Chris M.

Samsung Galaxy S5 Impressions and experiences I've been a long time iPhone user, from the iPhone 2G , to the 3GS, 4 and then the 5, I've been almost exclusively using iPhones for the past several years. For nearly all of this time an iPhone has been my only Apple product. It's difficult to think back to a time before the iPhone. Smart phones had resistive touch screens, you had to push hard and use a stylus to get reasonable touch precision. PDAs typically didn't have Internet connectivity and data plans from cell carriers were expensive. Voicemail was something you dialed in to check. Apple's iPhone changed the definition of what it meant to be a smartphone. This was so disruptive that it basically drove Blackberry, Nokia, Ericsson and Sony out of the smart phone business. I've been quite happy with the iPhone. It's simple, reliable and relatively extendable via apps. Apple does restrict what you can do to the iPhone. You won't have full co...

We, my wife and I, recently upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy S5. She was upgrading from the S4 and noticed that after configuring the device and adding her Google account that nearly all of her contacts had missing phone numbers when we had both expected the Google account sync to have transferred nearly everything over in a transparent manner. It turns out that almost all of the phone numbers on the S4 were being saved locally to the device and not to her associated Google account. You might be able to see this on your phone if you go to a contact and hit the edit icon. Some information will be in the 'Google' tab but the phone number may be in the 'Device' tab. The Google part of the contact on an S4 (Verizon) showing the email address The device part of the contact on an S4 (Verizon) showing the phone numbers This is a real pain because you might have hundreds of contacts with their phone numbers only on your device and you'd like these to automat...