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Phones Convert to android and loving it?
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Right. People like to forget about many facets of the iPhone/iPod/iPad.
The iTunes ecosystem that is built in to each iDevice gives a huge lift. You get many items in one place such as games and the like in one location.
No worries about malware that seem to pop up from time to time on androids due to inconsistent control.
I don't feel one is better than the other. But for people to do a side by side comparison is rather ignorant since they're not exactly the same.
We didn't get a jailbreak for nearly 4 months... pretty darn close, depending on which device you are comparing to.
Android has functionality and works fine with OUT updates
iOS doesn't the "walled garden" is terrible, jailbreaking iOS makes the OS usable to an extent.
Since jailbreaks are never guaranteed and new firmwares wipes away jailbreaks, I absolutely don't mind far and few updates in between for firmware updates that contains trivial additions and it wipes away the user's jailbreak.
Tons of old Android phones don't have the hardware to run ICS and the manufacturers UI. Just like all those old iphone 3G and original iphones can't run iOS5. (Hardware can't support it.)
and there are still millions of those out there. Hell the 3G can't run anything past 4.2.1!
My iPhone is way better than my Droid X
I was one of those poor fools that was stuck with Verizon when the iPhone first came out. I live in Denver and knew that AT&T service in the Denver area sucked so I wanted to stay with Verizon more than I wanted to switch to AT&T. I waited an waited and finally a Droid worth buying came out. I bought my Droid X and "Loved It." After just a year the phone started being really finicky. Dropping calls, rebooting upon receiving a text message and lots of other problems.................... During all this the iPhone became available with Verizon. At first, I didn't want one. I thought Droids were better. I got my wife an iPhone because I didn't want to teach her how to use a Droid.........Interesting?? Then after owning my Droid for 1.5 years I got fed up with dealing with it's quirkyness. I got an iPhone 4S and it is straight up, a way better phone than my Droid X. The iPhone is so much more stable and when using a phone for business it is so important.
Also!! The cameras on the Droids are so slow!! The iPhone can take a ton of pictures in the time it took for my Droid X to take one!
Sorry Android! I wanted to believe and stick with you forever but the iPhone is a way more stable and reliable platform. Two musts for running a bushiness!
I was one of those poor fools that was stuck with Verizon when the iPhone first came out. I live in Denver and knew that AT&T service in the Denver area sucked so I wanted to stay with Verizon more than I wanted to switch to AT&T. I waited an waited and finally a Droid worth buying came out. I bought my Droid X and "Loved It." After just a year the phone started being really finicky. Dropping calls, rebooting upon receiving a text message and lots of other problems.................... During all this the iPhone became available with Verizon. At first, I didn't want one. I thought Droids were better. I got my wife an iPhone because I didn't want to teach her how to use a Droid.........Interesting?? Then after owning my Droid for 1.5 years I got fed up with dealing with it's quirkyness. I got an iPhone 4S and it is straight up, a way better phone than my Droid X. The iPhone is so much more stable and when using a phone for business it is so important.
Also!! The cameras on the Droids are so slow!! The iPhone can take a ton of pictures in the time it took for my Droid X to take one!
Sorry Android! I wanted to believe and stick with you forever but the iPhone is a way more stable and reliable platform. Two musts for running a bushiness!
Tons of old Android phones don't have the hardware to run ICS and the manufacturers UI. Just like all those old iphone 3G and original iphones can't run iOS5. (Hardware can't support it.)
SGS I does, and most other Android phones out there now do. The manufacturers should cut the bloat out of their UIs, or just get rid of them.
Really? You DO know there are 1443 different Android phones out there right? Now guess how many of them are actually capable of running ICS? I will give you a hint, its under 50. I am not great at math but that doesn't sound like anywhere close to "most".
It's a lot more than 50. You also have to look at what's still out there, and what people actually HAVE.
You android boys will soon lose the custom rom excuse. More oem's are locking their bootloaders which makes upgrading your os version impossible. A locked bootloader isn't like a jail break. Its impossible to unlock without the oem. The carriers hate custom roms and are pressuring the oems to lock down the phones. Sorry.
Impossible? Haha that's cute. The Atrix bootloader was locked down tight by Motorola. That didn't stop devs from unlocking it. Samsung phones aren't hard to unlock and rom. HTC provides a way for you to unlock the bootloader if you choose to do so.
Comparaing IOS updates to Android updates is like comparing apples an oranges.
For the sake of discussion, Google doesn't even market the android updates like apple markets there updates and the majority of android users simply don't require the ICS update, or even know it exists. There phones work fine w/o it, and they aren't missing any significant features.
The release of ICS just hits the nexus, the android development phone first. Users of other phones should know by now that it can take months for it trickle down. Really, whats the big deal? Just think of it as the equivalent of an other software company releasing a developers preview before releasing it to others..
If having the latest release by google is SUCH an issue for you, just get a nexus device.
I'm just still trying to wrap my mind with the fact that this seems to bother IOS users on here more than the Android users who it actually effects.
For the sake of discussion, Google doesn't even market the android updates like apple markets there updates and the majority of android users simply don't require the ICS update, or even know it exists. There phones work fine w/o it, and they aren't missing any significant features.
The release of ICS just hits the nexus, the android development phone first. Users of other phones should know by now that it can take months for it trickle down. Really, whats the big deal? Just think of it as the equivalent of an other software company releasing a developers preview before releasing it to others..
If having the latest release by google is SUCH an issue for you, just get a nexus device.
I'm just still trying to wrap my mind with the fact that this seems to bother IOS users on here more than the Android users who it actually effects.
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Yea and Samsung leaks ROMs all the time that Devs get hold of and go to town. I think Samsung does it on purpose
Whats funny is Apple doesnt like jailbreaking at all and it hasnt stopped Saurik or their dev team.
fullygruntled's post was pretty funny.
Sorry, you are wrong, its 38. Thats 38 out of 1443 Android phones. There are still hundreds of Android phones still under 2 year contracts that will never see ICS because the carrier and/or manufacturer either dropped support for them or claims its hardware can't run ICS. Pathetic.
http://www.engadget.com/updates/which-devices-will-get-ice-cream-sandwich/
Yea and Samsung leaks ROMs all the time that Devs get hold of and go to town. I think Samsung does it on purpose
Whats funny is Apple doesnt like jailbreaking at all and it hasnt stopped Saurik or their dev team.
fullygruntled's post was pretty funny.
Unfortunately, I think we may have seen our last jailbreak. IOS6 is not likely to have any general public exploits that the devs will be able to release. Look to 5.1 as an example. The devs can jailbreak it with their dev exploits, but that won't cut it for a public release.
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And yet, those people obviously don't care. Apparently, their phone works fine for them. Im trying to understand why you eve care?
i know I am on the latest Gingerbread version on my SGS2 Skyrocket... But I am expecting ICS within the month. And ICS is def an upgrade I want. I could get a copy of it now, but I prefer an official released version.
I own a lot of Apple products, in fact between my wife and I we have just about two of everything. I do however have an Android phone and I love it. For me the larger sceen makes a huge difference. I also don't understand why some people have lag on their Android phones. Part of the reason for this is how much stuff they have on their desktop. All that stuff stays open which in effect can slow down the phone. If the iPhone had this feature it would also lag which is why Apple will not support widgets.
One area where I think my Android phone kicks the crap out of my iPad is email. I actually work for a living and teach at a college as well. This means I have multiple important email accounts. My iPad can run all of these accounts and they work great for reading email but not so much for writing. Android supports such features like multiple email signatures which are critical. Also believe it or not but the email seems so much more responsive on the Droid phone.
The app store for Android now has a pretty large selection. A lot of the good games from ios have been ported to Android. When comparing an actual app running like Angry Birds they perform just as well. Of course it helps to have a good developer that knows what they are doing.
I would move to an iPhone if it had a 4.3" screen and they jazz up the email system with the features people have been requesting for over two years now. The only reason I would move however is to share music and apps with the two iPods and two iPads we own.
One area where I think my Android phone kicks the crap out of my iPad is email. I actually work for a living and teach at a college as well. This means I have multiple important email accounts. My iPad can run all of these accounts and they work great for reading email but not so much for writing. Android supports such features like multiple email signatures which are critical. Also believe it or not but the email seems so much more responsive on the Droid phone.
The app store for Android now has a pretty large selection. A lot of the good games from ios have been ported to Android. When comparing an actual app running like Angry Birds they perform just as well. Of course it helps to have a good developer that knows what they are doing.
I would move to an iPhone if it had a 4.3" screen and they jazz up the email system with the features people have been requesting for over two years now. The only reason I would move however is to share music and apps with the two iPods and two iPads we own.
Check your facts. The devs didn't do anything. Motorola coughed up the key. Most devs who migrated to the atrix bailed on the phone long before the key was released. DesignGears, Di11igaf, guys like that.
Because some people act like Android phones and its OS are such high tech and advanced devices when the truth is, they can't even keep their phones running current software. We aren't taking about an incremental update either. ICS is a MAJOR update, they reworked everything, yet only 3% of Android devices run it 5 months after its release. People ask how iPhone users can live with such a small screen or such a (in their minds) limited OS and I ask Android fans how they can live with a brand new phone running a nearly 2 year old OS. I will take a smaller screen and an OS without widgets to have something current rather than an OS from 2010
Here is another eye opener....“iOS 5 captured approximately 75% of all iOS users in the same amount of time it took Gingerbread to get 4% of all Android users,” Sauve wrote in his analysis on pxldot. “Even more astounding is that 15 weeks after launch iOS 4 was at 70% and iOS 5 was at 60% while Ice Cream Sandwich got to just 1% share at the same age. If there were any question as to whether iOS had a less fragmented ecosystem than Android, the past two charts provide a fairly definitive answer.” Sauve continued, “iOS devices have, on average, reached 10% version share 300 times faster than Android versions, 30% share 19 times faster, and 50% share 7 times faster.”