Thinking of making the switch? From iOS to Android but worried that your whole life has already been wrapped around by Apple's ecosystem? You don't have to. There's always a way to do it right. Here's how. Let's start with contacts and calendars.

It's easy to setup your contacts and calendars. As long as you're running iOS 3.0 or above, and already have an active Google or Gmail account, you can do it directly through your phone. Check it out:

On your iPhone select Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Set up a new "Microsoft Exchange" account (yes, even if you're trying to import from Gmail).

Input your email address and login info. Enter a domain if you have one for an actual ME server; Gmail users can leave it blank.

Select "Server" then either input the ME server address or "m.google.com" for Gmail.

On the final screen, select what you want to import—Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and/or Reminders—then hit Accept.

How about all your media? Surely you have all that music, videos and pictures. And you'll need to take the data out of the iPhone. How do you do it?

In PC: Open Explorer, locate the files on the phone and copy them to your desktop.
In Mac: Use Image Capture to download the files to the desktop.

Once all of that is done, connect your Android to your computer and transfer the media to the phone.

For OSX users, if your new Android runs ICS or above, download Android File Transfer Utility do your Mac, and then drag-and-drop. Images and video go to DCIM, music goes to, well, Music.

Of course, there are easier ways to transfer your media, perhaps the cloud would be a better option? Some may opt for a dropbox solution though that may not be a large enough option.

Android won't sync with iTunes, instead you might want to check out Google Play. It will be able to store up to 20,000 uploaded tracks for free or you can check out Amazon Cloud Player, which offers 5GB of space for uploaded tracks at no charge. Or use Spotify.

As for apps, most of the popular ones are already on Android as well, though transferring them from your iOS to Android isn't possible.

[Google 1, 2 - Tricky Ways - CNet - MSNBC - Ars Technica]