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- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
I switched to the android system over the weekend moving from an iphone. I have been an Iphone user for a long time and everyone in my family has one, along with friends and workers, but no one has an android so i decided to give it a try. I was extremely disappointed with Apple and how they decided to go about dealing with the problems on the Iphone 4. People spent good money and alot of them payed full price for a phone that is extremely frustrating to use and its not right. But thats for another post. Until they fix it I'm sticking with Android.
Android phones on the market have been lacking in quality compared to what the Iphone offered until recently. Alot of new quality Android phones have been coming out recently. Between providers and phones its hard to choose. Verizon has the best right now as far as quantity and quality of phones along with Sprint and ATT just got their top android which competes against sprint and verizon.
I stopped by this sunday to pick up the Samsung Captivate from ATT that just came out. The phone is great and I'm extremely happy with it so far. My wife got the Verizon HTC Incredible last week so I've had a chance to play with the best Android on the market aside from the EVO that just came out. The HTC felt great and I enjoyed playing with it until i got the Captivate on sunday. The low signal strength and small screen size of the incredible far outweigh the pro's the Incredible has over the captivate. HTC makes great phones though, i was amazed at how well the Incredible was put together as well as the other HTC phones i looked at. The Captivate felt more like a sleeker, better designed iphone, and the quality of the phone was up to par with HTC and the iphone. If you want to stay with ATT and want an android the Captivate is what you should get. I didn't switch providers because i have the old unlimited data plan which is priceless after ATT's change in data usage prices.
One last thing i want to mention about the Captivate is that it comes with a pre-installed Swype thats impossible to get until they reopen beta spots or it comes out of beta. This is life changing in the way you text and type. Nothing compares to it. I wish it was an option on my computer.
Droid is interesting when it comes to interfacing and use. Its completely open and, if you have the tools and time, completely customizable. The use of buttons, screen layout, and interfacing methodology works and works well. Its in no way as simplified as apples but apple is apple and they like to tell you how to do things and not the other way around. The use of widgets and additions to the home screen is reminiscent of windows and the flexibility reminds me of unix systems.
The biggest drawback is that the apps are extremely lacking, both in graphics and quality. Yes there are a few great ones but its nowhere close to the numbers of what you will find in itunes. The numbers aren't that far off either, 140k vs 90+k on android. I think the apple app process might be doing something good vs the bad of screening alot of potentially great apps. ATT started to do the same, removing and screening alot of apps on the ATT app market. Anyways, pro's and cons to both and whats actually happening in the process is for another forum post.
Hopefully, with the increase of Android users and phones this past year and the increasing number of android apps every month, Android will be on par with what iphone has to offer very soon. Its still a ways off but its catching up fast. But we'll see. Right now looking at both systems i prefer the Android even though the apps dissapointed me a little. But if in a few months apple offers a fixed improved iphone over the 4 and the android system doesn't improve I might switch back.
Android phones on the market have been lacking in quality compared to what the Iphone offered until recently. Alot of new quality Android phones have been coming out recently. Between providers and phones its hard to choose. Verizon has the best right now as far as quantity and quality of phones along with Sprint and ATT just got their top android which competes against sprint and verizon.
I stopped by this sunday to pick up the Samsung Captivate from ATT that just came out. The phone is great and I'm extremely happy with it so far. My wife got the Verizon HTC Incredible last week so I've had a chance to play with the best Android on the market aside from the EVO that just came out. The HTC felt great and I enjoyed playing with it until i got the Captivate on sunday. The low signal strength and small screen size of the incredible far outweigh the pro's the Incredible has over the captivate. HTC makes great phones though, i was amazed at how well the Incredible was put together as well as the other HTC phones i looked at. The Captivate felt more like a sleeker, better designed iphone, and the quality of the phone was up to par with HTC and the iphone. If you want to stay with ATT and want an android the Captivate is what you should get. I didn't switch providers because i have the old unlimited data plan which is priceless after ATT's change in data usage prices.
One last thing i want to mention about the Captivate is that it comes with a pre-installed Swype thats impossible to get until they reopen beta spots or it comes out of beta. This is life changing in the way you text and type. Nothing compares to it. I wish it was an option on my computer.
Droid is interesting when it comes to interfacing and use. Its completely open and, if you have the tools and time, completely customizable. The use of buttons, screen layout, and interfacing methodology works and works well. Its in no way as simplified as apples but apple is apple and they like to tell you how to do things and not the other way around. The use of widgets and additions to the home screen is reminiscent of windows and the flexibility reminds me of unix systems.
The biggest drawback is that the apps are extremely lacking, both in graphics and quality. Yes there are a few great ones but its nowhere close to the numbers of what you will find in itunes. The numbers aren't that far off either, 140k vs 90+k on android. I think the apple app process might be doing something good vs the bad of screening alot of potentially great apps. ATT started to do the same, removing and screening alot of apps on the ATT app market. Anyways, pro's and cons to both and whats actually happening in the process is for another forum post.
Hopefully, with the increase of Android users and phones this past year and the increasing number of android apps every month, Android will be on par with what iphone has to offer very soon. Its still a ways off but its catching up fast. But we'll see. Right now looking at both systems i prefer the Android even though the apps dissapointed me a little. But if in a few months apple offers a fixed improved iphone over the 4 and the android system doesn't improve I might switch back.
