iPhone vs Android - why I came back

[ap3604]

I switched back for the following:
- Bluetooth keyboard support
- Better battery life
- Best display resolution
- GREAT resale value (compared to Android)
- Navigon iPhone GPS app that I prefer over Google Maps Navigation (Android version sucks)
- Netflix streaming (has since come to a few select Android devices)
- Apple on our side making sure no one can mess with the phone (vs Google saying oem's can do whatever butchering they want)
- One of the best cameras in the business

Personally could care less about:
- "true multitasking" (one reason Android has worse batter life)
- "widgets" (another battery sucker)
- "open sourced" (as long as the phone does everything I want I don't care)
- "bigger screen" (battery sucker, heat generator)

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

I hate when people generalize.

The iphone 4 has the best build quality of all phones. Wrong
Casio 1 is a heavy duty android Phone. It is able to be submerged in water, dropped from from twenty feet with no scratch. It feels cheap in your hand though but that quality beats all phones on the market.

That's not build quality, that's overall design. The iPhone wasn't meant to be submerged in water or dropped from twenty feet. Hence the reason Apple put in water sensors and rugged cases sell well. The Casio 1 is just a regular device that basically has a water tight case screwed on to it. They didn't even hide the screws.

 

[xAnthony]

That's not build quality, that's overall design. The iPhone wasn't meant to be submerged in water or dropped from twenty feet. Hence the reason Apple put in water sensors and rugged cases sell well. The Casio 1 is just a regular device that basically has a water tight case screwed on to it. They didn't even hide the screws.

It's also definitely one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. I rather take a beautiful sleek glass design over a phone that I could throw off of roof buildings. It looks like a rock, and I'm sure it performs quite close to one also.

 

[Hueyfreeman]

My ps3 feels like it is cheap. However I got it on release day and it is still runs like new. That is build quality something that last not something that "feels expensive"

 

[walie]

I switched back for the following:
- Bluetooth keyboard support
- Better battery life
- Best display resolution
- GREAT resale value (compared to Android)
- Navigon iPhone GPS app that I prefer over Google Maps Navigation (Android version sucks)
- Netflix streaming (has since come to a few select Android devices)
- Apple on our side making sure no one can mess with the phone (vs Google saying oem's can do whatever butchering they want)
- One of the best cameras in the business

Personally could care less about:
- "true multitasking" (one reason Android has worse batter life)
- "widgets" (another battery sucker)
- "open sourced" (as long as the phone does everything I want I don't care)
- "bigger screen" (battery sucker, heat generator)

lol

 

[stevensr123]

I just did the opposite and just bought the samsung gs2. Very impressed so far. This thing is a monster I have to say. I coming from the iphone 4 just so you know.

Webowsing is faster and more fluid that even the iphone, every app I click on opens almost instantly and not one crash yet.

The speakers are about as good as the iphone but this screen is ****in amazing, even compared to the iphone it wipes out any other mobile screen on the market.

Im loving the fact I can just drag and dropp all my media with one or two clicks aka no more ****ing itunes. And the camera is even beter.

All in all im heaps happy. But early days yet

 

[Yumunum]

lol

I'm confused, how is that lol worthy? Everything he said made perfect sense.

 

[Jjaro]

Nice.

Interesting point of View. And kinda cool to see. My best bud back home had a Motorola Droid, but eventually tired of it and decided to buy an iPhone 4 when they came out on Verizon. While he has told me he does miss some of the things that the Droid OS offers, like widgets, he is overall much happier with his iPhone and jailbroken iOS 4 (even though Jailbreaking does, in my opinion, slow it down some, I still think it's worth it overall, personally).

 

[jeaux]

Wait a sec Apple. Before you release iOS 5, please implement the multi-tasking ease coming with Lion into iOS 5. I think doing something like a 2 or 3-finger swipe across the screen to switch between running apps would be a great feature. This would make my constant simultaneous use of iPod and Maps while traveling much more seamless. If this is something likely or known to happen, please inform me. If you agree with this idea, help make it viral. I couldn't find a thread along the lines of, "what we want in iOS 5," on here. If there is one could someone share a link?