These features kepp me holding onto my Android

tigerfan41 said:
Having used a Droid X for the past year (because I really wanted to give Android a chance):

3. The keyboard (Swype included) on my Droid X sucks. I've experienced similar issues with other Android phones. The keyboard is buggy and just about impossible to type a text fast on. Again, never had this issue with my iPhone, despite the fact that the screen is smaller and therefore should be tougher to type on.
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Also currently have a Droid X and think Swype sucks. So much easier to just hit the button you want instead of trying to play games.
 
I used to build my own (gaming) desktops and got pretty heavy into it, investing thousands of dollars. Because of that I was interested in a Droid.

My upgrade has been up since Dec '10 and I was looking at Droids ever since... Every single one seemed to have a compromise to it. The keyboard sucked, the screen was bad, the build quality was awful, the battery life horrid.

I sealed my fate in getting an iPhone when I got a Macbook in June(ish)... Ironically, I had waited and waited for the Droid bionic looking up new information nearly every day for it to be released as a lackluster, overhyped run of the mill android phone.

I'm going with the iPhone not necessarily because it is THE BEST in everything but because I am practically guaranteed to have all of my "compromises" with the droids non-existent on the iPhone.
 
haticK said:
Also currently have a Droid X and think Swype sucks. So much easier to just hit the button you want instead of trying to play games.
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Swype is a love it or hate it group.
If you look at Android keyboards you will find most people fall in one of two groups.
You have Swype or Swiftkey. Both are fine but point is people will tend to go one way or the other. I personally am a Swiftkey fan and I use that keyboard. Swiftkey blows Apples keyboard out of the water big time.
Swype as pointed out before Apple has nothing like it.
 
I haven't found Swype to be as practical as most seem to think.

However, the iOS keyboard blows all the Android keyboards I've ever owned and tried, out of the water.
 
Actually swiftkey was the worst $4.99 i ever spent money on. The auto correct is horrible. I type machine and it automatically corrects it to mocha. And its grammar and sentence completion based forced corrections annoy me a lot.

Nothing comes close to apple keyboard except for swype. Swype is great.
 
As far as navigation goes, just get MotionX. It is as fully featured as google navigation, and you can purchase live voice guidance for just $3/month. Its only issue in my mind is that I can't activate it from Siri... yet ;)
 
sentinelsx said:
Actually swiftkey was the worst $4.99 i ever spent money on. The auto correct is horrible. I type machine and it automatically corrects it to mocha. And its grammar and sentence completion based forced corrections annoy me a lot.

Nothing comes close to apple keyboard except for swype. Swype is great.
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you know that you can change how Swiftkey reacts when you press space and you can change how it bases its word predictions as well.

Space Swiftkey options are, Always insert predictions, Always insert space or complete the current word.
As for changing how it predicts you have the choice between rapid input or precises input. Rapid bases the predictions more heavily on the number or letters and the area of the keyboard each letter is in. Precise relays much more heavily on what letters have been entered.

Lastly like Apple keyboard it takes time for swiftkeys predictions to take off. It has to learn. You can speed this up by telling it to pull learn from your SMS, twitter, facebook and Gmail but it still takes time.

Either way it is all about option settings on it.
 
maladjusted said:
First off, i love apple products, have an ipad and ipod touch, as well as a macbook pro, so i'm not anti-iphone. Up until recently though i wouldn't move from T-Mobile and buy an iphone because of the poor reception with at&t.

But i've had more and more reason to get an iphone (mainly how it will just integrate so much better with my other devices/macbook than the MyTouch does) and now i really want the 4S.

But there are a few things I actually really like about my current non-iphone and i'd appreciate it if someone(s) could let me know if the iphone offers comparable (or better) features.

1) Genius button. I really like being able to press the Genius button and say, 'find chase bank,' or 'find pizza' and i'll get pinpoints on a map with the nearest bank or pizza place.

2) Navigation. I really like the navigation feature that came with the phone. I believe it is based on Google maps, isn't it? Is the map/navigation feature on the iphone as easy to use -- and reliable?

3) Swype. I text a lot more than i make phone calls and i love the swype keyboard feature. Its really brilliant, i think.

Those are really the main features that i'd be afraid to lose on the android. I'd like to know if i'd really be losing them by switching to the iphone. Thanks.
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1. Siri
2. Waze. Social navigation system. In my experience it is more accurate then google maps. FREE
3. I had an evo 4g and hated swipe on it. iOS keyboard is far more accurate then any other keyboard i have tried.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
you know that you can change how Swiftkey reacts when you press space and you can change how it bases its word predictions as well.

Space Swiftkey options are, Always insert predictions, Always insert space or complete the current word.
As for changing how it predicts you have the choice between rapid input or precises input. Rapid bases the predictions more heavily on the number or letters and the area of the keyboard each letter is in. Precise relays much more heavily on what letters have been entered.

Lastly like Apple keyboard it takes time for swiftkeys predictions to take off. It has to learn. You can speed this up by telling it to pull learn from your SMS, twitter, facebook and Gmail but it still takes time.

Either way it is all about option settings on it.
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Yes I am aware. But the keyboard still does it sometimes. Not to mention the keys are close together and i cannot type very fast. Granted i cannot really type very fast on any virtual keyboard lol.

But swype is great. IMO every manufacturer including apple should license and use it in their OS. I love it and will miss it when i switch to 4s. One of the handful of things i would like introduced in iOS.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
Swype is a love it or hate it group.
If you look at Android keyboards you will find most people fall in one of two groups.
You have Swype or Swiftkey. Both are fine but point is people will tend to go one way or the other. I personally am a Swiftkey fan and I use that keyboard. Swiftkey blows Apples keyboard out of the water big time.
Swype as pointed out before Apple has nothing like it.
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I use Swiftkey as well but have both. I occasionaly go back to Swype but Swiftkey, once it learns the way you talk/type, it is easier for me but i still make mistakes on both. My only gripe about Swiftkey is the period button is next to the spacer button which is narrow and i hit the period often which starts the next word with a Cap. Maybe if i used it more in landscape that wouldnt happen.
I also use Swiftkey in Neon mode which makes it look good too.
 
corrado7 said:
1. Siri
2. Waze. Social navigation system. In my experience it is more accurate then google maps. FREE
3. I had an evo 4g and hated swipe on it. iOS keyboard is far more accurate then any other keyboard i have tried.
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in my experience Waze is a complete and total mess.
 
I have been using an Android device for the past 5 months because I bought into the hype of having a "fast" dual core processor and "4G" (Motorola Atrix 4G). I also wanted to try the Android OS on a day to day basis to see which one I like better.

My first impression of the phone was horrible, it seemed slower than my iPhone 4 and there were a limited amount of ROMs available since the bootloader was locked. Over the months the situation improved through updates and I finally got Gingerbread which brought the usability of the Atrix on par with iPhone. But still there were many issues with the phone. The App Market was total nonsense, I didn't understand what people meant by hardware fragmentation until I actually used the Atrix, I couldn't install Dungeon Hunters 2 because Tegra wasn't supported ( :( ).

My final decision was to go back to the iOS and now I have my iPhone 4S pre-ordered and am EAGERLY awaiting to get rid of this damn Atrix.
 
rever3nce said:
hope you got your flame suit on

iphone has for your solution

1. siri - Untested as of 10/10/2011

2. tom tom app , or 20,000 other navigation apps - PAID apps ($40+), Free on Android

3. siri ( hands free texting ) - Again, untested.

Just saying

:cool:
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Made a few changes to your post there..
 
Rodimus Prime said:
You are comparing a fairly costly paid navigation app to a free one. It better be better. Google navigation is ok but compared to something paid it sucks. I would much rather use my garmine over google navigation. Google navigation is something I more use in a pinch and it does ok but still well behind my Garmine even with its 4+ year old maps.

As for op
1. Apple is getting it with siri but it wait and see how good it really is.

2. Nope sorry nothing free. Apple map app sucks as well compared to the one on Android.

3. Nope not there. Personally I like SwiftKey better than Swype and both keyboards better than what apple uses.
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As another said, Mapquest app is free and gives voice turn by turn.

Siri has been in use for a year. A free app on the App store . Now removed for the 4S forthcoming.

Not untested to find pizza or whatever.
 
serialtoon said:
Made a few changes to your post there..
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You realize google navigation has no offline map solution yet right? I need to pay my carrier $25 a month to use it. When i could use tomtom for a one time fee of $40.

As for android navigation apps, i used sygic and copilot. Copilot's UI was terrible and sygic was great. But sygic also need you to pay after their trial period.

So it is in no way "superior". I would like to save my puny 500mb data plan to use on something else than network assisted mapping.
 
Swipe was cool when I had the samsung galaxy s2 for that one day before I took it back. Once I learned google had voice built in to text I used that instead. iPhone 4S has siri so all of those features are standard on both devices now.
 
greytmom said:
1) Siri.
2) I have never had a problem with the maps feature on iPhone. It's never gotten me lost either.
3) I can't answer this one - I've never used Swype. But, I'll repeat, Siri.
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Siri can't possibly be a total keyboard replacement ALL the time, unlike Swype. I can't imagine wanting to dictate all of my emails or text messages in public all the time.
 
Navigon is by far the best Turn by Turn nav app with voice instructions. Yeah it's pricey but you get what you pay for. Navigon on the iphone is by far better than any nav system i've ever seen, incar or otherwise. Plus the real time traffic is awesome.
 
vitzr said:
The delay of iPhone 5 reveals that they are resting on their laurels. Now with Jobs gone, even though he's left a roadmap of products, the release dates may be rather leisurely.

Oh well, nothing lasts forever.
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the delay of iPhone 5 shows that they are smart enough to avoid gettig sued by Samsung...nothing more
 
I've used swype, swiftkey, and smart keyboard for my HTC Evo.

After numerous (and I really mean numerous) timed testing of these 3 keyboards plus HTC Sense keyboard, I found smart keyboard to be the fastest, for me.

I am extremely quick at typing with two hands - Swype I wonder what my other hand is doing and why it can't participate in the action.

That is why I am not worried about the transition to iPhone. I will be able to type just as fast, if not faster, with the iPhone than I did with Smart Keyboard. However, I am a little worried about the loss of real estate to affect my speed.. but shouldn't be too drastic.
 
sddabrow said:
I am extremely quick at typing with two hands - Swype I wonder what my other hand is doing and why it can't participate in the action.

That is why I am not worried about the transition to iPhone. I will be able to type just as fast, if not faster, with the iPhone than I did with Smart Keyboard. However, I am a little worried about the loss of real estate to affect my speed.. but shouldn't be too drastic.
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Prepare for missed keys. When I owned the iPh4, thumbing quickly on it constantly missed keys. It was frustrating as hell. In fact, I felt the 4 was less responsive than the 3GS--I've never had a problem typing on a 3GS device ever. It was odd and surprising to see the 4 not be able to keep up.

Unless iPh4S is different.
 
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