Android

[djos]

Are you an Android fan?

No, after having a HTC Sensation (rooted and plenty of ICS installs tested) for 6 months I went and bought an iPhone 4s! Droid has some nice features but to me it just feels like a cheap unfinished Chinese knock off!

[djos]

I use my phone for work, the Sensation was work provided and it just sits in my drawer now - as a business phone I found android to be pretty horrible, its Exchange support is flaky and unreliable with frequent calender sync issues and regular mail sync fails vs active-sync on iOS which just works. The only thing droid supports that iOS doesnt is the out-of-office feature but I'd rather have reliable calendar and mail syncronisation.

[djos]

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                                                 If Android phone manafacturers steered away from trying to copy the IPhone                                
 Sorry, that's Apple marketing BS.

Well it's definitely BS, Android is a blatant copy of iOS and that's all there is to it!

[djos]

I hope you have some decent arguments for this? Or are you just parroting Apple propaganda?

If you can't see where android copies iOS then that's your problem, the similarities are obvious!

[djos]

never thought I would say this, and I have had enough "discussions" with bloodline over the years, but I live my iPhone 4.  I think iOS is a really good polished OS.  I always thought everyhting being lockes down and uniform would be an issue, its not.
 
It means everyhting does just work , the same and as expected.  I have got to a stage in life, Im not that old, where I cant be bothered to install loads of thirdparty hacks and widegets etc etc.  I just want to use something.  
 
A lot of people I work with have android phones and there does not seem to be any rules about UI desgin or standard functionality. This needs to change.
 
RIM do not make good phones/OS.  If it was not for every compnay in the world giving them to their staff to check emails, they would have long gone.

+1

I manage a team of 12 server admins and after having android for 6 months and installing plenty of Roms (arhd was the best on sensation IMO) I just wanted something that was properly supported by the oem that I didn't have frig with to get the latest OS release onto and bought an iPhone 4s and it's brilliant!

[djos]

Android should be better..

desiv

Yeah android should be a LOT better, so much for being an "open" system and therefore better:

• the phones come with Carrier bloatware
• and OEM bloatware
• they have different crappy UI's (Sense, Touchwiz etc) when the stock UI is really quite nice
• when you install custom roms there is always something broken
• if you stick with stock roms you'll more than likely end up with a peice of abandonware because the carriers want you to buy the latest handset and wont update your OS (see Sensation as example, still no official ICS update in Aus yet I was running ICS on it within weeks of it being released for other HTC phones).
• the UI quality in apps varies wildly as there are no real standards (unlike iOS)

[djos]

Flash is a security nightmare, even Google stopped supporting it in Android's Chrome browser.