OPINION : From my iPhone 14 to my iPad 10 , I ’ve been making good use of Apple ’s products for age now and when I normally have to cast away from them for the purpose of a review , I detect myself thirstily awaiting their getting even … until now that is .
In guild to put theTicWatch Pro 5to the test , I need to jump over to anAndroid phoneas anything run Wear atomic number 8 3 does n’t work with iPhone . I knew thatPixel phoneswere among the sluttish Android French telephone for iOS drug user to get to grips with , so I made the saltation to the Pixel 7 which was going unused in the TR authority .
As with any jump to a new phone , there was a snatch of test and mistake as I assay to sign into all of my major apps and accounts on the Pixel , but after that was over and done with , I find myself surprised by the fact that I did n’t immediately want to move back to my iPhone . In fact , as time ’s gone on , I ’ve only end up discovering a ton of features that I wished were usable on iOS .
There ’s also Screen Call , which is one of those features that ’s so cunning , I do n’t sympathise why Google does n’t make more of a song and dance about it . The feature use Google Assistant as a buffer between yourself and any incoming calls , let you see in school text format what the caller is say before deciding what to do with the call . As someone who , unfortunately , receives a peck of scam call – this has been incredibly helpful in separating important phone call from unwanted unity .
As any diary keeper can attest , hold to tape and then dictate audio files is a bugbear of the Book of Job but the Pixel simplifies this process as well with material - meter dictation that can also recognise when different people are talking so that the end result is n’t just one block of text edition .
I also use my phone mostly for take heed to music , podcasts and audiobooks , and the Pixel offers another helpful feature there too by letting you quickly dive back into whatever it is you ’re listening to across multiple apps when you purloin down to deplume up the dashboard . It ’s small feature like these that have made all the difference .
I can appreciate that Apple likes to take metre before implementing major feature of speech but after a decent bit of time with the Pixel 7 , it feels like Io is just lagging behind on one too many things and until the gap is closed , I ’ll be stick to with the Pixel 7 as my independent handset .
