Nearby Share is incredible. I use it all the time with a few friends and even with two other individuals who didn't even know they were able to do "AirDrop" smh.
One thing to note is nearby share uses data for small files, Wi-Fi network if both phones are connected to the same network, and Wi-Fi direct if both are absent. That's the reason why Wi-Fi only took the same time as offline because you weren't connected to Wi-Fi. Airdrop uses UWB for the phones that supports it (iPhone 11 and up, Wi-Fi for older ones) to send files but it encrypts them on-the-fly AFAIK. The technology is faster, but the encryption makes it slower.
Who the hell transmits data without encryption. Btw encryption won't affect performance nowadays. Encryption always faster than airdropping. If you know, phone keep encrypting every second, because it encrypt all the data.
UWB may be more energy efficient, but it is by absolutely no means faster than wifi. The U1 chip used in apple's devices, for example, a bit more than 2x slower than S23's wifi.
@@romatawazu8038 it's available on every Android device running version 6 and above iirc. Source: I have been using it a lot among my friends and family
@@Vaibhavgawai2011 It uses the wifi-direct tech that's also called peer-to-peer. (But uses the name NearbyShare) The point is vivo realme oppo & Mi use their own nearby type share that's why samsung used 'quickshare' just not to be groupedout instead samsung users can always use wifi direct thats way more faster!
What's more interesting is that Apple's Air Drop used to suck when it first came out, unlike Nearby Share. I'm really looking forward to see how Google improves it and makes it faster
@@sadatnafis2032 I mean they could make a custom chip to make it faster (maybe for the Pixel) but what's great about NS is that it works on all Android devices
Also airdrop came out like 9 years ago (nearby share like 1 year ago) so it makes sense it would be bad in the very begining. But I think it got better fair quick cause Ive heard many use airdrop and love it.
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@woof woof That's not true. It's a relatively new feature from last year. Android copies iOS and iOS copies android. In the end both users are profiting so I don't understand the whole OS war.
@@zay9450 Coping make a product better. The users wanted something like nearby share in Android, they get it. The users of iOS wants widgets, and an app drawer, they get it. Both sides are profiting, so stop the whole "this company did it first" thing. It doesn't matter who was first.
We used quickshare with my friends that has samsung devices and it's pretty fast than nearby share. Huge files like movies are so much faster with quick share than on nearby share
Haha, It''s 2024 Nearby Share is now integrated with Quick Share under the brand name Quick Share. In other words Quick Share is now the default of every android.
Great video. The most amazing thing its the fact that Airdrop is since iPhone 5 (I don't know if others before iPhone 5 too), and it works over all apple products. Now other companies has been released similar features. But in my opinion Airdrop is the king
So what? Android has Bluetooth file send support since forever and you can send files via Bluetooth to windows pc.. linux pc.. litteraly every Os. With apple only crap ios eco shiit is supported lol just because they dont want you to buy something else
@@feuerherz007 just completely forget about Bluetooth file send if your sending anything slightly large and aren’t ready to wait way way way longer than almost all other wireless file transfer options, the fact is with Apple sometimes they might take a bit longer to introduce a feature than other phones but when they do they perfect it almost all the time where as with androids I like to think of them as beta phones for iPhones, Apple waits for androids to test out a feature and if its a good feature that people like then they’ll bring the feature to iPhones and then they’ll perfect like they have with everything else
@@imtherealvict1m uhm no. Bluetooth is still great for sending pictures across any device PCs, everything. Android has nearby share which is actually faster then air drop. But the great thing it also has Bluetooth to connect to any hardware that doesnt run android.. apple is like they see whats out there, steal good things and make them only compatible with their own brand. Its copying on high level. No inoveation, nothing good for the end user
@@feuerherz007FUCK with Bluetooth and nearby share, because android has to many manufacturer for low end devices it's doesn't get better for sharing files using nearby share. meanwhile airdrop easily and faster for transfer speed
Interesting test. As a former Android user and now Apple user, the biggest difference for me is the fact that Airdrop works with more people around me and more devices.
@Corom Jones That’s good to hear. I only switched about a as year ago. I think my frustration came with people not knowing how to use it and being surrounded with a greater number of Apple users.
@Corom Jones Ah. That was one of the main reasons I switched. I hated waiting for updates and the improvements that came with them. I always had LG and Samsung flagships, but typically had to wait almost a year for a new version. I don’t recall if I had Android 11 or not. Nevertheless, I’m glad transfers work more smoothly on newer Android phones now.
@@zhusikuqi8147 true remember though nothing is for free. Thus any other alternatives will end up having more ads the more they are used. I don't ShareIt. When I did I had an ad blocker. My main problem was it always running in the background, turning on my Bluetooth constantly.
@@genxstar I think Samsung should give up on their own version of apps and UI and should go with everything from google, i.e stock android, G-suite and connection options like Nearby Share instead of QuickShare etc.
@@silverwoodlawn4913 it's not ui only ,there is tons of android OEMs out there ,each using gms and nearby share ,not everyone has a ufs 3.x storage technology for high r/w ,not everyone support 5ghz or 5g tech for high speed transfer rate neither all have similar implementation of APIs ,some are on 28,29,30 ...
@@genxstar but we're seeing an improvement from Google regarding the updates. I just hope every company drops all the usless bloat and just use the near-stock, if not the stock, android. They can bring on subtle features into their UIs; they don't have to change the whole feel tbh.
@@silverwoodlawn4913 Google is trying to fix this by introducing material design yet Samsung's implementation is quite lackluster, I love OneUI yet the stock android has its perks
@@danielj.3326 You answered it too! US is not the whole world. iPhones are popular mostly in us. Android has 85 percent plus Market share. And I am talking about that 85 percent. How easily US youtubers mention Airdrop and iMessage when comparing to android when whole world is on WhatsApp telegram and signal. Apple's software is bloated with apple softwares. Majority of iOS users still use chrome and Google photos amd Google maps. Why give it pre installed when people are not using it. Most of the apples features are gimmicky because of this. Android has features that is scalable to 85 percent of people using smartphone. Btw India has all type of users and way bigger userbase than us.
@@rudeviper I am giving you an example. And that 85% means nothing. There a tons of phones, even phone replicas that runs android. It’s an open source os, while ios isn’t. You can’t compare them. And no they are not popular mostly in us. Even in china apple got 20% market share in q4 2020.
AirDrop does have a way to send via Bluetooth. There’s no option for it, but if both the devices are disconnected from WiFi, it’ll transfer over Bluetooth
Preferences aside these speeds are just bonkus to me🤯🤯not many years ago transferring a 1gb file from ssd to a flagship laptop would take 3 or 4 times slower than this. Wow
@illusioner. _ I honestly am unsure. I have a pixel and so I know how to do it there. But if I had to guess, it is probably where you enable the NFC and then just try it with another phone that has NFC enabled
Every android above Oreo has nearby share now I think, people can't still be using lower android phones like it's 2021, I really hope people start using it like.. it makes life so much easier
I recently tested these with 2.1 GB movie, Quickshare was 30 sec, Airdrop 43 sec, Shareit 8 minutes, Nearbyshare 5 Minutes!!! and tested it multiple times too...I think it was a very weird Result!
I did that a while ago after a couple of months of the release and it was very slow on Pixels but maybe things changed now, anyways here's the video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SnzIDbk3AJw.html
Back then was wifi direcct.. You share to any phone. Near by share is still same. But cannot share with older devices. Funnu thing is you share anything from old phones to new because new phone have wifi direct but option is replaced with near by share from gallery from wifi direct.
Yes in this particular test. Essentially if he was on a wifi network it would use that network but since he isn't the devices create their own ad-hoc network. The test was to demonstrate that the phones will make this fallback. Imagine trying to share and the phone says "please connect to a network..."
Did you know that Huawei and realme (oppo's sub brand) have their own sharing systems? It's called Huawei Share and realme Share, they are both pretty fast in terms of transferring and receiving files. I recommend comparing them also.
@@Jason74357 yeah, sure but they often use Samsung panels anyway, meaning Samsung is able to make them and could use similar panels in their own devices, also the S21 bezels are so thin that you don't need them thinner anyway... While apple is still struggling to get features that android had from the start or at least earlier, widgets for example took basically a decade to arrive on iOS
Dude, nearby share doesn't even show the file in the other phone, it says completed on the sender phone, but still loads on the receiver phone. While quick share is completely done and available on the receiver phone
I use Nearby share for samsung to any android phone data transfer. For samsung phone to windows ...use samsung flow app ..this is really cool...it has casting option ..so literally copy or drag and drop files from pc to samsung phone and vice versa...another option with wifi Direct as usual....so two ways to transfer. Samsung flow available in both samsung store, play store and microsoft store. But I prefer play store.
