EPTI personally see nothing wrong with either phone. I would pick the Android, but that's just because I have one already, and from what I've seen from my Dad's iPhone, I like the droid more.
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LokitAK
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I personally see nothing wrong with either phone. I would pick the Android, but that's just because I have one already, and from what I've seen from my Dad's iPhone, I like the droid more. | ||
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a176
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Z3kk
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Unless your family must stick with ATT, I suggest you switch to verizon and get the droid x. I'm not a cell phone or electronics guru, but I find the droid x better. (this is typed from school on my droid x, so I'm sorry for not reading through the whole thread ;X) | ||
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VManOfMana
United States764 Posts
On September 08 2010 16:48 GTR wrote: since opinion seems quite divided; Unfair poll, considering the heavy anti-Apple bias in the TL community. NukeTheBunny and NevilleS's posts reflects pretty well the mindset that will make you enjoy an Android better than an iPhone. If however, you are more concerned with a highly polished UI, a mature App marketplace, a user experience that focuses more on the task rather than how to do it, best display (IPS with highest DPI), and top notch customer support (including not having to wait for your specific model to get the latest OS), iPhone is a good choice. Yes, there is more to liking an iPhone than "cult of Jobs". So in summary: * Android if you want a portable *tech toy* to tinker with. * iPhone if you want a portable computing *appliance*. At the end, go and try them out, play with them. That's the best way to figure out which you'll like better. | ||
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iloahz
United States964 Posts
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kodancer
United States89 Posts
But as you may already know, there are a lot of indications of anti-iphone bias in this thread. Also, statistically speaking, when there are so many customers having one product, it's likely that product will show more errors than, say, a product with only a fraction of the community. You know where I'm getting at. :D | ||
Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On September 09 2010 04:01 kodancer wrote: That's like comparing the BW community to the WoW community. WoW community is therefore better?It's not the product's quality that makes one phone better than the other. It's more than that. It's about the community surrounding the product. And since both phones have similar specs, I don't see why you would go for one that has a significantly fewer community than the iphone. Analogously speaking, it's like comparing a mac to windows (how ironic lol). But as you may already know, there are a lot of indications of anti-iphone bias in this thread. Also, statistically speaking, when there are so many customers having one product, it's likely that product will show more errors than, say, a product with only a fraction of the community. You know where I'm getting at. :D | ||
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VManOfMana
United States764 Posts
Funny you say that, considering the iPhone is the phone with the highest consumer satisfaction rates, and even with "antennagate" (which was blown out of proportions) iPhone 4 is the top ranked smartphone in Consumer Reports (regardless if CS recuses to "recommend" the phone). At the end iOS is the more polished mobile mobile OS. Even the most anti-Apple coworker admits it, and will keep his iPhone for a while. | ||
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NevilleS
Canada266 Posts
On September 09 2010 03:40 VManOfMana wrote: Unfair poll, considering the heavy anti-Apple bias in the TL community. NukeTheBunny and NevilleS's posts reflects pretty well the mindset that will make you enjoy an Android better than an iPhone. If however, you are more concerned with a highly polished UI, a mature App marketplace, a user experience that focuses more on the task rather than how to do it, best display (IPS with highest DPI), and top notch customer support (including not having to wait for your specific model to get the latest OS), iPhone is a good choice. Yes, there is more to liking an iPhone than "cult of Jobs". So in summary: * Android if you want a portable *tech toy* to tinker with. * iPhone if you want a portable computing *appliance*. At the end, go and try them out, play with them. That's the best way to figure out which you'll like better. I tinker with the iPhone/iPad quite a bit at work and they are incredibly polished devices. I'd say that, so far, my SGS is very fluid and I'm very pleased, but overall I don't trust Samsung (who hacked Android up to give it an iOS look) to ensure every last detail is in perfect order like Apple tends to do. If you use iTunes, and just want to plug the thing into your computer at night to sync your music, photos, videos, contacts, apps, calendar, and email to a single account, and prefer having dedicated applications for each particular type of data you work with, the iPhone's polished experience is unparalleled. Other than the silly notification setup on the device, everything else is pure polish, which is pretty impressive for such a large ecosystem. I'm frightened to ever try to contact Bell to get support for this device (I'm more inclined to Google my tech problems and search forums than go into a retail location), so if you like to get help using your devices, he's right about the Apple support staff there, too. There may be some killer app that seals the deal, too. I downloaded the Ustream viewer the other night to try and watch Day9's show, but it doesn't work on my SGS properly. I'll bet it works fine on iPhone... Not a deal breaker for me. I'd rather be able to download the MSL finals from nevake's youtube channel and watch it on my large, AMOLED display (Apple continues to ban apps like this from their store, I guess they don't want people downloading content from anything but iTunes?) | ||
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VManOfMana
United States764 Posts
On September 09 2010 04:07 Jibba wrote: That's like comparing the BW community to the WoW community. WoW community is therefore better? No, but it doesn't justify SC players being snobs towards WoW players. Besides, developer community is not the same as user community. You are deluding yourself if you think there are not talented developers on either platform. | ||
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Blackhawk13
United States442 Posts
I have AT&T and for me.. the service is pretty crappy and doesn't work at all at my cabin up north (Michigan) where my dad's phone will work pretty well on Verizon. I guess itunes also comes into play if you use it for your music and stuff. | ||
GTR
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http://www.talkandroid.com/9155-telstra-to-release-samsung-galaxy-s/ So Desire, Galaxy S or iPhone =[ | ||
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theonemephisto
United States409 Posts
On September 09 2010 08:57 GTR wrote: It looks like Telstra is planning to release the Galaxy S on their network..... DILEMMA. http://www.talkandroid.com/9155-telstra-to-release-samsung-galaxy-s/ So Desire, Galaxy S or iPhone =[ I've said it before, the Galaxy S is a phenomenal phone. The real dealbreaker for me between iphone vs android is android has widgets, in terms of applications most useful ones will have duplicates. | ||
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Z3kk
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GTR
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blue_arrow
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i got the Desire get android if you think you can make your phone more enjoyable than what Steve Jobs had in mind get the iPhone if you think Steve Jobs has a good sense of what people want in a phone basically androids are a lot more customizable, have a lot of undiscovered potential, but still has lots of room for development iOS and iphones in general have pretty much matured and are limited by the hardware of the iPhone and by network technology i picked the android cuz i believe that'll overtake the iphone in the next year or two oh yeah if you like playing oldschool GBA games on your phone, you'll love the android | ||
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VManOfMana
United States764 Posts
On September 09 2010 19:03 blue_arrow wrote: iOS and iphones in general have pretty much matured and are limited by the hardware of the iPhone and by network technology Wait, what? Apple just released a new version if the hardware that uses a custom-made chipset. Smartphones nowadays pretty much use the same CPU architecture. AT&T being shitty just means that the iPhone's phone service is gimped in the US; nowhere else. Where the heck you pulled this from? | ||
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nayumi
Australia6499 Posts
Not that I have anything against iPhone ... actually maybe beside the fact that it's so freaking popular these days ... everyone and their grandmother got an iPhone ... I'm using a HTC Legend, and totally in love with it. Android is sexy and pretty smooth, though there aren't that many apps or games yet (but enough for most of your needs). ![[image loading]](http://www.achaumobile.com/upload/images/20100827103147_htc-legend01.jpg) The aluminum case is what makes is sexy | ||
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ondik
Czech Republic2908 Posts
On September 07 2010 18:53 GTR wrote: Unlike the Android platform, the iPhone has tons more apps from what I've seen. um, is that still right? I've read that there are now more phones with Android system in america than iPhones, that means there should be more apps in future for droid. Thing is, nor WM nor Symbian nor any other OS was good enough to compete with iOS. However, with all of these platforms dying (well, there is W7 coming, but who knows how good/bad will it be) even more companies are choosing Android for their phones and I believe this OS will be the no. 1 in near future. I have Galaxy S and am really satisfied, in my opinion it's the best android phone on market right now. | ||
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