It's coming. http://www.appleinsider.com/article...tandard_facetime_video_chat_for_iphone_4.html
I also applaud Apple for Webkit which is used on multiple platforms. There is room for openness in the Apple world!
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Android 2.x simply can not compete with iOS 4.
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It's coming. http://www.appleinsider.com/article...tandard_facetime_video_chat_for_iphone_4.html
I also applaud Apple for Webkit which is used on multiple platforms. There is room for openness in the Apple world!
Now THAT seems to be a fair point. But videochat will likely be more useful when you're on the go, and increasingly, we'll be seeing more phones and iPads on the go than notebooks.
Go to page 5 of this thread and see how android phones are increasing while everyone else is decreasing.
My earlier post about iPhone upraders vs new customers was pointed towards that statistic, in that you may not see a huge increase in apple marketshare if the majority of iphone 4 buyers are upgraders.
Back to your point where open is not selling. Numbers/statistics are not in agreement with your closed minded prejudiced view.
Unlike many other posters here, you seem intent on bashing, where as many of believe that both phones are great phones and will fit the needs of various people. Why bash everything that is not apple
The industry is ridiculous
It's not just us "fanboys." The whole tech world gets all weak-in-the-knees over Apple gear. Really a testament to what the company has achieved.
Of course open is selling. There's more of it floating around.
http://www.androphones.com/2010-android-phones.php
*phew* that's a lot.
This is my quandary. I'm liking what the droidx has to offer, in both screen size, specs (the GPU of the droidx blows the doors off of any android based phone) and services on the verizon network, etc.
With that said, I'm loving the nexus one being google's baby. We got froyo first and it flies. flash on my Nexus is awesome and I just this morning loaded the latest cyanogenmod rom based on froyo. While I expect the droidx to be root at some point, the ease of rooting and plethora of roms is tempting me to keep this baby. It should handle Gingerbread as its within the requirements but I wonder how much more the droidx will perform with Gingerbread.
For instance, statisics show how droidx is fairly close benchmark wise to the N1 that was running froyo so the droidx will blast past the N1 once 2.2 is released for it, later this summer. So much so, gingerbread on the droidx should be quite snappy as well
For the most part my iP4, works great, however I do miss using my nexus 1.
I miss the ability to create a wifi hotspot (feature of 2.2) and the free maps. I also have a google voice account and that is also well integrated. It puts visual vm to shame with it's ability to transcribe vm.
I miss the ability to create a wifi hotspot (feature of 2.2) and the free maps. I also have a google voice account and that is also well integrated. It puts visual vm to shame with it's ability to transcribe vm.
Btw can the iPhone support divX via 3rd party app like the android phones (nexus,desire,legend etc)? I just got rockbase player and it works perfectly.
I ordered an iphone 4 (1st iphone) and a Nexus one to compare the 2.
The nexus one came but is 3g for T-Mobile (It was misrepresented as AT&T )
I am returning it but int the meantime downloaded 2.2 and have been using it some, it quickly found my gmail and connected to and holds my bluetooth
(something that seems to be an issue with the iphone 4)
It even works well without the sim card on my wifi and I have been "practicing" using the touchscreen keyboard, its not that bad coming from a Blackberry Curve 8310.
My iphone is due this week, looks like the 14th so I will put it through its paces also.
I like mac products, have a imac, macbook, 2 160gb apple tvs, 2 120gb ipod classics. Have never had an iphone because I don't believe its as good as other phones. I won't keep this one if it does not work well as a phone #1 priority.
As far as browsing and apps Google is the equal imo so far
The nexus one came but is 3g for T-Mobile (It was misrepresented as AT&T )
I am returning it but int the meantime downloaded 2.2 and have been using it some, it quickly found my gmail and connected to and holds my bluetooth
(something that seems to be an issue with the iphone 4)
It even works well without the sim card on my wifi and I have been "practicing" using the touchscreen keyboard, its not that bad coming from a Blackberry Curve 8310.
My iphone is due this week, looks like the 14th so I will put it through its paces also.
I like mac products, have a imac, macbook, 2 160gb apple tvs, 2 120gb ipod classics. Have never had an iphone because I don't believe its as good as other phones. I won't keep this one if it does not work well as a phone #1 priority.
As far as browsing and apps Google is the equal imo so far
I like that Matias Duarte (webOS design guru) is on board with Google now. I think Gingerbread is going to give Android some serious face-lift. I like that the Nexus One gets the nepotism treatment from Google among all HTC-manufactured phones. All day yesterday, I watched N1 videos. I followed the rumors since last Dec. Google is pretty much using their branded phone as the minimum baseline for 3.0.
It seems like hacking into the Nexus One as of today reminds me of Summer 2008 when I started JBing on my iPod touch at the pre-2.0 iOS era. Just a fun time to tweak and customize. Everything was still free without all the App Store commercializing. And notice there are many free apps for Android Market than the App Store. Being a jailbreaking "pirate" dealing with the underground scene (Dev Team) was just some great times. FREE NES/SNES/GBA/Gen ROMs and hacked Intelliscreens. It was still fresh and raw. Very few people knew how to JB and now almost everybody does and has become played out. You have to pay what were once free apps too.
That's why I am very interested in the N1 and what Gingerbread will bring later this year. I can't afford another $529 for a phone that I wil likely only use as a back-up/travel phone and mainly for browsing. I'll still use my iP4 as my main phone. But if Gingerbread is compelling enough and they drop N1's price to like $400, I will heavily consider it. The 4 looks be my #1, but the ONE looks to be a great #2. Tweaking and customizing a geek phone is just too much fun to miss out and Nexus One has all that hidden potential.
Have a look here guys.
iPhone 4 vs. Droid Incredible Part 1
And here
iPhone vs. Droid Incredible Part 2 Results
iPhone 4 vs. Droid Incredible Part 1
And here
iPhone vs. Droid Incredible Part 2 Results
LOL the fragmentation argument is so stupid. When u have as many devices as android, of course there is going to be some fragmentation. As the OS improves system requirements get higher so older devices get left behind.
Now that there are more idevices fragmentation is starting. look at the 2g/3g iphones. They run iOS4 like crap, and cant even have basic stuff like wallpaper. When iOS5 rolls around 2g/3g will have to run a modified version, if they can run it at all.
Agreed, and google will be slowing the development cycle of android after gingerbread to further mitigate any possible fragmentation.
Besides, the iPhone has fragmentation itself. They're up to iPhone 4 and some stuff will not run on the older phones. that point was quietly omitted.
I always wished that Apple would get back into their old computing-for-the-rest-of-us gig. Like when they had Hypercard.
Google is showing a beta of their new drag-and-drop Android tool, called App Inventor, which lets anyone program an app using the Open Blocks paradigm invented at MIT.
Video demo of making a quick and simple app
This should empower some casual users! And be a little fun to boot.
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Google is showing a beta of their new drag-and-drop Android tool, called App Inventor, which lets anyone program an app using the Open Blocks paradigm invented at MIT.
Video demo of making a quick and simple app
This should empower some casual users! And be a little fun to boot.
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Agreed. I don't think the app inventor is a tool for serious devs but its a good introduction to developing on Android.
On another point - one place where Android scores is the pace of development. Not just with the OS but with the apps and services that surround you. I just installed the "chrome to phone" app that was announced at the froyo release - its simple but really really good. Bring up maps on your browser and get directions between two point. Click on the phone button and your handset springs to life, loads maps and displays the same route and directions as on your desktop. All you need to do is click on go.
This is where android scores and where Apple needs to invest.
On another point - one place where Android scores is the pace of development. Not just with the OS but with the apps and services that surround you. I just installed the "chrome to phone" app that was announced at the froyo release - its simple but really really good. Bring up maps on your browser and get directions between two point. Click on the phone button and your handset springs to life, loads maps and displays the same route and directions as on your desktop. All you need to do is click on go.
This is where android scores and where Apple needs to invest.
This. Android has its good qualities, except for the EVO, that thing is terrible. Dont judge android based on the EVO