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I haven't used the timescape feature much but X10 can't hold a candle to iPhone 3GS when it comes to web browsing simply because it doesnt support multitouch. iPhone 4 is plain out of reach because it has the stunning high res display too. | ||
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Regarding Itunes, it is sooo slow on Windows, I hate it. I agree KIES sucks too. But the difference is that with the Iphone, you are stuck with Itunes. You have to use it to copy music, movies , apps , anything onto the phone. With the other phones, you can just drag and drop files onto the phone and they will work. But Apple wants tight control on everything and they won't even let you copy things onto the phone you paid for without using their crappy Itunes. I still don't understand why they have to have so many programs running in the background once you install Itunes. It's a bit like spyware. Quote:
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I am not an Apple fanboy by a long shot and was looking at Galaxy S before I bought by iPhone 3GS. While the Samsung is good is doing somethings, the iPhone is better everywhere else. The user interface just isnt polished enough. And for those who feel iPhone is expensive, compare the prices and specs of the iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S unlocked and you will get the answer. The Galaxy S comes for 450 Pounds while iPhone is 500 Pounds but then the iphone gives you better camera quality and video recording, higher resolution screen, exquisite looks (it feels very expensive in hand while samsung is cheap plastic all around), iPod music player, a gyroscope along with all the other sensors and I feel its absolutely worth the price. Quote:
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A 1GHz phone running Android 2.1 is not necessarily faster than a blackberry or iPhone 3GS running on slower processors. Android is still in early stages of it's life cycle. Android 2.2 is supposed to be 2.5 times faster, why? 2.1 and earlier versions were so much slower so naturally any update will be significantly faster. I can talk from my own experience of developing applications for native platforms for Blackberry, Android (both J2ME based) and iPhone. Android is significantly slower than Blackberry and iPhone when doing certain kind of intensive string processing, which is quite common operation for most of applications dealing with real time data. I think what Apple does well is, it is optimized in whatever it does. It's hardware and the OS are in sync and overall you get a good user experience. (as pointed out by many in this thread already). Quote:
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![]() Just to clarify, my next phone might well be an Android or Win 7 based. Though i admire iPhone for the device it is, i don't agree with Apple's 'my way or high way' philosophy. It's highly restrictive. Last edited by SilentEngine : 3rd August 2010 at 16:16. | |||||
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![]() Want some USB file transfers functionality on your iOS 4 device? Look again, it’s right there! | |
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| ![]() Whoa! When did this become an apple vs rest thread?!! Interesting to see the exchange back and forth. Apple's product design ideology always has been make things simple, easy and yet powerful. They have extremely good products that, like many have said here, does what it is supposed to and does it well. Its my sheer level of comfort with the company that makes me say I will never buy an iPhone or anything that has the bitten-apple logo on it: 1) They control their platform too tightly for my comfort 2) Not comfortable with their business model, which centers in extending the lifetime value of whoever buys something from them - eg. If I buy an iTouch, I can't be done with apple. I have to use iTunes. And then we have the app store and what not. This is not a reason, rather something I am telling: As a company, Apple is extremely allergic to criticism and are extremely defensive about their products - anyone who follows Tom's Hardware would know the extents apple would go when on the defensive. And this rubs off on apple users too, they are one passionate lot! Try telling a Nokia or SE user that the company sucks, you will not get anything more than maybe a weird look. Try that with an iPhone wielding dude, and you are in for an argument - pretty similar to what we see here ![]() |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() ^^ haven't seen the last few comments, but apples closed restrictive policies are quite evident from their proprietary connectors and closed software. Try using the iphone to visit nickelodeon's website or natgeo or bbc and try the flash based content like videos, games, etc. :-) I don't need a freaking youtube app to play youtube videos on my android device and all flash stuff works great. Whats missing on android 2.2? multi-touch is there, bluetooth works, quickoffice, pdf, outlook integration, its all there. The only thing iphone had over winmo devices was the capacitive touch screen and cool UI, all other basic functionality was in development for years. And now whatever lil look and feel advantage they had, is gone with the android based phones. Winmo 7 is also going to get MS back in the game i hear. So apple had the lead on some aspects and they are a good marketing machine which works on fanboyism - but there are better choices now. |
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BANNED | ![]() No its just not pure brand name, Apples products appeals to peoples intuition and the rest of the companies are just selling stuff which sometimes happens to come close to an Apple device. They are the masters when it comes to marriage between hardware and software. |
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Regarding Android 3.0, the minimum requirement is a 1GHZ processor and 512 MB RAM. So most of the current phones like the Droid X, Galaxy S, Nexus One, will be able to support it. | |
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I have a jailbroken 3GS and multitasking is only for the browser and some other small applications. Quote:
Besides another pertinent question asked above - How does it matter to a normal user if the platform is open source? How does the OS being open source helping you? What can you do with your OS that Apple IOS4 can't and better at that? As far catching up with IOS is concerned, other OS's have still not been able to master the pinch to zoom gestures? Try the gesture on the iPhone and then on any other competing handset and tell me which one feels better. | |||
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() ^^ @hellwrath - agree on some of your points. I agree iphone is innovative and I have gifted one to someone close as well as have one in the house. All I am saying is android has caught and so will winmo 7 on what iphone's differentiating factors - touch screen, good UI, app stores, multi-touch, etc and then they are offering somethings more like flash and so on. I use a nexus one and use linux as my primary OS on office laptop (yes office IT staff hates me ![]() As for iphone 2g running ios 4, I have a 3 year old htc diamond running android 2.1 very well, so I have no doubts on gingerbread not running on any of the current android hardware, although in some cases it maybe unofficially and with root access. And no i am not a phone gamer (just ps3) - just saying phones need flash. The youtube app on nexus one is now redundant, it was there for when there was no flash support. I can play youtube, hulu, bbc iplayer videos, goto flash based internet radio sites and it all works from my browser - i don't need an app for everything, its a web enabled world and the browser is my client if i want it that way (agree apps are needed to make experience better in some cases) - yes even for cloud apps like salesforce or webex. Apple needs to be slightly more accepting to whats needed by consumers and just give it, i remember how their bluetooth could not be used for bluetooth transfers, or how itunes bought media is so restrictive when amazon offers drm free music. So i am in this for because of a philiosophy i follow and live, not fanboyism. Maybe the same can be said about apple followers,maybe not - to each their own ![]() |
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| ![]() @jassi -- How does flash runs on the mobile? Doesnt it slows it down? |
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i don't need to install a separate app for each of these activities - 2 games, 2 video sites, yahoo finance. Apps are good but you wont install an app for everything if you can just browse to it here is another one | |
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| ![]() I dont use an iphone myself because I do not like it much however my dad (2g & 3gs) has been a user for the last 3 years.. What I love about the iphone: 1) Design - Very Clean, Simple. They got the design spot-on the first time. All changes after that (3g, 3gs,4) has been evolutionary rather than revolutionary. 2) Simplicity - My 1.5 yr old daughter unlocks it, manages to find the photos, albums, and then scrolls through the pictures - On her own. My 63 year old mother also managed to do the same the first time she used the iphone - without any training. 3) The Touch Screen - The usability/implementation of the touch screen is far better than any other devices I have seen. 4) Software - The software is exclusively designed for the iphone, so it works very well. It is also very easy to install s/w and there is a lot of it. 5) Quality - The iphone is built superbly and built to last. 3 yrs + and 100s of drops later, our 2G is still going strong. Battery lasts about 1.5 days. Why I dont use an iphone: I need my mobile to great at its basic purpose : i.e. a phone, which IMO the iphone is not. For most Nokias, the device is a phone first, and the rest of the features are add ons. In the Iphone, I feel that the "phone" is just an extra feature. That said, I do feel the iphone is one of the worlds best gadgets. When it comes to basic usability as a phone (dialing, contact search etc), my Nokia E72 beats it hands down. Last edited by AbhiJ : 4th August 2010 at 13:56. |
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