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ShakyJake said:
Is there a setting (I can't find it if there is) or an app that will prevent the phone from ringing if it's detected as a spam or political call? The phone itself will identify calls as such but I cannot find any way to tell it to ignore them.
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ATT has a spam feature. It still rings but shows the number as "Spam". You then can block it and add it to the memory to not ring. This is free, and they have a more advanced version of it that runs a couple bucks a month.
 
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Got my first iPhone (SE2020 for starters) after being all-android all the time and now I get it. I get the hype.

Bought a used iPad air a few months later just because. Now I hope my Galaxy Watch breaks down so I can get an apple watch as well.

Damn, this stuff just WORKS.
 
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Got my first iPhone (SE2020 for starters) after being all-android all the time and now I get it. I get the hype.

Bought a used iPad air a few months later just because. Now I hope my Galaxy Watch breaks down so I can get an apple watch as well.

Damn, this stuff just WORKS.
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Were you buying shitty android phones before? Because every Galaxy I have owned works like a dream.
 
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Sanrith Descartes said:
Were you buying shitty android phones before? Because every Galaxy I have owned works like a dream.
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I had a bunch of Xiaomi phones and they weren't terrible but crashing wasn't unusual, maybe once a week or so, and over time they weren't as responsive as you'd expect.

Keep in mind though those were €200 phones so at the time a Redmi Note 2, Redmi Note 4, Mi A2 (wife had one as well), now the wife has a Redmi 9 and she keeps having issues.

Meanwhile, the cheapest iPhone - at twice my feel-good-price - still works like on day one.


I have also owned Galaxy phones, but that was a long time ago. S3 mini, wife had a S5 mini for a long while, and they were ok but ran out of space. At that point I made the switch to Xiaomi because they looked good on paper.
 
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I had a bunch of Xiaomi phones and they weren't terrible but crashing wasn't unusual, maybe once a week or so, and over time they weren't as responsive as you'd expect.

Keep in mind though those were €200 phones so at the time a Redmi Note 2, Redmi Note 4, Mi A2 (wife had one as well), now the wife has a Redmi 9 and she keeps having issues.

Meanwhile, the cheapest iPhone - at twice my feel-good-price - still works like on day one.


I have also owned Galaxy phones, but that was a long time ago. S3 mini, wife had a S5 mini for a long while, and they were ok but ran out of space. At that point I made the switch to Xiaomi because they looked good on paper.
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I have used both extensively. Previous career was IOS based. IOS phones work great, I am just anti-closed proprietary system. And AAPL are douchhe bags about their phones. I like being able to swap in my own SD cards and not pay AAPL for expanded storage. My Galaxy S7 active was an amazing phone. It lasted 4 generations. I loved that phone to death. Armored and no case needed. I got the S20 Ultra last year when it came out. They run like Swiss time pieces. Cost a lot but it's 30 months at zero interest so I don't care. I like zero interest loans.
 
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Seriously, fuck Google and fuck their stupid "tab groups" that they rolled out with no easy way to disable. Their design teams are fucking retarded.

Rant over.
 
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Okay, I'm totally new to Apple watches, and I apologize if this has been asked before and recently, but my wife is really jonesing for an Apple watch. I'd like to get her one. She has an iPhone, she'd like to not have to carry it - women's clothing never has adequate pockets. Can you guys give me the tldr version of what apple watch to get her? I'm a newb over here.
 
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Recently switched to iPhone for the first time in my life.

Man, apple needs to work on their UX and software. Broken software and unintuitive UX... Gonna give this shit a 6 month trial.
 
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Recently switched to iPhone for the first time in my life.

Man, apple needs to work on their UX and software. Broken software and unintuitive UX... Gonna give this shit a 6 month trial.
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you are either trolling or severely mentally handicapped. My 18 month old and 4 year old can work an iPad and iPhone with no issues.
 
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darkmiasma said:
you are either trolling or severely mentally handicapped. My 18 month old and 4 year old can work an iPad and iPhone with no issues.
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Android is just more intuitive. It's relative.
 
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So I'm having a weird issue. I'm on an Android phone, Razer 2 updated. I sent a message to a buddy which was just a stupid little meme. Ten minutes later I was looking to reply to someone with a gif and I noticed my entire download file is missing. I looked in the trash and recently deleted, nothing. Anyone have any ideas?
 
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So I'm having a weird issue. I'm on an Android phone, Razer 2 updated. I sent a message to a buddy which was just a stupid little meme. Ten minutes later I was looking to reply to someone with a gif and I noticed my entire download file is missing. I looked in the trash and recently deleted, nothing. Anyone have any ideas?
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Archived maybe? Seen Google want to do some weird shit with offloading images to their cloud services.
 
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Of course apple decides to do this shit right after I get my first iPhone. Even the zealots on macrumors are pissed (see comments).

Honestly what difference does it make? When I had Android I just assumed google was monitoring all my shit anyways.

www.macrumors.com

Apple Addresses CSAM Detection Concerns, Will Consider Expanding System on Per-Country Basis

Apple this week announced that, starting later this year with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, the company will be able to detect known Child Sexual Abuse...
www.macrumors.com www.macrumors.com
 
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Of course apple decides to do this shit right after I get my first iPhone. Even the zealots on macrumors are pissed (see comments).

Honestly what difference does it make? When I had Android I just assumed google was monitoring all my shit anyways.

www.macrumors.com

Apple Addresses CSAM Detection Concerns, Will Consider Expanding System on Per-Country Basis

Apple this week announced that, starting later this year with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, the company will be able to detect known Child Sexual Abuse...
www.macrumors.com www.macrumors.com
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This is why I have always laughed at people who consider Apple a privacy focused company. They tried to be like Google and have an ad platform that knew everything about you and failed. They just pivoted and turned that failure into the privacy friendly narrative.

I can easily see this being abused and if I was an iPhone user I would jump ship if they got through with it.
 
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I was considering a switch recently but fuck no if this goes forward
 
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This is why I have always laughed at people who consider Apple a privacy focused company. They tried to be like Google and have an ad platform that knew everything about you and failed. They just pivoted and turned that failure into the privacy friendly narrative.

I can easily see this being abused and if I was an iPhone user I would jump ship if they got through with it.
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Ya. Prob will wait for galaxy s22 and switch back.

tiresome.
 
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