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boom it's in there so that's what she said right what's going on guys your average consumer and I've been using the iPhone as my main daily driver for about three years now and I recently decided I'm going to be switching over to the new Samsung Galaxy S a of course has to document the experience to let you guys know how that transition was NZ was actually feasible for me to go ahead and make the switch so let's take a look at day one and a little context alright I've got my iphone 7 plus never thought I wasn't taking one of these to it I'm gonna use the sim ejector tool to uh take out the SIM card and oh this is a bad sign already folks the SIM card style alright I like to SP get enough to weren't making it my daily driver I haven't made an Android for my daily driver since I don't know I guess since maybe re when you got an iPhone right yeah then that kind of made me jump on board because of iMessage and all that boom it's in there I gotta admit guys I'm nervous so for the next week I tested things that I use on a day-to-day basis like group chats video calls my favorite apps to see if I could actually make the switch it's a prize surprise within my first few minutes I ran into my first hiccup so now we doing good I'm actually posting something on to Instagram from the latest video but I don't have access to iCloud drive anymore since obviously so I'm actually posting it to Dropbox so I can grab it on my phone and then post it suddenly got to change up now now even though the screen on 8 is absolutely beautiful it still has those edges on the side so it does take some getting used to it I said this in other videos but even after using it for even longer I still haven't completely got used to it I don't think you ever really do you kind of just have to not care it isn't exactly the best for content consumption because things on the screen end up looking a bit warped especially if you're watching something with subtitles you're going to have the your angle on the subtitles which isn't really a good look but for just about everything else this should be fine this is absolutely one of those areas where it's like beauty over function because there's really nothing gained from having those edges but it does look good the next hit you take coming from an iPhone is the loss of face time all right so what are you doing at a quality man Oh a little green yeah yeah I see a tool on yours but you're in a dark room though but either way I think FaceTime would probably be better oh you got an iPhone right next to you right you have an iPhone right next to you yeah oh wait I mean all right B so if give our assessment real quick what are your thoughts Oh as you said if this lesson is based on what people know about it but if we're talking about visual quality apps kpop yeah now I'm not a huge user of FaceTime but it was pretty nice to be able to jump into a video call with someone the press of a couple of buttons you really don't have that kind of access with the s8 there is this cool video calling feature that you can use but you can't really find that on many Android phones made with other s8 users but it's not as widespread as something like FaceTime and the quality wasn't really as good now while we're on the topic of communication one of the biggest losses you'll face from leaving the iPhones there's a loss of iMessage if you happen to have a ton of group chats going on you're going to have some problems I struggle to find a good way to fix it and see for yourself okay so right now I'm about to jump into one of our group chats so we're going to see if this thing is going to play well with that I really don't think so but I'm keeping my fingers crossed folks and here we have what I was afraid of the most I sent a group message to me and Anna and it's not showing up on here but boom there we go all of our messages still go inside this guy right there so that group chat is where everything is going to happen so now we're gonna have to make a new group something with my actual phone number and not my Apple account see if that will work better for our group messages so I'm still trying to figure out this whole group chat thing but it looks like they're not sending I don't know I got to figure something out but I retry to create a group chat mine's ended up in a separate chat and they did not go through so we're gonna have to figure this out so gates you how are we feeling I like the phone I love it I think it's great screen is great I love holding in the hands looking at is awesome group messaging man I can't even talk to my people it sucks now don't get me wrong it's absolutely possible to group chat between Android and iOS but if you're coming from an iPhone and you already have group chats that exists the only real way to get that group chat going again while you have your Android phone is by everyone else in the group chat deleting the old thread that is a high cost to pay if you like to archive your messages and look back at them maybe look like it some photos some laughs that you had you gotta get rid of everything if you want to start over on an Android phone that is a pretty big deal now I'm a pretty big gamer especially when it comes to gaming on my phone some of my favorite apps of all time are games that happen to only be on iOS which really sucks so exclusivity to iOS is definitely an issue that you're going to come across if you're playing any iOS only games are even using any iOS only apps that's something you're going to be facing if you switch over to Android and there were a couple of smaller things that impacted my day-to-day use with the phones I was a big fan of reach ability on the iPhone 7 plus when dealing with a big screen the breach ability is an awesome feature because it gets that content from the top right to the middle of the screen so I can tap it without having to use a device with two hands I really really appreciated that and honestly that's why I went with the s8 instead of the si plus si plus had too big of a screen for me to use with one hand so I went with the smaller version another little quick write that I had with the si plus which is so bizarre to me is that emails would come into my iPhone much faster than my Android which doesn't make sense because Android is Google I use a Google email I just didn't get it but despite all that there are still a ton of things I mean say worth being a daily driver the Galaxy sa is one of the best looking phones that I've seen in a while thanks to that infinity display the glossy black finish it all helps it to feel very premium and just taking the sucker out of your pocket you can't help but feel good it's an awesome looking phone and that's kind of one of the things that you really enjoy about a unique phone the way it looks and how it feels in the hand another bonus of switching over to the galaxy s 8 has definitely been USB type-c now one thing I love about the essay is the fact that it does have USB type-c so I can unplug my macbook when the battery's low and just go ahead and charge it boom so now I'm getting juice even though I'm not using the charger that this came with and who said Samsung and Apple can't get along now that's cool because I get to bring around one charger for both my phone and my macbook can't even do that with the iPhone so that's pretty good I cannot say enough how much I miss being able to tweak and customize my phone with the iPhone pretty much what you see is what you get and while that may work for a lot of people I really didn't miss that part of Android so I'm super happy to have that back I like what I've got going on with my s8 right now I think it fits my vibe pretty well let's be honest that's the best part about tech being able to tinker with it now something that I was a bit apprehensive about when making the switch was giving up my Apple watch I happen to use mine on a daily basis so I was pretty happy to find out that the gear s3 was out and I could use that with the SI so today we went to Best Buy picked up this guy I actually did a video with an unboxing of it but I have the Galaxy gear s3 because I needed a replacement for my Apple watch the biggest features that I actually use on my Apple watch is to find my phone feature because I always misplace my phone or maybe I have it in a room I don't know where it is use that feature a lot now I recently found out that I can do that with this so this has just about everything I need that one feature actually have to use the Find My Phone feature right now so test that out there we go boom boom oh the future ever oh there it goes time to go get it now I do know that using a SmartWatch is not something that's super common so if you're under 1% that actually does still use one of these that's something to keep in mind the s3 is definitely a great option for hand roid there's something about those Galaxy cameras that I personally am a fan of now they're not massively better than the iPhone but there's something about the sharpness and the colors that I really like and the fact that the camera allows you to have more control over your photos that's all I want so what's the verdict I'm sticking with the SI that beautiful look the amazing camera all that customization these are all pros that I think outweigh the cons and to be honest it's not like there aren't third-party applications that pretty much fix all the issues with the cons it does stuff but hey it's still possible to get around it now if anybody really really wants to get in touch with you they'll download the third-party apps and make it work with you so you always have those options but what do you guys think would you stick with the iPhone or stay with the s8 let me know with a comment down below if you enjoyed this or found it useful be the cool guy well that give this video a thumbs up I'll catch you guys in the next one till then it's your average consumer face