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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Netflix and the letter D welcome back to their pursuit of retinas rancis the show where a rant rave get all red-faced about something that's bugging me in the wide world of technology up this week we're gonna talk about Android and why setting up a new Android phone is such a pain in the butt this is writers rants it's time to get your antes in a bunch so the nature what we do here at TechnoBuffalo is we test a lot of phones and I use every phone that I review as my daily driver for some period of time five day seven days 10 days however long it might be in setting up a brand new fresh out of the box Android phone is a gigantic pain you've ever used Android you know exactly what I'm talking about recently the sim reader in our HTC one broke so HTC replaced it for sense it's a new one and I was all excited cuz I got to use HTC's awesome back up to where it supposedly does full backups restores that right to your phone not the case the 18 team does not come with HTC's backup installed on it you got a download as an app and it just doesn't work all that well as it does if it was pre-installed right out of the box so it got me thinking why is it so easy to switch devices on iOS get such a gigantic pain in the behind to do it on Android so before all the routing folks get out there and say John if you root your phone you do it very easily I know I've done it I've routed and I can do backups very easily you can do full OS backups you do it with CyanogenMod a ton of others totally get that and understand that but for the average user who's not doing any sort of routing or even jailbreaking on the iOS side switching Android phones like gigantic pen it's a big hindrance for people upgrading and why people still stick with iOS if you don't have another phone to look at and reference how you like it each phone is going to be different and I find that to be very annoying and gets a fundamental problem with Android one of my wish list for Key Lime Pie was that Android and Google in particular would make skin simply that just the skin the way skins are now it's sort of a lightly used term it's really a full different OEMs of Android released by Samsung or HTC for cents there's really no way to turn it off I am hopeful I know this is pie in the sky that would key line PI Google say you know what really gonna make these skins and we're gonna release a full automated backup solution not talking Google's weird backup solution now it doesn't really back my stuff up or sync stuff in the cloud I want to be able to restore my phone exactly the way it was on a new device so if I switched from an HTC device with samsung device I wanted to look the same the icons can look different from sense to touch was that's fine but everything that is the same I want it to be I don't understand why we can't do that yet now try and look at offense perspective of a layman someone who just bought a new phone they walked into 18t t-mobile Verizon Sprint sort of it might be they've got let's say a galaxy s3 they want to upgrade to a galaxy s4 and they turn it on it looks nothing like their old phone looked and they don't know how to do it it'd be great if you could log in say Oh restore from backup hit a button and boom your phone looks exactly the way it did on your old device regardless of what previous manufacturer you use I don't feel like I should have to root or go that road in order to get a backup I love Android androids my preferred operating system but like most things in life it's far from perfect and I think that would be another step to getting it towards that perfection and to get it to be a step closer to the incredible OS that I think you can be selecting your guys thoughts what do you think androids missing for me that is my big one I did a whole video on key lime pie features that I wanted to have you can check look at that attacking a buffalo comm suddenly exhale step away and think our friends and sponsors at netflix you know him you love them it is the premier way to watch TV shows and movies streaming directly to your TV your phone your tablet if you got a game console at home Xbox 360 ps3 Nintendo Wii or Wii U you can get Netflix you can catch up on all the shows that you want to watch have you heard a lot of good things about Mad Men but you want to see what happened in the first few seasons check it out on Netflix to give it a shot go to netflix.com slash buffalo and get a free three-day trial again go to netflix.com slash buffalo and get your stream it out you guys agree disagree I want to hear from you please give this video a thumbs up we most definitely do appreciate it I check us out at TechnoBuffalo com I'm John Rhett enger' I'll see you next video