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The v20 is probably my current favorite Android and if I was buying today, I'd get it. It has a huge battery and if you COULD kill it in one day, at least you have quick charge which gives you 50% more battery life in 20 minutes...
I hear iPhone battery complaints all the time.
It comes down to usage more then anything else.
Or, since the V20 has a removable battery, one could carry a second battery.
I watched a YouTube video earlier today 'starring' the V20. It was made by a 'tester' who is part of a program sponsored by LG. The screen on the V20 looked incredibly clear and sharp...even through the 'lens' of a YouTube video.
Well, as much as I'd like to say I'm going to hold out for the V20 I decided to just upgrade to the new iphone 7. It really just came down to the fact that I couldn't wait any longer to upgrade and it would be an easier transition moving from the 5s to the 7 (staying in the apple ecosystem). Plus the water resistance I knew would come in handy down the road. I still think the V20 looks like a fantastic option but I'm kind of in a time crunch as my company has been waiting on me to tell them what new phone I wanted and I didn't want to hold out till the end of this month (supposedly).
Well, as much as I'd like to say I'm going to hold out for the V20 I decided to just upgrade to the new iphone 7. It really just came down to the fact that I couldn't wait any longer to upgrade and it would be an easier transition moving from the 5s to the 7 (staying in the apple ecosystem). Plus the water resistance I knew would come in handy down the road. I still think the V20 looks like a fantastic option but I'm kind of in a time crunch as my company has been waiting on me to tell them what new phone I wanted and I didn't want to hold out till the end of this month (supposedly).
Yeah the V20 is one of those phones that took way way too long to get to market after it was announced. The worst offender has been ASUS which announced some absolutely killer phones way back in May, yet several of them still aren't for sale yet.
Apple and Samsung have the whole process down pat. You announce the phone and then within the month you can buy the thing. There's a lot of red tape and legal approval stuff that has to happen. Those big two companies seem to have figured out how to get it done faster and more efficiently.
I went the other way, but with an iPhone 6 in June. My biggest problem with the android was that even new the battery never lasted as long as with the Apple. After a year, despite a lot of tinkering, it wouldn't last all day, and that was with 3 different Motorolas over several years.
Other than that, I liked the apps and the operating system a lot. It took a while to get used to iOS, and I'm still not sure if I like it as well.
Android offers full multitasking, something that is implemented differently on iOS and Windows Mobile. This is one of the reasons those operating systems have better battery life, and offer a "smoother" experience. It is also one of the reasons Android phones are often overpowered (6 GB of RAM, among other things). They need the extra overhead to achieve the same experience other mobile operating systems offer at a fraction of the specs.
Marshmallow and Nougat offer a little bit of relief with the way that the battery saver is implemented on those implementations of Android, but the average phone is not running either of those versions.
Sort of. Not really. No phone REALLY does. Apps don't really run in the background except for a handful and these run in the background on both phones. Spotify, YouTube Red (not normal YT), Pandora, things like that.
Not even Chrome does, this is why it reloads your webpage if you tab back to it.
Sort of. Not really. No phone REALLY does. Apps don't really run in the background except for a handful and these run in the background on both phones. Spotify, YouTube Red (not normal YT), Pandora, things like that.
Not even Chrome does, this is why it reloads your webpage if you tab back to it.
Right now I have eight apps either "restarting" (cached apps) or running. This includes Google Voice, Messenger, OneDrive, Gallery, TextNow, Google App, LG Keyboard and Google Keyboard. I also have eight processes doing the same thing. That is 16 different instances of apps and processes either running, or restarted, due to the fact that they were not needed at the time and the OS reintroducing them into RAM in the event it thinks the service is needed. I still have 298 MB free, out of 1 GB of RAM.
I could not do that with Windows Phone. After a maximum of six, others were cleared out of the way to make way for something else that may be needed at the time. Those were the limitations of 512 MB of RAM on a device. With 1 GB, you get a little bit more leeway but it is not as much as Android. Check this out.
Even on a 1 GB RAM device, on Windows 10 Mobile, you're still limited to 7 apps cached (those you can see when you press the system button to switch in between tasks). Far more on Android, at least 30 or more. That isn't active multitasking, because those apps aren't running, but the device can quickly resume those apps once I choose them.
If you desire to have 30 programs fully open on a PC, and to be able to go back and forth between them, that is one thing, but in practice an individual might have a lot of tabs open on a browser, and 5 or 10 apps referenced on the dock but I doubt all of those apps are actually open and running. The 65 - 100 processes you have running when you click on the Task Manager are necessary for how a PC runs. At least how Windows runs. A phone does not require no where near as many processes, which is probably a good thing.
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The 65 - 100 processes you have running when you click on the Task Manager are necessary for how a PC runs. At least how Windows runs. A phone does not require no where near as many processes, which is probably a good thing.
Right now I have eight apps either "restarting" (cached apps) or running. This includes Google Voice, Messenger, OneDrive, Gallery, TextNow, Google App, LG Keyboard and Google Keyboard. I also have eight processes doing the same thing. That is 16 different instances of apps and processes either running, or restarted, due to the fact that they were not needed at the time and the OS reintroducing them into RAM in the event it thinks the service is needed. I still have 298 MB free, out of 1 GB of RAM.
My point is, most of those aren't really "running in the background". They are simply cached into the RAM so they open quicker when you return to them.
But do read the "permissions" on apps from the Google Play Store.
They want permission to know everything that you ever do with the phone.
Insanity. Hope folks READ the permissions that you are granting with a Google Android phone.
I have both an iPhone and an Android.
To me, Google wants to control your entire life and is too nosey. Yes, they all are. But do READ the permissions from the Google Play Store.
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