I'm curious as to your opinions? I have an iPhone 3G and had a HTC desire, I got the desire as well Android is all we hear about lately and really I failed to see the attraction to be honest, Even with HTC's sence interface its no where near as polished as IOS infact it reminds me some what on Symbian, add to that there seems to be a new android phone every month so you no longer have the latest phone, where as an iPhone hangs around for a while. Before my iPhone I had a Nokia 5800, when I got that it was my first screen and I remember thinking WOW at the time, then I got my iPhone and I went WOW again, then I got the android phone and it was like taking a step back despite the Amoled screen and 1GHZ snap dragon processor, In my opinion if you never had an iPhone android would seem great, However for me personally after having an iPhone everything else just seems crap.

Having used iPhones and as an owner of an iPod Touch, Android wins hands down.

It's nice to have a phone that lets me do what I want, rather than what Jobs wants based on what side of the bed he got out of that day. Same for the developers. I also like having basic features like multitasking.

My iPod seems rather more "Fisher-Price" in terms of operation.

I can just see where this is going to go.

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Having just switched from Android to iPhone, I can hands down say that I prefer the instant and simplistic nature of iOS4. I used to think I needed to tinker with every setting available but when I got my Android I found all I did was change the widgets now and again or change the wallpaper. Its also not as open as people claim hence why you need to root it in order to access basic features like saving apps to the sd card. I miss the notification bar however thats about it. I often found apps force closing on me which then made Sense restart leaving me with a phone I could use for a few moments - a small annoyance but annoying all the same. I also found the intergrated facebook utilities to be beyond useless. If I want to know what my friends are doing I go to facebook, not to an ugly and clunky section of my phonebook.

Different strokes for different folks I guess. I find that I want my smartphone to react quickly, let me do what I want when I want it and operate in a smooth, simple and visually appealing way. Widgets, toggles, scenes, windows etc...it all gets very boring.

Plus having to turn all the bells and whistles of so the battery makes it through the day.

I find that there are things I like about Apple's approach - but they aren't actually anything to do with the OS.

I really think they need to work on Multitasking and Notifications in iOS.

This thread isn't remotely asking for trouble is it? Have you seen some of the other threads in this section including a one which got recently locked

I've used both through an iPhone and the Xperia X10 and after two months with the X10 I went straight back to iPhone. In fairness to android, some of the issues I had with the X10 are probably down to that specific handset rather than the OS as a whole and some of the issues are probably also fixed in later versions of android (the X10 has android 1.6 on it)

Can't say I am having issues.

I am testing a cheap and nasty chinese battery, and with 24 hours of everything turned on (GPS, bluetooth, wifi, full brightness, etc) and reasonable usage, I am only at 50% remaining.

Still, if push came to shove and I was not at home, I'll just change batteries. I understand that not all phones have that luxury.

Ooooh, cutting !

(Opens extra-large bag of popcorn and gets comfy...)


By the way, at work I sit with group of Apple fanbois who recently held up someone's Samsung Galaxy S with the comment 'look at this cheap fake iPhone ripoff'. For the avoidance of doubt, I feel that it is the Apple ones that are the ripoff

Android wins for me, had an iphone buts its UI is just too limited for me.

Had to be inside considering outdoors they might be squirming.
Pomposity for some to being needy in less than a year?

*Sits down next to karma and pours a large glass of red*

Indeed and some phones are far more power efficient so that they last a full day no problems.

Some of my friends have an HTC Desire (because if was cheap) and I'm not impressed with the OS, it's not as fast as ppl make out, my iPhone feels far faster and the apps Market is horribly fragmented. Also the games are dire in comparison to iOS.

Ok, so you carry a spare battery. I take it you're careful not to mix it with keys, loose change, gum wrappers and the like.

And when the spare battery runs down you swap back to the - wait ... I'm missing something? I guess you need to charge, er, two batteries now. One after the other. Luxury indeed.

As I said - the battery life is absolutely fine. I actually bought the spare battery to fill the empty space in the dock I bought (that can charge the phone + a spare battery).

I wouldn't carry it in my pocket.

So, there's very little issue in having two freshly charged batteries in the event that I spend longer than anticipated without power, and the already acceptable battery life of my phone is not enough.

I own on Ipod touch and am on my second Android phone.

As an operating system I would say Apple win, However it is poor value for money and overall I think Android beats it because of flexibility with choice of handsets and price.

As an aside, I used the free google turn by turn sat nav today and was very impressed.

I've been down the road of carrying a spare when I had an old Samsung and immediately ran into the problem I described earlier - that of having two discharged batteries. It wasn't so much of an issue that I had to seek out a method to charge two simultaneously... but I soon just accepted that if I needed to, I'd carry a charger instead.

I've never used an IPhone, but I'm happy with my £99 Android phone.

Nokia and Symbian are going to rule the cheap non smart phone market.

The smart phone market will be IPhone OS, for people that like Apple or think only owning an Apple is worthwhile status wise. Blackburry will be popular in business and Android will be on every other phone. Maybe a few will run Microsoft.

Its funny that Nokia sell more phones than Apple, but Apple make a lot more money.

iOS feels horribly limited in comparison to Android, some may prefer the simplicity of it but I sure don't.


Touchscreens make the games dire on both handsets, it's like holding your controller in front of your eyes on the PS3. Anyway with Nes, Snes , Megadrive and gameboy emulators there is no shortage of games, an N64 emu is under development as well.

The desire is not cheap, it's the iPhone that is over-priced.

Hmm, having been an iPhone owner since the 3G and now the iPhone 4, I knew before I went for the iPhone 4 that it would end up being my next phone. I was out of contract for a few months and did look elsewhere to see if I could be tempted to switch to Android but so glad that I didn't.

I had looked around at reviews in all the places I could think of and seeing what faults I could find with the Android OS or each Android phone I displayed interest in. I'm one of these people that likes the idea of being able to do so much with such a small device and it be used for tasks rather than its main purpose.

Yes, Apple does have control over its users, the Apps that are availble in the App Store but this system seems to be working very well to me. It's not always a bad thing. Apple want Apps that are there for legitimate purposes and also Apps that follow some sort of similarity to the UI's of its existing apps.

I've been a Windows Mobile user once before and it didn't matter what size of memory card I had for the handset, anything I was looking to download would be cached on the phone's in-built storage rather than the memory card. A bit of a limitation. It's a similar scenario with only being able to install applications on the internal storage space of an Android handset, though I've read that in the latest release of the OS, this is changing or can even be changed by doing some modifications.

Again, the iPhone can be jailbroken to allow installation of third party/custom/homebrew apps which can certainly make the phone even more useful.

I used to enjoy messing about with settings on the Windows Mobile, seeing what applications I can install but so much has changed since then. I see Android as the progression from Windows Mobile while iPhone is in another league all together.

With the iPhone you get the biggest range of apps out there, it is simple to use, so much that Apple don't feel the need to throw in a printed copy of a user manual, just intuitive and fun. They are not always ahead of others in bringing new functions to phones but when they do, they seem to top everything else out there in some way or other.

Finally, it's funny how when I look at the phones in the banner to the top of this page, just how the user interfaces look somewhat familiar to that of the iPhone .

I'd never get past 5 lines even if I had a preference but this is an opposing argument to the well written Apple points .
http://lifehacker.com/5324724/bad-ap...ying-an-iphone

This argues that rivalry does not exist but usage certainly does.
http://industry.bnet.com/technology/...ile-after-all/

Well it had an interesting point that Android users gravitate to the web whilst IOS gravitate to the apps.

Perhaps in the future. But I cannot vote at the moment as I've never personally owned an Android phone. I've had a play with various types briefly, but don't know enough about them yet.

I've tried both and settled on Android - I'd like some of the apps - namely the adventure games that are on the iphone but Android just seems better for me as I can do what I like with customisation eg. assign my meerkats ringtone to text messages, and something else to e-mail, can put things on the phone or remove them without itunes and the clincer - My Desire on a 24 month contract will cost less in total than buying just the iphone let alone a contract.

Nonsense I spend way to much time playing games on my iPhone such as pretty much anything from Popcap, football manager, C&C, Predators, NFS, CoD..... and have zero issues, in fact I don't use a PSP or DS anymore while on the move as the i find iPhone games way cheaper and of equal or better quality.

Android. Like microsoft, Apple are so far up themselves I wouldn't give them a sniff of my wallet, let alone hand over my money.

And seeing how IOS is only used by Apple, and every other phone in the world uses symbian or Android, I think Android will just go from strength to strength regardless of what anyone thinks which is the best.

Looking at the poll results Android is the clear winner. I suppose a fool and his money are easily parted. Pass the fart app.