Yeah, now this is definitely going to blow out of control. Owning an
Android phone doesn't make one a power user! And you can jailbreak the
iphone and get similar abilities. :)
On 2/22/2012 1:47 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
Lets get a couple of things straight before this blows out of control.
I do think the iphone is a great phone, but just not for me.
I had a Galaxy S II and hacked the crap out of it with custom roms and
stuff. That gave me a lot of flexibility and what not, but for me there
are small niggles about the iphone that piss the living daylight out of me.
For example, I like the fact that I can be in the gallery on android, hit
the share button and boom, any application that supports this feature is on
the share with list, so that includes, gmail, twitter, facebook, path,
linkedin, whatever! This behavior is across the system, so I can be in the
browser and I can share the page (link) in the same manner. I could be in
a third party software and share things any way I want.
A very common case for me is using whatsapp, I send pics of my kids to my
parents, with the S2, I used to take a pic with the cam app, and right from
there say share with and then whatsapp. But with iOS I have to take the
pic, then load up whatsapp, click share pic, go to the gallery select the
pic and then share it. It works, but it's convoluted for me.
Apple only forces you with what they want. Which is e-mail, tweet and
print.
Another thing which is not consequential to most people is that XDA forums
has a vibrant community and there are a lot of homebrew apps that people
make. Small utilities and what not. Without going into much details, I
can install these apk's in android without any issue. No need for root, I
just need to select "install from unknown sources" once on my phone and the
rest is easy.
Apple? nope, no can do. If it doesn't pass through their validation for
their app store, then your only alternative is to go via cydia which
requires jailbreak and I don't want to go that route.
That being said, my iphone just works, it doesn't hang or crash, it's
smooth as butter and the games and graphics and general polish of
applications is at least twice as better as the best on android. It's a
great phone, but not a phone for a true power user.
I do like my iphone, but I do miss android for sure. To exacerbate the
problem, my brother in law who has an S2 also installed Cyanogenmod 9 (ICS)
on his S2, and I am amazed with ICS. It's amazing!!!!!
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Winterlight<[email protected]>wrote:
At 09:48 AM 2/22/2012, you wrote:
Any of you guys have a nexus? I was an android user and I bought an iphone
4s, and I now miss android phone.
what do you miss about it .... what do you not like about the Iphone
