crane operator
Senior Member
So I just got a new phone.
I use my phone for calling, texting, occasionally checking emails (compose and send email from my PC). Google maps/ satellite for looking at jobs. Google chrome for looking up parts. Google sheets for scheduling. Take lots of photo's of both jobs and equipment while I'm disassembling and reassembling, and transfer them to my PC. I have a lot of past years photos, and find myself looking at past photos for repeat jobs years later- all on my pc- I use the big screen of my pc for all that.
I don't like big screen phones, I like a very small phone in a pouch on my belt. I don't watch movies on my phone, and don't use voice commands at all, I've usually got too much background noise.
So my last few phones have been android/ google based. My last samsung I really liked, but they don't offer it any more, and the newer samsung ones are all bigger.
I got a iphone. They make one called a "SE" that's small like my old samsung, almost exactly the same size. SO I figured I see what all the fuss is about with the apple stuff, and ordered it. I'm about 2 weeks into it, and I hate it.
Its a pain to transfer photos. I was so used to my old samsung/android and USB to the PC and they all zip right in. Iphone has to go to icloud, then to a zip file, then I fumble around trying to find them to transfer to PC storage. Its a huge pain. Its like they want to make it complicated and difficult to transfer. It looks like its way easier if you are all ios, but I'm not and all my old stuff is PC, and I don't see myself getting rid of that.
I got all my google stuff (sheets, gmail, maps) all working right. But I just find the sending around of photos by email or for storing to be such a pain with the apple.
So am I missing the "great" part of the apple experience? I should bite the bullet and pitch a $400 phone, and just go back to android?
Who's running what and what should I have bought instead?
I use my phone for calling, texting, occasionally checking emails (compose and send email from my PC). Google maps/ satellite for looking at jobs. Google chrome for looking up parts. Google sheets for scheduling. Take lots of photo's of both jobs and equipment while I'm disassembling and reassembling, and transfer them to my PC. I have a lot of past years photos, and find myself looking at past photos for repeat jobs years later- all on my pc- I use the big screen of my pc for all that.
I don't like big screen phones, I like a very small phone in a pouch on my belt. I don't watch movies on my phone, and don't use voice commands at all, I've usually got too much background noise.
So my last few phones have been android/ google based. My last samsung I really liked, but they don't offer it any more, and the newer samsung ones are all bigger.
I got a iphone. They make one called a "SE" that's small like my old samsung, almost exactly the same size. SO I figured I see what all the fuss is about with the apple stuff, and ordered it. I'm about 2 weeks into it, and I hate it.
Its a pain to transfer photos. I was so used to my old samsung/android and USB to the PC and they all zip right in. Iphone has to go to icloud, then to a zip file, then I fumble around trying to find them to transfer to PC storage. Its a huge pain. Its like they want to make it complicated and difficult to transfer. It looks like its way easier if you are all ios, but I'm not and all my old stuff is PC, and I don't see myself getting rid of that.
I got all my google stuff (sheets, gmail, maps) all working right. But I just find the sending around of photos by email or for storing to be such a pain with the apple.
So am I missing the "great" part of the apple experience? I should bite the bullet and pitch a $400 phone, and just go back to android?
Who's running what and what should I have bought instead?