Help me prove iPhone is better than android to my wife…

So we have a nice new car… Bluetooth connections and all that jazz, but today we discovered that her android phone when connected not only displays texts on the car screen, but also has a function to read them out too. Very good, but this doesn’t happen from my iPhone se and I can’t make it do it – now I suffer the ‘my phones better than yours’ jibes! This is very upsetting from someone who can hardly use a smart phone! Help me make my phone do that stuff too???

I have and iphone and an android phone.
Sorry, can’t help you.

what car?

I had it the other way, my android would only play the music currently selected via bluetooth and nothing else but my Iphone 4 does everything.

Ford kuga – it even offers a selection of answers to the text to choose from…

You’ve discovered the problem with ios. It’s the Fisher price of phones. All big mashy buttons making it easy to use but if you want to do something behind the basics you can’t.

But they aren’t better…they are equally good/bad as each other. The only real ‘weakness’ is that you have to pay a shed load of money for the Apple product whereas you pay less for an Android thing.

have a look here

http://www.ford.co.uk/OwnerServices/SYNC-and-Bluetooth-Support/SYNC-App-Link-Catalogue#/

we use a lot of Fords at work and most people use iphones as they understand that most android devices are more of a disposable item with a life expectancy of a gold fish

Not possible I’m afraid they’re both awful in their own special way.

I used to get hacked off with my android phone on occasion, so I bought an iPhone, now that narks me in equal but opposite ways. Basically, until google buy apple, or vice versa were all shafted, but then well be totally shafted.

Smash her screen – your phone is instantly better.

iPhones are dreadful. I honestly don’t understand why they have such a following.

Androids are dreadful. I honestly don’t understand why they have such a following.

My wife bought an android, she was seduced by the cheap prices.

Christ, its clunky. She hates it after 2 months because everything is just so ‘unslick’ (I know that’s not a word, but struggling to find a way to explain how amateurish the thing is)

So, OP…just tell her her phone is shit because it’s an android. It’ll die soon.

I have an android phone and an iPad. Purely by virtue of having a built in back button I would say that android is better. 🙂

Victoria Beckham has one. A Gold £20 000 one, it must be better at that price.

iPhones are dreadful. I honestly don’t understand why they have such a following.

They’re cool. Which is a good enough reason for buying one if you’re in your twenties.

Once you’re into your thirties though, you’d hope people would be grown up enough to realise that a cheaper, more refined Android device is what they should be buying. An iPhone doesn’t look so cool in the hands of a balding, middle aged bloke who can’t fit into his skinny jeans any more…..

I look sexy as hell with my iPhone.

😀 I don’t doubt it!

They’re cool. Which is a good enough reason for buying one if you’re in your twenties.

No reason not to look cool in middle age. My white iphone sets off the white belt and slip ons a treat.

I bought an android after 5 years with an iPhone. I’ve had it 8months.

It does the job but the iPhone was still better , just more intuitive. I don’t want to tinker with settings I just want it to work and the androids just a pain in arse except for the price which was what drove me to the android. I wasnt paying 700 quid

If they really are that cool, I might upgrade…..

I look sexy as hell with my iPhone.

That’s down to the beard though Lee

“I look sexy as hell with my iPhone. “
why does it cover up some of your face?
well, come on someone had to say it.

I’ve current got a fancy Samsung, a windows and a IPhone 4 (moving to 6 shortly, because a, i’m a drug dealer or b, i’m working on a lame project for work.
if I had to pick one it would be a toss up between the Samsung and the low rent windows phones.
Just don’t like the iPhone, doesn’t make it good or bad. but the absence of a back button is silly.

My Samsung was quite good at phoning and texting people. So is my iphone. Dropped my samsung and got a minute hairline crack i couldn’t even see and it stopped working. Did the same again with a newly installed £70 screen a month later and it stopped working again. If it wasn’t for this i think i’d prefer the samsung, but being a clumsy bastard it’s the dark side for me from now on.

Wow, awesome bickering guys!! Feel proud to set that off, but only one potential answer to my question!! I love my iPhone, it is better, but the simple Idea of displaying a text on the car screen is vexing me!

I’ve got an up to date iPhone for work and a newish android as my own phone.

They’re both pretty good. Android seems to have more features and I like that you don’t need to sign up for all the pish that apple make you sign up for. The iPhone is a bit nicer. That said, with my own cash I’d not pay for an iPhone.

You should know better by now; you will get lot’s of opinions but rarely an answer on here 😉

Am i alone in thinking that cars shouldn’t display things like text messages etc?
One being advertised on tv recently spoke about the facebook app in the car (possibly a peugeot)
I just think, NO, its better to just pay attention to the road/your driving and worry about facebook etc when you’re NOT driving.
As regards OP, i used to have all android, I switched a couple of years ago to all ios, i just prefer it, but I’d struggle to say one was better than the other.
Although, the lack of a ‘back’ button is plain daft.

I’m thinking of getting an iphone SE. What is a good similarly sized android equivalent? I find the 5″ and bigger screens are too much of a handful.

My iPhone shows the texts on my Ford Focus. Yours should do, you maybe need to change a setting or something.

Just say out loud (without pressing a single button on your phone) ‘hey siri, read my texts’ at which point the clever devil will read aloud your messages……

I’m also a bit concerned the driver about to pass me is reading a text off the dashboard.

My phone goes in the glove box which locks with the ignition key. AFAIK this approach works with both ios and Android.

thecaptain that’s what i’ve got on order is an SE pretty much an iphone 6 in a 5 case. Didn’t need a 7 and much prefer the smaller size.

I wouldn’t even contemplate a phone where i couldn’t change the battery in seconds.
The first thing apple people do when they enter a room is look where the plugs are so they can charge their phones.
There they sit, scrunched up against the wall deciding if they prefer drinking their coffee or looking at their phone.
Meanwhile I sit there with an ability that must surely have been beamed from the future, drinking and single tracking all at the same time.

There will be a way to do it. Most manufacturers seem to gear up the car integration for the iPhone over Android. Are you running the latest ios ?. That said Android is better 🙂

My answer would be why would you want your texts displayed on the car screen “Hi Mate fancy a cheeky pint Tbursday after work ?”

Also is it actually a good idea to have such distractions in the car, is it safe to read a long text or reply whilst driving ?

Suggests you may need an app on your iphone

Having never had an iPhone, I think android phones are much better.

HTH…..

I Wonder If Victoria Beckham was born a total t**t , or is a carefully nurtured skill

Also is it actually a good idea to have such distractions in the car, is it safe to read a long text or reply whilst driving ?

That’s not how it works.