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Old 10-20-2013, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Greenwood Village Colorado
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I bought a note 3 a week ago, I was an iphone user for years. I loved my note 3 a lot at first, but I think I may go back to the iphone.
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Old 10-20-2013, 05:02 PM
 
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I bought a note 3 a week ago, I was an iphone user for years. I loved my note 3 a lot at first, but I think I may go back to the iphone.
Reasons being.........?
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Old 10-21-2013, 06:53 AM
 
Location: Greenwood Village Colorado
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I use my phone for business. I don't have time to tinker and tweak , I just want my phone to be efficient. Do what it supposed to do and do it well. that's an iphone. I find the android to be more of a toy.
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Old 10-21-2013, 08:15 AM
 
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I could rant for days about that mentality......
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Old 10-21-2013, 11:40 AM
 
Location: Greenwood Village Colorado
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could be because I am not used to it. I do love the phone, I love the size and all the things I can do with it.

I here is beep and I have no idea what it is, is it a text, email, voice mail? I have to swipe and the home screen shows nothing. So then I have to swipe downward again... then I have to click the icon up top. here I see all my messages emails and so on. yet it doesnt tell me what is the most recent.

The iphone I see immediately looking down at it if what just came in on my phone. Now maybe I have to adjust the settings on my phone to get i t working how I like it, but I dont feel like I should have to go through all that trouble.
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Old 10-21-2013, 03:19 PM
 
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There is no adjustment needed. If you get a notification, it is all tidily placed in the notification area.

I should have spent more time in my previous statement. I didn't mean to say that you were wrong in taking the device back. In fact I am quite happy you did, because you know that you will enjoy another device more.

Typically people argue for or against something based on nothing but predisposition.....it's quite annoying to see someone put down android for "not working out of the box" or "needing to be tinkered with to work" because it is simply not the case. Similarly, when people put down iDevices because they're "too limiting" or they're "all marketing", it is just not true. In both scenarios, there are extremes to each end. Some people like using things like Tasker with android to set up random tasks. Some people can't live without the iEcosystem that isn't available for android users. Most people don't fit either of those roles and just use the phone as a phone.

In most cases, like your own, it is EASIER to stay with something you're familiar with. It is why I do not live in Russia, because it would be hard for me to speak Russian after decades of speaking English. It's not that I can't adapt, there just really isn't a payoff to switch to the unknown if what you have works well for you.

It's been a crap Monday, please forgive my off-topic nonsense. I'm just trying to justify a cranky post that I shouldn't have made.
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Old 10-21-2013, 07:40 PM
 
Location: Seattle, Washington
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Typically people argue for or against something based on nothing but predisposition.....it's quite annoying to see someone put down android for "not working out of the box" or "needing to be tinkered with to work" because it is simply not the case. Similarly, when people put down iDevices because they're "too limiting" or they're "all marketing", it is just not true. In both scenarios, there are extremes to each end. Some people like using things like Tasker with android to set up random tasks. Some people can't live without the iEcosystem that isn't available for android users. Most people don't fit either of those roles and just use the phone as a phone.

In most cases, like your own, it is EASIER to stay with something you're familiar with.
After buying a MacBook Air in August I made the switch to iPhone last month after 4 years of Android. I would definitely say that Android is less user friendly than iOS7 but both are extremely easy to use.

I made the Windows 7 --> OSX adjustment in roughly 2 hours... Android --> iOS7 in maybe 30 minutes. I have nothing against Windows or Android... it just made the most sense to me to have an Apple phone to go with my Apple computer.
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Old 10-24-2013, 09:35 AM
 
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could be because I am not used to it. I do love the phone, I love the size and all the things I can do with it.

I here is beep and I have no idea what it is, is it a text, email, voice mail? I have to swipe and the home screen shows nothing. So then I have to swipe downward again... then I have to click the icon up top. here I see all my messages emails and so on. yet it doesnt tell me what is the most recent.

The iphone I see immediately looking down at it if what just came in on my phone. Now maybe I have to adjust the settings on my phone to get i t working how I like it, but I dont feel like I should have to go through all that trouble.
call samsung and request a distruction manual they send em out free of charge providing you give em the imie number from the phone
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Old 10-24-2013, 10:25 AM
 
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pairing the watch to the phone is easy to all you have to do is make sure that the nfc and the bluetooth is on and rub the charging cradle over the back of the phone and some software pops up and it guides you how to install it and tells you to except the user agreements wich no one reads
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Old 08-29-2016, 09:20 AM
 
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need some help, the battery in my note 3 dropped out while phone was updating the system. now it won't boot up it just stops at t mobile screen after the samsung screen. can't get into recovery mode. anything I can do? also got some important files and pics in there
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