This reviewer is just being argumentative. He thinks hitting a button on the iphone screen is a wonderment...while hitting a button below the screen on an android phone is laborious. Sorry, hitting one button to do something, as opposed to hitting one button to do something isn't much of a difference. While he is correct there are no fascist like rules for building android apps, this may but I doubt, cause some confusion compared to iphone, but it also allows freedom. His theme for his review is that 'andoid keeps things hidden' and if they just un-hide things, it will be a wonderful OS. Somehow that having a few hardware buttons is more complex than only one for an iPhone...I suppose in a way that's true, but it's easier to hit a hardware button to bring up the camera than it is to bring up the cam on an iphone. He makes assumptions that simply aren't true unless you've only used an iPhone which most people have not. He believes users will expect to have every button they might want to use on the screen already, this is true coming from an iPhone but not any other phone. One of the features Android has over iphone is it's home screens allow for finding out any number of things you can't find out on an iphone without starting an app (and stopping another in the process). From an android home screen you can check usual things like time and date, you could also add time zones to the home screen if you need to know the time anywhere...you could add five or six different clocks and at a glance check the time anywhere you wanted. Stock prices, twitter updates, email summaries, mms/sms msgs and do quick replies. You can check facebook stats, weather in multiple locations, calender...the list goes on. All this from the home screen without opening an app. Is Android perfect? Of course not, it's not as responsive in general as an Iphone, it doesn't have that mandated by god view of applications so there is not a clear reference from app to app, but to be honest I never noticed that at all. I don't care if apps that do different things, somehow make you work the same way, I care if an app does what I want it to do. Iphones are good for those who like the structured environment, who don't want to go off the rails at any time, stay on the nice paved road, I like taking side roads, explore more, sometimes it's rough, but sometimes the view ends up being better.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:19 AM, t.piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > This reviewer gets to the heart of the matter. It is not about the specs. > It is about how the device functions. > > http://www.slate.com/id/2244165?obref=obnetwork > > "If you're looking to buy a new smartphone, then, the most important thing > to ask isn't "What does it do?" Instead, it's "How does it do it?" Phones > that seem identical on paper turn out to be wildly different once you turn > them on. The most important feature on any phone is one rarely mentioned in > a spec list: the operating system. If the OS is clunky and overstuffed, like > what you'll find on the BlackBerry, you'll have a devil of a time doing > everything on your device. If it's stylish and intuitive, like the iPhone's, > you'll find your phone a pleasure." > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
