Hi,
I am currently using Nokia e71. I have never ever tried out Iphone or Android, didn't have much cash that time.
Now, I am planning to buy the best deal within this month, and budget doesn't matter.
I always wanted to buy Iphone as it was and kept on being rated the best technology a mobile could ever have. But a lot of my friends have started to buy android based phones as well. Now I feel so confused as I totally like Iphone as obviously I would be switching from Nokia E71.
I like Iphone as I have no idea and I never followed the android technology.
I hope in here, there are a lot of people who would have switched from Iphone 3g/4 to Android.
Android users, if you could state reasons why do u love android, as that would be a great help and help me decide.
Thanks
Looking forward for some advices
G
What I want from a phone is,
1. A good email client
2. games as I have to travel a lot.
3. music support (I think for music support, Iphone 4 would be recommended I guess)
4. Facetime + camera
5. WWW (web browsing, facebook and other stuff)
You could wait and have both...the word is that the ground work has been started to open iboot port iPhone 4 and iPad as well. I have froyo running on my old 3G and it's a decent experience. I wouldn't use it as my primary handset, but I might it I could get it running on my 3GS. When i4 get open boot support, you can have a decent phone, a community of folks who support it (not apple) doing what you want to do with it, when verizon gets on board, you can go CDMA, or right now with tmo or AT&T...which isn't bad depending where you live.
Motorola is garbage, and Sprint gouldnt find their ass even if they really made an effort to, so my other choice would be Samsung, on any carrier except sprint (I live in Addison Texas so my 3G speeds are anywhere from 3-4Mbps down 1.5 up with AT&T...and that's not terrible) but since you travel, Verizon might be the way to go.
Since you like games, iOS will render HW accelerated OpenGL ES, but the Droid port currently will not. Either the Galaxy or the heavy weight HTC handsets will give a great experience.
The Cydia community is pretty quick to un**** what apple does to firmware upgrades, and since the handset and version release isn't fragmented, and the Cydia store support developers better than the app store does....there is money in it....and that means there is user and customer support, and quality control.
I think the Droid mod following has the interest, but they also have respect for the The owners who bought android to use it as a billboard don't deserve.. and so they in turn don't respect talented developers. Motorola still uses threats of waranty voids, and google uses lawyers to scare devs into compliance...yet tout 'Open! But you better not package up our free applications in your cooked ROM that runs better than the official rom! Only we can give away free soft ware!'.....and that hurts the Droid user group, but they don't seem to care....as long as google sells, or distributes, more of that free stuff they don't support well, and don't seem to want anyone else to either.
Between apple and HTC/Samsung....If you want a vanilla out of the box experience that works and you aren't really into mobile handsets for more than talking....games, facebook, web browsing and video chat....(FaceTime or many others)....then I would suggest you buy an iPhone........i would also suggest HTC/Samsung Droid handset, (that's not Mot or going thru sprint), or you could get a nokia for free and blow the rest on a hooker and some coke....either choice has consequence, and your experience depends most on how you react to the device, not how the device will respond to how many other devices just like it were sold from 6 am to 730 pm at seven eleven in cities smaller than potucky Alabama on the third tuesday of December. (ref: people who compare OS sales of one company (excluding the other three devices which also run iOS) to HW sales of 3 or more OEM's who license the same OS....but only the numbers for June of....lol just playing!)
Good luck! Let us know how it works!
Edit: just so you know where I stand, I am an iPhone 4 owner, but I would....without hesitation....jack some drunk dude who was holding the Nexus S and no one else was around to see. It's unfortunate I can't use the 3g running 2.1 as a Dev device, and there isn't a simulator for my situation. Keep in mind that modification of the iOS file system isn't hard, you can't break it to the point it can't be re flashed, and has more options....since the handset is supported by a grip of Devs. I have had android, windows 95, and windows 3.1 running on an iPhone...and app devs and bootrom exploiters don't respect apple, and aren't afraid to defy Apple, because they are committed to You, as a customer. You won't find that at Apple or Google.
Check out some of the more interesting things I have done to my handset...
Www.YouTube.com/exspyguy
M.YouTube.com/exspyguy if you think flash sucks