2009/11/23 Valent Turkovic <[email protected]>: > Things for consideration are: > - onboard GPS precision > - applications for GPS logging > - applications for POI collection > - battery life when mapping (how long can you map) > > Please share any experience that you have with any or even better if you > had experience with both of them. I only user iPhone for a short while, > and haven't even seen Android for real but I ran Android emulator via SDK > to get a feel for it. > > > Here are some of my thoughts... > > Android positive points: > - platform on the uptake, more apps coming every day > - nice POI collection app [1] > - runs multiple apps at once > - quite open platform > > Android negative points: > - less apps than iPhone, both for OSM and general > - not so good as multimedia player (video and audio podcasts) > - a bit bigger and heavier than iPhone > > > iPhone positive points: > - lots of apps, both for OSM and general [2] > - CloudMade MapZen POI collector supports for iPhone [3] > - multitouch interface > - great multimedia player (video and audio podcasts) > - nice deal for a 2 year T-Mobile contract > > iPhone negative points: > - runs only one app at once :( > - pretty closed platform :( > - quite expensive, no carrier in Croatia offers it in contract deals :(
If anyone has experience with any of the two and additionally the Palm Pre, I'd love to see a comparison too, and especially if there are any OSM related apps. My experience with Pre so far: + very exact aided GPS - no un-aided GPS at all (until the protocol is reverse engineered) + pretty open OS (Linux based webOS, partially closed-source, but on some accounts it's more transparent than Android since it's all javascript) - none GPS related apps whatsoever, that I've seen (but a lot of developer uptake) + multitouch, 3D graphics accel, accelerometers, etc etc Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
