The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[RawrImAMonster]

Well a 3 foot fall onto the pavement took out my iphone 6 over the weekend so I guess I'm going to be making the switch to android this Friday.

I stopped by the Verizon store to test out the Pixel yesterday and it seems pretty nice. Android is still not nearly as smooth as even my old iPhone 6. This is especially noticeable with something like zooming in on pictures. However, it's smooth enough now that it won't bother me. That was always my big hangup with Android in the past.

From what little I was playing with it, it seems to take great pictures. Honestly I felt like my iphone 6 camera was worse than my iphone 5 in most situations, so having a good phone camera again will be a welcome change.

Performance wise, I'm not too concerned. Benchmarks seem to show that the iPhone 7 is a good bit faster than anything else at the moment, but I think all of the top tier android phones are going to be more than fast enough for everything I'll be doing with a phone. Ultimately, I wish I could upgrade to the new iPhone, but the lack of a headphone jack just kills it for me. That and iOS 10 has been pissing me off on my old phone. I'm sure I'll get used to android in time.

Edit: Right now I'm using my brothers old Galaxy S3 until I can get a new phone. It is pretty terrible, so the jump to a newer phone and newer version of android should feel that much better on Friday.