As I grow older and my eyes deteriorate, I've been desiring a larger screen on my smartphone. It seems I was only using my iPhone 4S for texting, weather, email reading (not writing), a sound pressure meter and Flipboard (the latter because it had an easy to read font).
I've also been feeling IOS is antiquated, not to mention SLOW (on my phone at least) since IOS7.
So Friday I picked up a Samsung Galaxy Note 3. It's huge - probably too big in some respects but I'm giving it a whirl. I have another 12 days to change my mind.
I like a lot of things about the OS so far, but some things really puzzle me. The phone keeps making noises every so often - a water droplet type of sound that I'm pretty sure is some sort of notification, but I can't figure out what. I'll pick up the phone and there's nothing new. It seems Android doesn't push notifications in text form so one can understand what it's trying to tell you. At best if I receive a text it won't show the text - it'll only tell me that I have a text. Not as convenient as IOS.
A weird thing that I haven't figured out is: I text my wife from my new phone and when she replies it goes to my iPhone (which no longer has over-the-air service, just wi-fi).
For the life of me, I cannot get my IOS contacts over to the new phone. I've read a number of instructions on the web but none work. I have turned on contact syncing with Google (I use gmail after all) but in my GMail I only have the same 4 contacts while my IOS devices have hundreds.
Ahh, the joys of converting. At least I can read the screen...!
I've also been feeling IOS is antiquated, not to mention SLOW (on my phone at least) since IOS7.
So Friday I picked up a Samsung Galaxy Note 3. It's huge - probably too big in some respects but I'm giving it a whirl. I have another 12 days to change my mind.
I like a lot of things about the OS so far, but some things really puzzle me. The phone keeps making noises every so often - a water droplet type of sound that I'm pretty sure is some sort of notification, but I can't figure out what. I'll pick up the phone and there's nothing new. It seems Android doesn't push notifications in text form so one can understand what it's trying to tell you. At best if I receive a text it won't show the text - it'll only tell me that I have a text. Not as convenient as IOS.
A weird thing that I haven't figured out is: I text my wife from my new phone and when she replies it goes to my iPhone (which no longer has over-the-air service, just wi-fi).
For the life of me, I cannot get my IOS contacts over to the new phone. I've read a number of instructions on the web but none work. I have turned on contact syncing with Google (I use gmail after all) but in my GMail I only have the same 4 contacts while my IOS devices have hundreds.
Ahh, the joys of converting. At least I can read the screen...!