iPhone Vs. Android!

THISisTARRAN

More specifically iPhone vs. Thunderbolt! Does anyone have any suggestions? I actually work for Verizon...but I am looking for input to sway my decision. I can't pick. I have Android now...and I have a Xoom, which is an Android tablet... But...to be QUITE honest, I don't really care that they both won't sync. I use them for different things. I do not like that the iPhone doesn't have flash and there are a lot of things I can't do on an iPhone (mobile banking, paying bills online). I really just can't pick. I have a Droid X now...and I'm VERY unsure of what phone I want...I'm tired of the huge phone, but I also don't want to not be able to do things I'm used to being able to do & pay for all the apps. I'd love the ability to watch Netflix on my phone...which you can do on the iPhone but not YET on the droid.... HMMMM.... I'm really wondering if anyone has had both? Or has an iPhone and has lots of glitches??

amcmillan730

looking for answers too!

THISisTARRAN

Oh yes...and I actually do not like apple. I forgot about that. I have to call for customers sometimes and they are high on themselves. LOL

tam120

I just traded my iPhone for a Droid X about a month ago. I was anxious about it because I was used to iPhone. I like the Droid X much more than the iPhone (I had the iPhone 3g so it was dated) because it's much more flexible. I really think iPhone's interface is tired, no widgets, all you have are icons. The only thing I've found is that the apps on iPhone are more advanced in development than Android. Many of the apps I used on iPhone don't have the same functionality on Android especially the financial apps that keep track of checking and bills etc. I used SplashMoney on Palm, Windows, iPhone and now Android and I was so frustrated with the Android app that I contacted the company and let them know how useless the app was for Android. I also was able to have different text tones on iPhone but I can't do that with my Droid X (there may be an app for it but I haven't found it and iPhone had it as default). There are many YouTube videos comparing the OS including one called something like the Ultimate Smackdown Droid X vs iPhone - it was pretty much even. I did like having Netflix on iPhone. Droid is just more fun to me.

reese66

I just take which ever one my daughter gets me for Christmas...:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

UpToAnyCool

bump

binary_jester

I guess it really depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it. Let me preface my remarks with this article:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2oxxgI/blog.carolynworks.com/?p=388

“I don’t know anything about computers.”
April 18th, 2010
One of my biggest pet peeves is when friends say, “I don’t know anything about computers.”

This sentence irks me for a couple reasons. The first is that it is blatantly not true. I’ve met folks who have never touched anything more complicated than a solar-powered calculator. Compared to them, my friends — who use their computers constantly for schoolwork and practically live on Facebook — have considerable technical experience. It is disheartening to hear how little they value their knowledge.

Moreover, the context in which I typically hear friends say, “I don’t know anything about computers,” is as an excuse when their computer does something unexpected, they don’t know what to do, and they would rather back off and let someone else fix it than try to solve the problem on their own. My friends are afraid of their own machines. I think this sentiment is a symptom of ongoing trends in the industry towards a closed-box style of consumer computer design.

Cory Doctorow explains it better than I can in his iPad rant on BoingBoing:

The original Apple ][+ came with schematics for the circuit boards, and birthed a generation of hardware and software hackers who upended the world for the better. If you wanted your kid to grow up to be a confident, entrepreneurial, and firmly in the camp that believes that you should forever be rearranging the world to make it better, you bought her an Apple ][+.

[...] Buying an iPad for your kids isn’t a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it’s a way of telling your offspring that even changing the batteries is something you have to leave to the professionals.

While Apple’s closed-box style contributes to the ease of use which is the hallmark of Apple’s products, I’m afraid that it is changing consumer attitudes in a negative way. Apple wants to keep the inner workings of their products a secret to the point that they want to make it illegal for consumers to alter the software running on their own property. Preventing users from controlling the software on their own devices is dangerous for several reasons, but it scares me most because it discourages users from learning about their devices. In effect, Apple is profiting from its customers’ ignorance, and the consequence is that more of my friends profess, “I don’t know anything about computers.”

Apple’s products are a timely example, but other manufacturers are guilty too, and I think it’s the generation just now learning about technology that will suffer most for it. Curious kids will never be able to tinker with the insides of their iPads as they could with the Apple][+. I think we as technophiles have a responsibility to kids to pick up the slack. Get your kids a garage sale computer to take apart together. Find out if your teenager’s high school offers programming classes. Donate to or volunteer with groups such as TechBridge, which offers after-school programs in technology and engineering for underprivileged girls in Oakland, CA. But most importantly, make sure kids are not afraid of tinkering with technology. How else can they hope to make it better?


I happen to fully agree with this sentiment. I recently got my Droid X. I am a tweaker by nature. I spent 2 weeks learning the mechanisms of my phone. In that process I rooted my phone and I am now running Liberty, not Motorola Blur. This is something I enjoy though. I want my phone to look different than most peoples.
Some people want their phone to just work. They don't want to mess with it. Apple does that. Mind you, the Apple way is NOT necessarily your preferred way. But Apple will convince you their way is best. It is up to you to decide if it is, but by decision time, it is too late because you probably own the iPhone. Even a jailbroken iPhone is limited in what it can do.

Personally I am over clocking my Droid X. My quadrant scores are faster than the stock Nexus. The Thunderbolt is nice...but honestly I have not read much about it because upgrading for me is 2 years down the road. My only hesitation in upgrading now is the Tegra 2 is coming out soon (dual processor chip) and a quad-core processor a little later, but unless you are a gamer, there really is no reason to wait.

Here is one more little tidbit of news:

Android’s Browser Is Way Faster Than Safari on the iPhone

http://gizmodo.com/#!5782595/androids-browser-is-way-faster-than-safari-on-the-iphone

ginnyroxx

I guess it really depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it. Let me preface my remarks with this article:

<Rj's info on phones>

remember our convo last night about geeks? i concede. you win.

binary_jester

I guess it really depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it. Let me preface my remarks with this article:

<Rj's info on phones>

remember our convo last night about geeks? i concede. you win.

Just quoting again...just because.

Atlantique

I love my Android phone! I have the original Droid and have been using it for 15 months now. When I bought it, you couldn't get an iPhone on verizon and that was a major issue for me. 30% dropped call rate is AVERAGE in my area on AT&T, so the iPhone was a total non-starter.

At this point, I can't see any reason to switch even though iPhone is on verizon now. My brother has an iPhone and I just don't see how it's any better, unless you want to use your phone primarily as an mp3 player and are already heavily invested in iTunes (which I'm not).

ginnyroxx

I guess it really depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it. Let me preface my remarks with this article:

<Rj's info on phones>

remember our convo last night about geeks? i concede. you win.

Just quoting again...just because.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

<searching for nerd smiley>

pretentiouskate

At this point, I can't see any reason to switch even though iPhone is on verizon now. My brother has an iPhone and I just don't see how it's any better, unless you want to use your phone primarily as an mp3 player and are already heavily invested in iTunes (which I'm not).

This, so this. I have one of the older Droids (it's about a year old) - I've only had it for about a month (hand me down phone) but it's by FAR my favorite phone to use. I love the apps, I love the flexibility, and I really enjoy the way the Android app market runs - nothing I use was anything I had to pay money for. I've played around with many, many iPhones, and at this point I just don't think that they're worth the inflated price and frustration. You have very little customization, and really most of the iPhones I see tend to be more of a status symbol than a true sign that the user has any real interest in getting performance out of their phone.

binary_jester

lets see the iPhone match this kind of customization...

Boston01810

I have the Droid X. I love it. I could also store/ move all my music from my I Pod Touch library onto my Droid X thru a free program called doubleTwist. The speak features on the navigation system are excellent. I love the swipe feature when writing emails. So this phone now acts as my phone, my camera , my music library and my nav system. It also is synched to my work email- so I can get my person (aol, gmail mail) and my work email on the phone. I will admit the phone has soooo many features I keep going back to my Verizon support guy to figure out how to do more and more.