Hey guys, so I'm currently typing this on a White S10+ it's the Pearl looking white not ceramic. It is a gorgeous phone. I got it for free during the bogo, and I wanted to play with it for a week or so and time is almost up .... Do I keep it or switch back to the iPhone XS Max?
For me, I'm personally switching back to the iPhone. I like the S10+ but there are a few things that bother me too much.
1. When you are connected to a Bluetooth device, and want to listen to the media on your phone, there's not a really easy way to switch the audio output that I've found. I've been having to disconnect from that Bluetooth device to get it to play on my phone. If there is an option to change the audio it's definitely no where near as obvious as it is on the iPhone.
2. Travel time built in to the calendar. Why there is not an app for Android that does this I'll never know. Once again it may be there but I've yet to see it.
3. Face ID .... I don't even know what to say beyond it is light years ahead of the fps built into the screen. I would say the fingerprint scanner works 60% of the time I press the phone. It's probably just my fingerprint because it's been like this on every device I've owned so far.
4. Apple integration - FaceTime, iMessage, etc. It's so much better done on Apple devices imo.
5. Silent switch. Yeah I definitely cannot go much longer without this.
6. Camera - the camera on the Samsung is nice, but I find myself taking consistently blurrier pictures on this over the iPhone. Once again this could 100% be me.
Things I'll miss from S10+
1. The screen is amazing. If Apple doesn't put a much better screen in this year I'm definitely not upgrading this cycle.
2. Always on Display. I just like that feature. It's really convenient.
3. Edge apps - it's a really clever way to short cut apps it works very well.
4. Signal - I'm definitely consistently getting a better signal, however it's not "that" much better. Usually a bar higher than normal.
5. Google assistant. I wish we could replace Siri with Google assistant at this point, yes I know we can download the Google app on the iPhones, but I wish Siri worked as nicely.
6. I do enjoy the weather widget displaying the forecast.