17. 4. 2019

How does sheep work with Android?

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Yes, I’m an Apple Sheep. I have an Apple iPhone since 3G, and I’m pleased with those phones. Well, I’m happy with the controls, features, and applications, less with the trend of increasing the size and weight of the device. The dimensions of the current iPhone XS or even XS Max are almost no longer the size of the phone, but the tablet, and the weight rather not talk about it… d8-D

The growing size and weight, when the phone in your pocket almost pulls your running pants off, was an impulse to look for something smaller and lighter, and when I saw and touched Palm, I knew it was a device that I would like as a complimentary phone enjoyed.

But I was somewhat worried about how I get to know the Android OS, the 8.1 version of Oreo on Palm because the last time I saw this OS in version 2 something that didn’t work very well.

However, using Palm is not fundamentally different from iPhone X or XS. The lower three-button Back, Home and Overview buttons and one, two, or long taps are the things I can get used. Controlling the volume, creating a screenshot, and other controls that come out from the top of the display are de facto identical to the iPhones.

As far as applications are concerned, almost all applications, including Apple Music, which I commonly use, are also available on the Google Play Store, so Twitter and Reddit clients have proved to be the only problematic application. I use Tweetbot and Apollo on the iPhone, but these are only available for iOS. On Android, however, I found a replacement in the form of Fenix2 and Boost, and I’m happy with them as well as with the originals.

Finally, I kept the delicacy that everyone is using on iOS and has the potential to discourage it from Palm - it’s messages, respectively iMessage. This part of iOS is not and probably never will be on Android, but there is a way to get around it through the AirMessage application, which works very reliably and about which I write more in another post.

So when it comes around and around, Apple sheep do not have to worry about Palm. Both the device and the operating system are very similar, and I have not found anything essential to prevent me from using Palm. So I recommend Palm to you…d8-D