tends to last longer, I guess.
Well, it was XT I was responding to originally. He wasn’t just talking about his workplace, though, he was dismissing the expectation that the poll here should be closer to 50/50 (which it is close to in the US) because from what he has observed Android is the preferred choice of young people. That might be true at his work, but it apparently doesn’t apply to the market as a whole.
The 82% I cited isn’t what teenagers say they want, it’s actual current ownership. According to that data, 82% of all US teenagers currently own an iPhone. So if the discussion is what smartphones young people prefer, I would call that relevant.
I’m talking about gaffa framing the results as “aspirational” and celebrity-driven when there apparently is nothing in the study that implies such.
I’m not familiar with iOS, so I may be talking out of my arse here, but multiple different ways to do the same thing is not necessarily fairly described as inconsistency.
For example, a Windows PC has at least three different ways to Copy/Paste, but it’s highly consistent, in that nearly all applications support all three methods.
If the four different ways to access ‘Home’ in iOS only work in some various contexts each, and variously not in others, then I would agree, that’s a description of inconsistency.
I went Android for a year with the Samsung Galaxy S4 when the iPhone 5/5S failed to impress me, went back to the iPhone. Listed a number of specific reasons on a post here somewhere, many of which have been addressed in later Android phones, but I’m not switching again any time soon due to the many benefits iOS has when everyone in my family uses between 5 iPhones and 4 iPads collectively.
Oh, I forgot one thing… The Pixel is also the first phone I’ve used that doesn’t have a slot for an SD card. I haven’t missed it at all. It’s nice not having to worry about where your apps are saving their files, or not having to constantly keep track of where your photos are ending up.
By Spring of 2010 I was a late holdout in my group going to smartphones, but as I owned iPods and thus had a lot of support peripherals on hand and iTunes installed already, and the dominant systems around said group were iOS vs. Blackberry, I made up my mind at the time an iPhone 3GS. Come Spring 2015 I upgraded from that one – yes, 5 years on one iPhone acquired long after launch day; shut up, kid – to the iPhone 6 I still have with me, having remained in the iOS ecosystem thru subsequent Lightning-connected iPods and the lack of desire to invest the time in redoing all my library in non-Apple format.
Work assigned me a 6s as of a year ago, which is OK and though it is a 16Gb one, that is actually a benefit as it forces me to discipline myself to have only what is strictly essential for the official purpose.
Now that the iPods qua iPods have run their course and there’s little or no need to sync to my fixed computer save for backing up music that was bought on the handset, who knows what I’ll do when the 6 passes the 4-year mark. Probably stay compatible with work.
Meanwhile I own a cheap WiFi-only tablet that runs on Android, which I mostly use as a glorified media viewer/reader.
I have a [much, much older] coworker who is simply shocked that younger folks don’t sit around chatting in doctor’s office waiting rooms. Yeah, I’ll take my extensive collection of articles, ebooks, and magazines over listening to a stranger’s medical issues, thanks.