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Phones iPhone 4S vs Galaxy S3
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Exactly this
Unless you're working for or profit directly from some corporate brand, I don't get this blind allegiance to one brand or another.
How's that saying go again?
I'm defined by who I am, not by what I buy?
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It's insufferable that your ilk continue to insist its blind alegience as opposed to informed consumerism.
Implying that every review of apple products is not 10/10 glowing in practically every publication on earth and implying it is not the most admired company for valid reasons such as superior products.
You want to act like its all marketing cult manipulation take your theories somewhere else.
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Hmm so my faster, smoother, larger screened, more capable phone is a China town knock off? I'm sure I'll live with it
Those sound more like active icon app launchers too me. I see a widget as something to interact with right there on the home screen.
It does, like the weather and my Verizon widgets tell you info. The other ones are widgets but an active icon is a good definition of them.
I would hope anyone making a comparison between Android and the iPhone is comparing a flagship Android device otherwise it's an unfair comparison
As long as we use the same rules when we are comparing market share numbers!
Again, your argument comes down to overstating the differences. It isn't like going to multiple grocery stores, because the difference we are talking about is 1 second for widget access versus 3 seconds fro the full app.
Faster if I've used the app recently. With notifications, I'm updated on the information that's important to me before I even unlock the phone.And just out of curiosity, how many appointments will your calendar widget show?
I agree. I wear company provided work pants and suit pants mostly. Both are tailored to fit exactly how an average size adult (5'10" 175 lbs) should be wearing pants. Never had an issue with phone size in my pockets.
However I started using a belt clip for my iPhone just cause it can get to my phone faster at work that way. And I really like it (at work where it doesnt look silly). I never tried the galaxy note and yes the argument can be made that a smaller phone is more comfortable but that's a given. No phone is more comfortable then even the smallest of phones. Regardless they all pretty much disappear in my pocket.
This reasons you give are the most poorest I have ever seen. Both have Youtube and Facebook apps? And this is how you defend iOS? You must be kidding. Do you think anyone will fall for that?
It seems you don't know anything about iOS, or you would give better arguments.
A superior OS that got multitasking, folders, video calling and wallpapers on iOS 4.
A superior OS that got cloud features, voice features and better notifications in iOS 5.
A superior OS that got Facebook integration, FaceTime 3G, reject call with SMS and better Maps on iOS 6.
Yes. It is a superior OS... superior than Symbian! It may be a NICER looking OS, but not a SUPERIOR one to Android.
My logic is that iOS gets essential features way way later. It got multitasking and folders in its 4th itineration. It got cloud features and a reasonable notifications system on its 5th. It got FaceTime over 3G two years later after being announced in iOS 4...
All this time with a poor integration of Maps and other stuff that seriously needs to be updated, like... get rid of the stupid 12 app limitation in the folders! How hard is that to do for such a powerful company?
There are so many things iOS could benefit of that Apple is not including. I want iOS to be better. That is why I am critique of its limitations. The fanboys that cannot see past its limitations aren't doing themselves a favor, since they will stay always behind waiting for stuff that its needed NOW. We all want iOS to be better.
"Essential"?
Those features are hardly essential. The features I presented are what are considered "essential," the rest are petty extras.
The point of the story is that iPhone does the essentials in a smooth and elegant way and Android sacrifices user experience to give you pointless non-essentials.
You have a strange definition of "essential".
Multitasking - before iOS 4, you could be half way through changing settings in a settings page, switch to another app, then go back to settings and it forgot where you were. Multitasking is essential.
Cloud features - not necessarily essential, but they provide a much improved user experience. With Google/iCloud I know that my contacts/calendar are backed up and I don't have to do it manually if I switch devices, or just every so often as a security measure.
Folders - these are more essential to iOS than Android because of the way iOS puts all your apps on the home screen and doesn't have sorting options like Android does. Having to scroll through pages and pages of apps got old pretty quickly.
And yet strangely the iPhone was the most popular smartphone in the world without these features. Like I said, that's a strange definition of essential.
And the fact is that iOS has those features now. Why are we still talking about more than two years ago? Especially since a lot more people considered iOS to be more advanced than Android two years ago.
Ok, so if they are not essential to you, why use a smartphone when clearly what you need is a simple phone that makes calls and send text messages? It is called a smartphone for a reason you know, and we are in 2012.
The problem is that Apple keeps updating iOS with stuff from yesterday, like just now the FaceTime 3G when video calls over 3G have been supported for years. I had those in my symbian phone 5 years ago with the Nokia N95!
Getting this kind of stuff now is too late.
For example, Google Now seems like its not that important now, but Im sure tomorrow many people will find it essential. That is what I mean. Same with offline dictation. Android is getting this stuff years ahead of iOS.
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My S3 is smoother than my iPad
Why is it that Android is always just as smooth as iOS, but we are always seeing claims that the next update is finally going to fix the lag problems?
This was meant completely as a joke. Obviously, there are hardware differences. I'm talking about essential for me, my opinion. I don't care what the most popular smartphone in the world is, if I don't like it, it's gone.
I sold my 1st gen iPhone and bought - wait for it - a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic because it was more capable at the time.
Apple trickles updates out painfully slowly so you feel like you're always waiting for them to do something with the platform, but it never happens. Basic features are still missing.
Why is it that Android is always just as smooth as iOS, but we are always seeing claims that the next update is finally going to fix the lag problems?
I haven't seen anything about 4.1 fixing any lag problems on the new phones, it supposedly just makes everything even faster. Of course, you have to have 4.0.x first and there is no guarantee when that is going to happen for many phones, especially those on at&t. I mean the S2 Skyrocket came out in November last year, was the flagship phone, and it hasn't gotten ICS yet (at&t is saying August now. We'll see.) hell, not a single Samsung tablet has gotten the ICS update yet. They are all still stuck on Honeycomb (argueably THE WORST operating system ever. Those tablets will seem like new with ICS.)
Anyway, if a person was to switch to an Android phone, the only ones worth considering are the HOX, S3, Google Nexus or Note. Everything else may as well assume they will never be updated to 4.1. That doesn't mean a person can't update themselves via a rom, but the average joe won't deal with doing that.
I received my S3 via UPS this morning and I have to say, this might be the best phone/device I've ever bought. I could list some things I love about it but it's probably along the lines to what's been posted in this thread already by other users. I do not, however, like how quickly it heats up at the bottom, makes it uncomfortable to hold after a bit, but with a giant high tech screen I guess that's part of life. Otherwise, this thing is incredible. Very solid all around.