Tag: Pixel
Google Calendar and OSX
I’ve been a long time user of Apple Calendar but I’ve switched to Google calendar for 2 main reasons: It’s easier to access on different devices You can set colors for events. I’m now using a Pixel phone and the Google calendar works flawlessly on the Pixel phone, and iPhone, as well as an OS…
How to Copy files from an Android phone to Catalina
Recently I’ve discovered Macdroid and it’s running very will in Catalina with my Google Pixel 3. I find the ‘Android File Transfer’ app very unreliable. In a previous article I recommended another solution called Pocketshare but it also has its problems. Macdorid is working wonderfully for me. Step 1 is to Enable USB debugging. To…
iPhone 11 vs Pixel 4 Camera
See a great comparison here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20915462/google-pixel-4-xl-iphone-11-pro-camera-comparison-test-photos-specs You can slide between shots from both cameras and compare them side by side. (Make sure you move the slider in the middle of the photos.) I’m surprised by how consistently different the colours in the photos are. The iPhone photos look ‘nicer’ but they also look less realistic.…
How to import photos from a Pixel phone with OS X Mojave
SMS messages not delivered when sending from iPhone to other phones.
In this Google Pixel review I commented that one of the frustrating things about the Google Pixel phone was that sometimes it missed incoming text messages. In fact this was so critical to me that it caused me to switch back to my iPhone. I have since discovered that this was not a problem with my Google…
How to copy files to your Mac from Android
If you have an Android phone it’s very easy to copy files across to your Mac computer. Just download this OS X app from android.com and plug in your phone to your USB port. You can then manually copy files across. You can download the app from here.
iPhone vs Android 6 months along.
An update on my Android vs iPhone experiment. At the start of this year I purchased a Google Pixel phone for review and I ended up keeping it because it was so good. So how am I feeling about it 6 months later? The novelty of the Google phone is wearing off but I still…
Google Pixel phone – the review I didn’t want to write.
It’s been a challenging a few months because I can’t get myself back onto my iPhone. I’ve tried three times and I simply cannot go back to the iPhone. The Pixel is a great phone and it plays very nicely with OS X.