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I have a (regular) Pixel 8 and given that this is smaller and finally has USB-C I'm very tempted to try to jump to Apple again but I'm curious about the following:

1. Is there a terminal equivalent like termux?

2. Is there an open source wireguard client like the official wireguard client for Android?

3. Is it possible to upload mp4 videos to it to watch offline?

4. Is it possible to upload some of my mp3 collection to it to play offline?

5. I believe syncthing isn't officially supported. Are there any alternative syncthing implementations or workarounds?

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As someone who recently switched from a Pixel 5 to an iPhone 15 Pro (bought purely for the camera as I'm travelling around Japan at the moment), I hate it. I'm going straight back to Android when I get back to the UK.

I plugged it into my MBP expecting to be able to copy media over, but you can only copy it into the sandboxed filesystem of one app. So choose wisely.

Downloading media using Plex etc sucks. As soon as the phone locks or you move to another app, it stops. On Pixel, I could queue up a load of downloads or SMB transfers, lock my phone on the side and expect them to be complete when I come back.

As for a terminal or using it like a computer, fuhgeddaboutit.

If anything I've said is wrong, please correct me. I want to like this phone, the camera is out of this world.

1. I mean, there's iSH to emulate an x86 linux environment, but it's not like you can get access to the iOS system through a terminal. Since I mainly use the terminal on my phone for SSH, I use Termius.

2. There's the official wireguard client

3. iOS has native mp4 support. You can play mp4s from files stored on the phone, or from gdrive or dropbox, etc. or just import to your photos/videos library.

4. Yes.

5. yes, the Möbius Sync app

1. Not really. There are some good SSH clients that I'd recommend instead.

2. I use the official Wireguard client.

3. Yep.

4. Yep.

5. People grouse about it, but iCloud works brilliantly if you use it with other Apple gear. There are also the usual suspects like Box, Dropbox, GDrive, etc.

for 3 and 4 the native apps support those formats but you may be happier with VLC which is available for iOS as well.

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