OT - Android or iphone?
Hi Guys,
I know this is way off topic but I’m due an upgrade and wondered if people can advise me with personal experience?
I’m looking at the Samsung Galaxy S which seems to have the better kit but as we always know the way apple stuff is put together is great?
I’m thinking in case I want to use in performances too, are the Android apps exactly the same etc?
Any help please? 
Im biased towards iPhone but regardless of brand Samsung phones are dog-shit.
It WILL let you down. Doesnt matter that Android might be good… its on a turd of a phone.
Thats what ive heard anyways.
+1000 Samsung is crap. Other phones get close to the iPhone in terms of functionality, but none can beat it. If you don’t like some of Apple’s quirks you have to deal with then don’t get an iPhone otherwise iPhone all the way.
Samsung is shit. I have htc phone and it fuckin rules! With Android and much better than iPhone 3gs not sure about 4 but this phone is way older than that
I think my next phone will be a bb storm 2. I’ve always liked bb’s over anything else and I’ve never been keen on iphones. Also as the screen clicks i reckon the bb is a heap better to use than an iphone.
When it comes down to it though iphone software/ui shits all over everything so it’s more brand/style preference really.
Also iphones are far too beastly imo
That was my biggest concern when going to the iphone from my Treo and I do not miss the feeling of feedback in any way. it’s really a non-issue now.
I got a G1 when it first came out but Android has come a long way since then… If i had a pc, android all the way… but if you’re a mac man, then the way the mac and iphone sync is supposed to be amazing. Specially if you get that mobile me package.
I’m due for an upgrade and am defo getting an iphone, think i’m just going to wait till the next gen though. I phone 4Gs or whatever it’ll be… wait till they ironed out all the issues with this batch (dropped calls, etc)
Heh you’ll probably only have to wait a couple of months mate
Yup, i prepared to wait 
Yeah, to be fair I was pretty sold on the ip4 but the guy in the phone store started going on about how good the galaxy s was compared to all other samsungs and it properly threw a spanner in, but I have a feeling that commission was helping his advice!!!
Having the MBP as well makes all the difference as the sync’ing does look pretty special!!
Thanks guys!!!
It is.. i have Mobile Me and its really good.
Sharing tunes around my laptops is great. Syncing my Playlists.
Im sad enough to admit that my iPhone is my brain.
I tried Mobile me for their 90 day trial and decided that it didn’t offer enough difference from the free Google syncing to be worth the $99 a year.
I think the Android phones suffer from the same thing that has kept Linux from being an actual rival to Windows or Mac OS, and that’s the fact that there is no consolidated platform for development. When you pick up an iPhone, it’s going to have the same OS as any other iPhone (more or less based on patching or firmware revisions) because it’s not an open source, so development is limited to the people who own it.
Android, on the other hand, can be developed by just about anyone and because of that you end up with every hardware maker putting their own spin on the OS. Since there is no singular platform for development you don’t have the same app availability because developers just don’t know what they might be developing for.
Granted, that may all change, and it’s certainly getting better, but I’d take the iPhone any day.
iPhone!
if youre a geek and like to geek out to all things geeky, then android might be for you
iOS is rock solid, but a little more in the “set it and forget it” category.
i got the evo4g, and the three main reasons i literally walked out of the at&t store and back into the sprint store were
larger screen (it’s hot)
removable sd card
removable battery
I’d probably stay away from Samsung. That being said, I choose Android over iOS for a number of reasons. Don’t get me wrong, Apple hardware is NICE, you’re gonna have consistent software development and a real plug and play experience. But as was said, iOS is more set-it and forget-it. (Of course there’s always jailbreaking).
As for Android, I wouldn’t worry to much about sync vs. apple. Google’s cloud covers pretty much anything you’d want to sync, they’re adding new services all the time, and it’s free. To get the same level of sync and data management on the iPhone you need to pay for MobileMe.
The thing about Android is not so much the number of OS versions, but the user interfaces and bloatware that different manufacturers skin up Android with. They all do it differently and it can turn an amazing piece of hardware into a piece of shit. If you go Android, my suggestion is to start with good hardware, and pick a manufacturer/carrier combo that has a decent reputation as far as what they do to the vanilla operating system. Don’t trip on the number of Android revisions - there was a lot of experimenting among handsets in the early days, but now Google has solidified the framework and plans are to be releasing a new version maybe once a year. You’ll see Android handsets and applications getting a lot more consistent from now forward.
HTC and Motorola have some slamming handsets right now.
The latest moto UI is much better than the motoblur stuff.
HTC Sense is a very nice UI.
Of course if you’re savvy, you can root your Android phone. I consider this a must, and should be honest and say that I wasn’t totally satisfied with my phone until I did this. But now I’ve got free Wi-Fi tethering/hotspot, a custom ROM and kernel, overclocking, undervolting, crazy-ass battery life, and best of all, can remove all the crap that Sprint put on the phone (EVO 4g).
Unfortunately as far as serious music/midi apps, Android is not there yet. So if that’s a big draw for you, iPhone is a better bet. But there are a lot of really smart devs out there coming up with new things all the time, so it’s just a waiting game. It’ll get there.
did you root froyo 2.2? or you still on an older version?
edit: wewt just noticed they releasted the steps to root 2.2 today
from here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/08/26/froyo-root-for-htc-evo-4g-released/
I’m not trying to be argumentative, I’m just curious. What can you sync with an android phone and Google that I can’t sync with an iPhone and Google?
Colleague of mine has a Galaxy, I got an HTC Desire. Both Android, both nice.
Though I am more partial to my Desire, than his Galaxy. It somehow just adds up better than the Galaxy for me.
I used to be an iPhone fanboy, but nowadays, Android ftw!
iphone 4 is nice, pics are clear, and recording video in 720 looks good. Give me tethering and ill be happy…of course for free.