let a 'nerd' straighten you out here. the iP4 is based off the ARM chip, as well as almost every high end smartphone out there. so you're indirectly calling the iP4 hardware crummy.
secondly, i never knew jailbreaking your phone could give you perfect integrated notification system across the entire UI. thats news to me.
finally, the iP4 may be the best selling phone out there, but its definitely not the most powerful in terms of hardware. i'm not saying the iP4 is slow by any means, but its a fact that its not the most powerful.
Hardware as in build materials, screens, camera's, etc. The things people feel, see, and touch, things that software cannot change. Yea, if you just wanna look at the specs, phones like the Evo have very similar or even "better" specs, yet they feel cheap, and things like higher megapixel's don't = better pictures in the real world. People
see the screen, the pictures, the video games, they
feel the quality and solidity of a phone made out of steel and glass, compared to plastic, nobody sees or cares about the processor, they just want it to
work, nerds care about processors. That's my point. Nothing against nerds, these smartphones are slowly turning me into one
2. Come on over to the world of jailbreaking!! There's all sorts of neat stuff, and if it doesn't exist yet, well then you can make it yourself if you wish. With BiteSMS, Notified Pro, and SBSettings, what am I missing? Of course I wish you didn't have to jailbreak to get these things, and Apple's stock notifications are
horrible, but
but, at least I can easily fix that myself, how can you fix hardware without buying a new phone?? I think Apple gave us the best base to work with, and the limitations can be fixed through jailbreaking, if you want to do so. So to me, I get the best of both worlds, I've got Android style drop down notifications accessible by swiping down on my statusbar, and an awesome piece of hardware that feels like a Rolex in my hand compared to something like a plastic Casio. Good luck rooting a better camera, screen, or case onto a Android branded phone
"Most powerful" doesn't really mean much to me, that's just my opinion, but the simplicity, fluidity, and ease of use that the iphone os brings along with the appstore and iTunes integration makes it hard to beat. Now if Apple brings out a dud next June, and HTC or whoever churns out some incredible phone with an even better camera, screen (I've heard rumors of a 1280x720 screen floating around out there somewhere), blazing fast dual core processor that preserves battery life, and Honeycomb or whatever os they are on by then and it brings a much improved appstore and design, it'll be really tempting. If that were to happen, I just hope you wouldn't have to buy the same apps all over again that exist for both platforms.
So that's how I feel about it, everything has limitations, I just feel that even with some of the drawbacks of iOS, the iPhone 4 is still the best smartphone out there, and I'm glad the competition is getting better every year, it means better phones for us all.
