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Phones What can an iPhone do that a android phone can't? [EDIT: and vice-versa]
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I have seen iPads run emulators but I love how easy it was with android. Play any game you want (nes, snes, n64, sega, playstation, etc) using a playstation controller or I prefer wiimote hooked up via Bluetooth and use a standard micro hdmi out for display to a HDTV. And it's free! Games and all. (minus buying the emulator if you can't find it for free for 99 cents).
I am willing to take up your challenge. Are you willing to eat your iPhone? Or are you going to chicken out?
...and yet it continues to be absolutely useless and nothing more than spec sheet filler.
Google wallet only officially works if you're on Sprint AND have a NS4G or GN (from sprint).
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There's nothing illegal about it working outside of Sprint. NFC isn't just a "spec sheet filler". It can be used in the paypal app (though I don't find that particular useful), Android beam in ICS, various NFC apps (tag readers, tag writers, nfc task launchers, etc), Google Wallet, and they are working on nfc emulation right now (last I heard they had it working on the Nexus S).
Legally? Lol ignoring that silliness and yes it's useless if you don't live near a :
McDonald's
Shop Rite
Mars
Home depot
American eagle outfitters
7-11
Einstein bagels
BP gas station
Wawa
Walgreens
Cvs
Rite aid
Kleins grocery
BJ's
Sheetz
Some of those may just be local to me which goes to show you its not just a main stream thing. And I can probably find a hundred more places.
I've found that my previous Droid could do anything my current iPhone does. The only difference is the aftermarket accessories for the iPhone is so much better. I have a headunit in my car that is basically dedicated to running an iPod/iPhone. That's the biggest reason I switched to an iPhone.
Google Wallet for me is the killer app and it annoys me that i can't really use it as a non-sprint customer without jumping through some hoops. Android beam is nice but not really useful until you can share say...photos, ringtones. PayPal? who uses PayPal anymore. The rest i don't really care about either and/or has already been done ages ago via QR Codes (which are actually more pervasive).
Not sure what your point is here. I didn't say you couldn't use it to pay for stuff. I said Google Wallet is only available to Sprint customers unless you do some workarounds. Therefore the NFC on my Nexus S is mostly useless...to me anyway.
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I'm at a party and just realized something that an android phone can do but it rare unlike an iPhone.
No matter where I go there is always a couple places to plug my iPhone in. As I walk around my buddies house he has at least 3 places to charge an iPhone. Every time I get in someone's car they have a iPhone/iPod dock and/or charger. Even android owners have owned a iPod at some point in their lives and have a charger for it. I've even used a iPhone cable plugged into a ps3 to charge my phone. It's just so convenient!
Even though the cable is proprietary it's nearly a standard in every house hold.
No matter where I go there is always a couple places to plug my iPhone in. As I walk around my buddies house he has at least 3 places to charge an iPhone. Every time I get in someone's car they have a iPhone/iPod dock and/or charger. Even android owners have owned a iPod at some point in their lives and have a charger for it. I've even used a iPhone cable plugged into a ps3 to charge my phone. It's just so convenient!
Even though the cable is proprietary it's nearly a standard in every house hold.
I'm happy when I get .50 on Verizon's 3G network. My tablet is LTE and I've got 48 down and 25 up once. Way faster then my home Internet.
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I can usually get 2-3mbs down on my 4S. However my razr or GNex can pull 50mb/s down. I lI've when people try to call me on that and get hit with a screenshot.
I can usually get 2-3mbs down on my 4S. However my razr or GNex can pull 50mb/s down. I lI've when people try to call me on that and get hit with a screenshot.
I am an admitted apple lover but have to say that my HTC Rezound is the best phone I have owned thus far. Don't get me wrong I loved my 4s but the rezound is honestly an amazing device. It is hard to beat solid 4g, a larger screen, and the customization options. And honestly every app I used on iOS is available on my rezound. Camera is nicer imo as well. Just my 2 cents.
Not really any major hoops to jump through. Just install the apk and call it a day. Plenty of people use paypal, though the nfc portion of it I don't think is particularly useful due to it only being able to be used to pay the other person you're tapping (doesn't make much sense to me). As for QR codes, you cannot even remotely compare qr codes to nfc tags. I'll give you a real world example. I can place a nfc tag on my car dock and set the phone so that when I place the phone in the car dock, the phone disconnects from my bluetooth headset and connects to the car's stereo and also places the phone into car mode. All of that would be done just by sitting the phone in the car dock because I put a nfc tag in the dock. Can't do that with a QR code.
I'd beg to differ. As someone who owns both I'll tell you that I am not overly impressed with the iphone's UI at all. The iphone's home screen is basically the equivalent to the Android platform's app drawer. It lacks functionality and quite frankly I think it's unattractive. I much prefer the set up of my home screen to that of the iphone. I'll attach a screen shot of both and you'll see what I mean. The iphone's screen is much less attractive.
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I would say to each their own. Because to me that home screen on nexus looks ugly. Also i don't have any obsession with weather or news updating every hour right in my face. I'll read it when i want to, flipboard is two taps away and so is weather slide down.
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i had 3 android phones before the iphone 4S, samsung epic, motorola photon and galaxy S2 epic 4g touch, NONE of the android phones came even close to the iphone 4S as far as reliability and actually working with ZERO issues.
That's the benefit of Android. You can customize it anyway you want. If you don't want weather in your face, you can replace it with a different widget or leave it blank. If you don't like the Moto Blur or HTC Sense UI, you can download Launcher Pro or Go Launcher or one of the many others in the market. I have yet to see two people with identical looking Android screens. This is what my home screen looked like on my Droid.
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Yes i am aware of all that. I have owned android handsets before and recently sold my last one, and have experimented with ROMs and themes and launchers etc etc.
Sure your home screen looks different, but you have the same info: a weather widget, that clock and some notifications with the battery percent (i still don't know why is it so hard for google to show battery percentage in status bar, MIUI does it in a very nice way too). Same stuff i find undesirable and no need for.
I used to have a gmail and calendar widget on my phone, every thing else i played with and deleted because i would never use it. Like pulse reader or some other RSS apps. I found i just never bothered to check them. So why kill my battery.
But i found that i still clicked on my gmail widget to go into the app every time i wanted to read an email and regardless of the preview i still wanted to see the entire message list in the app. The only thing i used was calendar, but it shows up in the notification center on iOS 5 and i like it better than taking up the screen where i could put shortcuts instead.
I prefer apps compared to looks. Even WP7 homescreen looks fine to me. I used to heavily mod my windows xp laptop back in the day making it look like different platforms or just different, but for the last three years i am over it. My current windows 7 PC looks generic except for app icons and my choice of wallpaper of course. And i haven't lost anything. Just freed up more time to focus on more productive things.
Same goes with my smartphone. Give me more functionality, battery life and a very responsive system with constant support from the vendor. And so far iPhone has been doing great at this for me.
Like you said, to each their own. I dont see why anybody would have a calender on their homescreen. Im fine with just looking at a date by the clock as opposed to a whole calender.
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