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Been an Android user for a year (Galaxy Tab 8.9) and was going to get an iPhone 5 last Christmas just to try out a different device. I changed my mind and am getting a Nexus 4 instead. I was able to use one of our test iPhones at work for a primary phone and here are just 3 things I don't like about iOS:

1. Toggling settings can be difficult. In Android, you have a pull-up/pull-down menu right from the home screen where you can just turn things on/off, like Bluetooth, sounds, WiFi, etc. In iOS, you go to the Settings app and scroll through the text labels and go through one or two more screens before achieving the same thing. And this, despite Apple's marketed UI simplicity.

2. The thing can't even send files over Bluetooth. How is that not possible in 2013?

3. Boring old homescreen from way back 2007, which displays an amalgamation of all the apps installed on my phone, not the apps I use the most.

Of course, whichever phone you end up buying is nothing more than a personal preference. However, I just think that saying Android is better than iOS has become more of a fact than an opinion these days.

1. Is Samsung specific I think. On my Nexus S pulling the notification drawer down has a button that launches the Settings app but doesn't have the settings right there. My wifes Samsung S3 does however.

If you pull down with two fingers (a bit counterintuitive, I'll admit), it'll open the settings app directly. You can also toggle the default notification drawer and the settings app by tapping the icon in the top right corner.

I chose to install Widgetsoid - it places a couple of toggles directly into the notification drawer. I never got Airplane Mode to work, though.

My Nexus 4 has this feature by default, perhaps it was a Jelly Bean addition? Very much like having it there since getting my N4, I used to use a 3rd party widget for this purpose (powerstrip if anyone is interested), but it's largely been superseded by this (even though powerstrip is still great)

My Nexus S runs JB, this feature must just not be enabled on this phone for some reason

Bluetooth is for your xbox controller, not sending files

>Bluetooth is for your xbox controller, not sending files

I used Bluetooth for sending files for years with many of my older phones, and I find that ability still comes in handy from time to time.

Also, the Xbox 360 controller doesn't use Bluetooth, although the PS3 and the Wiimote controllers both use Bluetooth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_Controller

Are you kidding me. My MacBook has Bluetooth. What is the iPhone's excuse?

  > The thing can't even send files over Bluetooth.
  > How is that not possible in 2013?

The thing will also not accept your 1.44MB floppy. Shocking, I know. Ok, ok, I get what you say, but frankly, this is some pretty obscure use case for most. Not for you, obviously.

Maybe you and everyone you know has unlimited data, but not everyone does. Bluetooth file sending works on every single phone apart from the iPhone, and it's frustrating when people can't send you photos because your stupid phone doesn't support the most ubiquitous file sharing method since 1995.

Obscure? This is one of the stupidest misfeatures of iOS. The hardware is there and there are workaround apps that can help you do it from iDevice to iDevice.

Many times I wanted to send a picture, contact or a document to someone standing right next to me and couldn't do it because they had an iPhone (or Windows Phone). This is especially pleasant when you're roaming and it's a bigger file.

I know that the iPhone comes with a bluetooth transceiver, but I was unware that it also shipped with a 3.5" floppy drive that was similarly crippled.

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