[Merged] General Discussion - Android OS vs. iPhone OS

[stevensr123]

Why the **** do you idiots keep saying android is slow? It hasn't been slow for more than a year and a half. Now it's just as fluid as ios and at least they get major updates almost every 3 months.


I'm getting the iPhone 4 because of the hardware ( looks amazing, screen is the best, camera is the best, battery life is the best) but if I had the choice between ios4 and android 2.2 then i would pick android hands down.

 

[PerfSeeker]

Why the **** do you idiots keep saying android is slow? It hasn't been slow for more than a year and a half. Now it's just as fluid as ios and at least they get major updates almost every 3 months.


I'm getting the iPhone 4 because of the hardware ( looks amazing, screen is the best, camera is the best, battery life is the best) but if I had the choice between ios4 and android 2.2 then i would pick android hands down.

Android OS is still not as fluid as iOS and no Android handset comes close to the industrial design of the IP4, much less Retina Display.

 

[mcdj]

Just an FYI, Google never said it was selling 160,000 phones a day. They said they were *activating* 160,000 phones a day.

Interesting... can you explain the difference to me?

Well I'm hardly an expert, and I don't know squat about the Android activation process, but if Android users are anything like iPhone users, there could easily be multiple activations per user if they reinstalled/restored/reactivate the OS.

If Google had said 160,000 *unique* activations, then you could take the number at face value.

Apple's 3 million ip4s sold reflects monetary transactions...a much more tactile statistic.

 

[Apollo 13]

From my experience the older Android phones are laggy. The new ones with 1 Ghz cpus and 512 RAM are blazing fast. My EVO is butter smooth but I'm using a custom kernel. I'm not a tech guy and it wasn't that hard to do. I still think web OS is the best OS around and beats IOS and Android OS.

 

[stevensr123]

Android OS is still not as fluid as iOS and no Android handset comes close to the industrial design of the IP4, much less Retina Display.

When is the last time you held a new android phone in your hand? Because they are amazingly fast, the touch is very fluid and everything looks very sleek.

I agree the industrial design of the iPhone 4 is amazing, hardware wise it is the best phone on the market but software wise android and ios are pretty much as good as each other.

 

[BConvery]

Doesn't this thread belong somewhere else?

Nope.....it's perfectly positioned with the rest of the a absolute b-ullshit that this whole forum has sunk to....

 

[DoNoHarm]

I really hope the iPhone goes on multiple carriers.

 

[Fernandez21]

From my experience the older Android phones are laggy. The new ones with 1 Ghz cpus and 512 RAM are blazing fast. My EVO is butter smooth but I'm using a custom kernel. I'm not a tech guy and it wasn't that hard to do. I still think web OS is the best OS around and beats IOS and Android OS.

i completely agree with you. put webos on an iphone 4,, drool

 

[Tony Montana]

The only people who buy android phone is people who have never owned an iPhone.

No one that's ever owned an iPhone would go android, that's walking backward android is sooooooooo lagy.

I just got a Samsung Galaxy S/Vibrant. One of the things that bugs me is that its a bit too sensitive and quick. Its too easy to activate apps accidentally. So far my experience with the phone has been the opposite of laggy. You must have been using a very early version of Android.

 

[wakka092]

I know and I've never understood why. Even on a phone with a 1 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM the interface on a fresh install of the Android OS is slow and laggy doing even simple tasks.

I think that's biased. I haven't ever had those issues with an Android phone. If it was a problem as you state it, I'm sure no one would be buying an Android phone. Anecdotally, iPhone (esp. considering AT&T) is slower productivity wise than an Android phone.

YMMV.

 

[jaykk]

i can't imagine a technology world apple is not a big player. Before iPhone, android was like blackberry OS. If apple was not there, we should have gone back to QDOS days Oh well, I hope apple remains a strong player in technology field - be it computers or mobile phones.

 

[wakka092]

The only people who buy android phone is people who have never owned an iPhone.

No one that's ever owned an iPhone would go android, that's walking backward android is sooooooooo lagy.

I switched to the EVO and I loved it way more than my iPhone. I'm probably gonna drop this iPhone 4 (which is okay, nothing special to me) and AT&T (which sucks) like a hot potato for Verizon and a Droid X. AT&T is horrific here lately.

 

[The Governor]

The only people who buy android phone is people who have never owned an iPhone.

No one that's ever owned an iPhone would go android, that's walking backward android is sooooooooo lagy.

I'll bite. I've owned the 3g, 3gs, now the iphone4. While the iPhone4 is a great phone my evo is better. Meaning it suits my needs better. I'm going to hold on to both of them for awhile. Perhaps after sometime I may change my mind. But for now I really like what Google is doing.

 

[Aleksey]

big thing about OP's post is 160,000 a day doesn't mean that they sell 160,000 every single day for months on and on, just an average number for sales a day so if they sold 200,000 first day and 150,000 second day they say they're selling 175,000 every day

 

[PerfSeeker]

If not for Apple, we'd all still be typing in MS-DOS. *shudders*

 

[tempusfugit]

Dream on. I've had an iPhone for 2 years. Switched to HTC incredible on Verizon and love it. HTC incredible and other new Android phones are very fast.

Your old iPhone obviously isn't better than an incredible in terms of performance. That's like saying your new ps3 is way better than your old original xbox.

As a person with a lot of experience with iPhone 4 AND the htc incredible, I can say there's truly no competition. iPhone 4 blows it out of the water all day in every department.

You have to root an incredible to install an app to access led lights for the purpose of being a flashlight.... "no limit to what droid gets/does" my ass.

And let's talk about the screen. Have you compared an ip4 to an incredible? I mean really juxtaposed the two? It's sad. The incredible can't hold a candle to iPhone 4.

Battery life? I prefer NOT to have to charge my phone twice a day to make it through. The lowest my iPhone 4's battery has gotten in a day is ~35% and I burn 3 gigs+ a month so I know I use it a LOT.

Video quality comparison? 720p: Enough said.

How about a god damned unified email inbox? Aww too bad you're using android!



The saddest part of all is that you're paying the same or more for an incredible compared to an iPhone 4.

 

[Phokus]

I think people are waking up to the fact that the iphone OS is basically just an app launcher. It doesn't 'feel' like a true operating system. Android and WebOS give you so much more than iOS does.

 

[jplusc]

I am curious to see how iOS will fare as Android continues to build it's user base. If, and a big if, Google can resolve there fragmentation of the platform and come up with a good system for quality apps across different screen sizes I think apple could have a concern on their hands within the next couple of years. If apple loses the user base advantage they could potentially lose developers and iOS could end up similar to Mac vs PC. I personally love my iPhone but I love seeing the competition get better and better. I am very interested in seeing Android 3.0 later this year and if HP can release a webOS device with great hardware, that would be very appealing. I agree with a couple of previous posts that webOS is the best OS, it just needs the hardware and user base to lure more developers.

 

[Phokus]

I am curious to see how iOS will fare as Android continues to build it's user base. If, and a big if, Google can resolve there fragmentation of the platform and come up with a good system for quality apps across different screen sizes I think apple could have a concern on their hands within the next couple of years. If apple loses the user base advantage they could potentially lose developers and iOS could end up similar to Mac vs PC. I personally love my iPhone but I love seeing the competition get better and better. I am very interested in seeing Android 3.0 later this year and if HP can release a webOS device with great hardware, that would be very appealing. I agree with a couple of previous posts that webOS is the best OS, it just needs the hardware and user base to lure more developers.

Android 3.0 is going to be a game changer (like froyo is). No longer do you have to wait for the manufacturer/carrier to get updates, it'll all come from google.

 

[JustLeft]

Agree on the battery life. I get through the day on 1 charge, but I am close by the end of the day. Right now my ip4 is at 15% with 4 hours 52 minutes of usage. One thing that ios could learn from android is notifications. This is the biggest remaining thing I see lacking on ios4. While it doesn't multitask like Android, it does it well enough for me.

Your old iPhone obviously isn't better than an incredible in terms of performance. That's like saying your new ps3 is way better than your old original xbox.

As a person with a lot of experience with iPhone 4 AND the htc incredible, I can say there's truly no competition. iPhone 4 blows it out of the water all day in every department.

You have to root an incredible to install an app to access led lights for the purpose of being a flashlight.... "no limit to what droid gets/does" my ass.

And let's talk about the screen. Have you compared an ip4 to an incredible? I mean really juxtaposed the two? It's sad. The incredible can't hold a candle to iPhone 4.

Battery life? I prefer NOT to have to charge my phone twice a day to make it through. The lowest my iPhone 4's battery has gotten in a day is ~35% and I burn 3 gigs+ a month so I know I use it a LOT.

Video quality comparison? 720p: Enough said.

How about a god damned unified email inbox? Aww too bad you're using android!



The saddest part of all is that you're paying the same or more for an incredible compared to an iPhone 4.

 

[tempusfugit]

Android 3.0 is going to be a game changer (like froyo is). No longer do you have to wait for the manufacturer/carrier to get updates, it'll all come from google.

I'll believe that when I see it. Everyone has their own overlays and ui garbage on top of the os that won't maintain functionality. What a crap shoot!

 

[tempusfugit]

Agree on the battery life. I get through the day on 1 charge, but I am close by the end of the day. Right now my ip4 is at 15% with 4 hours 52 minutes of usage. One thing that ios could learn from android is notifications. This is the biggest remaining thing I see lacking on ios4. While it doesn't multitask like Android, it does it well enough for me.

Yeah I sort of like the incredible's notifications..... Except after I check them it still shows a new message icon for a few minutes sometimes before it goes away.

A log of recent messages/notifications would be very nice indeed.

 

[stevensr123]

I think people are waking up to the fact that the iphone OS is basically just an app launcher. It doesn't 'feel' like a true operating system. Android and WebOS give you so much more than iOS does.

This. After a while I actually started to dislike ios mainly because the entire os is simply just pages and pages of apps, nothing more. Some people like this but I find it boring/too simple. I find android far more "adult-like", a bit more complicated ( which I like) And is more than just pages of apps.

It's just a shame no one can create hardware as good as apple. And android doesn't have the same fanboys like apple has ( putting huge amount of time creating amazing games and apps).

 

[inket]

I find android far more "adult-like", a bit more complicated ( which I like) And is more than just pages of apps.

Can you elaborate, please ?
What does Android have that makes it more "adult" ?

 

[stevensr123]

Can you elaborate, please ?
What does Android have that makes it more "adult" ?

You can Design your own ui, customise it far more than you can with ios, porn ( haha), not locked down like you are in the iPhone app store etc maybe I shouldn't have said "adult-like" but yes you probably get my point.