Why and how I switched from Android to iOS

Recently switched from Android to iOS. I will probably write things that are obvious to some. But I would have switched to iOS earlier if someone had written this note before me.

Causes

Being an adherent of Open Source and Linux, a year and a half ago I bought my first smartphone, of course, with Android on board – HTC Legend (Android 2.1). After a while, the following things began to irritate me:

The SMS inbox began to load very slowly when filled. 10 (ten) seconds, and that's not the limit. As a programmer, I don’t understand how this could be done.

The phone periodically at night decided that it was one time zone later. The alarm clock rang an hour late. Cool, right? I'm not entirely sure it's Android, but other phones haven't had these problems.

Insufficient flexibility of network settings. The organization had some kind of complex VPN with a proxy. Android couldn't. The neighbor's iPod did.

Well, the little things. Switching screens is slow even with a fairly powerful processor. The 21st century is here, please do me a favor!

Features of the transition

Contact list and calendar

Being a user of Google services, I didn’t hesitate to enter the entire contact list from my old (pre-Android) phone into Google contacts. Android uses this Google data as a phone book – very convenient.

In the prospect of switching to the iPhone, I was confused by the need to do something with the contact list and calendar. I used both together on the phone and on the desktop, everything synchronized perfectly.

There is a way out, it is described in detail here support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=14252&answer=138740 – Exchange is used for synchronization. In the last step, select only the contact list and calendar.

Mail

Some people also prefer to use Exchange to synchronize mail between the native iOS mailer and gmail. I still recommend installing the proprietary Gmail application from Google from the AppStore. It is more flexible in terms of gmail features.