When it comes to the iPhone vs Android debate, I will add, you can't go wrong with either one. The company I work for hands out iPhone, so I know it tightly integrates with Exchange. I don't know about Android, but I have heard that 2.2 release of the OS does a very good job at Exchange integration. I think it is safe to say that Android and iOS are both corporate ready and capable.
As for the keyboards, the one thing I like about my Droid is the virtual keyboard, which I think is better than the iPhone and if it was not, I could get an app for cheap that would make it better. The Android OS is much more open than iOS but that is not really saying much. However, how virtual keyboards work and feel is really up to the user. My wife loves her virtual keyboard on her iPhone and I love mine on my Droid. One thing that would keep me from getting an iPhone is the fact it is on the AT&T network. My Droid on the Verizon network is rock solid and works just about every where I go. If having your smart phone work all the time is important, then get anything on Verizon network. In this case, it is not about the phone, but the network. However, the iPhone is coming to Verizon network, which is going to be a killer combo. As for apps on the Droid, I would totally disagree. I think the Android email, video, chat and everything else is better on the Android OS. What I really love about my Droid is the super tight integration with Google and Gmail for Organizations. Google Voice handles my voice mail, Gmail for Organizations handles my email, I can also use Google Chat and go from using a desktop client to using my phone and the person I am talking to does not even notice. I can also send text messages via Google Voice (Which saves me money) and I can also get my voice messages transcribed (Which sometimes ends up with comical results) to text. Also, the car navigation and voice commands and search in Android is better than iOS. Why even use the keyboard? I just talk to my Droid and it sends text messages for me. As for fragmented Android market, that's a crock. Real IT departments set standards and make people stick to it. Where I work, you get 2 choices for phones and if you don't like that, TOUGH. We get all the apps we want and need since if they want the business of a 10,000 person company, they better support our phones. Plus, we find that most companies get the same phones anyways, so they usually support what we want anyways. iOS has the same issues too; iOS 3.2, 4.0, 4.1 on old iPhones, new iPhones and iPads. Every OS has to deal with hardware platform issues. > > --- On *Tue, 10/12/10, Roger Bly <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Roger Bly <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SCFN] off topic: Android > To: "SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 10:18 AM > > iphone4 is the fastest phone for texting (according to people I trust) and > the iphone4 holds the world record according to google search. Samsung > Galazy S is #2 fastest. > > I use several devices for work. iphone4 is my fav overall phone and my > personal fastest texting device... but it takes some time to train. > > Android is great if you want obscure or "black" apps like wifi stumblers. > iphone is the best overall device for most people IMHO... browser, mail, > video, camera, apps. > blackberries (as they are currently positioned) are dying IMHO. > > At big customers we see IT departments wanting web apps, rather than native > apps for internally-support services. Too hard to keep up with versioning > the mobile device native apps. > > I hear big customers saying things like this "we don't even try to provide > apps for blackberry anymore, Android is too fragmented to support native > apps, we will provide native iphone/ipad apps if the cost/benefit is high > enough" > > -- -- Jason Murphy [email protected]
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