Of course it lacks a few things that Android has. But to use as a phone and use as a multimedia device the iphone works flawless while the Android doesn't. You have to HACK the Android based phones to make it have better battery life.
That isnt neccessarily true. My Vibrant out of the box gets better battery life than the EVO because the EVO is a poor design with seperate antenea installed in it. I got a new battery for it(yes, we can change them ourselves) free from t-Mobile and that battery was better than the one that came with the phone.
I know the iP4 (which i dont have) has pretty good life compared to my Vibrant but again, they have a big head start. My iPhone didnt have great battery life and everytime you update the firmware, it got worse.
That will be different when dual core phones come out.
And my phone is rooted and i have flashed a few different modems and my battery life isnt any better. It is faster with those modems but batery life hasnt improved nor has it got worse. Some guys claim theirs is, but i wasnt so lucky. It isnt horrible like the Evo but it isnt great either.
Those who bought the Nexus S are saying the battery life on those is very good and those run Gingerbread so maybe it is getting better faster than Apple's did.
They have way longer than two year start on Android. More like 4 years in July.
OK, even better for Android and where they are going. However, that statement is false. The iP3G was out(May 2008) when G1 came out(Sept 2008). That would be 2 years.
Again if it wasn't for Apple, Android would not exist today. They learned from them, came out with a software that is more OPEN SOURCE and are proving it daily. Apple will upgrade their software soon as they don't want to lose that steam with the competition getting harder. My phone calls work great. Notifications work and work all the time without worry. While Android sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.
Really? If it werent for cell phones period, and a smartphone like Blackberry, iPhones wouldnt exist either so what does that have to do with anything?
And what makes you think Google learned anything from Apple? Linux isnt new. Its been around for years...as in before Apple even started making iMacs.
I agree some Android phones dont work great all the time but the early firmwares dont and i didnt like the G1 when it came out either. But, Eclair 2.1 is pretty stable, Froyo 2.2 is better and faster and Gingerbread 2.3 is even better and faster still and they are getting faster and getting additions all the time. Honeycomb is coming out in Tablets and will also be xcoming in Phones this year.
So i believe you when you say you have had trouble with Android phones, i do, but going into their 3rd year, Android is starting to kick some tail while Steve holds iPhone back with a major change once a year. Hec it took him 2 years to give you MMS and cut and paste.
Being able to Root the device is even better and it allows for a lot of other things that even Jailbreaking still wont do some 4 years later. The Devs for Android do a great job of developing things to add to these phones such as different Modems, several different custom OS ROM's, Kernals and more. And you dont have to worry about them not being compatible with iTunes to be able to get anything on the phone or get Apps because they arent tied a programlike that.
You dont NEED to do this to make your phone run well now, but it isnt hard to do and doesnt take long to do.
Bottom line is going forward, both these phones will still have some bugs as they all dont work the same....and i mean even the iPhones. There is ONE phone per year and there are problems with them just the same while some have no problems with theirs. Android puts out many models and the biggest beef is battery life. That is still my biggest beef. Looking forward to dual core to change that.
I also look forward to what Apple does with theirs going forward but it is just my feeling that they are going to get passed up by the others.
