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[Merged] General Discussion - Android OS vs. iPhone OS
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news/finance/weather/calendar/social networking widgets? That's a huge void in the iOS operating system.
My IP4 is gonna be for work and being out and about. The last thing I'm gonna care about is access to porn. That's what my core i7 desktop PC is for.
I love my iPhone 4, but with HTC talking about dual-core Snapdragon processors, stick that processing power in a Dell Streak with a comparable display to Retina and I may have to give it some serious consideration.
I really love Mac products. I have had an iPhone, iPhone 3GS, iPhone4, MacBook and iPad. That said you fan boys making these ridiculous comments about Android deserve to be smacked in the face with a tack hammer. Google knows what they are doing and they are doing it faster and better. It is only a matter of time and let's hope Apple doesn't let them scream by without a fight.
I really love Mac products. I have had an iPhone, iPhone 3GS, iPhone4, MacBook and iPad. That said you fan boys making these ridiculous comments about Android deserve to be smacked in the face with a tack hammer. Google knows what they are doing and they are doing it faster and better. It is only a matter of time and let's hope Apple doesn't let them scream by without a fight.
dual-core Snapdragon processors? Wow but how fast/powerful do you need a phone to be? I have an iPad and it is soo fast and I just don't see how anyone would need such a powerful/fast mobile device. Unless games/apps improve massively on the iPad over the next few years of course.
Android phones will need to compete on specs because they won't be able to compete on having the whole package(industrial design, retina display, App store).
@stevensr123 & Phokus;
All of that can be achieved by jailbreaking:
- Design & UI Modding (Winterboard and all.)
- Apps or should I say "daemons" that change iOS' behaviour.
- Unrestricted apps and such. (and c****ed ones)
- Root access (if you want to think you're l33t ...)
- No widgets but something that looks like it and serves the same purpose. (see this thread)
You can get porn on your iPhone anyway you want except through the App Store. (Web, videos from PC with iTunes...)
@fupresti:
Dual-core and 1Ghz+ processors doesn't matter for the iPhone because the software is optimized for its hardware.
All of that can be achieved by jailbreaking:
- Design & UI Modding (Winterboard and all.)
- Apps or should I say "daemons" that change iOS' behaviour.
- Unrestricted apps and such. (and c****ed ones)
- Root access (if you want to think you're l33t ...)
- No widgets but something that looks like it and serves the same purpose. (see this thread)
You can get porn on your iPhone anyway you want except through the App Store. (Web, videos from PC with iTunes...)
@fupresti:
Dual-core and 1Ghz+ processors doesn't matter for the iPhone because the software is optimized for its hardware.
Dual core procs are not new. I had a TI OMAP Windows Mobile device with two cores (one for radio, one for the OS) that I had overclocked a couple notches short of popping its top for four years.
There is a tradeoff though: Battery life and heat dissipation. Those are some major engineering issues to deal with right there. They may have super fast CPUs, but if the phone burns peoples' hands and eats up a battery in 10 minutes, it won't sell.
Of course, there is the issue of fragmentation -- yes, one set of phones may have super CPUs and perhaps a GPU thrown in for good measure, but then every app developer has to check for that functionality and use it, not bother using it, or narrow their market to just people with those phones. Fragmentation is not an issue with the iOS market.
So how do you think games will progress on ios? At the moment games are pretty simple and have simple graphics. Are apples trying to bring the big corporations to the ios platform? And maybe compete with the psp and ds? That's what I would do.
lol whatever. iphone have 3 devices with different amount of ram, different and GPUs so apps need to be written to the common denominator, so your first gripe against android applies to iphone as well.
iphone 2g cant even run iOS4. 3g has reduced functionality. only 3Gs can run iOS4 with full functionality, but even then it has half as much ram, so certain apps wont run on it.
Samsung i5700, out on November 2009, doesn't even run Android 2.2.
So? I dont deny fragmentation, but I dont think its a big deal. Faster devices come out, newer apps and OS take advantage of the faster hardware. fragmentation is inevitable. That's the price of technology advancing.
But the argument here is that android is a poor OS because of fragmentation, and that iOS does not have any fragmentation. Riiiiiight. Next year 3G will not be able to run iOS5 and 3Gs will have reduced functionality. Bank on that
They have logmein: https://secure.logmein.com/welcome/android/
and there's a couple 3rd party toodledo client:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.hoghollow.TaskList
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.slamjibe.android.todo
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.slamjibe.android.gottodo
There's a beta of justin.tv for android available at the very least:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/ex...oid-app-iphone-app-hits-1-5m-downloads-video/
i guess you have to login to their site to get it? i dunno
Really? Industrial design? First, who said that it;'s the best design? Second, who said that this is something only Apple can do? Retina display. That's not even funny. What's "retina" display BTW? Another Apple invention? They are indeed known mostly for inventing funny PR terms (magic mouse etc.) You should know that Apple does no design or manufacture display panels. LG and Samsung do. Everybody can use the same panels (except for Samsung's Super AMOLED). Nobody uses pixel density chosen by Apple because it makes no technical sense. Apple had to use it to have easy path for backward compatibility. That's all. Other companies do not have this problem.
Nonsense. Many reviewers have said they can see the pixels on the Droid X or Incredible, whereas with the IP4 everything is smooth.
See the pixels? Seriously this whole retina thimg is getting bored, you would have to put your eye to screen to see them.
I'm liking both. Apple for it's slick presentation, intuitiveness and the almighty app store, and Android for it's customization abilities and the great dev. teams behind it. I'm hoping the app store for Android picks up, and Gingerbread's UI is as good as Google says it'll be.
no it's not. Just like the phones you named off the Iphone has a high resolution. A lot of the apps in both apps stores don't take advantage of these high res screens. So I don't know where you got the idea that the IP4 is "smooth". Lots of ppl have been complaining about the devs needing to update their apps. Also the retina display crap is nothing but marketing crap. I wish ppl stop trying to throw that word around like it actually is a feature. People will not see the difference in the display next to a big FUGLY Droid X; unless you are looking at the displays with a magnify glass.
Any Android to iPhone switchers?
It seems these days all I ever see is people moving from iPhone to Android, instead of the other way around. What person are you? Did you move from iPhone to Android, or Android to iPhone? Lastly, I'd really like to know why you made the switch, and what hardware (iPhone type or various Android phone) you're using. Thanks.
P.S. I do not want another big discussion on which OS is better. That's all opinion. I just want to know your reasons for switching, etc. No bashing!
It seems these days all I ever see is people moving from iPhone to Android, instead of the other way around. What person are you? Did you move from iPhone to Android, or Android to iPhone? Lastly, I'd really like to know why you made the switch, and what hardware (iPhone type or various Android phone) you're using. Thanks.
P.S. I do not want another big discussion on which OS is better. That's all opinion. I just want to know your reasons for switching, etc. No bashing!
Went from the Evo to the iPhone. The Evo as a media player is abysmal, and that is something I prefer in my phone (I don't want to carry two devices).
Thanks for the input.
Anyone else care to comment? I didn't post this thread to have only a few replies. I would like at least three pages worth... unless that's too much to ask?
Switched from iPhone 3GS to Nexus One and finally to iPhone 4. I kinda wanted to see if the grass was any greener non the other side but I can 100% say it's NOT! Android apps are crap, the OS needs a lot of polishing and the speed (even on devices that have 1 Ghz or higher) processors is just not up to par. There is no fluidity throughout the OS and everything is too jerky.
To me, there were two benefits to Android.
1. The notification bar which is awesome and I miss.
2. Widgets which were nice but I don't mind not having them.
Hope that helps.
To me, there were two benefits to Android.
1. The notification bar which is awesome and I miss.
2. Widgets which were nice but I don't mind not having them.
Hope that helps.