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First Day Impressions from an iPhone 4 Owner

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mkilci1

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After posting many questions, I decided to give this phone a chance.

Here are my impressions, not in any specific order. I am a techie and love gadgets. Since I4 came out, I tried EVO and the Captivate and kept going back to my iPhone due to all known issues.

Today purchased an unlocked one sharp at 8. I was the second in line of 5 people.

Build quality, definitely plastic, display has a blueish tint, although very clear and bright nice display. Probably closest to iPhone due to AMOLED. Text not as clear, no surprises there, but pics on web sites look very nice.

Used it with my ATT Sim card, EDGE Speed is totally unacceptable.
Internet speed is hit and miss. Been running speed test all day, at the same spots with iPhone vs S, 3 out of 4 times iPhone 4 is a little faster, almost same (Thats with a TMObile Sim on 3G, in South FL.)

GPS worked fine, no issues like the Captivate. Quick lock, stayed locked. Maps look great work great.

Voice recognition is hit and miss. Several times, after spoke the text, gave network errors.

Phone is fast. Stopped at an TMobile store and spent about an hour side by side with a MT4G. No noticeable speed difference in the OS. Interface a little nicer. Not WOW.

Battery life, cant comment. Kept charging with a car charger on and off.

A few apps I downloaded force closed, nothing else running. (SpeedTest one of them.)

Setup was a breeze on 1 Google account, it took a few minutes.

I will most likely return this phone and go with TM4G.

I will have it for a few more days, if anyone has any specific questions, please let me know as I have the phone. More to come tomorrow and the following days.
 
you might want to give it some time... there's some lag w/ the developers and new OS. Some of the applications are a little buggy for a little while until they catch up.
 
iPhone users who try Android and Android users who try iPhone have a natural tendency to focus on what's missing. After I spent a few months with my HTC Incredible (and now Nexus S), I can't see myself going back to an iPhone any time soon.

My brother carries an iPhone 4 and HTC Incredible. Here are his day 1 impressions of the Nexus S: Quick review: Nexus S - bijansabet.com
 
Woke up. Went Straight to Gmail. Sent myself a 1.4 MB photo. Opened up the email.. Phone stopped responding. After about 10 seconds totally shut itself down and rebooted.

WTF.

Also, just realized, I have 1 bar in my house. I am in an area T-Mobile Maps show full coverage. And now it dropped to Edge.
 
Mkilci1, Are you staying on AT&T? I am confused. If you are switching to T-mobile the internet is 3G and fast on the S. If you are staying on AT&T I understand.
 
I also have an iPhone 4 which I will be keeping. I always have an iPhone and an Android phone. The build quality of the Nexus is not great. The buttons in particular feel really cheap especially compared to an iPhone 4. But then just about everything does. Still with a skin on it the Nexus S would be fine. It feels really good in the hand.
I like the screen but as you say text is not quite as sharp as on a retina display.
Gingerbread is a definite improvement in UI and under the hood but Google doesn't seem to get the importance of standardizing the UI throughout the phone and apps. 3 ways to select and manipulate text depending on what you are doing? Goofy.
Camera not as good as on iPhone.
This is the fist stock Android keyboard I have liked. Very good.
Plenty fast. Multi-touch and zoom better than any of the many Android phones I have seen but still not quite as good as the iPhone 4. Close enough though. I would have kept it but went through two different phones with 3G issues that T-Mobile could not resolve. So back it went.
Gingerbread is not going to convince many iPhone users, Honeycomb might.
 
snookie said:
I also have an iPhone 4 which I will be keeping. I always have an iPhone and an Android phone. The build quality of the Nexus is not great. The buttons in particular feel really cheap especially compared to an iPhone 4. But then just about everything does. Still with a skin on it the Nexus S would be fine. It feels really good in the hand.
I like the screen but as you say text is not quite as sharp as on a retina display.
Gingerbread is a definite improvement in UI and under the hood but Google doesn't seem to get the importance of standardizing the UI throughout the phone and apps. 3 ways to select and manipulate text depending on what you are doing? Goofy.
Camera not as good as on iPhone.
This is the fist stock Android keyboard I have liked. Very good.
Plenty fast. Multi-touch and zoom better than any of the many Android phones I have seen but still not quite as good as the iPhone 4. Close enough though. I would have kept it but went through two different phones with 3G issues that T-Mobile could not resolve. So back it went.
Gingerbread is not going to convince many iPhone users, Honeycomb might.
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