Hi all. This looks like a pretty nice forum. I've always been Android and had developer / pure Android and currently have a Nexus 6.
I'm considering moving to a 7 plus so I'm here doing lots of reading and trying to decide between the 7 plus and the Pixel XL.
If anyone has insight, I'm all ears!
Thanks!
Loved the Pixel XL, but I left it for the iPhone 7 Plus, because I missed iOS. Understand, I
regularly swap back and forth. I'm sure I'll pick up another Pixel XL in a few months. However, I keep going back to iOS because it works. You don't have to try and see how to make something work, or turn off the bluetooth and then back on to connected, or reboot constantly, or go into Airplane mode and back because it's stuck on 3G. Oh wait. I had to do that with my last iPhone 7 Plus, so maybe you do have to do that sometimes. However, both phones are the best right now. You have to decide if you really want to up and leave an environment that you know and start over again. Switching isn't really the problem. The problem comes when you want to open your favorite app that you paid for on Android, and now you have to pay for it all over again on iOS.
I will say this, the Pixel XL had the best LTE radio of any phone I've ever had. My work is cellphone hell, and I never lost my LTE signal on the Pixel XL. The iPhone does a good job, but nothing was like my Pixel's strength. My first 7 Plus had horrible signal. That was why I switch to the Pixel XL, because my first 7 Plus's signal, however, it must have been a bad device, because this second 7 Plus works just fine.
No Android phone can beat the iPhone's battery life. If you turn everything off on the Android, you can get pretty good life out of it, but you don't have to do anything with the iPhone and it'll still get better battery life than a working Android. This is because Apple controls the hardware. I figured the Pixel could keep up, but it can't. I can go almost 2 full working days on the 7 Plus. I could
n't go an entire day with the Pixel XL.
So, decide if you really want to move to iOS first. It's what's important.