Day 1 experience of switching to Android

I’ve been using iOS since 2010 (Thanks to Alan Brightman and Victor Tsaran while we were all at Yahoo!) and it has been an amazing experience. Though I’m not a full time screen reader user, I use a few features meant for people with low vision. Again, I am not big fan of using magnification software for the reason that they doesn’t let me skim-look easily. So I enlarge things I really want to see.

Recently I have decided to switch to Android for the reason to having interest in exploring all technologies. Here is my day 1 experience with Honor View 10.

• Phone looks fabulous; not too small or bulky
• Android operating system looks far more better than I have experienced before
• Unboxing was easy. Initially we were not sure how to insert the SIM card but a video helped. Tip: we need to take out SIM tray completely.
• Ability to turn off auto-brightness.
• Still default keyboard is a bit unusable. For now, I have installed Apple keyboard
• Able to download my favourite ringtone
• Still need to find out how to completely turn off notifications and vibration
• Perhaps due to increase in device size or whatever, I found Uber and Verizon Pulse apps more usable than on iOS
• Ability to turn off notifications
• Very easy to transfer data from existing phone; I still need to find out how to transfer messages without need fo installing an app

That’s all for now. But looks like android operating system has more matured from earlier and I may not feel regret of switching from Android phone. Let’s see how it goes.