Another Iphoner to Droid

A friend of mine at work has the captivated and I have to say it is a really good phone to own I do not know what you have read about it but to be that turned off to look at the Aria must have been really bad. I personally like the device and think its really good especially with swype and movie rental from Samsung it makes it even more of an attractive option.

 

I thought I read on this site about Iphone 3 users running Android on their Iphones.

 

Welcome to the Android Forums!

I think the Android port for the iPhone was built for the 3GS.

To date I think the main reason why there have only been a few Android phones on AT&T is so AT&T doesn't piss off Apple. Unfortunately Mr. Jobs seems to believe that all Android is good for is Pron.

 

Love my captivate. GPS works OK too after the update. All problems and issues get air out in the forums... so naturally there are a lot of negativity in some threads. The captivate is a really good phone.

 

There was a beta (or alpha). Last I checked it couldn't make calls out and drained your battery within hours. Needless to say it was a work in progress and (again, last I checked) more of a proof of concept than anything truly working and available to the masses. I would have loved to get my hands on the OS before actually thinking jumping ship for an authentic android handset though!

 

I would go captivate, depending on where you live because of ATT disparate coverage. It sucks that you are going to lose your unlimited Data plan though. the 3G is pretty crappy in comparison to pretty much anything there is today.

Have you thought about installing froyo on your iPhone?

 

it had issues with the wifi firmware, but its fixed. it can be installed OTA. No technical expertise required.

 

The problem is your 3g phone is 2 years old of course it's going to be slow and messing up. My Droid Eris is slow and messing up also but I am waiting till January to update our phones. Might get another droid a iPhone or windows phone.

The point is any two year old phone is going to seem slow to the new phones.

 

Gobbles... I also had an iPhone 3G. With 4.0 version, it became literally useless, to the point of wanting to throw it against the wall several times. iOS 4.1 came out and it ran a little better on the 3G but still slow. I read that 4.2 will improve the performance a little more on the 3G.

Anyway, put the 3G on EBay with buy-it-now for $200 (excellent condition) and it was sold within the hour. Went out and got my Captivate... been a happy camper ever since.

 

I did jailbreak and unlocked it with 3.1.2 but lost visual voicemail as well as phone became quite a bit unreliable (even more dropped calls than usual as well as missing calls, etc.)

For 4.x I did not jailbreak and sold it as is. $200 listed and was gone in a flash (3G 8GB)

Note though that going from iOS to Android was a shock to me at first since I had been using the iPhone for 2 years. It's a bit similar to going from Yahoo Mail to GMail. Google just does things differently but once you are used to it, it makes total sense as to why they do things this way and that.

It took me a good two weeks to get used to Android and its ways of doing things. But now I would never go back. Customizations and widgets are way too cool. I view iOS/iPhone as having a very boring UI now.

 

be careful for what you ask for...
cutting edge.. or bleeding edge?

 

Wow....2 weeks to get used to Android from a former iPhone user....but the way you hear some ppl tell it....you need 2 owners manuals just to use Android...

I understand going from one OS to another there will always be a learning curve. Its just good to hear a former iPhone user say this..

Either Android isnt all that complicated to learn, use....or you are one of the Super Smart Egg head iPhone users...

 

No I am just a regular joe... and I didn't even sleep at the Holiday Inn Express during those two weeks.

The first week was pretty frustrating but I saw it as muscle memory from the 2 yrs on iPhone. There were times in that first week that I was asking myself why switch. Now I would never go back!

 

So when you say it took you two weeks...
Do you mean that is how long before things like opening a text, making a call, etc. became second nature? Or were you literally sitting there reading manuals about how to open a web browser, download an app, etc.?