Migrating from iPhone to Android device

[Channon's Windmill]

Hi all,

I currently have a 2 year old iPhone 4 which is slowly on its way out. Apple have priced themselves out of a customer for the iPhone 5 so I am now certainly looking at moving over to Android.

I have about 60GB worth of music stored on my MacBook Pro (yes I've been a bit locked in by Apple in the past few years) and of course its all in iTunes format etc.

I actually really like my MacBook and iTunes so I dont want to get rid of that... I just wondered if Android phones work well with this combination? Anyone have any experience with this sort of setup? Is it going to be a painful migration?

Cheers in advance.

[Thedelldays]

I have the latest mountain lion ios and the latest android os... They don't like each other

[mdearlove]

http://doubletwist.com is your friend here particularly if you have playlists in iTunes.

[LGTL]

PM Essruu, I've heard he really likes Android.

[Essruu]

PM Essruu, I've heard he really likes Android.

It's his mistake to make and learn by. I still chuckle when I think about Delldays' migration and subsequent regrets !

[Channon's Windmill]

It's his mistake to make and learn by. I still chuckle when I think about Delldays' migration and subsequent regrets !

I dont really see it as a mistake - its not even one of my options (to stick with Apple that is). I still think they make great products, but others have raised their game and make equally good products at a price I can afford/justify.

Thanks for the advice on doubletwist.com though... I reckon its gonna come in handy!!

[Suhari]

Get a windows phone 8 device.

Seriously: superb.

[sotonjoe]

I'm not sure how valid these price comparisons are. I looked at the price of a sim-free iphone 5 compared to a sim-free Samsung Galaxy S3 and the former is £529 compared tt the latter's £450. Hardly a significant difference imo.

[Channon's Windmill]

I'm not sure how valid these price comparisons are. I looked at the price of a sim-free iphone 5 compared to a sim-free Samsung Galaxy S3 and the former is £529 compared tt the latter's £450. Hardly a significant difference imo.

Again, thats fine if you can pay up front like that. But for me its more like getting a £20 per month contract and most of the iPhone rivals are free, whereas you still gotta put down a few hundred quid plus the contract for an iPhone5.

[Suhari]

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[suewhistle]

I'm not sure how valid these price comparisons are. I looked at the price of a sim-free iphone 5 compared to a sim-free Samsung Galaxy S3 and the former is £529 compared tt the latter's £450. Hardly a significant difference imo.

I've not long bought my first smart phone: a Samsung using Windows 7.5 and it does everything I need. Unlocked it cost me £142, so although I'm sure some people have the money and the need, I'd still look around before committing so much money.

[hypochondriac]

My brand new s3 still in packaging cost me 320 so it depends who you buy off.

[Essruu]

My brand new s3 still in packaging cost me 320 so it depends who you buy off.

Are you sure that flimsy plastic was actually packaging and not part of the flimsy plastic S3 casing? ;-)

[solentstars]

Again, thats fine if you can pay up front like that. But for me its more like getting a £20 per month contract and most of the iPhone rivals are free, whereas you still gotta put down a few hundred quid plus the contract for an iPhone5.

sounds like you live in the real world and want value for money rather than wasting hard earned cash on the latest phone in fashion.

[Essruu]

sounds like you live in the real world and want value for money rather than wasting hard earned cash on the latest phone in fashion.

He just needs to ditch that lump of MacBook Pro junk and switch to some plastic Windows beauty instead.

[pedg]

Did you know Apple make about £400 profit on each iphone 5?

Apple is set to make a massive profit on the iPhone 5, if the preliminary estimate by tear down specialistsTechInsights is correct.
The company estimates that the total cost of materials for the 16GB version of the smartphone is $167.50 (£103.14), around £20 more than the iPhone 4S, which had a component bill of $132.50 (£81.60). With a retail price of £529 for an unlocked iPhone, that looks like up to £400 profit.

[sotonjoe]

Did you know Apple make about £400 profit on each iphone 5?

errr ... you do realise companies have costs other than the raw cost of materials used in a product right?

[Whitey Grandad]

errr ... you do realise companies have costs other than the raw cost of materials used in a product right?

There's VAT for a start.

[hypochondriac]

Are you sure that flimsy plastic was actually packaging and not part of the flimsy plastic S3 casing? ;-)

Because that is what I truly value in a phone- the casing that I never feel anyway since every phone I have owned goes straight in a case.

[Essruu]

Pedg is never one to let facts get in the way of sensationalism.

[pedg]

Pedg is never one to let facts get in the way of sensationalism.

Yes its not like I quoted an article that pointed to a professional break down report that identified how much an iphone cost to make is it?

[pedg]

errr ... you do realise companies have costs other than the raw cost of materials used in a product right?

Yes I do and after all apple is a company that spends more money on lawyers than engineers and they don't come cheap...

Not to mention any sensible company would have to spend money to correctly licence any images they use in their publicity.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10...raphers_image/

not to mention making sure the licence other design elements copied from elsewhere before shipping rather than being taken to court.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10...s_swiss_clock/

[pedg]

[JPTCount]

ur not going to get 60gbs of music onto an android device, jus old skool drag n drop the stuff u do want.

do u use ur MacBook for anything else other than music n web browsing? if so I dont see any reason for keeping it, may as well downgrade to a netbook.

[Whitey Grandad]

I'm looking at this too. I've had 3 iPhones and one is due an upgrade so I can get a new phone just by signing up for another couple of years. An iPhone 4S or an S3 are effectively free. I'm fed up with iTunes and I hate anything Windows with a pathological vengeance. I might go or the S3 and pass one of the iPhones down to one of the grandchildren.

[pedg]

For music on android you may want to consider converting to lower bitrate ogg files. I have a somewhat complicated system where I have ripped all our CD's to FLAC format. As this is lossless it means I can convert to anything else without reripping or degrading the audio by going between lossy formats. I then use dbpoweramp batch converter to convert to both a high bitrate mp3 (typically 192 or 256) for streaming in house and to low bit rate ogg (typically 80) to go on phones.

[JPTCount]

I'm looking at this too. I've had 3 iPhones and one is due an upgrade so I can get a new phone just by signing up for another couple of years. An iPhone 4S or an S3 are effectively free. I'm fed up with iTunes and I hate anything Windows with a pathological vengeance. I might go or the S3 and pass one of the iPhones down to one of the grandchildren.

not turning this into an os war but curious to why u hate windows do much?

it has advanced alot since 3.1, office '13 is pretty slick too.

[Whitey Grandad]

not turning this into an os war but curious to why u hate windows do much?

it has advanced alot since 3.1, office '13 is pretty slick too.

It's slow to start, slow to run and slow to shut down. Every time I turn on the PC I get a constant stream of updates, then I'm told to restart the PC. I don't like the concept of dlls or the registry, everything should be stored with the program itself. Every few months you have to re-install it and clean out all the sludge. I don't like GUIs, I use the keyboard wherever possible. Later versions of
Office have got rid of (or hidden deeply) the keyboard shortcuts.

That'll do for now.

[JPTCount]

It's slow to start, slow to run and slow to shut down. Every time I turn on the PC I get a constant stream of updates, then I'm told to restart the PC. I don't like the concept of dlls or the registry, everything should be stored with the program itself. Every few months you have to re-install it and clean out all the sludge. I don't like GUIs, I use the keyboard wherever possible. Later versions of
Office have got rid of (or hidden deeply) the keyboard shortcuts.

That'll do for now.

fair enough...

what shortcuts are missing in office?

[Whitey Grandad]

fair enough...

what shortcuts are missing in office?

Well, it was all the keyboard shortcuts, I.e. all the underlined letters in the drop-down menus. I didn't like the ribbon and the way that it's items changed dynamically. As I said, I prefer to use the keyboard shortcuts for the menu, especially on my laptops. I think that made me a 'power user' even though I didn't know it.

I don't like the way that I am supposed to buy new versions of everything every couple of years. I have several PCs in my business and it's not my responsibility to fun Microsoft's bloatware empire. I paid hundreds of pounds for these programs and if they're full of bugs then I expect Microsoft to fix them, not expect me to buy a new load with a whole new load of bugs.

[sotonjoe]

I've had a macbook pro for 16months and it crashed for the 1st time today. I literally hadn't a clue what to do but found a solution on google. How often does a pc crash? There you go.

[Whitey Grandad]

I've had a macbook pro for 16months and it crashed for the 1st time today. I literally hadn't a clue what to do but found a solution on google. How often does a pc crash? There you go.

I got a MacBook Air a couple of years ago. Turns on and off quickly, rarely has an update, easy to use.

[saintbletch]

Are you sure that flimsy plastic was actually packaging and not part of the flimsy plastic S3 casing? ;-)

Anyone with an iPhone 5 able to confirm if this is representative?



More here.

[JPTCount]

amazes me his entrenched ppl become in thus debate and mostly over nigley things, how often does a pc crash? how long is a piece of string? my main desktop is 6 years old, I have upgraded windows, ram, HDD & graphics card on it and I can't remember it crashing once and currently it does everything I need it to and I have never pushed it beyond its capabilities other than trying out the best graphics in a game in first boot.

still yet to hear a real reason as to why ud pay double the price for a shinier, less compatible machine other than brand preference. I still find most MacBook users only use an i5 processor for browsing facebook and a music library.

[pedg]

amazes me his entrenched ppl become in thus debate and mostly over nigley things, how often does a pc crash? how long is a piece of string? my main desktop is 6 years old, I have upgraded windows, ram, HDD & graphics card on it and I can't remember it crashing once and currently it does everything I need it to and I have never pushed it beyond its capabilities other than trying out the best graphics in a game in first boot.

still yet to hear a real reason as to why ud pay double the price for a shinier, less compatible machine other than brand preference. I still find most MacBook users only use an i5 processor for browsing facebook and a music library.

Its all part of how people justify things to themselves. If you are going to buy something for twice as much as another item that would do the same job then people have a tendency to both exaggerate any advantages in what they bought whilst also exaggerating the disadvantages of the cheaper option. That is why you hear mac owners saying things like "Well at least I don't get the blue screen of death every day" or that "everything works perfectly on a mac".

[solentstars]

Its all part of how people justify things to themselves. If you are going to buy something for twice as much as another item that would do the same job then people have a tendency to both exaggerate any advantages in what they bought whilst also exaggerating the disadvantages of the cheaper option. That is why you hear mac owners saying things like "Well at least I don't get the blue screen of death every day" or that "everything works perfectly on a mac".

amen to that,all i know is that i have saved lots of cash which i worked hard for by getting value for money.

[Whitey Grandad]

I must have saved 70 years of my life by using a MacBook. It seems like more.

[JPTCount]

I must have saved 70 years of my life by using a MacBook. It seems like more.

but u have to use this bonus time going on about ur brilliance in achieving bonus time or else it would be a waste of time getting bonus time, so does it really count as bonus time?

:-)