Android or Apple ?

[MissTillyFlop]

I had the HTC G1 for two years, then the Desire S. No problems ever with either. In that time my wife's Galaxy S has been back for warranty repair three times. That's merely anecdata and I don't claim it as evidence of anything particular, but the day I have to depend on the sales assistant in a mobile phone shop for buying advice is the day I sign up for elective frontal lobe surgery

Oh, speaking as a techie, I know exactly what I'm missing by not having an iphone: I'm missing a phone that I have to jailbreak to get anything useful done, a developer platform that I have to pay for, an app approval process that takes something like three weeks and refuses apps on bizarre whim, and an operating system that I can't download and recompile myself. Woe is me

I wasn't speaking about the Desire S or the G1, I was speaking about teh Sensation, which is pretty much their flagship phone for the next 3 1/2 minutes at least.

As I said in my first post, I have had several HTC phones (the first one being the k-jam, which was pretty awesome actually.) so I don't have anything against their phones. In fact I think their UI is the most attractive one out there, (that was one of the nails of the coffin of the Galaxy, the icons look like something out of those comic strips they used to have in Look-In).

At the moment I have an iphone. In the future I might not do. I don't see myself as an "iphone person". I a person who has an iphone.Why do we all have to label ourselves in this way and create barriers and differences that don't exist?

They're just little lumps of metal, glass an plastic, not statements of intelligence, status or belief.

 

[albion]

My brother got an i-phone a couple of years ago. He can't blue tooth with my Nokia. I got N8 in March. Still the best camera 12Mp with best lens. Free sports tracker. Plenty of other free apps (I am from Yorkshire after all). Accessed my normal e-mails in Greece last summer. Nokia maps to navigate free for life, used in hire car. Nokia maps seem better than my Tom Tom. I use Drop Box for work and can access this from my Nokia. I find Symbian no problem though it seems not that fashionable among most IT boffs.

At the end of the day its just a phone that does a good job.

 

[xxmimixx]

Yes I did 'feel' it was better. Isnt the way a car 'feels' and 'drive' how most people judge it? (of course there are other elements, but the way it feels and drives must be at the top of people choices when deciding on a new car). Yes paintwork on the Fiesta is a shamble. I apprecciate and would agree that costs related to brands from Mini to Range Rover, ETC can be extortionate but quality does come at a price (i'm not just referring to the quality of the part) .
Anyway this thread is about phones not cars so dont want to hijack it and I dont feel I need to quantify or justify my opinion on this matter.

 

[Dan B]

[QUOTE 1621918, member: 45"]What's wrong with the paintwork?[/quote]
It's green and it says "Foxtons" all over it

Oh wait, you meant the fiesta paintwork. Dunno, sorry

 

[gb155]

I used windows mobile phones for years before the iPhone ( they were called XDA's made by Htc)

However Microsoft and Htc dropped the ball and apple streaked ahead

They are now back on a pretty much equal footing

I've stuck with an iPhone for now - but there isn't much between them at all

 

[calibanzwei]

I havnt used Gmail yet, Im not sure what it is?

Googles version of Yahoo/Hotmail. Been using Gmail for years.

 

[calibanzwei]

I have no doubts that the iPhone range are good in their own right (battery/signal issues aside), however Android et al does the same job, costs less and is more flexible.
Apple, once again, are creating a small niche market for themselves - like what happened back in the early 90's with PC v's Mac.
Personally, I wouldn't touch anything Apple with a shi**y stick.

 

[xxmimixx]

[QUOTE 1622024, member: 45"]youve missed the point. My example shows that quality does not not necessarily come at a price -a gearbox failing after 5 years is not an indication of quality. And I wouldn't suggest landrover as an example of good quality. Have a chat with some of the Solihull workers.[/quote]

If you feel passionate about this subject, you can get it off your chest by pm-ing me. I dont think is fair to spam a phone thread with car talk!

 

[darthTrader]

[QUOTE 1621879, member: 45"]It withstood being dropped several times without the screen cracking as happens with the inferior crApple.
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Funny that, I've dropped my iPhone loads of times over the past 2 1/2 years and on all kinds of surfaces, yet the screen doesn't have a mark on it, I must be one lucky guy, off to buy a lottery ticket now

 

[Norm]

I've never understood the whole argument about not being able to personalise the iPhone. I've had my own ringtone and wallpaper on my 3gs since I got it over 2 years ago.

Sorry but my idea of personalising extends to a tad more than changing the ring tone and wallpaper.

 

[Monsieur]

Aside from all that precedes this...the iphone is just so simple to use.
If you're over 45 then its got to be the iphone 4 - easy, reliable...enough said

 

[martint235]

I was about to post this link and say that this is the main difference between Android and Apple. It allows you to change your phone to suit you.

But then I also found this link. It's not quite as comprehensive as XDA but not bad.

 

[albion]

I've got a very simple to use Nokia 3410.

Nuff said.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I've got a very simple to use Nokia 3410.

Nuff said.

Ah them were the days when nokia made phones that were worth buying, my favorite phone was:

Just looking on google trying to remember what my first mobile was and I think it was this one back in 1993:

 

[darthTrader]

Sorry but my idea of personalising extends to a tad more than changing the ring tone and wallpaper.

Such as?