3 ms·

I'm not speaking hypothetically, but from experience. I have a 4 year old 200gbp Android phone running Pie, took 10 minutes. I also have an iPhone 8, this is a

I'm not speaking hypothetically, but from experience. I have a 4 year old 200gbp Android phone running Pie, took 10 minutes. I also have an iPhone 8, this is an Ok phone but is a worse experience than the 4 year old Android phone. Despite the cost being much higher, the screen is worse quality, for instance. My partner has a 6 and it is remarkably slower than both. To the point where you sometimes just want to give up on whatever you were trying to do while waiting for a map or Spotify to load. Maybe your experience is different to ours, but I'm only reporting what I see from using all 3.

Godel_unicode 8y ago
Which cheapo Android has a better screen than an iPhone 8??
- eertami 8y ago
  OnePlus X specifically, but pretty much any that has a decent AMOLED.
- Multicomp 8y ago
  At the risk of wading into the iPhone vs Android battle...: iPhone 8 vs Nexus 6 from 2014, back when Google marketed that series as reasonable Dev devices, not necessarily flagships. 326 ppi vs 493 ppi 750 x 1334 pixels vs 1440 x 2560 pixels IPS LCD vs AMOLED Somewhere there is a tongue in cheek meme comparing a sister phone, the Nexus 4, from 2012 against a 2016(?) iPhone and it's quite interesting how many features the Android phones had and were mildly credited for that when copied to iPhone were /world changers!!1/ Granted, Android phone manufacturers have wised up and besides things like the Nokia 6.1 you can't really get a good mid-range Android phone any more... it's mostly clustered around either the humble Moto E or the Note 9 price points.
  - tracker1 8y ago
    I know my G1 had online contact syncing and updates while the iPhone still required a USB adapter.
wtallis 8y ago
> I'm not speaking hypothetically, but from experience. I have a 4 year old 200gbp Android phone running Pie, took 10 minutes. You're lying. Installing a custom third-party Android ROM is way more than a 10 minute process, your OnePlus X is barely more than 3 years old, and there's a huge difference between a random OS image you downloaded from a forum online and manufacturer-supported OS updates for a 5 year old phone.

Godel_unicode 8y ago

Which cheapo Android has a better screen than an iPhone 8??

eertami 8y ago
OnePlus X specifically, but pretty much any that has a decent AMOLED.
Multicomp 8y ago
At the risk of wading into the iPhone vs Android battle...: iPhone 8 vs Nexus 6 from 2014, back when Google marketed that series as reasonable Dev devices, not necessarily flagships. 326 ppi vs 493 ppi 750 x 1334 pixels vs 1440 x 2560 pixels IPS LCD vs AMOLED Somewhere there is a tongue in cheek meme comparing a sister phone, the Nexus 4, from 2012 against a 2016(?) iPhone and it's quite interesting how many features the Android phones had and were mildly credited for that when copied to iPhone were /world changers!!1/ Granted, Android phone manufacturers have wised up and besides things like the Nokia 6.1 you can't really get a good mid-range Android phone any more... it's mostly clustered around either the humble Moto E or the Note 9 price points.
- tracker1 8y ago
  I know my G1 had online contact syncing and updates while the iPhone still required a USB adapter.

wtallis 8y ago

> I'm not speaking hypothetically, but from experience. I have a 4 year old 200gbp Android phone running Pie, took 10 minutes. You're lying. Installing a custom third-party Android ROM is way more than a 10 minute process, your OnePlus X is barely more than 3 years old, and there's a huge difference between a random OS image you downloaded from a forum online and manufacturer-supported OS updates for a 5 year old phone.