I care about Android, therefore why i'm posting in this thread.
If you are refering to my reply to his post, then you are being a hypocrite.
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I care about Android, therefore why i'm posting in this thread.
If you are refering to my reply to his post, then you are being a hypocrite.
That saying, I do feel this thread would be better off in the Community Discussion or the Apple, Industry and Internet Discussion boards.
Fair enough, but I think a thread like this might get lost in the other forums because they aren't related to phone/Mac interaction. For instance, if I have a question about syncing something between two Macs and my EVO, where do I put that? If I put it in the iMac forum, there is a high likelihood that people who have a Mac of another flavor and an EVO will never see it, and thus, never respond.
Another example...check out the MobileMe forum. There are plenty of threads about MM competitors and many of them get a lot of civil replies. Do those threads technically fall under the MM category? No, but since they deal with many of the same issues as MM, it's the only logical place to put them.
So the ideal thing would be for there to be an "other smart phone" forum for discussion of how other phones interact with Macs, but since that doesn't exist, the one forum that does deal specifically with smart phones seems to be the most logical location for a thread like this.
Just because someone owns Mac computers doesn't mean they will only ever own Apple products. If you don't care about Android, why respond at all?
I'm glad to be a hypocrite to members ruining these forums. Thanks!
Why in hell is someone coming here to find about a Droid? Seriously!!
Lets have more Droid threads. Have at it. Surely you guys have more questions? Colors? Software? Apps? Start posting. Maybe we can get so many Droid threads in here that iPhone users need to find a new forum.
BTW, the other smartphone forum was already brought up and Q nixed the idea.
I'm sure MacRumors would crumble under the deluge.
Too bad. If it existed all the vitriolic comments on this thread might make sense.
Gig 'em
Where did that come from?!? All I can tell from the comments here is people are getting frustrated at useless off-topic threads in these forums. They are coming here to read about the iPhone, right?
I didnt see any thread title "iPhone General Discussion" What you linked is PHONE discussion, not an iPhone General Discussion.
But I do agree that some of those post are more descrete than what we have here.
I'd think that there might be a few people out there who have owned an iPhone, whether it be a first gen, 3G, 3GS, or 4, who might have switched to a Droid, have a Droid as well, or have thought about it. I know if I was interested in making the switch, as a long-time iPhone and fairly long-time MR user, I may want to solicit opinions on this forum. There are a lot of very smart folks in here who have valuable insight to share. Opinions on other smartphone platforms, from an iPone user's perspective, are quite advantageous.
I think that is why someone would post about the Droid in the iPhone forum and I'm pretty sure there is nothing in the forum rules stating you can only post about iPhones in the iPhone section.
I'd be willing to bet that you will find people posting threads about Linux and Windows machines in the Mac Forum, Google and other cloud services in the MobileMe forum, etc.
I haven't had the issues you described with iTunes and my iPhone and my backups are usually pretty quick as well. When I wanted to get a video onto my EVO, the fastest way was to mount it as a disk drive on my mac, and then drag the movie file into the folder. However, the EVO came with a "Class 2" SD card, so that meant that the transfer for this one movie took 15 minutes. The same movie was transferred in 30 seconds to my iPhone via iTunes and it simply required me check a box. You can get faster SD cards for Android phones, but guess what? That brings the total cost well past a 32GB iPhone. I will say that once I did manage to get a movie on the EVO, watching it on the bigger screen was great.
I was also disappointed to learn that HTC capped the frame rate on EVO's to 30fps to preserve battery life. This makes certain higher quality games laggy. One more thing, Doodle jump for the iPhone is 99 cents, while that same game for Android is $3.49--and you only get one level! So many hidden costs for Android it seems.
Overall, I still like Android but I'll wait to see if Gingerbread improves things. For now, iOS is still the best user experience (outside of crappy AT&T that is). Then we'll have LTE on the horizon as well, and that will probably cause major hardware revisions across the board.
Wow. Seems I've made a mess of things. Sorry. To the 'friendlier' posters: thanks for the support and great reasoning. I didn't put this up for attention or to get "flamed" thank you very much.
WHY would you only list Droid phones? Why not Droid, HTC and Samsung? Seems more logical to me. As for those saying this thread dont belong here. Stop your whining! You didnt have to read it.
do you not even get the point of all this? here, let me bust out the crayons and color it out for you....
1. this is an IPHONE FORUM (Arn of MacRumors created this forum specifically for people to discuss.....wait for it.....the IPHONE)
2. if you want to discuss the iPhone as compaired to other phones, such as android phones, then do so. However, to create a thread SPECIFICALLY geared toward people to "discuss generally", the Andoid platform by itself, is well, dumb. Go to an Android forum. I'm sure there is a guy, just like Arn, who created a "General Discussion" or "Android Forum" for you to hold your discussions
I'm still baffled why you want to even discuss Android phones on an iPhone forum. really, i'm baffled......
I didnt see you post this in the Galaxy S thread. Shudup and dont respond if you dont like the topic.Why So Serious?
I was mainly focusing on the Droid/ Verizon brand, and not other carriers/ other phones. EVO 4G and Samsung's Galaxy S are on different threads, so... yeah. Sorry about that.
On the topic of the OS.. Android has some cool features I did enjoy for the 30 some days on the Evo I tested. However the hardware HTC tries to pass off is garbage IMO. The battery door did not seat properly (on three different Evo's) I had swapped out due to light leaking out from the glass front. The UI was ok, lots of options to play around and make it look pretty (if your into that sort of thing) but not as responsive as the iOS. Android is still missing that polish to the OS that makes the iPhone what it is.
Having only used an HTC device I hope another handset maker builds a better quality device because the Evo was laughable from battery door, front glass falling off to the compressed "HD" video and poor camera results. Wimax is just another gimmick to sell phones, it's poor indoor performance and limited speeds have already been surpassed by my iPhone 4 pulling near 5mb down and 2 up sitting in my house while the Evo placed in a window sill to get any 4G bars is capped at 1mb up and never had it go over 3mb and avg'd 2 down.
As much as I wanted to leave ATT, the iPhone IMO is so much better built in both hardware and software from a polish and build quality I ended up deciding to deal with ATT than the log list of issues both Sprint and the Evo showed in a very short month of testing.
Having only used an HTC device I hope another handset maker builds a better quality device because the Evo was laughable from battery door, front glass falling off to the compressed "HD" video and poor camera results. Wimax is just another gimmick to sell phones, it's poor indoor performance and limited speeds have already been surpassed by my iPhone 4 pulling near 5mb down and 2 up sitting in my house while the Evo placed in a window sill to get any 4G bars is capped at 1mb up and never had it go over 3mb and avg'd 2 down.
As much as I wanted to leave ATT, the iPhone IMO is so much better built in both hardware and software from a polish and build quality I ended up deciding to deal with ATT than the log list of issues both Sprint and the Evo showed in a very short month of testing.
Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with your EVO. Luckily, mine has none of those issues.
Ironically, the iPhone (in all its iterations) has suffered through a litany of similar issues since its release a few years ago, but only a small (albeit vocal) minority ever experienced them. Like them, perhaps your experience is unique to a small percentage of unfortunate users and is not necessarily indicative of the overall quality of HTC phones in general.