Iphone or Android
 

I wanted to do a poll here and see what you gays have to say.

If you already have one of the 2, vote for that one. If you dont have either but had to choose between the 2, pick one.

Working on something with my brother and this is the first step.

Thanks bros :bigtu:

I have an iPhone 3G, it was the best affordable option 2-years ago. With that said, I can't bring myself to plug it into my Windows computer in the last 6-months but aside from that it's a great phone. My next phone will be an Evo 4G on Sprint to get away from ATT and their new pay-as-you-go crap.

You also get to use Trackmaster on your Android phone so that will save you $$$ on data acquisition at the track.

Good point. I should also add that if you have one of the 2 but want to switch to the other, please choose that one.

We got the email yesterday from Verizon with the option to sign up for a new plan with the iPhone. My gf has been off her contract with ATT for 2 years and she's been waiting for this day. After much debate and price comparing, she signed up with ATT again for 2 years and was able to upgrade to the iPhone4. She had the 2g, so it should be a pretty big difference for her.

I've had cingular, Verizon and now ATT. I don't mind ATT, but Verizon was much better service wise. At least in this part of the country.

I am so trendy it hurts so i have a iPhone.

but for reals, its the best at everything IMHO once its jailbroken. I like to listen to music with it and that is what really elevates it above the android options IMHO. also, the screen on the 4 is awesome.

I have an android phone. When they first came out I was like "HOLY SHIT! LINUX ON A PHONE!" and immediately wanted one. I bought a Galaxy S and went on my merry way.

After a few months though, I'm left with mixed feelings due to my relationship with android phones at work and my own problems with it.

First off, the fact that every manufacturer wraps up vanilla android in their own UI is bullshit. If you are going to pull that horsecrap, at least have the motherfucking decency to leave the menus intact. Nothing pisses me off like having an IDENTICAL underlying OS but not being able to find a menu option that I know is there.

Second, Exchange support sucks balls! Seriously. Yes, I know you can use Touchdown (and we do at work to avoid headaches), but for fucks sake, even on the business oriented Droid Pro it is awful out of the box. It de-configures itself randomly, or it wont sync contacts anymore. OR it won't allow messages to be pushed to the phone. Its ridiculous. If you are going to sell a business oriented phone, make the motherfucker work with Exchange.

Finally, there appears to be a bug that manifests itself randomly in many android phones where they get random shutdowns after sleeping. It seems to be related to the way that android handles the processor to conserve energy, but there doesn't seem to be a steadfast fix. All I know is that I get mega-pissed when my phone autokills itself 5 times in one day when I'm waiting on an important phonecall. My wife's motorola android phone does the same thing.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: As much as I dislike apple products and use Linux/FOSS on a daily basis, if I were to shell out the cash again, I would think much longer about either a high end blackberry or (more likely) an Iphone.


ps. One final note: If your 'project' involves writing an app for money, I encourage you to read the interview with the guy who was in charge of "Angry Birds" development. Especially the part where he talks about his feelings on pay-for apps for android. It is the best selling mobile app of all time IIRC and he made an assload of money on the Iphone/Ipad/Etc. They chose to give it away free on android.

I voted iPhone, because I have one. Android sounds nice, but I like the iPhone's interface and language support. It's familiar to me, and it's so simple my 3-year-old can (and does) use it. If Apple would renounce their fatwa against Flash, it would be nearly perfect.

I have a very strong opinion on this matter so let me start out by saying, I have AT&T and love it, and I have never liked anything Apple does.

Leaving aside the fact that Android is so hackable, which doesnt really belong in this poll. I love it. I dont even have it yet but I have been researching and the more I learn the more unbearably excited I get. The fact that there are so many quality apps for Android that are free. It seems to me that the only reason people want iPhones is for Angry Birds, which is also available on Android. The constant Android updates, the geekiness of it all, and the fact that its not an iPhone, make it the obvious choice for me.

Edit: two words, SD support.

this is really the only downside to the iphone for my purposes. Before I upgraded from my 2g to the 4g I look at android phones. SD support is nice but a 32gig SD card pushes most android phones well north of i phone territory.

If you are truly "working on something"

then the real answer is that there is no "OR". You want to support BOTH.

Angry Birds isn't really all that good. Crush the Castle is better.

For me, it's really down to four issues:

1: You can get Android phones with keyboards. Compared to an OSK or any of the gesture-based text entry methods, I much prefer a physical QWERTY keyboard, even a very small one. Apple has made it clear that they won't be happy until the only method of inputting data into their products is by telekinesis.

2: Android phones are available on the T-mobile network. To the best of my knowledge, T-mobile is the only carrier which offers traditional, unlimited service on a contract-free, month by month basis (the Even More Plus plan).
Furthermore, even after you account for the fact that you must pay list price for the phone itself with this service plan, the end-cost after a normal 2 year period typically winds up being less than a contract-based, subsidized phone. This style of service is commonplace in Europe, but rare in the US.

3: Openness. Ok, so I understand Apple's desires to maintain the image of its products as stable and reliable, and one way to do that is to prevent anybody from distributing code for it that hasn't passed Apple's own internal tests not just for technical correctness, but also for obscenity / decency / tastefulness. By comparison, Android phones don't have these limitations.

This isn't just a theoretical argument, either. On my phone, for instance, I have an app called PDANet installed. This app lets me tether the phone to my laptop for 3G internet access via USB. It didn't require any hacking or rooting, I just installed it and it works. So now I have unlimited on-the-go data access without paying the $25 a month tethering fee that the carrier would otherwise charge me. Apple would never permit such an app to be distributed

4: Natalie “Kommodore” Thompson.

I have Android on T-Mobile also. I just got the myTouch 4g and it's the shit. Soooo much better than the myTouch 3g. I'll NEVER get an iphone simply because of itunes and the fact that you have to plug the fucker in for it to get updates. Fuck that.

Also the mytouch 4g lets you make your phone a hot spot out of the box. You can't beat that.

I have an HTC Legend and my wife has a Samsung S Captivate. I also had a Samsung Spica which I rooted and experimented with loading different versions of android on. I find the apps on android are fantastic, the system is intuitive, but it also gives a level of customization that really appeals to me.

I actually work for one of these companies and have used all of these products. Nothing is more reliable than a Blackberry.

I'd recommend the Blackberry. You can chirp bitches (or guys?) with BBM and know when they've read your messages. This system either breeds insecurity or, if you're like me, teaches you how to tell bitches that they are bitches. Also you can send them pics of your wang without having to MMS. Ask me why this is good. Voice notes, too.

I came home on vacation and switched from Verizon to AT&T. I then bought my wife and I Iphone 4,an Ipad and I bought myself an Itouch 4gen. I have had blackberry,pda,lmnop phones and other than having a fat cheek and muting a call every once in a while... its the greates thing since boost. I am superphone illiterate so being able to send whole packets of info instead of lil blocks of text is great. I am going home in July and buying an Imac or macbook to make all of these products interface easier. I vote Iphone

This is how I connect to the internet as well with my evo htc 4G with Sprint. It's as fast as dsl on low signal and even faster with a good signal. Though once the free trial ends you can't access secure sites. But for a one time payment of $25 for the full version, its worth it.

Plus where I work goes down several basement levels. While I'm web surfing, texting, and calling, everyone else who has a different carrier gets absolutley no signal down there.

Only down side of the htc evo is the battery life sucks the more stuff you have going on. I always carry my charger with me.

My friend has the HTC EVO and he carries a spare battery in his pocket.. He is an internet whore..

hey, BBM me ;)

Android on a Sony Ericsson X10, running Android 2.1 and loving it!

Yeah, battery life on the MyTouch3G Slide(HTC Espresso) isn't great if you're doing nothing but surfing the web all day long. For my uses (talking on the phone, checking email, occasionally logging into MT while I'm sitting on the toilet) it's been just fine.

Of course, I'm not a 14 year old girl who is incapable of not being on facebook for more than 10 minutes, so YMMV.

On the plus side, plugging it to my laptop has the side-effect of also charging it, so when I'm tethered, battery life is essentially infinite.

On the plusser side, unlike most things that Apple makes, the battery is easily removable, so you can always carry a spare (I've never needed this.) You can even buy a little docking station to charge a spare battery outside of the phone.

Android all the way. I have yet to see anything I want on the iPhone that my HTC Incredible can't do.

I know something the iPhone could do that your HTC could not. The iPhone4 was great at loosing reception when you hold it and try to actually talk on it. I want to see your HTC do that.:giggle:

You got me there. I've never dropped a call because I held my phone the wrong way. :giggle:

FYI, tomorrow and saturday t-mobile is giving away all smart phones. Well, with a mail in rebate.

I have an Android and voted for the Iphone. Every day I want to throw the fucking thing in the toilet.

Details, man. What phone, and why don't you like it?

Iphone 4...has a rattle. Brand new, actually swapped it out for new one two days ago for same problem. Apparently they all rattle. Still works great though.

Indeed. That's sort of like saying "I have a car that runs on gasoline, and I hate it. I'm going to buy a Nissan Leaf instead." Maybe the problem isn't gasoline, it's the fact that you own a Daewoo Tacuma?

sprint epic 4g. Amazing phone. Biggest problem is battery life. I'm considering getting a Seidio extended life battery for it, or hoping that the 2.2 update extends the battery life. Sliding keyboard is great, SWIPE OSK entry is amazing, and quicker than the keyboard most times for me. Paid for the full version of PDANet, because wireless carriers think that I should have to pay broadband dedicated prices for 1 days worth of computer connected internet surfing/month - fuck wireless carriers, hail android. Mark Zuckerburg thinks Google fucked his mom in the eye, so your facebook app will suffer over the iPhone or windows phone versions.

Pros - SWIPE OSK, open source, competition in the marketplace

Cons - Get a car charger

Its complicated. I'll eventually explain better. My brother is a techie and knows a lot more about this stuff than I do. I have the software, he has the know how. I have more side projects than I can handle so I'm not sure how soon anything will come from this.

Right now I'm just trying to learn more about both platforms. I have the iPhone 3gs myself and love it. However I'm not an xbox hackor either. I went from a piece of shit Motorola Razor to this so it was a huge jump for me.

Keep the votes coming! I gotta say I thought it was going to be the opposite of the way its currently turning out.

Droid 2? My wife has one and it freezes up on her more than a lighthouse on the great lakes.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blo...lighthouse.JPG


Also, she has managed to drop it in a sewer grate, have it stolen and left in a garbage can, and skip it across K Street in traffic. Seems like Android still has some bugs.

I HATE HATE HATE my Blackberry Bold with a passion for interface issues. It will not auto-correct in email or messaging, the keyboard is TINY, why are we producing phones in 2011 without a touch-screen

Andriod really needs to step up their game...how can they sell shit like that?!

Anybody here with a slightly older Android phone running v1.5? I'm about to finally upgrade to a smart phone from my old piece of shit Sony Ericsson Walkman phone, and I'm not sure if a phone running v1.5 is still decent enough. Reviews I have read have made it sound like a huge downer to only have v1.5 vs 2.0+

Better yet, anyone own a Samsung Captivate? Considering one.

I too had a Bold and half the time I used it, I had that stupid fucking clock spinning in the middle of the screen. I now have a Tour and it's a bit better but it may as well be from a time machine straight out of 2005 because it is still slow as shit, has crap apps, and a cludgy OS. RIM sucks.

2.1 is kind of a starting point for awesome. if you get a 1.5 phone, root it.

Samsung Captivate = AT&T samsung galaxy S = android 2.1 (with free update to 2.2 expected once wireless carriers pull their thumbs out of their asses. T-Mobile has released 2.2, the other carriers are under a little pressure to get it out)

That being said, most of my previous comments are still true. 2.2 is supposed to improve battery life, but don't expect to get more than a full day of battery life out of the phone in 2.1. 16GB of internal memory is huge compared to some phones, and more than any casual user will ever fill. (I had a friend with a "mytouch3g" who was having issues with storage space. I soon found that it only had 512kb of internal memory)

That being said, it still roxorz over the iPhone. My best friend has iPhone, his wife has Android. Initially, she couldn't get any of the "cool stuff" that he could get. It didn't take long before she could get all the "cool apps" too. With 2.2, android is getting a few more features that i'm not sure the iPhone has.

Oh, and you get swype text entry instead of iPhone autocorrect
http://www.tmonews.com/wp-content/up...0/02/swype.JPG
http://www.erked.com/wp-content/uplo...istake-251.jpg

Yes, get Froyo at least or skip it. If it's still running 1.5, it's probably an older phone with now-crappy hardware specs anyway.


EDIT: My one complaint with my HTC Incredible is battery life. I don't like humb-backed extended batteries. But it's manageable with a car charger.

Not to spark an argument, but the galaxy S is one of the best platforms out there once you install a custom ROM. It's well known that the Android 2.1 (and now 2.2) that samsung provides is a piece of shit. It takes about 5 minutes so I'd recommend nero V5. Here are my benchmarks on stock Nero w/ no overclocking:
http://i52.tinypic.com/206csjc.jpg

As for angry birds, make sure you tell the whole story. Ads pay more than game sales is the bottom line with respect to their decision. They make 1 million per month in ad revenue alone...

The project I'm going to work on is a basic concept which I'll be relying on ad revenue and probably give the app away for free. So its nice to hear that ads can pay off just as much as the app itself, if not more.

pay-apps only attract a very small market compared to ad-supported apps - with a pay-app, you have to decide if you like the app BEFORE you try it.

That being said, I wish rovio offered a pay / registered version of angry birds, because now that I know I enjoy it, I wish I could get rid of those annoying ads.


Newbsauce: Is your OS ad supported? That's fucked up to me.

Paid apps didn't suck before they restricted the refund time to 15 minutes from purchase.

He posted a screenshot of the benchmarking app.

The MyTouch 3G (and 3G Slide, and probably the others in that family as well) only have 512k internal, but they are supposed to come with a microSD card. If she got hers used / refurbed / stolen, it's possible that she didn't know this. You have to pop the battery cover off to access it, but there's a little slot on the side where the card goes. You can get 'em fairly cheap, too. $18 for an 8 GB card at Frys.

The only two I have even wanted to try thus far have both come with a very generous unrestricted demo period. PDANet was one week, Touchdown gives you a full 30 days.

Can't really complain about that. It's a good model.

To build on what Joe stated re: microSD- if you use Apps2sd then the memory issue is trivial. My girlfriend has the same phone running cyanogen.

That sucks, if only it had 128k more...my guess is that 640k should be enough for everybody.

They keyboard is too small even for my cat's paws.

Step 1: Choose your favorite carrier
Step 2: Buy a Galaxy S phone for that carrier

I've had Blackberry's for 4 years starting with the 8300 up to the 9000. When the time came to choose, the Torch just didn't stand up to the new offerings from Apple and Android.

I'm grandfathered in on the unlimited data plan under ATT, so I got the Samsung Captivate.

Basically, Galaxy S is win. If I could choose my carrier, I would have the Sprint Epic 4G due to the slide out keyboard and camera flash.

Right now I'm using it as a wifi access point, watching youtube videos.

Android is a great option if you like to fiddle with things. Last night I flashed a modem file for the Bell Vibrant. It allows HSUPA data speeds that ATT reserves only for the Iphone 4. I now have 3.5mbps down and 1.5mbps up speed. I've never had any problem with the phone shutting down when going to sleep. I've only needed to plug it into the computer once when it failed to flash a rom. Everything else can be done via wifi. Currently running Cognition Rom 2.2b8.

No argument from me on that front. The phone is a very nice piece of hardware. My irritation stems from constant issues with Exchange (Touchdown alleviates most of this) and a nearly endless stream of android phone owners at work coming to me with problems. I honestly cannot think of even 1 person where I work that hasn't had some problem with their Android powered phone in the past month.

I wasn't aware of this. Good for them.

Me and the wife went from blackberrys to andriods recently. Will never go back. Only downfall is this samsung moment(I know, old shit) drains batterys worse than I drain beer on Friday nights

If I get an android will I have to fuck around with stupid technical bullshit problems? I want my phone to be my fucking daily driver. No problems, no tuning involved, no workarounds, just dial, surf web, waste time on games, and send email with NO PROBLEMS. I can tech it up on computers but i have no desire to do so with my phone/pda/whatever APPLIANCE

Sometimes the damn thing will ring and ring, and will not answer no matter how many times I hit the send button. A few times it would never hang up when I was leaving a voice mail. I had to pull the battery to end the call. It also is constantly ghost dialing (one day, that is going to get me in trouble).

Another thing, and maybe this probably relates to all smart phone, but it is not easy to make a phone call when you are driving. It seems like you have to go through so many hoops to do anything with it. It is down right dangerous.

I have the Samsung Moment by the way. I here there is software that will correct some of the problems.

No.

Do you have a cheap screen protector on it? Cheap screen protectors are the root of all evil. A screen protector has to conduct an electrical impulse, and cheap protectors give the screen false readings or mis readings. The leading symptoms of a cheap protector are
A: Phone does things you dont want it to
B: Phone doesn't detect you're touching the screen

phones built within the last 2 years dont need screen protectors. i laugh when I see scratched up hazy bullshit stick-on crap on people's iphone4 or new android phone.

the screens are durable like whoa. I can scratch mine with a key all day long without showing marks.

What is the point of putting your smartphone in a protective case??? The case then gets all nastifucked and then three years later when it's time for a new phone, your old phone is still all sparkling and perfect. And you'll have lugged around some stupid case for three years. Blah

Not true, I snuffed a cigarette out on the screen of my Blackberry and melted it.

my screen is glass. your blackberry is apparently made of crystallized suck.

Gorilla glass FTW.

Google has been lying to me. A search for "Cognition Rom" shows that the latest version was released in December, when in fact it was a few days ago. Apparently there's a new thread on XDA for version 3.04. I feel like I've been living under a rock now. The new version is so much incredibly faster that it's like a new phone.