I know it's not a fair assessment Paddy, really, but it wasn't my choice, Jane just didn't like it. She did like the size though, on that you agree, and I didn't mean that it's exclusively a female phone, most of our family have them, from coast to coast. Just around here in our little coastal village. One reason was that AT&T really failed here and so if you brought an iPhone 1 and had to be on AT&T you had lousy service, especially out on the water. I can pretty much have full service on the bay with T-Mobile where you used to be down to 1 bar on land with AT&T so a lot of guys with boats started with android and either Verizon or T-Mobile for service. Sprint is OK along I-95 up and down the coast to key west, but not strong outside the corridor. If I was in New England T-Mobile wouldn't be a good option, and we did have some weak signals at our house in western Maryland, so I spent most of my time on the wifi network until they bought up bunch of bandwidth. I suppose as I told Jane, that if Apple hadn't made AT&T the exclusive carrier early on, we would have purchased the first iPhone and kept with it ever since.
On the physical phone capabilities android does have an edge. Multitasking, page layering, split screening has been an option for years. Speeds right up there, and the Samsung camera is really good. I'm playing with a new Sony because I thought a waterproof phone would be a good idea, it has a 13mp camera which is great but not as good as Samsung in this area.
I know this might sound corny, but Samsung comes with an IR Bluster universal remote and a TV programing guild with all sorts of bell & whistle, they have them on their Tabs as well, it's just one of those conveniences that you hate to give up. If I'm on the phone walking through the house and come upon the TV I can mute it and keep talking, shut it off, turn it on. If you keep the phone close, you don't need remote and it's just as good as my Logitech. When I was in New Hampshire last year and T-Mobile service was spotty I just switch the phone to At&T and bought minutes, so my phones work on either network. Well anyay, it as good to talk with you guys again.
All good wishes
Connecting iPhone to Mac is only for tethering - nothing else.
NOT SO!!.....
Connecting the iPhone to the Mac is the basic connection method for charging, syncing and importantly for doing a system restore when it becomes necessary. It is not necessary for 'tethering' any more because you can setup the recent crop of iPhones as a Wifi hotspot and connect using the Mac's Wifi. In early iPhone variants it was the only way to do these thing. Syncing by Wifi was added and more recently using iCloud was introduced.
Rgray, I meant connecting WITH BLUETOOTH. That's what the original question was about, and that's what I was responding to. Sorry for any confusion - original post has now been clarified. (My subsequent posts should also have made that clear...)
Sandbox, sorry to hear that you didn't like the iPhone. I have at least as many, if not more, male friends with iPhones, so I really don't think it's a women thing! (Though I do find the Galaxy too big - I have small hands) Anyway - two days with no time to really do any proper exploration probably isn't a fair assessment. I wouldn't expect to grasp all the nuances of Android in that time. You have to choose what works best for you, in the time you have. So much of one's experience using something like this is governed by prior experience, and just because it doesn't function exactly like an Android phone, doesn't mean that it's inferior or doesn't work.
