Why Android kicks the iPhones Ass

Zascar

Hey guys, I'm a former iPhone fan recently 100% converted to Android. I'm kinda shocked I did not know how great android was before I actually got one, and basically 95% of people don't even know what it is or how good it is. So I wrote this blog post about it. Just thought i'd throw it on here first to see what you think. If I have got anything wrong please let me know or if you can suggest any additions please shout and I'll include it.
Cheers
Z

Kenno90

Great blog post (bookmarked for later ) though just run it through a spell checker

I'm still waiting for the desire to come back in stock in meteor. Did you buy the desire recently ??

As with the iphone it looks great and has the best screen available on a phone but the lack of widgets is a big disadvantage.

With android it seems you can just do more (even though apple have more apps)

conor.hogan.2

Yep.

But would you give Android to a non techy friend or relative? I know I would not, I don't feel like being tech support for life.

It is an ''os by easter eggs'' - it takes a lot of looking and testing to do things, that nerds will do normal people will not.

Solair

Yeah, the HTC phones and the Samsung Galaxy are a LOT easier to use than any Nokia or other older OS phone I've had to use.

I don't really see why they'd need tech support, unless you're doing major modifications and stuff.

conor.hogan.2

Ye I spose - a desire or galaxy is quite user friendly. But the market is a mess and it is quite awkward the way basic things are done atm.

Not tech support - but deffo for more questions than the iPhone.

Solair

The market isn't open for business in ireland which is utterly ridiculous at this stage. I don't see why its such a problem for google to open paid apps to irish users. Ive used market enabler and, posing as being on tmobile US, it lets me pay for apps via my irish googke checkout account. Its inexcusable that this isn't officially available throughout the EU by now.

I mean, I've had to hack my phone to GIVE Google money!!

conor.hogan.2

Oh ye forgot abut that - I was talking of the market being a mess in general.

Zascar

Yes but with "One Click Rooting" and the Market Access app its not exactly difficult to get the paid apps. I think the Market is grand, its a bit behind the istore but it will catch up. Some online reviews think its better than apples store cause its less restrictive

Zascar

Oh and guys I'd really appreciate if you could Digg this article if you wouldn't mind
http://digg.com/news/technology/why_android_kicks_the_iphone_s_ass

osnola ibax

Desire with HTC sense is a very user friendly phone. All functions are extremely self explanatory. Rooting requires tech support and good judgement when choosing roms etc. but there is a minefield of info out there. I don't consider myself to be a computer wizz, I just think I have been born into a very tech savvy generation that understand computers and what they can and can't do and don't want to be restricted by what the makers tell you devices should do, like apple.

Kenno90

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Yep.

But would you give Android to a non techy friend or relative? I know I would not, I don't feel like being tech support for life.

It is an ''os by easter eggs'' - it takes a lot of looking and testing to do things, that nerds will do normal people will not.

Counldn't agree with you more, because it happening to me My boss bought a legend and so far i've told him

• How too add a Contact
• View his messages
• Show him that you can swipe through different home screens
• That the notification bar can be scrolled down
• Delete his browsing history (Yeah it's what you think)
• Add his widgets back after they somehow vanished

By the end of the day i just told him to RTFM

jonseyblub

The biggest problem with android for me is the lack of an 'ipod'. I love everything about my desre but the music capabilities. While you can get different apps for podcasts and for music players the iphone simply is the best for the all in one experience. It's rumoured google are looking to launch a service before xmas but i dont know whether the same problem with paid apps will mean we wont get it i.e not be able to purchase music. I'm actually on the verge of going back to the iphone for this very reason. and I know most people hate itunes but i have to say i rarely used it and simply got all my music and podcasts directly from the phone itself.

Mr Bloat

Kenno90 wrote: »

Counldn't agree with you more, because it happening to me My boss bought a legend and so far i've told him

• How too add a Contact
• View his messages
• Show him that you can swipe through different home screens
• That the notification bar can be scrolled down
• Delete his browsing history (Yeah it's what you think)
• Add his widgets back after they somehow vanished

By the end of the day i just told him to RTFM

This isn't exclusive to Android. I do IT support for a lot of small to medium companies and a lot of my customers have been getting iPhones recently and despite the iPhone been marketed as something that anyone can use I got lots of questions about the app store, various settings and some of the same questions you mentioned above. There are a lot of middle aged - elderly men who are getting these devices and barely know how to turn them on!

Bugzy

I don't agree Android being for the tech people

As said above people sometimes are so behind it all that they cant even use an iPhone and come on. Its advertised for being the simplest phone to use ever (i don't agree to that but anyhoo)

Yes a non tech person might need a day or two to get used to it but you need to do the same with every phone. At the end of the day people are too lazy to take out the white little book in the box and RTFM as said. Which has everything explained.

As a more advanced user i guess i don't really see the learning gap between phones or technology and i certainly cant understand people that don't (well i do but its just so easy and their so lazy)

Android is far more user friendly for day to day use once you get passed that "Hi im more than a phone faze" . As said you have everything within the reach of your fingers from your home screen.

ie. turning Bluetooth for hands-free in the car. One touch for the toggle switch and its connected where as on the iPhone you either have to leave it on perm or go through series of screens and settings to get it on.

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Your wrote in your blog how come it hasn't taken of in Europe so well?

Well since Motorola Droid came out ,Verizon was bending over backwards in America advertising what can you do with android and that has pushed into an accelerated rise of new people leaving their Nokia and iPhone for android. Cause this thought and showed people what could it do.

Which definitely has been skipped around here.

The only phone i seen advertised with android well was a meteor LG Optimus commercial