Just got my first Apple iPhone 6S after 7 years with Windows Phone

frostman on 22/04/2016 - 10:49
Last edited 22/04/2016 - 10:58 by 1 other user

Personally had this phone for 2 days now, and I can say I'm not as impressed as I thought I would.

REMEMBER, I have no BIAS here, these are general observations, so please correct me where I have erred

  • At $1,059, it's resolution is nowhere near where it needs to be in modern mobile phone technology

  • I had "Glance Screen" with my Lumia on Windows 8.1 which would tell you the Time/Date and next Calendar entry without illuminating the screen. Simply by swiping your hand over the screen. This greatly assisted battery life

  • No option to display next Calendar item on Lock Screen without unlocking phone, swiping DOWN into notification, SILLY

  • No option for separate Email icons, Native Mail app groups them all under one tower. I have a @Live email and @GMAIL. I have download both apps to seperate notifications between the 2, however there's no option for SYNC settings and how often. The individual apps cannot be configured as good.

  • No option to stop an app running in background. In Windows, you had an option to DISABLE app running in background, e.g Microsoft Lync or SKYPE will. In IOS, if it's installed, it will run in background unless you manually configure it to not use Mobile Data which is stupid. When you do want to use it, you have to revert the option

  • Same ringtones since iPhone 3

  • Keyboard for SMS doesn't contain the , (coma), and other annotations by default without clicking the "123" button. These are generally part typing in English. you only get them when you flip the screen horizontally

..Why didn't I go with the latest Microsoft Lumia 950? simply because of 2 reasons:

  • I wanted to try a new OS
  • The new Lumia 950 is all plastic and feels cheap.
Mobile Apple Mobile Phone

Comments

  • misho1999 on 22/04/2016 - 11:05
    +2

    I went the other way, 10 years with Iphone across to the Samsung S7 and couldn't be happier.

    • 0FoxGiven on 01/05/2016 - 13:03
      +4

      Which is quite funny since it has not even been 9 years since the first iPhone launched

      • jv on 06/05/2016 - 23:46

        He beta tested the iPhone 1

        • gimli on 07/05/2016 - 14:04

          False 👺

  • Diji1 on 22/04/2016 - 11:15
    +16

    It sounds like you used one operating system for 7 years and then changed to a substantially different OS.

    You have a massive bias because the human brain likes to follow the path of least resistance and now you have to think about things and use precious brain calories to do things you were previously used to doing on autopilot.

    • Scrooge McDuck on 22/04/2016 - 14:06
      +1

      REMEMBER, I have no BIAS here,

      *WHOOP!! WHOOP!! WHOOP!!*

      My incredible witness alarm just went off!

  • akd on 22/04/2016 - 11:46

    I had similar( a few more issues with iPhone) when I moved from Android. The issues are sill there and like other users, I got used to it.

    I found iOS annoying initially but in long run, it works (or works with limitations).
    With Android like typical Linux, you can do many things, it is fancy, customisable but in long run, it lags and feel unsatisfying.
    I used Lumia 630 but not worth commenting (about Windows mobile OS).

    • Axelstrife on 22/04/2016 - 13:32

      As someone whos had many many android phones since my first which was galaxy s the first one. ive only even had an android that lags when using cheap android phones.

      But the most fluent android phones are still the nexus phones which are stock android.

  • Peace Maker on 22/04/2016 - 11:50
    +1

    In the last 6 years I went from iOS to android to iOS then finally straight back to android after less than a week. iOS is just too locked down for my liking. I imagine Apple do this to give users apple's vision of iOS rather than what the user actually wants. Either way, at least we have choice in the market.

  • elusive on 22/04/2016 - 12:16

    Keyboard for SMS doesn't contain the , (coma), and other annotations by default without clicking the "123" button. These are generally part typing in English. you only get them when you flip the screen horizontally

    Yea, we're testing a mobile website on an iPad (vs Samsung tablet vs Windows 8/10 tablets). I don't tablets at all outside of work, so zero familiarity with any of them - but it was a massive pain in the arse to type any punctuation on the iPad compared to the Android and Windows ones.

    And they don't even allow custom keyboards last I checked. That's just plain annoying.

    • scrimshaw on 22/04/2016 - 12:31

      Swiftkey is now on the app store

      https://itunes.apple.com/app/swiftkey-keyboard/id911813648?m…

      • elusive on 22/04/2016 - 12:52

        Oh, interesting. When did that happen?

        • lupiter on 22/04/2016 - 13:42

          That was in iOS 8, we're on iOS 9 now so 1.5 years ago.

        • PVA on 22/04/2016 - 14:13

          @lupiter:
          I heard on a podcast that when you use non-apple keyboards like swiftkey etc and you want to enter something on a secure form like user/password the Apple drops back to their keyboard though, so it swaps keyboards around. sound a painful interpretation of them allowing 3rd party keyboards. 1.5 years later it should be fixed.

        • lupiter on 22/04/2016 - 15:43
          +3

          @PVA: That's because they don't want third-party keyboards to steal your passwords. Usernames and emails can use custom keyboards, but to prevent custom keyboards from saving anything in a secure text field, you get a stock keyboard.

          I prefer it that way.

        • PVA on 22/04/2016 - 17:07

          @lupiter:
          Thats a painful user experience then.
          Couldn't they just test the software before it is released to users.

          I would rather the choice myself.

        • 0FoxGiven on 01/05/2016 - 13:10

          @PVA:Apple does test software extensively before it is released on the platform unlike android apps. And speaking as a person who works in the mobile app development industry, this way is the right way to do it.

        • PVA on 01/05/2016 - 18:51

          @edrenalin:
          can you link to apps you've developed?

        • MrMcHairyHead on 02/05/2016 - 13:03
          +1

          September 2014 was when they released the update allowing 3rd party keyboards.

        • 0FoxGiven on 04/05/2016 - 14:02

          @PVA: I'm not an app developer but a mobile business analyst. And most apps my company has developed are enterprise apps so you don't see it in the app store. But you can check out Superbook (Biblical App), Brick Instructions (Lego App) which are commercial apps that ought to show up on the Australian App store. I hope that satisfies your urge to prove me a liar and please take your hate elsewhere.

  • cypher67 on 22/04/2016 - 12:17
    +4

    The Bias is strong with this one, pretty much every complaint you have about the phone is comparing it against you preference/old phone format. If you didn't want to be bias, you would approach the phone as though you never knew you wanted all these Windows specific features.

    • frostman on 22/04/2016 - 12:54
      -2

      other than ringtones, rest of what I mentioned IMO are fairly basic

      • ESEMCE on 22/04/2016 - 13:18
        +3

        They're only fairly basic to you cause you're used to having them.
        If you were non-biased, you would be surprised that you can tap a picture (icon) on a screen and the screen changes! MAGIC!!!

        Now you've found all the flaws, try to find the additional features..

        Honestly sounds like you did zero research before purchase and now have serious buyers remorse!
        Android would have resolved most, if not all your listed concerns, if not inbuilt, then through third party apps.
        iOS is far more restrictive, so unlikely you can resolve unless (possibly) you jailbreak.

    • PVA on 22/04/2016 - 14:14

      a comma key on the keyboard front is not windows specific, I thought comma and stop keys are a basic keyboard layout.

  • miss arrow on 22/04/2016 - 13:33

    Set up a notifications to display on the lock screen and customise your "Today" widgets, they'll help too :) Or ask Siri. "Hey Siri, what have I got on today?". Not solutions, just work arounds what you're seeing as limitations.

    Also, try Calendar 5. And upgrade to a better mail program.

    Apple's base iOS is not perfect as scubacoles said there are tonnes of third party apps that'll help you out with most of your points.

    The new eink case on kickstarter looks useful - you should check that out too.

    • frostman on 22/04/2016 - 13:58

      Whats a better mail program?

      • lupiter on 22/04/2016 - 15:44
        +2

        Outlook is pretty good.

        Yeah, no, I'm not joking. o.O

  • Axelstrife on 22/04/2016 - 13:33

    So many apple fanboys coming to the rescue to talk up their child toy like phone. lol

    • ESEMCE on 22/04/2016 - 13:36
      +2

      Not necessarily.. I'm no Apple Fanboy, but thanks for flying the flag for the Anti-Apple crowd!

  • PcisT on 22/04/2016 - 13:50
    +2

    "Keyboard for SMS doesn't contain the , (coma), and other annotations by default without clicking the "123" button. These are generally part typing in English. you only get them when you flip the screen horizontally"

    Easiest way is to hold the [123] button and move your finger while still touching the screen over the [,] key, then lift.

    • frostman on 22/04/2016 - 13:58
      -6

      Easiest way is to hold the [123] button and move your finger while still touching the screen over the [,] key, then lift.

      Yeah? unlike you, I happen to punctuate my SMS. So for example, there are a number of commas and full stops in this very sentence. Holding your [123] button and sliding my finger around isn't very intuitive each time, is it?

      • PcisT on 22/04/2016 - 14:22
        +4

        Are you for real? I was just letting you know there's a short cut in case you didn't realise. I'm not defending Apple or anything. It seems you have a chip on your shoulder.

      • Ryanek on 22/04/2016 - 14:23

        The landscape keyboard was designed for speed and efficiency. Like you said, if you want a full featured keyboard just set it landscape.
        If you're so hung up on grammar and punctuation, capitalising a letter mid sentence pretty much requires the same amount of effort.

        • ozhunter on 22/04/2016 - 15:25

          Lol aren't all keyboards designed like that?

          To the OP: Apple keyboard sucks, use swiftkey.

  • frostman on 22/04/2016 - 16:08
    -2

    oh one more thing I forgot to add to my list of IOS annoyances:

    • Email attachments get thrown all the way at the bottom of an email chain. Using it in the corporate workplace is stupid.

    Apple, please look at the Windows Phone 8 and Windows phone 10 platform and learn a thing or 2, email attachments go at the top

    • [Deactivated] on 22/04/2016 - 23:51

      Dont do what donny dont does.

    • ozeebee on 03/05/2016 - 23:25
      -2

      Ha! Considering the impending doom of Windows Mobile. I think it's best for IOS and Android to keep doing what they do well, which is do everything better than Wondows Mobile.

  • BargainKen on 22/04/2016 - 17:51
    +1

    I use both (had a windows phone too), they all have their merits and annoyances.

  • mjuice7 on 23/04/2016 - 07:55

    commiserations.

  • [Deactivated] on 24/04/2016 - 12:45

    You went to the wrong OS…. both apple and microsoft are a closed ecosystem that really does impact the usability and freedom to do what you want with it.

    All operating systems have their strengths and weaknesses and it is a hard decision to make when you cant really try before you buy especially in this scenario.

    For you andoid qould have been the ideal platform…… me I would go n900 if I could…..

    • scrimshaw on 25/04/2016 - 02:18

      cough Blackberry cough

  • frostman on 25/04/2016 - 10:24

    So solution is?:

    App for new calendar replace native
    App for mail client
    App for keyboard

    WTF

    • scrimshaw on 25/04/2016 - 15:07
      +1

      Buy a new phone, sell off your current?

      • frostman on 25/04/2016 - 15:28

        I wont be able to get $1,079 back

        I went to JB Hifi just now, asked how much they would take my iPhone 6s so I can get the Lumia 950, they said $400. lol

        • scrimshaw on 25/04/2016 - 15:31

          The nutters on eBay would probably pay nearly a $1k for it.

          going by 'completed listings' a 64GB model which I assume you own sells for $800~850 tops. So you'd lose $300 of value in total. But also you lose another $80 dollars since Ebay takes a cut!

          Better to either sell on a forum like the Classifieds section here or on OCAU forums. Gumtree is another place but beware of a-holes.

        • [Deactivated] on 25/04/2016 - 18:59

          lol, go ebay you can sell it near new cost maybe loose $200 and your set for a happy life with a lumia

        • frostman on 25/04/2016 - 20:19
          -1

          @Hotkolbas: lol

  • lansalot on 29/04/2016 - 21:58

    I wouldn't be too concerned, you can sell the iPhone and buy a Lumia 950.

    In fact if your want to get a Lumia 950xl from the US/Canada you'll be able to get a Lumia 950 for free with their BOGOF offer. I bet you'd still have some loose change left as well after selling the iPhone.

  • [Deactivated] on 03/05/2016 - 22:28
    -2

    What you're saying is

    I bought a 1k device without trying it in store. And now I'm crying because I don't like its peripheral functionality.

    All the crap you are complaining about literally takes 3 clicks tops to work around. Or go back to Lumia. Simple.

    nosympathy

  • arislan on 04/05/2016 - 13:29
    -1

    After 20 years on iPhone I just bought a Winblows 20.1 phone. I'm not impressed, remember I have no BIAS here:

    1. The rounded corners on the iPhone feels so comfy against my thigh in my jeans, not so with the Winblows phone…

    blah, blah, blah…

    See anyone can play this game.

  • frostman on 04/05/2016 - 20:24

    Also…

    When sent an invite from work. Windows you can accept or decline the invite with a (custom) message

    • iridiumstem on 07/05/2016 - 00:01

      I don't understand, why not just move back to Windows or move to Android to see whether that's any better. You clearly are unhappy with what you've gotten.

      If I were at your position, I'd probably accept my losses and leave (given how it seems to me that you've not done your research, some of the features that you are talking about are pretty much easy to find out if you give iPhone a try for a few minutes or so). No OS is perfect (despite what some people would say), you just choose the one that works for you.

      If you are upset about other OS's fans annoying you by telling you that what you had is bad, and thus you are trying to get back at them somehow, I am simply going to say you are doing exactly the same, as far as I can see. I kinda understand why you'd be peeved since I used to have a Windows Phone and few people I know were pissing me off by being an arss about what phone I had (and they still are because I moved to Android).

  • ninjataki on 18/11/2017 - 23:37
    -1

    This is a substantial i-phone fail. Marketing mania reigns supreme. Hype meh bro, yeh cmon hype mehhh need more hyyyyyyyyyyyyyyype

    • Quantumcat on 20/11/2017 - 13:20

      Why bump this 18-month-old post with such a useless reply?

      • ninjataki on 20/11/2017 - 17:04

        Well it got your attention so it's not useless after all, besides what could really be added as an iphone neg that hasn't already been extensively gone over?

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