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5 reasons why I’m ditching Android for an iPhone

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Register Username: Password: Cancel Forgot Username / Password? Back to Mobile Print 5 reasons why I’m ditching Android for an iPhone Mar. 4, 2011 (11:35 am) By: Brian Osborne

I’ve been the owner of an Android smartphone since February 2010. Admittedly, I got the phone because I am a Verizon Wireless customer and the Apple iPhone wasn’t available at the time. Based on my experience, I can honestly say that when I am eligible for a phone upgrade I’m getting an iPhone. Here are top reasons why I’m switching:

1. Upgrading the Android OS depends on the phone’s model and manufacturer

I can’t tell you how annoying it was to buy an Android phone with the promise of an OS upgrade around the corner only to find out later that Motorola decided not to move forward with it. iPhone owners have at least some promise of upgrades for iOS, though, admittedly as iPhones get older it is understandable there won’t be further upgrades for earlier generations.

The lack of an Android OS upgrade for your phone means you won’t be able to download certain Android Market applications because they don’t support earlier versions of the operating system. So, once your manufacturer decides they’re done, so are you when it comes to getting certain Android apps. In my case (Motorola Devour), I can’t even download the Twitter client for Android.

2. Lack of standard DRM solution

Netflix has been offered for iPhone for some time now. So, many have been wondering why a Netflix client for Android hasn’t come along yet. The simple answer has been that there is no standard implementation in Android to handle digital rights management (DRM) which would allow Netflix to stream movies and television shows with the confidence that they won’t somehow be copied. Netflix is contractually obligated to secure its streams with DRM by content providers. We reported on this issue in November of last year, and the best Netflix could offer was that some Android phones would get a Netflix client this year, but that was going to depend on the manufacturer.

3. iPhone offers better OS stability

Macs have earned the reputation of being reliable and not as vulnerable to lock-ups and crashes. There’s a simple reason for this: When Apple updates the Mac OS X operating system it knows what hardware configuration it is going to run on because it controls the hardware as well. As much grief as Microsoft gets over Windows instability, that instability is understandable when you consider the numerous variations of hardware that could run the OS.

The iPhone shares the same benefit as the Mac in that Apple produces both the OS and the hardware. My experience with Android has been similar to my experience with Windows. I feel I shouldn’t have to deal with reboots and lock-ups on my mobile phone, especially if I might need it in an emergency situation. Undoubtedly, since Android must work on a number of hardware configurations your OS experience is going to be tied to the phone you purchase. I’d prefer a safer bet in which the creator of the OS and the hardware is the same company.

4. The iPhone gets applications first

As an Android user I am sick and tired of playing second fiddle to the iPhone. It seems the iPhone is always getting applications before they eventually end up on Android OS. There’s a simple reason for this that I previously alluded to. When creating applications for the iPhone developers know that there are a limited number of hardware configurations they have to consider. When it comes to Android there are countless configurations which could interfere with the performance of the app.

A great example of what a headache it is to deal with developing for Android is the experience the creators of Angry Birds had. As with other applications, they launched on the iPhone first and eventually ported it over to Android. They did their best to offer the app for as many Android devices as possible, but in the end they ran into performance issues which had to be addressed. Having an Android phone is no guarantee you are going to be able to run an Android app. It seems when it comes to the iPhone you are going to be less likely to run into such a situation.

5. The iPhone leads and everyone follows

Besides being first to receive apps, the iPhone also seems to lead the way when it comes to functionality for smartphones. The iPhone 4, for example, was launched with dual cameras to allow for the use of FaceTime video conferencing app. It wasn’t the first phone to do this, but it made video calling something people expect from a phone and something people actually use. The iPhone 4 also brought things like a high pixel density display and HDR images.

While the iPhone isn’t always the first to put out features or technology, it’s often the first to do things well and the device that everyone else has to catch up with.

In Summary

With all that being said, I will be the first to admit that the iPhone isn’t for everyone, especially folks that like more freedom in what applications they run on their smartphone. Android’s ability to install applications not downloaded via the Android Market has been great, and I can see where some people wouldn’t want to give this up only to be locked into the App Store. I will also say that I am sure there are folks out there with Android phones that don’t get lock-ups and don’t need to reboot often. Some phone have offered an update to Android OS and pack better specs than I (and many other Android users) have experienced.

For me personally, it comes down to the fact that I want to simplify my life when it comes to my smartphone. I prefer the hardware and the OS to be created by the same company because logically the performance should be better. I also prefer not to have to wait for applications to come out–I’d like to get them on the iPhone first.

Ultimately, everyone will have to make their own decision in regards to what smartphone is right for them. For me, there’s an iPhone in my future.

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Ryan [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (11:47 am)

Make sure you switch all your PCs to Macs as well. Honestly who the hell watches Netflix on their phone?

Sal Cangeloso [Staff] Mar. 4, 2011 (12:02 pm)

fwiw- I use netflix on my phone a lot. I wouldn’t change phone platforms just for it, but it’s definitely something I would miss if I went Android.

djwilkinson1 [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (12:02 pm)

you dont NEED to switch to Mac in order to use an iPhone, it works well with both PC and Mac. I watch netflix on my iPhone all the time. I average about 4 or 5 gigs per month on 3G and 95% of that data usage is from Netflix…

lamorpa [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (12:23 pm)

I think the biggest reason to be on a Android phone is integration with gmail, gcalendar, etc. I’m making the decision right now. $49 3GS or $99 HTC Inspire. Any (admitedly biased) input?

jqp [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (12:47 pm)

Basically, you just summarized the ways in which proprietary can beat open.

John Mar. 4, 2011 (12:54 pm)

Some good points made in this article. I ditched my PC for a Mac a few years back and couldn’t be happier. I’ve also been using an iPhone since 2008. This is a matter of control, simplicity, and stability vs. open architecture, varying platforms, and choice. I prefer the former. Being a software engineer with over 10 years of experience and much time fiddling with a variety of tech gadgets with different operating systems (Windows, OSX, Unix, Linux, etc), the choice between iphone/ios and android is a clear one. Choice is great and openness sounds good, but you need control (synergy b/t hardware and software) for the best user experience. Believe me, I like to tweak my devices like everybody else, but when you open it up and allow more tweaking and different types of hardware, you’re going to have problems. It’s inevitable. As a developer, when you have to account for many different versions of operating systems and hardware, the end product is not going to be as good. Period. This is obvious from a software development standpoint. Lots of apps on android are written to support the lowest common denominator. That is, in order run on all diff android platforms, they take shortcuts such that the performance on the high-end devices is dumbed down to support the lower end ones. On the other hand, with IOS there are less variables and the software can be better optimized to take advantage of the IOS feature set. Android has decided to go with the open route, similar in ways to both Windows and Linux. I like the fact that Windows supports a wide variety of peripherals and software but hate the instability of the user experience. Linux is open, but is a complete disaster as an operating system. I’ve used Linux for many years for software development and have built and tweaked kernels, etc. After much trial/error and hacking, you can usually get something to work. Most folks don’t want to do that. OSX is Unix, but it is controlled well and managed, unlike Linux. Getting back to the iphone vs. droid argument, most people just want their phones to work and want a simple, stable experience. With iphone finally coming to verizon, I see android use waning somewhat in the future. Android got a free ride on verizon w/o any real competition until now. They continue to blast out new hardware at a rapid rate, trying to simply over-saturate the market. Sure, there are times that I get frustrated with Apple because of their more closed experience, but the overall experience is much better and more stable.

Dave Jackson [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (12:57 pm)

Can’t you just watch movies and TV shows on Hulu on the flash enabled Anrdoid machines? I know I do in the UK on the BBC’s iplayer, channel 4’s 4od etc. Shame the iphone can’t do that…

It’s not just the annoying lack of flash, either. I’d hate any phone where I can’t flip out a used battery and put it on charge, immediately replacing it with a charged one. Not to mention the chunky INTERNAL 3500mAh ‘outdoors’ batteries I got for my HTC Desire which are very useful when I want to run tracking apps out on a trail AND still have enough juice to make calls with, send texts etc.

Then there’s the internal memory I didn’t have to pay apple to upgrade for me …

Sure the iphones do have the above ‘advantages’ if you like to pay over the odds and remain tethered to a desktop all day, the rest of us will choose something we can really use.

nathanForbes [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (1:27 pm)

After being a long time Android user myself, I have to say that I love Android and everything it stands for. Also, I own a Motorola Droid (the first one), it’s over a year old and I would still choose it over an iPhone any day. I respect the iPhone and what it has accomplished. Admittedly, the iPhone IMO probably is more generally overall stable than my Droid (and a lot of other Android phones), but, I guarantee you that my Droid would still do decently well against an iPhone.

Android is still pretty young. It’s growing and evolving at an exponential rate.

I guess for me, I love the freedom Google provides. I love being able to run Gingerbread on my phone that Verizon/Motorola has stopped upgrading all together. I love being able to run my Droid at 1+GHz (and have for about a year straight). I love being able to write scripts and little programs for my phone, and also I love the fact that I can compile my cell phone’s Operating System from scratch on my desktop, and make ANY changes I want to the source before I flash it on my phone. That’s nice and you know it. That’s a level of freedom for a quality product you’re not gonna find anywhere else.

Brandon Mar. 4, 2011 (2:09 pm)

1.) Upgrading the Android OS depends on the phone’s model and manufacturer

Yes, but you can buy devices like the Nexus line that will get updates from google. The better the sales of these devices are the better chance that manufactures will stop dragging their feet with updates and bloatware. In the mean time due to Android’s open source there are projects like Cyanogenmod which have brought the gingerbread to over 40 different devices. You are not completely dependent on the manufacture as the device is not locked down. Where as on the iPhone you are completely subject to them changing their polices on a whim which they have demonstrated in the past.

2) Lack of standard DRM solution

“Standard” means proprietary and mandatory. Android developers can use thier own DRM or not use DRM at all which gives developers a lot more freedom. Also Android doesn’t force sales of in app purchases through their market, unlike Apple who wants a 30/70 cut of everything that is on the device. Look at the book sales fiasco. How long until Apple has a competing steaming service on iOS and prevents any competition and leave Netflix out in the cold?

3) iPhone offers better OS stability

This wasn’t always the case. Iphone 1.0 was horrible and do you remember the first releases of 2.0? Android is playing a bit of catch up but I do belive with the Gingerbread release that the phone is damn solid and I have had almost no issues with it. This point is highly subjective as well and not really all that valid.

4) The iPhone gets applications first

This is not true and is also highly subjective.

As far as your second point about Angry Birds. There are some challenges when you support an Operating system that runs on 1000+ devices vs. just the lasest 3 from one company. There is a reason why the iPad 2 is still only 1025×768 and not a retina display. There are no dyamic application layouts in iOS which means everything must be a multiple of the original iPhone.

If you look at the Tweetdeck application for the Android it works on almost every device and took a week to program. The Android SDK is actually really flexible and easy to use.

5. The iPhone leads and everyone follows

Multitasking? High resolution displays? Dual-core processing? Apps (the original iPhone didn’t even support them. Android did before the iPhone did)

I do thank Apple for starting the form factor which now defines every smart phone after it, but beyond that this point is least valid out of all of them

Course FUD gets more readers right?

Dave Jackson [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (2:27 pm)

This is better than Intel vs AMD.

Louis24x7 [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (2:30 pm)

I watch Netflix all the time on my iPhone.
I travel a lot and spend a lot of time at airports all over the US and thus my free time to watch movies are only streamed from Netflix while waiting for (delayed) flights.

WhatGoesUp [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (2:48 pm)

I feel like the iPhone gets judged by too many people who have never used it. I’ve been on Verizon for…forever and got the iPhone 4 as soon as it was out. Prior to that I’ve had a BB and Droid. I hated everything about the BB…but to be honest I only go the Droid b/c I wanted a smart phone and I really wanted the iPhone…but I went into it with an open mind assuming I’d never get the iPhone unless I switched carriers and out here in Jersey AT&T is just not going to happen coverage wise. The BB Storm I had was returned after a short time…it was a mess. The Droid was better, but it was not smooth and very jumpy. Now I know it’s gotten better…a buddy of mine has a new Droid…but it’s still not up to par with the iPhone UI that the iOS has. I’ll admit that so far I’ve had the iPhone 4 for a shorter period of time than my Droid…but I don’t foresee any issues in the near future and already it’s running better, faster and smoother than my Droid did.

Not having an interchangeable battery is a negative no matter how you slice it…but again maybe other people are using their phones for different things, but I’ve had no issue with battery life. Yes, if I watch movies and stream it drains the battery but not to the extent where I’m chained to a charger every hour or anything. Like John said it just works…and it’s simple. And I guess if you need it to be more open there is always the J/B option.

You def. do not need a Mac to enjoy your iPhone…heck for what you’re going to pay for an iPhone 4 and a new Mac…you’d be hitting your wallet where it hurts! I had a Mac prior to my iPhone purchase and it is nice knowing that everything will get along and play nice…not saying that it won’t on a PC but at least I know that if Apple changes something with its OS it will have a ripple effect down to everything else using the iOS and vice versa.

I know many people will argue this point but I also argue that Apple is leading and everyone else is following. I guess it all depends on when you jumped into the race. Apple comes out with something new and exciting and is in the lead usually for about 1 year…in the mean time everyone plays catch-up and has the advantage to see what Apple did and attempt to improve on what they have done and come out with their own product which may be bigger and faster and nicer but they had the advantage of time…then Apple gets their own time back to take what they have done and what others have come up with and release a newer updated model. Looking at it as a sprint month to month or year to year the leader of this race can change…but in the marathon Apple is consistently in the lead. I know it may seem that I’m APPLE APPLE APPLE but that’s just not the case.

This is why I love technology…it’s constantly advancing and companies make great leaps forward and everyone seems to learn from everyone else on what works and what doesn’t…what people like and don’t like. Tablets are the new must have item and is anyone really going to argue that it was thanks to the iPad…I didn’t think so. I’m not saying Apple was the first one to EVER do it and they deserve all the credit or anything, but let’s be honest here…anyway I know everyone and their brother is coming out with a tablet this year and just look at all the different approaches to a relatively simple device.

I don’t think you need to like Apple and buy all their stuff or anything to see that over the past few years they have just been one step ahead…I’m sure it won’t be that way forever…but for now that is just how it is.

Shile Mar. 4, 2011 (7:53 pm)

This is your opinion and for all we know you might have 51% Apple’s Stock…lol. Seriously, every man for his own. I like Android and the thing with OS upgrades is not entirely true. Except you’re not very tech savvy, there’s quite a number of tutorials and mods out there on how to flash and get popular(such as Cyanogenmod)developer upgrades.

tom jackson [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (8:44 pm)

I would like to point out that the vast majority of smartphone users have absolutely no desire to start hacking their phones, finding ways to update the tough models, or losing sleep over the definitions of “open” and “closed.” Let’s get real here: most people are not computer geeks!

The iPhone is popular because it works well and has apps people want to buy. The apps are in one place, not scattered all over the web. No one has to worry that the apps they download from some site might be containers for malware because anyone can create and distribute them. The iPhone is just like an POTS phone: it works without the geek crap getting in the way.

Doby [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (9:20 pm)

So my time with the iphone is over, and now with some first hand expereince, to all those that have ever asked what I think of it, the list of less then ideal aspects is below, as I took them down. Basicaly in the order of exprence.

Fails to load app store with wifi on
credit card info required to download free apps
Can’t forward calendar
Can’t reply to calendar
Can’t add to calendar (notes)
Home screen portrait only
Lock screen lacks info
App store require password each time for free apps
Can’t add shortcut to main screen for wifi and Bluetooth, etc
Folder limited number of apps
Home screen apps are passive
Native map doesn’t have a turn by turn
No flash support
Can’t flag emails
capslock not intuitive
Can’t select word completions easily
Lock screen doesn’t auto dim
Voice dial
Passive icons
Email content loads slow
Long lag in various apps (it doesn’t just work)
Background apps don’t continue running (web page doesn’t keep loading)
Not enough physical keys such as back and camera
Delete only one vmail at a time
No task manager
Can’t snooze calendar alarm
Can’t customize screen time based on plugged in or not
Poor landscape support
vibrate switch didn’t prevent the phone from not randomly playing a podcast, aloud, during a meeting (very not cool)

Most of these are of aspects that I consider lacking that either the Android or Windows Mobile 6.5 have that I have been using lately. I’m also not saying that there were no positive aspects of the phone, however, the phone is far from perfect like many people seem to portray. I mostly credit the phone for helping start the evolution to a consumer friendly “smartphone” device. However, I want to point out that at this point Apple still has a lot to learn from even its outdated competition, let alone its newer compitition. Anyone searching for a good smartphone woudl be wise to carefully consider the options before simply assuming that the iPhone will be the best device for them.

tom jackson [Geek Member] Mar. 4, 2011 (10:20 pm)

Some things are flat-out incorrect, others are just minor preferences:

I get the App store with Wi-Fi all the time.

iTunes already has my credit card information for non-free purchases.

“Forward” or “Reply” to Calendar, huh? I can confirm, that’s what I do.

I add things to the Calendar all the time. Syncs up fine.

Lock screen info? Like what info?

Eight apps per folder. It’s a folder for goodness sake not a giant gunny sack! How many do you want?

“Passive apps, passive icons” Huh?

Never use my phone while driving so map turn-by-turn is irrelevant. I prefer to drive, not stare at a screen and cause accidents.

Thank Goodness for no Flash. I HATE FLASH! Don’t even miss it.

Can’t flag emails. OK, but I use my laptop for true email functions. Phone screen too small for real work.

capslock not intuitive. yes.

Can’t select word completions easily. Don’t use them, don’t know anyone who cares. But OK, maybe.

Lock screen doesn’t auto dim, Huh? Why?

Voice dial. Disgusting feature on EVERY phone regardless of make.

Email content loads slow. Mail is plenty fast for me, never noticed a delay. Mybe you go for those giant emails that use a lot of words to say absolutely nothing?

Long lag in various apps (it doesn’t just work). Never has one that exhibits this.

Background apps don’t continue running (web page doesn’t keep loading), Not true for all, some video apps have a larger buffer when I return if I Pause first. Other than that, if I go somewhere else I’m not going to read that buffer, am I? It’s a phone, not a laptop.

Not enough physical keys such as back and camera. Thank goodness for lack of keys! Who needs a mess of silly keys getting in the way?

It Delete only one vmail at a time. Yeah.

No task manager. You have got to be kidding! Totally useless feature.

Can’t snooze calendar alarm. Never use snooze on any alarm anywhere.

Can’t customize screen time based on plugged in or not. Why do you want this? Can’t see the wire connected?

Poor landscape support. How? Works fine for me.

vibrate switch didn’t prevent the phone from not randomly playing a podcast, aloud, during a meeting (very not cool). Shut the D*#!m phone off during meetings. You dare to have your phone turned on during one of MY meetings and you are out of there with a boot up your…! Never had any podcast just “randomly” play.

The key to this is just so obvious! You are a geek and have a different set of requirements from the majority of smartphone users. I am sorry you did not like your iPhone but your list was, at least in my opinion, really scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for a reason. What is wrong with just saying “The iPhone did not suit my needs.” That I could respect.

Nitpicker Mar. 4, 2011 (11:05 pm)

@Brandon: Regarding your reply to point 5, iPhone OS definitely had a native SDK before any Android phones shipped. The T-Mobile G1 (aka HTC Dream) was released on October 22nd, 2008. The iPhone 3G was released on July 11th, 2008. iPhone firmware 2.0 (released with the 3G) was the version that introduced the App Store.

Several of your other points are valid, depending on your use case. I use my iPhone *heavily* and I never manage to get it down to below 50% charge by the time I get home. They build decent batteries into them.

I’ve been using an iPhone since two days after they were released (I waited so I could play with one before actually pulling the trigger), and yes, I do remember that the OS was originally … sub-optimal. I was also involved with the first team to jailbreak it, and as soon as we got in, we knew immediately why it had problems and why there was no native SDK. iPhone OS 1.0 was a horrible mess internally. Later updates cleaned it up a *lot*. It’s funny. A lot of people talk about how the jailbreakers “forced” Apple to release the native SDK. In reality, it was patently obvious to us that they were planning to release one, they just didn’t have it ready yet. I dropped off the radar shortly after the official SDK was released, because it does almost literally everything I’ve ever actually wanted to do with the device (short of the ‘Because I can!’ things like having terminal access to the phone itself).

Bored Mar. 5, 2011 (1:44 am)

One reason why I’m ditching geek.com:
Half the news is about Apple.

Doby [Geek Member] Mar. 5, 2011 (2:23 am)

@Tom
My list of stuff was to give a list of things that are not idea. People always say it just works and act like its perfrect. Its not. At the bottom of my post I think I stated “before simply assuming that the iPhone will be the best device for them”. I want to point out I never said its NOT the best device for them. For some people it might be. My comments and grips were notes I jotted down because I had people asking me what about it, and asking me to justify my standing instead of just say “it sucks”. Although I don’t think the platform sucks, I do have a list of grimps that justify my position. I’m happy to know that you are a person that respects people that have an oppinion that they cannot justify, most like to hear some reasoning. A person looking around for a perspective on the iphone can look at my comments, see if they apply, then choose accordingly. If I said it doesn’t suit my needs, well, thats not much to go off of.

On a different tone, I find it very amuzing how even some of the most founded and indisputable comments I made are mearly dismissed. I would respect it more if people just admitted the short comings, and/or just said they obviously aren’t concerned with them and think the positives overshadow those shortcomings. However you had a need to try to directly dismiss each one. Especially amuzing is the ones like the email, how your phone isn’t a primary email device and therefor the flags aren’t important. The whole reason I flag an email is to know to come back to it, so when it requires a long response, or something I cannot do from my phone, I remember to address it, exactly why I preffer to have a flag option on my phone. Also, I’m glad you don’t care to have direction to where you are going in a car, however go to many new locations every week, drive over 30k a year, so I don’t want to print out that many google maps, and I just don’t know the entire NorCal that well. I like the GPS function, why have a second device, but on the iPhone I have to look down, hence why turn by turn is nice, as other devices will natively speak the direction to me, allowing me to watch the road exactly as you elluded.

I could go on justify each comment, but that wasn’t the point. People that don’t blindly follow apple and consider there options careful might now have a list of things to review, and be able to decide that much faster. Or, you know, blindly dismiss and prettend there precisious iPhone is perfect and everyone is stupid that think otherwise.

Doby [Geek Member] Mar. 5, 2011 (2:29 am)

sorry, just one more:
“Thank Goodness for no Flash. I HATE FLASH! Don’t even miss it.”
really, really? seriously, your happy your device takes the option for you to view flash away from you? OMG, really? like, get a feature phone, maybe a StarTAC, at least then you don’t have to deal with getting those pesky emails, or those damn angry birds games that waste all that time…

really, you find that a logical response? I mean, seriously?

michael Mar. 5, 2011 (2:47 am)

@tom jackson

I know for a 100% Fact that My Iphone’s OS 4.2 can not foreword meetings from with in the calender application.

Also dialing meeting phone numbers is a huge problem for me.

Example. 888-000-000×33333 will not work at all…. but 888-000-000 x33333 will work but not with the x33333 part. For a phone that i use for office and home use it has some limitations and i get poked for them will my coworkers who all have android phones that can dial not only the full number but will auto dual the x33333 after 4 seconds. letting them to easily call in.

If you know a work around for this as well please let me know.

if you say you can please put up a You Tube Video i would love to know how my coworkers make fun of my I phone for this all the time.

Dismissing flagging of emails is just really sad that you would say the screen is to small for emails… seems odd. I use my Iphone for emails all the time and would love to flag them. I get about 100 emails a day it is nice to note what emails i need to look at in a larger screen and ones that are not as important. I am not in the office much as i work on the road.

Also my Ipad has the same problems with email and its screen is much larger and very easy to read on.

on the flash point i would love flash on my phone for nothing other than options there are websites that don’t look correctly with out it. Also embedded videos from sites that are not you tube enable will not work on my Ipad or Iphone.

A short list of sites that will not load the videos for me.

Amazon Video
engadget
slashgear

really any site with Video that’s not on youtube.

Turn by Turn Gps is huge saying you don’t look at your phone is the hole reason want you need turn by turn it will read the directions to you with out having to look…

Can’t snooze calendar alarm ? this is just a stupid flaw and the #1 reason i don’t use my phone for an alarm. ( I would if it has snooze) i use snooze all the time and its not like it would be hard to have.

Perhaps they should make the Phone lock up every day or so requiring a force shutdown just so people like you can say well its a good thing it locks up. That way i know its just a pice of human made hardware not something given to me by god….

In the end the phone is not perfect i don’t like the fact that every one clams it is. its good for most people and i think it will get better.

jimmery Mar. 5, 2011 (4:30 am)

i think the author’s phone was a 1.X and he got stuck with its obsolete hardware for 2 years so he got bitter about it. that’s why he’s not mentioning which android it is.

Nostromo Mar. 5, 2011 (4:33 am)

It’s very simple:
Androids r 4 boyz, iPhones r 4 girls!

And Angry Birds is free on droid….like so many, many things that are not on IOS.

Here endeth the lesson.

pie2eat [Geek Member] Mar. 5, 2011 (8:08 am)

The author has been drinking the apple-flavored Kool-aid.
Too bad iPhone does not know how to do multi-tasking or have a dual-core processor.
BTW: any author advocating for a product needs to follow disclosure rules: do you own Apple stock? Do you or family or the company for which you work substantially gain from your opinions expressed?

The article smells a little funky.

Sgdogwalker [Geek Member] Mar. 5, 2011 (11:28 am)

iPhones are for girls? That’s probably the reason why the US Army chose it to boost recruitment. Truth be told, I really tried to like Android but gave up after the realization that my then-barely a year old handset (which was not even in a lower price segment) was stuck forever with OS1.6. Rooting wasn’t an option as I had to rely on many esoteric websites flooded with complaints from those who dared to follow the step-by-step instructions given. As a born-again student with a finite budget, I couldn’t risk bricking my phone. Andoid/Google will never get a penny from me in the future.

Bijeesh Mar. 5, 2011 (11:39 am)

I am Using Android on My HTC HD2 and i am happy with it (cyanogen mod). It has one of the largest screens so email reading is not a problem ( I am running Ubuntu Linux on it )
I can do all these things just bcoz these things are open Source. IMO life is made a lot easier by technological advances and every one should be served ( i would love to see my driver using a smart-phone, Not while driving!).if we are not tied up to any device, carrier, its great.
some peoples silly things would be life savers for others, So please dont use “who wants it ” attitude
Linux may be a disaster but with it i can do all these things ( chk the link)..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgmh3qL85NA

It serves different type of people so genaralisation is not possible as we can see in these comments……

geeknik [Geek Member] Mar. 5, 2011 (9:28 pm)

You know, I had some long response all typed out and ready to go, but I said fuck it, what’s the point? The Apple sheep can’t be reasoned with, or argued with. The Apple gospel is just too strong and you can’t get through to these idiots.

Regular Dude Mar. 6, 2011 (12:05 am)

You know, I had some long response all typed out and ready to go, but I said fuck it, what’s the point? The Google sheep can’t be reasoned with, or argued with. The Google geekdom is just too strong and you can’t get through to these idiots.

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