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How many of you have actually used an Android phone?

jca24 said:
really! Apple litigates to protect their property.

yup, google innovates well with that donkeyed up os to run on cheap plastic phones.

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and what happens if Samsung decide to litigate over 3G???...as they invented that....no-one will have a mobile!....

Had the very first iPhone,didn't bother with the 3g,had a 3GS,4 and now a 4S,also owned a GS11 before the 4S,now got a Galaxy Nexus,sold the 4S on flea bay for more than i paid for it....just to boring now....the Nexus leaves the 4S standing....
 
I had an Evo 4g since launch and then upgraded to an Evo 3D. I enjoyed using my android devices but the truth is battery life left something to be desired. I had come from a blackberry where battery life was king. Since owning my 4s I don't stress about my battery levels and I can come back to my phone after hours of standby and find my phone hasn't drained down to an unusable state. I just wanted a phone I could depend on to be available for use. I don't hate Android and can see why people love the OS. I don't think in order to love one you have to hate the other. :confused:
 
BlizzardBolt said:
From Eric Schmidt

Apple litigates, Google Innovates as evidenced by the Nexus Prime and Android 4.0.

Get your info right next time!
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Try do some research on why Apple is litigating instead telling others they have the incorrect information.
 
I've had an HTC G2 about a year now.. here's some flaws for you ;):

*Meebo crashes almost every time I'm outside of it and someone sends me an IM that I choose to look at from the notification bar.

* Tunein radio does that on occasion too, but both of these apps are glitchy and kinda crappy.

* Google Maps has a habit of having a lag hiccup every single time I'm at a red light and want to get quick directions. EVERY DAMN TIME. Sitting at my desk here? WORKS PERFECTLY! Go out and drive.. it hiccups. !#*@%!

It still gets the job done for me though. :) You know Target was just selling Optimus V's for $50 (and then you pay virgin $35 a month). These things are so much cheaper sometimes it's not even funny lol.

Other than that, I don't know. Mine had 2 good drops on my wood floor and neither did anything at all to the phone. Google voice integration is fantastic! That, and I pay $50/mo with tax and all. >>
 
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verwon said:
I had the HTC Evo 4G from December of 2010, until getting the 4S on launch day. It's so awful, that even rooting and using a custom ROM didn't help, especially with the lag and battery life.
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I had the EVO since release day. I rooted it and generally I loved it. Had decent battery life before gingerbread. Would last all day with about 40% or so remaining. After gingerbread I was getting about 14 hours per charge before I would be down to about 5%.

It was feeling a little slow before i switched over to the 4S, but it's nearly 2 years old.

I do prefer a few things on Android over iOS, like multi-key long press keyboards, widgets, and the navigation app.
 
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ChazUK said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.1; en-gb; Galaxy Nexus Build/ITL41D) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30)



Care to share how much time you've spent using these "****" apps on the Galaxy Nexus running ICS?
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I could tolerate about a month. And the apps are different under a new OS? So completely new apps?
 
I have :) Htc desire, desire z, incredible s, sensation and I have just bought a sgs2. I defiantly prefer iOS but I do really like android.
 
I have used the HTC Hero and the EVO 4G. Before that I had the original iPhone.

Right now I am using the 4S and currently prefer iOS to Android for its UI and ecosystem.

The ICS and the Galaxy Nexus is rather sexy though. Too bad it's not available in the US yet.

Overall, between iOS and Android, I don't really think one is better than another. It's a matter of preference.

And for the record...with custom firmware and rom, my EVO 4G's battery life was just as good as the 4S. Customization is certainly not for everyone though.
 
Bought the OG Droid on release day. Have a lot of experience with rooting it, tweaking it, loading various custom ROM's and overclock kernals, etc. Was always disappointed by how it ran in comparison.

Kept it for just over a year and then switched to the iPhone 4 and was blown away by how much better it ran. The OS, quality of apps, battery life, etc.

Recently my wifes phone broke so I gave her my iPhone 4 and picked up a DROID RAZR and took it back after 9-10 days of use. LTE was nice, but destroys your battery, and battery compared to my iPhone 4 was subpar under mid-heavy utilization.

My 4S is on the way... well it's ordered anyways.

So yes. I've used one extensively of both original and current generation, and have kept going back to iOS.

I don't see going back to Android for at least another year or two. ICE is definitely on the right track, but not one of the phones (including the Galaxy Nexus) matches the overall iPhone quality completely. I don't know why, but every Android camera I've seen just doesn't match up and that's a big thing for me with 2 kids.

LTE is very nice, but the tech is too new and it destroys your battery. Since I'm a mid/heavy data user lately since I work the night shift it's just too big of a deal. Hopefully in a year or so the new LTE chips + new phones will be able to find that middleground to make LTE the "norm" for business users (I also use my phone for work).
 
Came from an Samsung Fascinate to the iPhone 4S. My experience with Android was generally positive. There were options for days with the availability of ROMs, Kernels, Customizations, etc. BUT it gets old, at least for me, at the end of the day, stability was key, and in my opinion, Android was missing that (though not by much), which is what led me to iOS.
 
Fiancé had a mytouch 4g.
Everything you said you not did experience in your droid, she did with hers.
She finally went back the the iPhone and couldn't be any happier.
2nd gen iPhone to mytouch 4 to iPhone 4

She is 100% happier.
 
Yes, Nexus One. It is right next to my iPhone 2G and getting charged while my Samsung Focus is on my dresser and I'm typing off my iPhone 4. Some of it can be true about lagginess and problems and some can be exaggerated. Fanboys can be like that. Use the same damn excuses. My N1 is my main phone in the Philippines since it is unlocked and fairly smooth with the occasional force lag and battery life is only as good as my iPhone 2G. There are some probs with Android, but yes, it can be a solid operating system depending on the user and what you put on it. I can generally say that I do LIKE Android although not as polished as iOS or WP. I love the customization and the many free apps. Gives the user more control right out of the box. And this is coming from someone who had been on iOS for over three years and didn't like Android at first. Takes time for the OS to grow on me.

But right now, Windows Phone is the more fun OS to use. More fun to glance at than iOS and Android. I have been getting alot of compliments and stares with my Focus. I love the live tiles and the UI transition animation is buttery smooth and quick. Yes, moreso than iOS. What it only really needs are the apps and keep the prices down for them. But it could be the most intuitive than webOS which I've owned myself. It took me a month to start liking Android. It took me only 2-3 days until I started liking WP when I wasn't so sure with it that first day.
 
Droid 1, Droid 2 (warranty replacement after many Droid 1s), Droid X (replacement for Droid 2 that went dead over my wedding weekend)

All had pretty much every problem imaginable, between dead speakers, dead mics, dead screens and random reboots at the most inopportune times (in the middle of a trip and using it as the GPS)

Customization is cool and all, but having a sporadically functional device fine tuned to your tastes is worthless to me

My son has an SG2, and he's already getting random reboots after two months
 
I had mytouch 3g, g2x, galaxy s vibrant and galaxy s2. Galaxy S is the slowest of them all because Samsung screwed up on the file system and GPS is messed up. I had voodoo fix installed on it but still laggy. Apps on android tend to crash a lot. I have tried many custom roms too. Android isn't stable enough for me. I love to play with apps but there aren't many high quality apps on Android. iPhone just works better. iPhones have tons of free apps. All you need is the "AppAdvice" app.
 
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I've had my LG Ally for over a year and a half and it's horrible. The battery doesn't last, it won't install updates and it takes longer to make changes to the settings. It's been rooted so it can be a hot spot, but I have my calls forwarded to my iPhone 4.
 
My wife has the 4S and I decided to give Android a spin. I was starting to get a little bored with iOS and like the Android a lot. The first day was a little frustrating since Android just doesn't seem as intuitive as iOS (not to mention that I really knew no other way than iOS). After getting familiar with Android, though, I really like it. It just feels like there is a little more substance to the Android OS (but a lot less polish), and when I go back on my iPod or wife's 4S the experience just seems a little dull now.

My wife, however, does not like Android at all. When she purchased her first iPhone, she just picked it up and started using it. With Android, she just could not adapt at all because it didn't feel natural to her.
 
I used an incredible for over a year, great phone, especially with the customizations and hacks i had on there, It was just time for a change and iOS is much better in my opinion
 
I would consider buying Android again just to try out Ice Cream Sandwich and beyond. But Android phones still need improvement in stability and battery life. I want to see it improve on games as well and it has Sony as a partner.

Windows Phone needs to improve on more available apps and not charge us more for apps already found cheaper in other platforms. Android is much closer to iOS when it comes to bare essentials than WP. But WP Marketplace is still better than webOS at least. Still only 40K apps compared to the other two at six figures. Also would love to see more customization. But the live tile can be such a cool and refreshing thing to look at. I love how I can create a live tile for individual contacts. I love to see my a pic of my fav people on my phone the way people used to love being on someone's MySpace Top Friends list back in the day. I thought it was gimmicky at first, but it can really be useful like a widget and gives it a "personality" of its own while the other two can look too much alike. Even the UI and font can be consistent and as fluid in third party apps. Give it a week and it can be a fun OS to use. Glad to see the Lumia 800 exposing the platform even further with good sales and awards. Nokia was a major coup for Microsoft.

While Apple can increase the iPhone screen size by half an inch or at least touch up some of the GUI in the homescreen and core apps. After four years, it is starting to have the most boring and static UI of them all. Juggling all three platforms, I can see each of their flaws and what they can do better compared to one another.
 
I currently own the original galaxy tab p1000, a sony xperia x10, hp touchpad from firesale, 2 ipad's (1 and 2) and iphone 4S and I have to say. Comparing all of these devices the ios ones gives me the best user experience and least problems. Not saying that android or web os sucks but there are plenty of small things and attention to detail that apple has put in that just makes it a better product.
 
I owned the very first Android phone (T-Mobile G1) for two years. I bought it on the very first day it was available. I gave it a chance, hoping it would be the iPhone killer. It was a pretty good phone for its time, but it felt really half baked.
 
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