So you switched from Android to iPhone. Are you happy?

[droid2iphone]

I had the OG Droid, Droid 2, and most recently the Samsung Fascinate. I should be receiving my iphone tomorrow. I rooted all my droids and it gets to be a headache after a while. I chose the iphone simply because it was the one phone I could never have. I can't wait to play with it! I do own the motorola xoom tho!

 

[brock]

Ok I have had my iPhone for about a week now and I feel I can now make a unbiased opinion. I had the original droid since launch day and I now own a Verizon iPhone. Hands down, the iPhone is far superior. The thing I love the most is the battery life. I have consistently got over 15 hours of battery life on my iPhone as opposed to 8-9 on my droid. The OS is a ton smoother the apps are wayyyyyy more polished and the hacker community is lightyears ahead of androids. And the build quality is 10 out of 10.

Now... The bad. Notifications on iPhone are absolutely terrible. Like... Bad. I was spoiled with android. EVERY APP costs money on iPhone. It terrible. Thank god I found installous

 

[cece5702]

What is Jailbreak?

I had the original Droid and upgraded to the Droid X. I ditched the X for the Iphone 4.

For what I use a phone for email, calls, games and music this phone is the best. It is what I wanted out of the other 2 phones but for me they fell short. I have been with Verizon 6 years and this is the 1st phone that I can drive to work and not drop a call in the 2 spots I used to. I even get signal at my house which I did not with my droids

For forwarding MMS messages the stock messenger sucks! With the droid I could go in select the contacts I wanted and send it on. The Iphone lags in this department.

I rooted my droid and to me it was extremely buggy afterwards. Because of this I am hesitant to JB my Iphone. But I may just to try Bitesms and see if it will do what I want.

If you jailbreak and do nothing else there is basically no difference. Certain things you might install may be buggy thats why I would recommend installing one thing at a time. If its buggy then get rid of it. If not move on. I have only done minor customizations to mine and it runs like it did from the factory.

 

[bodean]

I have a droid 1. I was looking at Thunderbolt, but after all the headaches with the general Android LAG, and poor battery, I may switch to iphone.
My questions are:

Google Voice on my droid 1, asks if I want to dial with GV # or my mobile number. Is this also available, this option with Google voice, on iphone?

Everything I have now is integrated in google (mail, contacts, calendars). How hard is it to keep all this stuff and sync it with iphone? Like to share my google calendars, etc, and need to make sure this is available on the iphone.

 

[bab2010]

I have a droid 1. I was looking at Thunderbolt, but after all the headaches with the general Android LAG, and poor battery, I may switch to iphone.
My questions are:

Google Voice on my droid 1, asks if I want to dial with GV # or my mobile number. Is this also available, this option with Google voice, on iphone?

Everything I have now is integrated in google (mail, contacts, calendars). How hard is it to keep all this stuff and sync it with iphone? Like to share my google calendars, etc, and need to make sure this is available on the iphone.

There are applications you can download from the store to meet all your needs regarding google.


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[rossstevenson61]

I love Apple for its great customer service. Do you?

Apple Inc. Survey

 

[bab2010]

I love Apple for its great customer service. Do you?

Apple Inc. Survey

Definetely.


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[appdaddy]

The freedom on android is something I miss. Custom ringtones for SMS, email, phone calls. Also EMULATORS!!!!!! Haha. Those are a Cinch to run on Android, iPhone makes you jump through too many hoops to play emulators.... Smh. But the UI is very polished, wired syncing blows, ota is waaaay more convienient..... But overall I'm happy with the iPhone 4. But my next phone probably will be a dual core Android device... Maybe.....

 

[iNurse]

I had the Droid X but switchd to the HTC Incredible. I did like the custom features of the Android; however after switching to iphone4 I don't miss those features!

I had to charge my Incredible several times in a day... with my iphone I can go all day and not charge til I go to sleep and then the battery is not completely depleted.

Love the Iphone 4 ....

 

[Skull One]

My signature says exactly why I left Android for iOS.

After investing 120 hours into documenting how and why Droids act the way they do concerning overclocking, spending many hours as a consultant to ROM makers, pouring over at least 100K lines of Android source code concerning the OS and Kernel, I can honestly say I don't miss it one bit.

Android has so much to offer and that right now is its largest failure. Eventually Google and the phone makers will figure this out. Hopefully before its not too late.

 

[Skull One]

Well I own a android and IOS phone, and to be honest, the Droid(s) are better.

I can root my droid and do anything I want with it.
IPhones give you no freedom.

Please explain how the Droids are better when you can miss a Call, SMS or MMS because the OS can't load the application into memory in the time frame allotted by the carrier? OR worse how you lose an SMS or MMS because the application runs out of memory. This is all due to the way Android handles events and memory management. It doesn't know how to give proper priority to apps under a "overloaded task queue" IE LAG. And god forbid you actually try to set the "don't remove me from memory" flags in Android OS. The ones that get ignored around the time where you switch from 3G to WiFi and every app hooked to "On changed connection" event is suddenly launched into memory and ran to acknowledge the event.

Yeah, Droids are soooooo much better when it comes to being an actual phone.....

 

[Skull One]

What on earth are you talking about? Use a task killer. Fixes everything.

Yes Droids are better at being phones, since on the IPhone you can't hold it any other way than the way Steve Jobs says.

And why are you getting so mad, bro?

I own both phones, love both phones, but I prefer Android in every way except for games.

Please don't mistake sarcasm for anger. They are not the same thing.

Task killers are not a solution. They are part of the problem. And an app will reload back into memory instantly after a task killer is used on it if any of the event triggers get called. So at that point you are actually wasting battery fighting the OS to keep a program from running.

My Motorola Droid A855 shows the same characteristics as my iPhone for signal level when making calls and holding it the same exact way. The human body acts as a signal sink no matter what you do if there is metal on flesh contact that is tied to the antenna.

I still use my Droid every day. And it reminds me every day why the Droid stays at home while the iPhone goes with me everywhere. Android is still trying to figure out its identity and how to go from being a toy to a very useful tool. Maybe during the life cycle of 3.x that might occur. But Google isn't releasing that source code for us developer to review yet. And that is a very troubling sign.

 

[Skull One]

Well, your problem is that you have an OG Droid. That has a 550 mhz proccesor.

Android phone now are getting 4G, dual core, etc. These problems are fixed, as android leaves iphone in the dumps.

I wrote the book on overclocking Droids. I had a custom 1Ghz kernel always loaded unless I was doing speed tests at 1.3Ghz. It is an OS issue, not a speed issue.

By the way, you can ask Thunderbolt users about their issues with their "Faster CPUs and 4G" and how well the OS is doing for them. Currently the only fix is to run a custom ROM that removes all the bloatware and has some tweaking done to the settings files.

 

[JLangevin]

Lets not get sucked into the Android vs iPhone debates.

There are fanboys on both sides, and neither will convince the other.

 

[JLangevin]

Oh, and by the way, the problem with Android manufacteres is they feel to address the lag issues with the software is to throw massive amounts of hardware at the problem, rather than really make an OS that interfaces well with the hardware.

Androids solution? Lets make our phone obsolete 2 months after they release with the bigger, and better piece of hardware, but never really address software issues to begin with.