As usual some Android users are obsessed with the iPhone as if they have to continually convince themselves and others that they made the right choice. Be happy and secure in what you have. If you just have to complain at least know what you are talking about.
Also I would not think of having an Android device, and I have had many, without jail breaking it. Same with iPhone which gives you many additional capabilities.
Numbers 3,4,6,9, and 10 are wrong.
Number 5 is irrelevant as there are multiple paid and free apps that do this and Apple will have their own maps app in iOS 6.
I am starting this thread to help other iOS defectors. I would like to find out all of the things that an iPhone can't do compared to an android device to help sway iOS to the light.
1. Widgets
2. Live Wallpapers
3. Pure phone customization. ( themes )
4. Emulators to play old video games. ( snes, n64, mame....)
5. Google Maps Navigation.
6. Access to file explorer like in a pc.
7. Share most files with other apps for easy uploading. (In iOS you are restricted to what applications the app is designed to share with )
8. 4g Speeds
9. Better notification system with control over individual notifications.
10. True multi-tasking.
Am I missing anything guys? I wrote this thread also for some of my friends who are considering the switch after seeing the SGS 3.
this thread should be fun, lol
ignore a call and directly respond via a preset or custom text
BUT
8. tethering
you can tether on an iPhone unless you are doing some weird tethering thing that iPhone can't do?
Also wrong. It is more obvious how to do this in iOS 6 but you can do it in 5 as well.
Install apps from outside of Market - from SDCard or even email attachments.
Wrong. Not designed for consumers but developers can do this and it's easy to find out how. Which is why there are a lot of pirated iPhone apps. Also jail broken iPhones can do this.
Heh. Thats just funny. Flash sucks on android and Adobe has given up and discontinued it.
S beam
pattern unlock - which is much more secure then a passcode
watch videos while texting
change the launcher
app drawer.
A couple of those are just pure android, but still not available on i*hones
Your last three are wrong.
Would it be an idea to *star things that can be done on a jail broken iphone, to give a more accurate comparison? So your list is, "this can't be done on iphone, but these ones can if you jail break it"
Encrypt device?
Encrypt Sd?
Bigger/better use of screen real estate?
Ad-hoc wifi?
It should of course include jail broken iPhones since any serious android user root their phone and more.
IOS is encrypted with a randomized file system and application signing with certificates. It is far more secure than Android and has management tools for thousands of devices which is why corporations choose it over android.
Screen real estate is a potential issue for some but the display is so good that many people prefer it to bigger screens especially for text.
Also can do ad hoc wifi.
SD card - expandable memory
switch batteries on your own
more screen real estate
voice commands - for camera, call rejection, call answer
briefing alarms - for scheduled news and weather delivery
browser choices - I think iPhones only allow for stock and now Firefox (sort of)
Android allows you to break free of the iTunes environment
I'm just laughing reading some of these they are so far off.
Batteries really only matter if you are traveling and you can't take them on airplanes. iPhone's have had much better battery life making it less of a necessity. Some Android phones are coming sealed now too.
Wrong about voice commands
There are many browsers for iPhone including chrome and have been for a long time. You can make a browser other than safari the default on a jail broken iPhone but few people see the need to.
iTunes is far preferable to most people than the scope of what android offers but you can sync via wifi and iCloud which provides far more capability and better polish than anything google offers and it's free. I can't remember the lastt time I synced to iTunes.
Use a default browser other than Safari...
You can make any browser default on a jail broken iPhone.
TASKER!
The fact that this open source OS allows consumer access to "ALL" sensors/events/timers/... COMPLETELY sets ANY Android device apart from IOS.
It sometimes takes months of negotiation with Apple to release an app that makes use of certain sensors. Often this is because Apple has their own product in the works that is similar to what is already developed.
There are several third party apps that do the same thing.
Way wrong. I have been jailbreak/rooting iPhones and Android since the beginning of each. It's quite easy to do iOS 5, easier by far than on many current android phones.
Most iOS users don't care about custom Roms because apple doesn't allow carrier bloat ware on their phones and they don't put any there either.
Really? Upgrades? You do know all iPhones get upgrades from Apple? Which is why most iPhones are on the latest version of the os and most android phones aren't. You are too used to the mess that is Android fragmentation which doesn't exist with apple. Most of the features of the upcoming iOS 6 will be on the 3GS a phone released in early 2009.
Ease of Rootability -- Try to jailbreak an iPhone what a mess!
Complete ROM changeout/flash by consumers -- this is not only an easy practice now but in the communities it is fully accepted (minus the vendors saying it will void warranty). This one is very important since if your device is feeling old and tired you can simply Flash a new ROM in that completely or near completely changes the look, feel, and useability of the device. Want the newest OS update but the vendor has not released it yet? For most devices the new OS update is supported in the dev community far earlier than vendor OTA releases.
Ability to Theme (I know already listed but needs expansion) -- You can make your Android look, feel, operate, just like an iPhone. Theme changes imply that you are ONLY changing the look of the device when in fact you are often changing the UI drastically to meet your needs. Look at HUBs UI on YouTube
Asus Transformer: Hubs Navigation Tutorial - YouTube. These are stock Tablet devices that are making use of applications/widgers from the market to fully change the UI experience.
You can probably make the UI of an S3 look like an iPhone but no chance of making an iPhone look like an S3
I don't know why you would want to. Any self respecting S3 owner gets rid of touch wiz. But you can install android on a jail broken iPhone as well as themes and other customizations including launchers.
No you can't. Especially on a jail broken iPhone.
I think of android as an enthusiast OS. You can do a lot more with it. It's not always easy to use and sometimes getting it to work with all of your third party accessories can be difficult, but it is a lot more capable, so the trade off is worth it.
I could list hundreds of things the S3 could do that the iPhone can't, but my advice to anyone who wants to know is to try them both out.
You obviously have no experience with Apple to say that.
Apple is too smart to copy the features of the Galaxy S3, they probably have plans for their next ten iPhones because of the way they ration features.
It's a genius business strategy.
Um no. Long press the PDF and choose any app you want to open it.
The things that drove me nuts about iOS were small control issues that would creep up in everyday use. For example, opening PDF files. No big deal, right? Almost EVERY productivity or office app can open a PDF file. But therein lies the problem. In iOS, the OPEN WITH option only has room for about eight apps, and they appear in the order you have installed them with the most recent first. Needless to say, with iOS, Apple knows best, so you have no control over how this list is sorted or populated. This means that if you have a go-to app for document viewing (Goodreader is awesome on iOS), it gets pushed down the list as other apps are installed. Once it's off the list of eight, the ONLY way you can get it back on is to delete the app and reinstall it. How ridiculous is that?
In Android, I get a full list of apps compatible with the file type until I decide to limit it to a default of MY choice. And if I decide I want to change that default choice later on? No problem.
That's just one example. The glitches are scattered all across iOS where there is no viable workaround.
File browser
Multitasking
4g
Large screen
Swap battery
Sd card
More intuitive controls and ui with the back and menu buttons
Alternate keyboard and home screens
The first two and the last two are wrong. I have no idea where people get the idea iOS doesn't have true multitasking. The iPhone 5 dues out shortly will have 4g. Apple didn't rush to put the first power hungry and huge LTE chips in their phones.
iPads have LTE btw. Month to month contracts at Apples insistence.
That's not normal and you should know that. Android phones are just now getting the same battery life as iPhones and only a few of the newest android phones.
What I can do with my S3 that my iPhone couldn't do is have my S3 on WiFi with no apps running and know for sure that even with no usage that my S3 will drop about 25% with no usage within about 2 hours.
My iPhone definitely couldn't do this...lmaooo!!!
Def the expandable memory is greatly overlooked.
Not to mention having micro sub port for connection.
Flash
Flash
Oh, and did I mention flash?
The Apple dock connector provides far more capability.
Did you mention flash for mobile has been discontinued by Adobe because they admitted the could never get it to work right? I believe you did not.
