Android vs. iPhone?
Schonfeld: “It’s not about Android vs. iPhone. It’s about Web phones versus bricks in your pocket”; http://is.gd/4aYu
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 13:53 on 16. October 2008 Permalink |
CG: “If you’ve been waiting for Android then I suggest you keep waiting. The overall OS seems to be held together by duct tape and needs a lot of work. Apple focuses on the minute details to enrich the overall experience for iPhone users and Android could learn a lesson or ten from it. The hardware design is dated and while the touch-screen and keyboard are great you can’t just forget about the wretched battery life, horrible GPS and the overall ergonomics of it. I wish the G1 were better in every respect because I don’t think the iPhone is that great, but I find myself wishing it were more like it. It’s the best alternative to the iPhone, but it’s just not there yet.”
moco: “There are several factors that will absolutely drive people away from Google Android’s G1. For one, it’s not small, and putting it in a pocket may be uncomfortable. It is also difficult to operate the device with one hand. A roller-ball – much like the ball on the Blackberry Pearl and Curve – makes it easy to scroll around a page without touching the screen, but I would not recommend pulling up a phone number, or checking an address while driving. However, if you plan ahead, you can create a shortcut on the homescreen to a person’s phone number, or enter the address into Google Maps to avoid entering any information while on the road. The battery life is also a concern, although likely no more than it is on the iPhone. In one instance, the phone was completely dead by 11 p.m. after a four-hour road trip, in which I occasionally I used it for navigation, made one phone call, downloaded one app, accessed the Web a couple of times and took a dozen photos. With heavy use, it will not last all day. Another factor is that it’s difficult to use for work. Today, the device offers no Microsoft exchange support, meaning that it will not get your work email, contacts or calendar appointments. I found a way around this by forwarding all my email to Gmail, copying all my contacts to Gmail, and downloading an app to my PC that syncs my Outlook calendar to Gmail. After taking those steps, I was able to replicate Outlook on the device, but it’s not the most ideal situation.”
NYT: “The Android software looks, feels and works a lot like the iPhone’s. Not as consistent or as attractive, but smartly designed and, for version 1.0, surprisingly complete. In any case, it’s polished enough to give Windows Mobile an inferiority complex the size of Australia; let’s hope Microsoft has a good therapist. … You can’t get from one message to the next without returning to the Inbox list in between. There’s no Visual Voicemail (voice mail messages appear in a written list) or Microsoft Exchange compatibility, either. – Where Android really falls down is in the iPod department. There’s no companion program like iTunes to sync your photos, music and videos to the phone; you’re expected to drag these items to the phone manually after connecting via USB cable to your Mac or PC. More time-consuming fussiness. … The big news is the physical keyboard. As on a Sidekick phone, the screen pops open with a spring-loaded click to reveal a tiny thumb keyboard underneath, much to the relief of people who can’t abide on-screen keyboards. It’s not pure joy, though. The keys don’t click down much. Worse, you have to keep turning the phone 90 degrees from its customary vertical orientation every time you need to enter text. That gets old fast. – There’s also a removable battery. Good thing, too – when all the G1’s guns are blazing (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and so on), the juice is gone in about 3.5hours of continuous use. … And it’s bizarre that, even though the phone contains a tilt sensor like the iPhone’s, it’s not hooked up to the screen. Turning the phone 90 degrees to get a wider look at a photo or Web page doesn’t rotate the image. You have to do that manually, using a menu or by popping open the keyboard, which makes no sense. – Finally, there’s no headphone jack. (Hello?!) If you want to use headphones, you have to buy and carry a special adapter that connects to the USB jack. – T-Mobile also has one of the weakest networks. You iPhoners complain about AT&T’s high-speed 3G Internet network? T-Mobile’s fledgling 3G network covers only 19 metropolitan areas so far, compared with AT&T’s 280. And outside of those areas, Web surfing on the G1 is excruciatingly slow – we’re talking minutes a page.”
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